skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming is one of the few truly creative endeavours in the capitalist world. Every job has a creative aspect to it - if you cut hair or work in a nail bar then there is definitely scope for creative flair. In fact you can be creative even if you have the most mundane job in the world, however, in the bigger scheme of things nobody is going to listen to your song, read your book or buy your paintings but they will use your code.

In answer to your question, DHH of Ruby on Rails fame used to write a lot about 37 Signals and Basecamp. They decided that the normal capitalist way of working was a load of rubbish and that they could get more out of people by making them work a lot less hours.

The way our world works is a system, the capitalist system, and with it there are many things that go unquestioned. Employment is seen as good whereas in a parallel future that never happened there was this idea that we would all be working a mere handful of hours with the machines doing all the heavy lifting. We live in an era of bullshit jobs to maintain the system with something like 87% of people actually hating their job. In the conventional sense Hemingway did not have a job. As a programmer with many interesting problems to solve creatively there is no need to be part of the 87% and to be more like a Hemingway. The DHH's of this world do not hire the 87%.
Depth Control – Bokeh’d – Apple
The counterfeit and review manipulation issues have rendered Amazon unpleasant enough for me that buying local is something I've started to enjoy again.

I trust the merchant to have performed some kind of vetting for merchandise sold on premise, and the price is often good or (interestingly enough) even better than on Amazon. Often enough local is still more expensive, but it beats browsing Amazon for an hour, sifting through reviews that can no longer be trusted.
Or you won't. I traded my desk job for a more active one (my phone says I walked 10 miles at work on Friday), and I'm struggling to remember why I would ever have liked a desk job. (I got to move bits and pixels around in a computer, that nobody would ever see?) I'm loving it here.

Why would a person suggest to another that if they can't be happy where they are, they wouldn't be happy anywhere? Is "a sedentary office job" the summit of all work for all people? Do we not accept that people can have preferences?

I'm going to start a dating website called "The grass is always greener". Customers get matched with one person, ever.
> Interesting fact: the poorest countries in Europe typically consume 50% to 100% more vegetables per capita than the wealthiest countries in Europe.

This is indeed interesting, but I guess vegs are mostly grown on poorer countries (except Netherlands I suppose), so it's cheap and easy to buy local vegs. Also, mediterranean/southern european countries (Italy, Spain, Greece - poorer than their northern neighbours) have different diets than northern countries. Less meat and more tomato/olives/uncooked stuff as the climate doesn't require to ingest as many calories as in the north.
I could also see Amazon retaliating by refusing to carry a publisher's book if they sued.
Switch to uMatrix if you have enough know-how to fix websites that break. It is the single best plugin I know. I use it on Firefox mobile and it speeds up websites faster than AMP.
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Exactly! I think of this every time this subject comes up and I always come to think of the scene from Something About Mary [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/rnso4nfdM9w

I also think the productivity gain or lack of loss comes from excitement and a feeling of responsibility for having the extra day off. It's mentioned in the article

>“The biggest concern from an employer point of view is ensuring that the full-time introduction of the policy doesn’t lead to complacency, with the risk that people’s productivity will slip back,” Barker said.

“To guard against this happening we’ve spent a lot of time making sure every person in every team has their own plan as to how they’re going to maintain and even improve their productivity.”

I think this makes sense but, as time passes and 4 days becomes the norm the feeling of excitement and responsibility will fall and output will follow. If everyone has a 4 day work week we will probably be as lazy as we are now in our 5 days.
Don't be ridiculous. It's better for technical books to be freely available for everyone to read. Think about it, it is more optimal for the world in the long run.
Car oriented cities are a bad idea.
I know; that was just an example. Consider the scalar product of two vectors then (which is a particular case when 2 of these 3 loops only have one iteration).
Here's a previous discussion when the same publisher was being pirated by Amazon previously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
Too bad everyday citizens and businesses can't access the services they want with it, most of the bandwidth will probably be used for surveillance and control.
Doctors who don't set boundaries and who perform an unlimited amount of emotional labor are those who burn out.

There's no medical reason for a doctor to be on-call 24/7/365, and it's stupid to expect them to. If an urgent medical issue comes up at 2 AM, the patient can go to the ER, which is what the doctor would tell them to do anyway.
Fractals Are Typically Not Self-Similar (2017)
More than likely, they can just claim "we're just a platform, someone else uploaded the file". This is the inherent problem with Section 230 immunity for platforms: We've given companies a blank check to be used as part of criminal enterprises, and given them no incentive to police illegal behavior on their networks.

In this scenario, Amazon is able to literally produce, sell, and distribute counterfeit material, keep the profits from doing so, and face no legal repercussions. That is the definition of a broken law.
Surely this should be an easy fix for them to be able to detect counterfeit books being created? If they are anything like other on demand self publishing platforms, you upload a pdf or similar file to create the book, and surely it's not beyond the wit of those at amazon to create an ml based system that would be able to detect similar files to those of legitimate books that they already carry and flag them to the legitimate publisher for manual review (if they can't be bothered to police it themselves as it appears)?
I have visted a few countries.

In the US you have the potential to make more money but you damn sure arent more free.

Even Mexico has more freedoms
Exploring the Amiga Part 7 and 8
Hi all,

I just published the 7th and 8th parts of the "Exploring the Amiga" series. In part 7 I will show you the second part of the free memory pool initialisation, while in part 8 I'll start discussing the Exec auto-installation in the system libraries list. I will also provide the full Exec jump table, discuss Motorola 68k conditions and branching, and briefly show how to manually decompile instructions.

* Exploring the Amiga - Part 7 http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2019/02/19/exploring-the-amiga-7/

- The complete Exec vector table

- The memory list header

- Adding free memory to the system list

- AddMemList internals

* Exploring the Amiga - Part 8 http://blog.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2019/02/19/exploring-the-amiga-8/

- Branching

- Enqueue

- Remove

- AddLibrary

- Manual decompilation

Have fun!
is eBay getting sued every time a counterfeit good is sold?
RE2: Safe RegExp
Recent Advances in Recurrent Neural Networks (2018)
I'm not looking forward to my laptop being "refreshed" by my org in the next few weeks. I will be getting a brand new 2018 Macbook Pro and all I can think is "if the stupid keyboard breaks, I'll be without a laptop for 2 months because Indonesia SUCKS for getting things done quickly".

That plus this audio bug makes me REALLY hope they let me keep this one as a back up.
Sued for what damages? They can simply remove the offending titles and carry on. What is the cause of action and harm? "You made the same mistake twice and we lost (how much???) dollars!" [1]

Maybe some kind of class action but that requires an attorney spending money to advertise and collect information from the class of people harmed. Then litigate, settle and what money do you get? [2]

[1] How much did this particular seller lose? No way it's enough to pay any legal fees. Even if it is even if Amazon has to pay the legal fees what do you get in the end? Time trouble etc.

[2] I just got a check for some Verizon class action in the amount of roughly $2.00 this was after so much time I had forgotten about it.
Bell Labs, Skunk Works, and the Crowd Sourcing of Innovation
Yes, the brain doesn't crunch anything in the background, but your brain is a powerful association engine. Sometimes an outside stimulus will activate an association that will then associate with a solution you've been looking for. This is what happens in the shower: you allow your mind to wander, aka free-associate, and suddenly new possibilities unfold.
These are search warrants. They can comb through the details of your life to any extent.
Nasa in a Hurry to Develop Landers to Take Humans to the Moon
I suppose it all depends on what an individual wants to optimize for. If one wants to optimize their life for happiness, then changing careers is an option even if it means less money. But if one wants to optimize for money/title etc (which is what most people do, right or wrong) then it is better to stick to one career and get as good at it as possible.
All ideas that can work in certain situtions. As GPUs get more like CPUs and CPUs get more like GPUs things will just get fuzzier I imagine.
Amazon gets away with this because it's practically impossible for small business owners or authors to police their site. It's similar to Google, where they let counterfeits thrive, but real content creators get fake DMCA notices and shut down.

I really hate to say this, but large companies like this need to be regulated via laws. There's simply no other choice. Having Amazon throw their hands up and say "There's nothing we can do, we have algorithms" or hiding behind the safe-harbor laws is not acceptable.

Having their ability to shut off peoples' incomes or being victimized by counterfeiters, with no human contact and no process, is unacceptable and needs to be changed. They aren't changing fast enough and they don't want to change because it's expensive, and the only solution is to force them via laws, which I'm loathe to support but it's the only way.
In my view libraries are simply evolving with the times, but perhaps I'm not yet quite so old after all. I like the idea that there's a public space for soldering, 3D printing, sowing, or just being.

I wouldn't really make sweeping generalisations on the state of Finnish libraries based on one modern example intended to be different. Besides, if we're going to have yet another library in the centre of Helsinki, why not make it different?

If you need to study the university library is just around the corner. Or the library of the national archives if you prefer a tomb-like silence. Or the one on Rikhardinkatu for the more classic milieu. Choice is good.
This is fascinating. I've wrestled with anxiety and depression my whole life. It seems quite intuitive to me that there is a gut link. I frequently experience "butterflies' in my stomach. I frequently have gas, too. I wonder if I could participate in a study? I'd be happy to.
To add to this: You're fighting inflammatory disease. Generally, do and consume things that lower it.

Mental inflammation included.
Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies
Totally, this. As a case in point, my "Digital Image Processing and Analysis: Human and Computer Vision Applications with CVIPtools, Second Edition" text book stated right on the cover that the book was "Not for sale in the US" (or something to that effect). Seemed odd, then I read the intro in which the author was excited that he finally convinced the publisher to print in color. My book was not in color (super great for an image processing text). Two weeks later, the binding started to come undone - not just a little - literally all of the pages fell out.

Awesome, thanks Bezos!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Android really appears to be a different beast:

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
> About halfway to the lot, a ribbon of cobalt rises on the horizon; when it’s cloudy, a common occurrence in the mid-Atlantic, the darkness stays pure. The spectrum of color will change with the seasons, but now it is winter and the sun comes slowly, if it appears at all.

Ugh, I'm so sick of these flowery long form articles. I had to scan through ten long paragraphs just to find what the article is about.
Without knowing too much about your situation (and being a bit envious of it), my initial thoughts are:

- The company's inefficiency is an opportunity for you - you clearly have ideas on how things can be improved. Develop those into actionable items, navigate work politics if necessary, take more responsibility to improve the company. Your sense of meaning and potentially your salary (if your employer cares) will improve. If it's really a place where you can't make a difference, there's too much bureaucracy, incompetence, bad actors, ideas aren't judged on their merit etc. only then consider checking out mentally or physically. Which leads me to...

- All of the down time you have at work is an opportunity to work on other projects (work related or your own) or to learn new skills.

- If the ideas above don't work and you have an available opportunity for engaging work, only then you should consider leaving.
It is not that easy. They need a reliable system to do that. For what can go wrong, see all the hate Youtube's ContentID gets. But, identifying whole books should be simple enough.
The same might hold true for cutting down from 4 days to 3 days.

Everytime we humans try something new, we are excited and energized. Since the average office worker is only productive 3 hours per day, there always is a lot of room for increasing output for some time.
Infrequently blog, never really advertised it anywhere.

https://andrewpillar.com
I agree 100%, but you have to learn how to focus as well. ;*)
What do you find offensive about, for example, the following CNN written in Python?

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/examples/cif...

"I simply don't know what to tell you." Please try! You can at least provide one example of the jokes you are referring to?
alternatively, make an animated gif to replace the static image.

an animated gif made from a portion of that second video on that blog post would be pretty good I think.
Maybe the patients to whom they offer their private numbers, and the patients who "tell me they've got to have my private number" are non-overlapping sets.

I'm sure that experienced doctors can spot people who are going to ruin every weekend a mile away, and also those responsible enough to call only when it really is appropriate.
The literal translation is just "radio cell query". But it's a very catchy word :D
Call them "illogical propositions".
eBay has no warehouse. eBay has no printing service. But I'd say that eBay should offer a fake-reporting system (which AFAIK exists) and should report users engaging in such activities to police or other institutions.

The problem with Amazon is that they seem not to take appropriate action. How can you not be held liable for printing books in an unauthorized fashion AND selling it from your warehouse?
If you think its not illegal to criticize the govt get on twitter and start ranting.

Ask ted nugent how a secret service visit feels ?

or go local... simply go outside and start criticizing the local govt agents ( police )

I promise you will get a couple doses of freedom and likely be given the chance to donate to their cause
Yes, but that gives them tower connectivity only. Which is very, very general in terms of location unless you triangulate the location in real-time. And even then, you have to be connected to at least 3 towers at once for that to be accurate, which to my knowledge is not how phones operate. So they will only get the very rough location based on which tower you were connected to and when. In any modestly populated area that becomes effectively worthless in both practicality and the courtroom. In a city like NYC, that would literally result in a dragnet of tens of thousands for each of the major service providers. Even a bad attorney could get that thrown out immediately.
Audi’s Traffic Light Sensor Lets You Catch All the Greens
For additional security, instead of exposing your internal services to the Internet, communicate using a Tor Onion service. It handle NAT for you, and can be very resilient (you have 6500 servers that can act as a rendezvous point in the Tor network instead of just the 1 VPS). It's not going to give you the same low latency and high throughput as putting the service straight on the Internet but it's going to be difficult to match the security (for confidentiality, integrity and availability) properties any other way.
Here's mine. I definitely don't frequently enough and leave too many drafts unfinished.

https://blue42.net
Oh, so Bangalore rules.
By not hiring sufficient oversight Amazon is excused for not having sufficient oversight.
When It Snows, Whose Mobility Matters?
Galaxy Fold Is Reportedly Samsung's Official Branding for Its Folding Smartphone
40h was first most widely implemented by Henry Ford, because of equal productivity with fewer mistakes than the 10-16 hour days that were then the norm. So there is some empirical evidence that it's better than more hours, and some empirical evidence that it's better than fewer hours in some cases, and plenty showing no change with fewer hours. The fairest characterisation is that there was considerable back and forth between legislation, unions and capitalists seeking better workers.
The Narcissus of Pompeii
What does it read? Text files? Web sites? Maybe I missed it but I don’t see this mentioned on the github page.
You can achieve this without exposing any service. Let's Encrypt allows you to prove ownership of a domain through DNS 01 hooks.

I personally use Duck DNS [1] for main internal domains, so I can have a certificate that most tools will recognize as valid. This saves me from adding my cert in every machine that will use that service.

I use dehydrated [2] to get a Let's Encrypt certificate using Duck DNS. There is a good article explaining that by Andreas Gohr [3].

[1] - https://www.duckdns.org/

[2] - https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated

[3] - https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2017-08/10-homeassistant_duc...
https://qz.com/1542839/amazon-has-finally-admitted-to-invest...

Well, admitting you have a problem is the first step, so maybe now they'll finally get serious about fixing this shit.
How to Book a Flight with Bitcoin?
Why should large companies be regulated on this specific topic but not small companies? It's equally illegal activity.
Does Section 230 apply at all when we're talking about a physically distributed product like this? I get that, even if it doesn't apply, Amazon's defense is probably that they're an intermediary and not the seller, but I thought the DMCA applied pretty strictly to digital copyright violations, and that any lawsuit in this instance would hinge on older laws for physical-good copyright violations.
> JSX is a custom extension to JavaScript.
> In fact, you have to use some sort of transpiler in order to use it. So, it's not just JavaScript.

Yes. However, one thing you fail to see is that it directly compiles to function calls.

<Tag a="b" x={y+z}>{valid JS expression}</Tag>

is

React.createElement(Tag, { a: "b", x: y + z }, [<valid JS expression>])

Which means:

- you have access to JS variable in scope

- you can use JS facilities (proper if/switch statements, for loops, functional programming, you name it)

- you need no additional scripting or templating features. It's, well, just Javascript.

However in Vue (emphasis mine):

> There's really nothing that complicated in here, if you're familiar with Vue.

Yes. Exactly. If you're familiar with Vue

So:

- custom tag attributes: v-bind, v-if, v-for, v-on, v-show, v-model... (I honestly don't know how long this list is)

- custom attribute shorthands: :key, @key

- attribute extensions: v-on:keypress.prevent

Inside attributes you can have:

- Javascript expressions (much like React inside {})

- or magic binding:

v-bind:href="url", v-if="seen" etc.

- or JS-object-like magic bindings which resolve to a string:

v-bind:class="{ active: isActive, 'text-danger': hasError }"

- or JS-array-like magic binding that gets resolved to a string:

v-bind:class="[activeClass, errorClass]"

- or a magic array with objects that gets resolved to a string:

v-bind:class="[{ active: isActive }, errorClass]"

- or a separate DSL for v-for:

v-for="(item, index) in items"

- or a separate DSL for v-for where you can bind entities from the DSL (which looks exactly like the magic binding to data from the component, what happens when they clash?):

v-for="(item, index) in items" :key="items.id"

- or JS expressions that may be function references that may be things that look like function calls but actually aren't:

v-on:click="counter += 1"

v-on:click="greet"

v-on:click="say('what')"

- with special magic variables

v-on:click="warn('Form cannot be submitted yet.', $event)"

- with special magic modifiers

v-on:click.stop.prevent="doThat"

"It's not that difficult" ©™ And the list above doesn't include the overview of the JS code that underlies components in view. It's another whirlwind of magic and non-magic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471199

Oh yes, and this gets compiled down to some JS that bears little to no resemblance to original code.

And somehow people complain about how React is difficult. Wat?
The classic "control fraud" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud strategy is to incentivise your subordinates to maximise revenues while "neglecting" to check that they aren't engaging in fraud to do it. Then you can protest your innocence when the fraud comes to light.
My last two Amazon purchases ended up being counterfit, even after spending a ton of time trying to avoid counterfits. I'm still going to use my fake electric toothbrush heads and fake Apple 5W USB charger, but I'm not using Amazon anymore.
I recently ran into this issue with ebooks.com [0] which is the only way outside of Amazon Kindle to get Jan Axelson's USB Complete and Serial Port Complete references.

The only choices are proprietary Kindle format or PDF and EPUB with a very restrictive Adobe DRM scheme.

[0]: https://www.ebooks.com/SearchApp/SearchResults.net?term=jan+...
Yes. Deep Learning definitely needs a new programming language. Uber's Pyro is worth checking out.
(https://eng.uber.com/pyro/)
I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a little rude here.

You may be approaching this with good intentions, but don't do this.

> Chronically ill people research their diseases ad nauseam. They try more treatments than they can count. In many cases, great scientific minds can’t crack a cause or cure. So unless someone asks for your advice, don’t offer it.
AI Predictions for 2019
You're missing exactly the point. "anti-recent" is a relative term. Imagine that the data set is actually 1000 items long, but we iterate through it five at a time, but we iterate over that five 10 times each before moving on to the next 5. Those five items are much more likely to be necessary than all the 995 other items, but the currently added member is less likely than the other 4 for the next loop. You see, its a relative term. If the cache size had been 5, we would say that this is a nearly perfect example of caching the most likely members to appear.