skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economist must consider both the seen and the unseen.

Let’s say a $15 minimum wage for custodians is instituted. Sure, it’s great for the “lucky” ones who remain employed. A moment’s reflection shows they aren’t lucky at all: they’re going to be the most productive of the bunch and not selected at random. This policy, allegedly put into place in the name of fairness, is decidedly unfair to people (for example young, inexperienced, or disabled) whose hourly productivity lies between the arbitrary minimum and consumers’ actual demand, or to the staff at the place of business who just picked up additional “other duties as assigned” because cleaning services just got so expensive.

Competing on price for low-skill work that anyone can walk in off the street and do (that is, lots of competition) is a terrible strategy compared to competing on quality. Think: “Acme Cleaners, where all our employees have passed multiple background checks.”
Scaleway: New 1€/h Nvidia Tesla P100 Instances
Really impressive numbers. Excited to see what the future holds for Tesla models. I have a gut feeling that it will succeed and pass other major auto manufacturers
Computer Systems from a Programmer’s Perspective (PDF)
If you scroll down a screen you will see a slideshow with information about the actual projects, not just a map with a logo indicating where the projects take place.

The project in Spain does not plant Acacia trees.
Call me when there is something to show besides geekbench synthetic scores (which heavily favor Apple iOS devices, going as far as utilizing asic and specialized instructions for stuff like compression and javascript) and javascript benchmarks which run for milliseconds and are super prone to highly specific tuning (See the general uselessness of stuff like sunspider for actually measuring anything a user would consider to be performance)

from the article:

The next issue I want to address are fallacies
I've seen permeate discussions around ARM performance:
that a benchmark is not at all useful because it is
flawed or not objective in some way. I understand the
reaction to a degree (I once wrote an article
criticising camera benchmarks that reduce complex data
into single scalar numbers), but I also believe that
it’s possible to understand the shortcomings of a
benchmark, not to approach it objectively, and to
properly consider what it might indicate, rather than
dismissing it out of hand.

This is some pretty insipid hand waving, they then go on to address exactly nothing about any shortcomings, and keep pretending that these benchmarks generalize meaningfully.
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I deleted my Face&#*k account in 2010. But I can't remember exactly when I created the account. Based on my user ID (17502xxx), is it possible to determine roughly when I created my account?

For the record, Facebook in the early days, when it was only colleges in the Northeast US, was wild, wild fun.
So the ideal arch for that would be non-CPU raw state machine, like Silego GreenPAK5 ASM cores, but they would better ask Dialog to remove all the peripherals, make state machines a bit bigger, and pack a thousands of ASM cores into one chip. And then sign NDA, get low-level proprietary format docs, and write the state machine code generator in Haskell or Coq.
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It seems that they started trying a partnership with google but it was unsuccessful.

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/google-pulls-t...
PR: http://www.iliad.fr/presse/2019/CP_070319_Eng.pdf
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I don't have Facebook, but I do have Instagram. For some reason, the ads I see on Instagram are wildly untargeted. Like some Dallas based real estate company advertising to me, even though I'm based out of India
I live in a small ish city and the air quality is much better than most cities but when I have to travel in to the city for work i end up coughing for the rest of the day. On weekends I avoid the city and by Saturday my cough is mostly gone and by sunday its totally gone only to come back on monday. Cars are the primary reason for me wanting to change to a remote job. Not only is riding my bike in to the city slightly terrifying but the damage being around so much air pollution is just too much to make it worth it.
I read it as "planning may be important, but a plan can never be perfect and is not worth sacrificing sleep for"
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Which is the best programming language for a newbie?
I have a degree in Electrical Engineering and yet I am known more for my coding skills. I started learning programming as a hobby. I did not have any programming background but that did not stop me from learning it. Now I am a corporate trainer as a full stack developer.

I have conducted a lot of seminars, workshops and codecamps. Almost every time I am asked the same question, which programming language should I choose as a beginner? My answer has evolved over time but now its somewhat same - Python. I believe Python is one of the easiest language to learn (I know some people would disagree but this is what it is from my experience of learning as well as teaching). Apart from being simple to understand, Python also opens a lot of doors for beginners. You can choose from a wide range of options available, be it web development (with frameworks like Django or Flask), testing (with tools like Selenium), become a data scientist ( python is full of libraries to support data science & machine learning), game development ( using Pygame) or cloud computing (I use Python with AWS).

This is the reason why I choose Python over all the other languages when it comes to helping someone start their programming journey.

It is very important to solve problems and practice as much as you can to get a hold of any programming language. I believe CodeChef is a great platform to do so.
Apart from that, here's a list of resources I follow:
Github repo : https://github.com/zekelabs/python
Video resources : https://www.edyoda.com/course/98

Please let me know your views on Python :)
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Did you give it a file to edit on the cmd line?
"'Not good enough': Toronto privacy expert resigns from Sidewalk Labs over data concerns", 2018-10-21

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ann-cavoukian-sidewal...
We work very closely with experts from experienced tree-planting organizations to make sure the best possible methods are applied. Our tree-planting officer (yep, that is his actual title) has years of experience and is our link to these partners on the ground. Here is a video of him sharing some more insights of how we pick trees and planting sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ld0EDDQZg4&
They argument is because of the hole in the Soyuz spacecraft:

> At the end of August 2018 there occurred a drop in air pressure on the ISS. It took specialists several days to find out that the hull of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft had been drilled from the inside.
The point is that relative wages need to be adjusted as the value of jobs changes over time. Some work that was very valuable in the past might have low demand now. If wages are sticky then jobs where value drops faster than inflation will simply go away. That's not necessarily the best outcome if the employee could have coped with a pay cut.

High inflation does not imply that real wages shrink on average.
Firefox is a good start, then it's also worth checking your browser with the EFF Panopticlick to see how your settings affect your uniqueness.

https://panopticlick.eff.org
First of all: public transport sucks in too many places of the world. Going to work by public transport takes double the time and is anything but enjoyable because the trains are filled to the point where some people are happy to even get in on exceptional days. And lets not forget that if i miss my bus, the next one that makes sense to take is an hour later. No thanks.
Second: If we ignore american car culture for a second, cars aren't too polluting. Cruise ships and some companies are way worse. Especially cruise ships are incredibly bad for the environment and should (in my opinion) be abandoned or improved drastically before i get denied a diesel car by the german government. Especially if petrol/gas production is worse for the environment than diesel.
And third: electric cars can move the pollution out of the cities and somewhere else. Same with noise. Though battery production is an issue that won't move out of the way in the near future. Energy production, the distance and battery production make electric cars not viable for many people. Especially if you plan to go on vacation sometimes.
And real people stop playing.

That is: LinkedIn users will stop being users.
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Messenger Code Optimization Helps You Generate Leads
>> Except this completely defies the logic in the first part of the paragraph that the power and cooling do not affect the performance in the short burst tests. Those ARM chips won't get faster, they will just have the same speed as they have today.

I think the logic is that with better cooling, you could have the same ARM chip running at higher voltage and clock speeds, under sustained load, and the result would compare favorably for the ARM chip both on 'burst performance' and 'sustained performance' metrics.

What makes you think this is not true? Is there anything in fast ARM chip designs that makes them only optimized for burst loads and hence inherently unusable for sustained loads? In a sense, you could make the same argument for x86 desktop CPU's, seeing they are also not able to maintain boost clocks very long for sustained loads either.

The article specifically addresses this point: current ARM chips are mostly held back by the passive cooling of phones and tablets, which is a property of the device itself and not of the possible performance you could theoretically get from the CPU.
At this point Firefox should just merge with Tor if they want to market themselves as the pro-privacy browser. Right now I just use Chrome when I'm using my real identity for work and shopping and social media anyway as it's a very good browser and supported everywhere and has an open source version through Chromium.

When I need actual privacy, I just use Tor which supports most sites and is way more protective of my privacy than firefox. May switch to Brave in the future for this use case as they're adding Tor support but right now Chrome + Tor every once in a while works best for me.
Gödel Machine
There is some evidence that car usage peaked in the 90s and is now dropping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_car
Why Horizontal Data Lineage Isn’t Enough for BI Groups
This was a fancy variant of "First!" basically. Because page rank based on age, and bragging rights (and lefts, and middles).

Meh.
Yeah. Notifications is useful, even great, when used sparingly, appropriately.

But nobody does that, so I’ve stopped granting any app not email or IM notification rights.

You reap what you saw: no “engagement” for you.
EVs still make a lot of tire and wind noise. They also cause air pollution from rubber and brake dust. There is just simply no way to continue using cars they are not suited to modern cities.
> As each generation grows up more and more ingrained with the use of a car the likelihood of this happening decreases.

I doubt it.

> Traffic counts suggest that the number of miles cycled in 2017 – 3.27 billion – is around 29% above the figure for 1997.

> Cycle use increases have been higher in some urban areas: in London, for example, around 27,000 people cycled across the central London by cycle in 1977 (both directions), compared to 184,000 in 2016 – almost seven times as many.
> you'll find lots of old racing games

You raised my hopes, but of course we have different googles now.
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Great insights! Thanks for sharing this Calvin. We at Kubric.io, got a chance to integrate with Segment as a partner and found the process very smooth. The team is always available and very supportive. Great experience overall!
> Is this legal in the US or is the current US administration in hot water?

Probably not, and no.

God bless the United States of America. /s
A Conversation on Chatbots with IBM Developer Advocates
If on Android I recommend the Facebook Lite app. Its not as obnoxious and on Android you can tell the OS to ignore all notifications from an app.

The lite version of Facebook is probably the only worthy version, I just wish it could be firewalled so you know when it tries to use network access and lock it down to just when you open the app.

I assume Lite Android apps arent allowed to use much data but I could be making a bad assumption. It still saves on battery life at least.

I agree though they would notify me of potential friends and they were never ever people I knew or wanted to be friends with (because I didnt know them!).
> George Monbiot is seen as a climate change denier in many circles

Which circles? He has been on the side of science and an outspoken critic of denialists for the last 15 years, both in his columns and other avenues (letters to Nature etc).

Apart from that and in general terms, both sides of a debate thinking you are a lunatic usually doesn't mean you are a visionary - but a lunatic.
> Let's just collectively admit it, finally - you can't write safe C++ in a codebase this complex.

Well, humans can't. And computers can't, yet.
Not sure how sustainable their business model is and I'm not a fan of Bing, but they are a decent bunch of people who have hired devs with unusual backgrounds (like me) and support the tech community over here by hosting a lot of meetups. I started using their search engine after going to some of these events :)
Only those who just can’t handle him.

Plenty of people does not mind working for him.

See this survey

https://insideevs.com/tesla-spacex-employees-confident-elon-...
I'm pretty sure Hugo being a fan of Napoleon helped.
Start-ups want CS PhDs mostly.

If your PhD is in Chemistry/Biology/Physics, not so much.

Some fields of Physics do alright (primarily HEP due to the advanced mathematical/statistical analyses they learn).
Effects of Labeling the Neutral Response in the NPS
Tesla promises to halve charging time with V3 Supercharging
this is normal. journalists are hot targets to either spoof or buy to snoop around as they often have more access than regular civilians to high profile targets.... counter-intelligence and counter-espionage. people should realise that forgein powers demotivate them against their own government, and now these demotivated people are the ones complaining about this kind of shit, preventing their own government from functioning normally.

so yes. keep complaining about your governments hard work to keep you safe, i'm sure the opposing forces will thank you later.
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>I'm not interested in paying for "regulators" in such cases.

You shouldn't have to pay a penny, the industry should be taxed so that the regulation is self-funded.
How to Defend Against an AI vs. AI ‘Flash War’
Thesuvnews and Raquo
Seems like that is discontinued: https://www.lifewire.com/post-updates-and-upload-photos-by-e...

Never knew that was an option, but shutting it down just seems logical when you see the aggressive lock-in they are doing.
It's both a money and commitment problem. Even without the money problem like in europe, ut makes a very unbalanced life to make so much sacrifice during a so long time..
Unpatched UPnP-Enabled Devices Left Exposed to Attacks
Why Math Has No Theories of Everything
I tried joining when they added high schools and you needed a social proof to join. But I was homeschooled so they wouldnt let me on cause nobody knew me from the same school I was registered with. Good job Facebook.

I wish social media needed more social proofs to try and weed out certain types of problematic accounts. I only finally went back to Facebook once it was open for everybody. Deleted it a few times now keep it for family only. I dont go on it every waking day though.
It definitely looks like the effects of Goodhart's law [0] operating internally, somewhere their KPIs are measuring just the clicks, views or e-mails sent instead of the spirit of those actions (engaging users, turning passive users into active ones, etc.).

LinkedIn turned into a place where I go to answer some messages that could be good opportunities in the future, and only when I don't feel overwhelmed by recruiters' contacts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Nice example of over-generalization, ty.
Most LPs these days are made from the same masters as the CDs (or downloads/streaming), with only the bare minimum of processing done to make them viable to pressing to vinyl, ie. mono bass and RIAA equalization. Only releases marketed specifically to audiophiles tend to get any extra effort put into them, and that is a vanishingly small segment of customers.

The loudness war isn't happening because of "crappy earbuds", the earbuds included with smartphones have been rather good for a long time now. The ones that came with my Samsung S8 were designed partially by AKG (Samsung owns the Harman Group, including AKG) and are really damn good. Apple's included earbuds are also very good now, a far cry from the original iPod earbuds, which were decidedly mediocre.

The real issue is radio and Youtube/streaming services from before they implemented loudness targets, and it's been going on since the 50s at least, just listen to some old singles from back then, they're mastered as loud as they possibly could, with the technology of the day. The objective has always been to make your song sound louder than the next song, because louder music sounds more impressive to a casual listener, it's simply more attention-grabbing.

In the beginning of the digital era, there was actually some hope that better dynamics would happen. In the guidelines for Sony's earliest digital recording equipment, the recommendation was to target an average level of -20dBFS, to use very little or no compression, and "let peaks fall where they may". Just imagine that, 20dB headroom!

In the worst days of the loudness war (~early 2000s) lot of music was mastered with barely 3-4dB of dynamic range, with peaks banging hard against 0dBFS. I have some CDs from that era, and they clip and distort like crazy, because everything was just pushed to 11, to be as loud as possible. "Californication" by Red Hot Chili Peppers is an excellent example, it's absolutely horrid.

Since then, two major things have happened to improve sound quality somewhat. Firstly the compression devices and plugins have improved massively, modern sidechain compression is really impressive, entire genres like EDM/dubstep simply wouldn't exist if not for the improvements in compression tech. Secondly, all of the streaming services use volume normalization now, with a set average sound level. Songs can peak over this average value, but the average must be in line with the target. This also results in brickwalled "turn everything to 11" tracks sound a lot quieter, because they have no peaks to use the additional dynamic range available.
This is, and always has been, trivial to do. There’s a URL scheme you use to generate a “share this” link to Facebook with the appropriate variable inserted. You can style it however you like.
considering Monero could you or someone elaborate on this a bit more? Maybe clarify if I'm misunderstanding something:

1) My understanding is, every transaction in bitcoin is public knowledge forever as part of the forever growing block chain. That is, there is no way to ever remove a transfer.

2) The only anonymity built in bitcoin is to hide your identity with pseudonymity, nobody necessarily knows your bitcoin address you are using. However if you are buying coins with credit card for example from person A and spend those at person B, person A will know that you have just spend that money at person B, and person B will know that you bought the coins from person A.

3) The only way(?) to hide, make the transactions anonymous is via tumbling, that is you send your coins into a huge account outside your control that aggregates maybe millions of $ from thousands of people and then sends them out again into random addresses. Nobody except the provider of the tumble service knows where your money went, making you anonymous, your money untraceable. I assume you want to repeat this process a few times with different tumble services.

Is that correct? I'm no expert. Also with 3) how feasible is that with $130 million? I mean to successfully tumble wouldn't I need at least double the amount probably much much more? How large are the tumbles in services such as bestmixer.io? Also it seems to me that with enough heuristics even tumble services could potentially be traced back, this doesn't seem impossible to me?
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It's not that simple because imagine that you have a friend that's really cool but you can't talk with him about cars because he has unpopular opinions (or dumb) but really likes to argue for them.

If you have that friend on FB then, because he sometimes posts things about cars and it gets heated, that's what FB like try for you to engage with.

FB seeks and promotes "engagement" over "quality of experience" so it will always try to make you anger (it leads to more engagement) than to have a fulling experience.

If the algorithm can only work with chill people and very alike... it will still try to find what divides and "engages" that group of people.
I thought FB will become something like family and friends sharing. Taking part in other lives but in an efficient way.

But it didn't happen. Very rarley are there any picture galleries. And lots of stuff other people share? Always the same.

So the realization set in that it isn't that interesting to have a social network.

I only need a chat and we replaced our family chat with whatsapp.
I’m in the same boat as the GP: no emails allowed, notifications disabled. I also go back to check in the app about a couple times per week (and I’ve never missed anything of value, either). I guess it’s the residual concession to a very strong and deeply engrained habit, combined with the fact that there are some people I don’t have any other line of communication to/from, so it makes sense to maintain the toehold on the platform.
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This was after Qualcomm made a large investment in Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-raised-110m-from-fidelity...

Still no real benchmarks from the Qualcomm ARM boards Cloudflare is using, or availability to anyone else except Cloudflare. (Unlikely to ever happen now with the CPU being discontinued, seems pretty damn unlikely it was ever really very competitive. )
So:

1. Ban cars, 2. Promote better public transport that meets needs, 3. Ban cruise ships and promote environmentally aware shipping, 4. Power the grid from sustainable sources, 5. Take holidays by public transport.

Yep, fully behind all that.
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That's new. Where did you get that information from?
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> Feels like they got greedy for my attention

Bingo. Every time I check Facebook there's at least one "notification". It's always one of

* A page I own has x new views

* A friend or two is interested in an event (not even going to, interested in)

* You have memories on this day

Aside from Messenger for a few ongoing group convos my Facebooking time is mostly limited to interest groups at this point, and I'd happily jump ship with them if they moved to a self-hosted forum or mail list