skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah the English Disease "Employers not wanting to pay for training"

Universitys job isn't to rote teach how to code
Gone in six seconds? Exploiting car alarms
It's not my premise. I can accept the latter can be reasonably argued, but that systemic gender bias doesn't even exist?

>>If anything, the global rise in populism, anti-feminist and anti immigrant sentiment points to the opposite trend.

>I am not aware of any such sentiments. Have any data points?

You want me to provide "data points" on populism, the alt-right, MRAs and neo-reactionists, the xenophobia resulting from Syrian refugees into Europe and Mexican immigrants into the US, the narrative of the rural white male feeling isolated and alienated by a multicultural society which apparently led to Trump's election, and that campaign's unprecedented support by white nationalists?

No, I'm not wasting my time litigating that. If you've been completely unaware of the existence of these social and political trends, you can do your own research. At this point that's like asking someone to first prove the that the earth is round before they'll even discuss transportation safety.

I can tell this is not going to lead anywhere constructive, so I'm bowing out.
I remember playing this game on the Commodore 64 (or perhaps VC-20) in the eighties. Can't find it now but it was probably a BASIC program.
> an entirely free cloud-based photo album

Uhh.. isn't that exactly what Google Photos is?
I'm sorry, but I couldn't find it. He may have taken them down. Not even the PBS years seem to be available.
My breakfasts and dinner tend to be formulaic. Oatmeal and cottage cheese or yogurt for breakfast with the very occasional pause if I choose to grab breakfast with someone (though, I may just order the same thing at the restaurant), whip up some weekend pancakes, or eat the office breakfast. For dinner I keep it light and it’s usually salad or just some yogurt.

Mostly this is due to the reasons espoused in the article. They’re quick, healthy, and I am handling some of my specific health issues without thought. I suppose most important is that I like it.

Lunch is a party though. I’ll put way more effort into making that an adventure meal to balance things out.
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Whenever a hip startup dismisses the problem as “just software”, I worry that it will randomly crash (in both senses) because someone took down an npm library.
The vehicles are just an example, even though I actually have 2 and will upgrade one or both soon... also have a big house with all the extras and I am enjoying every day in the large heated pool...
The point is, live for today, because you might not be here tomorrow... don't be miserable... if you need more money, just make some more... Frugality is the mother of all misery in my book...
I have done some work on these types of applications back before NoSQL was the thing. Essentially we did use SQL as a backing store for data analytics but never for the real-time display.

For real-time display and queries we used a combination of Queues and Cache. Where data would come in and be written to the fifo queue and cache simultaneously and then be served to clients from the cache, while the queue would guarantee order as we would write data into the database and handle transactions. Building this type of system reliably is a ton of work. In our case too, the queues were persistent to survive crashes etc and we used an object database called Versant back then for the queue backing.

Today, given all the new choices, it would really depend on the real performance requirements, not the perceived ones. 95% of the time using something like Elasticsearch or Cassandra would probably work just fine. But if the performance is truly demanding like stock quotes can be, where literally every millisecond counts and order is critical, then I'd probably go back to a queue/cache and maybe back it by Elasticsearch for ad-hoc queries and SQL for long term data storage/reporting. But there are so many good options now that it would really boil down to the use case, and requirements.
I read it too in highschool. I even found a Dover Art book containing a copy of that suited-frog spot art sketch he used and cribbed it for my blog. Wonder what old Cringely is up to these days
> I could use a git repo to keep a backup of the book and ... ag (basically a faster grep)

IMO if you are using git then you should use `git grep` rather than ag/ripgrep/ack/grep etc.
Italy at least is much more lenient, allowing you to go back as many generations as you like to prove Italian ancestry.
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Talk is cheap. Meritocracy is the new bad word for some political segments, but the day you need complex surgery and they bring in the janitor, you grow up real fast.
Who has argued against gender equality..?
Commercial airplanes are much safer than cars (because they're rigorously maintained, observed, and operated by professionals). Little ultralight planes might be the best analogy for this project - but they're used by thrill-seekers, just like you predicted.
I think that's true in a historical sense, it was women who joined the workforce as the second household income and started the vicious cycle I proposed (if such a thing exists, what do I know about economics).

But you can still construe the problem both ways, is it women increasingly working outside the home that society takes as an unhealthy unquestionable good or men almost exclusively working outside the home which has been taken as good (or at least normal) since time immemorial.

And it's the same thing with the solution, if we come to the conclusion that somebody should take a smaller part in the workforce to help correct the birth rate and other problems two income households produce, the historical role of women in "creating" the problem doesn't imply they should be the ones to go.
I suspect a lot of the state-level stuff is artifacts of the algorithm. The article says that only 2000 people were polled, and there are about 3000 counties, so there's a lot of modeling that goes on to get from the poll results to the map. It's a two-step process:
(1) build a model which predicts partisanship from individual demographics.
(2) apply this to individual-level demographic data and aggregate to get partisanship by county.

But! The demographics come from voter files. And voter files are maintained by the states. So the people overall in some county in South Carolina might be quite similar to those in a bordering county in North Carolina, but the ones in the voter file are not.

I'd take within-state differences seriously, but I wouldn't take between-state differences seriously.

(However! Utah is dominated by Mormons and you really do see differences in a lot of maps between Utah and adjacent states.)
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“Going cashless” is a form of class warfare.
which would be very interesting, as youtube is 100% dependent on Google infrastructure to work (everything from machine learning to data delivery).
To what end? "illegally undermine competition?"

She is inferring that Google/Amazon/Facebook are committing anti-trust crimes? What proof does she have?

>Companies would be barred from transferring or sharing users’ data with third parties.

That can be done without breaking them up. I don't think she realizes that splitting up amazon and amazon basics will do little to nothing.

There are other things that can be done. You could require freedom of speech apply to industry leaders for example. However I suspect the democrats would never propose that because it would be bad for them.
I'm British, and my birthplace has a moderately well-known football team.

I read up on their latest games before travelling, so I can discuss it with anyone who might ask or otherwise find out where I'm from. I think it makes me a bit less generic than the last 20 tourists who passed through that year, as they know something about me.

I doubt I've ever been the "first white person" to anyone, but several times I've been with children who probably haven't had a chance to stare before — e.g. a long bus journey.
Coding test early in the recruitment pipeline. I've seen plenty of CS degrees on resumes that can't pass basic coding exercises/tests; at the same time, I've been impressed with the capabilities of new grads.

I'm looking for autodidects and could care less what educational format they prefer.
It would help give China a fairer chance in the AI race. Due to economies of scale and the sheer amount of resources they command, Facebook and Google are able to conduct research that would otherwise be incredibly expensive (e.g. training AlphaZero), and offer incredibly high salaries to lure in researchers. Apparently 80% of all machine learning engineers work at Google or Facebook! Breaking this concentration of machine learning research power would give companies like Baidu, Bytedance and Tencent, which were not broken up and which enjoy strong government support, the chance to catch up and maybe even overtake the remnants of Google/Facebook.
When I was studying a buddy got a programming job and his salary was insane, or at least I thought it was.

Then I learned he never worked less than 10 hours a day, usually more like 12, and a lot of weekends etc. Effectively he worked 1.5x a normal job here. Taking his salary and dividing by 1.5 I got something which was quite mediocre.
> if it becomes a priority for the party

I think that's very unlikely. Maybe in the far future, but unless there is some significant campaign finance reform first, the big tech companies have more than enough cash to prevent the "worst" possible outcome (from their perspective).
No, but you and todd3834 would average out.
What surprised my is that when you go to https://clearbit.com/ at "Understand your customers" it actually showed our company logo. Probably based on Ip address because I'm at the office right now and cleared my cookies.
In the case of an unavoidable suicide, it gets mitigated up to a point where any course of action is pointless because it would not serve road safety. The outcome would be the same.

The difference here is that even if the pedestrian or cyclist was in the wrong, you're not automatically in the right. Your own behaviour as a motorist stands on itself, and you're supposed to take the difference in size and weight into account.

Although it may not appeal to everyone's sense of fairness and just punishment(although, in fairness, only one of the parties can realistically be mauled or even killed), but from a road safety perspective it leads to more careful driving.
The best part is how _you_ are being silenced as well.

I guess HN is one-sided. Certain opinions are now allowed.
>One of the excellent things about YC is how they are completely unphased by moonshots.

I have never seen YC as a company investing in moonshots. Most of the companies that get accepted seem to be building products for developers or similar saas businesses. Some of their recent biotech investments are a bit more cutting edge, but full of moonshots, YC is not.
What is the alleged anti-competitive behavior? The article doesn't mention it. It sounds like she is calling for their breakup merely for being big and powerful, and if that were cause enough to break up an entity we would logically start with the government.
Cringley was involved in adapting this book into a 3 part documentary called Triumph of the Nerds. It's a fun glimpse into the early days of computing. Cringley managed to interview Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and a whole host of figures from those days (too many to list).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
Taxing and regulation stifles innovation, risk taking and productivity. It also encourages cronyism.

I prefer breaking up monopolies if the end result will be a healthier, consumer-focused and competition driven market.

Given that this is an Elizabeth Warren idea, I'm suspicious that the motives are anything having to do with creating a vibrant market... :)
> I took a stupidly small route from Nigeria into Cameroon

When was this? I was invited to a wedding in rural Nigeria a few years ago, but considering the security situation it seemed crazy to contemplate going.
With a college degree, specifically a Computer Science degree, you generally expect a certain level of competence in CS fundamentals. E.g. the recipient will know about Big O notation, will be able to do problem analysis and design, and understand programming principles like heap memory, object methodology and concepts like memory pointers.
Keep going though. You’ll settle into a rhythm, guaranteed. Unless you keep track in your head or a piece of paper, this strategy starts to fail after about 100 entries. Long term average will be 50%, equivalent of a coin toss.
yup, my bad! I blame that on not having a shell at work...
You could say the exact same thing about Google Cloud. What I'm more talking about is stuff like Google Keep, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Kubernetes, Istio, etc. etc.
Langsec as in "the root of (many) vulnerabilities is bad input handling, leading to parse tree differentials" started in ~2007 with Meredith Patterson's Dejector. This research led to using actual parsing frameworks everywhere and, in fact, directly inspired nom. However, this doesn't have much to do with the languages themselves being safe. That research is very old; Ada was an early attempt to tighten-down type systems for safer code, and I'm sure that even that had precedent.
This is excellent news. I hope other municipalities and states follow. Only accepting corporate or institutional payments is racism against non-corporate persons (humans). Racism in this retail context is already illegal.

Cash must be accepted. It is the only form of payment (besides cryptocurrencies) where the individual does the payment. Other forms are merely large corporations/institutions using their financial clout to signal that they will pay for something in the future. Those corporations always have perverse incentives to both sell your purchasing history to anyone that wants it as well and to enact financial embargoes against arbitrary people/companies whenever even slight political or social pressure is applied.

Additionally, work-arounds for the law of having to accept cash for all debts should be addressed. Many retail or food service companies will only take your business initially if you present a credit card.
As long as cash is legal tender, you shouldn't be able to ban its use, especially if it's being exchanged for legal goods.
Yeah, I'm still amazed that when AT&T was split up, there wasn't anything in the ruling preventing them from just joining the parts back together again.
One of the most interesting characters from the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" was Kildall. His company created CP/M, and depending on who's telling the story either lost the deal with IBM to create the operating system for the PC, or just didn't care about it.

Here's the quote about him:

Let's say for a minute that Eubanks was correct, and Gary Kildall didn't give a shit about the business. Who said that he had to? CP/M was his invention; Digital Research was his company. The fact that it succeeded beyond anyone's expectations did not make those earlier expectations invalid. Gary Kildall's ambition was limited, something that is not supposed to be a factor in American business. If you hope for a thousand and get a million, you are still expected to want more, but he didn't.

If this is true, he was the polar opposite of almost everyone else in the story. It reminds me of that line in Breaking Bad when Jesse asks Walter how much is enough. Kildall knew the answer, and stuck with it. I didn't get that sense from any other character, except maybe Woz.

Kildall spent the later part of his career hosting The Computer Chronicles, a PBS weekly news show that ended up documenting the entire early history of personal computers. The shows are on YouTube and are fascinating to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkJ6eQKpHZgsZBla4JgKj3A
> racism

Wut.
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I hear/see why business do it, but I think this quote from the councilman sponsoring the bill is the right take: “In the end, I think the need for equity outweighs the efficiency gains of a cashless business model. Human rights takes precedence over efficiency gains.”
thanks, I would like to get more quality robots content.. Working on it! To tell the truth the most potential ( aside Kuri Project) I saw on the open source OTTO series of DIY robots.
Regarding the comments .. i'm learning a lot from this discussion tread and I'm very happy to receive feedback :)
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It was 26 years ago. End of the Road by Boyz II Men came out and topped the charts. I saw Home Alone 2 in the theaters. The little blond munchkin who met the future President in that movie is now 38. Cartoon Network premiered. Bill Clinton became President. Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works were released.

It's a long-ass time ago.
You wear your outside shoes in bed? That’s not mortifying, it’s disgusting. You’re rolling in and breathing in whatever came in contact with the soles of your shoes.
Dear Hacker News

I am most disappointed with you. I was expecting this thread to go off on a tangent about DRM etc, I was expecting clever suggesting on OCRing screenshots of iphone screens.

But no, on my brief scan through the comments, nothing.
You shouldn't be resolving such issues after the fact. If the FTC or the DOJ AD weren't diminished into such seemingly titular existences, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
The next step will be only being able to pay via mobile app.
Also they've been hoovering up all the talent available they can get with fat salaries and stock grants.
I just “never graduated” from an RC batch. It’s also a mid-career shift, and my experience was very similar. I also spent the day of the interview dejected assuming I didn’t get in.

About all that’s changed is the name and borough!

I highly recommend this program.
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> And this would be entirely convincing, were we living in 'normal' times in the first place.

To further debunk the "business as usual" argument, take a look a TESC enrollment numbers since the controversy from their own website:

https://www.evergreen.edu/sites/default/files/Admission%20HX...

I dont know if "freefall" is exactly accurate, but theyre down like 40% from 2017 to 2018
Do you have a blog post or something that goes into detail about your routine? It sounds interesting.
Or there will be people who gain expertise in developing software good enough that software engineering will be considered an actual engineering discipline.
Meanwhile, in the 21st century[1]...

[1] "Why Sweden is close to becoming a cashless economy", https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41095004
Speaking as someone without a degree, no clue, but I still get Apple recruiters reaching out to me regularly. I can only assume they're working either from recommendations or my profile on LinkedIn which shows extensive industry experience.
What?

Cash is the bane of society. We would live better without it on every single aspect imaginable. (including but not limited to health, environment, crime)
You are being downvoted because this is not Reddit.
We teach kids about Earth/Space sciences, but we don't expect them all to become Astronomers. I don't think teaching kids the basics of coding and how computers work will dramatically increase the pool of developers.

If Apple wanted to pay less for developers, they could start by getting out of California.
Excerpt: "Here are four pressing questions about privacy that Mr. Zuckerberg conspicuously did not address: Will Facebook stop collecting data about people’s browsing behavior, which it does extensively? Will it stop purchasing information from data brokers who collect or “scrape” vast amounts of data about billions of people, often including information related to our health and finances? Will it stop creating “shadow profiles” — collections of data about people who aren’t even on Facebook? And most important: Will it change its fundamental business model, which is based on charging advertisers to take advantage of this widespread surveillance to “micro-target” consumers?

Until Mr. Zuckerberg gives us satisfying answers to those questions, any effort to make Facebook truly “privacy-focused” is sure to disappoint."
> You could require freedom of speech apply to industry leaders for example.

What does this mean? Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, et al already have their constitutionally protected speech, except for where their roles as executives at public companies restrict them. If they find those restrictions onerous they can leave their roles.
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I don't think it'll be a priority because I'm not really sure if this is a real thing that Warren believes or if she's just throwing this out there to see if it has legs.
I worked at a startup that tried to optimize the nutrients and micronutrients including synergistic and antagonistic components and it was pretty hard task.
A blogpost regarding the recipies and your considerations would be interesting.
That is super cool. Is there any reading material on this somewhere?
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Cash is already disallowed for pretty much every payment you can’t make in person. And good luck sending Amazon a check either.
You're getting downvoted but this seems completely true to me.

It bars the homeless and poor from the establishment!

Can anyone that disagrees explain the opposing take?
Given how many days of the year the roads are frozen and/or snow covered where I live, the safety trade-off might be worth it. Just so long as the max height is only about half a meter off the ground (hovering, not flying).
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Enforcing the use of open, federated, interoperable standards when they're technically feasible would be a lot more productive than the crude approach of simply breaking up the companies. To the extent that there is a competition concern it's due to network effects, and open, interoperable standards would go a long way towards resolving these. Even for Amazon, it's only the "UX"-related company that needs to be broken away from the rest. That company would then face an incentive to interoperate will all sorts of suppliers on an equitable basis.
If there's one thing everyone should realize by now, but whatever you learned in high school doesn't make you competent in the subject. It makes you basic, bare-bones at best. I doubt very much that a high school course or two will dramatically change the number of competent coders in the world.

I'm also incredibly cynical about that moves motivations - it really does sound like an attempt by the tech giants to flood the market. I just don't think it'll work.
It is a Schlieren technique, but in this case a series of images taken over a textured background are then processed with software in a way that amplifies the differences in air density. This page goes into a little more detail:

https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-271
I don't know about the US but around where I live, there's at least two establishments which don't take cash. I can see all the advantages from their POV.

Personally I'd think it laughable if the government attempted to force them to accept cash.

What next, make them accept cheques?!