skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty cool, and it suits how I consume news. The feed only seems to include NYTimes and Reuters. Can I add my own publications or only choose from your list?
> More reasons for me to stop using Amazon but

189 calls over 5 years from 600,000+ employees (and many more that have come & gone) and the article didn't even bother to compare that against the general population. Bad reporting and conclusions. There's no news here.
Ask HN: How do I determine if my airline is using the 737Max so I can cancel?
Would rather not die.
Is it just me or there are not many african americans working in AI research and industry. I don't have stats to back me up but that's my personal observation. People in the field, what are your thoughts on it.
The sister of Kelly Catlin, the three-time cycling world champion who has died at the age of 23, says her sibling suffered a concussion in the months before she killed herself.

Christine Catlin told the Washington Post on Sunday that a series of crashes, in which Kelly broke her arm and suffered a concussion, had had a profound effect on her sister. “She couldn’t train as well as she used to,” Christine Catlin said. “She had really bad headaches and was sensitive to light. Then she tried to commit suicide in January … she had written this lengthy email [to her family] and said her thoughts were racing all the time. She was suicidal, her thinking was really dark and she had taken to nihilism. We called police the moment we got the email, and they got there in time to save her that time.”
Online voting and other reforms are coming to Russia in September
well, i can tell you there's nothing close to these kind of expensive tomatoes on earth friend. I'm sure people would take the money ... but a few billion for some tomatoes an algea seems pricey to me! :D
Russia Is Testing Online Voting
> The Daily Beast noted that its report was "not evidence that Amazon staffers experience suicidal episodes more often than other American workers, in or out of a warehouse." And the rate of suicide in the United States is on the rise — the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention estimated that there were 1.4 million suicide attempts in the US in 2017.

I wish BI (or better yet, The Daily Beast when they ran the original story) had included actual statistics to put the reported rate of 911 contacts into context. Where does 189 times in five years (~38/yr, ~3/mo averaged) within an employee population of between 400k and 600k, plus seasonal temporary employees, fall into the overall incident count for similar or proportional corporate populations?

If estimates of suicide attempts (and not just ideation) within the general US population in 2017 are 1.4M (out of ~200M working-age people[0]), we're looking at a rate of 0.7%. Just back of napikin'ing the rate for Amazon (using 500k employees for simplicity) I get ~0.007%/yr. Mind you, this does not mean that Amazon is doing anything right, it simply means it does not appear to represent an outlier against the overall population.

Warehouse jobs are likely high stress and physically challenging. I would expect they'd have a higher instance of emotional distress and suicidal thoughts/threats than non-warehouse jobs simply by virtue of the (broadly generalized) socio-economic positions a lot of their employees find themselves in.

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[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA64TTUSM647S
Depends on who you are. If you're a common worker, no. If you are member of the economic elite and work with foreign companies, then yes.

When I worked in China, I say most of my team had FB profiles. Then again I was working for a major Chinese IT company and we had a lot of foreign collaborations in open source stuff.
This whole thread just makes me glad I refuse to work on bare metal anymore for anything but the most niche of cases.

AWS everything.
Sure, like you can just go out there with a pick-axe and try and get your potatoes because the ground is frozen solid.
Is there an update to the nvidia (proprietary drivers) situation with sway/wayland?
... which doesn't solve the underlying problem. I don't want to switch to a different desktop, such that my text editor window disappears and my terminal appears. I want them both on the same screen, along with my browser which points to a SO answer, in big sizes. In a normal window manager, this is accomplished by making them all big and then either overlapping them in ways that makes it easy to click on them, or just alt-tab. In a tiling window manager, this doesn't seem possible as far as I've been able to tell.
Don't put words in my mouth. I called out parent's dismissal tone which adds nothing to the debate and provided studies to back what I wrote.

Meanwhile your comment also adds nothing to the debate by going straight to personal attacks and a vague dismissal of one of the linked studies.

To stay on topic:

Could you provide a study that disproves collateral damages, be it with to health or simply economic, to non-smokers?
I start with the lowest rate I'm willing to accept because much of earning money is about networking and your experience.

As you gain experience and projects, increase your rate 10% on each new contract until you encounter consistent resistance.

It's a more cautious approach and takes longer but it worked for me.
I found this explanation extremely helpful when I did PCA in my postgrad multivariate analysis course:

http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/
One of the biggest classes of "HFT" is automated market making. These participants have long existed in trading environments and are there to bridge the gap in time (you want to buy now, but no one wants to sell) and space (you buy on exchange a, but the participant that wants to sell is on exchange b).

Market makers take on the risk bridging those 2 areas. They hold positions for short periods, with the hope of making money when a new participant enters the market. They lose money when they are holding positions that the market goes against. To account for that, they price their risk into what they are offering you. The less risk they take on, the better price they can offer you.

If you want to buy shares _right now_ you are going to pay someone for the privilege. Modern HFT are offering that service cheaper than any other implementation before.
i love how science spends billions to create a problem, and then more billions to solve that artificial problem :D paying taxes is so wonderful. thankfully, we all enjoy that!
And Khosla Ventures is one of their key investors.

Let's not forget that Khosla himself does not exactly care about public interest or existing laws https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/tech...
Xilinx is badly overpriced, no matter how you look at it. You could compare its P/E to similar semiconductor companies, you could compare it to all US companies, you could even look at the predicted P/E growth and it's still overpriced. Every analyst I am aware of currently advises you stay away from XLNX.
You might find his style grating, but Michael Reeves did something related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZDE6I5B9-E
> Game theory falls apart in the real world.

It explains why people pollute pretty well.

Oversimplified models fall down in the real world. Game theory is useful within a domain.

http://theconversation.com/game-theory-and-the-environment-y...
> This is a very surprising move from AWS.

I wonder why you say that? It's kind of obvious that somebody was going to do it sooner or later to protect themselves, no? Perhaps fearing the license change?

> So you effectively get a fork.

Yup, I assume that will happen, too.
I could equally state that overlapping windows are not a good default for everyone or every device type. It's also worth pointing out that Apples newest UI, iOS, uses a tiling window manager.
Financial Independence – What If Passive Income Isn’t Necessary?
> For example, they will/may start asking for address, phone number, real DoB and SSN for tax reporting purposes since this would be an income.

As I see it Hertzberg's proposal that Newsom announced would be the state collecting on behalf of the recipient. I would hope this could be done without providing identifying information.

The alternative proposal that companies pay users directly for their data is the one we should be wary of, as you're correct - companies would need your info to pay you. It was put in the article as a byline but didn't have any supporting commentary.
I mean, this is basically what happened to commercial UNIXes, is it not? Tech behemoths decided it was more in their interests to fund the development of a free-software UNIX clone (the GNU/Linux ecosystem) than to keep paying Sun et al. The UNIX wars were, I'm sure, very meaningful for the participants, but ten years later it turned out there was more money to be made in building things on top of the OS than building the OS.
Not so sure about this guys math, and I assume its because he distributed a lifetime of dating equally across an adult life.

I would guess I had done 36.8% of my dating by age 25 - not 39. Suddenly the model starts to fit better.
shrug I’m quoting myself.
That's frustrating. What brand was it?

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've had exactly the opposite experience. I've mowed a large lawn with a Li-ion battery-powered mower for four years and I can't detect any degradation in the batteries. Maybe you already know and do this, but I'll note that some basic battery temperature management will greatly prolong their life. Don't let them bake in the sun, don't store them or charge them in a hot garage, etc.

On the other hand, all of the gas-powered mowers I've ever used, even really expensive ones, were heavy, fiddly, stinky, obnoxious things that eventually drove me to use a reel mower for a short time before I went electric.

I do still have a gas-powered machine. It's a tiller with a four-stroke engine. It's new and high-quality, and it's a fucking pain in the ass. It's hard to start, loud, smells like shit when it's running and the fuel stinks up my garage. Unfortunately there are no electric tillers, but we'll get there some day.
You're missing the point. Sway is a team of people working on their own time out in the open to create something they really care about for almost no money. The final product is staggeringly good compared to a commercial OS like macOS, and yes, tiling WM requires more up front investment and isn't a normal pattern for most folks, but that shouldn't make people feel like Sway or tiling is beyond them.
Based on Wayland, meaning it's more modern. Here's what I've heard for benefits:

* Better multi-window and gesture support

* Gaps built in (currently, i3 is separate from i3-gaps, which is what most actually use). No separate forks to deal with, meaning easier maintenance.

* Wallpaper

* Faster

However, there are some big downsides. Wayland is still pretty beta, and not everything works well with it. This is not the fault of Wayland/sway per se, more the fact that everything is based around X11. Biggest thing for me is no copy/paste. Hidpi scaling is supposed to be a nightmare. Also, sway doesn't support Nvidia, and the author has publicly stated he refuses to support any Nvidia drivers (or at least until they're open-source).
Well, it being Monday morning, I can't wait for the suggestion meme to get started.
flightaware.com seems to know what airplane is being used.
yep and I'm pretty sure creating a crapload of devops scripts to support microservices will be the next problem you give the business.
No, I'm saying if my boss tells me to be at a meeting everyday at 10 and I'm not there for 2 weeks I'm probably going to get fired.
I wonder if the 911 call rate is any higher than the general non working population as a whole, sitting in private residences on couches.

189 calls / 5 years = 37.8 calls per year

37.8 calls / 46 warehouses = 0.82 calls per year, per warehouse

Now assume for a moment, this is probably a low estimate, that a single warehouse has a peak day shift population of 75 persons...

One of the things I have learned first hand, doing VoIP E911 and site address registration for E911 purposes, if you have a sufficiently large number of people (or in my case, live / on-net individual VoIP service circuits), there will be a certain statistically "normal" volume of 911 calls no matter what those people are doing.

Whether they're in a office of a company that rents two floors of a 350,000 square foot office tower in a downtown of a major city, sitting on their couches in a single family home in a suburb playing videos games on their xbox, attending a music festival, literally any imaginable human activity.

I am not trying to say that the Amazon warehouse jobs are not borderline abusive and a staff turnover meat-grinder, they probably are. Have read numerous reports from journalists that have gone "undercover" with the temp/staffing agencies Amazon uses to hire workers for their warehouses. It doesn't paint a pretty picture.
The porn market is very diverse, there's plenty of loving/reasonable porn, you just have to work to find it. Your criticism about porn being "crass" is a good description of mainstream porn, which being "mainstream" is of course a problem. The porn industry is influenced by tracking data - this is why the popular "tube" sites are dominated by extremes, family and taboo porn - it gets clicks.

Similar to Facebook, and other social media - giving people more (and more, and more) of what they like can have serious dangers.
Oh, no, that's too much hassle, I meant KiCAD instead of perfboard.
2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet first drive review: The Uber-roadster
Sam Alterman's advice is bad, people want to buy not to be sold, you will never convince them otherwise.

If you want to be good at sales you need to turn the question on its head. It's not how to sell but how do people buy?

There is a pain point that creates a want.
Research is done into how to satisfy this want.
Evaluate the possible solutions.
Purchase.

Now you know what your customers will do regardless of you, you just funnel them to you at every step of their buying process. The earlier in the process the more work is required to get to conversion but the easier it is to build reputation with them.

Targeting before the pain point is a waste of time no one will spend money on a backup system until their system fails and they realise they needed it all along.

The information gathering point is the easiest place to target, the customer knows little and will look industry experts like you, to inform them what they should believe.

Don't sell to them, give them all the detailed unbiased information they need to get to the evaluation stage. The more information they get from you the more they will favour you at the evaluation stage as all they know is what you taught them. If you can control what some one hears and sees it stands to reason that you can control what they think and say.

At the evaluation stage, if you are not in their short list at this point you missed your chance. They will have already decided who to go with and are looking for reasons remove the rest from the list. If all their reasoning comes from your advice and you follow your own advice you have won. At this point they are already convinced they just need some reassurance from you to take the leap to purchase.

Purchase This is called the close, its easy Smile, Nod ask a few questions they will answer yes to, then ask them "Are you happy with that?" they will respond with a smile nod and say yes and think to them selves, you know what I am happy, let's do it. If they answer no ask them specifically why not, whats holding them back? Satisfy this concern.
What I usually want to do is just click and resize to something that "feels right" for each of my programs, and then flip between them as needed, then resize again later as I workflow progresses. Often I want some important text from one to be visible while I'm working in another (thus overlapping), so I jockey them around until it feels right, and go.
Give everybody a $cloud account, they said...
Hi, I work at AWS on Compute services, but not directly on database services. I also work on broader open source topics at Amazon.

Amazon DocumentDB was in development for a long time, and development started well before any of the license changes that MongoDB (the company) made to MongoDB (the database).
>Why didn't they instead offer the 7 day try out but hold the car on some sort of deposit? This way if I returned it I'd only be out that deposit for the time being and would be free to immediately buy the car I wanted. If I chose to keep the car they would follow up with purchase.

Same car can be used for test drive by a lot of people, while you can only have one buyer of a new car. If they give you a new car and you return it with 200 miles on the clock, is it really new anymore? How many of those returns 'till it's second hand?
Thank you for your input. I tried to google that, but I don't see any heavy usage of "distro" along with those solutions.
For example site:https://hadoop.apache.org distro nothing significant. Also, googled "Kubernetes distro" same thing.
The author still flat-out refuses to support them. This might change if Nvidia open-sources their drivers, which I suspect is part of what he's trying to do.
Bye, Silicon Valley, Hello, Atlanta-Black Entrepreneurs and Southern Migration
> A society where people feel they can pick and choose which laws to respect and which to ignore is a worrying proposition, IMO.

I contend that not only is this exactly what we have, but that you, personally, do it as well.

Do you drive? If so, have you ever exceeded the speed limit? Turned right on a red without first coming to a complete stop? Rolled through a stop sign? Driven with a bulb burned out so that your license plate is not lit?

If you've ever consciously done any of the above, then you have picked and chosen what laws you respect. I doubt that there is anyone in the entire country that has not consciously broken some law at some point.

> The law as a whole may be far from perfect, but it's better than anarchy.

That's... debatable :)
"It's this isolating colony of hell where people having breakdowns is a regular occurrence," former Amazon employee Jace Crouch told the Daily Beast. An anonymous employee told the Daily Beast that the company treated its workers like "robots."
> Detaching emotion from the outcome is key.

I think this means more, "however things might go, the outcome is not taken personally", the person's selfhood and worthiness is independent of the work they do.

I also agree that integrating work with deep care, passion, and excitement is worthwhile. Imagine if more people were finding purpose and meaning in their work, how happy and energized they would be!
I was prepared to call bullshit on the Canadian teacher salary, but I just googled it. My 30 second Google search showed the average salary in Alberta is right at $100K. So I could see $140 happening for the more senior people.

Maybe I need to move to Canada.
There were a lot of companies involved in Infiniband early on, not least of them Intel.
That's wrong. Tracking which star zeniths is exactly latitude.

Read my description again. You will see that the navigational strategy is based on setting out in the right direction and keeping your bearing steady, then being able to tell when you get close enough.

In particular you do not track which star is at the zenith. That judgement is too hard to make with the naked eye on a rocking boat with no instruments. And therefore you do not know where you are. Which means that you do not know your latitude/longitude. (Though they did know roughly how long each journey would be.)
It's 2050 and This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
This is completely untrue to the point of being the polar opposite of reality. Look up the attributes of ideal money.

Gold and silver are the original currencies. They are trustless because they can be verified easily and transferred physically.

The more trust a currency requires, the less valuable it becomes due to decreased fungibility and liquidity.
Congratulations on the release! I currently use i3 but am looking forward to trying this. Backwards compatibility was a great idea!
While I agree that some people have much more complicated infrastructure than they need, and much more complicated infrastructure management tooling than they need... refraining from automating it and doing it all manually sounds to me like saying "Why are you writing tests? Your users don't care about tests, they don't care about how the code gets written, they just care about the product, you're wasting your time writing tests." Yeah, but, um.
My money is still on cell phones radiation from the front pocket.
I suppose it's a matter of personality, then. That kind of workflow would drive me nuts.
Show HN: Sincere – Read and write about emotions
I would love to get feedback on my resume. However, I'm not entirely sure how to solve your exercise. Your HN account is only 5 days old. There is no twitter handle "@expopinions", and expopinions[dot]com is a new site with an article about hair products.

BTW. I'm a US citizen.
It's hard to do by hand, what a commercial grower does at enormous scale. Sure you can have (a few) tasty vegetables, but nothing like enough for your entire diet? It takes like 400 sq ft to grow enough vegetables for one person-year. That would be a lot of work.
Between this, and the great-grandparent comment, this is a perspective-changing thread.
This article made it to the top of HN because people resonate with the idea that quitting one's job is not so simple. As for the content of the article, which I tried my hardest to read, I found little nutrition therein.
Refactoring with Monads
> add those IDs in the counting phase

That'd probably work. You'd need to somehow ensure the scanner that ads the IDs doesn't double IDs
Here is one good comparison from Sematext (Sematext provides both Solr and Elasticsearch consulting, support, and training, so we are familiar with both Solr and ES and have no horse in the race):

https://sematext.com/blog/solr-vs-elasticsearch-differences/
I thiink the idea behind this post was more to avoid this kind of thing from happening https://xkcd.com/1319/
Tried that, but then I can't have an important part of a SO answer visible while I work in my editor to play around with stuff, while watching the terminal churn away some stuff in a partially obscured window such that I can see when it finishes.
Well macOS has tried and failed, with their mix of "spaces", fullscreen apps, and maximized windows.

Edit: what I'm saying is they did try to do the fullscreen (and even tiled) modes.
> So this meme didn't come from nowhere. Blue collar professions have been given this 'helpful advice' by journalists quite a bit over the years. It was tone deaf then, and still so now. I admit I don't yet see why it's verboten/'toxic' to parrot this same tone deaf advice to journalists now?

Because you're taking a meme meant for low-income low-prestige men and applying it to members of a high-income high-prestige mixed group.

You are, in short, reducing the status of the journalists to those of unemployed coal miners. Hell, you might as well slap a paper hat on their heads and tell them to man a fryer. It's "problematic" and "toxic" to be reminded that you can fall in the class structure like that.
That's an incredible selective way to look at it. Google search has almost no competition. Social media has Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok, and there's really not a huge bar to entry. New social media apps rise all the time. It's also your opinion that their product hasn't improved over time, and your conjecture that that's where the money is going.

Also in television there is much less competition. The TelCos are the worst monopolies out there. Getting a competitive cable or ISP landscape is a laughable idea in the US.
This twitter may be of interest to you, they aggregate information on this topic. https://twitter.com/black_in_ai. I don't know why race is relevant to this article though. Must we make everything a race issue?