skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never understood how "growth in manufacturing output was powered by semiconductors" is supposed to contradict the claim that automation is responsible for job loss in manufacturing.

First, the graphs for "manufacturing less computers" out form a more-or-less flat line. However, employment in "manufacturing less computers" declined precipitously. Even if we zero out the effect of computers and chips on manufacturing output, we still see constant output with precipitous decline in employment. Note that we see this even in countries that don't manufacture microchips.

Automation clearly is effecting manufacturing employment in manufacturing outside of chip fabs. That's patently obvious even from the graphs purportedly used to prove the opposite.

Second, the IT revolution is/was real. Most of America's largest companies are built on the back of silicon and the chips powering those market cpas were manufactured in highly automated factories. So, even setting aside (1), it's still clear that automation caused a decline in manufacturing employment. If chip fabs had required as many human workers as car plants, US manufacturing job growth would've been robust.

So not only is old manufacturing automated, but growth sectors in manufacturing are also automated. So that "new industries" don't offset automation in "old industries".

(Finally, as an aside, the rhetoric about this hidden fact that everyone ignored is IMO mostly bullshit storytelling. US economic growth in the last 30 years (and especially the last 10 years) was powered by semiconductors and information technology. Also, semiconductors have powered growth in the manufacturing sector. I don't think there is a single economist alive who doesn't know both of these facts, and many of the studies critiqued by the "semiconductors explain everything" crowd explicitly address these two facts...)
Most doctors are already at capacity. They don’t have anything to win by staying open later, and they can’t charge a premium for it.

The few docs I know having trouble filling their waiting room work evenings and weekends, and some do house-calls.
Google's link shortener is officially dead
Facebook, can you also accidentally delete my posts from your redundant archives while you're at it?
>Because those people do less to support their own survival locally

That seems to be a critical modification what you originally said. Are you trying to argue that humanity can keep its current quality of life in a less resource intensive manner by spreading out, or are you arguing that we should decrease our quality of life and go back to creating food and goods on our own?

If you take city dwellers and put them all in rural areas, 90% of them are not going to start farming enough to keep themselves fed or farm at all. They are just going to order the food from somewhere else and have it shipped to them, only now the shipping will have to travel a much wider area to get to everyone
I don’t know about ups drivers, but in many jobs, there is a huge difference in efficiency between workers. the least efficient workers protect the more efficient workers when the bosses want to squeeze the more efficient workers also.
Things like these are why I never bothered looking into getting a Chromebook.. developer mode? debug features? The article you liked is even more confusing.. Why can't people just stick a bootable USB in the laptop and install whatever OS they desire?
@manabovethsky. Assuming this is true, do you think one develop blind faith for anything? Why or why not?
How the lion lost strength. Big cats’ survival at risk as DNA defences dwindle
(Is she doing biology-specific work? or more general analytics? My response below is for the later. I know nothing about the life science industry, but I have employed several people with similar phds.)

I run a data science/analytics team at a large us-based tech company, so I'm on the buy-side of this. The bulk of contract work in the industry is run through staffing companies that market themselves as 'consulting' companies.

As a hiring manager, it's just too much of a hassle for me to individually source a good contractor. These staffing companies provide some level of screening & sourcing to make it easier for me.

However, if she really wants to try to contract directly... I would recommend searching linkedin for ~directors of analytics and data science at companies in the area/industry she's focused on. and then just ping them directly. I would guess the response rate would be in the 5-10% range, and then only a small fraction will convert to an actual contract.

Someone else mentioned it, but don't do this on an hourly basis. Daily or monthly.
Caivs seems to have been known since at least 2011 http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.1035111?page=2
Fortune would appear to have little to do with it. As stated, by 2006 I had long since had the good sense to move off the Microsoft roach motel.

I guess I'm just a whole lot smarter than Ballmer and his friends :-/
Poor Facebook had no backup of their CEO profile, now they can download this archive and restore it :)
Holidays API
> For example, when uploading a photo, I don't want to give Facebook access to my entire filesystem, just the photo that I click. And I don't want to give Facebook access to my camera indefinitely, just now.

FYI that's exactly how iOS does it. When you choose a picture to upload from the camera roll, the target app only gains access to that one photo.
Perhaps for the OS, but from a photography point of view not at all. The Xperia’s do not fully support the camera2 api, and none support camera raw. I cannot understand why Sony would choose to do this on a camera centric phone. Bulletin boards are full of people who came to this realization after purchasing phones and begging for raw support.
I would love to hear your perspective but this is not a well supported argument. ARC is one of the most interesting things about Swift on the server. Historically one of the greatest challenges with servers is the impact of GC on the long tail of performance and latency. So, so much work has gone and continues to go into addressing the problem of low-overhead GC. You can appear to get great performance but then when you look at your stats you see that some significant percentage of your users are exceeding your maximum latency goals due to GC kicking in. Go and Java have made great strides but sometimes at the cost of memory inefficiency and/or optimizing for specific cases.

Reference counting, by contrast, is entirely predictable. It doesn't defer any work. I would argue that CTOs are a lot more interested in consistently low latency than in requests per second. So it's very interesting to see an approachable, performant language take the ARC route on the server. It is early days though.
Polar looks great! Just the kind of service I’m looking for. (Hope an iPad/tablet version is in the offing alongside mobile.)
I don't think you understand what a copy is. Memorising something isn't a copy. The Wikipedia page you linked to doesn't even list knowing an illegal number as a crime. It says process, utter, or transmit.

I personally feel like you've tried really hard to find something that makes copyright look like a bad thing and something that breaches your human rights. But all I think is you don't know what you're talking about.
Hey that’s some cool background info, thank you!!
The publishers have been facing an injunction from Jho Lo & Co. in the UK and other markets, preventing publication. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/14/bookshops-thre...
> there was no concept of zero marginal cost

Edison made his fortune by licensing his patents. Selling tickets to a show also has zero marginal cost.
the terms at the bottom link to notion.
Do we solve it for books? No. Very little if the content lawmakers are worried about is content we would censor books for.
I was waiting for this to happen the moment the article was dropped about him 'accidentally deleting' and 'no way to recover without too much off an issue' his posts. I don't get his motives for deleting his old posts but surely in this day and age he had no doubt someone was archiving what he said?
However, he is not alone being stuck at work 9 to 5, and the dental practice wouldn’t just accommodate him by shifting their hours but the majority of the workforce and thus win business and make everyone happier.
But being an engineer (or at least a recent one) is a key part of engineering management. My favorite article about that:

https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pe...
Why did Mozilla not propose a new version of RSS then ?
Yeah, I'm not going to take teaching advice from a person that walked me condescendingly step by step through an example to point out an inconsistency that wasn't there because they misunderstood what I was saying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Depends where you live I guess, here in Egypt barbers are usually open till midnight (and even till the next morning in Eid eve). Private clinics usually work evening hours as well.
The internet still remembers.

Anything you let go outside your device is out there for ever.

It is no less true than it was in late 1990-s. And not a least bit less obvious.

Accept it already.
1) It's easier to influence a local business. "I don't like that you've stopped stocking X."

2) You may rely on the local business in some situations (urgently need something), but it can't survive on this type of custom alone.

3) The profits are much more likely to be fairly taxed and then spent in the local economy, which is positive for the community.
China is using debt traps to control the South China Sea
DNS Cache-Based User Tracking [pdf]
The most correct is the one least likely to cause confusion... or kick off a thread like this :-)

Probably "flak", then.
The other side is that the principal agent problem is real and people have different skill levels. Some people cheat to meet quotas, other people do it easily, lots fail and call the bluff that they won’t be fired for underachieving.
RaptorQ, even in this implementation, appears to be a lot slower than wirehair: https://github.com/catid/wirehair
Smart. "The ball is on your court, governments. Never again will you be able to blame facebook with impunity." FB doesnt stand to lose anything from regulation.
What makes this idea interesting is that it may be frequently possible for him to line up several clients at the same location (at an office, etc) at the same time increasing his efficiency.

I would love it if a haircut van came to our office once a week.
Instead of sending your Twitter followers to a random cloud service (and getting it rate-limited), run your own RSS-Bridge to generate RSS from sites that don't have them, like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. If you use it yourself and some friends, rate limiting is not a problem.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/

For HN, you can run that very same codebase from https://hnrss.org: https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss
for Emacs users see: https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/emacs-mode.html
"Get IntelliJ Community Edition (free) with the Rust plugin."

It's a good thing somebody put the effort into the Rust plugin for IntelliJ CE. When I started writing Rust, I used vim with syntax highlighting, so I guess I might be part of the reason Rust became popular enough to get IDE plugins. You're welcome.
Good point. I've noticed that risk, but it hasn't been a problem so far. Maybe it's not much different from the risk most developers have from being less familiar to their boss's boss and higher ups.
What are some things that Zuckerberg has said publicly that he would’ve wanted deleted? Can someone provide highlights?
Web based Windows XP desktop recreation
This is so true in my experience. I've had the same boss for about 15 years. He is awesome. He is the main reason I've stayed in the same department for so long. He works really hard to make sure we have the tools we need for our jobs and that we aren't bothered by things going on outside of our department. He makes it so easy to just get our jobs done.

I have friends who work in other departments at the company who complain so bitterly about their managers. They are constantly looking for new jobs.
What's My Software Worth? (2016)
We've just got 3 Xperia's (love them more than my previous Nexus phones, much smaller, much longer battery) and Sailfish OS/Jolla is also big on Xperia. Bad.

https://jolla.com/sailfishx/
FINRA is a non-government, industry driven (self-regulatory) organization for the US stock market. It exists to discourage fraud and bad practices without requiring a heavy hand of government. The SEC mostly focuses on lawbreakers. Internet companies would do well to create a similar, open structure before government steps in to over-regulate.
Also using a Swift like ARC implementation server side that doesn't seem like a good idea. Memory leaks are so common in iOS development. Its just they are usually small enough and an iOS application lifetime is so short it doesn't matter. An ARC implementation that handles cyclical references seems like a more stable solution for a server.

-Note- I'm not saying one is better than the other. ARC works great on iOS for creating applications.
(OP here). There are actually no pixels on a monochrome screen, rather, there's just an even phosphor coating. What we may assume to be a pixel is just an effect of the signal generating the pattern. Color TV changed this radically, as there was now a shadow mask and (usually) vertical strips of phosphor. However, pixels were still determined rather by the generating signal than by the subpixels of the shadow mask. (So a pixel may illuminate any number of phosphor regions exposed to the cathode ray at this very moment.) Moreover, a TV usually included some kind of sharpening circuitry, which was more tuned to moving images and didn't perform that well with static content. And, of course, various color systems (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) generated different effects and artefacts of their own.
Emacs has command lookup, too.
> Archived benchmarks game web-pages from 2017 do not show the 10x fannkuch-redux differences that the authors report

I think the Sep 1st 2017 benchmark does, though.[1] At that point it's 1,204.93 seconds, compared to the 131.39 seconds on September 18th you referenced. That makes sense, since the paper could have been finished quite a bit prior to the conference.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20170901020804/http://benchmarks...
Interesting, though most people want a phone that can be held in portrait mode with a single hand. Hence the xperia play's slider design and popsockets for larger phones.
In some very specific places maybe (Wightman telecom? Maybe in Saskatchewan where they have the sensibility to consider telecom a public asset?
So does gvim, and they suck too.
Raise your hand if you've ever seen a release process that includes "Export..."?
But your boss doesn't have to cave. My boss has no problem pushing back at his hire ups and has straight out refused to do things (at the risk of his own job) because he knew it would negatively affect us. He is a terrific manager.
Obviously an older story since I don't know of any recent phones with removable batteries. The modern version would be, of course, "...a certain celebrity would come to the phone shop ever 2 weeks buying a new phone..."
If anyone is interested in the soap opera that shaped the early days of RSS, read "RSS has been damaged by infighting among those who advocate for it". This is from 2006, and captures the chaos of the times:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/rss-has-been-damaged-...
Looks nice but why does it need 3rd party cookies to work?

Also, copy-pasting is broken:

Bigtableis a distributedstoragesystemformanagingstructureddatathatisdesignedtoscaletoa verylargesize:petabytesofdataacrossthousandsofcommodityservers.

Also, expected keyboard shortcuts (eg hitting delete to delete a document) don't work.
Yes that was possible and I always used it to subscribe to TTRSS. One day after an update I saw that they removed the button (which used https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/r...) with which you could subscribe in Firefox that your custom TTRSS url should be added to the list off the ways to subscribe and I wrote a plugin to read it https://github.com/jeena/tt-rss-plugins/blob/master/jp_fxsub...

That worked for a short time until Firefox removed that API. Now I need to install this addon to be able to do it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

It's basically impossible for people to find out how to subscribe to a RSS feed nowadays.
If they think it's gotten bad from the 1940 cohort to 1960, wait until they look at the 1980 cohort. Anecdotally, among my friends and family without a college degree, the situation is dire indeed.
Ehhh, i like helm’s org-mode integration better than ivy’s.
Twice the population of the Netherlands. Almost seven times the population of Scotland.
In this context, "slack" and "flak"/"flack" are opposites
Curious: any idea how much would it cost to run a year?
Highly recommended! As are all these videos by Marc Verdiell.
The stakes are going out of business, which defeats the whole purpose of moving to unconventional hours.
Selling licenses isn't the issue but a symptom, it's the lack of validity of the license in Germany, France, etc.
No. Last time I checked years ago, the data was incomplete, lacked all kind of context, IDs, names, your comments, was structured idiotically, even as a HTML, etc.
And just as with NRA, you have to acknowledge the fact that people with the opposite opinion don't hold it because they're just stupid, or immoral, or comically evil – they just have different ideas about what's important for the society, and have a lot of very good arguments on their side.
if some people weren’t burning out, the bean counters would continue squeezing everyone more and the people currently not burning out would start feeling pain also. Some burnout keeps the balance... it’s like if you always succeed, you aren’t achieving your potential.
Sony is well known for avoiding cannibalization of other divisions to the point of shooting itself in the foot. E.g. the PS4 doesn't have a Blu-Ray drive because Sony also sells Blu-Ray players at roughly the same cost at the PS4 (keep in mind the business model for the PS4 is to sell at a loss and claw back profits on the games)

The XBox pays royalties for it's blu-ray drive - and a significant sum goes to Sony who it part of the Blu-Ray consortium, go figure!
The week number is (somewhat) used for navigation, but the way it is used is not affected in any way by the rollover, and there's not really a way (even taking into account bugs) that not knowing what the current GPS epoch is could affect navigation. This is purely a matter of an issue with the time that's output for human consumption, the GPS functionality itself doesn't care in the least.
I mean it’s means it encourages people to work hard, not smart. That’s a direct disalignment of incentives.
The real problem is that there's a missing step:

1. Create a language to solve your problem
2. Solve your problem
3. Document the language

Presuming that the original creators made a reasonable language for the problem at hand, who wouldn't want to use a powerful, well designed language with good fitness of purpose?

Now imagine that you were brought onto a team using a widespread (not homegrown) language you didn't know that was used for the company's main application, but you have no access to documentation.
> PHP is actually quite fast, it's the fastest interpreted language in the world

They obviously never heard of Lua or Javascript and all it's derivates.
Contractor or freelancer? To me a contractor does short gigs 3-12 months with a daily rate and are usually being hired by a technically knowledgeable person, who says I need x,y,z tech skills.
Thank you for that link, I do appreciate the effort.

My current intake from carbs is < 5% so it doesn't look like my current needs would be able to be met:

Fat 219 grams 70 %

Protein 182 grams 26 %

Net Carbs 25 grams4 %

I keep watch of the industry though and hopefully I can meet the market on this.
I only tend to track tasks that take at least a couple hours (sometimes days), so I was thinking that 6 sounds like a lot to me! It really depends on the length of tasks you're tracking though.
That’s smart. “We’re open on Saturday and Sunday” makes for a better sound bite than “we’re open on evenings from 6-9, except Friday."
It's logically conceivable that they added it within five minutes of me posting the comment
I haven't had time to try those two yet. I believe TabNine uses YouCompleteMe internally. There's a discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393364
Sign-up pages can't be Show HNs. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
The ps4 definitely has a blu ray drive, not sure where you got the impression it doesn’t?
American Companies Still Stashing Trillions Abroad
>8h30 to 18h18

Can you explain this notation?
Which one? They have quite a big choice.
Try hashbrown. Author declares 8x improvement over standard HashMap.

https://github.com/Amanieu/hashbrown

https://blog.waffles.space/2018/12/07/deep-dive-into-hashbro...

https://gankro.github.io/blah/hashbrown-insert/
I'm speaking from further knowledge, but grabbed the first article I could quickly find without super-awful ads.

Multiple people got in fights at multiple locations and times, mostly minor. Eric however, was at several of these fights and repeatedly used a weapon with the potential for cracking a skull and causing a brain bleed.
Oh great ! Another company who will gather my private data.

No thanks.
Soon :)

Shoot us an email at hello@readwise.io and we'll send you more details.
It's interesting that she's not becoming de-sensitized to all the smells. I think we all have the capability to discriminate between many colors, smells, sounds, etc, but most people normally would de-sensitize and filter out the noise over time.
Too much of what info?
I get deja vous feelings once a month or so, and I don't really like it... sometimes I'm not even sure if it really did happen before or not - 50+ times in a day sounds horrible!
You just need jobs. Companies respond to incentives, so just make the initial incentives really really advantageous and i'm sure those jobs will show up. Just look at all the trouble a company like Amazon goes through to eek out every last bit of tax advantage, going so far as to have every city in the country bid on it! Once the jobs show up, people will move there.
The transition between economic tiers, and the role of various forms of automation in both replacing and augmenting human labour is interesting to consider.

I'm not convinced it ends well.

Related discussion / background: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/74dm5o/seeking...
Curious why that resulted in misdemeanor probation rather than felony with prison time.
PS4 has a blu ray drive, and will play standard blu ray movies. What they didn't do is support 4k blu ray in the newer PS4 Pro. Unclear why they made the choice, could be cannibalization, could be cost cutting.
250M is also wrong, as mentioned in your link. It doesn't account for the benefits of EU membership.
Up to theatre capacity.

Radio is a Big House.
All About Pete
Moreover, if you use "Security" and "Cybersecurity" tags. I'm sure, it's possible to find the written ML script for "unblurring".
That is what I get from skiing lessons. You focus on what you are doing so that you are not on autopilot. I sometimes do this with touch typing to make sure I’m not cheating.
I had the exact opposite issue past weeks.
Using a Go monorepo, none of the 'normal' go tools worked.
In fact, auto complete did not work with go modules at all for months, I only recently got alternative language server somewhat working and they only work for a single modules repository.

On the other hand, Goland (or Go plugin for IntelliJ) handled modules flawlessly the whole time and they handle monorepo full of go modules flawlessly as well.