skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France has sky-high minimum wages (and, just as importantly, labor market regulations), and the French labor market also has huge issues with low-skilled workers being essentially shut out of it. Coincidence? Germany had the same issue, and they had to introduce special "Minijobs" that don't pay minimum wage, to address it. Who are you going to believe, the professional economists who are actually researching the matter, or your lying eyes?
AT are not affiliated with IA, but work closely with them, and the data AT collects is transferred to IA. Therefore, my characterisation of the data as "archived by the Internet Archive" is substantively accurate.

IA aren't scraping the data themselves, but they're the customer.

As for your second point: there's merit to that argument, and I've discussed same previously -- I'm very much of mixed minds on this. A few considerations weigh strongly, however.

0. The data were already public, as noted.

1. The system shutdown was not a known factor when most of the data were created. The expectation at that time was that the data would continue to exist.

2. The shutdown itself has occurred in a context in which individuals, and far more importantly groups quite literally could not archive the relevant data themselves. Google's own Data Takeout, whilst fairly remarkable (in a positive sense) within the industry makes many things difficult or impossible. Ordinary users cannot archive Community content, and even Owner and Moderator roles within communities could only archive posts from public communities -- neither comments nor private communities were archiveable. (Third-party tools could provide these capabilties). Moreover, technically, cost, bandwidth, or storage-constrained users or communities largely had no viable options for saving their own legacies.

3. The contents sitting on Google+, indexed and searchable by content on both the site and via the public Web, were far more visible than they will be at the Internet Archive, which does not support full-text search of its archives (at least not yet), and which is not as effectively indexed publicly as Google+ was.

4. The Internet Archive does provide for content removal under the DMCA, as well as other mechanisms. For a G+ user, given how content URLs are constructed (they all include the user's G+ UUID as a common element), requesting removal of an entire tree is trivial.

On balance, this favours the Archive.
What should I learn if I want to contribute to the Swift compiler? (2018)
Ask HN: What tools do you use to computerize textbook notes?
Hi HN,

I've been working through some textbooks and have filled out 5-6 notebooks with solutions to problems. While I'm committed to pen and paper, I've noticed that I'm losing a lot of valuable data:

- What problems and types of problems have I attempted (categorized by a textbook chapter, problem-solving strategy, difficulty etc.)?

- How much time have I spent on a given problem?

- What problems are unsolved and need to be revisited?

For my next side project, I was thinking of building a free and open-source desktop app that could track the aforementioned information for me. I figured that I can't possibly be the only person with this problem, so I'm curious to learn what other HN users do to computerize, index and manage their textbook notes.

Thanks!
A corporation is just a group that's recognized as a separate entity by the government. There's nothing that says the governance of a corporation has to be dictatorial. Many cooperatives are corporations.
They should have a test every week from a different country.

They could have team points as well as manufacturer points depending on the web servers.
Are you sure?

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/3690:HK

This says net income was -137B HKD or about 17b usd
Too sloppy for state espionage? In my experience, the level of competence in government varied widely. This is entirely plausible as state espionage.
No - I'm talking about MySQL being needed as a dependency.

https://github.com/mprove-io/mprove/blob/master/deploy/docke...

Can you not use biquery database itself. Create tables for your internal use instead of MySQL ?
I received an offer from Lyft last year to do data science. Here are some potential use cases of machine learning for a taxi company:

-Predicting wait times

-Predicting the best route

-Predicting where to send drivers before requests come in

-Predicting demand so that you can surge price predictively

-Predicting what assets/requests to prefetch to the phone and when

-Predicting when drivers will churn and what tactics will reduce churn

-Predicting when passenger will churn and what tactics will reduce churn (e.g., special deal for 25% off next 10 rides)

-Predicting which passengers are more or less price sensitive and then price discriminating accordingly

-Predicting what it will cost various vehicles to reroute to pick up an additional Lyft Pool passenger on the way to their destination

-Predicting the driver's position some time ahead (e.g., you don't want to send a request for them to get off the freeway right as they are passing their exit)

-Predicting car location based on fusion of GPS, accelerometers, priors from past driving data (e.g., if GPS says you're 10 m right of the freeway traveling at 60 MPH, you're actually probably on the freeway)

-Predicting which Facebook users will be most likely to click ads

-Predicting who and when to send out email marketing

-Predicting all sorts of server load balancing type stuff on the back end (proactively scaling capacity for known busy times, etc.)
There's an excellent book (and associated open source project) on using state machines for reactive systems or embedded systems in general: "Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, 2nd Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems" by Miro Samek. Here's a link to the site where you can download it from (https://www.state-machine.com/psicc2).
I don’t know their balance sheets, but the organization I work for (~30k employees and I’m sure many other much larger ones) have enterprise G Suite accounts. Those accounts alone are worth a lot of money to Google, and I think even they would not be foolish enough to slice open the goose that lays the golden egg.

What’s more, the lack of humanity is completely unrelated to lack of legality and lack of desire for income. Both of which Google have mostly adhered to (unlike e.g. Facebook, Uber, AirBnB).
So do you think it's more about breaking down the (centralized) big dogs or supporting the (decentralized) smaller startups. This Iron Cage is full-on dystopia. I really can't believe we're letting it happen!
I use chromium, Widevine and the related sites work just fine here.
I feel you both have fantastic insights in this. Thanks for the discussion.

My take is it’s great to use ec2 pricing, likely with beanstalk, and aurora or perhaps aurora serverless for sql. There’s room for moving fast with rails. Then as things grow, splitting off a microservice with the same url via your proxy server which uses go and redis. This way you are not over optimizing one data model before you know exactly what its schema is.
I won't pretend to understand the world of unicorn startups, but it's important to remember that this isn't how the economy is run. For all the billions being set on fire here it's still a relatively small piece of the technology sector, much less the economy as a whole.
"Ascher" is my last name. I purchased the "ascher.dev" domain a few weeks ago. Currently, I'm having it redirect to my GitHub profile, but for some reason the redirect only works in Safari (working on fixing that).
I have been using SML in production for a little over a year now without issues, mostly for protocol machines.

I agree the documentation is not great though, you kind of have to go over the example code and try to figure things out on your own.

Using embedded data for keeping state (e.g. counters, etc; see https://boost-experimental.github.io/sml/examples/index.html...) along with injecting std::functions to use as actions is pretty powerful.

Here's a basic example I wrote some months ago showing a hierarchical machine (https://gist.github.com/indiosmo/08ab24181770125d5a2448d27f6...).

Also please note my usage is pretty basic as I usually have the same machine ported to C# and Python so I tend to use the smallest subset of functionality supported by all the libraries in each language.
That's hilarious, and definitely makes me want to learn more about what the authors are talking about. What's a good place to refer to the various acronyms this paper uses, for those who aren't familiar with the field?
Run Cloud Foundry Applications in Kubernetes
“Vast”
>> The internet and "tech giants" have given us the ability to put our thoughts out to a global audience, stay in touch with friends and family around the globe (for free). Take and store a near infinite number of photographs. Order a car to your front door and have the destination chosen before hand without having to negotiate with your driver...

I realize that I'm an outlier here, but after each and every one of these examples, I thought - so what?!
Why are you figuring 33% on $30? Standard deduction is $12k, then it's 10-12% federal tax on the rest. A bit for state tax, sure, but it's going to be well less than 33%.

(Still hard to make ends meet on $30k, not disagreeing there.)
From counting with stones to artificial intelligence: the story of calculus
I feel very strongly about this: The single most important thing for a growing software project is Using Opinionated Tooling.

Too many new projects, libraries, frameworks, etc come around and broadcast "we're Unopinionated!" like that's some great thing.

You cannot, without exception, develop complex software without asserting and extrapolating opinions about design patterns, tools, frameworks, layout, etc somewhere in the stack. Its impossible. You'll end up with an unmaintainable mess.

Medium and Large companies will naturally develop a bunch of internal opinions about things. Internal tooling. CI. Development and Deployment environments. Those are all opinions that get built up over time, based on the experiences of the people who build them. This is fantastic; its how companies like Google and Amazon have reached such massive scale, but how many other companies start failing when they try the same.

Small companies and Startups do not have these opinions. They have to outsource their opinions, at least at the start. A large company might say "yeah we have our own blackboxed JS serverside framework, just use that it'll do logging, tracing, error reporting, its great." Small companies won't have that. So, use Rails, or Phoenix, or something that is highly opinionated. Learn what works. Learn what doesn't.

This is Javascript's fatal flaw. And it is massive. And it still has not been improved years later. There is an extreme lack of opinionated tooling. NextJS has been doing some very interesting work introducing a more productive and opinionated frontend development experience. The backend really has nothing similar; the closest we got was Meteor, and it has/had too many weird technical issues and poor design choices to be considered a good choice. The team behind it then mostly moved to Apollo, which reverted back to championing how unopinionated it is.
Are you affected by ITAR?
You seem to have ignored taxes.
Thanks for the honest and direct feedback. I agree that these would be good features to add. I'll keep them in mind as I continue work on the project.
It's a lossy transfer, though.

Profitable companies are typically win/win/win for customers, employees and investors. Unprofitable companies are win/win/lose at best.

Take all the money the investor had lost, and if you had simply paid the employees the same for doing nothing and given the rest to the customers it would be a Pareto dominating outcome. The difference is destroyed wealth -- it's how much worse off society is because those investors didn't invest in profitable companies. Aside from the transfer of wealth, they really are setting fire to money.
I don't expect someone with a 30k salary to pay anywhere near 33% tax.

Federal: 12k standard deduction for an individual, looks like $1969 in taxes on the remaining.
New York State: 8k standard deduction, roughly $1100 tax on the rest (eyeballing it).
FICA: 7.65% tax on 30k is 2295.

$1050 per month after rent instead of $675. Not saying it's comfortable... in fact I think I'd still agree with your "barely livable" description.
That's a convenient excuse. I suspect the real issue is people don't want to see scholarship on female microchimerism regardless of quality.
Have you ever been diagnosed with a major (clinical) depression?
Lot of marketing, but mostly low prices. The whole reason why Uber and Lyft took off wasn't because people were amazed at ordering a ride on their phones. It was because they were cheaper than taxis.
The one that came to mind as I wrote that was the one I take after work. Most people tend to get off at the train station at the last stop so the bus only really stops for pickups, other than occasionally. The bus goes through an area mostly full of offices and industrial type buildings until it reaches the train station. There's not much inbetween but the same thing tends to happen. Even on other routes here though, busses tend to do the same thing when they're bunched.
Why do they need investors?
Testing the waters maybe..
Oh, yes. I was searching for something like this last week. Thank you OP
> These are not close at all.

OK, I acknowledge that I was in error here about RGB full-saturation green + blue being equivalent to printer's cyan, and apologize for the error. However, they are still both (in my mind) firmly in the category of "colours in the sky on a cloudless day".

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on the rest, but thank you for teaching me some new things today.
yeah, and if you really need those scripts, stop loading them from 10 different domains...
I suspect that cars bunch too. For a given traffic volume, if they're going slower, then they have to be closer together, which causes cars to slow down even more. This is a feedback cycle.

Buses bunching might be more noticeable because buses tend to stay in the right lane.
A Go implementation of Poly1305 that makes sense
Depends on what externalities you count in. Is not taxing fossil fuel a subsidy?
Money seems to have all the benefits of fame and few of the disadvantages. Having $100m in the bank confers all those advantages without being harassed on the street.
I feel this switch was largely pushed by Google marketing.

I wonder how much of the name change was to acknowledge the fact that a lot of Google smartness is actually not ML (eg Google search is mostly string matching and giant lookup tables) or at least not Deep Learning.

At the start of my career in ML, I was shivering when someone was labelling my work as AI. At first because I found it too old school, then because I found it over-hyped. But I now use this world myself because that's what people read in the newspaper.

Also, it's often hard to guess that eg the Google assistant is mostly based on regexes and small grammars, while the photo classification is actual ML.

What I'm very cautious though, is to only AI as field name. I don't speak of Google assistant as "an AI" but as an "AI powered" software.

(Ex-Googler)
"“Apple led the way with secure coprocessors in phones, with fingerprint sensors, with encrypted messages. If you can attack Apple, then you can probably attack anyone.”"

They really didn't. There were cryptophones, such as Cryptophone, doing secure messaging and stuff before Apple. Julian Assange used one IIRC. High-assurance security did stuff like Sectera Edge with some side-channel shielding, too. Then, there were companies like OK Labs building minimal, trusted, computing bases into phones with stuff like Android sandboxed in user-mode. Sensitive stuff ran outside. Then, Apple got into the game. They could still copy some of these techniques for improved security on top of what they're doing already.

https://www.cryptophone.de/

https://web.archive.org/web/20080408152145/http://www.gdc4s....

https://web.archive.org/web/20110219075132/http://www.ok-lab...
This makes a ton of sense for Cloud Foundry: Let others do the heavy lifting on infrastructure, and go up the stack.

Next stop: istio for routing?
But thousands of vendors and suppliers need to organize to produce a CPU, or an airplane, or a car. Self-organization is indeed utopic, but let's not pretend raw materials enter some Intel factory and Xeons come out the other end.
> I was Gmail's lead designer from 2008 to 2012 and co-founded Google Inbox.

Quite the perfect person for the job!
Thank you! I'd agree with the other commenters that Peter's talk is the best place to go for hearing the in-depth story: https://blog.ycombinator.com/peter-reinhardt-on-finding-prod...

I'd say more generally that finding product-market-fit felt much more like a 'pull' than a 'push' motion. We had been trying for 8 months to convince even a single user to rely on the product we were building earlier, and it just wasn't sticking.

When we launched today's product, we started seeing a lot more pull from customers. We solved one problem that other products did not, which prompted a bunch more requests from customers.
The computational part was only 60% of the exams. The rest was proofs. For most of us, we needed every mark we could get in the computations because the proofs were really hard.
Nice find! Looks like they are exploring it for its copper chelating properties, specifically for use with Wilson's Disease (where copper accumulates).

The study you link further addresses the issue with a molecule being "undruggable" because it is not orally bioavailable:

"One of the major challenges faced by PTP1B-based drug discovery efforts has been to generate orally bioavailable inhibitors of the phosphatase. In fact, the lack of oral bioavailability of active site-directed PTP inhibitors was a major factor in industry describing these enzymes as “undruggable.” Our efforts with this class of allosteric inhibitors now provide proof of concept that these challenges associated with active site-directed inhibitors of PTP1B can be overcome...The combination of PTP1B inhibition and copper chelation presented in DPM-1001 reflects a new approach to the treatment of diabetes and obesity that we hope will re-invigorate drug development efforts in this area."

To me, it looks like they will still not utilize the full potential of the drug. But whatever can get DPM-1001 into production, I am for. (Group buy/synthesis anyone? ;)) It looks like their secondary observations of regeneration/restoration might be closer to the true potential for this molecule:

"In studying mice, DPM-1001 reduced liver complications, including enlarged cell size, irregular shape and arrangement in liver tissue."

https://www.cshl.edu/progress-toward-improved-wilsons-diseas...
Personally, I don't think so.

I think most people have a higher expectation of privacy for their data than their belongings outside their home.

And the Supreme Court agrees - Riley v. California:

> Cell phones differ in both a quantitative and a qualitative sense from other objects that might be carried on an arrestee’s per- son. Notably, modern cell phones have an immense storage capacity. Before cell phones, a search of a person was limited by physical reali- ties and generally constituted only a narrow intrusion on privacy. But cell phones can store millions of pages of text, thousands of pic- tures, or hundreds of videos. This has several interrelated privacy consequences. First, a cell phone collects in one place many distinct types of information that reveal much more in combination than any isolated record. Second, the phone’s capacity allows even just one type of information to convey far more than previously possible. Third, data on the phone can date back for years. In addition, an el- ement of pervasiveness characterizes cell phones but not physical records. A decade ago officers might have occasionally stumbled across a highly personal item such as a diary, but today many of the more than 90% of American adults who own cell phones keep on their person a digital record of nearly every aspect of their lives.
Woman Carried Away on Stretcher Minutes into Launch of Lime E-Scooter Pilot
Which is fine. There's no need to require building parking garages. There's certainly no need to require such a ridiculous amount of parking that store lots don't even fill up on Black Friday, which many jursidictions do. [1]

Many places outside the US, and some inside, do not mandate parking for developments. In fact, Manhattan has an absolute parking cap.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/blackfridayparking
K-Means Clustering: Unsupervised Learning Applied on Magic:The Gathering
Yup. Moreover, most "state espionage" and the like is really just a state-sponsored variation of garden-variety opportunistic/criminal activity that would otherwise be quite ordinary. This is something that most people might not generally realize, because there's so much focus on high-profile espionage. But that's rare and not at all the common case.
good site, is it paid? I mean, you have to pay for this website and you can enter the entrance of next posts? I try to find some clickable places, but can't find any. But why we can visit free like this URL?
The word 'hackers' implies evil-doing. I'd be more inclined to use something like 'stress-testers' that signifies somebody finding the limits of the car's safety abilities.

If three small markers are sufficient to interfere with a car's autopilot, that's one car I will never get into.
good question. I don't have an answer.

though at this point it is kinda predictable - all news sites, except the ones with paywalls (and if you haven't bought the subscription, then its pointless visiting them). All information sources, except a few notable exceptions (usually aggregators like HN/Reddit, but also Medium).

Everything else divides into SaaS products, personal blogs and random shit. Random shit is usually ad-supported, the rest are usually fine.

it's all sort of moot anyway - the ads model is crap and getting worse, and businesses are going to have to move to something else soon. I don't think we'll have this problem long.
This is epic. I actually received one of these at a event last week. I actually thought it was horribly tacky, living someplace not California where jackets need arms to prevent frostbite. I had no idea that they were a part of the culture wars.
I have seen full or near-full buses skip scheduled stops to alleviate this. Although from a waiting passenger's POV, having an already delayed bus that has space left zoom past you without stopping is pretty infuriating...!
Makes sense why Apollo is such a clusterfuck then. Have you looked at Nest for Node on the server side? I'm using it for a client project right now and find it the best offering for server side javascript. The ecosystem _is_ still immature though relative to something like Rails or Laravel.
A History of Anti Satellite Programs (2k12) [pdf]
and lots who don't

http://www.econtalk.org/extra/where-have-all-the-busboys-gon...