skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
70+ hours of sustained work per week is unsustainable, the human body largely can't handle it. SV has a lot of dumb mythology around working non-stop (i.e. Musk claiming he works 100+ hours a week), but what people usually call 70 hours is 50 hours of work and 20 hours of dicking around 'working'.
I've never seen a referral bonus come without a requirement of te new employee staying at least 6 montha or a year.
US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Responsible for Tens of Thousands of Deaths
Calling it "Marxist" doesn't make it untrue.
Isn’t it possible that many of these people are “at the bottom of society” because they’re lazy, etc? I’m not saying that’s everyone’s situation, but it is the case for many. There are plenty of people who spent their formative years partying and doing whatever else except for schooling, and these are the types of jobs that are left for them.

It is a failure of society on some level, but it should not be up to the corporations to take on those people who are unemployable due to their own behavior and approach to life.
KaiOS takes a significantly different approach in bringing FirefoxOS to market than Mozilla did.

For starters, they targeted feature phones instead of Smartphones
It's finding value in those tools which the agency (and most others, mine included) would be claiming to be capable of and I think to a reasonable extent they've proven that, even with a somewhat underwhelming result.
This is assuming that level 5 automation is possible any time soon, while a growing number of people believe it isn't. If it turns out that we need another 2-3 decades to get there, Tesla will run out of money long before then.
Having a child is optional for individuals, but not for society, and so it's really only "pseudo-optional" for individuals: there is some distributed portion of requirement on everyone.
Low Marks for Performance Reviews
Gosh I miss this guy.
> On the campaign trail, Senator Elizabeth Warren recently called for the breakup of Amazon, declaring that “you can be an umpire, or you can own a team, but you can’t do both at the same time.” She was referring to Amazon’s role as both an e-commerce platform and a vendor — a scheme that lets the company observe market trends and undercut sellers with in-house products at opportune moments.

Why should Amazon not be allowed to sell its own products on its own site, but the grocery store is allowed to sell its own branded milk at its own stores, in competition with other milk sellers?

The fact that Amazon is rolling open source products into its own offerings isn't anti-competitive: it's a reflection of a key flaw in the open source philosophy. The moat of open source is that it is expensive to maintain and difficult to monetize, thereby disincentivizing unserious forks: but now that Amazon is monetizing it, it's a problem, because their resources are effectively unlimited and they are effectively monetizing it. The potential was always there for anyone to do this, but the difficulty of it meant that no one ever tried.
I suppose I was loosely defining creativity as "ability to generate novelty or novel insight". People call AlphaGo created because he demonstrated a new and novel way to play that has since influenced others. AI Music will eventually teach us things about music in a similar way.
Is this a surprise to anyone? I was under the impression that even the most ardent HODL-er thought Tether was, at best, a very risky investment, and more likely a total scam.
I'm less concerned about Google Maps than the Google partial-ownership. Based on the sentiment above, I would assume that it either does or will eventually "require the Google eco-system for over 50% of the apps to even work". It's like Android in the early days - at first they just wanted to get a foothold, so everything was very open. Only once that solidified did they start locking it down.
And so the left's campaign for censorship comes back to bite them. Who could have predicted that?

I guess this is a good thing in that the worse censorship gets, the more people will realize we need decentralized web services.
DeClassified CIA Document “The Adam and Eve Story”
Has the flavor and usefulness of Crisco suffered since they removed trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils?
I was wondering about that as well, formatting a dataset of "rules" in a form ready to be digested by a NN seems like a very tricky problem. But then if they didn't actually teach the NN about the meaning of the rules but only how to generate strings of characters that looked like rules then it's a whole lot less impressive.

Nvidia has shown many interesting AI-related projects lately but this particular one reeks of marketing fluff without much substance to me.

I thought their AI-assisted drawing algorithms was massively more impressive for instance: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealist...
> Work is optional. There are plenty of people who get by without it. Doesn't mean they're doing well or healthy.

Except if you don't have a kid, you have better chances of staying well and healthy. That's the whole point. That's what is meant with parenthood being optional and work not.

> And for society to continue to function having children is actually not optional.

With the rate at which world population is increasing[1], I think the opposite is true. It wasn't that long ago that we reached a world population of 7 billion. Now, we're apparently more than halfway to 8 billion. How in the world can the earth support so many of us?

Yesterday, there was a post here that talked about the absolutely brutal conditions that we're raising livestock in[2]. We wouldn't need to be so god damn efficient in working livestock if we didn't have so many mouths to feed.

[1] http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743006
That sounds fine by me - in compensation for the lost revenue they would gain a bunch of public good will and lose some risk for a repeat of cambridge analytica.

Also that seems way way up since in 2017 they made only 6.18$ in Q4[1]... so who's suddenly paying so much money for our user data?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/facebook-earnings-q4-2017-ar...
I'm not entirely sure what the restrictions on the defenders are (other than having to return to their half after their team scores), but there's an exploit I can see already:

> Only 1 defender is allowed in the end-gate circle at any time.

This says "defender", which is a role. So forwards would be allowed to bolster the gate's defense, which might make sense given the possession mechanic.

The lack of tackling and rules about passing direction, with body blocking allowed, means that huddling a few players together and creeping up might be a viable strategy that the defending team can't really counter. It would be a valid strategy in Rugby too (where you're only allowed to tackle the ball carrier), were it not for rules against obstructing tacklers.

This kind of turtling strategy seems contrary to the nature of the game, so if effective it would need nerfing/banning.
Sure they would. AWS's Elasticsearch offering has fewer features than Elastic's offering but is still competitive due to its integration into AWS's other service offerings. The same is true for AWS's Redis offering.
I don't agree. Humans are just naturally more concerned with what's close to them or what directly interacts with them. It's just part of the normal signal to noise filtering.

In the US, unless you live in certain coastal cities, the overwhelming majority of people you meet are from the US and living within 100 miles of where you're at. So, the context of almost all the important information that you need on a daily basis to survive is going to be about the US and about your state. If there's a massive flood of the Mississippi and you live in Missouri, you might know someone affected, or at least be impacted due to the economic damages.

If a German lives near the French border, isn't he naturally going to be more concerned about news of what's going on in France? He's going to meet French nationals much more often than others and French culture is going to have a pretty direct impact on his daily life. If there's a major fire in Strasbourg, he's going to be interested in what happened. He might know some of the casualties, directly or indirectly. Maybe he dated a girl from the University. If there are riots due to poor management of the crisis, or a sewage leak into the Rhine, all these things can affect him directly. Just because he lives nearby.

Do either us Americans or the German need to know about what's going on in Vietnam? Only in the broadest sense. If there's a tsunami that hits Da Nang, it's unlikely to affect anybody we know personally, unlikely to affect our daily life, unlikely to affect our larger economic lives (even if our countries send aid). It's tragic. We certainly care that people died and that they need help. It just isn't a tragedy that touches us personally. Vietnam is not part of our default context.
To be generous to those proposing blockchain for health records I think their intent to suggest that it be used for the access/authentication layer of a more conventional secure database, but that's just a guess.
I tried this a couple of weeks ago, and to my surprise, it actually delivered! Except that the resulting apps didn't render quite correctly yet, so in the end I couldn't justify using it, yet.

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Hover probably suits my needs, but I think the Flutter engine could be separate from the app, on the desktop, as the Dart jitted VM seems to have enough performance to do so. That could fully remove the need for a toolchain for the majority of apps. Just feed it Dart, in source form.

In the case of Go, a library could enable communication with such a Flutter VM through channels. The resulting executable could be much simpler, and would merely focus on extending the VM with platform features. Concretely, it shouldn't be necessary to recompile the Flutter engine, just to add serial port access, for example. Likewise, the Flutter engine could be upgraded by simply replacing the binary.

The thing is, your language of choice, any, could be used to extend such an engine. Fundamentally I don't believe in monolithic apps which compile in the kitchen sink, as they don't allow me to use the best language for the task. Most languages try to be everything to everybody. Why not communicate better, between processes? Some of these processes may run on the other side of the world. That kind of stuff should be easy, so no DLL's please, instead a kind of broker.
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Do that many people want to see Tesla fail, or are just many people skeptical about what Tesla is saying and doing?
I was originally very pro Tesla, until about 18 months ago when a friend who works in finance gave me the heads up on TSLAQ,

Here's a few datapoints on what's convincing me that this is not a healthy company:

• Musk is constantly promising things that don't happen (full self driving, robotaxis, Model Y, Tesla Semi truck, Tesla Roadster, car with a rocket motor, 10k/wk production). This week it's an electric leafblower. Seems like everytime there's bad news, there's a distraction ready to go.

• The entire cult of Musk working 100 hours a week yet he shitposts more than I do.

• Funding secured, followed by funding not secured is a bit of a joke, but also, if the CEO of General Electric, or Chevron tried that, they'd be fired.

• The reports of people waiting months and months to get simple repairs done. If Vinod Khosla (1) can't have his car repaired quickly, where does that leave the average joe on the street?

• Enormous price decreases. The price of a Model S decreased $12k a few weeks ago, and the Model X decreased by $18k. This is horrific for your margins, especially if you're short on cash.

• Batteries exploding (2), and people dying in car accidents that they should have walked away in - the example here is someone who couldn't get out because the door handles didn't work (3).

• Enormous Health & Safety violations at the Freemont factory (4). Before we even get into the nonsense that was the factory operation (compare to say the efficiencies and tight tolerances of the Nissan operations in the UK).

• Simple errors meaning the Tesla factory is enormously inefficient by North American standards (the consensus being that Tesla made the same mistakes other American firms made in the 1980s)

• Panasonic freezing investment in Nevada and China (6)

But finally, the biggest thing that makes me skeptical is that none of what I've said matters. Because this isn't about facts, it's about faith. And I think Tesla is a fraud and that Elon Musk could give Elizabeth Homes a run for her money, which is a real shame because the Model S is a nice enough car, and electric cars are clearly something we'll have in the future. You can fudge the numbers a bit if you're a VC backed startup. You can't do that if you run a publicly traded company.

1: https://twitter.com/vkhosla/status/1085931446542290944?s=20

2: https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/04/article/teslas-china-inroa...

3: https://futurism.com/tesla-driver-killed-burning-model-s

4: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...

5: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-r...

6: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Tesla-and-Panason...
Their demonstrations of FSD like the short clip in the clip linked shows far too much easy roads like highways and "controlled" scenario to believe in their confidence of the tech.

If they put up autonomous driving videos going through a handful of major cities taking the most awkward routes through places where driving culture is typically more agressive and the narrowest of country lanes through the towns that were built for horse and cart and space is at a premium. Places like Rome, Barcelona, New Delhi. Towns that have built one way systems into their traffic management due to limited space and measures are taken to purposely bottleneck traffic like narrow road right of way signage. Show a car doing that and I'd understand their confidence.

E.g there is a town where roadside parking is allowed because it purposely bottlenecks and slows down main road traffic. You have to judge and wait by the parked cars for a space you can pass through even when their maybe cars coming towards you there is time to pass the parked cars and into space where two cars can pass eachother. How is an autonomous car going to handle that kind of senario where it has to make a judgement call that factors in a far greater amount of risk element?
If you provide value X to an employer for payment Y, they're not going to increase your payment in proportion to your increase in productivity. Frequently employers won't give you any additional compensation for increased productivity. So the game theory really favors workers optimizing the time it takes to provide value X
Oh, thanks! That's quite an interesting article.

Although author doesn't go into much detail about difficulties of learning how to efficiently use those screen-reading tools, I liked that he gives a broad picture of blind people's everyday code-related routine.

BTW, how does one understand all that synthesized gibberish?
I bet it could give you a headache :D
Lard is in all major supermarkets in the UK.
Doesn't sound like the $850M went missing, more like someone cashed out. Unless hiring a company to do what you say your company is doing, then handing it all your funds immediately, allows any other conclusion.
I think the argument is that animal fat is harder to maintain and more expensive than super-cheap "never" spoiling industrial fat ?

BTW isn't beef fat used to make Belgian fries ? I agree with you though, traditional fries made with animal fat is in a league of its own.

In the UK, you can find lard pretty much everywhere. The little Tesco express down the road will have some.
Of course they're comparable, and you just compared them.
Like all pairs of things, they have similarities and differences. You're claiming that they're very different, which is fine, but you're dressing it up in language that suggests it's not even possible to disagree, which is silly.
> Amazon, the third most valuable company on Earth and controlled by Earth's most wealthy human being,

All of this is irrelevant to your argument.

> and then sold access to it.

Are the purchasers of this free software foolhardy, or is Amazon providing them value in some way? I suspect it's the latter.
I think 75+ productive hours are doable if:

1) you start early

2) keep focus 100%, no browsing/distractions etc.

3) after 7 hours you make a 2-3h long break and do something completely different, like taking a walk outside, sunbathing, biking, sauna or whatever makes you happy

4) when you return, you work on another task/for another company, never the same stuff you worked on in the morning

5) you take only one day off, i.e. depending on your location/culture/religion one of Fri-Sun is strictly no-work

6) you are single & healthy
A lot of PWA features aren't implemented everywhere, and that depends entirely on browser vendors' decisions. i.e. a lot of API's are not supported in Mobile Safari, and in general, it takes a pretty significant amount of time for a Web feature to appear in all major browsers.
I'm not sure what you mean by Flutter IDE and simulators, as the SDK has neither.
It's rare to see public accolades to Alice Sheldon, especially, as this article notes, when gender politics are so mainstream. Almost all her fiction was devoted to analyzing gender-related issues but in a widely innovative way.

Her story Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death is my favorite (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-t...), With Delicate Mad Hands is a close second. The Girl Who Was Plugged in influenced Neuromancer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338035), Houston, Houston, Do You Read? is a classic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%...)

From a well-written Amazon review of her story collection:

""Love is the plan..." is my favorite science fiction short story, and one of the best short stories of any kind ever written. It has not a single human character, and depicts the unbearably touching efforts of a gigantic, heavily-armored, multi-limbed alien to tackle and solve three deadly problems faced by his species, two internal--- stemming from instinctively programmed behavior--- and one external, a global climate change. That he will fail, and why he will fail, is evident early on from many clues fairly planted within the narrative. But he does his level best, which is indeed far better than you and I could hope to do, and like most Tiptree aliens, he is totally charming and lovable throughout his hopeless task."
https://www.southerncastiron.com/5-things-you-didnt-know-abo...

lard has no flavor
The person in the accident was not using "full self driving". At that time they only did traffic aware cruise control + lane keeping.
Its cool to predict things. Every bump in the road for Tesla brings out the nickel and dime soothsayers.
Maybe I misunderstand by why is this considered impossible? Network processors read data from a packet, make decisions based on that, and then rewrite arbitrary parts of the packet. All on the fast path. This sounds doable if you had the custom firmware that did that. It'd just be a huge waste of money considering your very, very expensive network box.
That is not true even on difficult hikes. You need more calories then normal, but it is not like you would suddenly had to eat tripple portion of everything else you die.

Also, it is not like extreme cardio or weight lifting. You can go on for hours without eating. It won't feel great, but won't be big issue either.

Besides, for long hikes and climbs, people minimize weight. Bin of peanut butter to go through in two days sound excesive.
"Glorified text munging" sounds about right, lately. Maybe a random alternation between that and "Hopped-up Markov chaining".
yeah, but these days AI is applied to anything related to machine learning. most of current AI is supervised learning, which doesn't fit your description
The opening sounds a lot like Fisher's Hornpipe [1]. And then at 0:26 and even more so at 0:40 it sounds less and less like bluegrass. The weird instrumentation makes it especially strange.

[1]: https://open.spotify.com/track/4QGO8m9OCsiW5iNF4ZNqgk?si=E8C...
For the vast majority, life doesn't get that complicated. I think even 5% of the population being forced into parenthood is too much of an exaggeration.
I dislike when articles like this (or any, really) embed images from Instagram. I have all Facebook domains blocked in my hosts file, so all I ever get is broken DOM elements.
4.5 billion in income this quarter, and has been rising consistently. They have a cash flow problem, not a revenue problem.
Why do you want to work 75+ hours? What are you working for - what value are you receiving from life?

These are serious questions, I've worked crazy overtime (defined by me as anything over 50 hours a week) and never want to return to it, consistently doing 10 hour days is draining and significantly lowered my productivity, it was just bad times all around.
"Here is most of a billion dollars upfront, that should give you plenty of funds to process my withdraws, looking forward to doing business with you!".

Yeah, sure.
First one I got was pretty good - https://imgflip.com/i/2zgtp8

After that it was all gibberish :/
Visually looks a little messed up. Could be improved IMHO paying attention to some standard typographic rules.

Do not use a mix of several fonts and sizes in the same article

Choose good fonts. I wonder why is so trendy nowadays to use the thinnest font available and put it in an low contrast gray tone. It puts a innecessary strain in the eye of your public

Cheap fonts have a badly designed character spacing. The same problem happens here. Some letters look more closer than other and this is plain wrong in typography. All characters must create an uniform word and all words must have clear boundaries.

Fix your line spacing. Needs more height here for the same reason.

Plan your design and take care of the flow of your text. Do not randomly displace the beginning of some paragraphs over the other paragraphs without a good reason. Split your page using some strong vertical lines. Not a vertical zigzag pattern.
But you can use that one to then brute-force the points for every story.
travelingmailbox
Business and the internet both require pretty thick skins in isolation; combined, they require a turtleshell-like thickness. At some point one has to learn to suck it up.
Find a Mexican grocery or butcher. They often have fresh lard as a result of making carnitas. It’s so much better. For cooking you can also save bacon grease or render chicken fat and skin (which also gives you tasty chicken cracklings).
Natural animal fats as well as making stock are great ways to level up your cooking game.
Hey gitlab, this is just a personal preference but could you allow us to call "merge requests" "pull requests" instead?