skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's perhaps not unfair to sue them for misleading advertising that leads to people getting killed.

"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself."

creates very different expectations from

"While the car is driving itself, the person in the driver's seat is keeping his hands on the steering wheel and his attention on the road at all times."
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Just as fair warning, the last one of these to come around on HN, Flex Zombies, collected email addresses and either promptly sold them or was compromised. The nature of the email indicates being sold. I have proof of marketing mail being sent to name+flexzombie@myemaildomain.com.
‘Star Citizen,’ a video game that raised $300M but may never be ready to play
Doesn’t it?

Have you seen Star Trek? The federation exploration missions usually seek to speak first with the leaders and minimize their involvement with civilizations that haven’t matured enough. Not that they don’t still screw it up sometimes.

Too many variables for Occam’s razor to be applied to that question.

They could be as fallible as an emotional being might be and yet generally with benign, exploratory and diplomatic intentions as the federation in Star Trek.

They’re merely adhering to the “most powerful” government’s diplomatic requirements. You know, because they met the US first by chance.

There could be a good story in there somewhere...
I've hired people with both some college and an actual degree. I honestly haven't seen a big difference in ability. In fact, the ones with only some college (especially those with a family) seem to be more reliable and willing to do the occasional boring things that those with a degree tend try to avoid doing.

That's probably my own experience and it involves a low sample size, but as a small business owner, Id argue that you can really benefit by dropping the degree barrier and looking for other indicators of maturity and reliability.
This is "sponsored content" except it's on the HN front page. It's a marketing material as a blog post.

We can't know if the original upvotes are from PR firms or if are organic.
Deep learning to see if a science article has been supported or contradicted
Technically speaking it is not a Ponzi scheme (pyramid), but it is close enough to shady practices to be compared with.
It is pretty much every industry. The tobacco industry pushed studies and advertising claiming smoking was doctor approved and "healthy". The food industries/companies and their studies claiming cereal and orange juice constitutes a healthy breakfast. The oil industry, pharma, etc.

I think the diminishing value of humans/individuals is a result of overpopulation and industrialization. I don't remember who said it, but cities are now industrial farms for humans and a human being is a commodity/resource. In an industrial society, a human being is fundamentally no different than a cow or a pig on massive industrial farms. Our value is our commoditize productive value.
Exactly this! It's just a graph describing what happens to data and the abstractions behind the constructs are switchable. UX is especially important here.
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Business model same as spotify.
Grainchain, a blockchain-based platform for commodity sales, launches in Mexico
Indeed. It depends on the use case.
If you need to create on-boarding your product is to complicated.
Add features over time, measure there impact and remove them if they don’t work.
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It's almost like the D in DLL stands for something.

That said, it's not strictly static linking but it is closer to it in effect than the global assembly cache or the shared DLLs which resulted in the kind of "DLL hell" that windows 95 was famous for.
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The point is a good one that few people realize. If your holdings are in index funds, you're forfeiting your right to vote. It's almost criminal.

I don't know if a separate fund is the answer, though. Will my 401k offer Matter S&P shares? I sincerely doubt it.

To me this is a policy proposal that I'm surprised an Elizabeth Warren hasn't proposed. It's centrist in that it seems to really in inequality through corporate governance.
More computer programmers of low quality means there will be even more work for programmers. Oil engineers don't create work for themselves.
> But unless you can get everyone to do that (which you can't) that's not actually going to solve anything.

It solves the problem of contributing to it.
"Move fast and break things"

So it has to be for rapid technological progress to be made.
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Interesting article but I suspect an intentional misleading use of term minimum wage to argue for social policy. By definition a minimum wage is enforced by law on companies that don't want to or can't pay it. Ford decided for competitive or if you like humanitarian reasons to increase it's wages. But the problem with a legally enforced minimum wage on the economy as a whole is it always results in less jobs with the lost jobs being entry level jobs. Take those jobs away and you've taken the first rung or two off the ladder to economic success and enlarge the pool of the permanent poor. You've set up a barrier to entry for new companies, hindered the growth of young fledgling companies, and taken away the ability of many low or no skilled workers to learn new skills and climb up the ladder. In exchange you fatten the wallet of a now more limited worker pool. Minimum wage results in high unemployment among low or no skilled workers.
I feel like a caveman looking at a modern aircraft. There's no reference whatsoever to associate to with that UFO's observed maneuvers... or it could be a distortion of infrared spectrum due to something else.

They are so blatantly trespassing US airspace is very unnerving. It means either doesn't care about being shot down, or simply doesn't think it would happen. For the god sake, we couldn't even identify what this thing is.
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Such a great talk - thanks a lot! Here is the direct link as it is the last of the lightning talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2462&v=vm1GJMp0Q...
Quite a healthy community on github producing nice modern Fortran code!

https://github.com/Fortran-FOSS-Programmers
it's really useful. Found the right thing at the right time. Pricing pages are always a hassle for me.
You can figure what the Tesla NN would say if they built an explanatory speech system in. Something like "Opps sorry - I thought that which line was a lane and didn't recognise the barrier." Not all that helpful here really.
"strictly worse" despite no-copy memory access? Again, this needs proof.
IBM Shuts Down Intelligent Video Analytics
...and why the downvotes?
>> My pal who is now a leccie (Electrician) can charge crazy money and is laughing all the way to the bank.

Can he scale his business to more than a single employee? Does he get many connections that allow him to move on - e.g. become a senior engineer at a nuclear facility? What happens to him when we move on to some other "smart" electricity scheme which outdates all of his practical skills?
Increasingly? Yeah, in the past this definitively wasn't happening /s

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health1.html

Greed has always been a problem, a constant force we have to counteract.
NixOS also has a reproducibility project: https://r13y.com/

It seems that things must have recently regressed; the page currently says 40% but it used to say 98%.
The tradesmen I hire are making very good money in the largest US cities, well above $100k. No one wants to be a plumber/electrician/welder/carpenter though if they can help it. And their pay is rising faster than all the other people I hire.
What's the purpose of posting this?
If I take the perspective of someone who isn't informed about the technology, I can see how they could think that the technology is safe and Tesla is putting excessive warnings because their lawyers want them to. I think superfluous warnings on so many products has trained people to take warnings less seriously.
Sample data can be helpful, but in my experience, usually isn't.

What users actually want is a quick way to work with their own data.

A specialized "first launch wizard" that makes entering inital data really quick and painless is often a better choice.

It can also make sense to allow trying the product out with existing data, but for this I would offer a "demo" mode where you get bootstrap data, can play around with it, and have a big banner on top that allows launching the real thing.

This depends on the product of course, but I prefer those two options above.
Tens of thousands? I'll admit I don't know the property tax nationwide, but in my county in Virginia it's under 1% (5 minutes to downtown Richmond).

A modest $300k home would have a tax of only $3000. And your maintenance is not going to be anywhere close to 10s of thousands, and it's extremely unlikely you'll even average 10k a year over 5 plus years.
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Weirdest thing. I was watching Outlander last night where the main character talks about Lily of the Valley. Never before have I heard of this plant and yet today, here we are on HN of all places, with a post about LotV.
Interesting project! For X11 users there's 9wm. I wonder how it compares to Wio.
> voracity —> veracity

Probably a typo, but in case it wasn’t : https://grammarist.com/usage/veracity-voracity/
Not a Twitter user, but isn’t that just the same as ad blocking? Company X pays money to insert their message into person Y’s life: that’s an ad.

If someone doesn’t want ads in their life and Twitter provides a tool to block them, why wouldn’t that person use the tool?
> This loophole now results in investors only being subject to taxation when they actually sell their stake in the fund. IE the same way as how ETFs are designed to work.

Your phrasing is slightly misleading. The only reason under tax law that EFTs are taxed this way is because EFTs have always used this same tax dodge. So it's not as if Vanguard has patented (and used) a legal loophole for getting EFT tax treatment on a mutual fund, it is that Vanguard has patented (and used) the same loophole for their mutual fund that everyone uses for their EFTs.
I think your parent comment was talking about why changing the user-agent 'fixes' it.
This is really a big part of it for me. I have no problem using multiple launchers, but Epic has given me little reason to think that they'll secure my payment info or account details.
as someone that falls into the category described in this article I may be able to shed some light into my personal way of thinking.

I've always been very grateful and always been willing to do any work I can or go out of my way when I can to get the job done. This stems from the fact that I am grateful for my boss for "taking a chance on me". I know hiring doesn't always work out and I do what I can to be the shining star of people they look for, in the future to hire.

It was very rewarding when in fact my direct manager said to me in conversation " How do we find more people like you?"

Probably the best compliment I could have received.

Before anyone else chimes in, I am not underpaid. I work for a great company and am probably paid above market average.
Lots of desirable locations exist without those things. Lots of places with those things exist without being desirable.
To perform a statistical analysis, you want an objective measure, and money is a great proxy for value. You can pay people to be frustrated and stressed.

The interesting thing about this definition, to me, is the Lake Wobegon-esque effect that statistically half of all jobs are "good" because they're above the median. A poverty level or inflation-adjusted absolute metric might be more useful; you could measure the effect of policies based on the reduction of or increase in the number of good jobs.
I'm guessing this is where the Dragon Helmet [1] is headed - it has software (open source) that hopes to fulfil the responses and command execution. And of course mycroft [2] et al.

I think the real problem is getting the computer to do things that you haven't programmed it to do. If you imagine an Alexa / Google home where you have a conversation like:

"Hey Homexa, do a web search for an image of a piece of cheese, enlarge it to 2000x1500 pixels and email it to me please"

If it then came back with "Ok, please tell me how to enlarge an image" and you could give it step by step instructions, that would be amazing. But I don't think the comprehension required is quite there yet. But when we do, and especially if we can crowdsource the learned commands, things could get very, very interesting.

[1] http://dragon.computer/

[2] https://mycroft.ai/
2019 and we still have footage to "expose" ufos like its recorded on an VHS tape

With the amount of planes, cars with dashcams, cctv and people with overpriced phones with cameras

We cant get any better footage ?
That doubling of salaries in 1 year because of some business owner's good will is hardly a representative example of how capitalism works.
>Id argue that you can really benefit by dropping the degree barrier and looking for other indicators of maturity and reliability.

I've hired dozens of Software Engineers and could only tell you the degrees and/or schools of a couple of them. I don't even look at that. Can you demonstrates proficiency in what I'm asking you to do? Do you seem intelligent and willing & able to learn? Do you fill a gap on the team? Those are the things I want to know.
If you can project an object to another planet in any reasonable span of time, you already have vast military capabilities against that planet. All you have to do is not decelerate.
It is perfectly OK to only code at work, but you need to ensure you are learning and developing at work. Almost all programming related fields are still growing and changing rapidly. To stay relevant you need to invest in learning and self improvement. This can definitely be done as part of your job, but it's also something you can achieve by coding outside of work.

Regardless of how you do it, ensuring that you are continuously learning and staying relevant is important.
Right. It’s not that it cost them more, relative to their much smaller economy. It just cost more, period.
Well that's what you would expect the cohort that would have gone into higher apprenticeships now have better options and those jobs are now 100% degree entry.

Note that back in the day the entry requirements for advanced apprenticeships where quite high - higher than for entry level jobs in Banks or Nursing
>> The median wage for workers with some college education but no four-year degree is $835 per week, about 10 percent less than it was at the turn of the century, after inflation

This is a crazy sentence if you think about it. For a significant part of society wages did not only stagnate, they dropped. I don't think the trend will reverse any time soon. If the wages of another profecion rose 10 percent and were equal before, we would see a 22 percent difference (which is a lot!).

Since this is the trend for all workers with some college education but without a four year degree, i think it's a dire situation for those people. There's no easy way out (the article suggesst moving!).

The suggestion in the article may be smart on an individual level, but it could lead to a further segregation between sucessfull and not sucessfull regions.
For me, that happened a bit earlier with Introversion's games. Theirs were some of the first third party games on Steam.
Anecdotally, I've been a professional software engineer for around 10 years at top tech companies. I'm currently have similar pay and seniority as a Google L6. I've very rarely worked more than 9 hours in a day, and in those 10 years, I've spent less than 100 evenings coding on personal projects. So yeah, it's possible for sure.
That still doesn't solve the problem.

Nodes X, Y, and Z reached action potential tells us nada useful about useful about the NN.

It's not a question of not being able to run the code in debug; we can absolutely do that.

It's a question of the outcome only being dependent on a seemingly random set of numbers which no one can really reason from. That's the issue. With teenagers, we at least have the ability to structure incentives such that they continually improve their driving behavior, and most importantly, they are actually capable of learning after you cut them loose with the car. No hardware upgrades required.

The car on the other hand? Not so much.

W.r.t another poster's suggestion of the employment of actuarial models: I consider the employment of insurance to be a less than satisfying marshaling of our economic time, and a backdoor social control mechanism that still just makes me fidget. But that's just me.
Pure clickbait title.

“Stuff in my timeline that I don’t want to see” is an annoyance, not a societal problem. Privacy is a significant problem, but nothing in the write up says how fixing it on one platform can solve “a lot” of other problems in society.

Just say that your platform enforces privacy and is designed to be a social good rather than an addictive attention sink. Those are good things, and given time and mindshare could help to fix some of the nastiness that social media has fostered. But it ain’t gonna stop pollution, or address income inequality, or American health care, or any of the problems that I’d class as societal.
Why is it so hard to inject mock data well into web applications in 2019?
Is this all going towards autonomy?

https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=13330
I think this goes deeper than coding, we live in a world of “Give it you’re all”, but really the only thing we should be giving it all for is what makes us happy.
Over the last 25 years of coding, I’ve always stuck to the 9-5 (ish), 5 days a weeks. I’m not rich, but do alright and I’m fairly happy. I actually have time to do things that are not coding outside of work.
The world needs driven people that give it their ‘all’, but we shouldn’t give those a hard time that just give their ‘bit’
No/little activity for 4 years and then 3 posts on the same topic in 24 hours is more than a little suspicious, though.
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It's actually a different mechanism entirely.
Human Resource Machine is optimising a single threaded small memory process. (Single Instruction Single Data)
7 Billion Humans is about massively parallel programming more like code on a GPU. (Single Program Multiple Data)
The ways to solve the puzzles are very different because of this, and it's interesting but not a way of optimising that I'm used to (so I haven't finished it yet!).
As XKCD points outs, billions of people are carrying cameras everywhere they go, every waking moment of their lives:

https://xkcd.com/1235/

Where are the millions of sightings of flying saucers?
Yes, and similarly it's also possible to be into coding both at work and at home and to still have "a life" where you're doing what you're enjoying.
I think it was actually the cost of the metal, i.e. the metal was worth more than the denoted value.

There were other reasons like inflation making 5c coins largely irrelevant (we also had 1, and 2c coins phased out years earlier) (also 1nzd=0.5usd at that time)

NZ has also been largely cashless for at least 20 years now. (Link below has some interesting info/graphs)

https://www.paymentsnz.co.nz/resources/articles/two-sides-of...

I think the only reason this happening was even a big deal at the time was because they replaced all coins at the same time with much smaller, lighter and cheaper versions. I.e. it wasn't a big deal at all but rather the swap over was.
There are in fact many models of vehicles with zero deaths.
How far away is that? 20 years? That's 20 years worth of
"laughing all the way to the bank" for that guy.

Also, does every business need to scale more than 1 employee? Even if it's 2, 3 people max, that level of "freedom from worry" would make that duo/trio very happy indeed.

AFAIK smart electricity for scheme for even a block level is notoriously hard with today's tech, the number of edge cases must be enormous.
Am I the only one who thinks Tesla is destined to be acquired by a proper Manufacturing company?

Can Tesla by itself exist after 5 years ?
Firemint was eaten by Electronic Arts (EA) and most of their games disappeared (including Puzzle Quest, which they acquired).

Companies should consider when they can open source things like this to let greatness live on, if they won't find a way to support it directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Control_(video_game)
A lucky HN or PH campaign might help for a while, but the traffic spike will calm down soon.

I'll pay for them on the long run. For me, the CPC cost will make it worth.

There are also other ideas, like launching an affiliate program, app marketplaces.

Look at where the traffic is in your niche.
"I believe someone would learn so much more about us from reading wikipedia, than flying a UFO above north carolina at 90k feet. No?"

- NO if I wanted real-time aerial data on population and movements and see how Jimmy is doing.
Totally this! My father is/was a stage and costume designer in the theatre.

He worked so hard during the week (and weekends - theatre people keep some heavy hours!) that he rarely did many passion projects (though he did manage to fit a few in). But when he did they were on things that we really important to him, and that he gave himself the time to enjoy the process, and results and the iterations to follow.

I think he's always set me to have a good work life balance, and when I look back at the life he built for himself (and for us) it makes me really proud.

Now he's 'retired' he is in over-drive. He and my mother are slowly hand-painting their entire house, nothing is safe from redecoration. He's also painting loads of portraits and writing far more. Great to see a 78 year old man have so much drive and energy for creativity. I hope I do too at his age.