skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how can someone else "devalue" your profession? market forces decide the value of your profession. if you feel like your value is being diluted then I hate to break it to you but the truth is that you're not valuable anymore. you are welcome to upskill (in order to be able to deliver more value) or change careers.

like I love people praising the maw of capital (startups rule the world yay!) and simultaneously inveighing against. you have an issue? unionize (but you'll be excommunicated from the church of capital for trying to).
BH invests in a lot of companies worldwide, investing in just US companies would be stupid from a diversification point of view.
They kind of have to if everyone sends these messages.
EVRoutes is a route-planner that runs an A-star path finding algorithm on the set of charging stations matching your car.

The optimization is taking into account the power of the chargers, meaning that it should find the fastest route between point A and B.

Only north-america is routable right now but europe would be next.

Very curious about any kind of feedback. :)
I'm no 'rustacean,' but rust's benefits have always seemed fairly straightforward. The borrow checker provides static guarantees for thread- and memory-safety, and allows for safe, performant low-level systems code without the need for a GC.
Lane following isn't the hardest problem to solve. Current autonomous vehicle technology can follow lanes pretty well. The problem is with avoiding collisions while doing so, like if a pedestrian steps into the lane.

And if the vehicle discovers a magnetic marker is missing, by that point it's too late to hand off to a human. The human might not be paying attention. The lag time is too long for safety.
The most valuable thing I learned at university was how to tackle difficult problems. Taking advanced math and science courses where I had to really study, and still struggled, and having to write essays so frequently that I could no longer procrastinate or wait for the spark to hit me, was more valuable in the long run than any of the actual knowledge I gained.

The advice to break a hard problem down into simpler pieces good, but I feel like that is often difficult without proper domain knowledge. In many cases, knowing how to break apart a problem like that is how you become an expert in the first place. If you want to learn a musical instrument, there are plenty of good simple excercises to start with, but only an expert can tell you what they are, you can’t easily intuit them from scratch. An experienced programmer will know how to break down a difficult project into small and simpler pieces, that ability is part of what makes them an expert. “Find a good teacher” and “put in the work” seem like rather banal pieces of advice, but it’s a system that has consistently worked throughout the ages. If you are truly breaking new ground then you should already have a framework and significant experience to guide your exploration.
I read both those papers ;)

I guess that you can think of our algorithm as lazy SAT modulo quantified first order logic, with the crucial difference that first order logic is undecidable. But anyway in this case the "decision procedure for T" would just be checking whether any two complementary literals which are true in the model are unifiable, which is decidable.

Paper: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~korovink/my_pub/inst_gen_modular.pd...
Skill-wise, absolutely. Demand-wise, absolutely not. I'm a freelance developer now, but before I was a senior engineer at an international software company. I've considered several times pivoting to productized Wordpress consulting because of how easy it is and relatively scalable vs other kinds of software development. The level of demand for basic Wordpress setup/configuration is really pretty astounding.
As ryani points out in another comment[1], the punishable part is so narrow as to be irrelevant. Which is why nobody ever was punished for that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19955838
The soylentnews.org community seems to be growing well as another take on the /. formula.
Deleting lots of rows is perhaps the biggest weakness you are running into. What I do for some cases is "LIMIT 4000", sleep for 1 second, and repeat until no rows affected (tweak the numbers for your situation obviously) (usually this is for a periodic expiry/cleanup task).
Was Huawei explicitly named in the executive order? To my understanding, no, so I don't get why the story focuses on Huawei. For example, Motorola, owned by chinese company Lenovo, One Plus, Xiaomi or Oppo should not use Android either.

Trump also named many other countries as threats to national security, such as Canada, Germany, Mexico, and many others. There's no reason one day South Korea enters the list and Samsung will also get blocked by executive order .
Google has demonstrated enough times already that your account can be permanently suspended for any or no reason at all. While the services they offer are definitely useful, if people are relying on them in their personal or professional lives it's best to be ready in case they are taken away without notice.
No, government meddling makes phones more expensive.

That's why free markets are cool.
Trying to talk to a real person at Google is an exercise in futility. It’s like trying to contact a single person in the Borg.
Hate to break it to you, but well trained software engineers create terrible software too. Everywhere I’ve worked had some really boneheaded things going on. A reasonable person showing up with a keen eye to making things better can contribute a lot. We had one software engineer at YouTube just hunted down and deleted unused code. This reduced the maintenance complexity and generally made the codebase more maintainable. Was she a rockstar? Probably not, but every day she made the codebase better. For the most part, showing up, being reasonable and having a handle on the basics goes a long way. I’ll take that over a hotshot working on the wrong problem any day. There’s nothing like the smart man monkey trap to make otherwise intelligent people cause more harm than good.
I had a problem with messages app, not sending messages. 5 calls to support, and they couldn't fix it. They don't have a way to get a hold the messages team to fix it. Simply incredible.
Who writes the cards?

It's easy to write them, but writing the right ones is much harder. Automate or outsource that and you become a trillionaire. Yes, seriously.
The difference is in quality. I am also right now in Sydney, on the last day of my week-long business trip, and I have had constant 4G connection with Google Fi. Back when I had T-Mo I needed to find WiFi whenever I needed to download a large attachment, and obviously whenever I wanted to stream videos. Now I don't even ask for the WiFi password. And yes, I'll be watching Game of Thrones this evening using my phone's hotspot which has a US IP, so I can really feel at home.

I'm disappointed to hear that Google's customer service is bad, but when I signed up I wasn't even sure if they had a customer service department. T-Mo's support was OK, but for the past few months I've been living without it just fine.
The article refers to icloud encryption keys, not imessage keys.

If imessages are backed up to icloud, then the govt will have keys to see them. But if a user doesn't back up, I was under the impression not even apple could decrypt iMessages.
What's the difference to the js extensions that have been around for a while?
What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?
I agree it will be a lot sooner. The tipping point is going to start around 2025, when EV's become as cheap as ICE's for the largest autos, and will progress from there.

There are a number of forces pushing the change. For one, EV's are just better, including a much lower operating cost. Secondly, governments are pushing the change because of global climate change, and also because it reduces local pollution, and also having to pay for gas imports for the great majority of countries that produce little or no petroleum. Finally China is pushing EV's hard because it wants to dominate the auto industry.

I am sure the Bloomberg New Energy Finance people are quite aware the revolution is going to come much earlier. I think they are pretending it won't because they are under pressure from auto and petroleum advertisers.
I'd also be curious to get your thoughts here in the comments! :)
Here's what I did in a similar situation, for those who may be interested.

Basically I signed up for AT&T home internet, and it DID NOT WORK, period. It was unusably slow and cut out constantly. I couldn't use it. I told them so within a week, they sent someone to fix it, they failed to fix it, I told them I'm canceling. I proceeded to return their router and switch to a different provider and immediately got fine service.

But AT&T didn't cancel my service. They said I couldn't because I was locked in for a year or some arbitrary time period. It's been five years now so some details escape me-- but the key thing is that after some months they claimed I owned them $600, and I said I wasn't paying when I never got anything from them, end of story, goodbye.

My bank took their side on the part of the bill that had already been paid for that first month. I explained what had happened, and the bank "talked to AT&T" who no doubt showed them a sheet of paper with the words "He signed up for our internet and we installed it," and my bank said there was nothing to do. So that first month was a sunk cost.

But I never paid that $600. Simple as that. They forwarded it to a collections agency, I ignored it. I told them, "don't call me: I will never pay you."

It went on my credit report and my credit dropped about 40 points, making no appreciable difference to me. I ignored it. Over time the credit report recovered, and somehow after about four years AT&T withdrew the whole thing without any further action from me. It's no longer on my credit.

Moral of the story: if you can withstand a small dent in your credit, just tell MEGACORPXYZ to fuck off.

Sad that this is what you have to do these days, but it's better than no options at all.
So, frankly, you have nothing. Because none of that replicates the YouTube experience for both the producer and viewer. You also ignored delivery. Saying you can replicate YouTube with off-the shelf open source software and then proceed to provide me with common pieces that still need to be pieced together literally just don't know what "off-the-shelf" means.
I've wanted to pay for Google Fi because their offering is compelling, especially for people who travel internationally a lot but this is a great reminder of why I won't pay for a crappy customer service experience.
Any roaming sim card in China will not be blocked by the Great Firewall.
Uber is screwed. They clearly stated in their SEC filing that the possibility of deploying full autonomous cars will significantly impact their future earnings.
Strongly agree. Another VERY similar game is Hexonia.
Perhaps not the general public, but everyone in the clinical lab industry knew that there was no way that Theranos could achieve accurate results with a tiny blood sample. A single drop of blood extracted from just under the skin is not representative of the blood in the patient's circulatory system and contains too many contaminants. This is fairly straightforward biology and has been know for many years.
Skateboarding with Segmentation – Commute to the Trueface Office
Trueface.ai CTO Nezare Chafni Skateboarding with Segmentation - Commute to the Trueface Office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjxegQLCPk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR39bqsjb-lIu9_8FYqayA7zDJPgoKNlLrggdEyngExun9BpHflpmBrkGw4
I'm sure the Trump Administration's consumer protection bureau will get right on it. They're working in shifts!
China has some sort of capital control system (meaning, it is hard to move money out of China legally), someone can probably explain it much better than me.

I am guessing it is enforced by the fact that the Chinese and non-Chinese banking systems are not very well linked, so anybody trying to move large amounts of CNY out of the country will show up on someone's radar. I know a lot of Chinese people use casinos as a way to make their money "go dark" so they can move cash out / exchange their cash for things they don't want their government to know about
When I first read the headline, I was surprised that the same maker of my dog's ultra-tough chew toys [1] was branching into tech B2B.

[1] https://www.kongcompany.com/
I think the potential for 'bad actors' on the roads is significantly reduced just by eliminating the human driver!
>Without commenting on whether or not I believe the Bloomberg story, I very much doubt that "people were tearing these boards apart", doing reverse hardware-level engineering looking for an unknown. Even in the case of open-source software, with full source code and documentation available, the number of people who analyze code is miniscule.

I can tell you people were literally tearing them apart; cutting open capacitors and the like (common place to hide extra components) pulling apart power supplies (as I recall, one of the bloomburg illustrations implied that something was in a power supply; I remember a long discussion of how you could compromise something over i2c from a chip actually in the psu) - I mean, sure, these things could be better hidden to the point where such techniques would be ineffective, but my reading of the bloomburg article was that they weren't particularly well-hidden, and that therefore they were discovered. Hiding that sort of thing from another EE who designs that sort of thing seems like it's probably pretty difficult.

(I mean, it is common to have compromised firmware; that's way easier. but that's also not what the bloomburg article was about)

But... yeah, I guess a lot of my assumption was based on my reading of the bloomburg article implying that this hardware was something tacked on in a detectible way; the sort of thing that could be done by some third-tier subcontractor. I acknowledge that if your attacker has the capability to produce ASICs that look just like the real thing and act just like the real thing out the same I/O pins, except in some rare case? yeah, that's not going to fall to this level of examination. but that wasn't my reading of the bloomburg story.

Furthermore, if an attacker went through that level of effort, they'd probably not just do it for supermicro. Most motherboards of the same generation are pretty similar; pretty heavily based on reference designs. If you were going to do something that sophisticated, that's where you'd attack.

If you were going to attack just one particular rev of one particular brand of a motherboard? well, something tacked on seems a lot more feasible.
Your comment reminds me of the exercise where a class was split into two cohorts, one was tasked with producing just one clay pot (I can't remember the thing now), while the other cohort was tasked with making one per day or something similar.

Put simply, one group put all of its energy into producing just one, and the other group just turned out pot after pot after pot.

At the end, so the story goes, the group that cranked out pots like crazy ended up producing pots of higher quality.

In my own life, I can often find out the thing that I'm afraid of learning because I've set it up like that first cohort: making the one perfect thing, instead of putting it out there and iterating on it or making another based on what I learned. Goes with learning languages (I'd do way better if I simply tried speaking every day, but I wait for perfect opportunities).
Eh, lots of Europeans would say the same about moving to the US!
In my experience it's not hard, maybe this is because i'm on a >50 user GSuite Business plan, but it goes like so:

1. admin console, click the question mark in the top right

2. "contact support" button is right on the front page

3. Choose live chat, phone, or email

4. enter your question

5. click "continue to phone" (can't blame them for trying to show relevant helpdesk articles first)

6. call the number and enter the pin

This is better than some customer support solutions, Many will bounce you back to the helpdesk homepage every chance they get, and the only way to actually get support is to email support@ or go to a special page (Tip: /hc/en-us/requests/new will work with most zendesk instances).
There is a good chance that Google views the complainant as fraud too... And that's why they can't talk clearly about what's going on.

Their records show that first phone as delivered. They think their device has been stolen from them. Then the 'fraudster' tries to get another device sent to them - which is 'returned' under suspicious circumstances.

All the delays might be a police investigation they aren't allowed to talk about.

And finally now the 'fraudster' wants a refund of all moneys paid too! Who are they - they've stolen one phone, tampered with another, and want a full refund to boot!
My favourite by far is Taiwanese beef noodle soup. If you like soups and noodles - that’s not to be missed.
My wife and I left fi for exactly the same reason as the blog post. My wife had a problem with her pixel 2, and she was pretty much without a phone for WEEKS. We absolutely adored fi for years before that. We were huge advocates. After we had such a horrible experience being gaslighted, promised, and let down we just fuck this and went to AT&T. It’s not like we love AT&T. In fact, we don’t. But you know what we can do? We can walk our asses in a store in pretty much any city in the country and leave with a phone.
This reminds me of a similar experience with the Nexus tablet. I'm not sure whether the blame lies with Google or HTC, but it sounds all too familiar with what the author described.

TLDR: because the credit card billing address did not match the shipping address, the customer service representative refused to accept payment for a defective tablet which needed to be repaired. They insisted on mailing the tablet all the way back, and requiring that the tablet be mailed back again with a different shipping address.

https://outlookzen.com/2016/07/24/why-im-never-buying-htc-ag...
In 1999 we had all the basic ingredients for a modern smartphone. The components were too slow, expensive, heavy, power hungry, and unreliable to allow for building a viable consumer product but no one really claimed that improvements were impossible.
I live in the U.S. and frequently travel internationally. In this capacity, Fi is the best service I've used by far. When I'm in the U.S., my monthly bill is quite inexpensive, too, rarely exceeding $27 (including taxes). No B.S. hotspot fee (or having to jump through hoops to circumvent one). And I use an additional SIM card Google provided free-of-charge with an LTE modem to reverse-tunnel to a low-bandwidth automation server in a remote location. All great stuff.

Unfortunately, my experience with Fi customer service has been no better than Atwood's. Basically, if you can't solve a problem on your own, you're out of luck. To be fair, I've had terrible service with other providers, too (I haven't tried Apple but for technical reasons the iPhone would not work for me).
Well colour me pleased that Townsville, Queensland is representative of our entire country.
Is it literally called “Heros”? I can’t find it. There are so many heros games
Perhaps some forms of lust?
They pay drivers less than the operating cost of the car.

Basically, drivers exchange quick cash for accelerated burn of the value of their vehicle.
How do you deal with the air pollution?
Project 100k
> I travel outside of the U.S. at least twice a year and firing up my phone on the plane and being greeted with a "welcome X country" like I had just traveled between U.S. states is amazing.

T-Mobile One accounts get this in 120+ countries, works like a charm. But I've done the math and renting a USB hotspot or buying a 1-month SIM works out to be cheaper for my needs, and I can avoid having to confirm my phone has the correct network support in some countries.
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I think he's talking about the skill level, defined roughly as how much background knowledge you need to perform the job + how much judgment & concentration + how much creative/analytical thought.

This doesn't necessarily correlate with either remuneration or work environment. There are plumbers in the Bay Area who make more than a theoretical physics post-doc and deal with a lot less stress, but most people would agree that getting a Ph.D in theoretical physics requires more skill than becoming a plumber.
You make it sound like Australia has a huge problem with plastic/trash in waterways that "Australia" is actively ignoring.

In general, Australian's culture is to use rubbish bins and keep things tidy.

Sidepoint: I am not sure if it is something only Australians do, but whenever something about Australia comes up, there will be an Australian there bemoaning how badly we do things. Yes, there is always room for improvement, but Australia is so far ahead of most countries in just about any measure that you choose, that one has to wonder where this sentiment stems from.
Guys an idiot. If the current generation weren't so afraid of _actually speaking with someone_ instead of hiding behind emails and live chats, this would have been resolved on day one.
The explosion in cost of living in places like SF has severely distorted peoples’ views of what is a reasonable salary in the vast majority of the country. $40k/year is a good salary almost anywhere in the US. It’s above the median starting salary for college graduates. For a couple, that’s probably $60,000-70,000 in household income. In my county you can get a 3BR house in a good school district for $200-230k, which is affordable for a family making $60k. And I’m not even in a particularly cheap area (an hour from DC, and these houses are maybe a 15 minute drive from the Metro).

The median household income for a married couple in the US is about $80,000, so two people making $40,000. Although that’s poverty level in San Francisco, that’s a problem with San Francisco, not the country. It’s among the highest in the entire developed world, and a very comfortable life in most places. (Particularly so if, like many Americans have done over the last few decades, you move to a sun belt state where your dollar goes a long way.)
Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
Honestly I dont trust any nutritional science anymore beyond the most well established stuff with loads and loads of large repeatable studies. Even then I have some skepticism due to genetic variation and confounding effects.
> Why do we have push-button screw-people-over systems at all?

Because that's the way our shitty representatives in congress wrote the legislation?

Google could face real legal consequences for not responding to a DMCA request. They can't face any legal consequences for complying with a false one (DMCA, or their internal contentId system).

And companies with the DMCA/ContentId bots sending in these bogus notices know that they too are safe. Because a victim would have to jump over the insanely high hurdle of proving the company knowingly misrepresented their ownership of the work. The company can easily claim that is was not intentional, but rather a mistake caused by a bug in their software.

If congress cared about this, they could fix it in a minute: false DMCA takedown request = fine, regardless of knowledge or intent.
The damning thing is that also with "proper regulation", powers concentrate, and people have the shirts on their backs sold to them.