skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why don't they go work there then? Come back when you have an answer.

You'd prefer that I answer "because gig economy companies provide unmatched flexibility and freedom to their employees^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcontractors", right? I'm not really here to play that game, so how's this?

- They may not work in an area where In-n-Out exists or Starbucks is hiring. Note: this doesn't mean that the other available low/no skill work pays less than Uber or other "gig economy" jobs.

- They may not realize that retail work pays more than Uber or they may believe Uber's exaggerated wage claims while not realizing that Uber would continue to take a larger and larger share of the driver's earnings

- They may have fallen prey to Uber's predatory financing and bought a vehicle expressly to drive for Uber

- They may believe that working in "gig economy" serfdom makes financial sense. I've a friend like that. They "work" for Instacart, but instead of driving their own vehicle (which they're upside down on) they use Uber to get to the grocery store, then another Uber to the person's house, and then another Uber home. Trust me, it's costing them money to do this but in their head it makes sense

- They could be Travis Kalanick and drive under the Boober[1] model — basically driving as a means of meeting sexual conquests.

- They could believe that retail work is beneath them

- Back before Uber was forced to institute background checks another option is that the driver failed a background check elsewhere or was otherwise unemployable in retail.

1: https://qz.com/1011300/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-pissed-peopl...
Do you view bikes as an inferior form of transport?
I think they usually _don’t_ use twin studies because they are harder/more expensive. In this case they used the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort:

https://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/philadelphianeurodevelopmental...

I don’t see any mention of twins here or on JAMA, although I can’t access the full text currently.
>In Germany, Wal-Mart stopped requiring sales clerks to smile at customers — a practice that some male shoppers interpreted as flirting — and scrapped the morning Wal-Mart chant by staff members.

This is just fucking insane. That's not a supermarket, that's like a cult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpPUUWp5sO4
Is there any page rank library launched on Github? Can exgooglers make such libraries and raise themsleves to open source fame?
It would probably be worth it to restore trust: Refund all the money they've taken from this company for the last year, and apply a credit to their account for 3x that amount, say.
I hope they sue and win. This bull###t needs to be fought.
Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore
> I cannot imagine why you found them humbling.

Because they were humbling to me and I learned a lot from them, despite their clumsy writing style (not because of their writing style!).

Imagine that you have worked several weeks on a problem, you are very proud of the code that you created that solves the problem elegantly; you document it with well-written, correctly punctuated comments and documentation. Then the smspeaker looks over your shoulder and says "dude, this data structure isn't necessary here, just use a table of integers and it will be faster and the code 80% shorter", which is a self-evident statement after the fact. THAT is humbling, regardless of whether the guy writes his mails in correct english or smsesque.
Clearly you should be doing regular backups of everything, and not on DO. And make sure to test your backups. And make sure you have a fast migration plan into another cloud.

Ideally you should be cloud-agnostic, but that's quite hard to achieve.
I read that. Outlined means how one might go about it, but doesn't provide details. That's why it's an outline.

Why spend the entire book on tokenization circa 1981 when what's really needed are compact, fast, executable machine code binaries?
That's what happens when someone's pouring their resources/time into a project without an existing business model. That does not need to be money or the space launch business. I have seen this with FOSS projects as well when the project lead/driving force left.

I'm a bit afraid that this might be Blue Origin's fate if Bezos suddenly died.

SpaceX would maybe be no longer be as ambitious anymore as it used to be if Musk went away but at least they're actually selling things and have a working business model. (TSLAQ hate crew objections incoming in 3..2..1.. ;)
And because of that the little glass (actually sapphire) company´s execs are in court for fraud and the little glass company Apple raised from obscurity (Gorilla) is doing pretty well - Right. Gangster
You can login to the website using a throwaway or junk Gmail account, give the website access to your Gmail contacts (which is zero), and then lookup any number.
And who selects the training set?
> Only a few years ago did I realize that both my parents were emotionally neglectful and did not validate my emotions at all growing up, and did not act or behave in a way that seemed like they were even aware that emotional care and validation of their child is at the core of good parenting, and not just feeding them and putting a roof over their head.

That's something I only vaguely became aware of in my 30's. I still have a hard time realizing that a roof and food is enough to raise robots but not a human being.

How are you coping with it now that you are aware of it ?
It remains weird to me that this even _can_ work as a business strategy. Customers know this isn't right, so they are only staying with a business that does this for so long as it is the absolutely cheapest/ only way to achieve what they want. That's super high risk, because if a competitor undercuts you, or an alternative appears, you are going to lose all those customers pretty much instantly.

Almost invariably the high ticket rates are also driven by bad product elsewhere. Money is being spent on customer "services" sending out useless cut-and-paste answers to tickets to make up for money not spent on UX and software engineering that would prevent many of those tickets being raised. Over time that's the same money, but now the customer is also unhappy. Go ask your marketing people what customer acquisition costs. That's what you're throwing away every time you make a customer angry enough to quit. Ouch.
Call me cynical but for those prices I don't expect amazing service or stability, so I don't run any production stuff there.
This is also called Jevon’s paradox:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
No. Just the things I said in my comment.

So if instead of uploading that photo to S3 and marking it private, you uploaded it to Facebook and clicked the "Show This Photo To Everybody In The World" button, it would be OK for Facebook to show it to everybody in the world. It would be impossible to blackmail you with it, given that there is nobody left without the ability to see it, at your request.

I personally have lots of photos up on Facebook that anybody in the world can look at if they choose. I also have lots of photos that nobody but me and my family can look at unless I show them personally. I accomplished this by not uploading photos from that second group to Facebook.
Czech made what ? I did not see anything mentioning czech made.
That’s not how it works. Or maybe you encountered a bug. Unlisting is permanent unless you install the app and activate your number to be listed again.
We All Need a Coach: Ask Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Eric Schmidt
> if I cannot compile it straight to a machine code executable, I want nothing to do with it.

Pretty much every modern implementation of every programming language has an intermediate representation -- GCC has one[1], LLVM has several [2,3], and unless you're programming in Forth (which notably generally doesn't have an intermediate representation), you're probably already happy with a language with an intermediate representation of some kind and just don't know enough to appreciate it.

The idea that "compile[d] straight to a machine code executable" is a line in the sand worth squat is just ignorant.

[1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs//gccint/RTL.html

[2]: https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#type-system

[3]: https://llvm.org/docs/BitCodeFormat.html
I think the main issue with bikes is that they are seen as inferior by the transport administration. For instance if there is heavy snow they’ll clean up the car roads but not necessarily the bike ones. Also many times car roads are straightforward but bike ones are hard to figure out. Add to that that many work places don’t have showers or changing rooms and you tell me how this is practical for work commute (which is 80% of the transport I do).
First sentence of the abstract of the patent:

"A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database."
>they have proven at least as reliable as their diesel counterparts

Things may have improved recently, but that certain was not the experience in Hong Kong:

"Five Hong Kong electric buses pulled from service in under two weeks due to glitches"[1]

"Hong Kong electric buses pulled from the road for third time in nine months"[2]

"Trial run of five Hong Kong electric buses delayed indefinitely due to bus stop bell problems"[3]

"KMB electric bus runs into trouble on first day of trial"[4]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2038314/...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2038314/...

[3] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/arti...

[4] http://www.ejinsight.com/20170801-kmb-electric-bus-runs-into...
It's worth noting that degrowth is not anarcho-primitivism, or for that matter any variant of primitivism.
Stripped-down Kubernetes on the Raspberry Pi
>Would be great, but human nature is to want more stuff, money and power.

I wonder to what extent this is a feature of capitalism (or class society in general) rather than human nature.
The next sentence explained how 350,000 other employees are unable to fight this is courts due to mandatory arbitration clauses, another abomination that should have never existed.
There is a middle ground though. Sheltering your kids too much will make them fragile and unable to cope with actual adversity as adults.
That might be a better way of making my own point than what I actually wrote. You’re right, explicit conscious maths isn’t what our brain architecture evolved for.

Of course, in terms of raw speed, my laptop can learn to read handwritten digits from only the examples in the SciKit-learn python module in 0.225 seconds [1], a bit less than the time it takes a human visual system to go from “some photons have hit the retina” to “there is a thought now, and that thought is ‘three’.” — the architecture of the AI is nowhere near as example-efficient as the architecture of a human brain, and it is only winning by the absurd performance difference of the hardware [2].

[1] https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/speed-of-ma...

[2] https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/you-wont-be...
I'm the one who is developing this project. Ask me anything.

The magazine will cover modern health knowledge, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and will also have short story science fiction.

Update: The magazine will be published digitally on Magzter.
What clock speed do the human synapses run at though?
Privacy was declared by the Indian Supreme Court as a fundamental right found within some articles of the constitution. However, till date, there is no data privacy law proposed and passed in the parliament. The draft proposal that was prepared more than a year ago was criticized by many. There will likely be a half baked data privacy law that will be passed in the coming months (since the elections are done and the new government has taken office).

Taking action on such violations today can only be done within the scope of existing laws on fraud, security, etc. That won’t work very well for these cases. The Indian Supreme Court also doesn’t understand technology and doesn’t rely on experts. It seems to go by whoever talks the loudest (based on the hearings in the case against the biometric based unique ID, called Aadhaar).
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In the context of game engines, "data-driven" usually means that its behaviour (sometimes an entire game) can be built mostly by feeding it with data created by artists, level- and game-designers as opposed to a mostly "programmer-centric workflow".

A very simplified example is building surface materials with a "noodle graph" (creating a "data processing graph" visually by connecting node outputs to node inputs) instead of writing shader code. Of course building a noodle graph is also just different type of programming ;)

The term "data-oriented-design" looks similar at first glance, but means something entirely different (DOD is mostly about focusing on an efficient data layout in memory to make better use of CPU caches).
5 paces out of Oslo city limits and you're surrounded by woodlots and farming.

Easy to reach that line by public transit.
official website & specs: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pygamer
> In Denmark and Germany public transportation is not always that good, they rely heavily on bikes.

I experienced the public transport system in Denmark largely as exceptionally reliable, at least in the cities.
Where have you made different experiences?

The reason many people in copenhagen (and other danish cities, but none comes close to copenhagen) use bikes is that the biking infrastructure is just also exceptional.

For germany the story is indeed different (though just both - public transport and biking infra - are much worse).
Victor's CNN posts cover roughly the same ground as section 1 (of 4) of Andrew's CNN course.

Andrew's explanations in the videos are really well crafted, and cover the 'why' of everything clearly.

Sections 2-4 of Andrew's course cover more advanced CNN architectures, and also more advanced use cases that image classification.
>>I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these individuals are more qualified to make their own life choices than people on the internet who know nothing about their lives.

At the risk of going down the partisan rabbit hole, this reminds me of the video segment where Ami Horowitz questioned people of liberal political persuasions on the ability of black voters to meet photo ID requirements, and then asked black Americans the same questions:

https://youtu.be/rrBxZGWCdgs
Please don't lecture me. I'm the component owner of GCC where I work, and that includes maintenance, debugging and patching. I am all too well aware of the intermediate represenation and that's fine when the end goal is executable machine code.

What I don't need is lecturing, especially since I've taught many apprentices over the decades. When I need a lecture, I'll ask as I have in the past. I'm here to tell you how it's done and how it should be, not the other way around. Not everyone here is a "Hacker news".
> How did we ever survive?

We kinda barely did.

When all those humans that as children expeirienced "low SES and high TES" sat on then fruits of industrial revolution we got two world wars. Heck, we were close to nuclear holocaust thanks to f'ed up kids. Lower IQ makes you more susceptible to getting violent (childhoood lead exposure vs crime).

That Flynn effect? Could be just result of not messing up our kids so much anymore.
Altavista and others beside were already crawling the web.

Yahoo and Dmoz were curated but Google definitely wasn't the first crawler.

As for the approaches being victim to keyword stuffing: that was because the algorithms used were exclusively 'on page' without assigning a value to links.
I apologize, that was a typo. I did mean to say micro USB.
Show HN is not meant for promoting your services or soliciting work.
For better or worse, pagerank destroyed the value of inbound links and by extension it killed the web. Now Google, not links determine how your page is found and while I'm sure links still have some value that is only one of a very large number of inputs. I believe it is impossible to come up with some way of ranking web results that does not in the end lead to a destruction of the metric that one uses to rank with, if the metric initially gives great results. Spammers will figure it out and will drown out the signal with noise.
Yoo somebody play my game https://deck.of.cards/play/5cf24587743bbd7cc4047e52
This is only viable if you're willing to sacrifice the biosphere in the process.
Remember that the unions is in the VW board.

I don't think VW should want to want that even if they do.

Having 3 months mutual contract disbandment time favours the employer way more than the employee. It's huge being able to replace a person in an orderly manner.

Also I believe given big corps. inefficiencys and internal "politics" not being able to fire who you want at random but in predetermined order is also good for the corparations since you will automatically keep the employees with the most experience and not make stupid shortsighted savings or fireing people the bosses don't like.
Any research on that? This sound so pleasent for people who had effed up childhood and "turned out ok". Something they might wish was true. So unless it's rigidly confirmed I remain sceptical.
I think a big factor is that Google didn’t have to make any money and could keep their homepage as simple as possible.
This was already done for the JVM. It was an utter failure, and not economically viable at all.

As the OP said: this is reinventing the JVM, just worse. Including making all the mistakes again.

(At least for the server, that is. I see a great future for WebAssembly on client systems, where the JVM can be considered a failure.)
In the Netherlands people bike in cities because it is convenient and has good infrastructure support, while there still is a pretty good public transport system.

I very highly doubt your narrative that biking somehow is only popular because of insufficient public transport.
Maybe, however remember that you then need to buy new hardware to use new WASM features.

Also WASM isn't really ideal for interpretation, this could make implementing the CPU harder (however I have no clue about implementing CPUs, so this is just a guess).

What would be the advantage? Performance? Probably not much after JIT compiling WASM to native machine instructions. If there is an actual problem there, I guess it would be better to just add new native instructions that support WASM semantics. The JIT can then use these instructions if available.

Right now WASM can't do much without a runtime, so I think a WASM-only CPU is probably infeasible for some time.
Moving to Instagram.
The concept of nationalism has brought more pain than joy to millions of humans on this planet. Seems to be better for global peace to forget it and train your mind to not think in these political categories of "nations".
They could send an email to the owner of the account asking to reauthenticate the card (re-enter the numbers & CVV, go through 3D-Secure or provide a picture of the card or bank statement).

This would mitigate incidents like this - as far as I’m aware the attacker doesn’t actually have the card number, so giving them 24 hours to confirm it (or the card gets removed after that) would be a good solution while remaining only a minor inconvenience for legitimate usage (realistically speaking, how many online stores who might have your card number are malicious enough to call companies and try to get your accounts shut down, with no benefit to themselves?)
We already have Open Pagerank based on the Common Crawl.
There are some well though-out abstract machines out there that are quite efficient and map pretty directly to machine code, like the SECD or the WAM (for PROLOG).

The LISP9 Abstract Machine, which is described in the book, is very close to the metal. So much so that you might as well emit machine code instead. The approach is outlined (but not described in detail, as you noted) in the last chapter.

Then abstract machines have one huge advantage and that is portability. I can just compile the system on x86, ARM, SPARC, MIPS, Alpha, or whatever and it will simply run. So whatever the reader has, the code will work. (I acknowledge that pretty much everybody uses x86 today, but still...)
Yes but still a drop in the ocean of the total national debt.
Perhaps the halting problem being solved would imply that a time machine, if possible, would be solved as well? EG.. Imagine a program that halts if a program that iterates over every possible combination of a machines includes a time machine. Then devise a program that halts if the first step of building a time machine is to get a thimble, etc. Do some sort of binary search over the steps of building a time machine by constructing halting problems. What I'm getting at is that if the halting problem was solvable perhaps someone would travel back in time and tell us the solution to the halting problem. Or perhaps they wouldn't, but I wonder if they could.
The rate of growth matters too :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20045380
Ask HN: How to make a portfolio for a hardware engineer?
I am mentoring a university sophomore who is studying engineering. I suggested that he make a portfolio of his projects to (1) sell himself for internships and jobs, (2) motivate himself to do better projects, and (3) improve his communication and presentation skills.

If anybody has made such portfolios, do you have advice on how to proceed? Pointers on how to craft a good portfolio is appreciated, as are pointers on where to host one. Thanks.
>This is an overly coarse grained depiction of the situation. An individual is not blanket "bad employee" who can't be productive. I'm a good software developer, but if you hired me to be a concert pianist I'd suck at it. I'd say probably 5-10% of employees end up being under productive or non-productive at their jobs. This is consistent with the performance review scores I've seen.

I explicitly defined 'bad employee' as 'takes many job hops to find a place'. It's coarse grained to make a point, which you perhaps missed.

My point is: There is a % of the workforce that could work, but it is economically more efficient for them not to.

> When firing an employee is easy, employers are much more willing to hire because they know that they will be able to terminate employees that are not productive.

This is a separate idea: The job market should be such that people are free to find the best place for them. It'd take multiple essays to cover all the angles on how to best do that, or why the US is as it is, etc. For example, different cultural standards play quite a role there.

> This doesn't seem to be the case seeing as how most of Western Europe has a higher unemployment rate than the US.

It is the case now. Check just about any european politician's speeches. Unemployment rates don't prove anything here.

> You're seriously saying that if we don't employ people who are incapable of doing their jobs, then the only other option is summary execution?

Not what I said. I said: If you want to make an economic argument, given the fact that there are a few people where it's economically more efficient to not employ them, one should accept this. Or take on ridiculous extremist positions such as summary execution, which I assume nobody wants to take.

> 0% unemployment is a crazy goal and I don't know why you seem to think that making it harder or easier to fire employees

You seemed to be making the point that gig economy jobs are a good solution for perennially bad employees because they can easily get these jobs and be easily fired from them. I was countering said point.
That doubling applies to any sillicon circuit, not just CPUs.
Indies dont release their source code either so I dont think there is any proof that they care, since they dont even do it when they only work for themselves.
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Theres also Loki from Grafana Labs