skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a large tech company that had an enormous finance department. They did everything in Excel. Our job was to automate their work. The tools we built were routinely more accurate and faster than the finance people were.

When our work was less accurate, it was because the input was bad. The input came from the finance team. The only reason they didn't disappear entirely was because they'd convinced management that there were things that the software couldn't do that only humans could futz with. The one or two percentage points their adjustments improved their results by were easily outpaced by the overall improved accuracy of the machines.
Violent protest that is not “actual revolution” doesn’t bring change. It just leads to fighting in the streets as the parent said.

compare the violent protests that ignited the Syrian civil war (actual revolution) to the violent protests that resulted in no actual revolution (Rodney King riots, yellow vests in France, etc) to consider the difference, I think.
Because it's a just a simple stack. The intent is concistent margins between siblings within the wrapper. What came to mind were paragraphs. Or perhaps images. Or both?
This simply isn’t true. My tech portfolio which consists of investment in only 12 companies is up this year by 28% at the moment, and last year even with the downturn in October through December I ended with gains of 17% for the year, and I assure you I’m no stock market wizard, and in fact I’ve never had a year that ended below 10% since starting that portfolio.

You could just say that’s thanks to the tech industry, but what’s your point? Through history there’s always a hot industry making money, be there.

My index fund portfolio only sees gains of 7-8% on average, but the trade off obviously is that it is not at the risk level of holding individual stocks. I barely even check it, individual stocks are what get my attention.

The point is, the gains are out there... always have been. But you have to step up and not be willing to let your investments just cruise on autopilot. Because financial education is so poor in this country, people rarely do it.

edit: Not sure why the down votes. Don’t believe? Here’s the current returns of my portfolio. Mind you, all of these were purchased around the beginning of the year because I had sold off everything to limit losses around the end of last year.

ADBE 27.28%
AMD 78.87%
AMZN 15.96%
BABA 20.84%
FB 20.80%
MSFT 38.23%
MTCH 29.77%
NFLX 33.23%
SQ 14.41%
TWLO 24.67%
TWTR 27.23%

There is one company not listed that I normally am invested in but have not done so this year as I’m biding my time.
I think the problem is with the wording and attitude. It would be totally OK to quote an immigration law instead.
Boston dynamics spun out of a lab at MIT.
uses:

- docker

- mailgun

- s3

facepalm
Ah brings back memories! Damn interesting.com was the site that hooked me onto evolutionary biology. The following article in particular: “Parasites of the brain” https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/parasites-on-the-brai...
What do you expect us to rally for? Genderless bathrooms?
Apple, please add a time multiplier to your video player. There's no need to watch a demonstration like this at 1x time.
This comment is off topic and is not really directed at its parent's author, per se, though the parent comment inspired the question.

"Disney's movie is basically a rip-off of the..."

This is an interesting statement that not only includes the statement that the Disney movie is based on earlier works, but also a value judgement at the same time. At what point do we declare something a "rip-off" vs. an "homage" or simply be content saying it was "based on" or "inspired by" some earlier, original work?

Take for example the musical "West Side Story": it was based on "Romeo & Juliet", but I never hear it said that it ripped off Romeo & Juliet... never mind that Romeo & Juliet, itself, was based on an earlier story. Looking at some of the old posters and album covers (etc) for West Side Story, I see it was "Based on a conception of Jerome Robbins", but there's no mention of Shakespeare. The link was never disclaimed or represented as being otherwise, but apparently not really advertised either.

So how does the judgement aspect of this enter? Is it simply a way to emphasize a viewpoint that's really not so connected to the statement directly, but perhaps at the parties involved? Is the judgement more about who acted rather than the act being described itself?

Note that if someone were trying to remake earlier material while disclaiming that the earlier material existed, then I'd get the "rip-off" statement... but I don't think Disney tries to claim that kind of credit for many of its films.

I guess I just find it curious that we take such opportunities to inject our opinions where seemingly a more neutral statement of fact would suffice and be more informative.
Ninja edited these details, also noticed in the browser category, under features there is tons of redundency, like 'not applicable' or "Free Plan: Yes" "Paid Plan: No".
> Then please explain why so many have bothered to immigrate here and started hugely successful companies?

Because the US has cheap labor (read: low pay) compared to Switzerland?
I agree with the comments that the methodology is flawed and the conclusion overly alarmist. One of the things my grandfather would say was "You don't have to worry about running out of money if you're living off the interest." He had lived through the depression and would tell stories of people who were spending savings to "keep up appearances" and it cost them everything.
Woah only 9 million , , that is a bargain and certainly a lot cheaper than the alternative. I thought MS would have charged military prices.
This is mentioned in the article as not being good enough and is just postponing the issue. (I would post a quote, but the Bloomberg mobile site is not cooperating with me).
An anecdotal argument like this is generally unconvincing. I have a myriad of personal problems, but I can't go to a senator and say "America needs a solution to <the problem I had>", no matter how many other people have had the same problem. Where the latter fact becomes real leverage is in the data - but without the data my argument would not amount to much more than whining. Furthermore, the data needs to prove not that such leave prevents personal distress, but that it's good for America's bottom line. Unfortunately for fathers, the objective fact might be that such leave is worse for the bottom line. There's a reason workaholic cultures like Japan's bring about economic miracles, albeit along with a plethora of social issues. Economics is a huge focus of policies, for better or for worse.
Indeed, Dr. King realized in his final years that to truly solve racism, we must resolve classism and extreme materialism.
Job creation doesn't require that much innovation in the market. It just requires demand.

People want better coffee and pastries, suddenly there are hundreds of thousands of jobs for baristas, bakers and managers.

People grow older and need care, suddenly the number of employees in home care expands drastically.

And so on. Maybe for you to need another employee you need a new product/process/business... but most business are just trying to meet existing demand in simple small ways.
I’m sure more than 2/7 of the population would argue the current president immediately threatens their wellbeing, but won’t demonstrate to show it.
*Switzerland
I think the problem is with the attitude. It would be better to quote a law or give a neutral comment, instead of this looking down style. Furthermore, it is not nice that they show this ads in one country and ads to attract tourists in other countries.
Consider that some states have laws considering silence, or a refusal to deny allegations, as direct evidence of culpability. Texas is one of those states. Laws reflect human nature about as much as fire is similar to ice.
Aside from the blatant bigotry in this article toward the bottom, the article is correct. Most people need rules and if you are too lenient, you will have people abusing them.
Within that edge case, an app (possibly using react native, if you love js) is often a better choice.
MEMC-Net: Motion Estimation and Motion Compensation Driven Neural Network for Video Frame Interpolation and Enhancement : https://sites.google.com/view/wenbobao/memc-net

One of the author also worked on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20188316
If you create an infinite array of dialectics, you can destroy all cohesiveness and ensure that the individual is the highest level of organization in society.
"Suspended" just means that it would be passed as soon as the protest pressure lets up. That's not good enough. They haven't made it yet.
Being a consultant with clients in a wide range of industries I concur. Most of the employees I come into contact with have jobs that could be automated with a few days or weeks of programmer effort. They are one successful software project from losing their jobs. Lucky for them their companies are terrible at shipping software.

Conversely, automating the work of a plumber would require a massive investment in AI and robotics.

Also, nobody makes a robot that can be trusted to repaint the trim in my house unattended.
It's so silly Hong Kong is on its way back to China. I hope there is some future in them being an independent nation.
Doesn't right click > play speed work?
Do more Europeans go off to work for US companies than vice versa? I’m not up on the stats.
“Maybe our capital ststem couldn’t efficiently store so much savings while keeping reasonable economic growth with an aging population”.

This would only be true if the investments that the pension funds made were bad. If they invested in a stock index or vanguard fund, for instance, they would reap the benefits of the overall rise in markets. In essence, the more risky bets they make the less returns they can make. But the average drift of the markets has been up and to the right.

If we make bad investments on a huge scale, then we invite systemic risk. But as long as enough of the investments produce a return, the pension funds can invest in a mix of VC funds, market indices and so on and so in.

After all, money sitting around is simply lent out for some productive use. That’s the essence of fractional reserve banking. The bet is that most of those investments will generate far more returns than the bad loans and write-offs. As long as you diversify your risk, you should keep the same drift while keeping volatility down.
Hong Kong and China are separate legal jurisdictions, which seems to be the relevant distinction when considering extradition laws.

It’s a bit reductive to describe Hong Kong as a “Chinese territory.”

What do you think would happen if China attempted to forcefully annex Hong Kong?
Kid Door
Astute. Although I spend a great deal of tiem railing against certain extremists the underlying problem is our poor understanding of the dynamics of social contagion even as it is being avidly weaponized. Cross platform transference is particularly understudied and hard to study due to the competitive nature of the industry and other factors. Feel free to drop me a line if you're interested in conversing further.
If people begin starving in their retirement, social norms will probably change. The US social norm of children not supporting their parents exists because of retirement programs having been so successful in the 20th century. Before then, the US had more parents living with their children out of necessity (and, for people who didn’t have the social safety net of children, people starving...)
I actually think that it depends pretty much completely on the context. There is no list of phrases that are innocent or malicious in and of themselves. Something that can seem innoccuous in most situations can be a matter of life or death in others. So no, I don't think we seem to agree. And could you answer the question rather than dancing around it?
That's just factually untrue.

First-world workers aren't losing jobs in aggregate at all. They're not statistically worse off at all. (Unfortunately median income hasn't been improving, but it certainly hasn't been getting meaningfully worse.)

While the global poor are experiencing massive benefits lifting them out of poverty.

I fail to see what is inhumane here.
Amazon Spark, the retailer’s two-year-old Instagram competitor, has shut down
What Google search will give you such results?
" any admission of guilt is only to be considered as part of evidence in a case."

This makes sense to me. Someone confessing to a crime is certainly a strong indicator they did it but it's not 100%.
We have access to real porn in the US so no one is really going to bother with videoing up strangers skirts en mass.
Two years in, Amazon has hardly launched a revolution at Whole Foods
That seems fine to me? The point of part time work is that you can choose between money or time.

In the US there is no choice, generally speaking, as a coder. You can get $120k for 40 hours, but there aren’t many $60k for 20 hours jobs available. You have to freelance basically which is 3 years up front hustle.
I don't understand what problem this solves.
Admittedly, I'm not an expert in tdcs. My experience is limited to what might be considered the typical, prevailing, suite of neuro-electrophysiology methods: stimulating electrodes + glass pipettes into acutely sliced rodent hippocampus/cortex; same for organotypic slice cultures; in vivo implantation of multiunit recording electrodes + fiberoptics into rat cortex. I think these methods provide enough background in ephys to formulate an educated opinion on tdcs. Also note that I'm just as cynical, if not more, when it comes to research reports using those established methods I mentioned above. Suffice to say, it's not the methods that concern me, it's reports of some marvelous thing that happened while using such methods.

You are right though, the claims about the utility of these commercial devices (and really any non-implanted device) that are by far the most dubious.
Patreon, Mozilla, Pinterest and more team up to stamp out hate online
Cameras, locks, and obfuscation, basically. Ti hack it, you need to be alone with it long enough to find the flaws, figure out how dispensor works, etc. People hardly ever try to bypass them.

Recently, hackers have been buying, studying, and hacking ATM's. They're not secure. You can see them in action searching for DEFCON ATM hacking on YouTube.
https://www.google.com/search?q=flip+a+coin
Wait, ignore soundness? How does that work/provide advantage?
It’s the power of Google as a portal to the internet and search engine; clearly it is a powerful position to have: Google can access demand for a service, and once it reaches a certain threshold decide to throw resources at creating their own version to keep you in their ecosystem.

I would like to know what Google team is in charge of using search trends to identify services to offer.
Yes, there's a lot that needs to be done, thanks for pointing that out, I've noted it down
It's a joke how trivial it is for Google to destroy these sort of sites.
We aren’t being oppressed. If the US decided to suspend the first and second amendments, start soviet style “collectivization,” or other extreme attacks on freedom, Americans would take to the streets as well. The US, despite cynicism of a select few, still operates under a Constitution with reasonably well functioning institutions. If people want something in the US, there are elections with results that are respected (mostly.) Trump being elected, Ocasio-Cortez being elected — examples of elections that came from people being frustrated with whatever frustrates them. Obama’s election was the same way. Being a republic is messy and imperfect, but change can happen when enough people want it. We don’t have to riot in the streets because rarely is anything bad enough at an individual level to warrant such action.
>Also any change that comes through "gun" rarely turns into ballot friendly

The IRA in Ireland used plenty of guns and it helped them win real political power in a ballot friendly way.
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They've had extradition for more than 100 years.

http://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/2937
At least in Buenos Aires metro area where I live, cell, water and gas are working ok. Water may be an issue if this continues as the pipe pressure is not enough to fill up the buildings tanks, so you'll need to go to ground level with buckets or similar.

In all of the countries affected the standard way to cook is natural gas, so we should be good in that front until power is up again.

I'm getting reports from friends and family that different zones of the metro area are getting powered as I write.

Me, still no luck... Hopefully in the next hour!
I am not an investment expert, you should consult with your financial advisor, my personal rule of thumb is :

1 - Invest in yourself.
- Health
- Education
- Social circle

2 - Invest in your living space.
- Buy an apartment anywhere on earth where you can afford, you can take cheap flights to anywhere on earth these days. Even the remotest part of Africa can be reached within 1 day and less than 500 dollars.
( you are normally paying more than 700 dollars in rent anywhere in the developed world ).

3 - Buy high yielding government bonds, preferably multiple countries.

4 - Buy index funds.

I do not prefer gold / silver, there is severe restrictions in moving them around, and high taxation in audit and transaction. government bonds are generally tax exempt. You are better off investing in guns than gold if the economy collapses.
I agree with your comment and also recommend the linked pages, but I think you have to count the American revolutionary war as a war, too.
What does Google gain? Maybe some data, and that's probably what this is about, getting speed test data from lots of users. But revenue wise I don't think it gains anything and sties currently offering the service go out of business over night. Why go after Genius, well probably because it has some peripheral business interest like Google music which is benefiting from this behavior.
How is it they are not fucked? No country that wants to continue to do business with China is going to back this uprising. Is there an imaginible sequence of events that doesn't result in either capitulation or a violent crushing of dissent?
> And there's no immutable collection in Python besides strings

frozensets, tuples?
Embarrassingly parallel in theory is different from embarrassingly parallel in practice. One of the major differences is cache -- both instruction cache and data cache. You can, in theory, run 100 rays at once on 100 different threads, but since each ray goes to a completely different part of the scene, it will be loading different geometry, running different shaders, and fetching different textures.

Even in path tracers that aren't using the GPU, one of the relatively recent huge improvements was "ray sorting", which tries to collect rays into bundles that use the same shader and roughly the same area of textures to improve on cache behavior. It brought huge speed increases.

One of the big limitations of NVIDIA's RTX right now is that it does not support ray sorting.
I got quite good results running some Sudoku solving code in GraalVM (FastR). It was faster than an R/Rcpp hybrid:

http://bootvis.nl/fastr-sudokus/

Later I ran into some errors which are supposed to be fixed in the development branch but I haven't tested.
Apollo 11 was my formative experience, I was 5 years old and watched it live on TV in Australia as the images were received.

Apollo 11 (and space in general) is why I got into computing (I was never going to be an astronaut), this website is truly outstanding.
People are already fighting back against this. I'm a SWE and my EX worked at the finance department in a huge robotics company.

Their department did everything by copying and pasting stuff in excel in a painfully slow and cumbersome way.

She told me their challenges, so I wrote some python scripts to automate their work.

When she showed it to her boss, hoping to get a positive response, his reaction was "Put that away if you like your job here!"

This is the nightmare of every middle manager. They won't be able to justify their existence if their teams get automated away so they will actively fight against it.
I'm gonna stop answering because you're being misleading on purpose, but you can't say the USA is the richest because people in other countries are laid back worker when the GDP per capita is lower than the other mentionned country. It means that there's just more people but that they are quite "less productive" (i personnaly think that's it's a stupid way to judge people productivity though, i just responded to this comment because the author belief was wrong)
> Yes, that's what I remembered, they started out using LISP.

Only for the optimizer and the inference engine.

The authors also had no prior experience developing an application in a hybrid of C and Lisp.

> "Terrible mistake" is pretty unambiguous language.

4MB memory footprint was a terrible mistake at that time.
Yea no the HK govt needs to withdraw the bill and explicitly guarantee no extradition without conviction under HK law for people to feel safe. If China can extradite whoever they want from HK, HK has no sovereignty and no separate identity from China.
BlackSheep: Fast async Python microframework using Cython/uvloop/httptools
That's indeed true. But I see such suspension as a kind of signal that Beijing would like to compromise, which is nearly impossible. In practice, the "suspension" simply means that it's over because Beijing doesn't want to "lose face" and intentionally picked a moderate word to make both sides happy.
Do you have time outside of work?
I’m nowhere near this field, but for the experts in here I was wondering if Self-Supervised Learning changes the paradigm for the approach to self-driving cars?
I wish they could use the Official Figure as 2M and 1.

The 1 was tribute to the one died in protest of the bill [0]. R.I.P

And I don't think the photos aren't what 2M people in the City really looks like. Here are few better ones.

And thank you everyone who supported us, even if you are not in HK, it is still much appreciated.

[0] https://time.com/5607742/hong-kong-protester-dies-anti-extra...

[1] https://ibb.co/WtLMvCH

[2] https://ibb.co/BgQkb0S

[3] https://t.co/5NahUcGSKt
>What do you think would happen if China attempted to forcefully annex Hong Kong?

Lots of social media posts. Little action. Just like the Crimea.
Sorry, but you should look at what jobs used to be like.

Back-breaking work on the farm. Mind-numbing and body-destroying assembly line work that could cut off your hand. Construction work without any of the safety standards we now have. Alcohol consumption and tobacco smoking was sky-high.

Any way you slice it, the quality of jobs today is tremendously higher than in the past, and people are not being paid less.

True, job tenure is no longer as long-term as it used to be, and probably doesn't come with a pension, but the flip side is that it's also never been easier to find a job and leave a bad one, and you can manage your own 401(k) that won't disappear if your employer goes bankrupt.