skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kind of like Uber is a globally a bad idea, but they did force many taxi companies to raise quality.

What do you mean by this? Are you saying Uber is bad because it's disruptive to Taxi companies or because they're terrible to drivers?

The claim that Uber is a bad idea globally, especially somewhere like Brazil or Mexico, is laughable. Catching a cab in Buenos Aires was an actual risk to your life. Catching an Uber is many times safer (not to mention cleaner and more convenient).

I guess I'm just missing the obviousness of Uber being a bad idea. What do you mean exactly?
Counterpoint to #3: the <>s and ;s and {}s were very much appreciated during learning because of familiarity - basically same as typescript minus the turbofish.
The problem with being an engineer is, in general, you do not think like normal people.
Case in point, Facebook. I know I've often discussed with other engineers how simple it would have been to implement with off the shelf technology in the '00s, but none of us would have ever wanted it.
Often when I encounter problems I try to route around them, instead of developing productized solutions and marketing them to others.
I'm convinced that unionizing at this scale does not work. They'll always find cheaper people to do the grunt work which presumably is there only to teach the AI. Maybe when the AI is stable enough this AI "caretaker" position will take over and the burden of traumatic content will be alleviated. Maybe.

Up until then people should unionize. Do whatever it takes to create a workplace whichd by human eyes at all, or worst case just once.

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Miner49er 10 hours ago [-]

Facebook won't do anything to help these moderaters unless the cost of the negative PR exceeds the cost of doing something. Engineers at FB could help achieve this by causing agitation, for sure.

Maybe the best solution is for the moderaters to unionize.

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plankers 1 hour ago [-]

If you can think of a practical way to unionize workers on a 1-2 year contract with a high turnover rate, I'd love to hear it.

The deck is stacked against employee organizatio does not drain sanity from people.

Personally I understand browsing toxic content to foster "immunity" or at least familiarity. Doing it for money sounds like a lose-lose scenario. Call centers seem to sound better given the conditions.
Raleigh police use Google in hopes of solving 2018 murder case
Hourly employees are still employees. Salary v. Hourly is completely different distinction from employee/contractor (you can have an hourly or fixed monthly/annual contract rate, and you can get either model as an employee, though salary is more common if your pay and working conditions make you an FLSA exempt employee, since otherwise you might need to be treated as hourly for overtime and certain other things anyway.)
"undermining laws that fight money laundering and other financial crimes": do these actually work? 5% of the time? 95%?
>I don't see how an average person could be expected to witness some of the things mentioned in the article.

I'm no fan of Facebook, but in their defense, this is sort of the point.
> What Result? Result is a generic not a specific type. It's essentially a shorthand instead of manually writing out the enum yourself.

No, it's not 'a generic', but it has generic type parameters. An enum can be any number of variants with any number of type parameters.

A result is:
data Result a b = Err a | Ok b
(or in Rust)
enum Result<T, E> { Err(E), Ok(T) }

> It's essentially a shorthand instead of manually writing out the enum yourself.

I'm not sure which enum you're referring to. You do realise an enum can have any number of variants, not just 2? I could define a sum type with 16 variants. 'enum' is just Rusts keyword for defining sum types.

> Result has semantic meaning that's lost with Either.

Which is what?
There were two motivations for shared libraries; one no longer applies and the other, arguably was never reliable, so after 35 years of dynamic linking, a couple of years ago I went static only (except for system calls of course).

The first reason was disk space: object files could simply be smaller. Nowadays, for all intents and purposes, disk space is free and unlimited.

The second was the ability to ship fixes to system facilities. These were fragile, leading to even more complex methods such as versioning, so though this was a good idea in principle, in practice it was very painful. I believe the Windows folks had their own name for it, "DLL Hell". The npm people still suffer from this from time to time, sometimes notoriously.

As for the fixes: software isn't updated on magtape any more, and most systems have robust upgrade systems. In addition there are all manner of quasi-hermetic isolation systems (VMs, docker images, venvs and the like) so why not just ship a static binary?

Plus with a static binary, if you really care about order of loading/unloading etc (which you ideally shouldn't) its trivial to manage with a custom linker script.

My only exception to this is the kernel: it can be upgraded, and mostly promises not to vary system call semantics too much, so it's OK to me not to link the kernel into my binary :-).
The idea that a push for diversity is somehow in conflict with a meritocracy is deeply flawed because it relies on the idea that people with diverse backgrounds either haven't shown they are capable or that there are no people with diverse backgrounds that are capable. A good diversity program does two things:

1. It identifies and removes certain unnecessary credentials that might rule out people with diverse backgrounds. Requiring a college degree for applicants when a degree provides no benefit on the job is one example.

2. It makes an active effort to find and pursue diverse candidates. Odds are there are plenty of people who are competent enough to do the job. Let's imagine you are hiring 5 engineers from a pool of 100 qualified people. If there are only 10 diverse candidates in that pool and you just hired the first random qualified candidate you find, there is roughly a 60% chance that you end up with zero diversity on the team. If you actively work to get diverse candidates to apply and maybe get 10 additional diverse candidates added to the previous pool, you can still hire the first random qualified person but your odds drop to roughly 35% of having a team with zero diversity.

TL;DR - You don't have to hire less qualified people to have diversity, it just takes a little more thought and effort to make diversity a priority.
That's really absurd to say, do you realize that $30k/yr is in the top 4% globally?

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/?...
They do lots of stuff, but they don't seem to break their user's usage due to reloading if you leave a window open forever.
Went to the east coast, couldn't find spicy chips/snacks of any kind in the grocery stores.

Finally found Takis at... Home Depot.
This could be a good way to build a large tagged dataset to train a neural net TTS engine.
Or a Confluence document in my experience.
Boeing 737 Max 8: The Battle over Blame
LISP and Scheme

Look at how much the first Lisp machines cost, and how utterly slow they were for that price relative to other hardware of the time.

In turns out that in the real world, abstract notions of academic purity are nearly worthless, and efficiency/performance matters a lot.
There's a response to the parent comment that has real data on increasing the minimum wage. It's only two papers on one location, but until we see at least the same kind of thing on UBT, it's all wild speculation.

I don't want to be in the location that passes UBT only to see it fail wildly, but we need that data. I would certainly argue an economy the size of the U.S. or China (as if...) shouldn't experiment without better data.

Personally, I seriously doubt UBT will fail wildly, and I want to see it move forward, responsibly.
>which will convert bitcoins to dollars for the Treasurer’s office
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-rtx-6000.c3307

Has this section:

Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
509.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance
32.62 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance
16.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
509.8 GFLOPS (1:32)

Perhaps for at least rough performance comparisons it is a good start.

My impression the current favorite card by DIY types is an RTX 2080 Ti.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2080-ti.c3...

However I think nvidia will take legal action against any service provider trying to use those in a cloud or server offering.
The authors arguement is essentially “I can’t see future humans in space slaughtering cows”. Thanks to a lack of imagination the only conceivable conclusion is everyone must be vegan. Brilliant!
> This is simply a response to a broken political system where regional housing supply is wildly inadequate relative to demand

Which is why, IMO, the praise for Google on this matter is unwarranted. And it's not the political system that is broken, it's the regressive views of the elected officials and the people who have tended to vote in local elections.

> In the absence of constraints real estate developers will naturally build to satisfy this demand.

We don't need a policy that is absent restraints. We need housing policy with sane restraints, i.e. incremental upzoning planned at the regional level to allow more housing density and building employment centers accessible via transit instead of only cars and private bus systems.

Even public agencies like BART have had to fight at the state level to be allowed to develop housing on their own property.

This isn't really an issue of restraints vs no restraints but rather what the restraints optimize for, and currently they optimize for increasing property values and not providing sufficient housing supply.
I'd be interested to hear responses from among the 1.X billion unbanked people in developing countries.

I think the goal of Libra is to turn this population into sticky Facebook users. Facebook has saturated the developed world. Meanwhile, developing countries are too busy surviving to mess around on social media.

Libra gives them a way to transact in a stable currency, and Facebook starts to discover the currently grassroots social graph of small time farmers and craftsmen selling goods to their neighbors in villages with slow internet access.
Secret React Internals
Radio Amateur to Lose License as Part of Enforcement Case Settlement
Agreed. I grew up watching "Yes Prime Minister" and anything Monty Python in Norway. Has served me well in Australia.

Further to this, I've also worked on my diction using a number of available resources such as https://www.audible.com.au/search?keywords=get+rid+of+your+a... .

I could never fully appropriate the Australian accent, but something more akin to British becomes non-determinate and easier on the ear (ref: how people prefer speech synthesis in a different English region to their own).

It kind of surprises me that more non-native English speakers don't do the same; I have worked with people who I've really struggled to understand. But I can't really tell them "can you please work on your accent", as much as I wish I could and I knew it would serve them well.
There is a separate high contrast mode under the accessibility settings.
Doubtful, since these are just fully unlocked TU102 GPUs (same as the Titan RTX, 2080ti is the same TU102 GPU but partially locked at 4352 cores vs 4608 for the Quadro RTX 6000/8000 and Titan RTX). If you could be profitable with this at $1000/month then people would be flocking out to buy 2080tis for $1100 and getting 90-95% of the hashrate.
Given the cost of this, that it adds a fan and uses some pins, a simple splitter seems like a no brainer to me!
I mean, it's a nice side effect of diversity, I really don't think Flaming Cheetohs, or finding Takis in every supermarket near me, are why diversity is so important.
This was the same CEO who took a call from a janitor. It wasn't a put down. This was an interview, and the question was open ended on purpose to see how he responded.
> I check it all with typescript, and it's perfectly typesafe

/me waits for arguments to ensue
I think the point is more profound than that — for all the reasons that local currencies are useful (and the flowering of many cryptocurrencies has happened), one’s local national currency is itself an incredibly useful thing to have. If your friend is in the same country or currency zone as you, which statistically they are very likely to be, a national stablecoin is more useful than one that drifts.

(Conversely, for international remittances, an international basket stablecoin might indeed be a useful thing to have!)
I'm sure we've all worked with plenty of mediocre people in our careers, you don't have to outrun the bear, you have to outrun them.
In Montreal, the figure ranges from 600,000 (May) to 900,000 trips (July) from a fleet of 7,500 (there are no bikes from mid-November to mid-April). They're everywhere.

Edit: I was still on the 2017 figures for some reason. 800,000 trips last May, 975,000 last August. (https://montreal.bixi.com/en/open-data)
One of the key benefits of renting, that I outlined in my comment above, is that people can typically rent properties that they could not afford to buy. So yes I agree that people could not necessarily afford to buy the same quality and location of property that they might rent. This is a benefit.

Cities have high property prices because they are extremely desirable. Lots of people would like to live there, but there is limited land, and not everyone can afford to live there. There must be a way of determining who has the right to occupy the scarce resource that is land, and the market is the solution to that problem in most countries.

Although not everyone might be able to afford to buy property in the most desirable cities on earth, such as Berlin, most people can certainly afford to buy property somewhere else. For example, a house that costs $1 million in San Francisco might cost $20k-$50k in Detroit. The further you move away from cities, the cheaper property gets.

I think it is reasonable that not everyone can afford to buy property in literally the most desirable, high-demand places in the world, like Berlin or London. People can still afford to buy property elsewhere.
Waymo deal adds salve to fractured Renault-Nissan alliance
not really, most cryptocurrency is at the stage where the only thing effective is a combination of custom ASICs and nearly free electricity. About twelve months ago I looked into mining ethereum with state of the art GPUs and it would not have had a reasonable ROI unless I was literally paying $0.00 per kWh. And that was before its value per coin dropped a lot.
Very nice tool.

I've been replaying every Whatsapp/Signal/Messenger voice message I send to listen to how I speak, and it has helped me quite a bit with enunciatng.

This will be a welcome addition to my grammartoire.
I managed to remember the book in which the photo is published:
"The Second Coming of Science: An Intimate Report on the New Science"
by Brian O'Leary
1992

My copy is in storage so I can't post a scan. IIRC the visitors are O'Leary and his son.

It turns out he has a wikipedia entry:

> Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011)[1] was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was part of NASA Astronaut Group 6, a group of scientist-astronauts chosen with the intention of training for the Apollo Applications Program.

> A remote viewing experience in 1979 and a near-death experience in 1982 initiated O'Leary's departure from orthodox science. After Princeton, O'Leary worked Science Applications International Corporation. He refused to work on military space applications, for which reason he lost his position there in 1987. Beginning in 1987, O'Leary increasingly explored unorthodox ideas, particularly the relationship between consciousness and science, and became widely known for his writings on "the frontiers of science, space, energy and culture".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O'Leary
It's "aluminum" in American English but also in Canadian English.

Canada retains UK and French-influenced spellings for quite a few other English words which America doesn't (e.g. centre & colour). But apparently North America agrees on how to spell and pronounce atomic element 13 in English.
Not "capsicum hot" per se, but very flavorful. More salty and acidic I guess. But it's a very bold and complex flavor, a top tier snack imho.
So it won’t be 1:1 redeemable? That’s pretty critical - since the US IRS requires you to report all purchases you make with a cryptocurrency in its USD equivalent value at the time. This starts to mount very high if you are making every day purchases as presumably FB hope.

So how are Facebook going to get around this? Or are they just going to ignore this problem and leave it to users to either get flagged by the IRS or for the IRS to be forced to change its rules for FBs benefit?
Same. I got $1300 credit simply for applying.
True, the term "strong" is maybe too strong here. Let's go with "powerful".
Except for when you're on the same project. Then it's like canoeing with mediocre people. When the alligator comes, instead of paddling for one, you are paddling for two.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20226371
It's funny because I have been ridiculed for calling myself Swedish or Swedish-American instead of white. Somehow some people have even thought that's racist.

But it is a strong identity in my family, and, for example, I really don't want to be lumped in with the people of Bavarian descent who made up about half of the town I grew up in. I'm nothing like them culturally.

Honestly, "white" isn't an ethnicity and it is borderline insulting to think others can know all about me by my skin color, but I've given up on the idea that my opinion on this will make a difference. It is nice to say it out loud for the first time in years, though.
Not from a PTSD point of view. If these workers think it’s real, it’ll have the same psychological effect as the real thing.
Really impressive what's been accomplished by purism.

And in such short time!

Imagine if there was a viable free software choice on mobile, and as much choice in distros.

Not gonna lie, little worried about the hardware though
SF renters need to earn $61 per hour to afford two-bed apartment
I'm not arguing with the rule, but one notable exception is Kevin Systrom who stayed with Instagram for years (growing it from 30 million users when the acquisition was announced to over 800 million). He discusses the choice to stay, and the reactions from others in the company, in this interview: https://tim.blog/2019/04/25/kevin-systrom/

Direct mp3 link, since Tim Ferriss puts a wall of text before his actual content: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/6c7b3008-cf08-4aae-93f8-d3fde...
Nicer bikes are more pleasurable to ride; they make the activity more enjoyable. What's signalling about that?
Maybe they could have, but obviously they didn't.
>He somehow -how??- managed to learn the ways of the new tribe, learn business, learn to read and write, learn how to lead a business unit, and do it well. This guy came out of nowhere, and had to zero-to-sixty from manual laborer to - what? executive? What position did they put him in? How did he ramp up? What kind of support did he get, if any? What kind of education did they provide him with, if any?

When you get an opportunity like that not learning isn't a realistic option. You do whatever to take advantage of the opportunity.
Assuming that the function was called with a string, but the window.print function doesn't accept a string argument, the typing systems in mainstream languages like Java (or even TypeScript) would catch this bug.
Of course it's the default. It both makes them money and absolves them of having to make a decision (and rightfully so IMO, should be up to the patient and family).
SRE: Strategy: Deploying SLOs Across an Organization
Yes, I believe the feedback they got was that they should be charging. Maybe because it confirms my personal perspective that I think they should be charging already indeed.
Not variety or accent. These shows use words carefully. They speak in exact meanings. The use a wider vocabulary and do not blur words. In fact much of their humor is based on misunderstandings rooted in pronunciation. Archer makes jokes about furriers and farriers. Blackadder about the formal name "Captain Darling" and the pet name "my darling", forcing the listener to maintain an understanding of context. These tricks aren't used on The Simpsons or the Big Bang Theory, shows largely aimed at lowest common denominators. Such differences are irrespective of accent or dialect.
There's a definite network effect... its hard to justify riding a shared bike somewhere if you can't be reasonably sure there will be one for you to ride back when its time to return. Maybe you could cobble a trip together with multiple vendors in cities where there are competing systems, but thats more hassle and makes it difficult if you're buying a yearly pass or some other monthly discount.

If you want some real data from a large program with good public support, CitiBike in NYC publishes open ridership data: https://www.citibikenyc.com/system-data

The tl;dr is that the system is very popular, and they're constantly expanding it - currently averaging around 62k trips per day on 12k bikes across 750 stations.

I own my own bike, but I'll use a Citibike for a one-way trip or to bridge a gap when I'm already out away from home without my bike. There is also a ton of utility for people who ride more casually, or don't want to carry bikes up stairs, or don't have room in their apartment, etc, etc.
I gather you are asserting that real estate developers are incapable of determining when they are too late to the party and are constructing extra space that will never be occupied.

Presumably you also believe that government bureaucrats are somehow better able to ascertain exactly when to stop issuing building permits so as to avoid "overbuilt" construction. And of course they will know when to resume issuing building permits also to ensure there are no shortages.

How is it that these government bureaucrats are better able to predict demand and arrange for supply than market mechanisms and the free economic choices of individuals?

You are making an argument for a planned economy over a free market, for limiting the freedom of individuals to invest as they see fit with their own resources in favor of giving power to government employees to block or to subsidize their favored economic activity.

The historical track record for central planning is overwhelmingly negative. I don't understand why people continue to advocate for it.
Venture capitalists are cashing their investments by IPOs - sure sign that the next financial crisis is starting soon :) Dotcom Bubble 2.0 is ready to burst.

EDIT: I do not imply that venture capitalists poses some insider knowledge. It is not necessary. It's just the fact that when bullshit companies with bullshit product, that generate losses instead of profit get valued at $16B (other recent examples include Lyft and Uber) it means that economy is in crazy state, and it does not take much to induce panic. My guess is one of these unicorns will fill for bankruptcy soon, thus pushing the market over the edge.
Great comment. It takes a hell of a CEO to squash any ego they have and stop to listen to the janitor about what direction their business should take.
Preferably low-cost digital payments, such as debit cards, mobile payments, or whatever else, perhaps including cryptocurrencies like Libra.

I understand many of these methods as they exist in the US come with significant fees, although debit cards have improved significantly since Dodd-Frank.

Sweden will stop accepting cash payments in 2023, and already nearly 90% of transactions are completed without it. There's not a one-size solution, but 98% of Swedes have a bank card, and 60% have used mobile payment app Swish over the past year.