skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Toronto, those numbers are hilarious. You cannot live in this city on a yearly wage of 21600. Not only are your numbers wrong individually, but they're also woefully under representative because your fake individual isn't buying toiletries, isn't paying for dental, doesn't purchase clothing, doesn't have any medical consumables to purchase, only eats a meal per day or so, etc.

I've done the math. I've lived here. I've financed years of study in the city on loans and been on Ontario Works at times at the start of my career. Your model is poorly constructed.
The day schedules stop being set by morning people is the day I’ll give up caffeine
Yeah, the Smarts were great. And you could pop the rear window open and tuck a bike in the back, with the wheel wedged under the front seat and the front fork sticking out the car. Best car for supplementing bike transit.
I read this book a couple years ago, it’s great. In fact, I picked up the book 2nd hand with a note from the author inscribed on a cover page. Neat.

This book is especially interesting to anyone building systems where humans are required to interface with a computer on a “mission-critical” level.

It goes in-depth about the new type of electrical component-integrated circuits used in the guidance system. And more about other aspects of the navigation systems used on Apollo.

I recommend.
Check out the book The Wright Brothers by David McCullough[1]. You will see that they are anything but tinkerers, but more the founders of aeronautical engineering.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1...
> The A320NEO order book is filled for years so if you’re an airline CEO you’re stuck with the MAX.

I did not know this! Thanks for the added insight.
Are you suggesting your SSD read speed will be a bottleneck when uploading huge amounts of data to the cloud?

What kind of Internet connection do you have?
Thats gigabytes per second. You’d need a 10Gbps+ internet connection to even start getting close to saturation.
The ones here in Indy, specifically Gleaner's, will drop palates off at businesses for you to donate non-perishable canned and boxed food. Food banks want stuff they can put in a box and send people home with usually to prepare themselves, not bulk food they have to break down into smaller portions and repackage.
The most concerning quote: "About 80 percent of Chinese students who get degrees abroad now go back — up from about 33 percent in 2007, according to China’s Ministry of Education. Some 15 percent take jobs in China’s booming tech sector."

Attracting top global talent has always been a competitive advance for America, and it's not a good sign for our economy if we can't retain people that we are educating here.
They said $2 per hour not 10. A quick search will pop up a number of gigs paying that much.
A lot of people make a tricky mistake when adjusting for COL: investment power. Because people can save up and then move, being able to save 10% of a big salary is worth a lot more than being able to save 10% of a small salary. That's why people in California can still beat tech workers in other places in the long run even though the local COL depresses their standard of living down to almost nothing (next to what their pay could buy them elsewhere).
Well, they kind of contradict themselves later on

> The pay discrepancy between Silicon Valley and China has narrowed since he launched in 2014, especially at top-tier firms. Wang’s engineers now make 70 percent to 80 percent of what they could get in America.

So it was 700k in 2014, but now it's 70-80% of what US people would make.
Do they discipline by essentially being a full GPS receiver that decodes the timing information from multiple satellites, derives the time, and then adjusts the local oscillator so it is running at the right rate based on that time?

Or do they do something simpler, and just derive a frequency reference from the frequency of the carrier signals and sync the local to some fixed ratio of the carrier frequency?

The former would be more accurate, but would break if something went wrong with the data. The latter would probably not be as accurate, due to Doppler effect (I'm getting +/-0.00041% shift from Doppler effect), but would keep working as long as the carrier is being broadcast. You could probably correct for a good part of the Doppler effect just from the last known orbital parameters of the satellite--even if the data updates have been broken for a long time that should work.
death row execution protocols should be viewable by anyone who wants to see them. This is a simple matter of the government not being transparent when they should be
n.b. This argument is ~exactly the same for donating your time to charities. The current company which you sell your services to has a way to metabolize them and will pay you (presumptively high) market wages for doing so; a charity chosen randomly by you at a time convenient to you may have no infrastructure to metabolize your services nor a charity-perceptible need for e.g. web development.

If you're feeling charitable you can virtually always find a charity amenable to you which has outcomes they'd like to cause in the world but for lack of money and help them vis the lack of money.
Not many people have a WAN link that will notice the difference.
And to be quite clear (while I am personally against all applications of the death penalty), a botched execution is far more expensive, legally, and even medically (if there are increased healthcare costs for that timeframe), and also, a botched execution is generally considered "cruel and unusual punishment".
Well, I guess that's a refreshingly sociopathic outlook.

If you were alive in the 60s and 70s, you probably won't live to see the worst of what's coming, but any children and grandchildren you have will.

And we're not talking about a few million: some estimates suggest up to a billion people will relocate in response to pressure from changing climate. Rich nations are kidding themselves if they think they can close borders against numbers like that.
I'm sure people used to paying Apple prices wouldn't mind those 100$.

This is probably aimed at people from outside the Apple customer base and comparability.
Direct Marketers must have your name and prior address in order to receive your updated address. So they are providing updated PII to those who already had your prior PII. You can opt out.

The USPS makes only a few million from selling this data but saves over a billion dollars by avoiding the cost of forwarding mail sent to prior addresses.

The USPS is allowed to do this under an exception for it in the Privacy Act.
Unless you have a datalink over 1Gbps (and iCloud can actually saturate that link) the SSD isn't going to bottleneck it either way.
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ICE uses AWS to help take into custody people who have deportation orders. Can anyone explain why this is even remotely controversial? What is the alternative, open borders? no deportation ever?
Only if you're an iCloud network administrator that plugged a 10gbps network cable at the data center.
SBCL documentation states that it can be built with another Lisp, but that is not true: I've tried with CCL and it failed spectacularly.

I couldn't find a working version of CLISP for Solaris 10 for sparc and i86pc.

Guys, I've built hundreds of packages for Solaris 10 on both sparc and i86pc the number of which can easily compete with the number of packages on "OpenCSW" and I'm telling you that SBCL is so broken on the operating system from which it came that it can no longer be built or run on it without the involvement of the core SBCL team. It needs serious attention.
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> that's an annual average salary of only 17,500 USD per person.

That is realistic and in line with fresh out of college Computer Science graduate market rate. I know that because I went to an undergraduate CS degree in China.

Developers are working harder in China too. The famous 996 work schedule has been prevalent in Internet software startups in China.[1] Hence the anti-996 movement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
The same thing happens with Russia for "barack obama rus" "hillary clinton rus", "george bush rus", etc. - none autocomplete for me despite the fact that there was lots of news items relating those politicians and russia during their careers. However Clinton is the only one that doesn't appear to autocomplete for email, suggesting that it is specific to her. When I type "donald trump epstei" I get "theo epstein donald trump" (for some reason the word order is flipped), which would suggest to me that epstein is not blocked in the way you suggest, and it's just that not enough people are searching that term, or that the autocomplete algorithm hasn't caught up to the latest news on epstein and trump yet. However "donald trump e j" does autocomplete to "donald trump e jean carroll", which is relating to a serious scandal for the president. This isn't cherry picked I'm afraid, it really does look like intentional blocking of "hillary clinton email" from autocomplete.
It is! My response to the other comment describes some of the challenges, but overall it's wonderful! It feels a lot like running a startup, though of course the compensation is more spiritual than financial. But it has all of the great and exciting parts of a startup combined with the bonus of getting to think about stars crashing into each other for your actual job.
It’s not exclusive, usability is a duality. At the micro and macro levels. At the micro level you want to watch a couple of individual users and watch whether every little thing added to the UI makes sense to them. Whether the product solves their problem.

If micro fails, macro will most likely fail.

At the macro level you’re tracking higher level metrics like how many users engage with the different parts of the UI, where the fallout is? What is the retention of users, what do power users do differently to new users e.t.c

This kind of wholistic view about the product at micro and macro levels gives you a much better understanding about the bottle necks in the product.
I didn't actually do the comparison. I asked a question. You can choose your own methodology.

But if you die, it doesn't matter whether it's human error or not, so it might be better to compare overall risk from all causes?
Seems like you're talking about the 6th commandment[0], which is more accurately described as "Thou shalt not murder", rather than "thou shalt not kill".

I like Dennis Prager's commentary on the 10 commandments[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RENPaY043o
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Here's the paper in question.

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2019182716
My 2018 Macbook Pro i5 can't handle it. I get the "this site is draining your battery" warning far to often. I can't watch Netflix and browse Reddit at the same time anymore
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Funny that you never see "Google does it" as a justification to raise salaries...
What makes your remind of that?
I think its a bit of a misnomer to say functional programming is the answer because you can call a function instead of doing a loop, because all you're doing is shifting responsibility to the function you're calling to implement the iteration (which is probably done via tail recursion in FP language).
Really the answer to avoiding loops via FP is to use tail recursion, but tail recursion is not always more natural than a loop.
Without information about false positives, this is just basically saying they wrote an algorithm that sometimes points out cancer early. But if it is only correct 1% of the time, nobody is going to listen to it. It'd do even less than the current "You really need to check for cancer!" statements that we already have.

Edit: From the paper:

> A deep learning (DL) mammography-based model identified women at high risk for breast cancer and placed 31% of all patients with future breast cancer in the top risk decile compared with only 18% by the Tyrer-Cuzick model (version 8).

So better than before, but still only detects 31%. If I'm reading correctly, it's 95% correct? I guess that means 5% false positives? That wouldn't be bad.
"Looked at that way, $2/hour is potentially the equivalent of $8/hour as supplemental income. And you can fit it in to otherwise useless scraps of time."

No. $2/hr is potentially the same as freelancing at $8/hr under your comparison.

That's completely different. Because no one freelances at $8/hr.
Ive never talked about specs
Seems like beautiful and great drive. One of things in my bucket list is to drive on Lofoten scenic route [1].

[1] https://www.lifeinnorway.net/lofoten-road-trip/
This why i stay skeptic. The twitterfeed is fun. https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1150164876138037249?...
It's a bit more nuanced than that. For one, look at Oregon, and many other countries where euthanasia/assisted suicide is legal, and (I believe) has a legitimate and worthwhile place. As far as Oaths go, many physicians do not swear that any more, or do a modified / modern version (apropos of anything else, the Oath forbids "cutting the flesh", which would be problematic for surgeons).
We're quite far from the scale tipping in that direction, but it makes me curious about whether the US government has the legal authority to say "educating foreigners is no longer in the national interest, therefore it is no longer a valid reason to remain in the United States" and decimate the foreign student population essentially overnight.
Ohh, the audacity!

I've cancelled Amazon altogether couple years ago (which is an even more ridiculous process than cancelling Prime) and can't say I even noticed it. Apart from not getting any fakes in those two years.
(2) is one of the most important points. We have to stop Google from cross-financing new products from other revenue streams so they can no longer undercut or buy all competitors. Google Maps is a good example. They ran it for super cheap a long time to drive out competitors and now rack up the prices.

In contrast to most people here, I think breaking up Amazon is far more important to Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and many other tech companies. Only Google is as bad.
We did this a couple years ago! It works similarly, plus our version is open source (not sure if their one is). Runs on Google Apps script, but you could use it on any hosted js service really.

https://github.com/PeterTheHe/GoogPress
I remember once being asked during a phone-screen how many lines of code I had written. Ever. Some of those things were on classified systems years ago, there is no way I'm going to remember that or even be able to look that up any more. Why would I ever log "wrote a net-worth of xyz lines of code today" for a personal record? I've never worked for anybody who had that as a metric but apparently I had a chance to now; I gave them an estimate and moved on.

The kicker was that the question had absolutely nothing to do with the job. Nothing.
Respectfully, my objection is the implication that people should be okay with an "acceptable rate of mortality" for air travel because there's a relatively high rate of mortality for automobile travel (which is unrelated.)
People would make irrational choices, certainly in deciding whether to drive or fly. I don't think the market would come up with an equilibrium price for a micromort: at best you could find an equilibrium price for taking some risk of dying in a particular way such as a high-profile airliner crash.

Also, it's hard for even an expert to estimate the current chance of a 737 MAX flight crashing: historically it's around 1 in 5,000, but if they were cleared to fly tomorrow it's hard to say if the rate would be 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 1 million.
I went to Catholic School for 12 years, and what they believe is quite different than the Baptists in Alabama, but the Catholic Church says we should not have the death penalty unless there is a risk of the person causing harm to more people. So, in today's society (in the west at least) there is no place for the death penalty.
Any of the warehouse workers has or had the chance to obtain the skills of an AWS employee... Or are you advocating communism?
The idea behind these actions is to pressure ICE into abiding by international human rights laws in its handling of detained immigrant children. To me, that seems like a very reasonable thing-to-care-about.
Speaking of canned foods I liked as a kid were: the little peas in the silver can, tangerine wedges, Viennese “sausages” and spaghetti-os. All of them are barf inducing to me now.
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It sort of supports your point about life getting better, on average. It doesn't support your other point, "it really drives home how utterly unfit for modern life a person has to be to justify a life of crime in 2019". We're nowhere near the point where choosing the criminal life means one is unfit for modern society. Not only some people are still forced into it by circumstances, a lot of crime thrives in the conditions of modern society.
I'm on a 2018 MacBook Air, the only model has F-keys and Touch ID, and I love it. Once you get used to sudo using your fingerprint, it's hard to go back. :)
Also interesting is that the SSD in the base model is still the same size as the SSD in the base model of the MacBook Air Mid 2013. Sure, the SSDs became faster, but it is quite insane that a model that is six years newer still comes with the same capacity (at roughly the same price).

Other than that, it seems like a great laptop for its price. It's nice that the 'budget' models now have retina as well.
Actually lowered the price... it's not like hardware ever becomes cheaper with time?

I guess apple have improved recent years but previously this was quite apparent. "Wow, new much faster model costs the same as the old one!" Yeah, that's because the old one is insanely overpriced - unless you bought it on launch day. Conveniently that's the only day of the lifetime it is ever compared to the competition.
> "A jet airliner, in other words, was an airliner that could revolutionize aviation — and that meant the first company to bring one to market stood to make an absolutely fantastic amount of money."

Good on him for leading the innovation, but it seems obvious to me today that "first" rarely means "most profitable" or "longest surviving".
I don't think its any different than devs thinking they need to "future proof" (a silly idea anyway) their database design for millions of transactions , or needlessly fretting about scale problems that their tiny company is never going to see for YEARS. Or people who copy $famous_dev's coding environment, or coding style or whatever. All people do this in various ways. The only truth here is that it's far easier to point out someone else's flaws.

To take your interview example, you can't really convince a company (or anyone for that matter) they are doing something wrong, if what they're doing is making them money/success. It is a very powerful form of feedback that gets ingrained and is almost impossible to shakeoff.
| I wonder how much of canned goods is new purchases versus existing purchases? I personally have gone out and bought canned goods specifically for a food drive.

single data point, but I've helped unpack/sort for several different food drives of the years and I would say that its somewhere between 50/50 and 70/30 on previously bought vs existing.
Canned food is harder to embezzle.
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. Are you saying that disparate impact liability is fraught? Everyone agrees that it is. Cases based on it hinge on whether the impact results from "legitimate business need" with no reasonable alternatives, a standard that expressly allows e.g. credit scores with strong racial or gender correlations.

So if that's what you're concerned about, the response is simple: it's not enough to simply show a correlation; in enforcing disparate impact claims (under ECOA or FHA or Title VII), regulators have to show not just the correlation, but also the illegitimacy of the (facially neutral) action, or at last that some other (facially neutral) business practice would accomplish the same goals without producing the impact.

Since this is HN, I can't discard the idea that maybe you're instead arguing that disparate impact isn't in fact the standard in US law, in which case: no, a simple Google search for "disparate impact" and any of the laws I cited in that last paragraph will quickly disabuse you of that.
Others have described simple recursive data structures, but a real-world example is in the MTOSI definition of network modeling. Equipment Holders (EH), eg slots, can hold Equipment (EQ), eg cards. EHs can also hold other EHs arbitrarily deep, and EQ can hold EQ as well as EHs. So they are mutually recursive. A standard way to walk such data structures is with mutually recursive functions.

In other words, a natural way to talk about recursive data structures is with recursive functions and this is made more obvious with data structures that are mutually recursive.
Sure, and I'm not saying you should never write with the loop+stack/list option; right tool, right job.

I'm just saying that there are certain jobs that lend themselves to recursion, and one shouldn't discount it as some purely-academic bit of fun; it's a useful tool to have in your arsenal. If you have reason to worry about a stack overflow or something similar, you probably shouldn't be using recursion for that project; if you're working in an environment where you aren't going to realistically hit those restraints (like in my case), recursion is incredibly valuable sometimes.

That said, even though I'm somewhat of an FP zealot, I think whenever possible (about 9*% of the time), you should use a looping function like `map`, `filter`, `reduce`, or even the Java-style enhanced-for-loop instead of recursion.
Where the heck did you pull that number from? Also why are you posing it as a question?

The closest thing I see from google is "Trump's Child Detention Camps Cost $775 Per Person Every Day" which is unrelated to this discussion.

Just for kicks and giggles: I wonder if it's $1337.995 per day?
> Google has demonstrated that given the choice it will happily support human rights abuses

You appear to be confusing Google with Apple. Google does not do business in China proper. Apple does and has handed over the keys to access any Chinese user's iCloud data at will.
No, the two strategies differ in whether they are in concordance with a constitutional right or against a constitutional right (to take a strictly legalistic view).

Limiting access to abortion is counter to the Supreme Court's decision that abortion is a right.

Limiting the methods of execution is to prevent undue suffering, which violates the constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment.
That and / or you've got penny pinching management and if penny pinching is what they think of as valuable use of their time ... you don't want to work with those folks.
I've seen perks in place because the boss liked it, didn't have to pay for it personally, and almost certainly wrote it off as a business expense. That's also a sign.
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I see the German Humour Facility has joined us.
> where Apple downgraded a newer model in such an unequivocal way

Also of note: the maximum SSD capacity dropped as well. Formerly the Air could be spec'd up to 1.5 TB, now 1 TB is the max.
Open borders, and no deportation ever, is a perfectly viable alternative.