skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not disagreeing, but, on the other hand, they will be exposed to this, at at least one order of magnitude higher intensity than I ever was as a kid, or even in my 20s.

I don't have a perfect solution, just pointing out the bind we're in.

I'm actually not terribly prone to the "youth are just all messed up today compared to my generation" idea scheme, but while homo sapiens hasn't changed, the environment has changed radically and the amount of cognitive firepower being brought to bear on us to get our money and manipulate us has skyrocketed in the past decade or two. I've got a 11 and 8 year old and am still struggling through how to deal with it.
At least any European airline can operate on any part of Europe. One of the problems with brexit, is that with the merge of British Airways and Iberia, Iberia may lose the rights to take of from Madrid for all their latam flights.
Rent is far above its CPI-inflated average right now, so saying that rent increases must match inflation makes no sense. The time to do that would've been long ago. But in any case I'm pretty sure rent increases are capped at much higher than inflation.
Solving the problem of over-tourism is different than raising the price of travel overall. When talking about over-tourism, we're only really talking about a few thousand places which attract so many tourists that they cannot function in a healthy place. If you increased the price of tourism in those select places, then yes, you might have the unfortunate outcome that only upper-middle-class people could visit Paris in May, but all those other people could go to smaller cities in central France which are still full of culture to experience, and might stand to benefit a lot from increased tourist revenue.

But maybe I am a bit biased because I like to visit obscure places anyway.
It might be your job. Almost none of it applies to places I have worked at.
$350 for what is essentially a feature phone seems too steep when it's still possible to get actual feature phones for far less.
One thing backtesting misses is the other market participants may see what you are up to in live trading and try to take advantage. That was a big factor with LTCM.
What if the stress is mostly from outside the job?

Some of it could be "solvable" (better pay, better hours, ...), but some of it may not (family problems, health issues, ...).

Is it taken into account or addressed?
Parts of EU have enormous corruption and (partly as a consequence of corruption) money problems.
JavaScript is the perfect example of give hackers a bit and they'll take a damned terabyte.
A lighter V8
Ask HN: Help choosing path to an AI company
Hi folks, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been building AI related products for the last five years.

I’ve been looking to start my own business and here are now two possibilities to pursue that goal:

1) Partner with an already in motion software consultancy.

I had a meeting with the company owner (ex work colleague) some days ago, the company has like 30 employees and they develop traditional software products. He asked me if I was willing to join the company as a partner in order to build an AI division inside the company, focused on building AI products. None of their current employees have experience with this type of technologies.

I’m interested but I’m not quite sure that the company will be able to focus on two different lines of work, with different life cycles and different development metodologies.

Do you think that the proposal makes sense?

Do you have experience doing something like that or know a similar case from the web?

What would you do if you were in my position to approach this kind of job?

2) Build my own AI company.

I’ve also been talking with a potential (and also technical) partner about the possibility to build an AI company from the ground. The idea would be to sell end-to-end products, but starting as a consulting company to bootstrap and gain different industries use cases seems to be a logic decision.

I’m thinking that we can work together with the company described on (1) where my potential company builds the AI product and (1) builds the mobile/web app, consuming our product through an API.

Does that sounds feasible or is there a major flaw that I’m not considering?

Do you think it could be a good approach or is there a better way?
Sounds like a great idea! Thanks!
I'm kinda struggling right now. I'm a few months from graduating with a BS in CS, and I'm scared. Not scared about getting a job (I've had a few internships and have a solid handshake return offer from more than one of them) or “the next step” (kids? house?) independently, just the combination of all those things.
How do I find a job that's is within a same commute distance, but also affordable? How do I find a job that will help me afford those “next steps?” How on Earth do people afford a house (I mean, $300,000 is more than 3× my expected salary, and where I am, that barely gets you a townhome)? The uncertainty of the future has really knocked my level of “okay-ness” down to like a two for the past few weeks.
IIRC CampaignMonitor has had a pretty good resource for many years: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
I believe Latin was still being used for theological discourse in Europe well into the 1700s for that same reason, precision. Something nice about a dead language is the meanings of the words don't have a way to change from under you.
I use a 1 to 5 scale and every time the respondent turns it into a 1 to 10. I always get 3.5 or 4.5. I dont get it, what is that 1 to 5 is not fine enough?
fwiw, the Embedded Rust Working Group moved to matrix: https://rust-embedded.github.io/blog/newsletter-18/
It's amazing. It's a story that connects us with a more simple life, with an unreliable communication method and involving lots of luck.
It appears to be a problem with Firefox and I'm yet to figure out what's causing it since it works on my local environment fine. Try using a different browser
Would like to know where you work.
“So you know, a warming of 1 degree Celsius, which is what we’ve seen thus far, can lead to a 10-fold increase in the frequency of 100 degree days in New York City for example,” said Dr. Mann. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, since the 1960s the average number of heat waves — defined as two or more consecutive days where daily lows exceeded historical July and August temperatures — in 50 major American cities has tripled.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/climate/heatwave-climate-...
But it doesn't.
A tourist is by definition nomadic, just there to reap some short term benefits regardless of the community's long term commitments and trade-offs. Some of them may be altruists foregoing the more destructive pleasures, others will be 100% self-centered and grab everything they can without a single fink given.
There is some carrying capacity under which the impacts can be absorbed without straining the community. Above that it can only end into a race to the bottom.
The CPS system already can't keep up with the amount of cases they have. I don't think adding more will help.
First you say that it's not "corporate control" then you say that well, ok it is a "part" of it's governance. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
A lot of units require seismic retrofitting and that’s super expensive. If you can’t pass that cost on a lot of these buildings won’t be retrofitted
> Was the tenant happy when you increased it? Increasing rent 12% in one go effectively kicks out most tenants.

No, the market kicked out most tenants. The tenant should be expected to also monitor market prices for their rental and know automatically when they're getting a deal or when to expect an increase.
It's hard to discover them, plus not everyone wants to make their side projects open sourced :)
I've been visiting Parks throughout the west for decades and have noticed the same thing. Its a virtual United Nations when you go into the Visitor's Center, gift shop, or restaurant. Personally, I think its great and love to show off what the US has that no other nation does. But, things like abusing the wildlife, putting themselves or others a risk because of stupid (and illegal) behaviors, and generally disrespecting the Park push me close to the edge. That kind of behavior isn't tolerated in the monuments and cathedrals in Europe; don't do it here.
I've struggled a lot in the last few months in particular. I feel extremely isolated in my work. I don't feel like I have a good team environment right now. Everyone is segregated across campus which in and of itself is okay (I've done remote work stuff before, and been on teams where you didn't sit near each other) but nobody talks to each other, like ever.

And I feel like I'm missing expectations because of it, and attempts at fixing the situation just feel like it gets met with further isolation, which creates even more anxiety. I think it might just be a bad fit, but I also feel like I'm really struggling to keep up sometimes, because I want to do really good, well tested, solid work, but I feel like my deadlines aren't set with my input at all, they're simply dictated to me and I'm expected to just perform, on demand, no matter how much time it takes, and the workload doesn't feel right to me, or even similar to what other team members have to deal with. I sometimes get the feeling I'm the odd person out on the team, but its hard to say because there's little transparency. I even went as so far as to read past reviews from my previous job and they all remark about how well I am a team player, being open to feedback and new ideas I was, so I'm not sure why I'm failing so bad at this one.

It never feels like I'm satisfying my boss and my peers seemed to have iced me out.
Unfortunately very standard cherry picking facts article, the sad part is that it matched with the conspiracies of jews running the world.

Unfortunately a lot of journalism coming from the American left lately gives me those American right wing radio vibes where everyone's the enemy, connected, planning to get you. I'm not American but it seems the two party system is absolutely ripping your country and society apart, but then again people say that this has worked well in the history and things balance out. Hard to take a rational view when things are emotional all around the world, people connected more than ever.
Maybe you're right. Maybe there are applications where this really matters.

All I can say is that I have never once had that problem since I started using Python (circa version 2.4). It has always been fine. For example, when dealing with .csv files created with MS Excel, you get strange characters because Excel uses CP1252 encoding, not ASCII. They never tripped up my app in python 2.7. It happily passed them along. Even regular expressions worked. Python3 died repeatedly until I went through and forced everything to be bytestrings.
NEON optimizations can have pretty large effect (up to ~4x), just like SSE. The benchmarks with the largest differences are suspect, especially SGEMM.

Also don't underestimate how much RPi4 throttles under multicore load. Even the cheapest $1 heatsink will make a big difference.

In general I agree, though. It'll still be in the same ballpark.
Sounds like you just need to get out of the valley.
> Unlike science, where at least in theory, everything is built from the ground up using first principles or built upon raw data collected, the "raw data" of journalism is just various types of conversations with people the journalist then has to verify, and gauge the reliability of.

Agreed.

> I personally don't think efforts to "fix the news" as a result of facebook or whatever make a lot of sense in this context. Instead, consumers of news need to habitually engage in the process that you call too much work.

Part of this process is reading the news critically, which I enjoy doing. From this article (emphasis mine):

> “The reaction ... WAS very different than it WOULD HAVE BEEN in the last administration,” this person said. “With the current administration, there ARE a different set of calculations in regard to addressing THIS.”

> The former senior intelligence official criticized how the administration handled the matter, remarking on the striking difference from past administrations, which LIKELY would have at a very minimum issued a démarche, or formal diplomatic reprimand, to the foreign government (INCLUDING ISRAEL) condemning its actions.

Citations aren't the answer in this case, but rather epistemology. Stating speculation as fact is an incredibly effective means of distorting the public's perception of reality, especially when the same distortion is presented repeatedly in different forms by various agencies. It seems to have become so common that even smart people don't pick up on it any more. If you start looking for it though, you'll see it everywhere.

Whether this deceit was intentional or accidental is unknown, but the end result remains the same: the public's perception of the details of this story consists of certainty about specific details, based purely on speculation.

https://spiritofcontradiction.eu/rowan-duffy/2017/06/07/fake...

https://theconversation.com/how-do-you-know-that-what-you-kn...
The first one does not work great in a terminal. The words are readable but I don't get the full experience.
The second one, pretty good.
"A girl had no name"

Jaqen H'ghar spoke ACE
From what I understand, the vast bulk of the onboard F-35 software is written in C++.

One wonders how much that's contributed to the lengthy delays in software delivery...

Regardless, it seems possible to eventually produce effective software using C++. ;-)
Ask HN: Open-source voice assistants like Siri? Or can I build one on my own?
For a data sensitive home grown project I want to integrate an open source voice assistant or roll my own.

Do you guys have any tips or experience with this and how to get started? I expect there to be so
me gotcha’s that I am unaware of.

The voice assistant does not need to be perfect but does need to be good. It should capture at least 80% of what I say in formal non-slang English correctly. I want to be able to speak in sentences, like I do with Siri.

What would your approach be to build or integrate this? Is it even feasible?

I am willing to invest one to two months full-time on learning the required machine learning. I currently know basic neural nets (Michael Nielsen’s book), basic statistics (e.g. logistic regression) and basic machine learning (SVM, Knn, PCA, random forest, decision trees, bag of words).
In hotels I leave a note on the table saying where to look if I'm not back (never been needed, but stories like this remind me to keep doing it).
Mapping Global Methane Emissions
I know that NSO group, based in Israel, has advanced cell phone hacking skills. 60 minutes did an article on it a while back: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interview-with-ceo-of-nso-group...
If I work 40 hours a week producing the stuff that you and I need to live, while you spend 40 hours on your Xbox, why wouldn't I just stop work on Wednesday and take the rest of the week off and not bother producing anything for you?

If you are adding nothing real to the common pool by using up some of your finite hours on this planet for the public good, then you can hardly expect the rest of the public to use up the finite hours of their life to produce anything for you. No amount of financial trickery hides the fact that it is a transfer from those that produce to those that don't for nothing of actual real value in return.

The UBI is a magicians trick that fools nobody once the mechanism by which the trick is pulled is revealed.
Wait, so according to you, what can be called beautiful? Only people and maybe animals I guess?
I agree with Donella Meadows that top leverage points of changing systems are its beliefs and goals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points.

Once the idea of humans flying was beyond fantasy, now we consider it beyond a right but a necessity. We believe nature is elsewhere, not where we live, and contribute to local degradation, dreaming that we'll experience it elsewhere, but flying or taking a cruise ship there.

Without tackling the beliefs and goals driving the system -- the unbridled sense of entitlement, irresponsibility for how one's actions hurt others, the disdain for reducing growth and maintaining wilderness where we live -- we're rearranging the deck chairs of a sinking ship. Humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years before flight and they weren't all miserable.

I propose promoting staycations, camping, biking, sailing, gardening, and other ways of experiencing diversity with less pollution and more empathy and compassion. But most of all promoting beliefs and goals other than you must fly to be happy. That a great life comes from appreciating where you are. That flying and cruises are dirty. Etc.

The world is too big and beautiful to see everything. When I got that, I realized my best strategy was to enjoy here, now, us wherever I am. Then I didn't need to travel so much despite getting more out of life.
Watch It Till the End
> Integrations with emerging technologies like new database systems or new statistical packages always lags way behind other languages and usually exists in some half-finished form that depends on labor of love from some isolated hobbyist.

This really sets Clojure apart from Haskell, in that you can use any Java library with almost zero friction.
"which is why it seems like you are making a political point and not a economic argument"

I am making an argument that the principal justification for power of these individuals is the same. It's neither strictly political nor strictly economic argument.

"There are ~30 million small businesses in the US, anyone can start one, and many people do. Anyone cannot decide to become a feudal lord; it is a position taken through force and violence and maintained at the tip of a spear."

Actually, you can decide to become a lord, it happens in mafias and gangs around the world till today. The lords in feudalism (unless it was inherited) rose from chieftains of tribes gaining more and more influence (often by using of violence) over more and more people.

Just like starting a business, becoming a chieftain and lord is very risky. In fact riskier, because the stakes are higher, but also the rewards.

Also, while there are small businesses in capitalism, yes, the core of it in practice are large businesses. And just like the lords, the owners of the large businesses are those who can either outsmart the other small owners, or just win the game of taking the risk. The issue I am talking about - winner (founder) takes all - is much more questionable in larger companies.

The fact that there is no direct violence in economic competition between companies doesn't invalidate the comparison I am making.

"I think capitalism was the "wisened up" part after the prior attempts which don't allow an entrepreneur to take a new idea, bring it into the world, and own the result for themselves."

I interpret the history the other way around. The capitalism only happened after people wisened up and figured that the republic is better than monarchy, in the political sphere. This restricted the use of violence in competition for power, and allowed the companies (and their owners) to rise in the economic competition.

But the question why should somebody keep unlimited and indefinite control over something (be it company or state) just by virtue of organizing people around creation of that something still stands.
For whatever reasons (planning approvals?), 1br houses aren’t built. At least around here. But 1br apartments and condos are the bulk of the market.

That’s not to say that 2br+ apartments are unprofitable to build, just less so.
I'd take leverage for granted but it only works if the underlying bet you are leveraging is in your favour.
Its funny how the anti-UBI people always couch their arguments against UBI as in the best interest of irresponsible poor single mothers...as if providing a single mother of 4 with a basic income is in her own worst interest and will lead to irresponsible spending.

Let me ask you: what do you do now when a mother of 4 doesn't qualify for SNAP or housing assistance, and her 1,2 or 3 jobs isn't enough to cover rent or put food on the table? What do you do now when a SNAP recipient sells their food card and spends the cash? My general experience is anti-UBI proponents don't even know about these issues, and if they do they both don't give a shit and have no more answers than a pro-UBI person.

At the end of the day the current model is failing, I for one would much rather see all the tax breaks offered to the rich be rolled back, including estate taxes and capital gains...because as of now all that was premised on "trickle down economics" or maybe better phrased as poor people can eat the crumbs of the rich, and so far the crumbs haven't made their way down and to date that what the poor have been told..."tough".
I heard there are some project in GitHub. You may check them out..
Not quite true. You'd spend half of the travel time under 1g accelerating, then the ship does a 180 degree flip in 0g, and then you spend another half of the travel time under 1g decelerating.

Edit: Of course, at constant 1g acceleration, at day number 354 we reach 1c. Don't know if we should start coasting before we reach 1c or just the hell with it and see what happens if we keep accelerating.
Are you trying to justify arguing that they're not actually at a high stress level? That doesn't seem very nice. 3.5 and 4.5 are perfectly within 1 to 5 so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
> I think only Rust really allows you to write really safe and still really fast code though.

Snabb (https://github.com/snabbco/snabb/)
is written in LuaJIT . I assume an equivalent project in Rust would be a lot more expensive in implementation time and also lines of code.

There is also Common Lisp and SBCL in particular, which can produce extremely fast code without compromising on safety.
just as an fyi, most people take mortgages for anywhere between 2 and like, 5 times their annual salary. I think my mortgage right now is about 3x my salary. So dont worry about that too much. I used to stress out a lot about ANY debt, but i've learned to cope with it a bit better. You're super early in your career (even pre-career), so you've got plenty of time to work these things out. I'm confident you'll do just fine with all of those things. commute can be tricky, but if youre in an area where housing is that expensive, i'm sure the public transportation is decent quality. Buses and trains work great for morning/afternoon work commute.
> I'm tired of being on call 24/7/365.

You don't have to be on call. You can find a company where this is a choice (gives benefits / additional salary but not mandatory).

> I'm tired of spending weekends indoors studying for work, instead of work giving time to learn.

You shouldn't. Weekends are there for a reason, they are necessary to rest. You should try to change company if this is not the case.

I believe most of your points exist in all fields, in their own way.
Good work-life balance is important to handle them.
Not really.

My country is being ripped apart, everyone seems so hateful against the other, the government talks about record employment level and pay while people are using foodbanks and sleeping in the streets.

My own life is great by the standards that people usually use to measure success. But it feels so empty. I'd rather check out and go and live in a cave on a hill, but all the land and caves have been parcelled off and sold before I was even born.

So here I am, I continue to live, step over people on my way to work, where I sit and help contribute to climate change, feel the guilt of all of it and wanting to change it but without knowing how.
I have to deploy web applications written in Python on Windows... no uWSGI, no Gunicorn and no easy multiprocessing because no fork(). It's painful quite often and it makes me loathe the GIL, but I still enjoy writing Python code.