skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. Some businesses are genuinely innovative from a technical or structural standpoint.

Ford comes to mind, or Google. They had very strong competitive advantages due to a technically superior process or product. Cars and search engines were probably inevitable, but Ford and Google moved the technology forward a whole generation.

Uber made a pretty rudimentary mobile application, their real competitive advantage had more to do with success in financial sophistication and compliance/regulatory avoidance.
For a while call centers were popping up in the wake of factory shutdowns.
> In my case, that's come with a never-ending need to constantly retool: new languages, new SDKs, new device types, new APIs, etc., etc.

I think over time those things are not as significant as the changes in disciplines (titles?) or verticals. E.g. Changing from an embedded SE to front end UX is more difficult than the languages or tools involved.

Edit: is it harder to retrain from front end to embedded? I've traveled the ≈embedded to ≈ux road (via ≈applications). From ≈employee land to ≈owner land.
This is why people like Peter Thiel have compounds on island nations like New Zealand. Economists say we’re in the midst of a long and painful transition between the old manufacturing economy and... something. The question is, are we going to inch closer to an ideal socialist utopia where everyone has more or less everything because production is so cheap (like in Star Trek), or towards a capitalist dystopia where the Thiels of the world hoard everything in a progressively smaller elite fraction of the population.

I’d be very interested to see what China does. 1+ billion people. Do they leave them without jobs? Legally mandate manufacturing to include vast human employment? 100s of millions of people without a purpose will not end well. Just look at the Middle East. People will fight hardest when the stakes are so low. We’ve already got Trump in the US, BJ in the U.K. What will we get next as human labor becomes less and less necessary?
Sigh, this always comes up and I’ve never met a single person who actually had to pay taxes. My brother in law was out of the country for a decade and a few other friends lived in Europe and never paid.

Has anyone on HN paid US taxes living abroad?
His list regarding economics also raised my suspicion: anti-corruption, union organization, charter cities,... I couldn't really believe that no one was seriously studying these questions, so here are some results from literally 5 minutes of googling:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969229100360783...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2522141
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ess/wpaper/id2471.html

and there are even dedicated Master's degrees for some of those questions:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/Degree-programmes...
http://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/Degree-programmes...

conclusion: if you're not an expert on the matter yourself, you should be very careful when claiming that something is under-investigated. maybe it's just harder to come up with useable solutions than you think, and that's why you haven't heard of any. at the very least you should spend 5 minutes to google it.

PS: be generally cautious of anyone who writes or talks as if hew was an expert on no less than 10 entirely different disciplines.
Sure, I voted for the California high speed rail... mostly because I expected to move after a few years and not have to pay for it.. but even when I voted for it, I knew it was going to be a cluster...
It depends. I've been a developer for a long time, as well as suffering from ADD, not so much hyperactive. Doing dev triggers hyperfocus for me, allowing me turn out impressive amounts of work relatively fast, then crash hard and be useless for a while. That's why we have so many meetings, isn't it?
Mathematical challenges take undergrad in a new direction
So, in the case of NTP vs. RIM, part of the legal battle was fought in the UK. I was called in as an expert witness on a detail of minutia, as to when certain things had been said publicly, which could be used as evidence of prior art.

They had pulled up copies of the comp.mail.sendmail FAQ, for which I was the maintainer in 95-96. They asked me if a certain section of the document they found was a clear and accurate representation of the way the document actually existed at the time. They contacted me and not Eric Allman, because his role in the maintenance of the FAQ didn’t cover the period of time they were interested in, even though I believe he actually wrote that section years earlier. What was important to them was the state of the document at the time, not who wrote what when.

I want back to various archive sources, and confirmed that what they had appeared to me to be an accurate copy of the file from that point in time.

I was literally one day away from having to appear in UK court through a videoconference facility at the offices of a local law firm here in Austin, TX, where I was actually going to testify to that statement. But they settled the case instead.

Ultimately, I think the critical part of the process is to get an expert in the field to be willing to testify as to the material you are showing them, and not so much the source of that material.
It's a fantastic UI library, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone using React.
C++ Core Guidelines: Bounds Safety
Fujitsu, Toshiba, Panasonic and Sony are among the largest outsourcers of manufacturing, with many factories outside of Japan and sourcing many components from non-Japanese vendors. So Japan has been going down the same path as the US, just not so far yet.
PostreSQL 10 was 2017-10-05 to 2018-02-27.

10 took 146 days, 11 took 145 days. Just a tad under 5 months for both.
This reminds, also, of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Here, those who've truly learned more are also more reserved in their self-evaluation – while those given a more comforting-but-transient "gloss" of instruction overestimate their learning.
Ubuntu's design system called Vanilla framrwork
> If you're struggling, you're learning.

I think this is correct, but the curve can't be too steep.
Sounds like what Andrew Yang has been saying over and over. I wish the main candidates would steal from his ideas.
The same for Germany. But the physical thing gets slowly replaced by all digital transactions.
If you read the news Thailand is a very active area politically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Thailand

Lately, I've been listening to a good class on law in general (mostly US law). I'd like to recommend a course called Law School for Everyone on Audible by Molly Bishop Shadel (at least that's who is narrating the episodes I've heard so far)

The reason I bring it up is it talks about what we do in USA to try make our court system fair. One of the major things is having representation is basically required to survive, a layperson won't be looped in on how to let evidence in / out, how to question witnesses, how/when to object so stuff can be appealed later, etc. The series explains it better than I could.

Off topic: This law professor has more material on YouTube. There are parables to being in front of a jury she cites in popular cases that hold true for public presentation in general, like being self-assured (good!) but not coming off as standoff-ish / bullying (bad, hurts credibility!). This sounds like common sense, but it happens with smart people and its impacted juries before.

Anyone here a lawyer from Thailand and could happen to explain their opinion on the judicial process? Maybe we can get lucky, worth a try. :)
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108559

More in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14431233
Toasters do not all "work well enough". Shout if you have a toaster that you bought less than 5 years ago, that is still working. I think they're supposed to start failing after a year or two.

[Edit: if it's older than ten years, say how old - they made them better back in the olden daze]

These devices are sold for ten euros/dollars, or so. You really can't do good product design to that sort of price point. People expect to have to "recycle" them.

I bought a toaster for which you can order replacement heater elements, or a new timer. You can dismantle it and reassemble it with a normal electrician's screwdriver. The timer is clockwork. The whole thing's very steampunk.

It cost about 8 times as much as a "disposable" toaster. I don't know if it was a good deal; I'll tell you in a few decades. But if I don't have to bother with replacing it, from my POV that will be money well-spent; I'm sick of replacing stuff that should still be working. I'm sick of "hardware" that's really made of tissue-paper. And I'm sick of furniture that's made of wood-chips.

</rant>
For the purpose of a discussion about engineering, each brick _is_ really cheap. The argument is that something they manufacture and retail for a dime or less is engineered to exacting tolerances.

Think about it: You buy a Tesla Model X for Unobtainium money, and there are panel gaps. But you buy a bucket of Lego bricks for $20, and each one clicks together perfectly.

Lego may be expensive for a tiny blob of plastic, but the point I'm making is that their engineering is amazing relative to the cost of each brick.

p.s. That being said, I hear you! The sets with authorized franchise tie-ins are expensive, in large part because a sizeable part of their market are adults with disposable income. There is no other explanation for a CAD800 Millennium Falcon with 7,500 pieces.
Yeah, whoops.
It's already happened. Disability insurance is the de facto implementation of this.

It leads to judges corrupting their own judgement to allow workers who probably aren't disabled to get onto the disability roles, it's a ratchet where once on permanent disability, an employee can no longer legally get a job again, it's almost certainly a downsizing in wages and quality of life expectations, and it leads to depression, higher suicide rates, and high rates of opioid abuse.
I'm in the Digital Built Environment industry, so I strongly believe that it's one of the less developed industries and has a lot of potentials.

Construction technologies are outdated

Facility management and Real Estate technologies too

Also, there are some hot topics like Digital Twin(s) and Smart Cities which everyone has her/his own understanding about them

So, we've chosen the Facility Management industry, with $1.5 trillion annually TAM globally and are planning for the first step have one million users in our B2B contract which will cause we become a unicorn with $3 billion value just with one contract
I think "Community designed ChronoTrigger rip-off" would be more apt
It's ironic they mention Germany because Germany's system has very strong unions, with labor representation on their boards, but as they said, the pivot is happening there and there isn't the same anxiety there apparently. It's not like working together isn't possible with people not losing their jobs.
You do still have to file a tax return, which can be a bit complicated if you have foreign income. But if you work in Europe, you're right that you likely won't have to pay any actual US taxes. You can take the European tax paid as a foreign tax credit against the US taxes, and that almost always zeroes it out, since European countries mostly have higher tax rates. That was the case for me, anyway.

You will have to pay some tax if you work in a country whose tax rates (for your bracket) are lower than US federal tax rates. That can be the case for Americans working in places like Hong Kong or the Bahamas.
Japanese elementary and high school students spend years learning how to memorize and hand-write 2,136 official Kanji. That’s an expensive skill to learn, and has some advantages ... fax fits well.
> Taking jobs from folks who work in such an industry is a price worth paying, considering the alternative.

I don't think that's worked out very well so far. America is polarized on economic lines, and as long as some people's interests are unaligned with the environment / global needs, then this will continue.

The way you actually remove these jobs for good is to change the incentives for these workers so that they benefit from the new order.

This is why I think elements of the Green New Deal are a good idea: because it says that these folks have an even better future with green jobs than the present.
It’s also a false dichotomy. Government has never considered its income when figuring its expenses. That’s just a rhetorical trick politicians use to say they don’t want to do something that’s otherwise popular.

The Cold War is definitely why the S word is so reviled.
> I felt that is why they always have high reliability cars and stuff.

It's because of William Edward Deming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming.

After WWII Deming was trying to get quality control using statistic to American Automakers. They didn't like it so he left for Japan. This is at least the story I've heard from my professors in quality control and statistic. The wikipedia is different in term of he started in Japan first and later on Ford hire him in the 1980s.
I can almost see this happening. I used to work at a place that sold hardware (we outsourced production of a custom server unit). Due to the hardware cost and our relatively low volume, we didn't want to spend the money on buying extra units for the developers. Instead, we relied on defective units to do development on.
> in the period 1972-1976

Did you mean "for decades", or "decades ago"? I'm not sure any notable result from half a century ago qualifies any of the list he's creating for modern research (without regard to the quality of that list).
How's it compare against Hasura?
Yes. People assume that since it was reported on, it was shut down, but there was never any evidence of that. The principals got promotions on schedule, and retired with pensions.

Jon Ronson's "Men Who Stare at Goats" is an exploration of the recent state of the program, terrifying if read carefully. Certain of the principals retired very, very wealthy. How they got that way is not revealed, but access to damaging secrets is not hard to convert into wealth.

That so many people today believe that it was all about ESP experiments is evidence of its success, because it included tests conducted against the public.

We may reasonably infer that its success led to its regular deployment. Public approval of the Iraq invasion, despite proof before the event that it was unjustified, may be counted as evidence of its continued misuse. Public acceptance of universal surveillance, post-Snowden, might qualify.
20% is the energy gain of particles involved in each energy transfer, total energy available is 29% of the black hole's rotational energy according to Wikipedia.
You bring up a good point. In most cases interoperability is not required.

However, assuming it find enough adoption, having a standard format would likely make many things easier, like switching languages, or moving parts of the application logic into the database layer. Think of json support in databases these days and how it enables versatile use across applications.

Another benefit would IMHO be the possibility for a simplified API for developers. Many engineers don't know what AEAD or block cipher modes even are. Providing a simple encrypt()/decrypt() function that would work across applications would be awesome.
Yep it’s frustrating to be downvoted for simply pointing out the political elephant in the room.
Maybe the market for web developers in your region isn't strong? If employers can't find workers with their ideal list of qualifications, then they'll cast a wider net. You might not be much better off in that market even with a degree.

Going remote opens your options, but you have far more competition.

The hustler method is to hit the streets and get to know people. Find out what problems people are trying to solve and what sort of help they need. Find places you might like to work and figure out how to talk to people there. Hit social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn. You'll need to get creative. People are going to be much more likely to find a spot for you if you're talking to them rather than firing off applications.

And are web developers considered IT? Is PHP a fit for a company which has an IT department? You might need to find a smaller, scrappier place to work.
FWIW, re: taxes - TrumpTax raised the AMT thresholds so aggressively that the % of folks to whom this applies is probably a lot smaller than it used to be.
Malaysia was scammed out of $4.5B, via a prior "1MDB" state-funded investment initiative targeted at "real estate, Middle East oil and other sectors":

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-malaysia-1mdb-hollywood-...

Venture investing is probably even harder to properly police against self-dealing that happens under cover of "a big contrarian vision".
This is blatantly false.

You may be thinking about OpenGL 1.x and the fixed pipeline. Modern OpenGL is perfectly capable of running virtually every game and professional app out there.

OpenGL does NOT work on macOS and hasn’t worked for a very long time. Apple only allows to use an ancient version of OpenGL, which is not really my definition of “working”.

Nobody is going to ever remove OpenGL from Linux (or Windows) drivers. OpenGL/D3D powers everything there. Vulkan and Direct3D 12 are just the lowest level and are not a replacement for OpenGL nor Direct3D 11. Drivers may implement them on top of Vulkan/D3D12, but removing? Never.

Finally, Apple has never told anybody to use MoltenVK because they don’t want you to. And I would not be surprised if they end up banning such layers if they find they get popular.
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I have no idea about their attention to detail but lots of business practices in Japan are way behind. Lots of paperwork, faxes, stamps needed in places that most other 1st world countries have made digital and efficient
Indeed. This is the same playbook UVA used to kill its wonderful, creative, beloved Pep Band not so long ago.
PCA is great. I like this paper where it holds its own against all the fancy nonlinear techniques:

https://lvdmaaten.github.io/publications/papers/TR_Dimension...

When have you needed something stronger than PCA? Anybody have good stories?
Because the “faster” algorithm is faster than the “slow” algorithm in the range where this constant is added... but not faster than just applying the “slow” algorithm directly. So the only thing you would achieve is to slow down the calculation overall.
I don't think the "hard work" excuse works when you are talking about people who used to work in coal mines and have a family to support.

I think it's more likely that the basic math (algebra, geometry, etc) is missing when you look at men who started working in the mines before they finish high school. Without the math foundation, it's not "hard work", but a weak foundation which just causes frustration.

That, and a 58 year old guy learning to code will soon have to compete against a 20-something with far more education + computer + social media experience, especially since coding can be done overseas.
It isn’t like governments haven’t been trying. Certain groups prefer “job creation” over “government programs” and then get angry when their industry collapses.

America has an education problem, and we need more people taking microeconomics in high school.
Apple has 10%-15% return rate in USA
Ok, that's great, but jurisprudence only stands inasmuch as there's no new arguments. Those rulings could be overturned.

Nothing is ever truly settled. Pointlessly respecting jurisprudence without regard for time and society is a recipe for contempt of the law.
Well it does makes sense because this is the ground reality, not all startups make it.
Engineers never get preferred shares no matter how hard we try to think so.

Class shares are a thing to protect investor money not engineer interest.
> PCAs only advantages are speed and interpretability

Um, these seem to be perhaps the 2 most important advantages something could have? What are advantages that UMAP and Ivis have that are more important than speed and interpretability?
My goal is to one day have Schmidhuber angrily claim that my research was done by him in the 90s like what happened to Ian Goodfellow [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5go4sa/n_w...
You would think, but not quite. Blows my mind how many of those same people are living off of or approve of social security just in my own social circles.
A counter argument for blocking e2ee because of sharing CP/Terrorism can be split in two parts:

1) If you have proof that they are sharing it then you simply do a criminal trial base based on that proof. No need to block e2ee because you already have proof.

2) If you do not have proof then you are assuming guilt without proof, and that is the opposite of how our justice system should operate. Innocent until proven guilty. No need to block e2ee, because you have not shown that any concrete person is breaking the law. And if you did show it, then look at point 1)

And thus we have exhausted both possible options, and in both cases there is no need to block e2ee.
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329162

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277278
The opportunity cost is not just the lost wages, it needs to also factor in the _years_ of having less-known or no-name/failed startups on your resume. This absolutely will impact your career opportunities. Having 3 early-career years at Google on your resume has a compounding effect for the rest of your life (sorry, but it’s true). That opportunity cost is way, way higher than the n 5-digit dollar value this article rather blithely assumes.
Yeah, I thought about gifts and paying an older person who doesn't rely on tech (my mother is 60, she takes Venmo). Didn't think about medical billing (I've never written a check for that either; I assume you mean mailed bills, but I just call because that's less effort than either, and doesnt run the risk of the check getting lost in the mail). But either way...more than 7 a month for that stuff? That's nearly two a week, per household. None of those listed items seem like 'monthly' occurrences for most people.
1800 cars/h means a continuous uninterrupted stream of traffic, which is a reasonable assumption for motorways and other grade-separated roads, but less so for an urban road, where you will have frequent other traffic wanting to cross at-grade.
So for urban roads it's typically intersections that are the limiting factor for capacity, not the stretches of road inbetween.
Have Recessions Absolutely, Positively Become Less Painful?
Manage your customers' clipboards with React Hooks
There is this new fangled technology called a switch - or can you not turn American sockets off at the wall.
For some reason changing the analogy from a lottery ticket to a roulette game does not actually make me think it is reasonable to take equity instead of cold hard cash.

Perhaps it was my gambling addicted stepfather who died broke that keeps from seeing the appeal.
Should I accept to have coding test after 6 years experience
I'm applying for a new job in the EU and all the recruiters asked me to do a coding test before even small companies.
some of the tests were super stupid and many recruiters were unprofessional during the test ( some of them didn't accept to write a pseudocode for my solution on a whiteboard he asked to write python code)
wondering if I should train more on interview questions or should I push to keep it a high-level discussion about my previous projects.