skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not both? Why not do a thing that has multiple benefits?

If doing something to my advantage, also has a side effect that is also to my advantage seems like even more of a reason to do that something.
People forget the other purpose of outsourcing which is that it diffuses complaints from other countries that they are buying planes from dupolists and should do something about it because sweden, japan, and other countries that might develop and aircraft industry can point to some part of every Airbus and Boeing made in their country.
Searching for Palindromic Superpermutations
I thought this was about hardware.
IMHO there are alternatives, but none is chaper than the MBP. Dell hardware is crap, too many complaints online. I would like Lenovo P1. More expensive than MBP…
This LED panel controller can be found for $15 on AliExpress:
https://github.com/q3k/chubby75. It has a pretty decent Spartan 6. Your best choice if you want current commercial availability.

The eeColor Color3 can still be bought on Amazon for $20.
https://github.com/tomverbeure/color3. It has a very nice Cyclone IV FPGA and is perfect for HDMI video. It was very popular for a while for bitcoin mining because you could get it for $20... with a $20 rebate! (https://www.amazon.com/Color3-Advanced-Processing-Device-010...)
Although I don't know hardware, I read lots of stuff about developing it to get a better idea. Among the more interesting reads were slides about each process shrink along with challenges they brought. Especially from beginning of Deep Sub-Micron toward 28nm.

The impression I got, esp by 28nm, is the hardware is inherently broken in quite a few ways. They have to correct the masks with algorithms, they do image recognition on circuits to spot patterns that act up, extra latches, variance across the chip/wafer, aging effects... list goes on. Miracle they even work at all.

These things are also why I only trust old nodes for security. Sort of.
Huge fan of Go Mono. I was taken aback at first at the idea of a monospace serifed font, but after trying it out I've come around to appreciate the clarity of it.
But that can be hidden in a tracking pixel.
This article puts a heavy emphasis on overcoming the jet lag from NY to Sydney, but you get the exact same time difference flying from anywhere in Europe to the west coast of the U.S. and people do that regularly. In fact, I just did it last week. It's no big deal, at least not in terms of time zone adjustment. Personally, I find it much harder to go the other way, from CA to Europe. My body parses that as a 15 hour difference and it typically takes me a full week before I'm not waking up in the middle of the night any more.

Also, being on the plane for 20 hours is not so different from the 18 hours it takes to fly from SF to Singapore, which also happens every day. This all seems much ado about nothing.
>Non-universal welfare wastes a lot of resources

It seems like you're saying that UBI is more efficient we don't need spend resources on targeting it. I 100% agree for the general case of wealth transfer. I think it's very weak for addressing specific job losses.

So, let's say we have 100 people and 10 of them lost their jobs to automation but we don't know which. One option is the "Yang plan" of $12 a year ($1 a month), so we have a budget of $1200[0]. That spends $1200 giving $120 of assistance to the people we want to help. This plan is 10% efficient if the point is to help those who have lost their jobs. In fact, with a budget of $1200, we can spend up to $108 per person identifying if they lost their job due to automation and have the same efficiency (10%). That is a really high ceiling on the cost of conflict.

I'm very skeptical that in any real world situation the cost of identifying worthy recipients is greater than the "loss" of giving everyone else money. Again, only if the goal is helping workers who lost their jobs. Hell, even if you're wrong 50% of the time and give 15 people $12, you would need your method of identification to cost $60 (5x the benefit) for it to be 10% efficient!

Again, I favor UBI and I favor transforming society to function differently, but that's not helping workers who lost jobs.

[0] These are ofc not the real numbers Yang is suggesting
I thought this was about hardware.

IMHO there are alternatives, but none is chaper than the MBP. Dell hardware is crap, too many complaints online. I would like Lenovo P1. More expensive than MBP…
IKEA Server Cabinet (Not Lackrack)
For White Teachers Teaching White Boys in the Suburbs
As Andrew Yang Rises, Silicon Valley Questions Universal Basic Income
My MBP2015 averages 8 hours of battery still. They’re incredible.
Google explains why it doesn't support 4K video recording at 60fps on Pixels
An update on Figma’s plugin security – re: Realms Shim
In Marxist/Leninist regimes this is commonly solved through mass murder. See Red Terror, Cultural Revoluion, Pol Pot, etc. Eventually you murder enough people to suppress dissent, at least for a few decades, until you run out of money, and ideological fervor gets thoroughly undermined by the relative success of your capitalist neighbors.

Source: grew up in the USSR.
Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298796
Correct me if I'm wrong but... Instagram & Twitter were both unprofitable for a REALLY long time.

Instagram got bought by Facebook and eventually became an ad network.

Twitter eventually, after nearly a decade of not making a profit, made a profit.
And global warming is a scam as well right? Weather seems fine to me.
Humans are not that different from animals but surprisingly show mixed behaviours, unlike other animal species. Are we even one species and not many subspecies pretending to be one?

A cooperator engages prey both when it is alone or with a companion. Most common behaviour of extroverts.

A cheater only engages when it is the first to find prey, but lets another individual make the kill if it arrives second. The author of the article in this case. Plenty of extrovert cheaters too pretend to read books by citing cliff notes. Ambiverts I suppose.

A scavenger and a solitary hunter never hunts and waits for another individual to make a kill. A solitary avoids others and always hunts alone. Dangerous l33t hackers on the loose.

Taken from https://doi.org/10.1086/284844
Similar here.
Elsewhere in this thread, someone posted this rebuttal to the article, which I think is much more nuanced and well thought through. It also emphasizes the value of relationships and kindness in a way the original article does not: https://yosefk.com/blog/do-call-yourself-a-programmer-and-ot...

I wound up subscribing to that blog’s RSS feed, because the articles, though infrequent, seem to be generally interesting and thoughtful.

Edit: I also completely agree with you re: TFA.
Macbook Pro is still my primary laptop, but for the last year or so I've also been carrying and using a Pixelbook. Except for the smaller screen, it's almost evolved to the point that I'd be comfortable with it as a primary laptop.

The recent addition of Linux support is very nice and I'm looking forward to its continuing evolution: https://support.google.com/pixelbook/answer/9031351?hl=en

Perhaps the new Pixelbook Go will tilt the scales for me: https://store.google.com/product/pixelbook_go
The question is why? Why are some government entities better at managing large infrastructure projects than other?
The headline is written as if this is the fault of the engineers :/
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how provocative or annoying such things are. You may not owe rent-seeking billionaires better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe for small stage startups or deliberately tiny, private ventures. Otherwise, yeah, might as well just apply via the normal channels since the employees will forward your request to HR/hiring anyway.

OP's advice is wishful thinking. I highly doubt they themselves took that approach
Thomas Picketty did great research in this area. The way I understood part of his theory is that the rate at which the value of wealth increases is faster then the rate at which wages increase. In other words, those people who own things like land and factories see the value of those things increase faster than workers see their wages increase.
Or a function of your position in the hierarchy of things. Tell a programmer in a subcontracting company to create business value when the main contractor's architects & sales team have -- without your input -- already decided exactly what feature must be implemented..
> Tl;dr: Customization is highly overrated.

False. Adding 16GB or 32GB RAM makes real difference to any machine. But it's not profitable for Apple, they want you to buy new one.
Nice of you to think facts only exist at the corporate level
I read the OP's comment as saying that with good clothing little shelter is required. I think that this may be true of young, fit men, but homeless people are probably not that, so they need good shelter.
I don’t think there’s fundamentally anything wrong with slack though. Investors just don’t understand it, I don’t think. I’ve read so many articles about how Microsoft is going to crush it with teams and it’s so obvious to anyone who has had to work with both of them that they simply are not competitors — really the only thing close to it is Discord and it’s not going after the enterprise market.
What about the last microsoft surface? I find microsoft products more and more attractive.

One of the big problem is airdrop + other macos only tools like keynote. Its hard to quit those.
What if you have the middle seat in the last row next to the toilets that doesn't recline?
Imgur is struggling and gasping for a business model. They do serve a useful purpose, but there's no possible way for them to make money without wrapping images and trying to engage users to stay longer (and eventually get served with an ad).
> There is, however, a simple formula for checking if what you’re doing is sustainable: how long does it take on a vacation or weekend until you stop feeling anxious, and how anxious do you start feeling when you think about returning to work on Monday? If work anxiety is a constant companion, then change your situation even if it feels like a step back in the short-term: your success depends on sustained impact, not spikes.

Amen!
Good question, Although the numbers are almost arbitrary there are a couple of reasons:

-- when looking at logs, database dumps or large forigen text files in general, it is often convenient for me to set the font to a smaller size in order to get better context from surrounding text and for this purpose, I need the font to be able to facilitate my workflow regardless of size and resolution of my current display.

-- Although I no longer use mini map like features of text editors (in part due to the novelty wearing off and in part due to my move away from VS Code as my primary IDE/Editor to Neovim), such fonts make the mini map almost readable on large high resolution displays (which again, provides better context for the code I am editing).

-- It is a handy measure of readability. If the font is readable at that size then it has good geometry and can be used on most low resolution displays (it is a range I came up with after experimenting with a 768p 15.6" laptop display) as previously mentioned sometimes it is handy to be able to lower the size in order to get a better view of the context.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190416075550/http://www.ghat-a...
I agree... I've had some bad batteries via 3rd parties. That's why I posted the link as I've been using it for six months with no issue and about 85% capacity of the original (at a fraction of the OEM price)
If they aren't considering human lives in the process, that may be the real problem.
Was the 591mL bottle a single portion? That seems huge... The half liter is already a bit too much for me.
A more results-based analysis is that technology makes companies more productive, which leads to greater profits. What you described sounds inexperienced and naive, not matching historical results without collective bargaining.

The people were just biological machines with mutually exclusive temporarily aligned self-interests.
Don’t let the providing doctor triage.

They should be providing care anyways.

Nurses triage.
Curious as to what you identified as a good point? I didn’t really see any to be honest
I switched from a MBP 2017 model with touch bar to a Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6 gen). I installed Ubuntu Linux and I'm happy. I do all my work on this laptop. But I've spent quite a lot of time getting the hardware to play nicely, upgrading bios + a lot of Linux config tweaking.
The fact that taiwan is much poorer also means that the labor cost for construction is much lower
If anything the sheer amount of soda pop people drink is concerning. The plastic waste is due to the chosen diets of consumers.

When I was a kid in late 70s early 80s my family of four shared one 750ml bottle of pop (and one bag of chips) on Friday night. Now a 600ml is a single serving of pop and many people drink pop with every meal.
Regardless, Amazon picks the suppliers, owns the information channel, and both informs and transacts with the consumer. It operates on a greater scale than many national economies, falling at about 38th on a current listing based on 2018 revenues. Amazon is the market.

Hayek's basic premise was that national-scale central management was impossible. Amazon and other megacorps put paid to this.
Former CEO James McNerney used to fly in the BBJ all the time. Sometimes he was the only passenger.
>> The 2016+'s seem incredibly soft.

I had a 2016 13" Pro fall off the arm of a couch, in a zippered soft case, and then rivet that attaches the handle to the soft case impacted the side of the laptop near the ports on the side, it looked like a rat gnawed on it.

That's what I get for using the same (otherwise great) STM case since my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
I actively avoid clicking imgur wherever I can because I know it fails to load half the time.

I hope the people who still stick around on imgur for the community are enjoying the web application because it's clear people who just want to see an image after following a link aren't considered as their audience anymore.
I was once interviewing for a job as a senior engineer/lead role. The CTO - my eventual manager - was asking me a lot of high level technical questions even though he was a very competent developer.

Then, another developer who had been there for a decade asked me how I would go about writing “address validation routines” - It was a real world problem he was facing. I told him that I wouldn’t. That’s not the vertical the business was in. The best code is the code that you don’t have to write. Address validation software is a solved problem and there are plenty of third party CASS solutions and yes they cost money but being able to write address validation software is not the company’s competitive advantage or its differentiator in the market. It’s better to outsource it. That’s one less thing we would have to maintain and debug.

The developer wasn’t impressed. The CTO was.

I’ve spent my entire career asking questions and making sure we were building the right things.

My first job out of college over 20 years ago I was the sole developer on a project to write a data entry system that was used by a new department with a dozen new employees. I had to actually talk to our potential client to gather specs myself.
human biology adapts to the environment and forms the basic primitive culture. technology for over 10,000 years rapidly mixed cultures and to a lesser extent biologies forming: languages, empires, religions, and ages. the technological process is far more efficient at shaping our cognition than the slower evolutionary one which works through intergenerational selection events. this is a cumulative runaway event which makes sense- given that human intellect is probably a bad mutation for long term fitness and survival, as humans wiped out all of the other humanlike species (and dangerous megafauna) which might have kept us in some ecological niche like the other animals. all living things head towards extinction, but our strategy is to burn up rather than fade away.
It was valued at $7 billion or so early last year. so at today’s price, it still went up over 50% since then. so one could argue it is still overvalued.

just because some greater fool declared it was worth $40 at some point doesn’t mean it’s now a bargain if it goes down to $20.
Lighten up, Francis. Or at least make a similarly defensive and contorted argument on behalf of all the child travelers and seat kickers.
Genuine question: do any of the US state governments serve as a better model?
That's BS about being capable of navigating Interstate highways autonomously.

Whoever does the research needs go actually go along an Over The Road truck driver and actually see what challenges technology face.

Different highways with crumpling road markers.
Severe weather.
Unpredictable human drivers.
Fueling.
Construction sites and their differences between displaying markers.

I do not see autonomous technology taking over long haul truckers anytime soon, especially if the state and federal government doesn't maintain the highways and keeps cutting budget.

The few scenarios where the present technology can handle is a local route that has greatly maintained roads and stable weather. Even in this case, it's foolish to think human drivers will not be as careless as before. In fact, I predict they will think its so safe that they will cut the truck off ever closer, thus creating more disasters.

Source: I'm a trucker and know the challenges computer vision and its sensors could possibly face.
Quite honestly, and entirely coincidentally, I recently saw un boxings and first hands-on videos with the Google Pixelbook Go, and I couldn’t help but think “the i7 version with the UHD display would be fantastic as a Linux laptop”.
Making productivity easier decreases the value of that productivity. Their wealth & pay may increase, but not as a 1:1 ratio to productivity.

Were that not the case, there would be no incentive for customers to select the new service.
It's not just California, it's every state and every city in the US. People have an aversion to public works projects often crying about taxes or how the service is useless or not good enough. We have a political system where one major party (out of two) decries any public spending that might help people who aren't millionaires/billionaires/corporations.

Is it any wonder when you have evil groups of people spending hundreds of millions of dollars to tell people that they should vote against their interests?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
Ask HN: Suggestions for building Real-Time web app?
A while ago I built a web app using Vue.js and Firebase's realtime DB. I'm looking to replace Firebase with something that can offer more flexibility and allow me to scale without running up a high bill. There seems to be an overwhelming number of ways of doing this (REST over websockets, GraphQL, Feathers.js, Meteor, etc) so just wondering what stacks people have used successfully for this kind of thing?
It still works for taking over highly fragmented industries. And always will.
You can't do binge-watching with cable. This is the fundamental difference here.

You can subscribe to one service, binge all you want, change to another, and so on.
> This is about investors finally wising up

Well, this generation of investors, at least. ;) We had much the same thing happening 20 years ago, and I have no doubt that we will again.
Check some second-hand online stores like abebooks (mostly ships from US so it's way too expensive) or from biblio which has more accessible shipping rates [1]

Salutari din Romania!

https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=structure+an...
> how much money will that specifically require?

A general rule of many in the "financial independence" is 20x annual expenses saved for a sustained life without work.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

You sound like a burgeoning F.I.R.E'r. Join us!
I'd say in the US at least it's hard for a politician to devote money toward a multi-year program that their constituents won't see the benefit of for quite some time (or in the case of upkeep and maintenance, at all).

The politician isn't looking to do what's right, they're looking to get reelected.
it looks like an intense fire right at the door.
the security gate has actually burned and melted.
the room beyond the door seems to be uncharred.

Can anyone translate the slogans tagged on the wall?
I'm an introvert and this writer (though well-intentioned) completely misunderstands what introversion _is_.

A sample of his misleading analysis:

>, this framework rests on the unspoken assumption that introverts and extroverts remain constant in their identities. [...] What if that weren’t true? What if we could deliberately act more one way other the other?

>That is: am I promoting extraversion simply because I’m an extravert? The answer is: I am a little bit of both. [...] I think we’re all a bit of both.

No, introversion is not how one voluntarily acts in solitude for a little while and if that same person is later eating lunch with friends, he does not become an extrovert.

And no, you can't be "a little bit of both".

The way I like to explain introversion vs extroversion is it's an underlying personality trait that doesn't change such as being left-handed or right-handed. When we say we're "right-handed", that "right-handedness" trait doesn't go away just because we play the low bass notes on the piano with the left hand, or flick the turn signal levers of the car steering with our left hand. Just because right-handed people use their left hands some of the time for many tasks doesn't mean they are a "little bit of both". Our category of "left-handed" vs "right-handed" is specifically labeling the underlying tendency of which limb is favored and not about the cherry-picked tasks that use the opposite limb.

I've been to hundreds of parties and yes I do hang out with friends from time to time. I'm still an introvert. I'm not a little bit of both. The author's article does more harm than good in understanding what true introversion actually is.
Yeah, but the jobs never come back after those drops. (It's almost entirely a one-way trend over the last 19 years...)

There's a big three-year drop that starts in 2001. Then it goes from that steep drop to a slowly-declining drop -- before that next massive "2008" drop (which lasts through December of 2009).

So it seems plausible that the loss of jobs was caused by specific events. (Whereas if it were the creep of automation, it seems like it'd be happening more gradually, factory by factory....)

I guess you can argue that the economic hardship of a bust forced companies into sudden and widespread cost-cutting measures like replacing humans with robots. But another study cited in the article argues against that theory. (The article acknowledges that automation has taken some jobs, but that it's a much smaller fraction, and that latching onto that as the single explanation makes us miss the other factors -- as well as possible solutions.)
Yang is totally wrong about automation. The main cause of the shift of manufacturing from US to China is trade policy and China’s monetary policy.

If automation was the problem, then US would be price competitive on goods with China. Somehow US automation is only good enough to eliminate jobs in the US, but not good enough to compete with cheap labor in China.
I don’t know Ruby. But I can tell you the difference between having the rails of the compiler and type safe language and having those rails taken away in a language like Javascript and Python caused a lot of heartache early on.
Lenovo X1 Carbon, long battery time, nice resolution.. And one of the nicest keyboards i've used.