skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this hinges on the premise that employers are receptive to older retrained workers.

This shouldn't matter in a liquid, competitive economy. If employers are not receptive to competent older retrained workers, they'll bid up wages for young workers and hold down workers for old workers. This opens up a market opportunity for some of those older workers to take the opposite side of the trade, start companies in new growth sector, and hire mostly older workers at lower prices, thus outcompeting their younger competitors.

In the short term it rarely works like this because VCs and other primary capital firms are just as susceptible to bias as hiring managers. In the long term it very frequently works like this, which is why you have firms like Whatsapp getting bought out for $19B while all the recent college grads that entered the social networking fray in 07-08 (myself included) got flushed out and took jobs in big tech.
It is generally thought of as immoral to rend one person in order to help one other.

Not when it comes to buying things, which is what this situation is.

Blue collar workers in the US (or other developed nations) don't have a moral demand on you to purchase their labor at the same rate forever. If someone across the street (or across an ocean) is selling the same product for less money it's perfectly fine to buy it from them instead.

Do you think it's immoral when you, say, switch from Verizon to AT&T to get a cheaper rate on your cell phone plan?
My company sold for $100M and I got zilch – how can that be?
One thing I notice about Trade now is the perverse power we've given to groups which fundamentally don't have other countries or individuals interests in minds.

One thing I notice is that left wingers are essentially universally aghast over what's happening to Hong Kong. They will hold to the idea that a trade war with China is the stupidest thing ever that causes economic damage to yourself and incurs great risk. Which is true. However you can't have it both ways and you have to choose between economic vitality and essentially having no say in a situation like Hong Kong.

I've seen countries hunger for trade being used as a lever for international legal reform. A condition of signing trade deals with the united states where countries essentially have to agree to give multinational corporations more government enforced rights or not have free trade. Specifically "intellectual property harmonization". If you want to have trade with the united states you appearantly need to agree that for every idea a corporation comes up with, they have an exclusive right to using that idea for more and more years, and consequently governments need to agree to punish people for not giving corporations money for those ideas for longer and longer periods of time. This is effectively a system that redistributes wealth towards corporate interests in an era of striking wealth inequality, on the reasonable sounding grounds they need that money to "develop new medications", but then it's ignoring the reality on the ground of poor health spreading like a contagion due to economic inequality. As the average person is unable to afford things like medications more and more... the economic vitality of all society... including the very companies who lobbied for these laws will suffer. Yet there's no effective way to push back against these laws without giving up free trade and shooting yourself in the foot economically.

I think at some point we're going to start realizing how many costs free trade have that haven't really been accounted for. It's very easy to portray it as a positive if you don't account for all the externalities.
I think that's part of the promise of self-driving cars -- they'll ostensibly be safer, so can drive closer together, and can cooperate at intersections to increase throughput, no one needs to stop, just adjust speed to allow a gap.

Though based on my car's adaptive cruise control ability, we've got a long way to go before we can have cars that drive within a few feet of each other at highway speeds, and even longer before we could have intersections without signals (or stops).
I live and work in downtown Austin. I frequently walk (about a mile each way) to/from my office, so I spend a lot of time interacting with and observing traffic patterns in a very automobile-congested area. One of the biggest issues I've witnessed is how frequently drivers will proceed into an intersection even though there isn't enough space ahead of them to clear the intersection. Then, the signal changes, and they are left blocking one or more travel lanes perpendicular to their vehicle, thereby spoiling the precious open road for the unfortunate motorists who are left to deal with their selfishness or inattentiveness.

I see this happen almost daily, so I can only imagine how often it actually occurs when I'm not around to witness it. I wonder how much this slows the whole system down just so that a few folks can hopefully get where they're going one traffic light-cycle sooner. I'd be mortified to be sitting in one of these cars getting honked and glared at for my complete and utter lack of consideration towards others, but I guess selfishness is a powerful enough force to keep people driving like assholes regardless.
why would the court do that? Clearly many people in the UK think the us is lead by a stupid idiot. They are no one's pawn, at least in general.
> so the only 'choice' consumers have

its not the only choice in USA atleast. ethically made products cost more.
Excerpt:

"Blender’s development fund currently brings in about 1,200,000 euros a year, which funds 20 full-time developers. That’s not the only source of funding. Blender has about 172 developers in the past year, and 550 over its entire existence, and 64 in the past month, same as LibreOffice. Looking at the last number, it means that there are anyway more volunteer committers in the Blender community than paid developers. Funded development hasn’t eaten the community.

Let’s hazard a guess: Blender has four times the installed base of AutoDesk Maya. This is pretty rough, of course, so ingest with salt.

My thoughts:

These are important non-software aspects of Blender which are critical for acceptance by new users, which is critical to maintain a healthy user base, which should in turn yield a well-community-supported codebase...

In other words, this makes Blender a safe choice in corporate environments where a choice may exist between it and commercial offerings, such as Autodesk's Maya...
Are you trying to say all states use coercion, or actually trying to draw parallels between Chinese and US government's methodology for suppressing dissent? Because if it's the latter, they are not comparable. You wouldn't even hear of a Chinese soldier who did what Manning did, regardless of motivations and how wrong the military's exposed actions were. Neither would his family hear about him, ever again. People have been executed in China for far less, sometimes simply for losing a high-stakes political game.

The larger point I was trying to make is that having the rule of law usually moderates the severity of repression, sure, but it's not just a difference in degree. It's a difference in kind - it prevents arbitrary oppression. You can fault the US for suppressing whistle-blowers/leakers, but you cannot tell me those whistle-blowers/leakers simply stumbled into their actions without knowing they'll get in trouble. They knew the game, and knowingly broke its rules. Are there rules in China? Maybe, until there aren't. Ask the two Canadians being held in isolation without even the right to a book, just because their files turned up at the wrong bureaucrats desk and became needed to send a message to the Canadian government.

This is also why I won't set foot in the PRC if I can help it. I don't want to be used as a message to my government, no matter how unlikely it is for an insignificant pawn like me to get caught up in something like that. I'll limit my travel to places where I can read up on rules beforehand, and those rules are actually followed.
Electricity is not a source of energy, you need to burn something else to generate it. Solar, wind and hydro only takes us so far. Batteries can not compete with the energy density of dead trees, it's actually two orders of magnitude off.
Elon Musk on use of acronyms at Space X (2010)
Awesome examples! Thank you!
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353569 and marked it off-topic.
Unreliable junk like lie detectors are used on purpose. Random reinforcement simply ups the fear the peasants have of the system. Which is the intended result; who cares if a few innocent people get chopped up in the process.
I use that from time to time. Some applications and some desktop environments on Linux do that. It's horrible, might as well not have a visible scroll bar at all. I'm fine if they're a little more narrow than the traditional Windows 95 ones, and the color can certainly be improved (maybe translucent Windows task bar / color-adapting Android notification bar), but expanding or hidden scroll bars are both super annoying on desktops.

On mobile I'm fine with hidden ones. Since attempting to scroll down never has an unintended action (I'm sure someone on the Internet can name an exception, but I can't name a single one so it's not the common case) I always just try to scroll and notice when it doesn't go further.

Maybe for desktop, it might be solved by having a free spinning scroll wheel. Then you can flick like on mobile and nearly never need to actually drag the scroll bar. In the rare case that you do, you can still grab the one that appears on demand (like in many mobile apps), and by appearing on demand you have a visual indicator of how much more there is. (The home/end buttons also go a long way, but one doesn't always want to scroll to the end or use the keyboard.) But until we universally have such mice...
It is different... I don't have to switch to DVORAK to program in Latin script based programming languages it's a choice. I would have to switch to an Arabic layout to program in قلب.
I'm sorry but you are just wrong.

We can't go on our individual experience, the only way to understand women's perspective is to listen to what they're saying and how they're treated. The past few years has made it pretty clear (although there were certainly reports even before then) that women have faced, and continue to face abuse and discrimination to a degree that men don't.

What you're saying sounds to me like the "All lives matter!" response to the "Black lives matter" movement.
Optimising for "engagement". I don't think, at least to start with, that Machiavellian intentions were behind it. But it turned out that optimising for the thing that got the most likes, the most retweets, the most emotional reactions, and the most views from people was a shit way of deciding what information should propagate the furthest.

That is a paperclip maximiser. I don't think we, collectively, have fully come to terms with how damaging it is.
Looks like fungi, moves like animal. Paris Zoo unveils the Blob
> The reason why scrollbars are not a first class UI widget in mobile UIs is because they are finger based, which means every manipulable widget needs to be finger sized

And yet, several mobile apps I use routinely have found a way to make it work reasonably well. They use a slim line of a scrollbar to indicate where you are, and if you touch the scrollbar then a larger finger-friendly handle appears which can be used like a traditional scrollbar.

But I'm much more forgiving of UI compromises that are forced by the limitations of mobile devices. It's when those same compromises are used on the desktop that I have a problem -- that's just degrading the UX for no good reason.
> Currently, the lie detector test is voluntary

Who the hell opts in to that?

> A spokesperson for iBorderCtrl declined to answer questions for this story.

Oh, they don't have anything to hide, do they?

Before scrolling down I knew the UK would be involved somehow. They must do anything except admit that their continous meddling (to put it mildly) in the middle east incites retaliation.
For the academically inclined, I suggest looking into the field of disequilibrium economics, which asks and tries to model what occurs when markets are not in their magical ‘equilibrium’ (where supply & demand cross at the magical market-clearing price p*), and the dynamics by which (if possible) the market in question goes from being out-of-whack to in equilibrium. As for most topics in any subject nowadays, the Wikipedia has a page that serves as a very good jump-off point to delve into the heady and rarefied heights of this obscure sub-discipline: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disequilibrium_macroeconomic...
Maybe you know this already, but Firefox has shortcuts for both of those. History is Ctrl+H and bookmarks is Ctrl+B. Ctrl+Shift+H and Ctrl+Shift+B to get them in a separate window.
I don't understand your point. Shouldn't designers design the interfaces for all devices and screen sizes? If a designer fails to account for the specific sizes of an actually supported device then it is the designer's fault; perhaps just an oversight but nevertheless a fault. If the designer thinks it is fine to only design for iPhone X and above and let older devices suffer from inattention, it is most definitely the designer's fault that has made technology inaccessible to users that might not be affluent enough to afford newer devices.
Reminder that Bill Nye also brought you this gem:

https://youtu.be/VtJFb_P2j48

Enjoy!
Applied Science has a great video (as all of his videos are) on supercritical CO2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gCTKteN5Y4
I wonder how much bad spam marking happens maliciously. Sign up lots of accounts to your competitor's mailing lists, mark everything they send as spam so that hopefully their email will not make it to their customers giving you more of a chance.
Bitcoin trading volume on Binance Futures eclipses $1B for the first time
The entire page fails to render if the Strip third-party dependency is blocked. Does the function of the game itself really rely on Stripe that deeply?
I can't see the hamburger menu.

But here is the upper part of what I can see: https://imgur.com/eRFnDo6

Isn't is beautiful? How the image layer is put over half of the text line?

Oh, and the right part (white background) only appears after a couple of seconds. At first it shows the continuation of the blue background scree, with 2 'menu' items: "Se connecter" (log in) and "S'inscrire" (sign in). So if you try to click on "sign in", by the time your click is registered, it ends up on the white background item which appears at the same place: "Télécharger" (download).

Wonderful.
Scrollbars as a passive visual indicator are still extremely useful though.
Working as designed: a smokescreen for arbitrary interrogation and denial of groups that border agents don't like. Everybody else that fails the test gets the benefit of the doubt. 75% accuracy is exactly useless, and I find it hard to believe it beats random chance anyway. More racism packed into black box quackery.
Agreed. I loved React and now only like it. The app I work on at work is an absolute monstrosity with render props and context. You can say oh don’t use if you don’t like it! But in the real world you are forced to use others code.
I'm guessing you want me to say Google. But I'd actually use Amazon. Or even just walking into a good book store and reading a few! What have you got to lose?
I also live and work in downtown Austin, and see this all the time too. It's... less than ideal, for sure. At least when people block the pedestrian crossing, (which is also something I encounter daily) it just makes it awkward, rather than gumming up traffic too.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein speaks about this. Rebels on the moon list it as a demand from the Earthside governments to build a mass driver to lower costs of shipping and make moonside life more equitable.

They even list a couple of ideal locations including I believe Kenya.
It's possible but all the tools, the author of the language notes, have a 50 year head start in English with English language assumptions baked in, e.g. reading left to right vs right to left. What Qlb shows me is how hardcoded ASCII is in hardware and software.
Recently I installed specific parts of MSVC, since I'm using SFML and for now they only deliver binaries for 2017. After all I might not have needed to use 2017 or a particular SDK, since there seem to be ABI compatibility now, but I discovered that too late.

So I used this vs intaller, and I discovered that the vs dev prompt did not set appropriate folder to use cl.exe and lib.exe because it might only do it for the latest SDK or toolset thing. I still managed to do what I wanted, but this is another one of those details.

I still enjoy using C++ though, but it seems way better than the old days, I think... Although I have to admit MSVC sometimes crash and restart on machines that don't have enough RAM (6GB). I wonder how Clion compares to MSVC... I hope clion will be cheaper in the future.
Yeah, but the stock didn't go up from when he started to when he finished, which is evidence that the growth that happened during his tenure was all anticipated before he began. Good decisions can reap benefits years in the future, bad ones can take a decade to come to roost. You can say that Apple sales grew during John Scully's tenure. But it is kind of obvious that the company was exploiting a prior period of innovation while failing to innovate (Newton, Pink etc.).

He inherited a company that was incredibly powerful and that power only diminished during his tenure.
TPU is old news. I think what would the actual news will be a Chip that is customized/optimized to just run BERT.

The Transformer architecture itself stays mostly unchanged in the 2 years after it has been proposed, and with BERT/variants, most (competitive) NLP models are now Transformer based, it makes sense to make custom chips to just run Transformers, the same as CNNs.
You adjust the system, however obfuscated and difficult it seems, so that they work to better themselves instead of for you. Because at the very bottom layer, that's what's happening.
Please don't use HN for ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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Thank you. It was a pain trying to piece that together from the transcript.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That just makes the thread even worse.

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Please don't use HN for nationalistic or ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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> (for example é，ü, or €, which I ironically had to switch to a CJK Input method to type) making your "~70%" closer to whatever the population of native English speakers is.

True, you got me, I should have said just ASCII. For the most part though languages use the ASCII set + additional characters rather than replacing or removing characters entirely. so it's still 70%-ish not just English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress

Mike, the protagonist of this book, runs the catapult on the moon, among other duties.
The BBC has officially started to publish on Darknet
I managed to train most of them to run into the walls. Just gotta make sure the ones that do are the last to die.
The other problem in the Bay Area is that cars don't know how to merge and no one wants to let another driver in front of them.

Packs of 5 or more cars driving close to each other will try to merge in to the freeway with cars on the freeway, who also have little space between them. So eventually everyone needs to brake and it slows everyone else down.

And turn signals are seen as a sign of weakness -- cars will actually speed up to close a gap when you signal.
I think this article implies we operate like an ant colony with a single goal. I may be mistaken but we humans dont't have a single goal so our priorities are different.
Please do not use HN for nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what is for.

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It's a MacOS system-wide setting.
For some reason I've always found programming language keywords translated to my native language extremely cringeworthy. I wonder if native English speakers get the same experience for mainstream programming languages or it is just a consequence of novelty.
> about 1,200,000 euros a year, which funds 20 full-time developers

Wow not paying them a lot are they.
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
Agreed.

As jwz has noted, UI is different, in that changes to it provide relatively little payback:

[I]n the case of all other software, I believe strongly in "release early, release often". Hell, I damned near invented it. But I think history has proven that UI is different than software.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120511115213/https://www.jwz.o...

(HN-safe archive link.)

The bulk of present UI/UX metaphors can be traced directly to the Mother of All Demos, now over fifty years old:

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

That said: from MoAD onward, the use-case has been of a desktop (or very-desktop-like laptop) system, with keyboard, pointer (mouse, tablet, light pen, etc.), used at something vaguely resembling a desk or table.

It's not even the screen size of mobile devices in raw resolution that's so different -- early GUI computers had as little as 640x480 (VGA) resolution or less. The original iPad was 1024x768.

But no keyboard, and finger-on-glass manipulation, call for a very different set of control and design considerations. A mouse pointer can have pixel-accuracy control. Fingers cover a probabalistic smear of screen space tens of pixels across and hide the screen elements they're affecting at the same time.

(And that's before you introduce such joys as screens repainting and repositioning as / before you complete a touch action.)

The real question is how to achieve concensus for new design and to void bad entrenched patterns across a highly fragmented design industry. Ranty flipping blog posts are one possible solution....
It’s much more expensive and not the same thing at all. That’s totally fine since Sococo is doing their own thing. Focusmate is entirely different though
Ask HN: What are your favorite white papers?
Even if you run 24x7x365 “direct connect,” your data is still hostage to an egress tax of $20/TB.

Just say No.

We need new Nancy Reagan —Nancy Cloud. To teach the millennials how to actually build things before it’s too late
These things are so fundamental that you don't see economists writing articles about them. Macroeconomics generally lumps those things under "productivity".

Container ships were almost the poster child of globalization.

Faxes (and telex, etc) had been around for decades. We have the alphabet we use today because international Phonecian traders (phonetics, see?) used it for exactly the type of documents you're talking about.