skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I look at Coca-Cola's jobs page, I see a bunch of jobs that actually do have to exist. A short list, quoting from their page:

- Production operator: filling boxes, washing tanks, hook up and unload raw material delivery tankers

- Maintenance Technician: Overhaul and install new equipment, maintenance on equipment.

- CPS ID Laboratory Chemist: Ensure all raw and packaging materials and finished product comply with Company technical specifications including process water, ensure ingredients have all pertinent documentation before their final release.

Meanwhile, you look at Uber's jobs page and you see this (descriptions are quoting from their page)

- Business Development: We strengthen Uber’s position as the world’s leading mobility platform through creative and mutually beneficial commercial partnerships that unlock outsized value today and for many years to come.

- Data Science & Analytics: We transform data into magical experiences.

- Product: We create the vision for the future of urban mobility: deeply understanding our customers to solve their transportation needs with innovative technology.

Sure, Coca-Cola probably has some fat that can be trimmed. But at the end of the day you can't fire the guy testing if the coke water is poisonous, you can't do without someone to load boxes, you can't do without the mechanic. Uber, however, can clearly use substantially fewer people creating "creative partnerships" or "transforming magical experiences" or "creating the future of urban mobility".

Uber has around 30,000 employees to run a ridesharing business. (Didi, which does twice as many rides per day, has 10k.)

Coca-Cola produces 110 billion bottles and 3,900 different beverages around the world. They own their anchor bottler in North America and they produce syrup for pretty much every country in the world! They're so big they used to own Columbia Pictures.

I think Coca-Cola is a pretty bad example.
F# is Microsoft's invented here version of Java
HN is for "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

The discussions around political content, when they are reasonable and civil, can be quite interesting.
> What's your suggestion for what society should do with oil workers?

Not displace them in the first place by cutting off the supply of conflict oil, raising tariffs so the domestic labor can get paid a fair wage instead of all the profits going to billionaires and hedge funds?
at its most benign embrace/extend can just mean that your product supports the standards people expect and need, and there's also some differentiating aspect in which it's better than the other options (otherwise why does it exist?)

It can be a bit fuzzy defining precisely where that benign sense stops and the negative sense where the "differentiation" brings harmful lockin begins. Then if you have a monopoly position the "extinguish" bit can come in. But actually AFAICT Microsoft rarely (never?) actually succeeded in extinguishing any of the open standards they were infamous for attacking - their successes happened earlier against proprietary competitors like Lotus 1/2/3 and Novell Netware
Here is a different link symbol: on Apple: 􀉣 􀒠 􀒡 􀉤
A Caution Against Microservices
It's exciting to see "Lead Carbon" batteries become common, for example as a lower cost (than switching to Lithium) upgrade to deep cycle marine lead acid batteries for people who live on their boat. It will be interesting to see how well they hold up in practice.

https://www.solar-wind.co.uk/off-grid-power-blog/post/lead-c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOlnKXX5Yg
Icymi, Stripe CEO Patrick Collision's response to the original thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937303
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2020-03-30-lsat/

finally, a sane solution for micropayments for content.

you can see a sort of proof of concept (pre-lsat, but using lightning) on yalls.org and a few other similar toe in the water type sites.

but I think if LSAT gets traction it has the potential to turn the content industry upside down.

it is still very very early days.
My state does something like that. You do an associates at the state community college system in a field geared towards your planned university major and as long as you get good grades, you get guaranteed admission to a state 4 year school. It helps the student by reducing cost and helps the 4 year schools by reducing the number of incoming freshmen.
Author of https://inlets.dev here, inlets is open-source (client and server) and can be self-hosted along with link encryption with TLS. We use web sockets which can penetrate almost any firewall/NAT situation. It's also important to note the Kubernetes and cloud integration for provisioning your own exit hosts. Take a look. TCP support in PRO edition with personal license available.
Oh wow! Thank You!
no need for lobbying, apparently:

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-o...
Sure, but imagine a scenario when I use transfer learning. I download a pretrained model from OpenAI, make some tweaks, maybe train it on my own music, and have a michael jackson level triller hit?
My Raspberry Pi 4 could be an entirely usable desktop replacement for casual usage if the GPU was a bit better.

My gf already uses her Samsung S8 as primary "computer". Only for a few things does she reach for her laptop, and that's mostly due to the screen and webpages not being mobile friendly.
Generally speaking, I agree... but does it really apply here?

Wouldn't I be taking a risk in not taking a risk, thus decreasing the likelihood of success... which should then increase the likelihood of success?

I only say this for the sake of argument and I think there's something wrong with this logic, but for the life of me I can't find it.
> Essentially, EY expects public blockchains to do for B2B what ERP software did for internal operations. They're building zero-knowledge tech to make that sufficiently private and help with scaling.

Yes, but it's totally and completely unnecessary. If a company doing business with another company doesn't trust either the other company or a mutual jurisdiction to remediate -- they just shouldn't be in business together. No amount of blockchain magic fairy dust is going to change that.

Blockchain also only accurately reflects things solely encapsulated within the blockchain. As soon as you're trusting someone to enter data they can enter false data, and now you've got a permanent immutable ledger of hot garbage.
Before you go shaming those bad, bad Chinese companies, imagine my surprise when I restored my Apple iPhone from iCloud only to find my (always set to private!) Safari back there with every tab I ever opened.
I thought C# was Microsoft's NIH version of Java?
PCIe 4.0 is likely to be short lived given that PCIe 5.0 seems to be around the corner.

On the AMD side where they already have 4.0, few care for it (I do though - just ordered a mobo and processor that use it) - 4.0 nvmes aren't faster for common use cases, and it mostly matters when going multi-gpu which is only seen in some professional use (and even then you can use a threadripper and just have a lot of 3.0 lanes). Then next ~year ryzen 5000 which will require a new socket seems likely to already support 5.0. I'm guessing Intel will just altogether skip 4.0.
How different is it from Dat or Solid? They promise decentralized environment and control over data too and are less obscure.
What else can it be? Per-user/month subscription. Probably free initially.
It’s always easy to be an open source proponent when you are the underdog.

And Microsoft, as crazy as it sounds to me, kinda is when it comes to cool dev stuff.

We'll have to see if they have really changed or just waiting to regain ground and going back to the extinguish part.

But what I can confidently say is that, of all the BigCorps, Microsoft is the only one actively trying to make developer's life easier.

Apple is consumer first, so MacOS is getting harder and harder to hack on, for better and worse.

Chromebook was never a serious competitor. And Linux is Linux, hackable to a fault.

But Windows… which I have always despised, is, for the first time in my life, tantalizing… to some extent.
This is surprising? I thought this was a feature.
Dozens killed in truck bomb attack Syrian town of Afrin
I get a very uneasy feeling using Samsung's products because their privacy record is atrocious, they cram ads everywhere on flagship devices and the quality of their software is just mediocre.

Unfortunately, Android has emerged as the tracking and advertising platform. Look at every single Android TV on the market, they're privacy-invading garbage and such practices are explicitly enabled and encouraged by Google.
I wonder if crypto qualifies as “building” per essay...
Often that sort of check mostly has to due with checking if you have some type of debt that may impair your integrity.

Say you're for some reason indebted to a Chinese bank and applying for a defense job, they're not going to be very happy of that. Yes that's a bit over the top, but generally what those checks are about.
You mean C#? F# is an ML family language on the CLR.

> James Gosling, who created the Java programming language in 1994, and Bill Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the originator of Java, called C# an "imitation" of Java; Gosling further said that "[C# is] sort of Java with reliability, productivity and security deleted."

(Wikipedia)
Case in point, they just released their earnings. Revenue was way higher than normal, EPS was way lower than expected (off 30%) due to major COVID related costs. They also warned to expected even worse losses next quarter.
Yet the commercial shows total helicopter parents, hanging on every word and inflection between the child and the robot. I was taken aback.
The cost of hardware, with few exceptions, e.g., Apple, and the price paid by consumers for it, continues to fall. This has been the trend for at least the past forty years.
Drew, congrats! I love the principles you hold fast too.

Q: does this mean pricing is no longer optional?

https://sourcehut.org/pricing/
All the more reason to try hard to avoid him ending up at your main competitor if you finally start getting a leg up.
Hey HN!

I'm Lyn, co-founder of Layer. Here's a quick 5 min demo video in case you don't want to do the sign up tutorial (even though it takes 5 mins toooo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-n70gPQgA

Happy to answer any questions here.
Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) AMA
The i7-5820K is from the "high end desktop" line of chips, derived from Xeon workstation chips. The modern equivalent is chips like the i9-10900X (note X not K), which does have quad channel DDR4-2933 and 48 PCIe lanes. Clock speeds are a bit lower though.
As opposed, of course, to the awe-inspiring efficiency of the status quo circa the Gilded Age - or today.
I think grade selection would be the least flexible way to go, since you don't know how the math is being taught or even where in the program a child might be. So, I think adaptive would be good.
I enjoyed your writing style. Thank you.
In principle, yeah, but peltiers (a) suck at moving non-trivial amounts of heat, and (b) add a huge amount of heat of their own. Like, ballpark 10x the amount of heat you're moving.

You could move like 5W and you might have to dissipate 50W of heat total. Peltiers can't realistically move 100W and you don't want to cool 1000W.

Helpfully, Linus Tech Tips has walked through this particular experiment for you already ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2NQ1lq4ZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrqyQWfhrs
Could you name some similar projects? Do you mean something like blockstack or dfinity?
Perhaps by putting our concern into preventing the lines from blurring more than into worrying about private platform censorship in and of itself?
I want to sue the credit agencies for stalking me.
>Boiling it all down, when prompted, these models just regurgitate a similar sentence to what is observed in the training data for loosely that same input, using some glorified curve fitting

This is not that much different than what you do.

What criteria would you use to determine if something understands the meaning of a word/phrase/concept that isn't a string of definitions and metaphors? And at what level is sufficient?

Attempting to prove that something "understands the meaning" is a fruitless task with no quantifiable criteria - much like proving something is "conscious."
Not every kid has supportive, curious, playful children to interact with. If your kid's cohort are device-addicted bullies, then what?

Like a good school, good books and good food, I don't see how we can oppose carefully curated relationship experiences for our kids during important formative years.

However, to be honest, what we did was enroll the kids in Scouts. And participated fully (as Cub Leader, Cubmaster, Scout Leader and Scoutmaster over 20 years). Raised a whole cohort of kids to be supportive, cooperative, responsible and caring. And learn 100 skills. But it took a buttload of time and effort.
The lawyers haven't finished looting the cash. Does anyone even care about the token amount of cash they're likely to receive?
If that's a goal of high school, then yes, it's a huge failing. There's also a bunch of other useful stuff they don't teach you, like cooking and how to wash your clothes. There's no coherent idea of what school is supposed to be, though. Is it a place to learn a bunch of practical skills? Or a place to read about some interesting ideas? All those things take time and money, and we end up with a school that does a bunch of different stuff with no real plan.
Emergency Ventilator Designed and Constructed by Hams Going to FDA
Thank you for this. I like that it's small enough to be motivational instead of being complex and intimidating.

World needs more of these for other complex topics.
Also from firsthand experience: for many (not most) of MS's projects, that's the right decision. A lot of their software is at a unique intersection between consumer and enterprise support which at their scale often has unique requirements.

But then MS's bureaucracy can grind down even the most well thought out projects (Also getting better, though).
The data has never surfaced. I have to wonder if anybody who claims they had direct identity theft because of the breach automatically loses their claim.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/equifax-mystery-where-is-the...

It's interesting that most coverage of the incident ignores that detail. I guess people really dont like to hear it because it doesnt fit their narrative. Whatever this interest.com article is, it has very little value. It reads like seo spam. It doesn't discuss any of the developments in the last three weeks, such as Chicago, Indiana, Massachusetts all working out settlements.
I don't want to sound too preachy but I find it often helps to assume the best of everyone. Most people aren't idiots, they just see things differently sometimes.

I thought about it a bit and I think that if you see something you disagree with or think is silly, usually that person either has different priorities to you (e.g. they might work in a document-centric company) or might just not have the same knowledge or experience. Either way, if you state your assumptions (in this case "relational data is important") and ask a question ("how does MongoDB handle this"), you should usually be able to trigger a respectful and productive discussion.

Of course sometimes there are just arseholes and trolls on the internet, in which case you can usually tell quickly and stop engaging.
Ok, so it's kind of difficult to compete with Google. I get that. How about building decentralized search engines? Basically ActivityPub, but for search engines.

Any known efforts in this direction?
EEE did not end 3 decades ago and Balmer was only 1 CEO ago, so... no?
Skimming or cross-subsidizing?

Part of the problem with universities IMO is the accounting for revenue<->expenses isn't at all straightforward. Athletics generate a ton more money than they cost, most people seem fine with that. Research generates no revenue but costs a ton, for some hard-to-quantify but (hopefully?) real benefit to society at large. Tuition is nominally for teaching, which is a big cost center for a university. And, at least in the US, all the costs are split between the national government, the state government (who has the pleasure of educating people who may not live in that state long-term?) and tuition, and various donors and grants.

A system ripe for disruption, if ever there was one.
The point the article makes is that coal is still a poor choice, all this aside. natural gas has the same reliability properties at a lower cost.
What? I just drive to the Comcast office (which happens to be closer than Target/Best Buy), hand them the modem, say “it dead”, and they give me a new one. Takes an hour with travel time.
If you're new to ML or datascience, I would recommend working to build a strong basis in Bayesian statistics. It will help you understand how all of the "canonical" ML methods relate to one another, and will give you a basis for building off of them.

In particular, aspire to learn probabilistic graphical models + the libraries to train them (like pyro, tensorflow probability, Edward, Stan). They have a steep learning curve, especially if you're new to the game, but the reward is great.

All of these methods have their place. SVM's have their place, but also aren't great for probability calibration and non-linear SVM's like every single kernel method can scale absolutely terribly. Neural networks have their place, sometimes as a component of a larger statistical model, sometimes as a feature selector, sometimes in and of themselves. They're also very often the wrong choice for a problem.

Don't fall into the beginner trap: sometimes people tend to mistake 'what is the hottest research topic' for 'what is the right solution to my problem given my constraints, (data limitations, time limitations, skill limitations, etc.)'. Be realistic, don't use magical thinking, and have a strong basis in statistics to weed out the beautiful non-bullshit from the bullshit that is frustratingly prevalent (everyone and their mother is an ML expert today).

EDIT: I want to also clarify: I don't mean to suggest the author is new to ML, I just mean this as general advice for anyone coming here who is new to DS/ML. The article looks great!
I just have a PHP site on my own domain and I also created a very simple PHP script to load and display markdown files. This way I write new posts as markdown files (so I get versioning and all), and there is no build step, I could edit files directly on the server.

https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
It is possible for any language, really. They already have 3 language projections for C++ (C++/WinRT being the newest, by the same person running this Rust projection), C#, VB, and JavaScript.

Under the hood they call out to (and potentially expose) COM interfaces which are C. So if your language has C interop, or if it could be added, something like this could be built.
I would be very enthusiastic to replace our coal base load plants with nuclear. That seems like a very good way to get off of fossil fuels for base load power in the short term. I’d be totally fine with raising my taxes specifically to accomplish that.
As I predicted (as did many others), their revenue was way up, but their earnings per share missed significantly due to increased costs from COVID-19.
Drew, Consider adding a line-height on .content of 120%. Should make it a little bit easier to read.
It may not be "necessary" but the keynote is about the reasons it's vastly more efficient than what we're doing today. They've done real-world case studies to prove it.
The Relevance of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in the Era of Covid-19
Must be a matter of preference but this is exactly what I hate about godoc. I'd love to use markdown or any other structure, really. Just a wall of plain text is sometimes good, but most of the time bad idea for readability. And the idea of starting each godoc comment with function/variable name is terrible. YMMV.
The emails and strategy I used to close a $12,000 freelance web contract
To bring this all the way through to 2020 and HN, I'm currently employed at a startup[1] cofounded by Peter Calthorpe, one of the architects of the Bateson Building named in the article!

I happened to be in Sacramento with him a few years back for a meeting and we dropped by the building for a quick tour and verbal history lesson.

1. https://urbanfootprint.com/
I'd say if $AAPL were down 98% from ATH then investors probably shouldn't be running out to buy the next $AAPL. Who's running out to buy the next GameStop? In fact GameStop is only down 90% from ATH so you'd have made out 5X better on a $GME investment at peak than you would have buying $ZEC.

It's like a16z launching a fund to invest in retail video game sales (due to the overwhelming success of $GME) in shopping malls but also run by criminals and utilizing more power than your average country. It's stupid technology.

And for the record, I've no axe to grind, I made a bunch of money in the run-up, and sold all my crypto at BTC$17000. That doesn't mean I think it's at all valuable, or would recommend literally anyone buy any, ever.
Actually heavy AVX loads can even force an Intel CPU below it's base clock.
One party stood vehemently, unmoving, in 2005 to change the law in order to make it more difficult for student loans to be subject to bankruptcy, based on false pretences. And quite literally no one cared. There's no political will to make student loans more easily dischargeable, even merely repealing the 2005 law. Just like there's no political will to consider education a right, let alone higher education. In the U.S. education is a product you buy, rich people get more and better versions of it.

But as it turns out, an infinitesimal number of students even try to have these loans discharged.
Would you need to first file a retraining order, or can you just jump straight into litigation?
> The interest rate would be very very high, as it should be.

The offered loan amount would be much lower, too.

There would be nothing to distinguish a student loan from any other unsecured personal loan (like a credit card), so the credit line would be similar. For an 18 year-old, that means the total amount over 4 years would certainly be less than $10k at an APR in the 20's to 30's.
> The problem that we're actually trying to solve with all of this is how to provide a root of trust. Blockchains are a way to do that, but I've yet to see a compelling use case beyond digital cash.

Handshake [1] provides a root of trust for DNS and DANE [2]. It's also heavily in use [3]!

[1] https://handshake.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...

[3] https://dns.live/
The fucking huevos on Forbes to publish this article alongside the most godawful CCPA opt-out flow I've seen yet...

Clicking the "do not sell my info" link takes you to a page where it asks you for your personal information to request to opt out... with the fine print telling you that you can actually opt out by going back to the previous dialog, selecting more info, then selecting one of the three cookie sections (which is not labeled "do not sell my info" or anything similar). There's then a timer where it takes about a minute to update the cookie preferences.

I know Forbes has turned into a glorified blogging site for "journalists" these days but come on. Talking about privacy and misleading information on the same site that makes you jump through hoops to remain anonymous while browsing? Pot calling the kettle black much.
And, Methane Hydrates! An enormous reserve of natural gas, estimated 6X all the oil we've ever drilled, waiting to be tapped.
It may pay the same but building experience today would net him a better job in the future.
I think rsync has obsoleted a lot of that:

rsync -av --progress indir/ x:outdir/
Windows NT in 2000? I guess ARM was not a going concern at the time, but Windows was remarkably portable in 2000 before the dark decade of more or less exclusively Wintel.