skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is care-jobs are incredibly low productivity.

The reason a worker today is paid more than 100 years ago is, essentially, just that they can produce/transact with more people at once.

A nurse "should" be paid what they were 100 years ago, as the number of transactions hasn't changed. The only reason they aren't is due to competition from productive sectors.

But those productive sectors need to exist! In a world where many people are doing such low-productivity jobs, everyone will be much poorer.
This is quite interesting and I think the best approach to (slowly) work towards better AIs. It focuses on structuring knowledge. Knowledge management as a term might not be able to rise as much interest of course.

I am reminded of the approaches to get rid of files systems for organizing documents. User should just fill out the required meta-data to enable sophisticated search mechanisms. But the users never did that.

Perhaps with workflows like this, some kind of data-pre-processor, we would get sufficient meta-info to start creating relations between isolated islands of facts.
Most wood workers likely won’t know or care how to build their tools from scratch
I can drive around the entirety of downtown Portland in about 5-10 minutes (depending on traffic). It would take at least an hour to drive around downtown Atlanta.
There are similar products that generate water as a byproduct of airconditioning (which is a must in a desert climate). I know some guys that are selling these in the Middle East and mining operations in the Aus outback.

https://seas-sa.com/awa-modula-systems/
I have a long-list of questions that, if you answer them all, could turnaround your business. Contact me if interested, it's free.

Fact/Disclaimer: I use this questionnaire to generate big ideas for clients. When implemented, they see great and measurable results. I do not charge for the questionnaire. It is more of a homework for a client. I decide whether to work for the client upon reviewing the answers.
I once thought it would be difficult for big tech company recruiting processes to tell the difference between:

a) A really good problem solver

b) Someone who has ran through all the example interview problems on leetcode or something similar

Then I thought that this might be similar to the Turing test. Once you’re that good at faking it that you can convince someone else - maybe the difference doesn’t matter at that point.
I initially thought this too, but then someone pointed out that people choose to have kids when they feel their life is stable (and safe).

Sure there will be a load of unplanned pregnancies, but a lot of people actively planning their family might choose to wait to see if they have a job/a place to live/are still alive after the pandemic is over.

Apparently there was a similar drop in birth-rate after the 2008 financial crash - people just held back waiting to see what happened before committing to having kids.
That's only because no one wants to live there. Once everyone from NY decides to move there will be no land for anyone to own. We know this happens because it literally happened in NY 200 years ago.
It's a good doc, check it out.

All taxes: no. Tarrifs for example are... excellent ethical and thoroughly constitutional.. Otherwise country X can just attack with slave labor.

Inalienable rights aren't called that because they can be overridden.
NP, and good on you for having such a good contract!
People who think about social policy on the scale of nations need to worry about costs.

This isn't something that you "figure out as you go", it's something that causes wars and societal breakdown. We're already in a democratic world where the key voting fault lines are young-vs-old.
As sad as it is, I get 90% of my algorithm work done with sorted arrays and binary search. Rarely I need more fancy stuff.
As an outside observer most of American news reporting seems totally ridiculous. If the German government announced a retraining / job initiative there would be a factual article in serious print media. Any criticism included would most likely be a citation of an opposing party representative, labor or business interest. Opinions by the paper on the issue would be kept separate.

This article in contrast mixes opinion and negative rhetoric with facts. It reads like they want to make sure I will have a negative opinion of the program, while I typically don’t read the paper to be convinced of one thing or another.
Not if it's just for that reason. But, historically, for humans besides passing on genes, having children has been a very economic decision:

- Increases the labor potential of the family "for free"

- Now you have someone to take care of you when you're old
I don't really think so. It's the parents who decided to have fewer children and be against immigration (mostly the US and UK). If they are really getting screwed then they can always open their countries up for immigrants.
llarsson, I think you are spot on with this comment :-)

Also thank you for the advice. We have indeed gotten a good response in the less-technical, but more business oriented, RPA developer community, as an addition to appealing to the traditional software developers. (Many data scientists can obviously appreciate the idea, but the added value of this kind of tool is not that high, if you already have a routine for doing custom models & analytics)

Still, we have also faced situations, where the users have been too non-technical. I think the jury is still out on, whether these kind of solutions can be easily used by the average accountant or a business analyst.
I actually don't agree with that diagnosis. I think the very poorest people genuinely can't access contraception. Once you get above a fairly low level and the pill becomes affordable, something else becomes the bigger factor.

I just don't buy that very poor people ration out sex under a precise calculation of how many kids they want. Doesn't fit my observations of how humans behave. Most people fuck because they're horny, or because their husband is horny and they need his support to survive, or frankly because they're so poor they have to sell themselves. HIV is a bigger risk than not having children in old age, most Africans know that, but that doesn't stop it either.
We always tell our candidates in advance what algorithms we'll be quizzing them on. And it's pretty much always:

+ fibbonacci

+ a sort

+ a linked list

I like having candidates write out these problems on paper because it shows that they know how to think about code. Fibbonacci allows us to see that they have basic recursion understanding, and basic iterative loop understanding. Linked lists shows us that they understand pointers. And a sort shows us that you can structure more complex code well.

If you truly want the job, you'll take 15 minutes the night before to remind yourself how all of these things work, none of them should be particularly foreign or confusing to an experienced programmer.

That covers the coding part of our interview. For the problem solving part of the interview, we may give you problems that require using heaps or skiplists or graph algorithms, but for this part of the interview we're happy to let you import imaginary libraries that do all the hard work.
Yes, dynamic programming is how I implemented line wrapping for (the help text in) SingStar PS3 also.

Good spotting BTW, the line wrapping algorithm (where each tweet is a "line") is a perfect match for the post you are responding to.

When doing programming competitions, you're often trying to figure out what standard algorithm is similar to the problem and how you need to tweak it to match.
Dell does actually sell Pentium machines with ECC support, like the smaller Poweredge servers such as T140. They've done this for a while, I personally run T20 with ECC and G3220 (sold like this by Dell).

They do occasionally remove some features like IPMI from those cheaper processor options, but the ECC support stays.
I like hempcrete or hemp lime which is a mixture of hemp hurds with lime and sand. It's poured in place or made into bricks. However, the bricks also need cement for structural integrity, so it's best to pour it in place. One needs wooden framing to sustain the walls. I don't think it's scalable to build tall buildings using it but for regular houses it's perfect because it also has good insulation, vapour and thermal buffering characteristics.

We probably need something with enough structural integrity to be able to at least 3D print houses. The architects can then create a 3D model which is fed to a printing crane and printed in place.
The one that at first confused and now bugs me:

> [Hands over coffee or some other trivial but thankable thing]

> Thanks.

> You're so welcome!
Glad you like it, the original idea was to think of Riot in terms of a 'Riot of Colour', though in practice it can be interpreted in lots of different ways.

We think Element has much broader appeal and really like the association with being the smallest indivisible unit.
Leaving the lab and enter consumer products?
Wasn't a board member, it was a pension fund who held stock in the bank.
Quite right, but [having children] involves making compromises along with the benefits.
1. e-dreams - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/

2. startup.com - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

3. Pirates of the silicon valley - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
You could have all your skus on one sheet (sheet1) of the Google sheet and have a second sheet (sheet2) where cell A1 is the URL of the qr code, and cell B1 is the query string which searches through sheet1 and returns the sku details for whatever is referenced in cell A1.
Working through a lot of problems will make you a better problem solver because the techniques can often be generalized.

I just don't think it makes sense to test people on this kind of questions and then make them write CRUD all day.
> For some psychological reason, a thing that looks unfinished gets much higher quality feedback than something that looks polished.

Does this really imply “humans are broken”? We all have limited resources and I think this could just be a first order prioritization mechanism. Of course one has to be aware of the bias but that’s a different problem.
It’s been posted here a thousand times, but the Economist and the FT are good starting points.
"I try and do as much as I can with the information provided."

I know I'm guilty of this one, and I've stayed away from high paced jobs and appreciate jobs where people are ok with my reluctance to bother a lot of people even if that means it takes me longer to figure things out on my own.

This also means I build a much deeper understaning of the systems I work with, or at least I like to think so, and some people have confirmed that about me, indirectly, by praises of my insights.
Sure, but 25th largest city in the US is not "very very tiny". I grew up in a township of 4k people. That would be what I consider very very tiny. I was nearby a city of 30k people. I considered it a decently large city.
One of the most important lessons. It must be presentable, however extra effort and time it would take.
I have been on the fence about this policy, for the following reason.

On the one hand, it seems overtly xenophobic and anti-intellectual. On the other hand, I don't see why an international student needs to be in the United States in order to participate exclusively in online classes.

Even if the issue is a lack of human welfare (eg unsafe neighborhood) or necessary infrastructure (eg slow/inconsistent internet) back home, an international student could live somewhere else and probably save a ton of money in the process.

What am I missing?
I was in two minds about mentioning that analogy in case someone attempted to address the content directly, which is what you've done. It really misses the point of what I was saying. The point was, if you can imagine a person that did make an argument like I said - however unlikely it is that you think it is that anyone actually would - then hopefully you could see that it does not communicate their point of view well. As it's an analogy, the idea is that this lesson would carry over to what the parent comment was saying.
I actually block all QUIC traffic, the only use I have seen for it so far from my OSX machines is chrome phone home traffic. At the weirdest moments, suddenly little snitch pops up, hey chrome wants to connect to ip x.y.z.1 443 QUIC
There is some difference though. You can turn off iCloud and then device lock an Apple phone and make it rather secure. No such option exists for an Android phone. I agree with your general idea though, but I want to nuance. Apple gets too much credit for their privacy efforts, and Google gets too little shit.

Apples efforts only look good compared to Amazon, Google and Microsoft, but that's because they are so bad.
I have used graph algorithms a little bit at work. For example if you are generating code for a language like C where order of declaration matters, you can use a directed graph to represent dependencies between data types and then use a topological sort to order how you write structs to the header file.
In this regard, human psychology is weird. Ask any first time parent of a ~6 month old if they're going to have a second one and the answer will most likely be a resounding "no!".

Then when that baby is ~2 years old, suddenly the pain of delivery, the sleepless nights and the baseless crying seem to be forgotten, and the cycle starts again.
> These projections do not account for increase in life expectancy.

That's inaccurate. The study in the link, which has those predictions:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

See the Mortality section.

Yes, India will peak at 1.7 billion, but then begin to decrease. That peak happens in 2050, which is closer to our 2020 than 2100.
Unlike Zoom which is an American company (and everyone feels like they need to pull an Andrew Yang and try extra hard to prove their American-ness for some reason), unless I'm mistaken I don't think TikTok really made any effort to "appear" "American". ByteDance might have downplayed their Chinese-ness and worked more than typical Chinese companies to cater to American audiences (like hiring Disney CEO in the same way Huawei has an America CSO), but I don't think they're making the case that they're an "American" company.
Scaling for infinite users as a solo developer is easy, just go Serverless!

Just make sure you have infinite money first.
I think that’s too pessimistic. If it weren’t for Twitter and Facebook then yes the environment for journalism would be challenging, but we wouldn’t be in the dire straits for debate that we’ve found ourselves at. Notable that this crisis did not happen pre-Facebook.
I've done an awful lot of investment in booktime to learn various algos, simple to obscure, and frankly never used any of them. I do find that depressing.

What people seem to want is big-data or various tech stacks. I look forward to the time I can put even a bloom filter to work.

(edit: typo)
I loved this game as a kid. I think I only ever had a demo, because I don't remember being able to play different missions, but I played that simple demo a lot, and revisited it over the years. It had just enough free control and different actions to make screwing around rewarding and fun.

Thanks for porting it!
I really don't understand why financial crimes need to be special. Anyone showing a pattern of illegal behavior involving casual disregard for the well-being and rights of obvious victims should be taken behind the shed. If anything, financial crimes require planning and organization, and consequently maintaining that utter lack of regard for others for a far longer duration, than a smash-and-grab, an assault or some other non-financial crime.
Yep, that's dependent and independent variables in a simple linear regression (SLR). Postgres has SLR built in. Madlib is an extension to Postgres that does much more.
ripgrep + fzf = love
> at least 450 euro /month

As I see it, the pricing starts at 9/month for 5 users, or free?
Comparison of a single neuron in mouse brain to the whole of fly brain
You're right, but the point is that Atlanta is overall larger than Portland in terms of being a major metropolitan area. The original post was talking about ATL's largeness and number of opportunities for youth.
But then he said this:

"...to concentrate as much power as possible in the hands of the State. They need not be misled by democratic platitudes about the freedom of the Communes, self-determination, etc.”
Pen computing demonstration from 1991 [video]
In the sense of going from rocks to iron to steel to finished tool, no, but otherwise, yes. Making specialised saws, scrapers, chisels, spokeshaves, planes and so forth are part of the luthier's, cabinetmaker's, and shipwright's existence. And that's just the tools, leaving workholding aside. Add in jigs and fixtures and there's a whole lot more. Not everything you need to do the job can be had off the shelf.
Literally from europa.eu:

> Regulations are legal acts that apply automatically and uniformly to all EU countries as soon as they enter into force, without needing to be transposed into national law. They are binding in their entirety on all EU countries.

And:

> Public authorities in EU Member States have the main responsibility for the application of EU law.
Someone once told me that tradition just consists of the personality quirks of our ancestors.

I don't necessarily agree with it in the majority of instances but it was eye-opening. The line between tradition/superstition is thin.
Also, according to a BBC article, Western countries' population is going to drop when we hit 2100. It'll be interesting to see if that turns out to be true, I mean, it is a 80yr into the future prediction.

Japan's population is expected to be half. Spain and others are going in the same way, China and India are expected to reduce but not by half.

Let's hope that we keep working on this problem.

As EVs rise, I expect this to be a positive turnout. it doesn't matter that 1 EV save a lot of CO2, buses and planes are becoming electric. The more electrification we do, the more solar and wind we use, the better.

India has few hundred MW solar panel project. Other countries are also planning them, right? So let's hope that they do work in the intended way..
Downvoted even though I am colorblind and actually know what I'm talking about!
These guys have been doing something similar for at least a decade (I have no financial interest etc.): http://www.timbercrete.com.au

Also, I live in West Sussex and the amount of clay here really is unbelievable - my town used to be a major producer of clay and bricks, tiles etc. Once you're past a foot or so of topsoil it's pure clay.
Because they look like normal angle brackets. Unless you are in on the secret, you won’t understand why your code doesn’t work.
Not surprised that SK are exploring this. Platforms like Icon, Terra and FLETA are changing the game in various government sectors. Exciting future ahead...
This should give you a rough idea.

https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days...

> Not all countries will have an overshoot day. By way of the country overshoot equation above, a country will only have an overshoot day if their Ecological Footprint per person is greater than global biocapacity per person (1.63 gha).

There’s a lot of countries not listed, i.e they do not overshoot.
Well, quoting them:

> We’re obviously aware that Element is (once again) both a dictionary word and a mathematical term - but in practice, looking at search results for Element right now, the top hits are for dictionary sites(!) and the field is wide open.
Maybe it's messaging intended to be for grizzled old veterans going "look how we've taken the old complicated thing and given you powerful tools to allow you to manage it more easily with less steps" but then gets interpreted by neophytes as "look how easy it is for a complete beginner to come in and set up a complicated system".
Can Russian investors be far away ... ?
Similar I think. They want you invested in it, excited, willing to join their poxy social friday stuff, and out of the box thinker who is willing to stand your ground and shake things up - but crucially not going to challenge them. You can't have both but they think they can.
I idly clicked through the findsomethingnew.org website and got routed to the apprenticeships section.

On the page about apprenticeships, I clicked IBM, the second result from the top.

On the IBM site, I clicked the big blue button labeled "see apprenticeship openings and apply."

Clicking that button took me to a page with the following text: "Unfortunately we don’t have any opportunities matching your search criteria at the moment."

Thanks, Obama!
Speaking of names, I'm upset that the username I go by is taken. I'm echelon @ { gmail, HN, Twitter, Github, Gitlab, Square Cash, etc }, but found Riot / Matrix just a few months too late to get my username.

I'm not satisfied with the "just stand up your own server" response as an alternative.

I know it's cutting off my nose, but I've avoided using it because of this. I'm OCD about stupid usernames.

I wish unused usernames got garbage collected.

I really like how Discord handles usernames.
Oof yes. The times I read stuff like "to make sure your WidgyPidy will automatically balance your BoolyPooly cluster, just set the autoEnableBalanceBoolyClusterGenerated in your WiPoBaClConfig.yml file to the desired floating point and drop a reference in the ServerClusteringPoolDirective.json in your configured ShimpyDimpy config folder" like it's obvious and simple...
We should be able to separate what she’s saying and evaluate it on its own merits, whilst _separately_ also critiquing her behaviour. You can’t demolish her argument by attacking her character. Well, at least not on HN (yet).

“Problematic” is often cited as the way extremists are labelling people they want to cancel.
As someone that lives there let me tell you there is no "downtown" Atlanta. There is a neighborhood called Downtown, but it's one of three (four, or maybe even five, depending on who you ask) major, dense business and retail districts in the city limits, and even more in the suburbs. And yeah, would take you about an hour to hit all of them. Probably more with traffic.

It's a very polycentric city. Kind of throws people off when they first come here.

and LOL at the guy saying "no one wants to live in Georgia." This is what happens when you don't ever leave the Bay.
On average, end users use about the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what speed plan they are on. Then planning is based on average and peak bandwidth
60/40mbps isn't bad unless you want to share it with a lot of people (e.g. larger families). Sure, downloads won't be as fast as you'd like them to be but it's enough for 4k streaming so I don't think many people would notice the difference between this and a 200mbit line.
The paid version is also distributed under Open Source license, but is not free (as in free beer).
OK, but it's also hacker news. If we just want positive anecdotes and feel-good inspirational stories that don't get debated, and which don't fully address the point or get to the heart of the matter, we could go to a Tony Robbins seminar, and I say this as a both a dad and as someone who doesn't want to go to a Tony Robbins seminar.

Honestly, I appreciate the point counter point.
I come from northern Italy and during my relatively brief lifetime (length(life.qubex)>40) I’ve seen this happen to formerly exclusive “Beverly Hills”-type affluent residential areas (and un/gated communities). Enormous, cavernous hangar-sized homes that used to be worth millions of euros now struggling to sell for a couple hundred thousand.