jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this is even that though.

Suppose you have 1000 applicants and 900 slots. 900 of the applicants are white, 100 are black.

In traditional racism you give all 900 slots to the 900 white applicants.

Using a woke quota system you would have to arrange for it to be exactly proportional, i.e. 810 white and 90 black, even if that required taking race directly into account in order to force the numbers.

Using some kind of merit-based evaluation, you might have 830 slots go to white applicants and 70 to black applicants.

The first system is clearly morally wrong, but it's also misaligned with the optimal allocation. The second system has the same issue as the first; it's basing the decision directly on race even when it doesn't align with merit.

The biggest criticism of the third system is that maybe your metric for evaluating merit is imperfect, but it might still be pretty good. And other than that it's clearly the one with the moral high ground. So where is the moral question? The moral system and the optimal system are the same one. All that's left is the technical question of how to implement a more accurate measurement of merit, if possible.
I've been researching this a little.

Google Checkout and Paypal have exactly the same terms:

http://checkout.google.com/sell/ (click on "Costs and fees")

https://merchant.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&...

Monthly Sales Through Google Checkout Fees Per Transaction

Less than $3,000 2.9% + $0.30

$3,000 - $9,999.99 2.5% + $0.30

$10,000 - $99,999.99 2.2% + $0.30

$100,000 or more 1.9% + $0.30

Old articles say Google Checkout has different pricing, so it must have changed.

Paypal makes you call for >=$100K.

Paypal also has a micropayments program which is 5% + 5c. If you do the math, for <$3K in sales, that's cheaper if a purchase is <= $11.90. Weird cutoff, but there you have it.

Paypal also has more payment options (you can link a bank account) and is available for international payments:

http://inventorspot.com/articles/zyngas_social_media_games_g...

I'm a Google fanboy, but Paypal looks to have the edge.

Here's an in-depth comparison of Paypal, Google, and a couple of smaller services:

http://foliovision.com/2010/01/21/paypal-google-checkout-dig...

Note: Lots of crabby blog posts when Paypal arbitrarily shuts down their accounts.

Anyone have practical experience?
Definitely. In my experience, the nitty gritty "labor" part of software development, the actual process of learning and writing code, gives great satisfaction and enjoyment. But after a few years, a few projects and / or jobs, and especially once your hard work is effectively thrown away in favor of something newer and shinier written and advocated by younger and louder people, you get more cynical.

But once you get over that, you realize that code itself is just an implementation detail, and it's the people higher up that have more influence. As developer you get paid an X amount a year, that's about it; as a higher up, you get to play with millions, both as money and as 'resources'.

As a developer you'll learn your limitations, that you cannot solve everything and that you alone are not good or fast enough to tackle nontrivial projects (currently in the middle of that, single developer, at the current rate it'll take years for my software to become viable. At least I'm on the payroll). If you have bigger ambitions, climbing the ladder is the way to go. Personally I'm hoping to be able to get a small team together in the coming year.
In Rails, this is unfortunately somewhat difficult (though not impossible) to achieve due e.g. to the autoloading magic that Rails adds and that can make isolating library code a bit more challenging if you're not aware of some intricate details of Ruby's and Rails's loading behaviours.
Roblox has more than 150 million monthly active users, and many of them actually spend money on the platform. Boston Dynamics has some very impressive tech demos. I know which I think should be worth more.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. [0]

[0] Abraham H. Maslow (1966). The Psychology of Science.
Well, now... To be fair the Weimar Republic was a political turmoil. It is not like the Nazis had "gas the Jews" in their party programme. They established themselves over 10 years, and due to the instability f any political coalition in the government they were able to maneuver themselves into a position where they could force events forward.

People seem to think the Nazi party showed up on the stairs of the parliament demanding genocide and war. In reality it was a 14 year progression of bad options, political turmoil and very hard choices to defend extremely weak coalitions. Were those choices good? Obviously not. Can we judge them after the fact? I would say no.
Perhaps you think the parent post is abusing HN guidelines unfairly? It would be a shame if I had to leave in a garrison of redditors here.
Essential services are already effectively being 'gigged out'. Travel nurses and EMTs being employed by staffing agencies rather than the hospitals, Amazon's entire delivery end is almost entirely driven by third party contractors, and in general a lot of employment relationships that would have once been owned by a company are now abstracted to vendors solely as a way to reduce margin.
Atheism is not "nothing".

There are definite metaphysical beliefs that make up Atheism.

Atheism is not the empty set.

An Atheist doesn't say "I believe in nothing".
Balance that against the fact that most taxi drivers know the city by heart, including where there is construction, habitual traffic jam, and transit congestion..

I'll take a better drive-to-destination experience over being able to stare at my phone watching a car inch closer to me, or saving a few dollars when I need to get somewhere.

A lot of part-time Uber drivers, especially in big cities, come in from the suburbs to get fares in the city - where they are not familiar with their surroundings - and just blindly follow the directions on their GPS.

In my anecdotal experience over the last 10 years, I've had plenty of experiences with Uber drivers either not knowing the proper way to get somewhere, or naively driving into avoidable traffic jams, or just getting stuck behind a bus or streetcar and not understanding when/how to get past it.

This very rarely happens with taxi drivers - to the point where sometimes they can be a bit scary in traffic, so there is a counterpoint here too.
Let me preface by saying I hate capitalism.

But how did capital win in this arrangement? They lost billions. They're down 25% since IPO a few years ago.
I'm guessing nobody clicked through because it is on nytimes.com...
Rackspace are building a datacenter based on the opencompute plans, very cool. Exactly what I had thought about based on the announcement of open compute. Hosting companies, large companies and all sorts will be leveraging this information to increase the scale of computing in datacenters as a whole. I hope more companies will contribute to opencompute so we continue to see improvements like this. The facebook datacenter looks awesome, as you can see they are serious about being a long term company rivalling the likes of google.
So now that we have https://github.com/kripken/emscripten and a reliable LLVM backend for GHC, has anyone tried compiling Haskell to JavaScript? My instinct is that the world would explode but I can't be sure.
Mr/Ms bilboOs... seems your tax return has some discrepancies... possibly serious discrepancies. On another somewhat related topic... Did you say that Ms Wu assured you of... what was that? an 80% return on your investment? That might account for the discrepancy in your return. We can take care of that for you...
Three changes:

1. Inflation. Laggard companies haven't kept up, but leading companies are pushing forward. As for the laggards, they probably set their developer salaries back in 1995 when $45k, out of college, was decent for a software engineer. They never revised that number, instead suffering a very gradual (and probably imperceptible, from a day-to-day perspective) decline in the people they could get.

2. Correction. Talent has been underpriced for a long time, except in finance, where the hours and work sucked. For a long time, rising tech companies could low-ball their offers and say, "Yes, but we're a fun company, and if we get big, you'll get rich." At this point, that strategy doesn't work as well, because new startups have filled that niche (risky, low pay, might make you very rich). Google and Amazon are still great companies, but they're not likely to triple their stock value in the next 3 years.

What's also happening is that the US is becoming less of a destination country for foreign talent, due to post-2001 immigration hassles and our health care situation, which scares the hell out of people. This change is good and bad, but it does improve salaries.

3. Location + industry. Engineer-driven companies, which are very selective and desirable places to work, but treat engineers very well, are offering $90-110k in New York, Boston and the Valley, and $70-90k in the Midwest. On the other hand, programmers at oil and health insurance companies are not making that much; they're still in the $45-60k range, because programmers are second- and third-class citizens in those companies. For example, a friend of mine works in fashion as a programmer (entry-level/novice) and makes about $28k. If she did the same work in a real software shop, she'd make $70k easily.
That raises a whole new problem though, which is distinguishing signal from noise, truth from fiction. That's hard, even in North America when some crazy rumour races through Twitter and the media starts reporting on it accidentally as true. It has happened a couple of times. :(
Changelog here (for anyone else trying to figure out what's different):

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog#v300
My understanding is that it's both -- the egg laying hen population in the US has some amount of salmonella infection, plus washing the cuticle off does something to promote salmonella growth in the egg (contamination from the feces on the shell able to get into the egg?). I don't have citations for this, though, and would be curious to learn more, if anyone has a good authoritative source.

USDA statistics from 1996 on salmonella in eggs put it at 1:10,000 to 1:20,000 chance of an egg being infected. It's a case of odds, and how you cook the eggs. If you're taking a dozen eggs and making mayo from scratch, then making 100 sandwiches in a cafeteria, the odds are sufficiently high that once a year you're going to make everyone sick. If you're making sunny-side up eggs, the yolk won't get heated enough to pasteurize it, but the impact is at least greatly reduced. If you're properly scrambling the eggs, then yes, they get hot enough to reduce the pathogen count to be a non-issue.
Well then, by those definitions coding is to programming what typing is to writing a novel. Mostly uninteresting and barely taught at all in my UW CSE courses.
It is not particularly difficult, but I have found that you need to be non controversial and post things that are generally accurate and useful.

"Me too" style posts will almost certainly get you down voted.
In this study[0], honey compares favorably to silver sulfadiazine dressing for healing burn wounds.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845359/
I use RSS to keep track of my subscriptions and Invidio.us to watch them.

RSS is IMO waaay better than the sub-box because they are in the same place as all my other news.

Invidio.us doesn't have the best interface, but it offers all the necessary features and let's me do picture-in-picture on iPad.
There are still serious concerns in terms of speed for anything involving analytic applications.
Tl;dr for those who didn't read the book review:

1. Modern economics doesn't try to define "value" objectively. Value is whatever price the market is willing to bear. This logic fuels speculation bubbles.

2. The finance industry is a huge part of a modern market economy. But what value does it provide?

3. Public spending is behind most fundamental scientific research: "research has shown that two-thirds of the most innovative drugs (new molecular entities with priority rating) trace their research back to funding by the US National Institutes of Health."

4. Public spending grows the economy. The effect multiplier is 1.5.
Is OP inferring we are entering another AI Winter after this most recent hype cycle for general AI?

Considering we use neural networks to encode audio (in Opus), transcribe our speech, secure our homes and much more, this most recent AI wave has been quite productive.
I totally agree that's really important to keep a balance and nurture irl relationships. But, one has nothing to do with the other. It's supposed to be at working hours in which you would still be at the computer anyway. And from my perspective after working remotely for a while is that there's a point where you want to know more about your peers and share some non-work time.
Author here. While I think Bitcoin will not be a medium of exchange, I think it'll be an important Store of Value. I propose running a parallel blockchain with 7% inflation to be a digital currency, the "bad" currency.
> Functional extinction is when a population becomes so limited that they no longer play a significant role in their ecosystem and the population becomes no longer viable. While some individuals could produce, the limited number of koalas makes the long-term viability of the species unlikely and highly susceptible to disease.
There are AdTech dates in Australia, UK, India, Singapore, and China coming up. You'd be surprised how much of the ad industry is driven by in-person meetings and handshakes, even for online advertising. Note that AdTech is a trade show specifically for digital marketing, and our company signed several hundred thousand dollars worth of deals there.

As far as how to reach people at my company, all of the developers (like me) are the ones reading HN and blogs, but the ones who sign our paychecks and make deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars spend their time at trade shows. When they came back from AdTech they hired half a dozen more people to handle the increased business.
Woe to the society that believes being punished is the only wrong, and that guilt is something to be accused of only, not something to be ashamed of.
I'm sad that this meant the end of someone doing what they love to do and something they put in work for, for years.

But my sympathy ends there.
> "Where is the red circle drawn? How large is it? What shade of red? How are those arbitrary values chosen, and how do I choose others?"

When those things matter, more information will be required in both natural language and a high level programming language. On the other hand, when none of that really matters a high level programming language still requires all those items to be specified.

Like any level of abstraction, there are tradeoffs. On the other hand to explain how to submit a reply, I don't say:

<form method="post" action="/r">
<input type="hidden" name="fnid" value="7YwrNY6bwe"/>
<textarea name="text" rows="6" cols="60"/>
<br/>
<br/>
<input type="submit" value="reply"/>
</form>

I say "press the button."

edit: html example to fit natural language model.
You're using benefit of the doubt in a way that indicates that your conclusions are muddled by your personal beliefs on the matter.
Seriously. We have hired a lot of people recently and the people that submit a five line PR make me happy and the fifteen file PRs make me sad.
Obligatory Edward Teller talking about Von Neumann => https://youtu.be/ra4K6WPUkpk
3M have been selling move fluid for this purpose for many years. It has a boiling point of 49'c, so Manny that's what Microsoft are using?

A few years ago IBM demoed a system called redux flow which used an electrolyte for cooling and power distribution.
Tax individual wealth and remove income taxes for corporations. Not capital gains, but wealth as in Switzerland or The Netherlands. Income taxes for corporations all disappear when the corporation reaches a given size after which the state only captures capital gains taxes from shareholders and employment and other taxes. The only companies that end up paying income tax are the small ones. So just tax wealth of individuals and remove all the shenanigans in between.
Good luck getting everyone to use matrix after spending so much time convincing them to move from WhatsApp to signal..
Yep, http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ gets it right: uses your preferences. Doing anything else are various forms of failure.
> The point is that the free toolchains got good enough that in general you don't need to care, and I think it's reasonable to expect the same dynamics to apply here.

No the question was: would the vendor want this?

I'm referring to this comment above:

> Programmable logic seems like a space that could be disrupted with a company that has fully open-source tooling around its hardware along with great documentation. (...)
The software that helps is the ability to play and replay any part of the track, or slow things down a bit. The "transcription" is usually done by someone who knows music...
I think their assumption is that this would race with another program opening or executing the file that was just downloaded if there is any possible delay at all, and thus by the time the scanner reaches it it's already too late.

I mean, Microsoft aren't dumb. Windows Defender is a competent AV product. If they're blocking on close there's probably a reason for it and they probably hate it. The trick with thread pooling file closes is one I'll stash in my brain for later: performance on Windows matters, especially as Win10 is getting more and more competitive vs macOS all the time.
I prefer to think there's some developer out there who wrote wonderful code to made that "Homepage" performant and easy to maintain, and has successfully argued for their continued existence, occasionally pushing out a small feature addition to feed in data from new sources as old sources go.
My thoughts exactly. There are articles that can be summarized in few paragraphs, but this is a whole article with infographics included that can be summarized with a single graph.
Sheesh, it sounds like you are overly obsessed with being cool.

Learning songs written by other people is something every musician does. There's nothing wrong with playing covers and being able to play music that's familiar to your audience is essential for many working musicians.

That doesn't mean you have to play old standards when you could riff on newer music, but it also doesn't mean you can't. There's nothing wrong with reviving a tune written a long time ago and putting your own take on it.

Music is not necessarily more enjoyable just because it's brand new. It can be just as interesting if it's new to you, and there's plenty to explore.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
I was one of those website makers and while I took great pains to support Netscape, I regret to inform you that Netscape was bad and the people who didn’t want to support it were right.

Edit: lest I forget, I also took great pains to support IE, which also was bad, and the people who didn’t want to support it were also right.
Totally. And this is why I think all this "move to the suburbs" business is overblown.

Physical proximity still matters a hell of a lot. Especially on the margins when making something 1% easier is the difference between doing and not doing something.

Ironically pg is the guy who said the real world is really high bandwidth (Cities and Ambition) and that going where you have an audience is important. I share your frustrations about it being difficult to get to people to pitch them. Doubly when you aren't chasing an audience that spends all day in front of a screen.
I’m not debating the subtleties of Tesla’s carbon footprint. Im just asking what if the people buying TSLA are not buying for profit? What if they are buying because they believe it is the way they can fight climate change.

Will it eventually retrace? Probably. Almost surely. But it will probably not matter at that point relative to today.

I think we are in an era where stocks are mostly detached from fundamentals. Ask yourself who truly cares about fundamentals? It’s the uber wealthy who are trying to preserve their capital. Wealth disparity is huge so those numbers are fewer.

The Robinhood investors aren’t pouring over spreadsheets to decide where the best PE ratio tradeoff is most favorable. They aren’t trying to balance growth and income. They are literally buying whatever hyped them the most.

Now regarding the AMD chart. You should consider it in context of their defeat by Intel and subsequent turnaround. That, I think, drove the price movements shown in the chart. Did profit taking from amazing runs also matter? Probably. But you can’t ignore that AMD was nearly bankrupt and had to reinvent itself because it lost so much ground to Intel.
I'm not sure about io_uring not reimplementing everything.. it seems to be gaining more and more scope.
Well, people say FAANG mostly due to the high valuations and exponential growth. Another popular acronym is FANGMAN: Facebook; Apple; Netflix; Google; Microsoft; Amazon; Nvidia.
Indeed, and the Carolignian Empire, at its height, had united almost all of Western Europe again and led directly to France and the HRE as successor states. If you look at the conquest and governmental structures in the Carolignian Emprie, you'd have a very hard time arguing that they were undeveloped, locked in a "dark age".
> This is seen as racist by many Indians, because the popular view in India is that Sanskrit is the perfect, divine language, and all the Indo-European languages descend somehow from Sanskrit speakers ...

This is at the same level as "White supremacists declare modern science as racist as it fails to uncover genetic superiority of white people." (If you prefer, replace "white" by your favorite ethnic group.)
Ruby has been created with that in mind
The artist probably built it in segments which they could test individually then assembled it together, probably testing sub assemblies too. It'd be crazy to try to build this all at once. And since most of this boils down to a series of pulse dividers it's relatively simple to test them in pieces.
It would be more effective if only the first 100 votes were looked at because voting rings are used in the beginning to kickstart the post. In which case, the author wouldn't have an excuse to apply HLL.
> Don't most people who carry multitools already have pocket knives?

I don't think so. I carry a mutlitool and I would not want to carry a separate knife as well. The 3 things on it I use most often are knife, bottle opener, and screwdriver. My multitool's knife is also the highest quality blade I own.
They're working in two-week shifts. Pack your bags and move in for two weeks. They need to keep them sequestered with no contact with the outside world so they don't get infected. Then they'll be replaced by another crew that comes in for two weeks. Each of the members of that crew will be spot-checked for infection (utilities maintaining national critical infrastructure don't have special access to coronavirus testing kits like the NBA apparently does). When offsite you're to maintain physical quarantine in your home.

The facilities where they sequester typically have a small gym, showers and a kitchen. Food is provided. Think of it more like a fire station. The quarantining part is new, but the sequestering part isn't. Utilities do this when facing extremely large storms and other such events. This is how we do business continuity planning to ensure the lights stay on even in the midst of a storm, natural disaster, or pandemic. Those that sign on know it's part of the job and they're compensated for it - though I can't speak to how well they're being compensated.
Which is totally fine for development purposes (prototype) and work in progress mockups. But they should have changed it before putting it on a public-facing .com domain.