skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes exactly, instead of being wrapped up in the John Deer corp. the money is being used to lower prices for society and do a better job of making food accessible to the people.
Personally what I do is 30 minutes of exercise, just as a break in between the two activities(projects), after a shower it allows me to restart with better mood and more energy. Still too early to make me asleep at night time.
I just checked (and enabled) the texts for any amount over $0 on my Chase card.
Yes, and attributing Sweden's wealth to slave trade is disingenuous. Attributing it to WWII years and selling ball bearings to Nazis is more relevant - but then, who in their position wouldn't have done that? I.e. stay out of the nasty war and trade, if it helps to keep peace on borders.
Reduce the gain on your Blue Yeti - it's actually one of the disadvantages of the Yeti microphones - they capture a lot of the background noise.

For noise - try the starving artist method - record it under a thick duvet. The physics behind it is the same as those fancy expensive sound proof rooms. It actually works ! Many artists with no money use this method.

It does look ridiculous and when you present your audio to a bunch of people you do not want to reveal that you recorded it under a duvet wearing your underwear.

I am guessing you are living in a student house lol - I was lucky to live with working people who valued silence - Find a time - usually 10pm - 12 pm that is not too late and when things are quite to do your recording. If you can schedule it like that you should be fine.

I agree, understanding C helps me everyday - even though I used to complain about it in first year.

Its all in Javascript, so its something that you have experience with.

Have you thought about creating your board for the chinese market ? - in chinese for example lot of demand for educational content there ( Lots of demand for everything actually )
Revert tax policy back from an effective sub 15% at the top to far more reasonable levels.

To start, SS taxes apply to all income levels. Next, you can't avoid capital gains by donating appiceated assets. Further, capital gains is taxed at the same rate as all other income.

And my personal favorite, there are zero corporate tax breaks of any kind.
There are no universal signs that a candidate is very good. This is one of many reasons why hiring is difficult.
>> why the richest and one of the smartest men in the world would go through all that trouble just for petty "image management.

Because he is now a political actor. He and his charities are in constant contact with various governments. He does appearances with world leaders regularly. His public image is what allows him to do things that others with similar means cannot. (Having a great public image and being invited to everything is also just plain fun.)
Via who's hiring
The Card Trick
No, the article was not about him saying he lost his audience. That's the sort of reading that comes from simplistically thinking that everyone is only ever taking any position because of self-interest. Yes, he has a conflict of interest, which was clearly revealed. But the point of the article was about the shift in power, and the concentration of power in the way that the social media networks work. The point has NOTHING to do with his own access to an audience and is all about his concern about imagining the way today's versions of himself (young Iranians writing about issues today) will be limited and controlled to favor commercial interests in ways that were not the case before.

Re: pessimism vs futurism etc., you're the one that made the "people are getting smarter" claim, which is quite bold and demands evidence. I'll grant that it's possible that more percentage of people are getting adequate nutrition, health care, and education such that they are potentially more intelligent, but there's no basis for just asserting that an educated, well-nourished person today is generally any smarter than someone of that status from generations ago. So the curve is more about the percentage of people with decent health and education, and that's not something that leads to a conclusion of ever-increasing future intelligence.
> Walmart employees are not compelled to work for Walmart

Yes they are, poor people are compelled by lack of opportunity to take whatever they can find even if it sucks. Pretending they have the option of just saying no to a low salary is a bit of willful misunderstanding of the reality of their situations.

> Minimum wage is arguably the worst idea when it comes to improving the lot of the poor.

No it isn't.

> If someone cannot command more than the minimum wage when it comes to productivity, intelligence, etc, then raising that wage means that person will be unemployable. That person will be a permanent liability of the State.

That is the point, a minimum wage allows people the opportunity to get into welfare because minimum wage is part of the welfare system, it sets the low bar. It's better to not have a job and qualify for benefits than it is to have a job that pays so little it's not worth having. The minimum wage forces society to deal with the problem of people who lack the skills to make a market wage, and that's a good thing.
> But if you took the money from the 1% and distributed it to everyone, it would probably amount to a few thousand dollars each, at best.

That's patently absurd, given that the top 1% own 90%+ of the wealth.
Victory, like defeat, can have a hundred fathers...

If one must regurgitate insipid political pablum, one ought to do so accurately. Defeat is an orphan. That is the entire fucking point of the quotation.
Capitalism does a fine job at some things, but there are areas where governments deliver better outcomes.

Single payer health care is a good example.

We should strive to avoid dogma and choose the best available solution.
Credit card companies DO have chips in their cards, but thousands of merchants around the country don't yet support them. Credit card companies are doing their best to pressure merchants to upgrade their systems, but they can't just suddenly cut off those thousands of merchants.

If they did, the headlines would suddenly be "Credit card companies forcing mom and pop shops to spend thousands on new equipment"
Stanislav Petrov has to be a contender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Saved_the_World
Reflections on Being CEO of a SaaS Business
Mm, it has tremendous shortcomings. A lot of pro shops can't use it any more.
> I'm actually unsure why a (non-interactive) PDF page, displayed at 100% zoom, can't be baked into a single extremely-high-resolution tile—applied as a texture to a single GL rectangle with plain-old lanzcos downsampling. That'd work for the overwhelming majority of the frames.

Sure, but that uses a lot of memory, and initial pageload is going to be really slow. Especially when you consider you need to generate mipmaps if it's really high resolution, or else blow out your GPU's L1/L2 cache in FS execution.

> Doesn't that approach win over re-rendering all the text from a font-atlas every frame?

Not significantly, in my experience. Assume, in the simple case, that you're just rendering a bunch of text with no overlap. In that case, the only thing that tiles buy you over rerendering all the text from an atlas is decreased vertex count. You're still touching the same number of pixels in the FS and ROP units either way: you just do so with more vertices in the texture atlas case and fewer vertices in the tiling case. Now consider that creating and maintaining the tiles has costs over maintaining the glyph atlas (which you have to do either way): you have the memory of the tiles, the overhead of creating and switching FBOs, lots of little textures to keep around (which in naive implementations results in tons of state changes), and extra draw calls to render the tiles after rendering the content.

> why do browser rendering engines use tiles?

Mostly because it was an easy way to fit GPU-accelerated panning and zooming into the existing, originally CPU-based, rendering architectures that browser engines used (and still largely use). Tiling was popularized by Mobile Safari on the iPhone in 2007 as an easy way to avoid repainting the entire page on the CPU every frame when the user performed touch gestures. I don't think it's necessarily a globally optimal decision.
Many, many factors:

1) The average American lives 18 miles from his or her mother. Leaving one's hometown for a tech/finance/arts hub is for the upwardly mobile elites, not the masses. HN's demographic is extremely unrepresentative.

2) Foreign language education is poor. K12 schools generally make a token effort towards Spanish, French, and German. Asian language education is rare. Bilingual children are generally from immigrant families, or from very wealthy families who can afford good schools, study abroad programs, a gap year or summer for their teenager to wander around Europe with friends instead of working, etc.

3) International travel is extremely expensive and most people do not have that kind of cash lying around to cover necessities, let alone leisure travel. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. So going abroad is just not a familiar or natural experience to many people. Only 46% have passports.
> No, I understand it to be "police can sometimes use force unjustifiably towards anyone, of any race."

This would be true if this is what the people saying it demonstrated beliefs that were congruent with their actions. However, the overwhelming majority (to the point where the counterparty is anecdotal and, frankly, possibly mythical) use it to establish a fundamentally conservative defense of the status quo. I mean--"All Lives Matter" sounds good. Except it is used as a direct and intentional response to the institutional prejudice and societal control via police that is applied to black people, and when you look at deeds instead of words, that's super fucked-up.

"All Lives Matter" requires intentionally misunderstanding "Black Lives Matter." What it means, and what they no-sell as hard as they possibly, possibly can, is that it's really "Black Lives Matter, Too". Because right now, to society at large, black lives don't matter.

Deeds, not words, and the deeds are uniformly bad.
A market/fair rate requires a market, something bigger than a single employer. If a market rate exists, it must be possible to pay someone above/below that rate. If the fair rate is always whatever someone is paid, the concepts of fair or market rates looses all meaning.
You also forget that to IP lawyers, this probably seems like a clear cut case and an opportunity to get their name out there. I have little doubt that he will have no trouble looking for lawyers willing to handle this case pro bono.
That just kicks the problem up one level: now you've got to figure out the distinction between political speech and non-political speech. I'm not familiar with how things work in Belgium, but in the United States Hollywood has released a large number of explicitly political movies in the past fifteen years, such as Lions for Lambs or Bowling for Columbine or Munich, and that doesn't even get into the political subtexts that are often present even in mass-market blockbusters. Would those be forbidden under this policy?

Assuming that you do come up with a plausible way of drawing a line here, you also need to have general trust that this power will not be abused. Given the heavy politicization of regulatory agencies in the United States, a large portion of the population is worried -- not without substantial justification -- that "is this speech opposed to the party in power" will be one of the factors used to draw that line.
You get something of the same with the "do not break user space" policy that Torvalds is holding the kernel devs to.

Just wish that the user space libs would adopt the same policy, rather than try to paper over it by stuffing everything into containers (liable to turn into the Linux equivalent of DLL hell).
No, I got that part, but the term actually has a meaning in the current world other than the composition of its parts which is different than the examples you cite.

> I am sure most white folks would sound like heathens when visiting a reservation and trying to engage the members of the tribe.

Not in normal conversations, its still America (or Canada for reserves), but anyone debating what someone else should call themselves does lead to a bit of trouble. The history of the Sioux alone shows that.
> success = ability * motivation * opportunity

success = (ability * motivation * opportunity)^hugeDoseOfLuck

There is no guaranteed formula for success, it is heavily luck dependent. Those who think otherwise are suffering from survivor-ship bias and/or the just world fallacy.
> And, some people are born Mozarts and Newtons, and we never hear of them because they they lack connections, access, leisure, and opportunity.

That's why I said even if we had 100% full equal opportunities, we would still have inequalities. Let's say 100% of people who are born Mozarts and Newtons got to be heard and succeed and all have great connections and equal opportunities, we would still have the same problem with people _not_ being born with such huge potential. That is, unless you believe we all are Mozarts and Newtons that weren't given the right opportunities and connections and here we'll have to disagree. Now, what kind of society gives better chance to succeed for everyone? Socialists ones with no freedom or the ones with the maximum freedoms? Reality says the latter.
I love this story, it's way more interesting than a lot of your peers. I'm sure you'll survive and move on. Although, I question whether you really thought being a reality TV star would ever pan into a engineering career.

I had someone reach out to me on LinkedIn to try to recruit me to be a on 'brogrammer' reality show..
I don't know about alternatives, but I noticed that when I hooked up my Amex to Apple Pay, every transaction shows up as a push notification on my iPhone, nearly instantly.
Interesting comment!

Would love to read antirez response to these points. Oversights, omissions, alternative design?
This buying the government is terrifyingly real. In university I once went to a dinner/seminar hosted by one of the top three law firms in DC, where we were instructed on how exactly to bribe congressmen. It turns out to buy a vote, a Representative is 10k and a Senator is 20k. They walked us through how we could give bonuses to employees with the understanding that part of that money would be written as maximum individual size checks to the campaigns. We were assured that it was not illegal as long as these bonuses and donations to not match in space and time. The law firm offered to prepare the appropriation text to be inserted into an omnibus. Then once it passed the money would be laundered through the Dept of Education, the Dept Labor, the Dept of Defense, or other Dept that would take a 15% cut for the service. Then we would be awarded the money, or get a tax credit, or so on. The law firm charged another 15% for their service, and would charge half now half on delivery.

This is the instruction that the children of the ruling elite are getting at Ivy Leagues, it permeates the entire culture of the privileged class.
> No leftie is arguing or longing for any of these policies.

This is not correct. If you read "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", the book most lefties are pushing nowadays, you'll see there is a chapter with recommended solutions.

The recommended solutions are things like government control of CEO salaries, confiscatory taxes on the rich (e.g. not taxes to pay for something, taxes to specifically change their status from rich to middle class, something the author even says wouldn't even bring in useful income for the government because there are so few rich to confiscate from), etc.. So their are central planning policies being recommended indeed.
Why not just have one tax, a death tax? Set the barrier high enough so that people may will their children and grandchildren enough money to do nothing.
No it is not vinegar like at all, the wine tastes pretty tasteless, but there is an unpleasant smell, does smell a bit like a cork might taste.
There is some kind of genius in the propaganda around the gas thieves. They are stealing stuff, but let's paint them even darker by saying their trucks are unsafe. You know what's probably more unsafe? a policeman with a gun. But the prosecutor is elected, every case is more than a legal case, it's an election campaign PR operation, you have to win indictment, the trial and the reelection with every case.

I just love it, nobody can state anything objectively and with detachment anymore, everything is politically overloaded, even stuff that could be even as consensual as thievery.
When computers design things, they look very different
Heh, yeah. But you don't have to pop your veins out of your neck. And if you have a skip in your step and/or wear some quirky colorful clothing, people won't see you as aggressive just for having good posture and a low hat.
The difference between slaves and workers is that dying or becoming too wounded to work is an expense, for slaves.
You may want to reconsider. CoPP only goes so far, as we've learned the hard way.
It does kind of matter, because compression isn't the only form of optimization that can be done. Consider a 32 bit png that is actually bilevel with no transparency. If zopfli just recompresses, PNGOut will still make smaller output because it does bit depth reductions.
Ja das git mier o so.
Rahm Emanuel sends his kids to private school.

Any politician that does this makes it hard to buy in to his "reforms"
An Emacs diehard who is merging a commit from a sad Linux wonk
Corporate workplaces really are designed for humans who mimic robots.

Some people can do a better job mimicking robots that others and some can keep it up for longer. For most, the longer you keep it going the more robotic you become. People leave because they need to feel human again. No one likes to admit this truth because once they do they have to live with it.

I can even see it in the authors writing; on two occasions he refers to his employees as "humans" as opposed to just 'people' or 'employees'. That's typical dissociative behaviour and the kind of stuff that leads to people feeling less than human and eventually leaving via whatever alternative reasoning.
Genau so mit Brötli.
I like how he tries to quote a "Nobel prize winning economist" as an appeal to authority, but then (without naming him) insults Picketty's work, which will probably win a Nobel. PG is a smart guy but he really should stick to his areas of expertise, him and Marc Andreessen both frequently make basic finance and econ theory mistakes. PG's claim that he is in a position to speak with authority on inequality is like an electrician claiming he is in a position to speak with as much authority as the architect concerning the overall progress of the building.
The outcome of economic interactions is not a zero sum

If that were true nobody would ever feel ripped off. People irrationally engage in inefficient transactions all the time. For example, people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to be (and admit that they are) acting irrationally than truly deriving so much social or chemical utility from puffing on cigarettes that it exceeds the risk-weighted disutility of lung cancer, emphysema and so on.
>So why doesn't Graham recognize and advocate this? Perhaps it's because two of his biggest golden geese — Uber and AirBnB — are actually relying on exactly the kind of political influence I'm calling out here in order to survive and prosper.

Whether this is true or not, we need to realize PG has motives. He doesn't write essays just for his health.
We were assured that it was not illegal as long as these
bonuses and donations to not match in space and time.

It's absolutely illegal. What he was apparently trying to convey is that it you are less likely to be caught if the contributions are spread out.
I'm struggling not to find the writing style boastful or arrogant. I can't put my finger on why I get that vibe, but I do, and it's off-putting. Thoughts?
> * way faster to execute in a debug build

Frankly, this doesn't _really_ matter. IIRC, most non-pathological use of the STL compiles into very reasonable code when run through an optimizer.

Let's be real. If you're shipping non-optimized code to a client, you don't actually care about performance. :)
Those aren't the only two choices. The west, and even many in the east, are made up of mixed economies. Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and many others are extremely successful mixed economies by most measures (see OECD stats to start.) In the US, the mix is currently wildly out of whack; it needs to move back towards broadly shared prosperity, rather than the oligarchy we have now. That means higher taxes on the wealthy, better social programs, redistribution, and all the rest.

Read "Twilight of the Elites." Few are arguing for zero inequality; even anti-inequality crusaders acknowledge there will always be some inequality. It depends on how much, and what that affords the society. The amount we have now is wildly out of balance. We have models that work better in the world, and even in America's past, and should look to those.

No one is arguing for communism anymore (the implications of the poster higher up notwithstanding), except those that are largely irrelevant to the debate.
My understanding is that in a perfectly efficient free market, yes, everyone would be paid 'fair market rate' for their particular skills.

But such markets are only approximated in practice, and the interesting part of Economics is studying the effects of how actual markets differ from being perfectly free and efficient.
The fallacy of relative privation: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
Well, sure... IF you don't read the essay title, the graph title, the surrounding context, the paragraph directly after the graph, etc.

I plan to fix this when I use this graph elsewhere, but I really don't understand this comment. Is it an automatic knee-jerk reaction because you looked at the graph axes and didn't read the article?

Or did you read it, and have a genuinely hard time making sense of what was going on?

If the latter... sorry about that. However, I'm surprised at just how many people seem to have understood this idea, even without the labels, if it is such a severe problem.
The Internet has, indeed, conducted this argument thousands of times. My point here is only about the difficulty of reviewing Python code. I find myself sometimes having to hold up a piece of paper to the screen to see if the indentation has been done right, in addition to the aforementioned function-body-reading chores. Of course my opinion is of no concern to people except those who work with me, from whom I refuse to review Python code. It's just not worth my time.
I wouldn't call this a design flaw, it just shifts the responsibility of handling conflicts to the consumer app rather than forcing you into a server-side solution. It's too application-specific what kind of partition recovery do you need. Most people don't mind to lose a message. If you don't want to lose messages (CP-mode?) just stick all clients for certain app object (AMQP tree) to consume from the same node and block until everything is healthy or fail them over in some app-specific way to ensure consistency. While other AMQP servers may handle it better for your case these things tend to be app-specifc since your app knows better than the server which trees are critical and which are not.
The definition of a startup is a reoccurring theme here and I'd really wish pg would reference it every time he uses the term. For him, a startup = growth [0], and as you can tell by this quora answer[1], not everyone agrees with that.

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

[1] - https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-proper-definition-of-a-sta...