skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how are you supposed to do that without having the knowledge of what other people doing similar work are doing? The employer you're negotiating against certainly knows that amount. Why shouldn't everyone else?
I'm not sure a 20 degree shower really counts as a cold shower. That is a comfortable swimming temperature on most summer days and people can easily spend 20-30 minutes in water just to cool off even if they are unaccustomed to taking cold showers at home.

I've only been to such hot countries on vacation, and I think if asked, most people would confirm that they mostly don't use the hot water, except perhaps to sanitize hands with soap.
I think we forget that pay is not about contribution but about cost of alternatives.

For the employee, there is a salary floor at which alternatives are more attractive. For the employer there is a ceiling at which alternatives are more attractive. Compensation by definition is somewhere in the middle.

High contributions raise the ceiling, market rates raise the floor. Everything else is just positioning.
A dubious cyber security conference
That's kinda the point of the article. Not only does it purify contaminated air for the occupants, it actually reduces contaminants outside the car. Tesla is marketing this to locales with literally dangerous levels of smog.
It's your job to make sure the needy and poor and sick and hungry are taken care of. The government is you, what it does is your responsibility. Paying taxes, shrugging your shoulders, and saying "not my problem anymore" is not an option from a moral standpoint. If it is ineffective, it's on you and all of us to make sure it works properly.
"Voluntary" is all about definitions. I imagine they'll count an automatic opt-in as "voluntary".
How does this scale for high-dimensional data? The example uses 2 dimensions - connections and latency - but real world (performance) data will often have many more associated variables. I don't know a lot about Bayesian methods but it seems like calculating joint posteriors would become slow.

But definitely a very interesting approach, and the Stan code is surprisingly readable!
Yes, I believe that a subscription platform like this is the way forward for web content. It's a project I'm interested in undertaking someday. Will be interesting to watch how this pans out.
> Manual memory management can be done safely and economically.

There is very little evidence of that, and extensive evidence to the contrary.

> This really is as simple as "the thing in the loop which has agency is the human, so the buck stops there."

Not only is that exactly the opposite of one of the few groups which did manage to get somewhat good at this (the on-board shuttle group), it's also the incorrect and inane thinking which led e.g. surgeons to resist checklists. Again, your line of thinking has only led us to half a century of failure.

Agency is irrelevant, people are good at creative elements but terrible at systematic ones, yet you're pushing more systematic work onto the one piece of the chain least suited for it, then blaming it for its failure.

> This is not even a single point of failure; it's an ecosystem failure.

Well there's at least one thing we agree on.
What you left out is that the Mincome program also lowered hospital visits and work-related injuries. Yes, I hear you saying, "of course, less work == less workplace injuries." But what's important is the effect fewer injuries has on productivity. This happened with the 40 hour workweek laws introduced by the New Deal. Fewer injuries, better productivity numbers over the long run. [1] This study was short-lived and should at least be repeated with better controls before we make blanket statements about what will and won't work.

You also gloss over the fact that it allowed mothers to stay home with their children. The benefit to society and productivity of stronger families shouldn't be understated.

Finally, you assume that people would stop cutting lawns, nursing, and providing childcare – why?

1: The Rise and Fall of American Growth: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10544.html
"La propriété, c'est le vol!"
- Proudhon
I meant the STEM work as an example (hence the eg.) -- sorry if I wasn't more clear. You could just as easily substitute any "skilled" profession -- medicine, etc.

All work can certainly be fulfilling, but more because of the reasons I described (it's a means to an end) than the reasons you're describing. Certainly, people shouldn't be forced to take particularly degrading jobs when they don't want to in order to survive. But do they find it degrading, or do you? Those are two very different things.

It's impossible that there are enough people in the world passionate about garbage collection -- allocated perfectly across the correct geographic regions, mind you -- to fill all of the available positions.
Solar power REDUCES peak grid usage; it does NOT increase it.

When do you think solar power is producing the most electricity? In the afternoon on a hot summer day.

When do you think peak grid electricity usage peaks? In the afternoon on a hot summer day!

Solar power helps get rid of the peak electricity usage problem. If anything, power companies should be paying solar users even more, because they are reducing costs for the power company, not increasing them.
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Meteor.js Redesign
Surge in Ridership Pushes New York Subway to Limit
This is Elon Musk explaining the difference in a 2 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82_okF1AWo
Mice don't play soccer, compose symphonies, do crosswords, watch TV, etc. In other words, we're considerably better filling our leisure time than they are.

(I'm 43. 'Kiddo' is slightly insulting and, dare I say, condescending.)
What can be done to deal with the death of trees, then? Mass planting of resistant species?
The prevention to this type of problem is probably the same measure needed to fix many forestry problems.

Regular fires.

But now we have homes right up to the forest and no one wants to look at charred land for two decades. So I suppose it's still a no go. The thing about fire though is eventually it probably happens anyway.
>What is my username.

>Your email address, in most cases.

I have accounts with, like, a bazillion different financial institutions. They all require user names that have length requirements and special character/number requirements. I would forget all my user names if it weren't for password managers.

If you have one bank, no 401k, no IRA, no credit cards, two social media accounts, one email address, and do all your online shopping on Amazon, and not much else this sort of disadvantage won't pop up but once you get into multiple accounts on multiple sites it does not scale.

If you have many password schemes you'd also have to remember the password rules for every single site.
This makes me wonder what role fire normally plays in the life-cycle of tree pathogens. Does this fungus survive heat well? Can it survive in the soil long enough to spread to a new host (presumably a new Oak tree)?

As a second point, this demonstrates the danger presented by monoculture. The industrialization of agriculture horticulture has been unquestionably beneficial for us as a species. However, we do an absolutely terrible job of managing existential risks in horticulture. When we grow crops, we grow millions of acres of the same crop. When we plant trees, we plant thousands of the same trees. City streets in the US used to be lined with Ash trees, as they were inexpensive and fast growing. Now there are areas where almost every tree has been cut down because of the Emerald Ash Borer.

I think the blame can be assigned as much to the consumer as it can with the individuals growing the plants. Consumers, (myself included) are extremely picky about what they will eat or buy. Varieties of crops are selected for their looks, and varieties of crops that are not consistently good looking fall by the wayside.

I don't think this will cause a famine in the first world in the near future, but the poor genetic diversity of our horticulture is definitely an area of concern.
I think if we're being honest, we should have been seeing those article for the last ten years.
I respectfully disagree. Property rights have a moral component independent of their economic value, similar to privacy rights.

Say someone says "let me search your car, what have you got to hide?" What argument can you use against it? The problem is that we've been manipulated to believe privacy has no real moral claim. In reality, you should be able to just say "it's private" and not feel compelled to provide further explanation.

It's not so different from being punched in the stomach. You aren't going to die, so what's the problem? You heal and everything is fine. So why won't you let me punch you in the stomach?

Theft is, similarly, a moral issue. If I make something, and someone takes it, I will feel bad. Much worse than if I had to sell it to pay taxes (even if I disagree with the tax policy).
You're not going to consume your bed, either.
I was thinking the same - eventually resistance develops.
> It really looks different from what you see from cars. It's like a haze.. sorta like fog, but more gray. But it's very uniform and everywhere.

Cars can cause it too. Long time Los Angeles residents can attest to that. The fuel efficiency and smog requirements in recent decades have made it much less likely though[1].

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=la+smog&tbm=isch#tbm=isch&q=...
ABP already is part of the dark side with their "acceptable ads." It boggles the mind why a program whose sole purpose is to block ads would not do so out of the box.

Anyone who hasn't yet switched to uBlock Origin should do so ASAP. It's super fast, has a much smaller memory footprint, has a strict policy against "acceptable ads" (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md), licensed under the GPLv3, and hosted in a very active repository on GitHub (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock).
My wife's Nissan Quest has an "air cleaning" mode it turns on occasionally. No idea if it really does anything, but it's got a big HEPA filter.
> And these choices were insufficient to save him

> If you think that is what I said, you did not understand what I wrote.

I cannot think otherwise because you seem to say that stealing is still the only means of survival. I offered what this person could do instead of stealing. Stealing is still not the only solution.
My favorite part of The Magicians series is how complex and real the magic system felt. It was a science just like physics or chemistry. You had to work to get spells right, and creating new spells must have taken many many years of building up abstraction layers and "architecture" so as to allow more complex mechanisms.

Another book that delved into this was "The Wiz Biz" by Rick Cook. Haven't read the second two books in the series yet, but the cool part was when he realized how by combining certain basic spells, he could create something that was essentially a programming language for magic.

Another one that I started getting into (although the writing style isn't my favorite) is Ra [1]. There magic is just like any other engineering discipline in college.

I'd love recommendations for other books where magic is treated like computer science if people have them.

Back to the topic though--where I work our engineers actually have the official title of "Sorcerers." While I'm not an engineer myself, I consider myself fairly tech savvy and have been teaching myself Ruby and RoR over the past couple years to augment my HTML/CSS/JS knowledge. I still have that sense of wonder when I realize realize all that time I saved by abstracting something away to a single function.

Another book that gave me a similar feeling of awe and humbleness was "Code." It starts with wires and relays and explains how computers work from the ground up. At first it was easy to follow, then I got lost on the combinatorics. Hoping to pick it up again, but it really goes to show how much truly arcane knowledge is required to get us to where we are today. I'd wager most developers out there probably could not assemble a full set of logic gates from a NAND gate if you asked them to. To them, hardware and perhaps even low level systems are, for all intents and purposes, magic.

Then you look at the general population of non-tech-savvy people and while they may take things for granted, devices like cell phones, iPads, etc. are truly magical devices. It's like living in a high-magic D&D campaign setting like Netheril where magic is plentiful and embedded into every aspect of life.

What an amazing time to be alive.

[1] https://qntm.org/ra
Bump Go, fix bugs that were there but are now exposed by improvements to the runtime/race detectors, carry on with life.
But still, just one page of code? Ideally, drawing a quad should be a one-liner.
> The insanely dedicated people who maintain the ad blocking lists are the real heroes here, the client that uses them is completely replaceable.

Who are these people and why do they do it? The wikipedia article on uBlock Origin didn't help much.
Actually I'm not resistant to TypeScript. I just don't want it.
Reasons are:
- Google changes their mind so freaking often that it's simple not a good idea to follow them there. (Just look at GWT, good project however the direction is more and more confusing especially the communication is really really akward.
- Why changing to Angular 2 and TypeScript when there are way many other frameworks that are either in JavaScript or just a little bit better suited for some things?
- Why can't I upgrade in a slow path with small deprecations? (i.e. emberjs, react)

That are the most reasonable. Actually there are some others which has more something todo with our internal things and that ScalaJS < = > Scala is so good at the current stage.
Work on UI stuff for other tasks that don't require the back-end.

Sometimes I'd read up on technical articles / blog posts related to what I'm working on.
Monte Compiler Ramble
fedora and ubuntu have worked really well for me on high dpi screens. Unity and GNOME didn't require any tweaking.
In most places, power companies pay to build and maintain the grid, not the government with taxes.
Ads themselves are an inconvenience on readers.

It's possible for a website owner to directly publish ads, and those ads would be harder to block (but still trivial). Site owners trade screen real estate in exchange for ad revenue, just like billboards of old. This used to be the model in the early 2000s and I actually OK with it... though it probably wasn't the best model, a bit like running a diner on revenue from ads in the menu.

The problem is centralized publishers. They offer higher revenue through highly targeting ads from thousands of advertisers. It's a race to the bottom where all websites are incentivized to use publishers and consumers are forced to use ad blocking tools against the publishers (hurting content creators)... undermining the long-term sustainability of the internet as a content publishing medium.

As with many things, both consumers and producers are acting justifiably. It's the man in the middle that needs to go. He's just skimming a short-term profit and hurting both sides in the long-run.
The "Bioweapons" pitch is a little laughable, but as someone with allergies I'm still totally on board for the actual product and what it actually can do.
Watching this unfold is simply fascinating to me from a sociological point of view. The number of scammers, liars, and pure weirdos that have gravitated to Bitcoin is incredible. I am simultaneously entertained, and saddened that people like this are able to wield such power over the community.
Pretty much what I was thinking too. Guess I'll be sticking with my 2000 V6 mustang for another 10 years.
Monthly marks are pretty meaningless, especially as the companies being marked probably don't provide new information to Fidelity monthly.
Use uBlock Origin, see my other post. The author of uBlock Origin makes it clear that no donations are sought for the development of the extension. That is not the case with the other version.
leaked password: choose a new/different two char index or path scheme.

alphanumeric only (some would say avoid such sites [shrug]): just continue along the path skipping over the non-alphanumerics until you've got the length you want.
How to Pick Music for People on LSD, from a Scientist Whose Job That Is
Right to life is self evident while property's is not.

"La Propriété est elle juste?" - Proudhon
I wonder if the weight of solar panels would prevent them being mounted on a wheeled device like the rolling irrigation systems used on many farms? Those are pretty robust and don't break frequently or require much maintenance; in the case of solar panels, they wouldn't even need to move frequently (so no need for permanent motors on them; you could just hook them to tractors or trucks and tow them out of the way). Though, there would need to be a lot more of them, and moving a bunch of them for harvest time or other stuff that required them out of the way would take a lot of time.
33.3333 * 7 / 40 = 5.83 years
16 Apps that will help you travel the world
I guess my point is that even after using such tools for years I don't find myself remembering many of the heavily overloaded keystroke combos. Of course it doesn't help that I use a Linux box for development and Mac OS for email and document management... so I'm constantly switching between competing keyboard shortcut systems.

I've seen companies offering complete custom laser engraved keycap sets, so that got me thinking that building a really big keyboard, like starting with an old school 104 key with full upper row of function keys and the keypad on the right and adding another similarly sized keypad on the left.

I got really psyched up for that keyboard from Art. Lebedev Studio that had the oled key caps but they never were able to get the whole setup to work reliably. I think they're still selling the second generation for some obscene price and given my brief exposure to it I'm not fully convinced it's really comfortable to use for lengthy sessions.
Interesting that Computer Science is the lowest of all the engineering and science degrees. Any idea why that is? (Higher level of programming required as a base skill? Too many different skills to master? Too many of the top undergrads go to industry?)
When Americans say they have roommates in SF do you mean you have to literally share the same room as someone you aren't in a relationship with?
This is a common mistake that people make, especially when talking about fancy, flashy technologies, like drive way solar panels, road solar panels, ect

We do not have a shortage of land or places to put solar panels. Land is cheap, cheap, cheap compared to the other costs of solar panels.

There is no need to come up with fancy schemes to convert roads or windows or farms or whatever to solar panels. We aren't running out of land for them any time soon.
Makes sense. That should help keep outside air (other than through the main filter) out of the car.

However, there's also positive pressure inside my BMW when the HVAC system is running. This is one of the reasons that the windows slide down ~1cm when you open the door and slide back up after you close it. It makes it easier to close the door. Even with that, it takes a considerable amount more force to close the door when the HVAC system is running.

The HVAC system in the BMW was probably not designed with the intent of stopping bioweapons, but what I'm alluding to is that I'd be curious to see the same air quality tests performed on other cars which include in-cabin air filters.

Maybe they all work that well?

I don't think the BMW has a HEPA filter though. However, it should be good enough. I found the following online (though not from the best of sources):

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Cabin air filters are very efficient and have electrostatically charged fibers that can trap particles smaller than 1 micron in size. Most quality cabin air filters will stop 100% of all particles that are 3 microns or larger in size and 95-99% of particles in the 1-3 micron size range.
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http://www.underhoodservice.com/tech-tip-cabin-air-filter-q-...
I didn't get into this aspect but you're spot on. This upward pressure on prices for certain services could drive innovation into automating them, which benefits society as a whole. It could also transform jobs such that you no longer need a gardener to mow your lawn, but rather a lawn mower drone controller who parks his truck in a neighborhood, and manages a fleet of mowing drones for all his customers there.

This will produce a constant back-and-forth impact on labor markets as jobs are automated, then new jobs are created as a result, and then those jobs are automated. Having the basic income in place allows society to remain functioning while this happens and makes it more able to weather the changes and adapt.
WSJ is now detecting my ad blocker, which is weird; I can't view the article anyway because it needs signing in.

Anyway, see https://archive.is/2gdbf
If we were to go by those values, I should be an excellent programmer!

Unfortunately, I am far more proficient in fitness & health than software development.
What do you think of approaching anomaly detection as a semi-supervised classification problem?
I keep a close look at the economic of rooftop pricing in TX - it's still not profitable switching but getting close.

Cons:
- Retail cost of electricity is already v low in most of TX (Houston, Dallas) - so it's hard to compete.
- not much competition in the solar rooftop installation space (due to first point above)
- No net metering policies in Houston, Dallas.

Pros
- High solar yield
How good is GNU/linux support on chrome books?
> at least one adult has to take to and pick up kids from school until 11 or 12 years old where I am from

Where is this? Do you mean by law, or is this just some social expectation? I find it hard to imagine how one would go about enforcing this, and it seems pretty silly for schools in cities and urban areas where kids are often living ~5-10 minutes walk from their school...
That doesn't stop it from removing 97% of the pollutants from the air.
>* Don't worry too much about crazy contracts / terms of service. If you run a business you will end up signing all kinds of ridiculous contracts. If you are worried about the consequences, get a normal job instead.

How is this a top comment?? Awful advice
Agreed. But benefit of a "team" is continuity.
I'm sorry, what exactly is happening to the "western welfare class"?
Bit of a burden to get to the actual answer, but brilliant way to get data / display results.

Not very accurate in Paris though, my rent is actually a good deal in my neighbourhood, and it states it's overpriced. But 2km radius in paris could lead to a x3 in price for the same surface ;)
its no genius - just, most people are morons
ha! Very same experience here, too. I was just working at a place where one of the designer-founders redesigned a page to look one way. Then three months later, he redesigned it again, to look back the old way. He actually put these into the pipeline, assigned it to different engineers, and there was no reasoning over choosing one way or the other. Both designs had the same functionality and the same glaring flaws. He just kept wavering and wouldn't even consider doing any user testing or A/B testing on it. Glad I don't work there anymore.
The casual misogyny of this thread is impressively internalized.