skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're still in the early stages of this. Our current thinking is in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TEHZTvg9jxlwvKvsc5fm2FvZ...

We will maybe end up with a mix of cost of living, cost of labour, and rent.

We address red-hot real estate by considering to add rent to the mix, but it is tricky since some team members might be living in rent-controlled apartments and we want to have a number that doesn't depend on personal circumstances.
On average, any lossless compression scheme must have >= 1x compression. Lossy compression schemes can have less (since they're discarding information), and lossless compression schemes certainly can average out to > 1x (this is trivially observable by taking any 1x-average scheme and adding a fixed-length header to the output).
Would it make much difference? There will be a transaction in the other direction soon enough.
I think you should learn how to install a program and even compile a program before you make one yourself.
If you learn these basic skills it will be easy to take up any programming language.
So let's assume that we legalize alcohol for everyone: can I now buy beer and whisky and absinthe and whatnot complete with glasses from 7-Eleven? Are we seriously proposing that people in masses would be able to responsibly consume these substances. If ther is doubt, maybe we add, similar to obtaining a drivers license, a class of responsible alcohol use for kids to their high school curriculum. A 12-step program from mild to mind blowing drunkness that runs from elementary to the high school graduation. Which begs the question, do we make them free for all ages, subject to parents discretion, or maybe no alcohol for minors? Or high schoolers? But tehn again, that would make it less-free.

And yet the world did not end when alcohol became legal where it was before illegal. Minors aren't allowed to use it. People of certain ages are allowed to use it with parents discretion. Many schools have classes about alcoholism and responsible drinking.

Most people are fine with that.

On the other hand, many high schoolers and below are prescribed controlled doses of amphetamines.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can confirm that this idea is pervasive in physics (both experimental and theoretical)
> every person experiencing stagnation in the developed world, ten people in the developing world have experienced double digit growth.

As the article speaks of half a billion people experiencing stagnation, that would make ~5 billion people experiencing double-digit growth.

I've heard the general claim of reduced poverty pretty often, but I'd be (genuinely) curious to see sources of it. It seems strange in light of the current migratory movements from "developing" into "developed" countries: As in, if poverty has been reduced by such a tremendous amount, why are so many people ready to risk their life to get to europe instead of taking part in the booming economy at home?
My mother indirectly used COBOL in the microcomputer era: she used Real World Accounting on 68000 based Radio Shack Model-16's under something called Ryan McFarland COBOL Operating System (RM/COS). Eventually this became available on Xenix and SCO UNIX on PCs.

My one and so far only COBOL program was an ASCII-graphics game of checkers for the TRS-80 model 16.
Yep, Humans are social animals and chatting is just as crucial as eating (in 1st world countries). Reading the news? We can do without it. One is addressing a need, the other isn't.
> I've got a challenge for you, start using heroin, then decide to stop, like a casual drinker.

Just because it's easy for you to refrain from drinking alcohol does not mean it is easy for everybody. Some people have a serious problem to the point where the only way to guarantee they don't abuse it is to not even be in the same room or house as the stuff.
> It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers.

This is why I said a "giant barrel", because serving web pages does have marginal cost to the server owner, and from there you could imagine a situation where your page view does diminish the number of page views left for "paying" customers.

I might fast-forward through the ads, but I wouldn't feel good about it or try to defend it philosophically.
That Lambda use case makes a lot of sense. The editor they have in place for Lambda right now barely exists. You can't even use it if you go the upload the build artifact as a zip route.
Scratch is really great. It's free, and kids can publish their work online. Being able to see what other people are doing, tinker with their work, and show off your own projects was a big draw for my son.

It's a visual programming environment, so moving into a second more traditional (text-based) programming language is a non-trivial step, but scratch gets you thinking in terms of algorithms, teaches about what variables are and why they matter, loops and conditionals, etc.
I don't know... less than a year ago I didn't even get an interview because they were (legitimately) concerned with my lack of experience with Haml and Rails.

I mean, kudos to them if they changed their view on this. I just wanted to let you know about my experience on the topic at hand.
"140,000 sticker sets and 6,830 emoji." They even sell a special emoji keyboard.
I think the only argument left for "why I should learn OO before FP" is the lingering suspicion no one would tolerate the pain involved with OO once they reached that point.
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OTOH, it takes a lot longer to become physically dependent on alcohol than opiates.

But yes, don't mess with your GABA system unless you like seizures; and don't mess with your opiod system unless you like being miserable.
HyperCard is great for this, but it's system requirements are likely a little too ancient.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Any chance you can obtain a contract position or freelance work during that time so you can just list it as contract position/work.

But I really wouldn't worry about a small gap especially when moving to a new city.

Once you know you're leaving and getting ready to turn in your notice you could ask HR if you could take unpaid leave so your last official day is a few months out, not sure this is possible but if you're worried about your last official day of employment or a gap it might be worth asking.

I think I've only had one company contact my previous companies HR to verify my dates of employment. And one of my former companies HR staff called to let me know about it and see if it was ok to give them information and say they weren't even sure they can legally call up and ask for employee information like that.

Anyway good luck landing a new gig.
You don't need a conspiracy to have systemic exploitation.
Completely forgot about those. Thanks
It's not so much a conspiracy per-se, as a case where people, who might otherwise support changing the system, don't do so out of self-interest. At the very least, a lot of people are incentivized to remain silent and accept the status quo as is, even if their personal feelings might lead them down a different path.
Does making something illegal reduce its rate of use? I'm not convinced that it does.
> Transients living in your midst! It sounds more like you pay extra to be away from the poors.

That's an overly simplistic view of the housing market, but yes, that's a major factor in real estate pricing.
It's not a smoky room conspiracy

It's a marble halls & suits non-conspiracy lobbying thing.
There's not really much more to it than what you see in this article. You log onto one of a few crappy ebay-looking sites, and sellers list items for sale basically using the same list of categories in the graphic. No hit men or anything like that - and Craigslist works fine for prostitutes. Sometimes site managers don't even allow the sale of guns. It's mostly just people buying and selling drugs. And 15% of users of illegal drugs have obtained them through these sources.
Not the parent commenter, but I personally know the guy who runs the security outfit for him (and various other big names in SV).
IMO, it shows how they don't plan to make any money from this, don't consider it a large competitive advantage, and think that the largest advantage of open sourcing it are the 'free' open source volunteers will improve the software.

It's interesting that they don't consider it a large enough competitive advantage.

Either that or they are using this to attract engineers.
Well of course it only works for the specific people you're "protecting" and kinda screws over everyone else. My point was, if you're only looking at the median OF the richest countries, of course it's going to move down. Maybe a lot. Even as the mean of that country goes up and the real median (of everyone involved) should go up too.

And long-term, the cheaper workers overseas should move a bit higher into the middle class, which makes them more expensive and also increases their demand for services and manufacturing. At that point the original workers could get better jobs to fulfill the new demand. But that could take a long time!
Funny how people who prefer Photoshop always have to show up and take a dump on GIMP just because it doesn't meet their expectations. I don't particularly like Photoshop and haven't used it in nearly a decade, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I think it's bad software.(though I'm not a fan of Adobe's practices)

If GIMP is ever going to support the desires of professional designers, it's going to have to be developed by designers. Maybe I'm wrong, but I am willing to bet that the people who actively use and develop GIMP are people with programming experience who are doing some digital imaging on the side that doesn't require things like CMYK or high bit depth. GEGL and GIMP have been in development for a long time now, but have advanced in areas that the user base cares about, but not necessarily in areas that professionals care about. Simple as that.

If you really hate Photoshop, learn Scheme and contribute to GIMP and GEGL.

I do want to comment on the non-destructive editing feature; I feel like that's also a serious designer convenience, but it's never been something that I have personally desired. In fact, I wouldn't really want it, I think. In other software packages that have similar non-destructive capabilities, like Maya, the "history" of an object becomes more and more cumbersome over time. Maybe this doesn't happen in Photoshop, IDK. To be honest, I'm perfectly fine duplicating layers are "backups" before deciding on the right look.
with "virtual lawsuit" I was not serious. I don't think complaining to Niantic counts as a lawsuit, but it is all McDonalds can do.
Well how about: composition-division fallacy?

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division

> Often when something is true for the part it does also apply to the whole, or vice versa, but the crucial difference is whether there exists good evidence to show that this is the case. Because we observe consistencies in things, our thinking can become biased so that we presume consistency to exist where it does not.

OR

The Texas Sharpshooter

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter

> You cherry-picked a data cluster to suit your argument, or found a pattern to fit a presumption.
and then on top of that think about perfect forward secrecy

FYI, spiped provides perfect forward secrecy by default. (But you can turn it off if you want to; short-circuiting the handshake this way makes it possible to perform about 1000x more handshakes per second.)
I was thinking more about inane things like speed limits, jaywalking, archaic and outdated laws that have obsoleted themselves but remain on the books, stupid things like that, which everyone violates every day without a second thought.

For instance, there is an ordinance in the town I work in that it is illegal to back into a street parking spot. Why? No one knows, and it is rarely enforced, but technically can result in a non-trivial parking fine.
The 'free market' aspect is often purely ideological and used as an excuse for privatization and cutting spending/austerity, which leads to the rent-seeking and stagnation.
It's a meaningless buzzword, much like "neocon" was during the 2000s.

Both have actual definitions, but are never used appropriately.
> each time I would need to play some sort of subtle trick with her so that she felt things were just right. No amount of 'rational tweaking' could achieve the same.

Very curious of about this one weird trick that you did. What did you do for it to sound right to her? Are you sure you weren't just tuning parameters in a way that allowed her to best identify resonance in a venue?
Welcome to the Amazon sweatshop.
The goal of research (at least for basic science) isn't to make money, it is to increase knowledge about the universe. This knowledge is a public good, so it makes sense that private industries motivated by profit do not support fundamental research. Scientific progress is a rising tide that lifts all boats.
>>> Civil asset forfeiture laws

Remember there are CAF laws for much more than just drug dealers. Most states have CAF laws for drunk drivers, drag racing, animal fighting (cock fighting and dog fighting), gambling, and wildlife (fish and game) poachers.

To totally focus on drug dealers for CAF laws is pretty myopic. Most people support CAF for a myriad of things. Do you think it was right to seize Michael Vick's dogs and then rehabilitate them and find them homes instead of putting them down? Should a guy who's poaching deer lose his guns and license and face stiff fines?
> [Anybody who uses Google search would know better.

Huh? There are bases for complaint about Google that are reasonable, but the rules you just listed are adhered to afaict. Do you have any concrete examples of what you're talking about or are you just another uninformed commenter in this thread muttering darkly (and vaguely) about "obvious" abuses, but unable to articulate what they are?
They definitely do cause issues - higher risk of exciting cancers and a generally more sickly existence. Studies in IBD have their efficacy at 20-30% of patients in remission after a year so they're only somewhat effective (vs half that for placebo). Anecdotally (from my own experience, and from talking to my doctors) quality of life can be poor - mind crushing fatigue is fairly common. Admittedly the fatgue may be the cocktail of other crap in my body!

Something new with few side effects might help lots of people avoid surgery.
I came here to ask this too.

Thiel says weird things like "Tell me something that's true that no one agrees with you on"

Which happens to fit the mold of a good startup.

It's also what crazy people think their bad ideas fit into.
> Google could decide to suddenly stop displaying links to the webpages of companies in your country

This is the crux of your argument. Google already pulled out of China because of prohibitive regulation which makes my point exactly. The more regulation that's added to make search "safe" the greater the barrier to entry for new competitors is. This isn't even theoretical free-market mumbo jumbo, this is simply historically evident.

> They could filter the search results to only display negative search results

Sure. If I search for xbox, they could decide to only show me nintendo results. But the result sucks and I'll move to a different search engine. The market is wonderfully magical that way. Consumers don't need Microsoft's benevolent lobbyists to protect us from the dangers of Google.

So my point is, the motivation for these regulators action is not from the interest of the general public - but more like the well financed interests of market competitors who can't win by providing better results.
> So let's assume that we legalize 'drugs' for everyone: can I now buy pot and meth and acid and heroine and what not complete with shooting accessories from 7-Eleven?

If I visit nearly any 7-Eleven after 10pm, I could buy any of these substances, it would just be in the parking lot instead of inside the store. And I wouldn't be able to tell if it was fake or cut with something.
I hate to sound aggressive or confronting, but will say this: you do have heard of a thing called "the internet"? ;-) we have lots of knowledge for free now.

Degrees however are a different story. Here, the same competition Western workers face from abroad due to globalization, the same competition now students face as emerging market's rich dads prefer to send their offspring to western universities.
Agreed. Stickers are harmless and a popular feature. That said, I find it strange how LINE suggests stickers/emoticons for almost every word possible.
Talk about being disconnected.

Good example of what happens when a random set of the tech elite sit amongst themselves and talk about their problems.

The average Trump supporter is afraid about their jobs/healthcare/housing being lost thanks to factory shutdowns and outsourcing. Trump exploits those fears.

And look how the "tech leaders" respond. Instead of addressing the fears of those people they want to talk about their own fears.

That is not leadership. Its how we end up with the likes of Trump.
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I don't have any data for that point, but I get the sense that this shortage of labor is caused more by aging workforce than obscurity. My dad is an engineering manager for a large credit card processor that uses a very similar mainframe setup, and they're constantly putting enormous pressure on their offshore contracting firms to provide young COBOL programmers because they can barely find them here. It's a job that pays people enough that they can retire well if they're good with money, and they're retiring constantly. At 57, he's one of the youngest on the team.
The "Alprazolam" and "Xanax" bubbles that shoot out of the "Prescription Drugs" bubble should be combined into one bubble with a total of 2.1 as they are generic and brand name respectively for the same drug.
But F# didn't bring along the beautiful module system from the MLs, nor does it have type classes. Polymorphism there is basically just the OO + generics variety found in C#. That can rub some people (like me) the wrong way.
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I'm sorry that you didn't have a good experience interviewing with us. We recently hired a senior director of people operations https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/db5c01d2af... that will also focus on improving the interviewing process. We're also considering assigning every candidate a guide that they can consult throughout the process. Would that have helped in your case?

Anyway, we know there is a lot we can improve, feel free to reach out anytime to sid at our company domain.
(SalesOps perspective)

Any decent size, scaled sales operation would want the enrichment data in their CRM, actually "burned into" the lead record, and then just displayed in Slack with a link back to their CRM.

We use a combo of Clearbit and Zapier to get this done. It's a zero code solution also. Clearbit is very inexpensive, but definitely not free.

I get the sense this is good for the no-CRM or pre-SFDC sales operation.
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It's not just web development, it pays less than almost any development.

I would actually not mind learning COBOL and writing boring bank software, but why bother if I can make more money with C++ and Python, while working on more interesting stuff?

If I'm going to take a pay cut to use an exotic language, I'm going to find a job writing Lisp.
They only need a warrant to open the mail. They can freely use the information printed on the outside of the envelope for their investigations.
I did it as a kid, felt silly after I discovered that it didn't work as an adult, then more recently discovered that it DID actually work. Or at least, it's been sufficiently successful for me (repeatedly putting in cartridges in NES/SNES/N64 without successful start, blow in them once, immediately starts working).
> You are underestimating the number of libertarians on this site that just see the destructive effects of an incredibly addictive dangerous drug as a problem you could solve using the free market.

Nobody has said that here. So until one of those libertarians comes in and comments, let's keep the discussion to what has actually been said?
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Yeah I was just using createClass as an example of a feature that's not strictly necessary and could be removed to slim up the library. Thanks for responding! Any idea when you will be trimming stuff like that out? Do you think you will you ever remove mixins?
It's going to get really interesting once most of the prehistoric water is used up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
Working at Boeing on designing flight critical systems on airliners has had a lot of positive influence over my work in programming.
> The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party

Um... well... actually... https://psmag.com/why-is-hillary-clinton-making-strange-comm...
The $9M they spent in Austin on the referendum would have funded 30,000 completed license applications, with fingerprints.
Are we able to take the EXE and run it on JPEGs from a Windows machine without issue? (I haven't tried it myself, but probably will using the instructions I saw on Github a moment ago and report back...it looks like it should work though):
https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/releases

However I am wondering about the two different EXEs available on the page (one has an avx prefix that I need to try and figure out). If anyone has info on that that'd be useful.

I could see this potentially being useful for schools and businesses doing quite a bit of digital scanning so I'm going to try running some tests using it and some images I think we have available somewhere.
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I think low level system libraries (homebrew FLOSS libctru vs whatever is inside the NDA'd sdk) must differ a lot. So much porting would not be feasible.
assuming a Technology/Capital/Labor split (simplistic), if productivity has gone up due to technology, and the technology is primarily a function of capital (i.e. technology doesn't make me smarter, it makes my computer faster) then doesn't it follow that my wage doesn't go up, but the money spent on my computer does?
Not my experience at all (except on Ubuntu, which seem to somehow mess up all their KDE packages)
You are underestimating the number of libertarians on this site

There's two or three of us left, yeah.

that just see the destructive effects of an incredibly addictive dangerous drug as a problem you could solve using the free market.

That's not really an accurate view of what (most) libertarians believe. I don't feel like writing a huge monologue here, but I'll say this:

1. Libertarians are, in general, opposed to the initiation of force to achieve social/political/whatever ends, because we consider initiation of force/violence to be immoral.

2. Within that framework, most libertarians also support a free market approach to economic issues for a variety of reasons, both moral and consequentialist.

3. The goal of libertarian approaches isn't to "solve problems" like drug addiction using free market techniques, or anything else. The goal is to eliminate the use of initiation of violence. Whatever else happens as a result of removing initiation of violence from the equation is seen as being either a. acceptable, and/or b. a problem that needs solving through whatever means can solve it without initiating force/violence.

Now, libertarians will argue, quite rightly, that the free market does provide the best solutions to many issues. But we don't actually claim that the free market is the be-all end-all that magically solves all problems. We just think a world based strictly on voluntary cooperation, despite whatever other problems might endure, is a better world than world predicated on use of force/violence.