skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do we suppose that authority got so sophisticated as to know how to do this fancy indoctrination if they themselves are a product of it?
We've gone far enough into personal attack territory, let's please stop here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure why you don't consider stock in a public company that you can immediately sell every monthly vesting period liquid.
$200k/year is well above solidly middle class anywhere in the world including Vancouver, London, NYC, San Francisco, or any other place you could dream up. $200k/year being middle class is so incredibly out of touch of what it means to be solidly middle class.

This does not mean that you are jet setting around the world either or that you can quit your job tomorrow, but you are well on your way to Financial Independence/Retire Early, and probably a fat one at that.
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The thing is, if taxation isn't theft then why shouldn't the government do as much of it as it wants? Why not just tax the people at 100%?

I think we actually get to a proper statist view by seeing taxation as theft, thus an inherent badness, which is only justified when the people are represented properly and the government respects their needs.

So I hear this language as a perfectly reasonable call to examine the balance and see if we're being heard and getting our needs met in exchange for the sacrifices in question.
The family's achievements are 'having lots of generational wealth'.

If you are suggesting that having a lot of money growing up, whether or not you have direct access to it, isn't a Very Big Deal, then I will gladly present you an endless body of research that suggests otherwise.

Edit: Just to be totally clear, the biggest determinant in financial success for an individual is their parent's wealth. This isn't an opinion -- This is a well-studied fact. It is of critical importance to understand that the way my mind works is one that is based on evidence and study. I do not sacrifice my research rationale at the alter of bootstraps.
I'm on ~$192K USD in the UK, but I mostly do WFH.. If I was willing to commute every day, it could be more.

10 years experience.
Cloud / Security background.
Finance Infra job.
Previously known as the "Khe Sanh approach" [0]

[0] http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A4187621
I Grew Up Using MSN / Windows Live Messenger – WBU?
The old joke is that morality is about sex, and ethics is about money.
Inbound done well outperforms others. The thing is that it requires a bit more effort. You can really leverage organic and establish low cost funnels. Feel free to ping me if you have questions. No bs or strings.
If predictions forecast the future based on prior events, where would such prior events reside?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chomsky

I wonder why anyone would suppose my hypothesis is based on a mere 8 comments.
Oh, that's awesome to hear, that stock PHP will finally be JITted. I wonder how good it'll be...

(My primary dev platform is 32-bit, so I can't take HHVM seriously.)
Type-driven development with Idris (https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...).

It was a real eye-opener of what types can do.
Please don't comment uncivilly and complain about downvotes; the guidelines ask us not to do those things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The topic of fees vs grants (specifically in the UK) came up with a friend over the holiday period. I wish I'd read this article earlier, and had had this quote to hand:

“There has been a shift from the belief that we as a nation benefit from higher education, to a belief that it’s the people receiving the education who primarily benefit and so they should foot the bill,”
In the U.S. the problem is the Department of Education handing out billions of loans creating artificial cashflow. Universities raise their tuition because they know the student can squeeze the federal government out of an extra $20,000.

End the loans and the tuition crisis will abate. Yes there will be turmoil as professors making $200k go back to making $100k; but institutions will go back to a true needs based financial aid where students once able to pay $20k in loans above minimal amounts pay minimal amounts again and graduate debt free.
Add Kiva to your list. ;-)
These allow my 4E feet to fit into D dance sneakers.
Yes? I mean the one clearly labeled "Package Name Disputes"... it's not like this page needs a big CTA, it's something you'd reasonably expect to find within a "Policy" or "Terms of Service" page but instead it has a link on every footer.

And actually... "Package name disputes" are mentioned in different ways within 5 of the 6 links in the "Legal stuff" section, so I am pretty sure that it's just for lack of reading/searching, not because they are actively trying to hide it.
Now I don't believe you :) 6 years of experience pulling $500k at google/fb? I've worked for these kind of companies, there is no such things. Unless you're one of these isolated rats who don't communicate to anyone. There are some at google but not a lot..
I prefer a single monitor. Maybe that's a result of my mild ADD
This shit is really easy to armchair quarterback over the Internet where nobody wins and the points don't matter, but the reality is that figuring out how to design crypto applications in a way that keeps users secure without users disabling or ignoring sometimes-important security problems is a very hard problem. In fact, it may very well be the current hardest practical problem in information security.

So yeah, it is actually kind of like rocket science, and I guarantee you that Moxie has spent orders of magnitude more time thinking with, dealing with, and collecting data on this kind of problem than you or I combined.
At work I have iMac 5k and extra 4k 27" dell monitor. It works great. At home almost same setup, but 1080p 27" dell monitor. Not a huge difference. But two monitors is bare minimum for me.
Here's one where he discusses education... training for stupidity and conformity, the contradictory need for creative independent innovators, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFf6_0T2ZoI
There's nothing more "advanced" about statically typed languages. Static typing and type inference are straightforward and can make implementation details simpler than dynamic languages (because you're greatly reducing or removing the unknowns you have to deal with at runtime). This is assuming you're making a batch-style compiler, as most implementors do, and not an interactive system.

If you're focused on benchmark numbers, dynamically typed languages are much more challenging to squeeze performance out of better code generation.

You can also add static type inference and consistency checking to a dynamic language, and indeed some systems do in the name of better
That's an example of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon[0]. The other uncovered-by-the-article-at-the-link reason appears to have something to do with priming, which means that your neurons are freshly acutely aware of that stimulus.

[0] https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...
I disagree. Building performant and reliable web software requires good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
Wondering if you had tried Moom as well? I ended up on it without much research a few years ago and feel it might be a bit lacking..
We disagree on size of state. The flexibility/unhappiness of the social contract increases with size of state. The consent/absense-of-it is easier to indicate as size decreases.
Oh, for sure. xonsh is nowhere near as powerful as PowerShell.

I was pointing out that xonsh is a good shell for people who do not want to learn Powershell: people who do not need all the power.

I work on Windows, but I'm not a Windows developer. I do embedded programming, and so am not familiar with most of .Net/COM. I just need to do my work on Windows, and for people coming from the UNIX world, xonsh is a shell that makes life tolerable with minimal learning necessary. Obviously, Powershell is better, but requires a lot more investment.
This essay reads like FUD. Gloomy statements are presented without context.

> Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere.

What protests are you referring to? When?

> The Los Angeles Times reports...

Link please.

> Similar defunding is under way nationwide.

Since when? I'm not saying he's wrong, but in what year did the federal government last provide what you feel was an appropriate level of funding, and what legislation or federal budget was the beginning of what you consider "defunding"?

>... which was recently dealt yet another crushing blow by the collapse of the housing bubble that was ignored on doctrinal grounds, triggering the current financial crisis.

... The financial crisis that ended in ~2012? That one? This article appears to be from 2014, how was it a "current" crisis?

> Justifications are offered on economic grounds, but are singularly unconvincing. In countries rich to poor, including Mexico next-door, tuition remains free or nominal.

This to me was the only interesting line in the article, in that it gave me something new to think about.

> One illustration is the decision of state colleges to eliminate programs in nursing, engineering and computer science, because they are costly – and happen to be the professions where there is a labor shortage...

Source please?? That's a very bold statement, but a very interesting one if it's true! However without a source I'm inclined to disregard it.

The whole thing reads like it was written by someone wearing a tinfoil hat, and though there are a couple interesting points, it seems like this essay will do more harm than good for his agenda. And just because Chomsky is famous that doesn't make him so authoritative that he's excused from citing his sources.
Thanks, I was assuming it was a side project for him.
They aren't. From the passage:

"That was true as well in the United States itself when it was a much poorer country after World War II and huge numbers of students were able to enter college under the GI bill – a factor in uniquely high economic growth, even putting aside the significance in improving lives."
Schools condition us to accept social hierarchy and to fear authority - Both of these are counter-productive to achieving success in real life.

I have spent much of my adult life trying to unlearn these lessons. It's really hard work - Being compliant was practically part of my personality.

A side effect of this education which I carried into my professional life was that I often ended up telling my bosses what they wanted to hear instead of what they needed to hear - That might work in sales, but it's not great in engineering. It was mostly because I had this deep seated fear of authority and didn't want to upset them with my words.

Also, strangely, it seems that a lot of project managers tend to react more negatively to cynical projections than actual missed deadlines... Which only reinforces the pattern.
My use cases are mostly data intensive, not so much processing intensive. On the back-end, I have a pretty decent NAS and backup strategy in place. The RPi is actually quite good enough to run a few things on that I use regularly :)
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the similarity is that you want to ban something ("landlording") that doesn't have a positive, feel-good reputation (poor people getting cheaper houses/rents), but which has positive effects such as creating a bottom and increasing market efficiency.
Thanks, I had missed that tweet
Your second paragraph pretty much nails my thinking exactly. Memory safety is a very good thing, but having to manage memory/the stack/etc is kind of an IQ test that filters out contributions of generally low quality.

At least that's the theory. Thinking about it, there are probably people out there who can nail things like memory management but are terrible at eg higher-level application architecture to such an extent that they're ultimately not competent engineers anyway. It's possible at least.
I like Obama OK but saved the American car industry? He handed GM a check. Those funds didn't come out of his account. GM should have filed for bankruptcy, trimmed the fat and hunkered down in a leaner version of its former self.

It was definitely a tough decision to be faced with right out of the blocks. I respect his ability to make the tough calls but will taxpayers ever get their money back? Was anything done to see that they don't repeat down the road? Or did he basically slap them on the back and say carry on fellas.?
> Banks set the amount.

Banks can't magically choose to write loans at unprofitable terms. They also can't write loans at noncompetitive rates in any sort of realistic quantity. These two forces (fear of principal loss through nonpayment/default, and loss of customers due to competition) dictate bank rates.

> If banks start lending $1MM to employees on the basic wage that is how much basic housing costs.

No. It will only cost that much for people unwilling to move away from highly competitive markets where construction is barred. For those living in areas which can be developed, housing prices will also be dictated by the cost of construction, which is presumably less than $1MM. Buyers will be pocketing the difference between the available $1MM and the cost of construction. This is to say that banks do not dictate prices for housing, but rather are only (sometimes) enabling (fools?) to go higher in an auction.

If banks did set prices for housing, they would have to also be setting the price of, for example, construction. Which is not the case, as that is dictated by the supply and demand of labor and materials.

Put another way: I'm sure in wherever you are, not every housing option is the same price. Do you honestly believe that banks are somehow dictating those price differences? If not, what is that force, and does accounting for it also account for the effect of increased credit availability on house prices? (A: supply and demand, yes)

> recently in the UK the govt said they would "help" buyers by contributing a certain % for buyers. Housing went up by that amount.

Yes, just like if you give everyone a raise by x% you'll see housing jump by that amount. As I've said in this thread several times already. This jump does not, however, represent a change in real cost to consumers (a change in the what percentage of their labor is being spent on a given good). As I've also said in this thread several times already.

> This is a waste of my time, I'm out.

Cya.
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I see why you might think that -- but Spotify's playlists and the discover weekly features overall are much better then Google play. Yet, as a project fi & G apps user, Google play has great download functionality.
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One of the visitors to this thread shared this link with me via email: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=ad+fraud - might help others researching the topic.
ah, probably noScript and uBlock completely hiding that embed... thanks!
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> Erlang != OOP as imagined by Kay... as I understand Kay's intent.

You should check out the video[0] of Joe Armstrong interviewing Alan Kay - it seemed to me that Erlang was in some respects closer to what Alan Kay intended for OOP than even smalltalk was.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY
"A garage, a manual, tools, any kind of car, the parts. This is a ton of money for one kid, let alone several. To think that this somehow teaches anyone a lesson about the real world is the definition of socioeconomic privilege."

???
Buying tools for car repairs is a one time cost and these tools would be shared by the kids. Car parts are actually not that expensive (can even be almost free if getting a part from a junkyard), much of the cost is in the labour.

Teaching kids problem solving and how to fix things is a critical skill that is lacking badly in our society and applies regardless of the wealth of the family.

If your argument is that some families are not able to afford cars or garages period then they can teach some other skill to their kids...I really don't see how the author is being ignorant, he's just sharing his experience.
So it's like Tong Shu? The more I looked into Japanese culture, the more I found Chinese culture in it.
I'd be honestly interested to know why you believe they are considered the same in the field of ethical philosophy. Throughout my education toward a degree in philosophy I was consistently taught they were very different. One cannot confuse the terms in the study therein because of cause and effect: ethics is the cause that leads to morals.
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Did Tesla partner Panasonic just hint at new Model 3 features?
Sure, I realize that. But it seems I missed that initial event, and then everyone fell silent about App.net (nobody really continued to buzz about it).

Whenever stuff like this happens, I always wonder how many people, like me, hadn't heard of some service or product, and I wonder how many of them would have used it if they had. Would it have been enough to save the company from going under? Was it a marketing problem? I dunno, that's just the kind of strange places my mind tends to encounter in its errings.
I noticed that on new Emojis on my MacBook. Some of the new emojis like ‍ are rendered as "guy behind a MacBook" on my PC but on phones without the emoji as "guy emoji" and "computer emoji".

Same for ‍️ (male version of raise hand). On phones without the Emoji, it's just "male emoji" and "female raise hand emoji".

/e: oh, HN is stripping Emojis
Ah, thanks for your email!
the title shows what Nature News thinks of eLife? I currently push for papers to be published there on the principle of OA.
You may find this SDR LTE eNodeB interesting: http://bellard.org/lte/

There's also this open-source LTE library: https://github.com/srsLTE/srsLTE
You have been able to use it with more recent versions by building from source since forever
Well, that's simply true. Two close acquaintances go like this:

- age: 29 base: ~150k, RSU package: 1.8M negotiated upon joining (4y vesting)

- age: 34 base: ~250k, RSU package: 3M, same terms

Both are very solid individual contributors, smartest guys in my personal network for sure.

It's really not hard to believe. Another acquaintance of mine works at a very big Hadoop startup here in the bay (guess name) as a product manager, and her total compensation is around 350k a year. It's not surprising to have a very solid engineer get some multiple of that.
> In my estimation, it's possible at each of these schools (and many others) to eliminate or nearly eliminate 3-5 top Student and Academic affairs officials, and their support staff, without anyone noticing for days or even weeks and without any long-term negative impact.

The problem is that these administrators are loyal to the top of power pyramid at the university (the president & the board of trustees), and conversely the top relies on them for support and means of asserting its power. As a result these midlevel administrators and deans enjoy protection from above.

Then the question is who can work through the motions to get rid of these administrators? Undergrads only spend 4 years in school, doubtful they care enough during their first two to participate in university politics. Grad students and faculty have pressure to produce research, teach/TA, or get tenure. Then you have the issue of incentives: administrators have much more to loose compared to those who would prefer to get rid of them and save a few $100s on tuition. As a result administrators will fight much harder than those trying to get rid of them.

Realistically budget cuts mean class sizes increase by 20%, and students pay more tuition (more work for the professors, less attention for the students per dollar). Hopefully online universities continue to gain traction and disrupt traditional schools.
I sell an OSX app for advanced users, and as you said, they don't click on ads and it would make more sense to heat my house with $20 bills instead sending them to fb/adwords.

However, I ran 2-day flash-sale and it went unexpectedly good. I never thought devs and tech-savvy people visit websites like that.
sjrd is the author of Scala.js, he meant that strong mode support is now defunct, not Scala.js. Scala.js is doing great!
Why would it be satire?

The question of pattern recognition in random noise is interesting and a legitimate question. Animals (given our propensity to see then) and an interesting subject matter.
> What do you mean they were turned into alcoholic by methadone?

Of the three alcoholics I mentioned, only one was (possibly/probably) triggered by methadone maintenance therapy.

Methadone is well-known to cause sugar cravings. This one started drinking heavily after about a month of methadone. She justified this as 'okay' because she wasn't driving.

Alcohol is just another form of fuel (derived from carbohydrates) for the body to burn. The alcoholic brain preferentially burns acetate (one of the breakdown products of ethanol):

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/65153
https://www.medicaldaily.com/heavy-drinking-alcohol-actually...

Apparently an old strategy for dealing with alcohol cravings is to feed them tons of sugar.
Ask HN: Continue contracting or take F/T?
Ok so after 2 years of contracting independently (software development) I'm looking at an F/T job.

Contract extension:

5 months (already did 7 months previous contract)

$70/hr ~ $11,200/mo before tax

15% corporate tax (ontario)

15% dividend tax

large stable company, dreadful environment (very old school),

some good people though and autonomy on how I approach my projects

open concept office means often times hard to focus, pretty dreadful days, end up wasting my evenings

F/T job:

$90/k year

completely remote

allows me to travel a bit

allowed me to be approved for a mortgage

teammates I work with have been there for a decade,
pretty stable company

benefits (dental, eyeglasses)

I want to experiment a little bit more before I settle down (I'm 30). The remote job is less money but it provides me a ton of freedom in how I structure my day. It would be imperative that I work on my side projects in order to make the most of it. I'm not sure which way to take because I don't really know what I'm after right now. Just looking for some common sense opinions.
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I honestly don't understand where you get the idea from that Tychos post is suggesting anything like this. I don't think the article is all that useful either, but you seem to argue against things that aren't there, using facts nobody has disagreed with (but which aren't the only relevant thing about the story, and don't invalidate it as a discussion topic).
If you support this you should consider donating to Wikimedia or the ALCU:

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