skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm of the same mindset. I mean -- surely there are some collisions always. And I actually liked the property of the original version that a zero value hashed to all zeroes. While the rest of the pre-image was shuffled. But I suppose that being able to compute collisions is not a great thing. You may think that if it is not intended to be used in a cryptographic sense it does not matter. However, if you can easily compute collisions you could, theoretically of course, launch a denial-of-service attacks on a service (cache denial) by sending lots of values to the same hash slot. I mean, with probing and so on there are ways around this and in the end maybe the conventional wisdom ought to be revised, maybe there isn't so much to worry about from a few collisions, even easy to compute ones. But, as it stands, right now, the market demands collision resistance. So I damn well gave it to them.
U.S. Tech Companies Now Copycats of Chinese Peers, Andreessen Horowitz Partner
Dual-frequency GNSS on Android mobile device
Socialism is worse for your health and well-being than the "evil rich" can ever be.

I live in the UK where we have a national health service paid for by direct taxation. If I get ill I will be taken care of, by a government provided service, at no cost to me. If I don't get ill then I'll end up with a bit less money, but all the people around me who do get ill will be cared for free of any direct charge whether they're rich or poor. I literally cannot understand how you can think that's worse than any alternative for healthcare provision.
> What's stopping you from saving up same amount of money?

The fact that it would put him at a significant relative quality of life disadvantage compared to his peers. A widespread 80% tax would not.
Never mind, just put a small, variable delay after each operation to make it constant time.

Or a large, fixed delay - that way the jitter will be a small proportion of the total access cost.

That should make it random access.
Mechanical keyboards make annoying noise that will disturb other people working there.
So while the ultra-rich corrupt democracy and amass ever more power, with increasing numbers of people vulnerable to their every whim, the people who work for a merely comfortable living should feel guilty?

Why this focus on guilt? Are we not allowed to be angry, as long as we still have some shred of comfort in out lives?
> a far greater amount of autonomy and personal responsibility for my work than most people making 30k/year.

I see a lot of jobs at the ... $50k-$80k mark which have a lot of responsibility but not much autonomy, and that's where I always have trouble (that mismatch).

The folks I know in the $50k-$80k range seem to work (measured perhaps by effort, stress and hours put in) at least as much as, often far more than, folks earning $100k-$200k. I don't have enough connections at the $300k and $30k ends to compare.
As I understand it, medical expenses are the fastest route from "stable" as OP defines to the street. If you blew your millions on a yacht only to crumble under the load of the debt that would be one thing, but for the majority of people who lose everything they have, it was due to one disease or another, traffic accident, some other kind of ailment that they played little to no role in getting.

That's not right.
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> I would happily pay 80% taxes

That's ridiculous. No government services costs that much. No insurance for any event costs that much.

If you live in richest country in the world and citizens pay 30% taxes and government can't provide free education and health care then it's something wrong with the government itself and artificially inflated prices on education and healthcare.

Instead of raising taxes, you need pop healthcare and education bubble first.
This demo uses the Spacy POS tagging to build a word embedding which disambiguates multiple senses. The paper explains it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06388
at least a monitor though..
I'm sick of working in open spaces. If you cannot give me a cubicle, let me work at home.

There are countless researches clearly saying that open spaces are bad for productivity yet for some reason they always win. And it's easy to see why, you only have to throw buzzwords like collaboration, team-work, open ... and done.
Posh Brits are more likely to see that their position is at least in part the result of good fortune.

This is true, and part of the reason I prefer the UK to the US. People can be humorous about their status in the UK. I've got at least one friend, child of a zillionaire, who quite causally jokes about how he'd never be able to afford his lifestyle were it not for a judicious choice in parents. Class is so constantly talked about in the UK that you can’t really avoid the most common observations about it: it’s undeserved, and it’s hard to do anything about.

The other thing, which doesn't seem to be mentioned much in the article, is race. It's a truly unpleasant thing about America that race is a thing. I'm not psychologically scarred by it, in fact I thought it was somewhat funny, but I remember going to a NYC comedy club and the comedian started joking about me. "Why aren't you doing homework?". The point is race seems to be an alternative kind of class in America, one you can never work yourself out of. (And in that sense, class proper.) And because that’s there, everything else can be fixed with hard work. Right?

The stuff about property prices causing gated communities is quite true in and around London. Even a very highly paid banking job does not buy you much in many parts of London, and private schools are not cheap either. However there are council flats in just about every area of London; it may be unrealistic that they end up socialising, but there is at least the physical chance that children of the poor will run into the wealthy kids in Kensington.

His point about Oxbridge entrance is a positive for the UK; it is quite unthinkable that an Oxbridge don will be forced into accepting some unqualified kid. My tutor was clear that it was her and her alone who decided who got into the four spaces she had. Maybe someone has a story about it, but I find it unlikely that the swirl around Jared Kushner’s acceptance at Harvard would occur in the two British universities.
You have greater responsibility and you create more value/profit for your company, but that does not necessarily mean you're working any harder than the people doing 60+ hours per week at minimum wage just to make rent.
this link looks interesting, thanks.
Not all of them.
Because for fifty-ish years the narrative in the US has been Communism is the enemy, and Socialism is the path to Communism, therefore Socialism is the enemy too.

We're going to have to wait until the baby boomers die off to have any reasonable chance of getting a proper safety net in place.
Man, it's a good thing nobody else is working there! /s
Hi,

I just rechecked with [1] and you seem to be right.

I'll update the blogpost in a second. Thanks for the hint!

[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/upgrading.html
I have seen it in action and said "excuse me" when I sat down. He made room for me. Would you believe that?
What investments are you suggesting?
So I recently switched from a brand new top of the line Ideapad Yoga to an older Thinkpad from 2012. Sure, it's kind of thick. 1.2" thick actually. But it has a 3.8GHz processor that can actually sit at 3.8GHz for a very long time because of the giant fans and fat copper heat pipes, and it has 8GB of ram upgradeable to 16, and a decent solid state drive. It looks like a giant hunking black thing, and I love it. Doesn't look expensive, so it won't get stolen, and it cost me $250, so even if it does it won't be the end of the world.

I think there'll be a minor trend of people keeping the same laptops they have, or buying older laptops to save money, now that improvements have stagnated. Processors are literally getting slower - I challenge you to find a laptop today that is faster than my X230T. Sure, manufacturers might claim a higher clock speed, but with modern horrible thermal management they can only sit there for brief amounts of time. The X230T can literally sit all day at 3.8GHz, and fairly quietly too.

Sure you can go 0.6GHz faster, with the Alienware 18 with a 4.4GHz processor, but that costs six thousand dollars, is as thick as six laptops stacked on top of each other, and is twenty two inches measured diagonally. Oh yeah, and people found that because of heat problems the processor wasn't able to reach the clock speeds claimed. This review [0] shows that it only got to 3.2GHz, which is substantially slower than my $250 laptop. Oh yeah, and that laptop easily goes over 100F on the outside of the case in normal use, so not only will your legs be crushed by the 12 pound 22" monstrosity they'll also be burned if you dare put it on your lap.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Alienware-18-Notebook.1...
Some people mock anything that is government funded and reflexively assume private enterprise always makes a superior product.

I am grateful to have never knowingly met one of these people.
So basically if the government of the country doesn't pay a huge part of the car (in cash or in tax deduction, or both depending of the country), the so called electric vehicle boom is not really happening.

It's sad. But expected.
Snackis – a post-modern enigma-device
Dancing does pay... if you're good enough. Basketball doesn't pay either unless your good enough and personally I don't think Lebron James or MJ should feel guilty about it. Lucky? Sure.

And back to your dancer friend, is he unhappy? If he looked at his risks, potential salaries, and happiness and chose to be a chef and amateur dancer, isn't that ok too?

I know many people who chose jobs that aren't their passion (hell, my passion is fishing and we know that doesn't pay). Instead I work a job that I enjoy while making enough money to provide for my family and my hobbies on the side. No, I don't feel guilty. If your passion coincides with a profession that makes $$ consider yourself fortunate.
> I would happily pay 80% taxes if I knew that when I needed it most the welfare state would have my back, but I know that it won't. The rentiers have shown time and time again they would rather destroy the economy than allow everyone to have the luxury of stability.

Nothing prevents you from moving in a more socialist country. Why don't you? There's plenty of choice out there.
Do I feel like the game is rigged to benefit me? Yes, to a certain (and meaningful) extent I do. I don't feel personally guilty about making decisions that are in my own best interests when the alternative would be to simply inconvenience me with no upside to any other party. I do feel some collective guilt in that we cannot get our country to do right by those coming from less advantaged positions.
I'm an HN reader who does not earn $100k+.

In my view, very, very, very few programmers really deserve more than about $200k at most.

If you're earning $100k+ and you don't have children or extenuating circumstances such as disabilities that increase your non-discretionary expenditure, you're absolutely rich, and if you don't feel rich then you're either spending your money wrong or your benchmarks of wealth are waaaay off.
Looking at that picture, it looks like some kind of backroom place in some store where employees gather to have lunch.
Where exactly is the insult..? I can imagine it's politically sensitive to people from the US, but that's not forbidden here as far as I know. It's not even rude.
Yes I feel rich. I no longer have to worry whether I can pay bills at the end of each month, despite making discretionary purchases without a pre-planned budget.

Yes I am lucky. Lucky to be both to parents who valued education, competency, and responsibility, knew how to instill those values in me, and had the capability to pull the right strings to see me through to a successful adulthood.
OSX has a more solid track record, but Windows has also undergone a lot of change since the Vista rebuild to address many of it's more trivial exploits.

Anyone remember when you could click Cancel in the login screen and get access to the desktop? Good times. :)
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I like the saying: "One can recognize experienced programmers/users that next to their second monitor there is a third one." :-)
Or have a `www` directory and symlink it.
> So imagine my horror at discovering that the United States is more calcified by class than Britain, especially toward the top. The American myth of meritocracy allows people on the highest rung to attribute their position to their brilliance and diligence, rather than to luck or a rigged system.

Conspicuously missing from this op-ed is the experience of millions of immigrant families who came to the United States and worked hard to make it into the top 20%. Many started with practically nothing. Did they all benefit from pure luck? Did they move to the U.S. to take advantage of a rigged system?

This seems to blow quite a big hole in the author's specious argument.
I cannot stress enough how excellent this book is. It's quite sad, but stirred something in me that I've not been able to quell since reading it.

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America: https://www.amazon.com/2-00-Day-Living-Nothing-America/dp/05...
I really miss Defrag. It is zen to watch.
Please come around the IRC channel and ask for support or report the problems you encounter on GitHub. Multiple monitors should be totally stable.
>I'm white [...] rigged in my favor

Ok, how do Asians fit in that narrative? They suffer reverse-discrimination[1] and yet they are over-represented in high-paying technology jobs. Was the system "rigged" for them as well?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=asians+reverse+discriminatio...
> I live in the UK where we have a national health service paid for by direct taxation. If I get ill I will be taken care of, by a government provided service, at no cost to me

The waiting lines in the UK for surgeries make it more likely you die before you get it in time if you have anything remotely serious. Yeah, socialist health care works really, really well.
I agree that Issues are pretty locked, but otherwise it's fine, and you don't have to use GitHub Issues to track work if you don't want to. CI is mostly drive around hooks, and those should be portable. The wiki is just a collection of Markdown documents, so you could pull those off and put them anywhere else you want. Ecosystems are tied by default, so not much you can do there I suppose. I agree with the sentiment, but i think the risk is worth it for a lot of people, and I say that hosting my own private GitLab server.
Within a certain age bracket, many American girls who prefer to be perceived as cute and girly, simply type the letters "kk" to exude a sense of affable agreeableness. This is often paired with "oo" to present surprise or acquired understanding.

I get the sense that American girls are doing it both to promote a youthful personality, and because a double-tap of the same letter is efficient, reducing effort while typing. It's also used by older women adopting a cutsey voice or tone, especially women raising teenage daughters, sometimes as a mock teeny bopper act.

Males almost never ever use this regardless of age, unless engaging in feminine play as parody, and it gets dropped among females cognizant of their perception as adult women retaining possession of responsibilities and authority.

Probably, among all non-users, "kk" is dropped in fearful avoidance of the dreaded accidental "kkk" in an unnacceptable context.

Among all, a curt use of "k" with a cessation of further conversation is sometimes an expression of annoyance, either because the conversation took a turn they didn't like, or because they're busy or being interrupted somehow.

Capital "K" in this sort of context, combined with habitually minimized capitalization and little or no grammatical punctuation as a personality trait, is almost always an expression of sulking, pouting or open anger with consequences pending. Capital "K" after receiving bad news is as if to say "someone will pay for this, maybe you."
these upper middle class people (we) are the work horses of the tax system, right? Not rich enough to stop working, too rich for sympathy.
Let me start off by saying I'm in the process of putting a mining rig together. So, I'm long term bullish on Cryto.

But, there's nothing to say that prices won't go up or down or sideways.

It's good to take calculated risks but also don't be the last guy holding the tulip.

diversification is important in investing.
To me as well the article seems disappointing. Is not-quite-explicitly-stated assumption that most of those in the 20% income were entitled to it without doing much work is wrong. The author keeps pointing to politicians as examples of those at the top (likely because most people do not view them favorably) and ignores professionals, business owners, etc. who often built their way there without starting in the top 20%.

And the solution? "You, in the upper middle class, feel guilty!". Ouch!
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> it doesn't mean a damn if you didn't back the "right" industry horse

Was your friend bamboozled into thinking that he could earn $250k/yr as a dancer? Teaching is one thing - I think most people would like to pay (good) teachers more. Nurses are capable of making quite a bit of money between base salary and overtime, especially at higher levels of education and specialization. Despite what the folks writing VC-funded CRUD apps here would like to think, programming probably has one of the lowest effort-to-payroll ratios around. Most people work harder than us for less money. Part of that's luck but part of it is the market. And part of it is hard work, effort, and hustle.

I've worked sanitation jobs before. They suck. They pay next to nothing. But they also require next to nothing aside from the willingness to do the work. They may pay "1/4 of the money" but they require much less than 1/4 of the skill, education, or experience.
The Google paper Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt [1] offers a semi-rigorous introduction to the topic of real-world ML model engineering/deployment considerations and best practice. (If anyone else knows of similar work I'd be grateful to hear about it.)

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
"In my view, very, very, very few programmers really deserve more than about $200k at most."

Why?
This is true, but the context implicit in the vector is the average of the training data.

Vanilla Embedding based models don't handle word order well (as some of the examples upon this slide deck show).
The one option is real estate (which isn't feasible for some who aren't staying in a place for long to manage). What else do you have in mind?
Not if is saving is in line with his goals, which may differ from others.
Had a party at the WordPress office a few years back and it's a great space. There's a lounge, kitchen, the bathrooms are nice, some room for bikes, and the rest of the space is setup to be multi-use. There's a big stage area and the corners are furnished to be pretty cozy.

Of my past work places--death star cube farms in old silicon valley to tiny rooms in sweltering Berkeley summers to shiny live/work lofts to giant sprawling disneyland like campus to noisy hipster coffee shops--that WordPress office would be up there in terms of a good place to work at.

The real story is the upward trend that if you give an inch, your employees will take a foot. If you offer telecommute, workers will not show up.

I've been freelancing and telecommuting the past five years. I've built my workstyle around chat bubbles, slack channels, video calls, and emails whether 2PM or 2AM.

I've built my lifestyle around that. As in I work around my life. Things just... get done without a direct measure of productivity anymore.

Sitting somewhere from 9 to 5 is like watching TV from the 2000's, ordering Netflix DVDs when we live in the 2010's with streaming Netflix.

And as one disappear, so does another and another. When you look around and realize no one else is there anymore it just becomes a ghost town while the virtual water cooler becomes more and more vibrant.

No ones goes to the office anymore, it's too lonely.
You're a socialist but you make $300K a year? Please have a seat, thanks. You're a nut is what you are.
As a counter example, I'd like to use the Cuban-American community in the US. All of our families came to this country with little more than the clothes on their backs, starting in the early 60s. Now, half a century later, Cuban-Americans are doing as well for themselves as non-Hispanic white Americans, with equally large proportions in the middle, upper middle, and upper classes. My mom's father had a fourth grade education in Cuba and was a self-made businessman who ran a country store in Cuba and a store-fixtures store in the US. My dad's father was a middle class computer technician in Cuba, who came to the US and was never able to work in his profession again. He worked two jobs at first, sweeping floors and taking whatever other jobs came his way, and eventually rose up to running a hospital department. My father never had his own bedroom as a child. He got almost all of his schooling at very tough (in the high-crime and high-apathy sense) NYC public schools in the 60s/70s. There were no silver spoons in their mouths.

My parents have had successful careers, despite being dead broke in their 20s. They were able to stress the importance of education and hard work to me. I had a great job at Microsoft for two years, which I've now left to pursue a career in law.

And this is more or less the same family story of countless Cuban-American families. So I'm not buying this narrative of a calcified class structure built on generational wealth. The most important thing you can do for your children is not to be rich, but to be good. Values and virtues, not trust funds and special treatment.
I think the point is that it's a bit of mental gymnastics to rail against "the rich" when you're a senior developer at Netflix making 10x the median household income.
Not everyone equals public healthcare with socialism.
Do you mean you prefer the UK to the US? Otherwise that statement seems out of kilter with the rest of your comment.
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Are you costing them money? If so, they may try to sue for damages. Otherwise, it won't make business sense to sue.
One step closer to Emacs on iPad.
How do you determine the quality of a bootcamp before attending? Are there any recommendations for Europe / Austria?
There are also two other Electron-based vector graphics editors on the app store:

- Boxy SVG - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boxy-svg/id611658502

- Vectr - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vectr/id1204645754
> I would happily pay 80% taxes if I knew that when I needed it most the welfare state would have my back, but I know that it won't. The rentiers have shown time and time again they would rather destroy the economy than allow everyone to have the luxury of stability.

Oh and by the way, countries like the Soviet Union have never been known for providing good healthcare solutions or even producing remotely interesting new drugs for their population.

Are you sure you really want socialism for health care? Seems like the facts don't really align with your idealized version of socialism.
Not sure how much I agree with the sentiment of this article as a relating class seemingly directly with salary.

In the UK its fairly well considered now that a working class 50 year old thats worked at UK average pay for the majority of their life, generally, has better standard of living than the 30 year old on 100k. The appreciation of housing and the current cost of things they got for free seem to matter far more than the salary you currently earn.