skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What's the difference? If both systems can be modelled in a similar way, how does that not make them similar?

I think that this is a good question, and central to a lot of the confusion that stems from a casual reading of some modern topics in physics. It's the difference between a black hole in nature, which formed in a realistic process, and the Schwarzschild metric, which has a uniform sphere of "dust" collapsing from infinity, in an empty universe, without gravity, and no angular momentum or charge.

The reason these models are used is because they can give insights and/or generate new tools to explore reality with. On the other hand, they're just maps, just approximations of systems which we couldn't hope to accurately model with fidelity.

On one hand, you get some amazing insights when your models intersect with observations, but you also need to remember... "The map is not the territory."
Very true, but on paper everything relies on everyone not "being an asshole".

Same is true for many of these processes that are put in place. Everyone just needs to remember once in awhile that we all work for the same place, and all want to make money.
Heh. My Dell, not XPS but something-something whines in such a manner it sounds like it had an HDD trashing inside. I got fooled quite many times before gotting used to it.
> I'm too old and a(media)social to know the platforms people use these days, but I guess those platforms don't lend themselves to the writing of large insightful essays. On a bus. With a phone. And I think most people won't, anyway.

I'd much rather look at pictures of your kids than read your "insightful essays." Most essays, even ones appearing in respectable publications, are little more than a patchwork of spin, guessing, and questionable assumptions connected with questionable reasoning.[1]

I'm probably on the other side of the spectrum, but I don't really want to hear your ideas. I want to share your human experiences. That feeling when you watch your toddler develop enough motor skills to pick up food, but not enough to put it in her mouth. The happiness at your wedding. Your pride at cooking a meal for your family. Those are the things that are real, genuine, and true.

[1] Think about how inaccurate every article you read in the press is about any scientific topic you come across. They are no more accurate about the topics you know less about. For example, this article has been making the rounds on my Facebook: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/canada-.... It's based entirely on a false premise: that because U.S. tax rates are lower than in Canada, U.S. public spending is lower. In reality, per-capita non-military public spending in the U.S. is quite significantly higher than in Canada. And this is a "respectable" author appearing in a "respectable" publication! This is the trash clogging up the Internet; not baby pictures.
Key part is "however long it lasts" <- this is the deathbed.
Haven't been fired yet. :-)

Thankfully I work for someone who thinks making money is more important than self-imposed rules that in most cases just slow us down.
Legend! thank you.
You should use crossbeam for #1. And as for strings, I wouldn't think of them as duplicate types any more than u32 and &u32 are duplicate types. They are semantically the same. Referencing a boxed type returns the reference type.
Yeah. The thing that blows my mind is that the guy who runs Input Club (they make/design keyboards with open-source firmwares) sent the USB consortium an email a year or so ago asking if there were any plans to update the USB HID spec for unicode, and the response indicated that he was the first person to ask! Really?!? Unicode was out for a few years before USB even existed, and nobody'd even thought about it before? You'd think at least the word processor industry (which wasn't nearly as homogenous back then) would've jumped on it.
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Make sure you have very strong founder agreements. This way there is a way to divide & settle if anything happens.
Imagine if the "big bang" was actually conception, and the universe as we know it is actually a being...
> My answer is: good for her! If she really likes her job then she doesn't need money as an incentive to do it as working is what makes her happy.

Maybe she's just good at something, but doesn't actually like her job? More money now means less work later on. Or she could achieve the same results as bob, fob and gob, in half the time, thus work 2.5 days a week.

Why are people so focused on equality? All people are equal, but their ability isn't. Some people are better at sports, others are better at intellectual pursuits. Some have better social skills, etc.

I'm good at building stuff, but not so good at playing sports. I would expect to earn much more building stuff than I do playing sports.

Aside from the material discussion (I don't really care about that), having more money in the bank means 1) having more leverage in negotiations, and 2) more freedom. And past a certain point, it means independence. You'd be surprised how many people make 100K+ a year from investment, just living a full life (e.g. seeing their kids grow up) and doing what they love.

Work can be fun, but it's still work. To me at least, half the fun went away when I had to start doing it for money and because of this I reorganised my life to account for that.
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Whoever wrote that is really f*ing stupid
> side note: What would have really helped was if staff weren't selfishly spending 5-10 minutes sitting on the toilet browsing the internet or playing games on their phones. It rarely takes that long to do the necessary

Most Americans don't eat nearly enough fibre so many people live in near constipation most of the time.
If you've already got the GPU you can also get an enclosure without an embedded GPU - lookup "Akitio Node". It still feels expensive for what it is but less than the Gigabyte one assuming you already have a GPU.
Besides being (in my opinion) incorrect on many levels - for instance, Western countries continue to rescue and provide for NEMA refugees, if not granting them residency - the parent comment is a great example of "Whataboutism," a classic logical fallacy and Soviet propaganda technique:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
The more experience you gain with Rust, the less you fight against the compiler, and the less you'll opt for the unsafe keyword. Fighting the compiler is just something that happens the first few weeks.
I once had a manager ask me to email him a progress report every day;

This seems to have become very nearly normalised in the guise of daily stand ups. Some would argue it's less intrusive if it's for "the team" rather than for an individual manager, but I'm not convinced myself.

and every hour or two, he'd make a point of interrupting me to ask me "so how's <current_task> going?"

Similarly, in environments where tasks are getting broken down into tickets that are only expected to take a few hours, there's a similar level of oversight (although hopefully a bit less disruptive than hourly shoulder-taps, I agree).
If I'm running a Burger King restaurant and a McDonald's opens up down the street, should McDonald's have to compensate me for my losses?
> You can opt-out of telemetry by setting the DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT variable

Microsoft, please give me the same variable for Windows (with no shenanigans like 'basic telemetry') and I come back.
>>Unfortunately, if parks were mostly paid by the people using them, we would have no parks.

I am fine with that, it is not ethical to take money from people by force to pay for things like this, if their was value in the community for a park then the community would find a way to voluntarily pay for it, if there are not enough voluntary support in the community to fund the park then the park should not exist
948 points by v3ss0n 185 days ago, 267 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608
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It's down to what you think salaries are for. If market value is supposed to equate to social value and ensure a fair distribution of the output of society, then you need open prices or the market won't work properly.

I need to know what you are paid so I can balance what I am paid against what I think you are worth.

Closed salaries only benefit the other side of the negotiating table - the employers - who then divide and conquer.

Which is why they play upon the doubt and insecurity in people's minds that they are actually worth what they have negotiated.

It's the basis of why unionisation works and why it ensured that workers got their fair share of productivity increases. Right up to the point when unionisation was defeated and 'individualists' got to play their game. Since then the productivity gains have gone to the top of town.

Extreme individualism is always defeated by those who know how to share and work as a team.
Is the actuation really the part which needs radiation hardening? The cameras, sensors and processing unit seems more likely affected by radiation than, say a battery and motor.
Nothing lasts forever (of course, we want the good to last as long as possible and the bad to be as brief as possible).

Embrace the moment, the chaos, and the loss. It's the human condition.
>Simply put, the gains Asia made in becoming the microchip and refrigerator manufacturing SOLE SOURCE for the world will not be replicated in Africa and South America.

>"Relevance" wasn't the metric. The metric was you very directly seeing numbers at hand and then using the math tool you had and coming to a broad, simplistic and wrong answer about whether "liberalization" is the way forward in 2017.

Then if liberalisation is not the way forward, how will countries in Africa and South America be better served by denying opportunities to them and the people in them?
So you shouldn't be allowed to anonymously contribute to society? Does this include whistle blowers?
Deepin 15.4.1 released
Bret Victor has a wonderful talk (The future of programming), where he pretends to be in the 60's with all the research going on with Lisp, Algol, Fortran, and looking towards the future.

Needless to say, none of the positive predictions turned out as expected.
> So farmers don't matter, just like other workers who lose their jobs to automation.

Nobody said that and I can't believe you would think anybody actually sees the world like that. I would hope that we can find more meaningful ways for people to spend their days than doing things that can be better accomplished via machinery. Otherwise we really are just paying one group to break windows so another group can be paid to fix them and that's not good for anybody.
Actually, I might just end up building my own system. I'm surprised that solution never occurred to me, as I've been trying hard to squeeze existing methodologies into my life and it doesn't work.

I've had a lot of admiration for military techniques and how they train people to get past fear and drop bad habits. I'll probably adopt a mix of XP and some military techniques.
You have to say it's Japan, though. Otherwise people may hear "Fukushima" and think it's in Germany.
Yeah, I was in a hurry. My point was that voters were already voting to save themselves from the housing crisis 40 years ago; while making the crisis even worse. The article was about how the housing crisis goes back even further.

Ultimately, the original sin was racism.

http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/May-2017/The-Real-Cause-of-Ge...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/zoning-...
> it encourages competition, just like in nature

Where the vast vast majority of creatures are either predated or die of hunger.

Arguments that depends on replicating evolution, socially, are either naive or highly morally dubious. Eugenics would, of course, lead to more populations with more 'desirable' traits: healthier and more productive, on average. That doesn't stop it being repugnant. Economic eugenics in the service of higher GDP is no better.
This is important to stress.
It doesn't make the decision any less oppressive, but framing it as anti-muslim instead of anti-insubordination obscures Beijing's real priorities.
> No guns necessary.

Really? A tort will get you a fine, refuse to pay it and they will send you to jail, resist your arrest and they will use their guns. No way around that.
If it can be implemented without significantly affecting pre-existing code, I see no reason why not. Generics are infinitely preferable to VerbBytes(), VerbString(), VerbFloat(), ...
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I agree it'll be amazing when device depth sensors can build up the occlusion mask on the fly, but that still requires a hardware upgrade (iPhone8?, android tango etc). IMO, the beauty of ARKit is getting reasonable AR tracking on the current crop devices (with a single camera lens!)

also, I think there are other ways to build up reasonable occlusion nodes manually. for example, its probable that the Google Maps iOS team is currently adding an AR directions view that use the Streetview point cloud to build up occlusion areas around most streets. Likewise, some areas of the OSM dataset include building footprints with height attributes, this could be used as well. No where near perfect but I think it would help in the situation you described above
I would like to see theory.md which is referenced in the comment in board.rs but i dont see it in the repo.
There's a reason why it's called "a craze".

I'm being hired for my software skills, not my negotiation skills. The fact that negotiation is so important is cargo culting from business-types who benefit from it.

(I happen to be quite savvy at negotiation, but I've seen many shy people exploited because they're not as cocky as me).

More to the point,

1) If my team was hiring a new guy with skills indistinct from mine for 50k extra, and I found out about it, I'd ask for a raise. If they refused, I'd quit on the spot.

2) If the skills are indeed a whole class above mine, they'll probably have a different title, and it's much less of my concern (I wouldn't call it "a fluctuation among members in my team").

Information may not always make things better, but it always -- no exceptions -- makes a market more efficient.

Moreover, stop focusing on two team members fighting against each other. The big prize here is employees finding out how much their bosses make, especially when it comes to "tightening belt" periods. I don't honestly care if Jeff-next-door is getting 20k extra because he plead for his newborn, but I absolutely care if my salary gets frozen and my boss gets a bonus.

Opponents to salary transparency are basically arguing for an inefficiency that favors higher-ups, preying on the ignorance of less resourceful subordinates.
> As soon as I stop actively thinking about the problem a solution will come.

The book 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind' has a good explanation of how that works, what it's good at and what it's not.

I get a lot of side chores done with directed procrastination. But, what works for me to get the main task done is to just open the IDE even without a goal. Instead of "Ugg... I need to make X work today...". Just open the editor and do anything. Refactor a function. Comment something. Whatever. Once you get started, it much easier to continue.
Difficult to know in this context - what meaning do you think they weed trying to convey, assuming that “designed for illegal use” wasn't it.
It's not different. What I'm saying is your ability to predict Z is contingent on your ability predict X and Y. If X and Y happen to follow regular patterns, then you can predict Z, if not you're out of luck. The point is that claiming that something is not science on the grounds that it can't predict Z makes no sense.
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> The parent comment implies that not everybody has a choice.

That's where we disagree I guess, I think you always have a choice unless force is being used against you (such as in rape, murder, armed theft etc).
They weigh you at any doctor's office, on a more accurate scale. Weight trends are important, but at a granularity of a handful of measurements per year.

Unless a patient some specific chronic illness like diabetes or asthma, most patient recorded data isn't medically useful.
Boxed In
So what if it's just a laptop? I really hate that trend toward making everything a tablet/touchscreen in the PC market. I don't really want one of the new MBPs when it comes time to upgrade mine, but looking at the other side of the fence is equally cringe-inducing.

The higher-end (non-touchscreen) Dell XPS mentioned by a sibling looks promising though.

don't touch my screen.
Interesting. I've always been a fan of the XPS line. How much does it cost with that configuration?
There was one company I worked at that, for whatever reason, people thought that the bathroom was a good place to have a phone call. Simple fix; when someone would start a phone call I would flush, and keep flushing every time they talked to make sure the person on the other end could hear it. I usually only took a few flushed for people to get the hint.
Why would anyone put up with that sort of madness? If my employer can't even let me shit in peace, I don't want to work for them. It's not like programming jobs are scarce...
I know they just tried to bring price under the $1000, but selling a laptop with 4gb of RAM in 2017 is criminal.
It is more of handling the situation than stopping relationship/company. Be yourselves and things will fall into place.
What is it supposed to mean?
>Maybe, but I hope there are better arguments for the current system than "it works better than the Soviet Union". All you have done here is establish that an extremely dysfunctional economy can either waste or fail to use its resources, which would mean that America and Western Europe are not completely dysfunctional. This is a pretty low bar.

It's a reasonable argument to make when people are advocating moving closer to Soviet Union policies (e.g. restricting trade, stronger government intervention in industry).

>And as you said, we're talking short term here. Very short term. On slightly longer terms, it really doesn't look so good. Indeed, it takes an absurd level of denial / techno-optimism / magical thinking (whichever you prefer) to look at paleoclimatology and current climate indicators and think it can go on for much longer without global catastrophy.

>At the end, if the best we can say of globalization is "For around 40+ years it was great fun for a lot of people. Well, for the most privileged countries anyway. And then it collapsed, and took a great chunk of the biosphere and the human population with it"... I don't see much to celebrate.

Ultimately all life on Earth will die when the sun burns out or otherwise significantly changes its output. The only hope humanity has to outlive this is taking to the stars, and that won't happen without consuming a lot of resources.

If you want to look at it in terms of natural resources, personally I think irrational fear of nuclear power is the biggest problem facing the world. Modern reactors pose almost no risk to the biosphere compared to coal, oil and the like, nor do they contribute to global warming. More people die every year from coal-burning related illness than have ever been killed by nuclear power accidents.
As a note, the further reading links are dead.

They are available [0] on Web Archive, if anyone is interested.

0. http://web.archive.org/web/20080524200838/http://homepages.c...
This screen is much bigger (37.5" vs 27"), has a better refresh rate (75Hz vs 60Hz), and is curved. All of those things correspond with higher price for both the panel itself and the resulting product that contains it.

* removed mention of FreeSync as this display lacks it
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I am a librarian who works with digital media, so I see this industry close up as part of my job. So a few things:

The vast majority of libraries are not NYPL, LAPL, King County PL, etc. Most are medium to small and servicing almost every town in the United States. They are arranged in a dizzying array of geographic, bureaucratic and budgetary configurations. I once worked with a library that was a unified system with shelf level access to items, but every municipality funded its own local branch, so money went into a central system and had to be accounted for when purchasing items. They handled 15 different budgets. It was staggering.

This make negotiation impossible. We rely on vendors like Overdrive, Baker and Taylor, Midwest Tape, Recorded Books, etc, to provide access to digital materials. And though there are sales, digital materials are unquestionably more expensive. I work in a system with a service population of about 500,000 (it's a statewide consortia of local libraries), and hold lists can run into the 100s for a popular title. If the title is from Penguin Random House, it will likely cost more than $50 per copy, leading to thousands of dollars just to keep hold times down to a few months. If the publisher is Harper Collins or Simon and Schuster the price will be more reasonable, but we lose copies as we check them out. For example, say we buy 15 copies that have 52 checkouts each. As soon as we've checked those 15 copies out 52 times, we're down to 14 copies. It is very challenging and if we exerted influence, it would not be like this. And our that our most popular device, the Kindle, is controlled by a vendor that is fanatical about its control over the service and was dragged kicking and screaming into working with libraries.

But physical materials still remain our most popular items. E-book sales have stagnated at around 35% (not including Amazon's nebulous self-publishing numbers) and we've seen the same in libraries. That makes it difficult to shift staff. As a colleague of mine once said, "In government I can't lay everyone off and rehire people with the right skills". Over time it will work out, but in the short term the budgetary challenges are limiting access.

All that said, we are healthy. The library as a physical space and American institution will be OK because people have a strong attachment to the idea and the use case.
Thanks! While my language may be colorful, I don't think I used any insults or shown aggressiveness in my comment.
It's not odd. The size is what makes this expensive. It's 10 inches more screen, and curved to boot (which you may not care about, but it does affect cost).
He's treating you like a cog in a manufacturing plant, which he can "optimize" at will. MBA programs often teach people that. He doesn't understanding creative work or thinking heavy work "appear" to be non-working but it's essential.
> MD5

> This is very competent.
Yeah, now they can vote out the current gov... err.. nevermind. In all seriousness I think they all already knew that since long ago
Pathological BIP91/UASF Scenarios
0.5 would be good for anti-aliased drawing where you only get non-blurry lines at the 0.5's :)