skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is the crux of the situation. Yes, everyone is better off, but humans still don't like feeling there is injustice.

Its like going to a lunch time business meeting and there is a slice of pizza waiting for everyone. Great! a free slice of pizza. Next week there is still a slice of pizza for everyone but the senior manager now gets a steak dinner. People naturally get upset and the reason is not just because someone got more than someone else. The food didn't come out of no where but was payed for by extra money the company gained through everyone working harder and smarter (productivity gains). And when everyone asks why they don't get something other than pizza they are told that yes the company did better but it was really only because the work this senior manager put in.

Now people are usually okey with not having exactly equal pay and benefits as long as they generally believe that the extra pay is justified because those higher up are working harder or have more valuable experience. I think when you get to the point that the CEO effectively says he is working 1000X harder/smarter than everyone else there is a problem.

And really maybe the CEO is 1000x smarter and works that much harder, but, at the end of the day, perceptions matter.
> to help him avoid alienating his audience,

The gender-diversity topic is too charged to accomplish that. Seriously, I would challenge essayists from either side of the debate to write any significant words on the subject that does not "alienate the audience".
First, while it's true that the German "Schulden" is related to "Schuld", it's also true that one of the definitions of "debt" is "sin". I don't know if many anthropologists really have wasted much time thinking about this one, but it seems pretty irrelevant to me.

Second, the German banking system is actually very modern. While the Americans and British are still sending cheques through the post, Germans are regularly paying by direct debit and standing order, as a matter of course.

Third, I think a point that may be missing is that Germans might be suspicious of credit card payments as they leave records which can be inspected by government agencies. It's bad enough that they might be able to find out how much rent you pay and how much electricity you use, but they really don't need to know exactly which bar you got drunk in last night. I don't know if anyone's done any serious study into this one, but it is very noticeable that Germans are particularly concerned about their privacy.
There are at least 3 other HN threads where people are deliberately misrepresenting what he wrote and implying malicious intent where none existed.

Can we at least keep this one for substantive meta-commentary?
That has historically been the fine balance for the upper class. How much can you squeeze the lower ranks before they cut your head off?
I think you're being a little harsher than necessary toward the general public's failings in this regard, but yeah, the author does not appear to be contributing anything substantially different from what we learned from the unrest that the U.S. faced during the Vietnam war era.
That's almost a word-for-word restatement of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" essay in A Critique of Pure Tolerance, which is essentially stating that Tolerance is only a great good so long as it means tolerance for Marxist ideas and that no leftwingers should ever be tolerant towards rightwing views.
Also, women DO have a harder time leading because their assertiveness is perceived significantly worse than similar assertiveness is men. I'll find the study if you'd like.

And I think that's really what was missing from his piece; why do these differences exist and isn't it possible they are constructed rather than innate? He lists a few reasons he is convinced they are not, including their consistency across cultures, but I remain unconvinced all of his list of differences can be explained in this way.

Particularly leading. There are way too many studies that show the biases women have to deal with in that regard and assuming they have no impact on behavior is silly.
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or bury their sorrows in drugs and video games.
EC is Eurocheque, a German specific card system. In my experience in Germany, lots of places take EC but neither visa, mastercard or amex, so in effect, only Germans can pay with credit in a lot of places. This is true even in Frankfurt (arguably the financial capital of Europe). In the cafeteria of a place I frequently work, they also don't take cash, so foreigners can't eat.

SEPA is the single euro payment area. Here it refers to the cost of a wire transfer.

Now that we are talking about card payments (NFC, chip and pin, etc.): jump into a random Frankfurt taxi in 2017, and IF they are willing to take your card (pretty big if), this will be their method of choice:

http ://fernandodecordoba.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bac1.jpg

They put your card in there, put a paper on top, and proceed to press and copy the embossing of all you card numbers into a carbon copy paper. Talk about swipe card insecurity... That is by far the slowest way, you spend 5 minutes easily.

I agree with the laundering / tax evasion cause only partly: I once wanted to pay upwards of 900€ in IKEA with mastercard. The cashier asked me to go to an ATM that was inside the IKEA building, take out cash from the card, and pay with that. With its scale, I don't think IKEA prefers cash to launder money or evade taxes...
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> Why do I get to write off some of my mortgage payments on my taxes simply because I can afford to take on a mortgage?

A. Because it's popular with swing voters.

B. Because it puts your purchase of a financed house on a more equal footing with a commercial landlord's purchase of that same house from a tax perspective. (Interest expense incurred in a bonafide profit-seeking business endeavor is tax deductible. If your private mortgage were not equally tax deductible, the tax policy would favor for-profit landlords over private homeownership. I believe that there are valid public policy reasons to encourage private homeownership at least to the extent of putting it on equal footing with commercial real estate leasing.)

To be very specific, if tax policy didn't do this, commercial landlords could literally bid more to purchase a given house than a private buyer could for a given projected rent [real or imputed] and investment hurdle rate. You could argue "well, then disallow all interest deduction!", which is a policy change that's been floated somewhat frequently, including recently, but is more complex and needs study [IMO] rather than simplistically eliminating the mortgage interest deduction and assuming that would make housing more affordable or more evenly accessible.
No, because most of these books are bullshit allowing their authors getting rich by selling them to people who look for some kind of "magic success formula" :)
I think you're partially right. The other half of the puzzle is negotiating leverage.

One of Warren Buffett's annual reports (I forget which year, but I think it was the late 1990s) had an interesting observation: inflation doesn't affect all firms equally. Instead, it pools where there is a competition bottleneck. If you are the monopoly provider in a market, you have complete and total ability to raise prices in response to your customers having more money available to pay. If you are in a very competitive market, then every time you try to raise prices, some other entrant undercuts you and your customers and suppliers capture the surplus instead.

The Fed, however, measures inflation based on a basket of goods bought by the "average" consumer. Most of these goods are in competitive markets: groceries and gas and consumer electronics. And so the measured inflation rate that the Fed uses to control the money supply significantly undercounts the true inflation rate, with much of the money injected into the economy pooling in differentiated industries like high finance, elite universities, health care, Google & Facebook, etc. From there, it doesn't circulate the way it should, because people in those industries need few goods that the average American produces. Instead, it goes into asset prices, as they try to buy up more future earning potential.

I've suspected that maybe a simple way to fix this would be with "helicopter" Bernanke's crazy idea: drop money out of helicopters. Maybe not literally (imagine the fights on the ground!), but perhaps the Fed could inject money into the economy at the bottom, through direct deposit into consumer's bank accounts or tax refunds, and then collect it from the top, through fees on banks. That way, the money is immediately spent, and so the true effect of the money injected is more easily measurable in the CPI.
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As the saying goes, to boil a frog, you simply have to gradually turn up the heat.

Of course you won't notice much when comparing this year to last, especially since the weather's fairly random.

But the trends all point in one direction. Even remembering to my childhood (barely 15 years ago) paints a different picture than what we have today.
And destroyed the Greek economy. Which speaks volumes about his competence as an economist.
"Support of the weak" and "neurotic" are being used in their technical sense though, as rough axes upon which people can lie. It's not normative, it's descriptive.

I don't really know if your #3 is true or not (this isn't the hill I die on), but I don't think it's heresy to suggest it might be. Is that really so impossible as to be an absurdism?

Obviously some of the things he's saying are generalization, but that's hardly a coherent criticism in this context - everything we're talking about on this topic is, by its very nature, generalization. We're saying fewer women than men take jobs in the computer science sector _in general_. If you're trying to look at broad trends it's okay to talk about averages. Real scientists don't need to preface every single statistic with a huge preamble reminding the reader that individual samples are not the same thing as the distribution they are drawn from.

The silly thing is I actually agree that this was a useless move to try and 'educate' the whole company. But saying he was being unscientific is garbage. He's being perfectly coherent and scientific, it was just a fairly rude thing to blast out to a company as large as Google.
Is there any plan to allow base64, longer hashes and selecting the hash algorithm in the magnet uri format?
That's a fair point. My guess would be the other compounding exponent, increased productivity through technology, has held down demand.
sdl doesn't impart any per frame penalty i don't think, and the os not much. 640x480 is also way more pixels than 320x200
The way I understand it is that Prime membership doesn't just pay for shipping (even if many people only use it for that).
One is a descriptive claim. The other is a normative claim.
San Francisco would be one of the harder cities to make self-driving work: bad light, heavy traffic traffic, bicycles, poor lane markings, spotty GPS downtown, etc.

I haven't been to Phoenix, so can't comment on the difficulty of running a self driving car there, but I would guess its easier than SF.
This might set a record for the number of Montanan's posting! I'm in Montana too and spent last night watching 4 fires started by lightning. Some places not too far away were evacuated. We had ash and embers raining down last night. It is crazy to see let it burn articles without a companion that promotes healthy forest management by logging. I'm all for contain and let burn, but the amount of fuel on the ground in places is insane.

I had my own property logged - luckily you can still do that. I cleared around my house and thinned out the rest. It didn't destroy the forest, it created jobs, created some lumber and some pulp for paper. In a few years the remaining trees will grow straighter, stronger and better resist insects. How is this bad?
It is frustrating to see so much public land overgrown to the point it can't be used and isn't good for wildlife.

Good forest management has to include some logging. If you disagree, please stop using paper, especially toilet paper.

Thanks to all the men and women who rush towards the fire when others are leaving. Listening to them on the radio last night - they were doing a great job under pressure and while dealing with some nervous people.
This would be a good point, has he stopped there. I would argue that there are some differences, but it would be a good point for you to bring up.

However, he went much further. He stated that the fundamental problem was due to biological determinism in a way that did not mitigate a non-statistician reading of his words. Casting implicit doubt on the competence of every female gendered person in his workplace.
Yes, dm's prices are great. That's one of the reasons why I prefer it over Rossmann and Müller.

Also, there are several chains (Netto, Rewe, Kaufland, etc.) where you can round up your total to the next-higher multiple of 10 cents, and the difference goes to charity. I always use that if possible to avoid Buntmetall (i.e., 1/2 cent coins).
I think the writing done on cost disease might better explain the gap rather than inflation (http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...)

Inflation would imply that everything is increasing in cost at about the same rate. Instead we have ballooning costs for a few critical expenses(housing, eductation, healthcare).
Vietnam sends fraudulent bankers to firing squads.
People who have no business earning millions shouldn't be the ones inheriting it.
I think you have it backwards, if I am interpreting your very brief statement fully correctly...

If you are building a library and you want it to be open source but also usable by products that are not open source, you can use LGPL. If you are building a proprietary library and you want to keep it proprietary, but link it into a GPL application, I think there is nothing is stopping you from doing that.

You still have an open-source application, it just won't work without the proprietary library.

(This sounds like it should be against the letter of the GPL, but as a thought experiment, pretend someone else wrote the library. Say, Nvidia, and you are Linus. You have no control over how their library gets licensed, and there is no person or body which can stop you from releasing your own code as GPL, even if it may have branches that depend on proprietary code.)

Doing OSS this way is most certainly against the spirit of the GPL, but I think it is within the letter.
No I don't think that is usually possible. I think your first idea is correct. Work like crazy to get something working and profitable, and then work to automate it (which is frequently harder than you might think).

Doing this has helped me create bigger things as well. I create a business, more or less automate it, and then use that cashflow to work on other businesses. Eventually creating a portfolio of cashflow businesses, with a few exits in the middle.
Length extension attacks are a non-issue for torrents.
Blocking phone alerts for just one day can change your habits for years
part of the problem is that the organisations themselves have become extremely political. Google is known to be a very left-leaning company and I can imagine that working inside such a political organisation, especially one that talks a big talk about being logic and reason-driven, would cause one to want to express their views.
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> That 2.5% goes straight to the credit card companies, even if you pay cash!

You're going to have to explain how this makes any sense at all
Why is it a problem that policy inhibits upward mobility while (in conjunction with technology) handing enormous power to those who already had money to begin with ? Hmm, I wonder how such a powerfully self-preserving and generally harmful system could possibly be considered a problem.
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Yep. In fact they're ridden so infrequently at night, they have a request-a-stop program after late-night hours:

http://web.mta.info/nyct/bus/howto_bus.htm
Paying in bars or clubs with my credit card would be devastating for my account and liver. If I calculate in my head how much money I can spare for a weekend and then withdraw the cash, it is much easier to stay on the budget.
Indeed, share the vision of the product instead and how does it add value to the existing ecosystem.
1793 France -> 1918 Russia -> 20xx ______ ?
> Also, women DO have a harder time leading because their assertiveness is perceived significantly worse than similar assertiveness is men.

Women aren't the problem in this scenario.
SDL used as normal in this conext just gets you a window and then gets out of your way.
How many marriages have happened through your app our of interest?
Without the CVC code, Stripe isn't going to accept the payment.

Even if it did, the bank is likely to block the transaction, or call/text for verification.
But wages are sticky and tend to increase slowly, especially in blue-collar sectors where labor demand has been held at bay by automation.
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WekaIO, Intel Demonstrate Native Scale-Out NVMe-OF System
Gold really wasn't used for currency outside of the main area known to ancient Western civilization. China did use silver for bullion, but mostly avoided it in the everyday coinage, which would be made out of metals like iron, copper, or bronze. Other civilizations chose a variety of things for coinage--Aztecs, for example, used cacao beans and bolts of cloth.

So why did gold and silver become the major standard in the Western world? Well, gold and silver are fairly unreactive--you're not going to lose coinage by leaving them it in open air to spoil. Gold is also remarkably malleable, and both metals are fairly easy to work with in terms of metallurgy. The final notable feature is that gold and silver are actually relatively rare in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. By contrast, where they were quite common--the Americas in particular--they were purely used for decoration and ornamentation, never for currency. Thus the Spanish conquest of the New World was promulgated because they found cultures who were literally covering their walls in money, and Spain was desperately short of cash for their commitments in the Wars of Religion in the 16th century.
Sorry I meant North Dakota, nice catch :)
I think a meritocracy can exist in the real world. Are personnel decisions made, or do we strive to make them, on the basis of a person's value to the organization? Do we strive to identify and ignore confounding factors? Does a person's productivity depend on things besides skill, work habits, or leadership ability? This would be a difficult undertaking, operating a meritocracy.

Also, it's possible that a meritocracy is doomed to be subverted in any given enterprise.
Fun anecdote: My girlfriend's mom has a double PhD in both computer science and accounting.
Her dad is also an electric engineer.
She is also really good in math.

She passed advanced math classes in a few months of studying. Did her algebra and got into a top school for engineering. After months of me persuading switches to SWE.

Few semester after despite having top grades she drops out of CS and now does design

I've asked her many times what happened and the only reply I got was: it's not for me.
Given her incredible talent I find this hard to believe.

I still catch her checking out CS course material and even her mom argues with her over this. She can get her a top position in SWE team at top company as she is a senior analyst there.

Yet she still insists she likes graphic design more.

Either we are pushing women too much to get into CS or there is something inherently wrong in this field that disallows them to get in, it might be the culture, it might be the hours, who knows.

For her, I know for a fact the issue wasn’t that she found it too difficult, she had top grades during her last semester in CS

Anyways, just my own personal experience with this issue

I am really baffled.
Immigrants to America are better educated than ever before
Link for the lazy: https://muzmatch.com
> not fair to single out Obama for your scorn.

You mean for failing to convince the general public that Hope is a good approach when faced with a broken economy?
I think the difference is that many of the new algos aren't even showing reproducible incremental improvements. Rather, they just benefit from the massive amounts of data available.

Though, I fully grant that the problem is as much that they are optimizing different things. Sometimes, the goal was just faster training, not better accuracy. (Though, I'm curious how fungible those are... Something that trains faster would ostensibly train for better accuracy at the same times, no?)
How was a fire lit in this case? I don't see how someone who wasn't already extremely motivated could get anything from this, and there are much better sources for motivated students.
A digression straight out of r/iamverysmart.
> You must be at least 17 years of age to access and use the Service.

That's too old for Muslim men.
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Have you read this post? It corrects some of the mistakes made by the one you linked: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
...the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government[1]. Where does that number need to be in order to silence the socialist rabble-rousers? 90%? 95%?

"Percent of income tax burden landing on top 20% of income earners" isn't a figure anyone is particularly interested in engineering or specifying for it's own sake. Where do you think it "should" be, and how can you justify it?

This is an emotional, not a rational appeal: "Won't someone think of the well-looked-after?"

The top 20% of earners earn more than half of the earned income that exists to be taxed. You could increase taxes on the rest quite a lot without actually collecting much.

Honestly I thought my household was in the top 20%. I was going to write that sometimes our financial situation feels tight, but that taxes aren't really the reason. But it turns out I was wrong; in 2015 we were probably third quintile. Should make it to fourth quintile this year.

I suspect a lot of people think they're higher on the ladder than they are. It's hard to percieve just how high the ladder goes.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-q...
I know people without valid credential sometimes have very insightful ideas.

And sometimes it's hard to have a discussion with someone when they don't understand the fundamentals of a field.

However it would be nice if you went into detail as opposed to just linking to that book. It's not part of the standard economic body of knowledge so I don't think it would be appropriate to expect your would be arguers to read it, especially when the author's wikipedia page is

G. Edward Griffin (born November 7, 1931) is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, author, lecturer, and filmmaker. He is the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), which promotes theories about the motives behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System.[1][2] Griffin's writings include a number of views regarding various political, defense and health care interests. In his book World Without Cancer, he argues that cancer is a nutritional deficiency that can be cured by consuming amygdalin, a view regarded as quackery by the medical community.[1][3][4] He is an HIV/AIDS denialist, supports the 9/11 Truth movement, and supports a specific John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory.[1] Also, he believes the actual geographical location of the biblical Noah's Ark is located at the Durupınar site in Turkey.[5]
In an autonomous ride would this still hold true?