skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a documentary on Netflix called The Propaganda Game that does a good job of explaining this. It goes way back to the history of when the Korean peninsula got split. It's an interesting watch especially if you're trying to escape the narrative in the echo chamber of the west for an hour or so.

edit: grammar
> the academic discipline with its rigor, criticalness, and policing against self-promotion is a kind of last-bastion for intellect in the West

If academic discipline really taught rigor and critical thinking, do you think the subjects of this article would be putting themselves through such horrible experiences?

From what I've seen, critical thinking (which I do regard as a highly desirable capability, on a personal level) has to be acquired outside of any established institutional framework. An institution which actually teaches critical thinking is at a disadvantage in many circumstances, because it reduces compliance and hence organizational strategic focus. That disadvantage means that well-established institutions almost always have ways to shut critical thinking down. Those which don't tend to be out-competed by those which do.
It is significantly easier when making decisions by yourself. With the washer/dryer example, there was a lot more going into it including how long we may end up staying at that house, etc. There wasn't anything that really stood out as being the "correct" choice, so not needing to decide was very welcome.
Great post. This is a good breakdown of different niches that I can at least follow as templates for finding related work.

I occasionally run into developers at meetup events who are involved in graphics or data viz and discuss our work. This is how I more commonly get attention from my 3D work, moreso than cold-applying to jobs online.

One of them I met first from seeing his demo work on YouTube and he was equally impressed with mine. He worked in medical imaging technology in his last job and referred me to it, but the company had a change of hiring plans last minute.

For now I say I'm more interested in media agency work. I was brought in for an interview at a small agency that does a mix of animation, VR, motion graphics and web development. They liked my portfolio. But budget issues arose and the hiring was put on hold indefinitely.

So it's just a streak of bad luck I guess. Clearly some people are interested in my work and I just need to find my good luck streak.
> NK isn't some rationalistic actor.

North Korea is rational. They have a very good idea of how far they can annoy everyone else before it starts to hurt them, and they have proven very adept at being able to extract concessions from the rest of the world.

> The NK problem can never ever be solved by diplomatic resolve.

The only way the problem could be solved diplomatically is a grand bargain between China and the US (maybe Russia as well, but China is definitely required) to let the Kim government fall.

> Personally I think while China's interests are in maintaining a peaceful region, we must be wary of the relationship between NK and China. As there is a possibility of another game being played. Perhaps China wants to annex NK.

The real problem with North Korea, and the reason we're in this dangerous unstable equilibrium is that, as much as the relevant powers hate the current situation, the alternatives are even more unpalatable. No one wants to take on the task of absorbing North Korea--China and South Korea are already too rich (the gap is even wider than East/West Germany, and that took 20 years to close). Furthermore, China already has a rural-to-urban migration problem, and North Korean refugees would only exacerbate that issue.

War with North Korea would be a very unpalatable situation. The center of Seoul is only about 30 miles from the North Korean border, and some suburbs are even closer--within artillery range of the border. That gives North Korea the ability to raise the death count to over a million people in a very short amount of time even before rockets or nuclear weapons are involved, not to mention instigating a short-term refugee situation that makes Syria's look small. Furthermore, North Korean rocketry and nuclear weapons gives it the ability to threaten the megacities of Japan, and if Kim Jung Un feels he can't win, he very well could go out with a painful bang.

Put more simply, a war with North Korea, although likely very short, could easily produce a death toll commensurate with World War I. A military option is not a good option. There are no good options when it comes to North Korea. At this point, the least bad option to me is to ignore North Korea's tantrums, publicly reaffirm commitment to the defense of South Korea and Japan in the event of a war at any cost, and quietly work with China to develop post-Kim scenarios.
> Lets say we call it a continent, does it suddenly make it all the territory of the government of New Zealand? Does that mean they control fishing and mineral rights for hundreds of kilometers beyond the shores of their island?

Probably, yes. France extended its EEZ last year with new evidence that the land around Kerguelen island forms an underwater "continent" as well. I imagine if this finding about Zealandia gets confirmed, both New Zealand and France (from New Caledonia) will want to extend their EEZ there as well.
The pay in San Francisco isn't double what it is other places.
Closer to 40% higher(according to Robert Half). Also lots of people are saying that San Francisco has better tech talent. Which mean the actual number is less than 40% because an average San Francisco dev would be only get paid above average in a smaller market.

And the difference is smaller compared to other large markets like Chicago, Houston, and L.A.
That is a very insightful approach to gift giving.
Approaching my 30s, with a wife and no kids yet. We have about 75% of our salaries. It's possible
I like the "window/offset" concept. I wrote an extended blog article with yet different visual aids: http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/09/what-every-computer-prog...
US Doctors are a clear counter example. The group chooses it's own members and kicks people out.
I agree completely. Contrast those rogue nations with Pakistan - who has nukes - and it's a strong argument. Pakistan regularly taunts India with the same threats and they still get megabucks in aid.

NK made it past the finish line: they have a real program and a modest delivery system. I expect they will continue to follow the same diplomatic strategy as Pakistan.
They always were belligerant, untrustworthy, lying bullies.

Yes, and that's worked out great for the Kims for almost 70 years now. We haven't exactly given them an incentive to change or reform.

It's impossible to exaggerate how badly we botched our handling of Libya in particular. After watching what happened to Gaddafi, there was literally no other option for Kim besides an all-out push to develop nuclear arms.

Iran, not being a country populated exclusively by idiots, will be doing the same.

The US simply cannot be trusted regardless of what party is at the helm, and that's a huge problem for us as well as anyone we're doing international business with.
I've installed Ikea kitchen cabinets before. The assembly is trivial (they're just boxes), and they all sit on a single rail you screw into the wall at the start. Lifting them into place takes an extra set of hands, but it's not high-skill work. This is not custom cabinetry or anything.
> He talks about both why the third group is less successful and how people within that group can potentially improve their situation within the current system.

Are you able to provide a cliff note or two about why they are less successful and how to improve their situations?
I dunno all this talk of "windows" and "buckets" etc doesn't seem particularly simple to me.
I agree. I read HN with dead comments not suppressed and I estimate about 50% of the time I consider them legit. Not always what I agree with, but sometimes I even want to reply to them.
i doubt it. i think america is just huge, and that they can't responsibly expand too fast.

remember, ikea is expanding globally. on my last vacation, i saw an ikea identical to the one by my house in california, in southern germany. that's really sort of unprecedented at the scale of an ikea store.
"Tyson's Corner Communications Tower, United States of America. Built in 1952 as part of a program to harden US government systems against nuclear attack, some more fanciful numbers monitors suggested the tower was a transmitter for numbers broadcasts."

My understanding was that it was easy to triangulate the location of a transmitter (if you're close enough to it and not receiving reflections). Shouldn't a transmitter in the middle of Virginia be trivial to verify?
Honestly I don't know the legal field that well. How common is it to get a legal apprenticeship without any sort of degree? (because we're talking about avoiding all college debt, not just law school debt).

If you don't get an apprenticeship, then your options after passing the bar with self-study are essentially (it seems to me):

1. low-paid government work (like public defenders)

2. setting up your own practice (hard to build up a client base initially)

3. working on contract/temp basis for another law firm with variable prospects

Law school isn't just about credentialling and signaling; it also sets you up with a valuable alumni network that helps you get work. Anecdotally it's easier for an aspiring programmer without a network to get a referral into a tech company; go to a few meetups, hackathons or conferences, build a portfolio/github, meet a few people and ask them if they'll refer you (I've both gotten a job and helped someone get a job this way). And very few people ask or care about where you went to school when they can see your work instead. Again I may just be biased because I know the tech field better but it seems to me that it's harder to demonstrate your legal skills since you can't exactly post a sample contract or legal opinion you wrote, on Github (or maybe there's a portfolio site for lawyers too, who knows).

> Confusing “what you need to get a job at a top law firm” with “what you need to be a lawyer” is like confusing “what you need to get a job at Google” with “what you need to be a programmer”.

Again, not knowing the legal field well it seems to me that even mediocre programmers do better than mediocre lawyers because of the supply-demand differences between the two fields.
Mostly came in here to say: well said sir, on both comments.

> - Someone who is completely disconnected from reality

I totally agree that on this one, but have found that this group can come in quite a few more shapes and sizes than your original comment suggests. Not everyone is as out-to-lunch as your parent: I know a healthy number of people down here who are just fundamentally optimistic about things, and will tend to think positively at all times (and probably right up until the moment that the guillotine falls).

I have one friend who just put down roots with a house and recently had a child. He insists that the price tag on his place (well over $1M+) is perfectly reasonable, even though it's right at the fringes of the city and would be considered a worn-out hovel by the standards of almost any other North American city. The house's previous owners bought in a few decades ago and paid ~$50k for it.

In a few years he'll be putting his child through the city's public schooling system, which is broadly considered to be a nightmare by any standard, but he insists that SF's schools are great at the municipality is doing an excellent job. He harbors no resentment for major failings in public policy like Prop 13, despite the fact that he's probably paying on the order of 10-20x as much property tax as the vast majority of all his neighbors.

Despite a myriad of failings on the part of policy planners in everything from traffic to cleanliness to crime, he has a way of not seeing any of it. I envy him because it's a bit of a survival adaptation: he's happier on average than anyone in the area who thinks about any of this stuff regularly.

Suggesting getting a roommate would just be not that big of a deal to him because you're still in the city and still having the fun, even if there maybe should be a greater existential concern about workers making six figures being put in this situation.
Well if you're single this is all moot anyway, the point I'm making is about a relationship. I'm also not talking about hobbies, there's no problem there. I'm also not talking about when I go for lunch while at work, because it's just me. I'm talking about the sorts of things that are necessary to run the household my wife and I share.

The thing is, yes, maybe one doesn't need to plan all this out and this emotional labor isn't necessary. But you know what? I'm married to her and I love her and she's my best friend so it is my problem, because I don't plan on leaving her. Life and love is not rational.

>Most of it involves things that I don't care about and which my life is perfectly fine without any care being given to.

I'm the same way. My wife is not. We've both changed to accommodate one another because we want to.

For what it's worth, our strong relationship is even stronger now that I've become more aware of this and done something about it.
23 bits for the mantissa, and you're forgetting the leading sign bit.
>says more about whether the prof liked you and you stuck to affirming or regurgitating their ideas.

My best classes were the ones where the professors and I came from wildly different places. There are bad profs, but in my experience it is pretty uncommon for professors to actually want to see you regurgitating their ideas. Moreover, most of my grading was done by TA's anyway so it's not even like the prof's take was relevant since the TA's have their own agendas.

More often the fact is that, undergraduates (and many graduate level students) suck at properly arguing their point. It’s not their fault really, they’re just less experienced at building a case, operating under a time and space constraint, and less knowledgable about the topic than the person grading them.

And when you’re being contrarian (going against your professor’s thinking) you’re likely to suck even more than usual because your professor hasn’t spoon fed you an acceptable conclusion, a cogent argument leading up to it, and first principles that they agree with to build an argument from.

>People pretend profs are altruistic and stop acting like people when they become profs.

Who exactly do you think would be designing (and thereby imputing their biases into) these standardized tests?
King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people
To carry the fallout onto South Korea, and the US militry stationed there? Brilliant!
And at that point, the business is essentially just an electronic yellow pages with ratings. Which is fine. But, at that point, the business model is probably just charging a listing fee. Which is fine but is never going to have the potential revenue of getting a cut from each transaction.
If you have a large number of moving parties you could make bloom filters of the tiles they're going to move through and then compare them to cull pairs which will never share tiles along their paths perhaps?
> In this context, wealth doesn’t necessarily have to start out as financial wealth

i'm fairly certain the comment i was replying to was using 'wealth' in the literal, financial sense.

nevertheless, breaking the cycle of being disadvantaged by taking drastic measures and risks is something that's required in all cases. for us it was leaving everything behind and coming to the US with nothing. for someone who does not come from a background of education, delaying having children and spending more to go to school and establish a good base income would be a significant change from the norm perhaps.

different situations require different measures. as long as you have your health, there's little excuse to continually blame external factors, at least in the US.
I went trough C and Pascal some 30 years ago and still prefer C above anything else. Objective C obviously being close enough so I can write efficient (or at least visually pleasing code). Last straw with Swift for me was banishing of ++ operator. C has beauty and smartness to write _a lot_ of code in one line. I don't like C++ that much.

Anything that makes code beautiful works for me. Swift somehow can't be per_line_efficient and aesthetically pleasing to me.
Everything you listed is just a multiplier on if the technology actually works.

If you have a sucky multiplier of course your product won't do well but if it isn't technically executed right you still have a zero.
How does a Bloom filter with k hash functions hashing to a shared table of m bits compare to just using k hash functions each hashing into its own separate hash table of m/k bits?
The best UIs I've used have two ways to do almost everything - the obvious way, and the fast way. You can almost always accommodate both sets of users.
Do you have (or can you point me to) a good collection of these DIMACS files? That is, a good collection of representative SAT problems (and hopefully some pathological cases)?
Ideas don't create value. Ideas represent the potential for value.
UI/UX. It was only after the booking was done, and I contacted the TaskRabbit person the day before to confirm, that she realized it was a move out cleaning, and that I should have put my request in the "Intensive Cleaning" section, or something like that. To be fair to TaskRabbit, she didn't read my job description at all. But still, I felt kinda slimed by the interface.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Be Launched Spring 2019
I think people at his level trade on traditional assets (stocks, metals, whatever) but always with an insider's edge. He probably does not have that edge in Bitcoin.
> Swift 4 is the release that says, “We need to stabilize the source code.”

Stabilizing source code doesn't have any meaning that I know of. But the updates to the language and library are good!

Looking forward to what they come up with regarding ownership semantics.
China has historically tolerated NK because it doesn't want to share a border with a US ally. China intervened in the Korean War precisely because the UN forces came too far north, in spite of China warning them to stay clear.
Create Web Components with React
That is admittedly a tougher situation - my comment was geared towards someone making 100k as this post's theme has been "technical workers".

Your situation is definitely tough and would probably mean having to live way out of the bay area and commute to work.

I mainly reacted to OP saying it wasn't possible. How can you say that when people commute from Vallejo into the city everyday wasting 3 hours a day so that they can provide for their family?

It's hard, but to complain that it isn't possible is especially unnerving since if you are a tech worker you're probably in the class of people for whom it's the most reachable.
You're clearly not destroying the entire purpose of the DH handshake, because the STEK is rotated and so the time window of compromise is limited to by the rotation interval. Even with poorly rotated ticket keys, you're still better off with a PFS suite than without it --- without the DH, every client has an unlimited window of exposure if the server's private key is compromised.
It depends, much of that on your relationship with clients and their own savvy.

If you're a valued contributor and your client is aware of that, they may be able to swing things. That may end up being a zero-sum game, with existing headcount being eliminated. Much depends on the organisation's own policies and savvy.

It's an argument for maintaining good relations, though.
Looks pretty cool. One thing though... Windows?..
Isn't it funny that an American journal publishes an article with Australian scientists about a continent they term Zealandia after New Zealand in turn named after a place in Holland where much of the landmass and water is currently controlled by France?

I have pity on the Chinese national geographic toponym bureau for having the tedious task of translating this for national linguistic unity.

Truly, we dwell in a post-national mire of bureaucrats! We need more solid continents!
One of the oldest criteria of being a real state is the ability to control who enters and leaves your territory.

Unrestricted border control is basically giving up nationhood, and that's not done lightly.

Imagine if a regiment of armed Russians decided to "travel" into, say, Poland for a "holiday jaunt". That's unacceptable. Similarly, having lots of Americans deciding to move into Canada would be violating their sovereignty.

It's really weird that this is something a lot of folks these days have trouble with.
I guess I'm not math-y enough so that I intuitively understand the simple math formula.

On the other hand, I like his window image : e.g. I understand better how, the further you get from 0, the more your precision goes down, because "bigger windows, divided in the same number of buckets".
It is curious how little skepticism many here on HN have when it comes to the news and 3 letter agencies blaming attacks on the usual boogymen.

It seems running an attack through a proxy in Russia, NK, or China would be sufficient enough to mislead millions of people.
are you referring to the lifecycle events like onResume and onPause? You can approximate those with iOS using a combination of viewWillAppear and UIApplicationWillEnterForegroundNotification
> I think the trick may be deciding before it becomes a decision on her radar in the first place.

One way my wife and I handle this is to have separate responsibilities that we each own. For instance, I handle bills. Not because I'm better at it, but because it causes her more stress than it causes me. I also proactively communicate our financial status, so that she isn't surprised by anything.
GoPro Unveils New Devices as It Faces Heat from Smartphone Cameras
Do you think if they come wearing Verizon hats that means they're Verizon?
Fair, I added some more identifying information to my profile so you know that I'm a real person.
Consider then that it was what RMS lived and breathed for years.

Also i feel that to a more limited sense this is what draws people to the unix CLI. And in turn what sold OSX to academia beyond media production courses. And something that both Apple and Linux userland programmers ignore at their peril.
You should try applying for CSO at Equifax. There is soon going to be an opening available for that role and it looks like you have the necessary qualifications.
I suspect affine is fine, but I'm not an authority. The distinction (as I understand it) is only that linear types require that you consume all instances, whereas affine allow you to leak if you want. Leaking doesn't seem to lead to dangling pointers, but I've been wrong before.
> Her: But restaurant B has X.

Classic. I sort of hate that kind of statement, because it doesn't state what the person wants to do. Are you saying that because you want to go to B, or because you want me to consider going to B?

It's so much better when it is "Nah, let's go to B because it has X and I know you like it too." Desire clearly stated, everyone in agreement, let's go.
On your first question, there are many areas of deep, hardcore technical domain expertise in things like databases, high-scale systems, parallel computing, AI, etc where much of the existing knowledge and recent advancements are poorly represented in public literature, conferences, etc due to layers of operational secrecy. What you would learn from the public literature or is shown in conferences is often quite misrepresentative of the state-of-the-art.

This becomes tribal knowledge. The way most people become experts in these domains is by working with or around people that are already experts, which requires being in an engineering environment where you are likely to come into contact with some. This type of expertise is far from evenly distributed.