skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Good luck convincing Trump about any of it, though.

s/Trump/conservatives/

Conservatives (even poor conservatives) seem to be against wealth redistribution of this nature and try to label it as "welfare" and "handouts", which they find distasteful, even when it's the healthiest thing for the economy as a whole. They can't seem to get past the idea that "hard work = wealth", and that giving people breaks is morally bankrupt. They seem to think that all this is a zero-sum game, and that giving aid to the lowest-income people will necessarily take something away from them.
How Booking.com Serves Deep Learning Model Predictions [video]
You need more volume than a small town can provide to turn a profit at such low margins.
I have noticed that too. Some items are a good deal, some are average, and some overpriced relative to standard discount stores. Clearly Dollar Tree cuts the corner on materials and durability.
The items I am pleased are things like ceramic or glass dishes that are painted slightly imperfectly.
some jobs background checks make sense. do you really want to hire a former bank robber as a teller? or convicted sex criminal as a teacher.

Personally, I would want to do a credit check on a CFO or controller because if they can't manage their own finances how can they manage the businesses.
Various ARIMA methods are used to deseason data for forecasting, but yes a better more directly comparable example might have been methods like STAMP and STL.
So how does this work for larger companies with multiple offices? Some cases I'm curious about (and have always been for laws like this):

My company's headquarters are registered in Texas, but we have an office in CA that is doing hiring for that office.

Same as above, but hiring someone residing in CA to move to Texas.

Same as above, but hiring someone residing in CA to remote work (in CA or wherever they please).

Then, all three cases, but with a company headquartered Int'l.
We are simply doing what is in our national interests, and, as the world superpower, that involves getting involved in the affairs of other countries. The US is actually one of the least hated, according to studies. If any other country was this powerful, they would do the same. Regardless if other people like it or not, if it's in the national interest, it's always the right thing to do from our perspective.
I once had a recruiter (contracted) get angry and berate me when I refused to answer, then finally gave in and gave him my full compensation figure from when I worked at Google. He said I was lying and nobody would hire me at that rate. Needless to say I let him know what I thought of him and ended that contact, letting the HR department at the company for whom he was recruiting know what a jackass he was.
Employers generally can't get your salary history during a background check without your approval.
Posting a range "job pays X to Y" runs the risk of every candidate assuming they'd be on the "Y" side, not the lower "X" side. If a candidate wows you, you want to impress them, so you have to have room to go above your posted range, in that case. But then you're being less transparent, once again.
> However, I can't imagine the compliance nightmare that would exist around a process that lets HR people look up people's equifax information.

Employment credit checks are perfectly legal.
What does 70 calories of chocolate weigh, and what's chocolate's LD50?

...What's the maximum number of heart-healthy flavanol doses?
That's a good point as far as the employer's behavior goes. It still seems beneficial to the above-average applicant to reveal their salary.

I guess that means employers will assume you're below average unless you reveal your salary. That would tend to lump all the below-average people into the same salary class as far as the potential employer is concerned.
> I'm not sure if it's intended to be used on a bike

You're correct: https://github.com/DragonComputer/dragon.computer/issues/1
Study shows 90% of Tech Workers stole U.S Government secrets to forge on Resume
Gargoyle is responding to "No word on if they are allowed to use Equifax, etc to pull salary data from?"
I don't think it's an overstatement to say that, since playing Lee Sedol in 2016, AlphaGo has completely revolutionized professional and amateur go. It's certainly not unprecedented — the last major revolution happened in the early 20th century (often called the 'Shin Fuseki' era [0]) — but AlphaGo has demonstrably surpassed any previous high-water mark.

> I wonder if this system produced more new styles of play.

Absolutely. One such innovation has been the use of early 3-3 invasions [1]. There are many more, and indeed AlphaGo's games are still being analyzed by professional players. Michael Redmond, a 9-dan professional, has been working with the American Go Association on one such series [2].

> I wonder if the fact that it had no outside reinforcement made it produce movements that we have already seen that are somehow inherent to the game...

Interestingly, yes. Strong players have commented that AlphaGo seems to agree with things that players like Go Seigen [3] have suggested in the past, but that were never fully developed or understood [4].

Very, very interesting work indeed.

[0] https://senseis.xmp.net/?ShinFuseki

[1] https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=127

[2] http://www.usgo.org/news/category/go-news/computer-goai/mast...

[3] https://senseis.xmp.net/?GoSeigen

[4] https://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=14129
the commenter on Reddit happens to be an astrophysicist
I'm not 100% sure I agree. It values probability of victory because that's it's goal. For humans, aiming only for probability of victory might not be as good, because we're much worse at estimating probabilities. So aiming for maintaining a large margin at all times is conceivably the best proxy that we can use in practice.
It's a conceptual black box. There's no way for us to understand what each individual neuron is doing.
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About to get a hell of a lot harder for contract recruiters to match candidates with expected salary, and match companies with candidates that fall within the salary bounds.

Only solution is probably to stress to their clients to just set a max salary and expect to pay it.
Part of that could be trying to compensate for counting skills that aren't quite at machine levels.
What you forget is: You get so many features with Spring Boot and you can actually use them without increasing the memory footprint.

Yes of course, for a single service with one endpoint that does nothing it is bloat. But which microservice does nothing?

Think about a database backend, actuator endpoints, etc. They are all possible with a memory footprint of ~200mb. It can be less is you use another language, but I doubt that Go will give you such a major framework for developing a microservice. And this will save you a lot more time than taking an hour to reduce your memory footprint.

And one thing you missed too: Using the JVM should also be combined with a basic knowledge about how the heap works. And if you do not limit it, it will get a lot bigger than required, this should be common knowledge.
Comparing this to Go it seems like a much better way. In Go there is afaik no way to limit the heap. In worst case it will grow and grow and grow.
The time everyone puts into it is part of the negotiating process. A company will budge if it's worth it for them -- and your job is to convince them it's worth it.

If the first thing out of your mouth is salary and they balk at that then you never even get to the negotiating phase.

A few failures, like you had, is simply part of the process. I don't think it's reasonable to expect to be successful a job hunting every time you go into the interview process. The time you put in is part of that process.
Unlike the current TV pundits, which are all Socrates reborn.

The question is not whether he has faults (of course he does), but whether there is a double standard.
How well has "giving a range" worked for you? I think when you give a range, the employer always tries to pay you the minimum in your range.
Now Washington state please.
How do you figure? I've always negotiated my salary. I've turned down offers that were too low for me. I don't think I've given my salary information to any employer I've been interested in working for. I think maybe the first time I worked with a recruiter I gave it to them, then realized it was a mistake.
Employers still get the data via background checks.
You sue them and use discovery to find out.

Any employer in California that does this will get taken to the cleaners.

It's possible Equifax would too now, so they probably won't give this information to CA employers.
This would be a good checklist for anyone considering building a UI framework. This kind of thing is the reason Bootstrap & friends are so large - they do a lot for you.
Russia Has Invented Social Media Blitzkrieg
Does he explain how this is better than any other methods?
Is there meaningful information in what one observes?
standards wise, you know the part after ? is variable though...
Is it definitely proven that elliptic curves are safer to use?
Objects all have state and certain behaviors attributed to the object. In common OOP vernacular this is known as state and methods. A real world analogy is a ball that can bounce and also has a bounciness coefficient, the ability to bounce is the method and the bounciness coefficient is the state. This makes sense.

A burrito is a monad. Explain this.
You're arguing a different point from the one being discussed.

The argument from the beginning was not about where the U.S. ranks in goodness vs. evil compared with other countries.

Many people say Chomsky is full of it when he focuses his criticism on the U.S. for actions he believes to be state-level crimes because, these people say, other countries are the true evil ones.

Chomsky's response is that even if you think the U.S. government is responsible for only 2% of the crimes in the world, it is this 2% that falls on his shoulders (and yours, and mine) as a U.S. citizen. His efforts on that 2% can have meaningful impact that can't be had on the other 98%.
> But should a language based on C -- of all things, be taught?

Why not? This variant is garbage collected, has array bounds checking, and doesn't allow C's undefined/unspecified behaviors.
Yeah, I guess I moved to Puma long enough ago that I forgot about this. Good points, thank you.
I fail to see why it's ever appropriate to suggest we only discuss one issue at once. Neither society nor government are monolithic entities. If you're genuinely concerned about a topic and think it should be a higher priority, solicit attention for it on its own rather than derailing discussions of other topics.
This is how it used to roll for me when I was a contract recruiter, and 99% of the time the candidate would say "So the role pays 120k, got it."

Salary ranges are pointless, I always tried to tell my clients this but for some reason they always would give me a range. I gave up ever giving the range to my candidates and just told them the max (hard max, contract O&G, so they wouldn't try to negotiate above, it'd be pointless).
I'm pretty sure NoScript's ABE (https://noscript.net/abe/) would be able to reject those requests. You can basically define rules that say requests are only allowed to the credit union's origin and that's it.
An extra 600 calories from whatever source is not going to be healthy.
California...doing it wrong again. You can refuse to give it. You can also get better at negotiating. Dumb law.
That's ridiculous. Landlords need to know that you're financially able to cover your rent. Typically, that's a rent of up to 1/3 of your monthly gross. You can generally also show a landlord that you have a significant amount in liquid assets in lieu of providing your salary information.
I like how it's a foregone conclusion that inequality is a "problem" that needs to be "fixed".
Best quote describes how Russia played groups against each other in an attempt to Balkanize the US:

"Not content to impersonate African-Americans, the Russian trolls also pretended to be American Muslims. They took on the digital identity of a real group called United Muslims of America and, according to the Daily Beast, “pushed memes that claimed Hillary Clinton admitted the U.S. ‘created, funded and armed’ al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State; claimed that John McCain was ISIS’ true founder; whitewashed blood-drenched dictator Moammar Gadhafi and praised him for not having a ‘Rothschild-owned central bank’; and falsely alleged Osama bin Laden was a ‘CIA agent.’”

At the same time that they were attempting to foment Muslim discontent in America, the opportunistic Russians were also pandering to anti-Muslim nativists — including organizing an anti-Muslim rally in Idaho in 2016. The Russians were behind websites such as “Being Patriotic” and “Secured Borders,” which often promoted “fake news” such as the claim that “Michigan allows Muslim immigrants to collect welfare checks and other benefits for four wives.”"
To be clear, SpaceX's brand new boosters are tested before they are launched so they should not be called untested.

If the BFR plan happens, customers won't really have a choice because a new BFR will be very expensive and a launch on a used BFR will be very cheap.
If you have a California office, you have to be incorporated in California, which means you're a California employer.
The grand parent comment does venture in that territory the moment the commentator says this

> And I sure as hell won't trust any mom and pop research about pharmacology.

Regardless of Mom and Pop store investments, the outcome of scientific experiments don't depend on who does the experiments.
"... disabilities, national origin, ethnicity, religion, and enough information to construct knowledge about sexual orientation."

Don't employers already get most of that from doing in person interviews? Even through phone screens you can gather most of that information.
But then you lose the chance to negotiate up. Any number you state can be interpreted as the highest you will get offered. In salary negotiation, make it so the employer presents the first offer, and then negotiate up.
I expected something related to the also poorly named Sprint MVNO, https://tello.com/
Wal-Mart has tended to understaff its stores. Results are dirtier, messier, more crime-friendly stores. They've off-loaded their security/loss prevention expenses on to local police departments: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
And that's exactly how salary negotiations work now -- the applicant can name an expected salary, and the employer can respond accordingly. The only thing that's changed is that what you've been paid in the past doesn't have to be a part of that discussion.
What's so ridiculous about that? That's pretty much how it works in many "welfare" states across Europe (I'm from Belgium).

I don't find the thought of not being able to afford healthcare if bad luck strikes very appealing.
That site has the most aggressive anti ad-blocker mechanism I have ever seen.

I understand why people do this but holy shit that is obnoxious.

EDIT: UC Coaches some of the highest paid people in the state... sigh.
Just to be a devil's advocate here : in a hypothetical scenario wouldn't this allow a candidate to give a fake inflated salary of his past job being well aware that it's illegal for recruiter or employer to investigate if this number is true?

Edit: I think I misunderstood the new law proposed here. It is not even legal for employer to ask the salary of past job. In that case this situation would not even occur.
"I don't share my previous salary but I'm always willing to share a pay range. The range being higher than I'd ever expect to get paid."

That sounds like you are actively exaggerating the amount you have been paid previously to establish a "baseline" of what you are willing to accept as a minimum salary in the job you're applying for. Anyways, from what I understand, the new law does not seem to prohibit you from asking for a salary (range) that the applicant would be willing to accept, just from asking for how much specifically they made in the past.
That was then, now is now. There are few low-hanging fruits left these days. Especially in a field where showing any effect practically requires a sample size of dozens to hundreds and an observation period of years to decades.
They are prohibited from seeking the information by any means (including background checks), except information which is legally public, such as when the prospective employee is a previous/current public employee.
Since most ants are unable to reproduce, I like to think of the entire colony as the organism.

If you're interested in how evolution works, check out The Selfish Gene.
> Because after the next crash, the Fed won't be able to bail out the economy by lowering the interest rate. Am I wrong?

I suspect you might be wrong with this next crash, as the USD would have to get trashed to a degree and on a short timescale no one thinks possible today before we hit gold-scale monetary reset bottom scenarios. What surprised me about the 2008 crash was it revealed to an extent I never thought possible before how invested traders over the entire world are in USD denomination. I thought there would be ferocious push-back manifesting in the FX and bond markets, with knock-on downdrafts on US equities, from the QE's and bailouts. I was wrong. Some people rail against "regulatory capture", but I think "model capture" is overlooked; so much of our economic infrastructure is so heavily entwined with a USD-based economic representation model that a short, sharp shock is apparently unlikely to happen. We'll likely see a decades-long transition to another model like when the GBP was displaced by the USD, this time hopefully not with punctuated and moved along with horrific world wars and economic dislocations like last time.

This is ironic to me, because I had thought with all the computer-aided modeling we have available today, that contingency plans are in place at the large trading houses to relatively quickly (within 3-5 years) switch away from USD-denominated transactions, should the US start to monkey around too much with the money supply.
I don’t understand what economies of scale would have to do with being a middleman merchant. It doesn’t take a lot of capital to open a store, and there aren’t many legal barriers, and the workers don’t need to be trained. If there are only two stores, and no one is opening a third, then that must mean there’s not enough profit to make up for the risk of failing and continual operation of the business.
love this pet theory for things that are commodities
Funny enough, the only thing that got wrong was it saying I wasn't logged into HN.
> I don't know how you twisted his meaning to come to that conclusion.

Because the comment also mentioned this

> And I sure as hell won't trust any mom and pop research about pharmacology.

The comment essentially means that peer reviewed scientific experimental results from mom & pop are untrustworthy over big companies.
It doesn't let you throttle WebSockets either.
how about telling the candidates in front that the expected salary is in the range of x-y.
This is how I know the moon landings were fake.

/jk
Believe the parent is referring to year over year increases, which are quite common in hot markets. A lot of landlords will jack up rents when it comes time to renew your lease, especially if they know there is room to squeeze you.
Although banning the box unintentionally hurt those that it attempted to help, it may ultimately be the right move if the problem of the resultant discrimination can be tackled also. A one step back, two steps forward situation.
I think my next crazy taste test will be straight cocoa nibs whole.
This is true - there's a time value included in this. If you can't take off work, or have a family/obligations and need to transition immediately, you may not be able to afford to withhold this information.
Google's Machine Learning Software Has Learned to Replicate Itself
So, watched the whole video finally (such a salty response to having to postpone watching more than the intro). I still think the premise is fundamentally flawed. The author tries to get around this by initially defining the uncanny valley as "how we got to today's CGI", and later by calling it "bad CGI" - but by either definition, there was no "good" cgi being shown; no truly post-uncanny valley content.

Admiral Tarken? Princess Leia? Faked Obama? All examples of "beyond", and all really, well, uncanny to watch.

I can't even honestly agree that the commercialized software has started to plateau. The software to create CGI - especially the software being used by the big studios - is evolving constantly. Even Blender changes on a monthly (or more frequent) basis.

For example, in How to Train Your Dragon, one person's time was solely devoted to improving the water splash dynamics. In Frozen, they devoted decades of processing time to rendering one 15 second scene with the ice castle. In Mad Max, the CGI was praised because it wasn't the primary method of creating the effects, because it didn't get in the way of the practical effects.

Can we eventually get there? Yeah, I think so. But we're not there yet. The software isn't finished; the hardware isn't fast enough. Perhaps it will come about in tandem with general AI.
But then why not just post the salary range?

The truth is, employers are willing to pay $180k, but if someone would work for $110k[1], they'd rather find that out in advance.

Btw, I've had a recruiter from GooglAmaFaceSoft tell me in advance the max may for a position.

[1] I consider this to be a bad idea. An employee who won't negotiate a higher salary will often instead test his or her market value by interviewing elsewhere. Because these employees feel uncomfortable in salary negotiations, they are surprisingly likely to simply take the new job as a way of getting a raise. I think the reason this happens a lot is that negotiating types, who often end up in management, have trouble grasping that someone would actually quit and find a new job for a 10% pay raise rather than simply asking.
I didn't understand why he said that at all- from the article "For the first time in a decade, the 1,788 residents could buy groceries in town." So it sounds like there weren't any mom and pop shops for Walmart to "cause" to close down.
Why don't those companies (stackoverflow, Google and others) close the vulnerability?
The dictator's Handbook and the nerdier academic work it's based on, The Logic of Political Survival, both by Bruce Bueno de Mesquite and Alistair Smith, offer a compelling economic analysis of why democracies offer political support for dictatorships whose policies are glaringly opposed to the democracies' nominal position on human rights and foreign policy. They also offer some suggestions for breaking that cycle; if you want more practical advice, you might be interested in the work of Roger Hallam, and if you want more practical suggestions again then you might want to consult an imprint like AK Press.
Nice, nothing came up for me! This is the first time I've seen the positive impact of disabling third party cookies.
That’s like a store charging you to try on the clothes you don’t buy. I wouldn’t like that.
Because every time I told a candidate a range, I'd hear back "ok so the salary is {{max_salary}}, cool."

Nobody in the contracting world wants to undersell themselves. If somebody on the team is getting 75/hr, everybody better get 75/hr or hell gets raised. This is why the O&G industry out in Houston pushes back hard against any salary-sharing.
At apartments organized by property management companies, the rent typically goes up every year. By providing your income, you give them a maximum they can easily creep the rent towards.
umatrix [1] from gorhill (ubo dev) does that pretty well (along with a bunch of other things)

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix