skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not the same. If all existing art disappeared we would still be able to produce art at our current rate with no discernible or measurable difference in its quality or effect.
Scientific or technological progress on the other hand is iterative. More advanced theories are slowly formulated on the backs of older ones. For precision tools for example you need to start off building crude tools with nothing, then use those to build the infrastructure that will allow you to build slightly more precise tools and so on.
You could read it that way, but it's something that I see in many different organisations when talking to people about how they do the data science-in'

The thing is that confirmation bias is real, and cost and time often preclude the use of strong systems to exclude it. Additionally The Tribe quickly develop narratives which then dominate funding and discussion. Phrases like "we've moved to execution".

Before finger wagging at dumb managers starts... consider Richard Feynman : https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment
Broadcom Huge Takeover of Qualcomm Is Not as Crazy as It Seems
Name one bit of useful Android functionality that is only available paid on ios. There isn’t any. The average Android users pay far less for their phones, and spend far less on apps, that’s been true forever.

Apple targets only the top end of the market. I’m a mobile developer and that’s why native apps are almost always iOS first. We know our iOS sales will be higher, and these are proprietary apps, not system features.
Body Cameras Have Little Effect on Police Behavior, Study Says
Few things on the web are still a thing a year later. That's why I favor a thinner less complex stack.
Situations like that are, to me, one of the greatest appeals to using cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems or websites. Unfortunately the ecosystem isn't quite there in some areas, so I don't expect these sites to go extinct just yet, but I'm hoping that they do some time in the future.

Freelance.com obviously isn't alone in the way it acts. Fiverr can easily be just as worse, on top of the huge cuts they take from payments (as well as applying their 20% cut to things such as 'tips' you give to workers), it's always clear who is in the position of power and authority on these platforms, and the answer is never the end-user. Go against them and you risk your money, your reputation, and your career. Paypal and other payment systems can be just as bad as well - you've likely read many horror stories about people losing access to 'their' money for months on end.

At some point it's just too much for users to deal with. When proper alternatives are available, hopefully users will move to them as a result of this.
SECURITY NEWS THIS WEEK: RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN INTERFERENCE CAST a WIDE NET
Is there any difference in places where the camera footage is publicly available vs where it's not?
Random idea: a logging/audit framework with built in blockchain support to prove events happened/didn't happen. Maybe an extension to slf4j?
I'm effectively a nobody engineer at a large tech firm and I make three and a half times what I used to make as a postdoc at highly respected universities.
The Black–Scholes–Merton model does assume a log-normal distribution of price changes, and the tails of that distribution are not fat enough to account for the frequency of large price changes observed in real-world markets.

But your criticism is essentially off base. The main reason the Black–Scholes–Merton model remains the workhorse of derivatives pricing nearly a half century on, and the reason two of its creators were given a Nobel prize in 1997, is that the model has proved to be enormously adaptable. One can relax the assumption of constant volatility in various ways, assuming instead that volatilty depends on the price level, on other factors, or that it is itself random. These embellishments retain the Brownian motion and its normal distribution as the primary source of randomness, but the added volatilty structure allows for almost arbitrarily fat tails and all sorts of complicated dependencies in the resulting distribution of price changes.

The fields of mathematical finance and financial engineering are in large part concerned with coming up with tweaks to the Black–Scholes–Merton model that provide the complications necessary to price idiosyncratic securities while maintaining as much of the simplicity of the basic model as possible so that pricing (usually numerically) remains tractable.

As JumpCrissCross pointed out, there have also been numerous follow-on models developed that make different assumptions about the basic distribution of price changes, going back to Merton’s jump-diffusion model of 1980. Most of these models can still be viewed as embellishments of the Black–Scholes–Merton model.
> Who cares who's fault it is? There's a problem that needs fixing is all that matters.

I care. We can't properly address the problem or learn from our mistakes if we don't know the cause.

We had colleges before federal student loan subsidies. Our parents went to school and paid for tuition with part time jobs. Then we had them, and decades later, the chickens have come home to roost. This is not rocket science--it's Economics 101.

We are letting bad ideas off the hook by not focusing on what the problem is, and as long as we let people pass blame, we can expect to continue seeing it again and again.
There are only so many times that your morning commute can involve someone standing in your face for minutes screaming about how he's going to stab you in the chest, or you can watch some guy beat his girlfriend to a pulp in front of you.
Thank you, I was thinking the same thing. ;-)
I read the OPs comment as partly a comment on how Google has been releasing social commentary without releasing the raw studies specifically on gender and salary. They were being investigated for cheating women on salary.

I read the response from the Googler as an appeal to authority. If Google doesn’t release the study, they open themselves up for conjecture and skepticism.

To criticize OP for being inaccurate is fine, but absent any references, Google is making the same argument as the Googler.
AI and ML
I was sarcastic. Most people end school with a fat loan. And who is gonna afford an apartment in New York !? Then eating out and, going to cocktail parties - makes it even insulting!
My question is why hasn't he been able to land a full time teaching job in ~14 years? It seems like a full time teaching job would alleviate a lot of that pressure, but the article doesn't seem to mention it.

I understand teachers probably make the lowest salaries in any degree required field, but they can keep their heads above water if they are fully employed. Many family members are teachers, and it's noble but thankless work.
https://sailsjs.com still going strong last time I checked.
I am curious about how the mesh topology based on Launchpad is superior to typical star topology LoRa.

It looks like each Launchpad is $30 (multiple per light?) and Pi Zero W is $10, yet an ESP32 development board with LoRa is about $10. Given that street lights have a constant power source the communication challenges seem like they would be easy compared to when such devices are economizing every milliwatt hour. They could be set to always receive, and send small packets to a nearby peers to be relayed in very short windows.
This is an oddly incoherent article. It fails to mention Borges' "On Exactitude in Science" or Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" despite re-hashing their ideas.
It seems like the root problem is that students cannot declare bankruptcy on student loans. If they could do that then lenders would adjust for risk accordingly which would lower the availability of loans, which would in turn drive tuition down. I know there's an argument that students will just declare bankruptcy after graduating, but if that's the case then the solution would be to make bankruptcy less appealing via disincentives (more penalties for declaring bankruptcy).

Making student loans exempt from bankruptcy is distorting the loan markets and, in turn, tuition. If restricting the availability of loans creates a situation in which the higher education is unavailable to students without financial means, then the state should make free or very low cost higher education available to offset this. The solutions are so obvious that it's pretty clear that the financing of student loans is a giant con at this point.
Isn't Sails just that: https://sailsjs.com/
Isn't koa flexible enough for you to build a framework on top of it to accomplish your goals of elegance and simplicity? That way you could take advantage of the ecosystem that already exists, instead of trying to bootstrap your own.
This is basically not feasible. At part time, you'd barely have time enough to read the literature to keep current, let alone get actual research done, apply for grants, write papers, give talks and presentations, go to conferences, and teach classes.
“Visualizing just about anything” isn’t helpful if you want to learn from the visualization, though. (c.f the /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit nowadays: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/?sort=top&t=mon...)

That’s not to say that a purely artistic data visualization has no value, but it’s not academic. (I admit I am guilty of that at times)
3D (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal et al), GPGPU and AR. Not so sure about VR though.
> What's happening to the Appalachian coal miners today is going to happen to tech sooner or later.

How so? Care to elaborate on this?
That is super hard to understand. I think that maybe the author is saying the artificially created island is devoid of the type of meanings a true place has, so that a map is not really needed. Everything on the island, everything is listed on the map, with no single point going unexplained, no mysteries to explore, and nothing existing in-between places that you are going.

A real map helps you explore places, both get lost and find where you are going, but a map to an artificial place likes a world's fair expo on a man made island, is useless, because you can't help but be found at all times. Descriptions of places that are well known and famous (e.g. Yosemite Falls) are redundant, everyone knows what the place is. A description of "Museum of Science" does no more good than the name itself does.

But that is just a guess, the author uses a lot of phrases and never explains the meaning behind them. Which I guess is the exact opposite of the Treasure Island map. :)
You're right - it is a very peculiar circumstance and one that is increasingly impossible to achieve on large scale because of overpopulation. No matter what way you slice it, more people means fewer resources per person. We need to find a way to reduce growing populations in the United States, China, India South East Asia in general, and Africa.
Plus you will be filmed and put on YouTube if the confrontation lasts more than a moment. This alone is enough to inhibit me.
>It is hardly surprising few people take that option when instead they could be living comfortably (even 80K/year is well above median US income) at a job they're not passionate about.

But we're talking about a "disappearing" American grad-student. What has actually changed about lucrative professions being more lucrative than a grad-student stipend?

This whole thread comes across as people just wanting to brag that they went into industry rather than think about the question.
There was a big organized push for visualization and more precisely augmented visualized thinking at HARC. It’s really too bad HARC didn’t work out, but many of us are still very interested in this problem.
What are the most important talent gaps in the effective altruism community?
I wonder why nobody has filled the gap of a job-agency for smart people (10x developers if you will) that are looking for short-term jobs (e.g. when in between jobs/projects or when their current startup is not ramen-profitable yet).
I would expect high school guidance councilors would be a resource for this decision as well.
Shorten Your Argument List with Input Types
There's a huge difference between displaying a simple, well documented open format and handling proprietary binary formats.
I once had a disagreement with Freelancer over a few hundred dollars. I was a buyer, rather than a seller, the job didn't get done, and I was trying to withdraw the funds I put in. So, although in the US, I filed a small claims case in New South Wales. This can be done entirely on line. It's possible to request court hearings by telephone. So you can do a small claims case remotely.

Within 8 hours after filing the case and sending the documents to Freelancer, I had been paid by wire transfer. I then withdrew the case.
Leading Western Publisher Bows to Chinese Censorship
Chineese Boston Dynamics's Spot-Like Robot
Here is a service with transparent pricing:

https://www.textbroker.com/clients-prices-conditions

I work for them. My opinion of them is very positive.

Clients who know what they want will put articles in the general author pool and then invite authors they like to a team. So they pay less as a screening mechanism, then pay a bit more for quality work. It is generally way less than 20 cents a word.
Most change is generational. Went to my city council meeting last night because I wanted to make sure new housing was approved for. There were 300ish people there, probably an average of 60. Very few people under 40, maybe 10 most.

Changes happens when old people die, and new people take over who were shaped by different generational events.

It’s frustrating in some ways, but really pleasing in others because change will come, even if it looks like it never is going to happen. It’s a healthy tension between preservation and innovation. That being said, if you’re in agitator who succeeds, you’re most likely just in the right place at the right time...
How do you manage / plan your life?
I think having the right priorities, and a constancy of purpose is key towards a successful and happy life.

But I often find myself using most of my efforts in vain, on unimportant problems. This is partly due to working on chaotic organizations, receiving an overwhelming amount of daily information to process and, ultimately, my incompetency at staying focused on tasks worth doing.

How do successful HNers manage their lives? What are some principles and methods that have made your success possible?
Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
> Also, I’ve seen MASH.

MASH the film or MASH the TV series? Both are comedies, and both are loosely based on “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors”, which is a memoir.
I don't know why they did that, you would need to ask them. They seem to be open to questions and suggestions. My guess is that it's historical and now it would annoy too many users to change.
You could use e.g. WhatTheFont to find the font.

https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Yeah, this is the type of stuff I'm talking about.

But you can take these things so much further if you branch away from "just development skills" too.

I never talked to a food truck person yet but I bet there's lots of ways you could have turned that unfulfilling contract into something more interesting.

No business owner really cares about a site redesign. They just care about "how do I get more customers?". If you shift your focus from website themes, to delivering business value then suddenly a $1,000 wordpress site turns into a $1,000/monthly retainer because you're creating funnels and pipelines to drive business to his truck.

Next thing you know, he's paying you $25,000 for some crazy custom food truck software that helps automate his business which he has no problem paying because he trusts you and everything you've done for him in the past was amazing.

Fast forward 2 years from now and you have a food truck SAAS that 12,000 other food truck owners are paying $79/month for. Your whole life is changed from 1 conversation and you get to write code (it just took a little exploring to get to that point).
For all new projects I always use internationalization. Instead of writing something like

<button>Sign Up</button>

I simply write

<button>{{ 'Sign Up'|trans }}</button>

That way I don't need translation files (EN is default). If translation is not found the "key" is returned which is fine. Once the app is ready I call a command to create my language files and simply translate them.
Do you think the prices offered on freelancing sites are fair? Would you be willing to work for such prices? Why do you think freelancing is considered a race to the bottom?

Why do you care which ISP someone uses when committing to a repository or login to VM?

On the other end of things, would I move to a more expensive neighborhood if that meant I will get a bigger salary? While I don't know about you or your friend, my answer would be yes please.

Fair is when equal work is equally compensated. When you earn significantly less than others in roughly the same position you are being exploited and it does not matter whether you can make ends meet.
Agree. If an economy is structured where the population can't even sustain itself, that's a sign of a huge systemic problem. People sure like to parrot that though.
How littleBits grew from side project to Star Wars
How much less of a budget would NASA get without entertainment such as Star Wars to fire people's imagination?
Look at the screenshot from the spectrum analyzer. That's a very specific signal, uniform in power, centered on the L1 frequency, and contained to a 1MHz bandwidth. That's intentional, not some random event.
The font is Palatino (or some shameless Palatino clone). The lowercase t and a (among other letters) are very distinctive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino

Hermann Zapf was one of the master type designers of the 20th century.
What was Julia lacking? I know and use R, but have been considering Julia.
> React is becoming a de-facto standard

The Vue.JS community would beg to differ.

But yeah, if JetBrains could implement something like the Rust Language Server for Kotlin I would be so happy.
This is why you're wasting your life away
tldr of your comment: book is good, smart is very good
UpWork is completely biased towards their work force.
They treat freelancers like shit and the client is always right.
The rating system makes it impossible to have any benefit from conflict resolution.

Then again some of the people hiring there are really professional.

I was scammed by some guy who gave me a 1 star for overworking me and exploiting me, in spite of showing evidence that his work was completed (and much more) his rating was not even exempted from my total.

Suffice to say it makes it hard to work. Luckily it was my 6th job and I had other 5 stars.....
He uses custom tools.

However, he actually recommends against using his tools. He suggests a better option is to use traditional animation tools.

I'm actually not sure what one would use for more traditional animations of his style though. I mean, theoretically you can use blender/etc for most 3d things, but how easy would it be to make something math-based there? Hopefully someone with some real animation experience can chime in.
I agree that storing unix timestamps is a good approach.

My issue was with "then displayed to the proper locale by the client's device."
I mean, by itself it is ok, but in the case of a web client one cannot unfortunately just use the Date object and convert the timestamp to a human readable string.
Kubernetes, Microservices, and Istio
Fermi Paradox: Where is everybody?
Agreed. Pretty much every video on that channel is just as good as this one.
lolvuejs
This a great resource for engineers to wean themselves off Matlab. Maintaining Mathworks licenses is expensive and they can be assholes about license usage. We recently purchased some additional toolboxes and all they could do was bitch about how we had deployed our existing licenses. If you don’t like it why do you allow it?

In addition, recent versions of Matlab have broken some common plotting tools, contourf in particular. Where this once produced elegant and light weight results it now generates a tessellated mess with tiny gaps between elements that look awful in paper manuscripts and baloon the file size for no good reason. The Mathworks response? It fixes some edge case.[0]

I find many of students we take on as interns often lack more than rudimentary coding skills making the jump to Python easier.

[0] https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/162257-proble...
There are many examples, one I came across recently is that the large majority of the probability mass of a high-dimensional gaussian distribution is in a shell at a distance from the mean, the mass at the center is actually quite low.

Also anything related to topology, which is important when you are looking at decision boundaries, becomes counterintuitive in high dimensions, because so many things can be adjacent at the same time.
I clicked to figure out why a person was described as a half person but I didn't spend much time on the page and didn't figure it out, do you want to know what I ate for lunch too?
Another Dem here. The opioid crisis starts in 2010. The Republicans took over the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014. Congress then grounded to a halt and broadly rejected anything Obama proposed even going so far as to shut down the government. Congress is still halted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic#/media/File%...

Not sure why the governing party isn’t being held responsible for, you know, governing.

The transgender kids and sexual assault of college women coverage was on Fox. Again, guns, gays and god ain’t gonna get us out of this. But it will deliver the votes in places like WV.
Yes, exactly, thanks.
"Its not the same. If all existing art disappeared we would still be able to produce art at our current rate with no discernible or measurable difference in its quality or effect."

That's a very strange idea.

If all existing novels dissappeared do you think we would produce novels straight away?

If all painting dissappeared would we paint with perspective, or in abstract, or just go for rough cave type paintings?

How long would it take us to come up with rhyming metre, or the observational essay, cinema or stand-up?

You think we'd start from having no references and create this immediately?
A new Russian city of Innopolis
High-level intro to Android’s new “Instant App” feature
His 2D structure with pipes makes me wanna write transforms in APL
Because it didn't get bigger? There are other ways battery life can "improve" than just adding mAh.
You mentioned "gun" in the context of databases/realtime, so naturally I found it - although I was bummed it wasn't about gun (I'm the author of the popular https://github.com/amark/gun MIT licensed graph database) just the expression.

But since I now have you, you mention that "make reactive all the things" on the server caused newer developers pain? I've certainly had my fair share of developers initially being confused about reactive systems, but generally once they play with it, it "clicks" and they are mind-blown about the possibilities.

Would you mind sharing your experiences? So that way I can indirectly learn from your interactions and try to make things better, since I work on related systems.
New video shows Face ID fail to properly distinguish between siblings
"Praise in public, critic in private"

I love it.
MINIX — The most popular OS in the world, thanks to Intel
> If all art suddenly disappeared it wouldnt really matter.

Ugh. This is so arrogant.

Take a step back, talk to some people outside this bubble, of different ages, from different parts of the world, and not just on the internet. Get a sense for how they want to live their lives, for what's important to them. Then come back to this opinion you hold so strongly and question it honestly.
Some are controlled remote using unidirectional long range radio, called "Funkrundsteuertechnik".