skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that that's what you said: I just have a hard time understanding what that means. America is made up of people who hold values: the country itself can't hold values. One interpretation of "Capitalism is America's number one value" is that it's the number one value of a majority of Americans. Is that what you mean? I know only a few people who would actually say that capitalism is their number one value. If you don't hold it as your number one value, who do you think does? It's easy to say something like "Capitalism is America's number one value" in a cavalier way without thinking what is really meant by that, and it tends to pave over any more interesting, nuanced understanding of people's values.

Perhaps my questions don't make any sense to you, but they're driven by me trying to understand what it is you mean. You point to the paradise papers, but as I understand it, they don't describe America in particular (i.e., only America) or as a whole. Perhaps you didn't mean very much by your original comment, or you don't care to drill into it further. In either case, that's fine. I'm just interesting in understanding where you're coming from and whether it's truly an apt description.
>Speculating the impact of AI on overall employment is slightly speculative.

... it's kind of entirely speculative by definition, isn't it?
If anyone has a suggestion on which of these books are worth a read I would be open for suggestions on which to start on.
Side effect of too much executive power. It's problematic that this is even possible.
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Landlords and Heirs: Why Prop 13 isn’t just unfair, it’s un-American
Collection of annotated white papers
Give hashcat a shot
This seems to relate directly to what Malcom Harris discusses in his new book [1]. I just happened to read these back to back and I couldn't believe it.

[1] https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/not-every-ki...
Does this run on ReactOS?
Avast makes it hard not to install Chrome, and I think it's part of the Java installer as well.
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Fruity - that's the word! I've been out of the UK long enough to forget. The Australian pubs have entire "VIP Lounge" dedicated to the "Pokies" and brings in a lot of money for them. But the challenge of those machines isn't there - there is something very addictive about the UK fruit machines. A mix of the gambling addiction plus general game-playing addiction trying to upskill and win better. I new many 16 year olds pumping serious coin into them, getting better but still losing. I also heard of people who could make money from them (although $/hour wasn't too hot), although not sure whether to believe that.
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Well, the market believes that the deal will not go through. The Broadcom offer is $70, and today's closing price is $62.
A little late getting back to this (was away from HN this weekend), but some things do use color changes and background changes to alert the user. There's also audio tones for various things, like the autopilot being disabled (regardless of whether the computer or user disabled it). The actual sounds depend on the features installed; a GFC700 autopilot has different sounds and alerts than a KAP140.

If you're interested in human factors in aviation, there's a lot of work being done out there in the field. A friend of mine is actually working on an MS in Human Factors at ERAU.
You could try replicating on a 9x9 board. Algorithm shouldn't change much.
Very strange. This code is supposed to handle that: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/blob/f1b45bf1b...

I'll try repro'ing it.
Ask HN: Disheartening Corporate Life
Does anyone have any tips for coping with the demands of the corporate world? The politics, the vague requirements, the changing deadlines, the isolation.

I am a part of a "team" that only works on solo projects. Only a few of which are my level technically, or in experience, and I am by no means a senior developer. I have to argue with managers that are clearly making bad decisions, some of which I suspect are being paid off by vendors. I get vague requirements handed down from 4+ levels up the corporate ladder. I don't get any recognition when I do something worthwhile. I don't even get punished when I don't deliver. I don't want to grab the brass ring, but even if I did I wouldn't know where it was.

I have responsibilities, and I don't think I could come anywhere near my current compensation anywhere else. So I stay, but every day I care less.
I have a site that deals with HIPPA protected information. I absolutely don’t want autofill, especially for sign in information. Chrome makes that impossible and just ignores the code.
She worked for Akima - another company that does much business around the Washington DC area. Companies in that area never want to seem too anti-establishment.
Google is putting users before developers, which is dangerous because the users aren't the ones holding everything together.
I agree installing Java is not fun, but if you use homebrew then the easiest way to install it on the Mac is: `brew cask install java`.
There must be something we can test

Maybe find a new regression

Should we try it on a db shard?

Or exercise some discretion...

instance sizes aren’t powers of two

The discount's just 15 percent

We can hand wave that away

It shouldn’t cause a downtime event

Let’s be adults here I say...

Everything xen, everything xen

I don't think so

Everything xen, everything xen

I don't think so

— Bush, Everything Xen
Harvey Weinstein's Army of Spies
Tensor calculus book with YouTube videos
How is your solution different?
(1) If your job, carrer, funding or livelyhood depends on it, you might lack incentives to critize.

(2) The way you phrase your questions it is easy to fall for either a "Genetic fallacy" [1] in case of Hawking or an "Appeal to authority" [2] from AI people. (Not saying that you do, but just raising awareness)

===

[1]https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic

[2]https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority
I had given up on trying to understand relativity, quantum mechanics, and math notation behind machine learning because of tensor notation. Pavel has given me new hope in self study. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlXfTHzgMRULkodlIEqfgTS...
Personally, my main take away from this article was that in 2015 50% of the patients that had a kidney removed (which would roughly be the other 24k patients the study didn't comment on) had their kidneys removed via an old school open incision procedure. Why is that still happening at all? Laparoscopic procedures are significantly safer for the patient, cheaper and faster than old school methods, and they have a quicker recovery time, but just two years ago literally half of the kidney removals performed in these 416 hospitals were using a completely outdated method.
> "various aspects of our economy were rigged"

This is an entirely handwavy and unsupported assertion, whereas stating the percentage of tax paid by the top 20% is a statement of fact with no implicit assumptions.

The people of a country get the tax system written by the representatives they voted for, and are complicit in any "rigging" of the economy.

What we have is a tax code that is layer upon layer of exceptions that came about when Group A supported a tax on Group B to pay for a benefit for Group A. Sometimes group A is in the top 20% (e.g. taxes used to subsidize an industry) and sometimes group A is in the bottom 20% (e.g. taxes used for food stamps). The former arises from things such as regulatory capture and the latter arises from uninhibited populism.

No politically active bloc of voters is innocent. Everyone from the rich to the poor are special interests and all are equally as guilty of "rigging our economy". Only a flat tax that treats no group as special is fair.

I'm curious what you think of Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain example:
http://resources.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/jhubert/wiltcham...

In it, absent any tax code distortions, Wilt Chamberlain would end up with most of the taxable income through entirely voluntary transactions. If thousands of people voluntarily pay Wilt Chamberlain to be entertained and Wilt ends up with most of the income, is that a rigged system? Power law distributions in income are a naturally occurring phenomena. No rigging is required.

If the system is indeed rigged, it's rigged in favor of the 45% of Americans that don't pay any federal income tax. They get all of the benefits at none of the cost.
I'm not familiar with the Entegra. I've played with stuff by Dynon and Advanced Flight Systems though. If you think the G1000 is clunky, try the Advanced system. I'm really not a fan. Perhaps it's for that exact reason (that Garmin products all work somewhat similarly), but I've been up in a friend's RV-10 with the Advanced system in it, and I find it to be much more clunky.

The GTN650 keeps a bit of the GNS430 feel... and those are, in my opinion, the best parts. I hate scrolling through the alphabet by dragging my finger across the screen. I have a similar disdain for trying to select stuff in-flight on my iPad in ForeFlight.
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Not a surgeon or robot-user, but just by way of example, conventional wisdom in the medical world is that the best niche for robotically-assisted surgery is radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. Conventional wisdom is that the robot permits better preservation of pelvic nerves, leading to lower rates of postoperative incontinence. If true, this is well worth a longer, more expensive procedure.
What job can I get where people pay me to restore vintage gear like this? :)

(answer: "already be rich")
Should be using the ISO Standard Coffee :)

ISO 24114:2011
https://www.iso.org/standard/44704.html
A great novel. I'm glad I was reminded of it. I think I will read it to the kids.
I wish I understood where all this stuff came from. When we talk about evolution we talk about random gene mutations and natural selection, but it doesn’t seem like the machinery of the cell itself is described by DNA. How do cells themselves and all their internal machinery evolve?

If all you had was a genome, could you really use it to engineer the cell required for it to go inside of?
Interesting that Amazon is charging less for Skylake than Broadwell while the list prices for Skylake are higher. I guess Intel really wants you to move to the cloud.
> The reason I spoke up originally is because where I'm located, it's very common to believe the exact opposite. It's become something of a trope: "Better respect women or the thought police will get you!" (said in a dismissive tone)

I think this is a reactionary counter-attack by the hardline anti-SJW crowd. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in complete agreement with the ultra-(socially-)liberal SJW gamergate-style movements; however, if we're not lying to ourselves, it's fairly obvious being a woman in tech is not great. So you have nutty guys like Google's Damore who actually believe exactly what you're saying: that men are somehow being discriminated against because the powers that be are trying to slightly tip the scales in favor of women. Which is completely crazy to begin with, given that if you're an engineer at a tech company, you're already making like ~$100k+ which puts you in the top ~10% of US earners.

> So it's just really hard to figure out, y'know? It's not something that we generally get to talk about. It's socially weird to bring it up with strangers or publicly, so you're very likely to believe whatever the people around you happen to believe. So how do you determine whether your beliefs reflect reality?

This is a hard question and don't really have any answers. I studied philosophy in college and we talked about all kinds of controversial issues (abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, etc.) My theory is that most engineers just aren't mentally equipped with the tools required to make sound social judgments, e.g. being well-read in ethics or social theory, so debates or a friendly clash of ideas often end up being fruitless and awkward.
This is one of my favourite ever Wired articles. I remember reading it in the mag originally, and printing it several years later to read again - it was something like 53 pages?
source plz. for white hats, I mean
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Focus on learning, seminars, conferences, people, training learn everything you can. Learn as much as you can while you can. Once you feel that the job can not offer you any more learning opportunities, leave, for another job that will provide... rinse and repeat and you will become a top level.
RemoteStorage: Why bother?
Don't be silly; you're trillions of blobs of goo.
Citus provides ability to build sharded environment.

Data for different customers can be stored on separate nodes, and your DB is not limited by capacity of one node.

In regular PG, all data need to fit single node.
> A sort of Vulkan-like platform for Web[1]

Note that this is essentially what Houdini is for CSS.
We should standardize on something, but it shouldn't be inches.

You might be looking at a phone screen a foot away, or a monitor two feet away, or a TV four feet away, or a projection 10 feet away, or a jumbo display 100 feet away.

How does measuring in inches help? Answer: it doesn't at all.

Measuring in points used to be a good system, back on the Mac in the old days. The user interface was in 12 pt Chicago, new Word documents defaulted to 12 pt Times New Roman -- 12 pt was the baseline for normal body text both for interface and for content, and everything else made sense relative to that.

Then what happened? For some reason, web browsers defaulted to 16 pt. So the text on web pages was too big.

Then, laptop screens started packing more pixels in (this is pre-retina) to advertise higher resolutions, and OS interface text became physically smaller -- really hard to read. 16 pt webpages were actually OK though, so now that kind of made sense.

Strangely, at the same time, interface text got even smaller -- look at the tiny text OSX now uses in a lot of dialog settings, or the small size Chrome uses for tab titles. (Menus and buttons are usually still OK.)

And then bloggers wanted to make webpages easier to read, so they started doing things like 18 pt text (e.g. Medium) and sometimes you see 20 pt or even 22 pt. So now, each letter on Medium takes up about three times the area of a letter in the title of the tab I have open on Chrome.

Scale on computer screens no longer makes any sense, and you have to constantly use some combination of monitor resolution and browser zoom to keep all the elements of your screen in any kind of reasonable proportion.

So my humble suggestion is: can't we just go back to where 12 pt meant normal computer screen UI text and body text, and everybody stick to that? Forget that points are based on inches, just make everything relative to 12 pts = body text. Then everyone can pick a resolution or zoom level for each device so it's legible for your eyes at your distance... but then everything stays in proportion!
That doesn’t seem to be a useful solution, either. I mean, eat tool would you use to manage that?

Limit total videos per website? How do you determine who gets to stay? Money? Clicks?

Moderating all the videos is hard, but if the videos go to a different platform, they still need that same moderation, right?
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The problem is that it wasn't only the scroll event but also the mousemove event.

I maintain a library of interactive widgets for an education product with a lot of dragging and dropping and I was hit hard by this.

I understand the reasons behind this, and I agree something thad to be done, but Google is making it difficult for devs to sympathise with the unilateral intervention. It's not the what, it's the how.
This is a hard question and don't really have any answers. I studied philosophy in college and we talked about all kinds of controversial issues (abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, etc.) My theory is that most engineers just aren't mentally equipped with the tools required to make sound social judgments, e.g. being well-read in ethics or social theory, so debates or a friendly clash of ideas often end up being fruitless and awkward.

This is an interesting observation. A lot of flamewars could be as simple as that.

If one were inclined to equip themselves, what would you do? It's very rare to have the opportunity to attend a philosophy class, and a lot of philosophy students tend to take it much too seriously. It's serious topics, but almost everyone who studies philosophy ends up feeling elevated over those who don't. This is remarkably ineffective when trying to persuade people to your way of thinking.

So I'm interested in what to study for my own purposes, and then try to integrate those concepts into my day to day life. What would you recommend?
Apparently I'm not the first person to say this, but why not use angles (e.g. arcseconds) instead of length?
Apple employees earn a lot of money and pay taxes in the jurisdiction in which they live. Companies use their profits either to give dividends to their shareholders (and these are taxed), or to invest in new products or business activities. I think it is counter-productive for governments to go after company taxes.
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At least in the Bay Area, this article is disconnected from reality. Lots of people have jobs and some are taking time off. There's little connection between whether they are working currently and their expected future performance.
I love the NIST. That's good to hear.
surgeon here - 15 years - thinking about, but haven't received training to allow me to use the robot.

I consider myself a moderately advanced laparoscopic surgeon - I do lap cholecystectomies (gallbladder), laparoscopic hernias, adrenals, appendectomies, Nissen fundoplications, colons, biopsies.

I think there is a place for robotic surgery, but you have to maintain your skills to keep using it - at our hospital, robotically certified surgeons have to do at least 25 robotic cases per year to maintain certification - for my caseload, I don't think I have more than 10-15 cases that would warrant the robot so I would basically be taking 10-15 patients to the OR to do their case robotically in order to maintain my certification.

The advantage of the robot is that it is ridiculously easy to sew vs laparoscopically. To sew laparoscopically, you have a 2 foot long instrument holding the needle and trying to sew. For the robot, it follows the movement of your wrist and hand precisely. It really is amazing technology, but there is only specific, limited use in my opinion.

For example, for prostatectomies, it is awesome. In open prostatectomies, it's difficult to see the pudendal nerves and so they are sometimes sacrificed - no more erections! View is magnified and 3d in robotic. In addition, anastomosing the bladder back to the urethra happens under the pubic bone so only a limited number of sutures can be placed in the traditional way, whereas with the robot, it's a running circular stitch - less urinary leaks with the robot means less incontinence.

The biggest issue is that in our literature (general surgery) all of the research papers the last several years regarding the benefits of robotic surgery are funded by Intuitive Surgical, which leads to bias. It has it's place, but they are a company and are driven by profit - it behooves them to get a lot of surgeons trained so that we're all fighting for the robot, so the hospital feels they have to buy another!

My current status (as told to the rep) "Let's see if Dr. SoAndSo is still doing robotic surgery in 2 years...."

The only plus is that several other companies are going to be entering the market soon, so hopefully costs will go down bc now the robots are several million for one and the instruments are reusable (10 times), but cost $3k. Just look at ISRG......

- surgeon
> The browser is the agent of the user.

If that's true, the browser should ask me and not assume what i want it to do.
On HiDPI mobile devices, pixels aren't real pixels. They're actually treated like points -- a pixel in CSS ends up being something like 3-ish real device pixels, plus or minus, depending on the device.
'Why not?' you ask? Let's look at HIPAA for starters: https://www.quora.com/Do-current-HIPAA-rules-require-publicl...

"In summary, HIPAA does not specifically limit the use of drop down menus or auto-complete, but if patient information was exposed to the public through these features your business would have failed to control access to the protected health information."

So now there's a risk that if a user of a medical information system uses a shared computer (say one at home but that friends and family occasionally use) you can't be sure to have protected control. It's all very well saying 'users should use private browsing mode' - you try enforcing that consistently when you have hundreds of users.

Ultimately, you end up having to restrict access which is why I felt it does a dis-service to users.
In my center, surgical times went from 2h to a whopping 6h+ for radical prostatectomy after introduction of the robot. While you are right in that radical prostatectomy is to my knowledge the only case of demonstrated robot superiority, fragile patients may suffer from the longer operative times (a major risk factor for post op complications)
> one does get tremendous high when the issue was ID and resolved

I find getting a little high really helps with long debugging sessions.
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My counter to this line of thinking, when it's come up in conversations before, is this:

Horses are still legally permitted on basically all of the roads they were before automobiles were invented.

Granted, they're generally quite rare, expensive to maintain, and a luxury ... but they're still with us.
One physical square inch on your phone should be the exact same size as one square inch on a projector screen, is that really what you're saying?
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An Open Letter to Intel
Let's back up a little and talk about pixel sizes:

Suppose I render "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" in DejaVu Sans Mono with a normal font-weight: once at size "12px", and then again at "11.65px". (Note: those are pixel sizes, not point sizes.)

Assume that string is all a single non-wrapping line and rendered to an HTML5 canvas using a web browser, and that I have loaded some known version of my font using the "@font-face" syntax in CSS. What should the width be in each case when I measure using the "measureText" method?

If a given platform's font stack renders that string substantially wider-- say, 7 pixels wider-- than every other platform (all of which return a values within half a pixel of each other), is that a bug?

If so, is there a specification somewhere that requires a platform's font stack to produce a pixel-sized result for a pixel-sized font within some threshold? Or are font stack devs within their rights to justify whatever the metrics are based on other aesthetic or perceptual qualities of their renderer?