skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, the advice is to sugar coat bad situations, which is certainly a flavor of dishonesty.

The tier of management matters here. The boss you are eye-to-eye with should put pragmatism before sunshine. The boss' boss and above are all probably better off being pathologically positive in front of their direct report's subordinates each.

Your immediate boss really should tune into the personality of their team members both individually and in aggregate in group settings. With luck, you were hand-picked by your boss and that means aspects of your personality are preferred, aka: culture fit. Sardonic cynical attitudes are reasonable, when trading humor and letting off steam, which boosts morale, but as with all performance, timing is everything, and good teammates understand this implicitly.

If shit is getting real, people owe it to each other to deliver solid news and not bullshit whitewash, but in group settings rumor mills are deadly, and information has to be controlled to prevent panics.

Good captains go down with the ship. They signal when to use the life boats. Would you rather have a boss who is sunshine all day, right up until the moment they fly the coop, and are never seen again? In practice this is almost invariably a really bad thing. Because even if your boss sucked, their boss will fill the intervening position with almost anyone (declining in-group promotions), and permit them next manager to reshape their team of direct reports as needed, which can disintegrate into a slow motion bloodbath of firings.

The reverse of a manager's disappearing act is the mass layoff, surprising a large class of subordinates (your boss disappears because, in fact, the company disappears as you lose your job). The inverse of a manager's disappearing act is he subordinate rage-quitting (a single subordinate employee disappearing, without other employees depending on their role is reasonable and conscionable, although stress is still induced by such an event).
I'd like to be successful enough to give my kids that kind of cushion. Shouldn't they be able to take advantage of it since I worked for it and gave it to them? So the 'jump' is a team effort over a couple generations, does that make it less valid?
"Sure, there’s a chance he could have flipped the Nissan Versa and made more — but this would have resulted in further income tax hits, possibly pushing him to a higher bracket."

No, not unless he managed to sucker some buyer into paying more than the MSRP that is his tax basis for the vehicle at that point.

What sloppy reasoning. There is no way the after-tax value of the car will be less than the $1500 (which, of course, would itself have the same bracket-raising tax implications) he stuck with. He saves hassle, and perhaps some tax-agency scrutiny, but he's not better off than if he won the car.

No wonder Vox didn't publish this tripe under their own masthead.
Trajectories help. Some atoms travel together, others don't. And they go different places. Families on public transit are localized, and get on/off together. Cars are mixed together on the road, but with tracking data, you can tell the taxis from the commuters. And trajectory paths can be simplified, and described in aggregate ("average time to reach X").

Conformation spaces help. A thing changes shape, but the shapes are drawn from a family of likely possibilities. Your arm is likely to remain attached to your shoulder, and is less often raised up than not. Even in a tangled rugby ruck.

Some things are ambiguous, but others not. Youtube had a nice ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of water (which I've been unable to find again). As a H+ proton wanders, sometimes it seems bound to a particular water, and other times, there's more of an area effect involving several. But a water molecule's nuclei generally stick with each other.

The usual electron-density isosurface depictions have disadvantages. Picture traffic cones, say arranged in a tight grid. They have a peak, and their rims touch. Like the electron densities of atoms. But visually it isn't a problem. So replace the isosurface with a cloud, or just turn down the surface threshold, and the view is as empty as you want it to be. An electrostatic suspension of tiny flecks of neutron-star-like material floating in fluff.

With eye tracking and XR, one might play games of visual selection. Show a 3D mess of proteins, clearly rendering one protein deep inside, but leaving enough visual clues of the others, to serve a focus targets. When your eyes shift target, change which protein is rendered clearly. Or do more with that selection, like showing trajectory, or showing other proteins too, related by type or process or history. You might "see" a 3D gestalt.

The HCI of XR will be great fun.

Aside: Thanks for the youtube cytoplasm link.
It sounds like it's mainly that you have to sign up for one on person? And you can't really do it online? Is that most of it?
Dry Fly's "Process" page, by the way, has the hallmarks of a distiller that actually distills their product; they're way too specific and making way too many falsifiable claims for it to be rational for them to lie. They even call out the process of augmenting a distiller's own make with NDP product.

That's respectable! It's neat that companies like these exist and I'm happy they do.

But that doesn't make their products better than Four Roses or Woodford Reserve. They almost certainly aren't. The major whiskey distilleries have huge advantages accruing to quality that small distillers don't.

Even simple stuff like volume works in their favor. Sazerac did an experiment where they the same product in 5, 10, 15, and the standard 53 gallon barrels. Indie distillers use smaller barrels both because it suits their production needs and because it "accelerates" aging, ostensibly due to the different surface area to volume ratio. The smaller barrels produce off flavors (presumably, they're extracting more and different chemicals from the wood in the same aging time).

You can do a bunch of things to counteract this, just like you can do a bunch of things to mitigate the fact that new distillers by necessity have to sell young whiskey (and probably will long after their first barrels hit a reasonably full maturation, because they're learning as they go, and each learning cycle costs them another several years!). But all those things impact quality and flavor and consistency.

Dry Fly's going to charge you between 35 and 75 dollars for a bottle of whiskey. Not only is Dry Fly not the best whiskey you can buy for $35, but there are better whiskies at that price point in big city supermarkets. At $75, Dry Fly is competing with Buffalo Antiques (at least their list prices). Come on.
But we are sentient life. This alone makes us special and interesting as it's likely a club only very few beings join.
This answer will get me negative points but I must speak my mind. (1) Yes, coming from a rich family helps. A lot. You get the cushion and above all you get the right life advice. Your probability of success increases. (2) Yes, coming from a poor family hurts. You get neither the cushion nor the advice. But that's it. These factors simply impact the probabilities for success. They do not eliminate your chance or hope for success. Agreed that if you come from a middle-class or poor family you have to work harder and sacrifice more when compared to rich kids. And I know life is not fair. But guys, for god's sake, do not think for a second that you can't do it. There are enough examples of middle-class kids doing amazingly well. Think about AirBnb founders.

Please do not quit trying just because rich kids have a better chance than you!
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For those not in on the joke, there's a biography titled "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison".

https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Between-God-Larry-Ellison/...
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Those fucken rich kids. Immigrants too, who conventionally start out at the other end of the class spectrum: they are 13% of the population, yet start a quarter of all new businesses. Of course, they come from places where subsisting on the proverbial ramen isn't a temporary insult, but a way of life.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201502/adam-bluestein/the-most-...

I'm in Canada, and a friend and I walked into once of these sketchy looking African Immigrant bars for a beer. We sat down, we didn't get to pay for our beer, someone bought them for us.

We invite the guy to sit down with us and he talks (in broken English) about how he came to Canada 5 years ago as a refugee from Somalia, started working in a tire shop, learned a bit about cars, then started buying junkers on Kijiji, fixing them up and reselling them at a profit, and how he's looking for a place to open up his own shop.

He had nothing but good things to say about Canada and the opportunities it's given him and kept thanking us.

It's like no, don't thank us, we're just a couple of spoiled white whiny millenials. This country was built by people like you (And my great grandparents, who also came here and made something out of nothing a long time ago).
It's crazy some door knob/dead bolt kits come with screws that just screw into the jamb. Little 3/4" screws. You really need those 3"+ screws that go into the studs. I'm sure you do this now given your experience but if you ever get a kit that doesn't come with screws like that they should definitely be purchased separately.
Generally, huge demand and limited supply are necessary for any bubble to get going. I can see no way that the Bitcoin price is not a bubble.

It's rise in price is none-the-less astonishing, and is somewhat a testament to the soundness of the security model.

The whole system does require new money coming in all the time to maintain current price levels, as miners need to sell their bitcoin to get paid. It's less than a zero sum situation, as some of that money coming in goes directly to paying for the mining costs.

Since the overall awareness of Bitcoin is relatively low, in terms of actually knowing what it is, and how to get some, this bubble could run a long time, as there is a lot of money in the world, in need of investing.
I've built many successful forums and chat rooms. You don't get "friends", you usually start off as a fork of an existing community. You first need a group of people who want to talk about something.

I actually designed some of my communities to have sock puppet accounts. I never had to use it, because people just clicked and used it.

So if you're going to build a fitness community app, you should probably be in several fitness WhatsApp groups or Facebook/Reddit groups and so on.
In Australia you can get that $20k by working minimum wage for a year. You just need some family to provide food and shelter for that year, which might be less of an ask. Ramen & a tent would do the trick.
Way to miss the point by leaving out half of it.

We're giving people reasons to stay in poverty: don't work, and their food/housing/healthcare will be provided for; start working, and all that gets yanked away and whatever is earned is diminished by taxation (direct and indirect). Faced with that, there's little reason to "escape poverty".

"Stop subsidizing so much" does not equate to "start taxing them". I'm all for massive reductions in both subsidizing and taxation. Help the abject & deserving poor, yes; the rest should have their disincentives to work removed and their punishment by taxation relieved.
<snark>it might actually work</snark> :)
Health insurance too. Unless you end up married with a SO who has health insurance and enough to support you it's risky in the US with our healthcare system.
This is the quote.

>This kind of devisiveness, this attack of success, is very different than what we’ve seen in our country’s history. We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.

The context was Jimmy John's (the sandwich chain) started with a $20,000 loan from the owners parents.... That's $20,000 in 1983 dollars. (~$50,500 in 2017 dollars)
Do you have this data for new york?
There are a sea of lawyers, accountants, investment bankers et al., using the best intelligence the marketplace has to offer, to move money around the world for corporations in a game of (don't) whack-a-mole. Until these guys get a kick in the teeth and some semblance of honor, the game will go on because it pays top tier compensation. Scoundrels.
private schools and hospitals would be Darwinian shitshows that absolutely guaranteed rising health and income inequality

Reality disagrees. Pretty much everywhere where private schools and hospitals are allowed at least to some degree, they provide better value and results for everyone, including the very poor: https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21660063-where-gover...

Hospitals the same. In my country (eastern Europe) the difference between state hospital and private hospital is like difference between two centuries. The beauty of free market is that it lowers the costs for everyone. So the poor will always have "less luxury" at given time period, but in absolute terms will be much better of with free market then with state services. In eastern post-communist Europe, this is evident on every step.
> most Americans are opposed to a national ID

Easy solution: make the national ID optional, just like a passport.

Let financial institutions decide whether they want to risk extending credit to anybody, or just people with secure national IDs.
Yes. People don't though. In practice people do tend to have a driving license in your wallet.

This joyous setup is the result of the Schengen zone. When national borders were "abolished" (not really, they came back due to the migrant crisis) the way governments got police and immigration forces on board with it was to say that everyone had to have their ID on them at all times and an ID check could be done anywhere at all within the zone. I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble for not having ID on them though.
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I forgot, the one and only language spoken in the whole world is english... And everyone should know it, even the small details.

As a language, it's a disaster. I better worry about more important things, and not waste more time with it.
1) Technically my first exposure was oxycodone from wisdom tooth surgery. I didn't really appreciate what a lucky windfall it was at the time, but thoroughly enjoyed it all. Afterwords I occasionally bought or traded for synthetics, heroin and opium when it was convenient. Having sampled pretty much the entire family, I would have to say that hydromorphone/oxymorphone are my favorites, and codiene is not worth taking at any dose, unless for diarrhea relief. The heaviest period of use in my life (w/ physical dependence and a mind prone to "addiction logic") was in grad school, and I haven't used any opiates at all for probably 5 years, but I would happily consume opiates if it was something I felt like doing (much like I feel about doing acid, going camping, playing a videogame etc). I occasionally used IV but the risk of systemic infection and the ugly needle tracks are not so nice.

2) 16-18, mid thirties now

3) Rarely too much, but when I did lots of heroin I ate less and paid for less other entertainment so I guess it evens out

4) Wherever convenient, usually through my social network

5) I just don't care enough to go to the effort. Nice high, excellent for doing work and being social if I dose reasonably. But other things are nice too. Regarding being social, I can take e.g. oxycodone for multiple days/events in a day, but I cannot take MDMA several times to any useful effect. Regarding work, it's good for long sustained bouts of work as it is easy to gently daydream about problems for any amount of time and it's easy to work for hours because I feel great and free of distractions. The side effects of constipation (I LOVE pooping), appetite loss (I like eating), bad sleep (it's really good for you) and apathy towards sex (bad, except for those unfortunate periods in life where it's good) are all worth considering. Generally, it's difficult to maintain ones quality of life and also do boatloads of opiates, just like anything else. It is very easy to find out oneself doing boatloads, though. Regarding addiction-- Tolerance and withdrawal are not currently considered necessary and sufficient for "addiction." It's considered a behavioral phenomenon. A bad case of the flu is much much worse than a bad period of withdrawal. Regarding the behavioral stuff and desire-- Dealing with unwanted desires is a good skill to have, I guess, and I'm lucky I don't want it very much. It is more effort to do more than it is to do less. But every step into "addiction" is infinitesimal and reversible, and every step out of "addiction" is equally infinitesimal and reversible, though you might notice it more.
The aesthetic effect is amazing.
I've just been wondering this, as I am starting the process of getting my own open-source project out there (https://github.com/JedS6391/LGP/).

If anyone has any tips for sharing machine learning frameworks, I'd be very interested!
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> we are protected against a hypothetical tyranny

This is America in a nutshell. Most of it's efforts are spend protecting against what it can't see and not on the problems in front of it.
Yes, the tax number isn't secret, it's just to prove that you know it and so they can correlate your tax situation, I think. The biggest proof is the identity document, which is not trivial to forge.

Proof of residence is a copy of your lease, or a bill by a power or phone company, basically a piece of formal correspondence with your address on it, so you can sort of prove you live where you say.

The bank photocopies all this, so if you forge an ID card to include your photo, they store the photo too, and if you get caught you're in deep trouble, as forgery is a serious crime. I think that's actually what prevents most identity theft here.
Most research I've seen says that you are much more likely to stay in the social class you were born in than you are to significantly rise. Wikipedia has links to some studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...
And some kids are born with more darts.
Well, duh. This is such a cliche that it is a plot point on "Hawaii 5-0". Most new restaurants fail.
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Like hell this will work in the rural areas
My first thought is, why does a keyboard even need its own software? There's a reason PS/2 and USB HID are standards...

I remember purchasing an HP printer a while ago --- it came with a CD full of useless crap, including drivers that took a full 400MB installer containing, among other things, a JVM, Apache Tomcat, and a bunch of other Java-based bloat for the "management UI". I just used the OS generic HP/PCL driver and it's been working that way since. I have heard that even those drivers phone home now, to report how many pages were printed and ink levels etc.

Telemetry --- it's in everything now, and this greatly disgusts me. No doubt it's probably buried somewhere deep in the EULA for this keyboard's software, that you agreed to the collection of "aggregate key usage information" or similar. Read the Windows 10 EULA for some similarly creepy wording.

Also, if you're paranoid about USB keyboards containing other "hidden devices", a USB-PS/2 adapter would probably work to stop anything else from getting through.
Strategic hiring should fail against survivalistic retention, but I may be an idealist. I'd think in practice hiring for growth would fail against retaining to survive.
If you want requirements you gotta write 'em yourself~

Adding more complexity to the example - what about offering a digest-format where a user opts in to only receiving one email a day.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Unclear what AMD thought they stood to gain with the Monday announcement - and it didn't take long to have it play out in their disfavor.

I'm guessing Intel's GPU will never support OpenPower and Arm servers, and will never ship on a CCIX-enabled adapter.
Here's a reddit post [1] of a Model 3 owner locked out of his car because the 12v battery was not functioning properly. There is no physical key for the car. The Model 3 appears to be full of these questionable design decisions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/79rp5w/model_3...
> SSN are NOT an identity mechanism

That's exactly what they are. I don't understand who you're trying to fool here. It's a number, for social security, that is assigned to a person. It's poor as an identification method, so it's commonly used in fraud, but that's just hand waving to distract from the discussion about the purpose.
> You already have 50+ walled gardens, also known as the “Bureau of Vital Statistics”.

This seems like the bandwagon fallacy. That's no reason to continue the insanity of promoting walled gardens as a solution.
One way Intel can compete with CUDA is if they allow us to write plain Numpy code, and magically compile it for their GPUs with similar performance to what we get from Nvidia when writing in CUDA.

An alternative would be for them to (again magically) modify all major DL frameworks to support their GPUs.

I don't even know which option is more realistic.
Right, and letting everybody see some lucky person win once in a while sort of perpetuates the delusion that it could be you, the guy standing on the sidelines.

Ultimately, it's cheaper for whoever owns the tent to let one person win every once in a while then to just let everybody lose.

I may be stretching the analogy but yeah.
I don't have a link to a good example but I have used https://github.com/Swinject/Swinject in the past and it really helps get the job done. You can over do it a bit though as with anything.
Intel also utterly failed in the mobile space, IoT things and are setting themselves up for failure in edge computing. What's one more thing to fail at?
Very aware MZ needs to find a way to get some ROI on his investment. If/when it becomes shit, I'll drop it.
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I read once that at its coal burning peak China opened one completely operational coal burning power station every day. Now they are closing them just as fast and switching to green power.
Raja, if you are reading this make sure your Intel GPU has two things that competition doesn't:

1) FP8 half-precision training: NVidia is artificially disabling this feature in consumer GPUs to charge more for Tesla / Volta.

2) A licensed / clone of AMD SSG technology to give massive on-GPU memory: NVidia's 12 GB memory is not sufficient for anything beyond thumbnail or VGA sized images.

My experience with Intel Phi KNL has been miserable so far, I hope Raja has better luck with GPU line.
During my internship on automotive cost engineering, I quickly learned that motorized anything on a car costs and weighs leagues more than its mechanical-only cousin. I am curious why Model 3 went down the path of total motorization, when it is marketed as a more affordable car.

Also, while I am becoming more open-minded towards touchscreen for non-realtime controls, E-brakes does NOT seem like one of them --- sure you don't need it that often, but when you do need it, you'd better pull it RIGHT NOW. Wiper is also questionable. If full autonomy works then sure I don't really need a clear view on the road, except it likely won't work as well when it pours and you need to blast the wiper to max RIGHT NOW.
you can have my human driven automobile when you pry me from it's cold twisted wreckage