skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
34 items on that list. Looking at the content I don't think it's fair to use it as much of a datapoint you'd have to reduce that 34 number down yet it's missing git annexe, xmonad and pandoc which exist and are well used! Also as you point out it notes that it's obsolete. Next to where it notes that the list is obsolete it links here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Libraries_and_tools

Which buries applications in libraries and makes it challenging to get the actual list of applications, which is what I want here and is just one useful datapoint (of many). There is definitely a very long list of haskell libraries, many of which are excellent - this is a separate datapoint that can be considered separately or indeed in concert once we have the actual datapoint of the haskell applications that exist, are used and used for something that isn't programming.
Thanks. I knew of the book, but not the acronym.
Again though, I don't know anyone 2 years in making 134K (the Austin-equivalent of 250K in SF) in Austin. I know more than one person 2 years in making that much in SF.

And you're also ignoring that CoL calculators bias against high CoL areas in a few important ways.
This may have been true pre-ACA, but it isn't the reality now.

It's now a system where wealthy, government employees, and the poor (i.e. subsidized) have access to full care, and most of the middle class just goes without.

In the past 5 years, I've gone from a decent $20 copay to a employer-sponsored high deductible to currently a fully out of pocket deductible of $2k before insurance pays a cent.

I've begun rationing my prescriptions and simply skip the doctor unless it's a true life-or-death situation.

The deductible for co-workers with a kid or two is something like $5k. That's on top of probably $10k in premiums a year.
That paper has the right general idea, you need a generative model of the scope and if you're clever you can use that to improve your reconstructions. But it's missing a couple key things that it workable in practice. One missing ingredient is a probabilistic model of the thing you're imaging. The others are secret ;)

Secret because I have a dream for a crazy startup based on this idea which I don't have the means to do now. Although I generally hate being secretive about, like, knowledge and for sure the value creation happens during execution - but just humor me this time, ok?

> How would you recommend building up one's combined intuition in optical theory, the relevant ML techniques, and the biological substances themselves, to the level where you can innovate in this task as you have done?

Well, I'm flattered but I haven't done any substantial innovation here... My recommendation would be to become a theorist, learn math and physics and work your way up the hierarchy. You need to understand the whole picture, how it works on each level, and how the levels fit together - then you can run thought experiments. A good generative model of the world.
With infinity resources our computers would be universal Turing machines.

Personally, I think that is sufficient to call something a Turing machine even if it has limited resources in reality. After all you can't have infinite tape.
What kind of healthcare facilities do you get from the government?
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> So you are in favor of other people (read: rich white people with parents that have money) having more opportunities than people that were born poor due to mere chance?

He explicitly wrote that no, he favors equality of outcomes.
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What about something like monkeysphere? http://web.monkeysphere.info/getting-started-ssh/
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Not true, at least not under many conditions.

The required equipment makes magnetic data unlikely to be recoverable except in exclusive cases where certain government agencies with sophisticated labs get involved, but in short, storage leaves lasting (trace) physical changes behind.

SSDs and operating systems without proper Secure Erase support can very easily leave behind complete data.
That's actually a good idea, thanks! I'm not sure it would be feasible but it would be neat if methods was automatically versioned (in all but syntaxtic changes) and you could automagically compare results of the different versions.

It kinda falls apart with refactoring but still :) I'm finding it more and more evident that file's as the default unit of storage and viewing of code is an obsolete concept
Unless the culture is wildly different than here in the US I don't think it's reasonable to consider private school and nannies as part of "cost of living"... Those are both unnecessary luxuries.
I'm not a fan of Apple, but I think Cook's strategy here is very reasonable. iPhone is a walled garden since day one. People who really want freedom of speech have a huge reason not to use an iPhone since there are smartphones. It's not really a userbase he can attract anyways. This way in turn he keeps a huge market open for sales and as one of the biggest US companies in the Chinese market I bet he can also use that to trade favors with US politicians for insights into the market and soft influence over the Chinese government.
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Well in this case, for Google and Facebook, it is pretty close to that.

Facebook has 86% gross profit margins.

Google's are a little lower but still incredible, at 60%.

For the most part, they print as much profit as they want to. Google could get rid of half of their staff and just print $40-$50 billion per year in profit off of search (while keeping various critical moat pieces like Android). They have nearly 80,000 employees now, the majority of that is a combination of bloat and efforts at expansion into other non-search things.

To put into perspective how hilariously profitable Google (the search business) is, they're now capable of doing $35 to $40 billion per year in operating income. Last quarter they generated $8.7 billion in operating income for that segment. Google's (search biz) capital expenditures were a mere $3.5 billion out of $27 billion in sales. If they cared to do it, they could push margins to the ceiling.
This educational system you describe is great, no doubt, but are you sure it offers __equal opportunity__ to every kid?

In my opinion, according to family history, background etc (roughly boiling down to the income history in past 1-2-3 generations), kids won't be able to extract the same possibilities from the same conditions offered to each one: studies will be harder for some more than for others, simply because of the background, logistics etc, which will require not only working harder from someone who already does, but doing something they might not even know about: aiming higher, not compromising where others would be allowed to, having more confidence than an average kid their age, etc.

I don't really know how to solve this (I think this part incumbs to family, but is that equal opportunity still?). The best thing about the system you describe that they carefully detect and extract the "nuggets" we sometimes get here. But I should thinks all educational systems nowadays do that more or less well.
Ah yes you're correct. 9% is the marginal tax bracket
Bern, Switzerland here. I know plenty of people with families and sub-100k the are perfectly happy with their respective salary as well. I'd say it's a matter of personal spending habits what's an "ok" salary. After going back to uni, I'm also happy and ok with < 50k (of course this wouldn't be all that ok if I had kids rather than a cat).
I use their app, and it's pretty good. It has a few very, very weird quirks in very few places (some radio/menu option interface things are just bizarre and non-standard) but 97% of it is just fine. Even superb design wise. Useability, there's a few minor issues, but what system doesn't?
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If a common disease has not sufficient experience in a hospital I'd argue they should pull in experts from elsewhere and try to gain the experience necessary, otherwise you just end up exporting the problem.
I'm aware that they're syntax sugar. I'm saying syntax sugar is bad. It's especially bad when there are dozens of mutually incompatible sugars. It's double especially bad when the base language is already one of the most complicated ones around.
I just recently quit a Big 8 co and moved to a smaller co (was working remote for a few yrs, wanted to do something local); its just different styles of working; the quality of work isnt much different between each other.
I saw a poster for that somewhere and was hoping they'd mention it, but no luck.
Just having a chat with someone at a conference is often not enough to get a referral tbh. I'd assume for a referral you need to know a person at least reasonably well, i.e. you know each other on first name basis and have been out for a beer or worked together on some open source project or something like that. I don't believe you can just walk to a person at a conference, talk to them to 15 minutes and then ask for their referral.
> I encourage you to take a moment to absorb the size of these gaps. Women, African-Americans, Latinos, Southerners, and low- and middle-income children are far less likely to grow up to become patent holders and inventors.

I know the author uses patents as a proxy for innovation. But is it really a valid proxy?

Do we want to maximize innovation or do we want to maximize patent holdings?

Why not remove patents and construct a modern understandig of "innovation". Did Einstein even patent anything in his own name? What about his contemporaries: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger?
Another bloomberg article. Jees. Replace China with any country or corp you can think about. This title always applies.

Btw westerners would also use Wechat if they could. But my doctor doesn't have his computer system integrated with the Wechat appointment API. And I can't pay Taobao because I can't have an Alipay account as foreigner without a Chinese mobile number.

If we could we would use it, because the mobile market in China is way more developed than in the west. Users don't want to have 1000 ways to pay one product. They want one way to work all the time without hassle.
I didn’t even begin to understand the patent system or even the business side of innovation until I was in my late 30s. Yet, I have noticed that the most financially successful innovators that I know have had many family advisors and connections throughout their life.

But, inequality is just a small piece.

First, you need real education reform - educating kids on how the system operates. The current education system is broken and harmful. It teaches 99% of kids to become cogs in a system. And, after many years, they grow up to believe that being a cog is all there is. Instead, they need to learn how the system works and how to pull its levers and press its buttons to make it work for them. But, who is going to fund that?

But, even that’s not enough. Smart kids also need access to capital (‘other people’s money’ as my very rich friends call it) and connections. Having those things makes a huge difference.
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Thank you! Best laugh I've ever had on HN.
OP mentioned working previously at a "unicorn" and having referrals. Keep in mind that those signals are much easier to detect (and thus justify decisions based upon).

Without these, one faces a number of challenges:

- You need to get your resume looked at somehow

- It's well-known that when it comes to programming and system design, "Real recognize real"

- You need a wide variety of skills beyond programming and system design: social skills (sometimes moreso than anything else), sometimes classic CS search/sorting/optimization techniques

- They might realize they need someone with different specializations

- You might remind the interviewer of someone they dislike
That was an enlightening read.
Honestly, I think most development work in the UK is crap,and most of the small and medium-sized companies out there are producing bad software, slowly.

They can't afford to pay more. They offer bad salaries, they get people with low productivity and low reward expectations. The people running the company have low expectations of their engineers and the whole sorry mess just stumbles along barely holding its head above water.

(I have been contracting in the south-east these last 5 years, I've seen quite a few of these places)
They should break up the big insurance companies and not consolidate each point of sale area for more profit.

Ex: A knee brace went over the $500 requirement to have a prior approval before issuance. No one knew this at the time so the doctor gave a cost price of $100 for the brace to avoid phone calls, letters, and time.

Can we please eliminate medical bills if not sent to the patient within 90 days? 2-5 years late is just pathetic.
It might introduce temporal artifacts, which would not be seen in stills.
At least here in the Netherlands the minimal, obligatory package is about 100 euros a month. this is with 375 of own risk (doesn't include doctors visits). This package will basically make sure you'll never get a real surprise, except when you have something with your teeth, oddly. Some cheap drugs are not covered. And for example there are sometimes discussions of whether new immuno-oncology related drugs that go well over 100.000 a year per patient will be in this package.

For people with low income there is "zorgtoeslag", they get sponsoring from the government.
Imagine instead if it were a DVD+Blueray set. Would you be ok with selling (or renting) the DVD and the Blueray separate? If I buy the DVD+Blueray set and I only own a Blueray player why shouldn't I sell the DVD?

TFA indicates that, yes, these are retail items, at least for Disney movies. Meaning they have people buying them at retail stores. I'm not sure why you find this so shocking.
But you get these posts on HN quite often with similar numbers. I'd assume all of them are not lying or using fake data to brag. If only some of them are telling the truth then the numbers are real which is why I tend to believe them.
The 45k was in Houston. Worked 10 months before the company decided to offshore everybody but sales.

Took that job because I had been looking for a year and this was the first reasonable offer. Didn't negotiate cause I really needed the job, found out after a promotion that I was lowest paid employee in the shop by 20k.
While this is a great suggestion, it doesn't defeat the idea of the article.
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I agree with you. Equality of opportunity is equality in probability. But people have only one life, and if you have only one shot, then probability of it is somewhat a useless concept.
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I know what a normal distribution looks like, but I have seen too many flaws in data or flaws in characterization of data revealed by graphs of data. If this data and its graph is so earth shaking, show it.
Recruiters who was interviewing this guy must have been all believing he is worth it. Well done.

Have been interviewing people, many with 5+ years of experience and in my opinion it is not too difficult to spot somebody who is not fit for the job.

So well done again.
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Guess he edited the post shrug.
"Eastern European Jews" should be more like "motivated, liberal, hardworking and a terrific high school identifying talent early". There is a related thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15684785
It's because the vast majority of candidates, including a lot of very good ones, will do none of those things.
Hmm. I guess trashing your local LoadLibrary copy will stop 90% of software not specifically targeting Chrome... but that's still trivial to circumvent. I thought perhaps there is some Windows feature that could be taken advantage of, something like Internet Explorer's protected mode.
What evidence do you have that you are conscious?

What if your neurons are running a biological program that merely emulates thinking, and fools humans into believing that it thinks?

But all of that is philosophy, right?

In terms of external behavior, you're admitting this machine could match a human?

Because that's enough for AGI. You don't need "genuine consciousness".
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When people talk about the equality of outcomes, I am always reminded of Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [0]:

"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal..."

[0] https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
That quote initially rubbed me the wrong way too. But I think it should be understood in the specific professional context: a typographer shouldn’t be making their work unnecessarily “visible” by experimenting at the expense of the content. (I guess the father would have abhorred the brief mid-‘90s wave of intentionally obfuscated digital type.)
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But mostly because you have no way to tell a fake/low quality from the original/high quality on amazon.
When is knowingly not following best practices actually malpractice? I wonder if ambulance chasers don't have an actually useful role to play in that fight...
I see repeating threads about Stripe's design, but imho it's just a nice work, not anything particularly astonishing (or maybe it's just a matter of individual taste) - is it just me or anyone else think similar?
My main problem with this article and associate research is using patents as an indicator of invention. Patents are only an indicator of money, sometimes innovation, but certainly not invention.

For reference, innovation is taking existing ideas and implementing or combining them well, invention is creating wholly new works.

Invention is still mostly the domain of academia. Some of the big corporations can afford to fund research into true invention, but generally the risks don't make good business sense because the rate of return is so low.

Innovation happens frequently in startups, but patents are still a poor measure of it. Patents mainly measure whether someone can afford the lawyers to write the applications. In my experience in software, the patents themselves are only a loose approximation of any real technology. Perhaps in mechanical sciences they are more concrete.
Once Chrome opens the file save as or open dialog, they basically run a copy of explorer in their address space. Right clicking there on any file opens the context menu with things like "Extract to subfolder with 7zip" or "Merge as Adobe PDF". Even showing this loads DLLs in their address space and runs them.

How do they deal with that?
I use hledger everyday for basic personal accounting, but it might be the only Haskell application on my system.
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The DOI should take you directly to the article-page. Sci-Hub works through that mechanism.
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Clothes is a big exception where higher price doesn’t mean higher quality. Just a more famous brand.
> Is it really possible to get 180K RSUs per year with just 2 years of experience?

Well, to be fair that's only from Lyft which isn't even liquid yet. All other offers are half that, but at least you could sell them for cash if you wanted.
So this is pretty much Chrome declaring war on any antivirus software not named "Windows Defender", yes?

> IME software will not be affected

"IME"?
I worked in India and see Chinese products everywhere. You're right that people will openly dislike them, but most of them don't even know things they're using are Chinese.

Like Oppo, Xiaomi phones are basically everywhere. Basically everyone uses PayTM (Alibaba owns 40% of it). Even small vegetable sellers on the side of the rode will have a QR code for you to pay with PayTM

In the end, practicality trumps blind nationalism every time. The Chinese dislike Japanese too, but still buy their cars and stuff.
You are partly correct. You can't copy verbatim, but you can create a derivative design.

Also, fonts are not copyrighted! Only the data used to create the font, but not the font itself. Thanks to some very old laws (partly to do with not being able to copyright the alphabet) look that one up. :)
They were among the most repressed human being on Earth. The entire Jewish population is still recovering from the Holocaust (based on global population level).

I often fear when researchers like the NYT author start conditioning on unchangeable characteristics like ethnicity and gender. It invariably implies a villain based on unchangeable characteristics like ethnicity and gender.

The classification of "Jews" has been the most innovative. Should we start making laws conditioned on someone being a Jew so that's non jews can become more innovative ? Does this not sound like a bad idea? (I am trying to dodge godwins law)
hledger, which was on HN just a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818682
According to that site, I'd need to make over $200k to meet my same standard of living, but I still think someone with two years experience can't come close to my knowledge of software development. There are inherent limitations. Of course if the job is to write code without any comment about the big picture and without complaint about hours, then maybe it is competitive. And that signing bonus? That just doesn't translate to the Midwest at all.
These numbers are real, at least for Silicon Valley. There's nothing fishy when you take into account the cost of living here and the constant demand for engineering talent that's up to date.
I'm guessing he was working at Uber before. Would explain why Lyft wanted him so badly and why Uber is missing from the list of companies he talked to.
Right, I was calculating the difference across total comp. OPs total comp is ~261k per year (140 + 21 + 100), so compared against the number you listed, it's almost exactly +70% (261 / 153 = ~1.71).

I edited it to 60% to account for negotiations (assumed +10-15k annually), but I didn't think there was that much room at the new grad level. I remember Google being very inflexible on base, and didn't think you could get 200k annually with just negotiating (which would involve tripling the initial stock grant you listed, assuming that base is inflexible).

Even still, are the bands truly that wide across L3 and L4? I suppose I'm most astonished that the median L3 and top of L4 are that wide apart. Thank you for all the information.
In Zurich, there are no public kindergarten. The monthly fees ranges from 2.500 to 3K+ a month. A nanny is necessary, when both parents have a full time work and family is not around (like in my case).
I think the GP comment refered to current german policy.

In germany there is at the moment no free speech. There is however a freedom of opinion and preservation of human dignity. The NSDAP and other, similar organizations are banned as are their symbols (except in Science, Education and Arts, game publishers seem to be oblivious to the last one though)

However, as far as I can tell, the freedom of thought/opinion is valued greater in germany than on most American campuses these days.
No one goes to jail for being a racist, but people are physically assaulted for saying mildly controversial things.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/middleb...

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/berkeley-riots-...
so exploits are crimes?
Virus scanners should not be injecting code into a process.
Get really good at doing Graph/DP problems on a whiteboard. That’s it.

I know new grads who have gotten 200k TC offers with negotiation. That’s all it takes (and sadly I don’t have that..)