skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While you are right in stating that the majority of the population will not find [these assertions] racist

That's not what I meant. What I meant is that the left, even the radical left -- as an intellectual movement -- does not find this kind of statements racist in and of themselves.

> This is due in part to the fact that the media - print and broadcast - are very active in disavowing such standpoints and putting those labels on people who hold them.

But this is different, and I would agree with the viewpoint that such discourse is racist, and precisely what I meant by saying that the point is misunderstood. The left does not consider a factual statement such as "muslims carry out a disproportionately large number of terror acts" as itself racist. On the other hand, such constant discourse is racist because its subtext is to instill the idea that terrorism is innately muslim (factually false) or that Muslims are somehow intrinsically drawn to terrorism (also false). If talk shows were to constantly talk about the temperature of the sun, that would also mean that there is something going on beside the desire to educate the public of a scientific fact. I.e., there is a difference between some fact and the action of repeatedly talking about that fact in contexts that aren't really about statistics.

It's like that famous story of a man who escapes the insane asylum and, intent on not being taken back, decides to only speak the truth so he won't be considered crazy, and he goes around telling everyone he sees "the Earth is round." It's not the fact itself that is crazy in this story. Because I work in the tech industry I have come across quite a few people in the course of my carreer who are on the autistic spectrum, and some of them were simply unable to understand how a statement and the constant repetition of that statement are different acts and may have completely different meanings.

> I can all but guarantee that you would be an outcast among your peers if you even hint to having such opinions.

You are absolutely wrong about that. Like I said, there is a big difference in subtext between constantly bringing up some fact and stating that the fact itself is racist. The facts I mentioned are a statistical description of some current (and transient) historical conditions; frequently bringing them up is a sign of a (racist) political sentiment.
HR is an invented industry that's 99% female.
> But with .c files, when you have multiplatform project, you need to put it in other "3rd party" tools.

No you don't: just act as if you've written the damn thing yourself. Your tools don't have to know. How being multiplatform changes anything?
That's true, but the author's other thesis was that free trade doesn't work.

One could also say that no ruler is exactly 12 inches long, but that doesn't prevent them from being useful.
My point was only about how there are great minds out there who clearly are not like the rest, whether it be music or ability to perform in another professional capacity. There are Dota2 players who have played the game all their lives, yet not achieved "much" compared to young kids who explode into the scene only to remain in a higher tier. This https://dota.rgp.io/mmr/ shows that in that particular game only the 99.95 percentile is pro-level.

I've personally played an instrument since I was 7 and while I was playing every day until I was 18 that didn't automatically make me able to produce good music that gives people goosebumps. But I've met plenty who can, without much practice. In fact their earlier music had an unrefined thing about it that made it unique. They were just good, I guess.

Sorry if that doesn't make any sense.
Awesome post and your meta-analysis rings true even on tiny time horizons.

Years ago I traded energy futures and we hired someone away from a rival. He knew a trick for seeing crude oil price changes on CME a few milliseconds before they sent the updates in their data feed. For a brief period we were printing money across the energy complex, but eventually it stopped working well. The guy who taught us the trick jumped from firm to firm, many others independently learned it, and it became the worst kept secret in trading: https://outline.com/MHp6Yu

If you've done this earnings forecasting yourself, how much size can you trade before the market moves enough to make the risk/reward unfavorable? For a retail guy it's probably not an issue, but curious if major funds are doing it at scale.

How does selling to hedge funds work when the information is valuable only insofar as few others have it? I suppose you could have an exclusivity contract but there's a strong incentive to sell to multiple buyers. Is it more of a relationship/reputation type setup? Are there brokers of some sort that help filter disreputable sellers out?
1) the number of people who write their own is amazing(ly ridiculous.)

2) what about for non developers? I can't get my sister to start using SCSS, much less Docker or GitHub. The 2018 version of Frontpage or Dreamweaver ...
The thing is that your premise is about two opposing sides: the employee and the employer. In this case sure, HR represents the employer, it isn't supposed to be some sort of independent council.
On the other hand, HR is involved in more situation than just conflicts between employee / employers and it seems to me to be very overly simplistic to just see this as a manichean environment.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. From my experience in life, pursuing the truth relentlessly leads to one becoming a social pariah. It's why I've always had a very difficult time labeling myself or my beliefs, because none of them fit into a bucket.

I think a great example of your point is the politics surrounding guns. It's one of the few things I've seen highly educated, left-leaning folks spread/believe fake news about.

My favorite fake news topic about guns is the classic "silencer" debate. So many prominent democrats have railed against "silencers" and how they can make mass shootings more deadly. It's absolute bologna, but it is believed and spread as truth none the less.

Most people don't know that just firing a gun once without ear protection will cause permanent hearing loss. A suppressor will reduce the decibels to the point of it being still incredibly loud, but not as damaging to the ears. It's definitely not "silent"
Reading Nietzsche's Antichrist as an unwise 14 year old hardened me and turned me towards an aggressive atheism which I now realize is naive and pointless.
As a person outside the field, my subjective experience is that every day comes headlines with new superlatives regarding "The Coming AI Revolution." My expectations are being set for radical transformation across most areas of technology in the next decade or two on the basis of current developments in this area.
I'm just going to be honest and admit that my instinct is that demanding accessibility is too high a barrier. I want to live in a world where a lecturer is about to start a lecture and someone in the class says "hey can I record this it would be cool for others to see" and the lecturer says "sure!" and the simple phone-captured video goes up on the internet for ever.

Now if someone can make technology to make that accessible, post-hoc, awesome. And if someone can make it easy for the content to be born accessible, even better! But I do not agree with making accessibility required.
Awesome! Will do soon.
Agreed, there are so many plot holes in AC it wouldn't even do as a sieve. Still I watch it because it's cyberpunk. I just disconnect my brain and enjoy the settings.
every 'media' producing interrupts may be considered harmful for one's mind, as it blows the thought process into smithereens. psychologists, psychiatrists and spiritual teachers from all around the globe are crying warnings in our face since before the dawn of Internet, but only few listen...

the concept of conscious living/being and (as one other commentator noted) the essence of meditative practices is completely incompatible with social or any other media based on push updates and preprogrammed streams (tv/social/etc). add to this the tricks for retention and the fact that we develop reflexes to ask the network, and not our own memory, and you get a totally unconscious living, one that slowly diminishes concentration and intelligence irrelevant.

the WHO needs to immediately come forward and warn Earth's population of the forthcoming collapse of free will/thought, as this is already happening and we can only guess where it gets to. it's concerning that there are many signs we're about to witness social-media-related-insanity 'en masse' in the very near future.
The most recent thing I have heard about china, repeated by people who man editorial positions in news papers you read, is that China is now the dominant super power. America just doesn't know it yet.

I suspect this is entirely true.

And as added ammunition for this article - the poor prime minister, but excellent finance minister of India - Manmohan Singh, focused on the Korean Model a lot earlier on. It influenced the way the Indian markets opened.

There's only 1 book written about MMS, and in that book theres a telling interaction, where Manmohan (Much before his days as PM) was upset that the author (then a reporter), didn't mention Manmohan's stance on the Korean model in an article.
> But I am also laying the groundwork to help others further down the road.
> I command a high wage
> [I] accumulate capital faster than most people
> A factory worker makes less than a third of what I do
> I can make a larger impact than them
> Most people do not earn enough to accumulate any meaningful capital in their lifetime

You are presenting pretty much every argument i can think of for why it's a problem that wealth generates wealth. That the very fact that you earn more than others is what prevents them from accumulating meaningful capital. Yet i don't see you fighting for wealth redistribution, which is a proven way of making an impact.

If you had said: "i believe i earn more than i deserve", "i have mostly been lucky", "hard working factory workers should earn more", or "free healthcare and education!", i might have believed that you planned to fight for making people who are rich like you at 60 slightly less rich (relatively). But you didn't. So i maintain my position that you should at least be honest.
What books do Chinese leaders read?
Well, they're probably reading proto buffers instead of xml[1]. And proto deserialization automatically drops unrecognized fields. So yeah, as long as you continue shipping your core data in already-established fields, and don't radically change the interpretation of those fields, backwards compatibility is going to be built in.

[1] - So goes the standard joke: Some people think Google is an advertising company. Techies recognize Google as an advertising company. But in reality Google is a company which turns protobuffers into more differenter protobuffers.
One of the first things I'll do if I notice any unsanitized input causing problems is to find as many examples as I can of the broken/malicious data and use them as test cases while fixing the bug. Obviously I don't stop at what's already in the system, but it's a good starting point.

In other words, I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook knows now.
I wouldn't really call it great... it didn't do turn-by-turn directions or provide any way of reconciling what turn is next based on your location. It was for "planning purposes only" and you'd have to hit this arrow button repeatedly to show you each turn in a route.
> Nobody. Trust nobody. It's sad, but it's true. They're your employer---not your friend, not your family.

It's not sad to me. It's common sense. In life, you trust your family and your friends - that's it. Anyone who isn't family or friends and who wants you to trust them is suspect (your boss, other companies, your government).

Of course you can have friendly relations with all and sundry in your company. I am on good terms with everyone where I work, from the cleaners to the regional CEO. But trust is a different matter altogether.
Sounds like GeoHash lookup which is actually pretty robust if you have a good data structure for indexing. For example: https://redis.io/commands/georadius
Looking at it from different angle than policy and surveillance other comments are focusing on:

- I can't find any concrete data, but it feels like at least 50% of publications on conferences like NIPS or CVPR are made by Chinese nationals. Even if it is initially from USA universities, many researchers are going back, either due to unfavorable Visa situation or else.

- Even among Silicon Valley investors, funds with China roots are relatively much more into AI startups
> A manager is reluctant to hire a star programmer that could run laps around them and upstages them.

I don't think so. I have seen something of the sort, but it was an engineer purposefully not hiring too good people.

Management is a quite different skill, good programmer is not threat to manager.
You're right. I'll edit my comment to add: "when a conflict arises".
Is that guy just sitting on the egg crates, with his foot resting on another? I know europeans and americans have differing views on egg handling, but this seems extreme. Even if I had such a surplus of eggs, I'm not sure if I would pose sitting on them. I don't necessarily have an equal surplus of pants.
> Call me crazy, but [I am] wary of HR

That's the entire thesis of the article.
This is really well done. Thank you.
You mean why is it hard to hire engineers at "ok-ish" salaries? Life is (and gets) expensive.

Pay engineers $500k a year or more -- they'll be kicking down the door.
You could even implement some kind of … HTML document-reader webapp on top of that. [thinking face emoji] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131870
I see your point now, but is there a rolling release distribution that isn't bleeding edge? I think that's the reason for the confusion. All the rolling release distributions are closing tracking their upstreams. Indeed, without a release cycle, what exactly would they be waiting for?
For the sake of clarity, I'll point out that Jbuilder has been renamed to Dune:

https://github.com/ocaml/dune
Source? Their blog post had mentioned 27th Feb as the date for wildcard support in production.
They're kind of odd books because mostly their characters and plots are quite poor-- dull and badly written, and yet the world of the Culture stays with you because it's SO unique and SO well-crafted.

Excession is the one book in the series which I found to be EXTREMELY enjoyable, good characters and all.
It isn’t broken in lts-10.5, it just isn’t in lts-10 at all. Go to https://www.stackage.org/lts-10.5 and search for ghc-mod—it just isn’t currently available.

Unfortunately, the reason for this is that ghc-mod still isn’t updated for GHC 8.2. It’s almost there—a package candidate has been uploaded that works alright—but it hasn’t made it into the LTS yet. There’s a way to build and install the package candidate in a way that will work with stack, which I have done on my personal machine, but honestly I decided it was just too much for this (already overly long) blog post.
You can diversify across markets (different countries) and sectors and also to lay off risk, but I have been investing starting slowly with index funds 20 years ago so I think I have more experience.

I brought a commercial property fund when office prices crashed it tripled in less than 10 years.
There's a more fundamental problem. This study tests two different musical skills - i.e. playing (which is what most people think of as practice) and listening.

No one with a musical background will be surprised that ear training (i.e the ability to hear musical details) is only distantly related to finger training, especially if the finger training happens on an instrument with discrete pitches, like a piano.

Ear training is a separate process, and has to be practiced separately. Playing will improve it a little, but won't fully develop it.

In fact amateur keyboard players are notorious for poor pitch discrimination. Keyboards are just switches. You don't have to find the pitch while listening for intonation, as you do on instruments that don't have frets and require very precise finger or mouth control, as well as the ability to listen to the rest of an ensemble.
Of course it had apps, just no 3rd party apps. Email, texting, contacts, calendar, and by far the best web browsing experience made the very first iPhone plenty smart. Jobs pretended you didn't need 3rd party apps, everything could be done on the web; of course Apple always intended to allow 3rd party apps.
Information Warfare: The Meme Is the Embryo of the Narrative Illusion
The functionality of Google Maps hasn't changed much either though.
The Dow Jones industrial average is ridiculous (2013)
> Simplest advice for dealing with HR is: Don't talk to HR

IANAL (anymore), but I'm not sure this is true. That is, there could be certain remedies/benefits/claims that you might give up if you never put the company on notice of the misbehavior. For example, if someone offers you a promotion in exchange for romantic involvement, this would be illegal. You could make claims against the individual. But if no one ever told the company (HR or someone with mandatory reporting obligations), then the company might not be liable. And if this were a one-off situation, this makes sense — the company had no way of knowing that the bad actor was doing anything wrong. But if you tell HR or someone who must report it to HR, then the company is on notice and if they don't deal with the situation appropriately then you can pursue legal remedies against them as well.

This is just my recollection from many workplace harassment trainings that we had at the law firm I worked at — I would welcome a more nuanced analysis by a specialist.
While I am quibbling, the idea that "Japan was not an economic powerhouse" before the Pacific War because they struggled to keep up with production of materiel is not a good one. In the Meiji Restoration Japan went from, in less than 50 years, a backwater to an imperial power in its own right that was able to win the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War (the latter stunned Europeans at the time). They were the strongest and richest of the various East Asian powers and were able to colonize large parts of Asia and, as the article mentions, the Europeans never did get all their Asian colonies back after Japan lost the war.

Japan's real problem in the war was its lack of natural resources. It was highly dependent on imports -- in particular it was highly dependent on American oil, an obvious problem if you're planning to go to war with America. That's why the Dutch East Indies were important and they moved to capture them early (to some extent the paucity of natural resources in Japan is what motivated the project of becoming a colonist in the first place). It's really hard to see how more trade liberalization would have helped.

Besides that, the productive capacity of the United States, and its insulation from attack, was exceptional among all of the powers in World War II, even the UK. I think we can still acknowledge Japan had significant industry, even if it couldn't keep up with the world's best.
The problem is you're trying to hire engineers to do business analysis, product management, support and quality assurance. The problem is your lack of engineering culture and process.
GOOD! Thanks, I needed that!

For the Web pages for my startup, I just started with what I wanted the pages to look like. Then I calculated where everything should be. I looked at this as a special case of layout in word processing, e.g., D. Knuth's TeX.

Then I turned to HTML and saw tables. Okay, the HTML table constructs are nice, sorry D., nicer than in TeX. So, I decided to use tables.

I heard about CSS, but I saw only a little need for that. Eventually I wrote a few lines of CSS. So, sure, I discovered that I could have separate CSS files, but that seemed like a way to slow the upload to the users. So, I just copied the CSS into the HTML code of the relevant Web pages.

For the rest, I saw how to use the Microsoft .NET ASP.NET to create and send the pages with the appropriate dynamic content, e.g., the results for the user.

I heard about JavaScript but saw no big need for it and so far have written not even a single line of it. Eventually I discovered that somehow ASP.NET writes a little JavaScript for me, maybe having something to do with cursor positioning -- maybe convenient and nice but not really necessary.

For the page designs, they are simple -- high contrast, large fonts, simple parts and pieces easy to understand right away, each page exactly 800 pixels wide, no icons, pull-downs, pop-ups, roll-overs, or overlays. There are some links, but each one is just a word in English.

The pages all have both horizontal and vertical scroll bars and should still be usable in a window only 300 pixels wide. So, the pages, without change, should look good on everything from a smartphone to a high end desktop. The user just needs a Web browser up to date as of maybe 10 years ago -- so, there should be no compatiblity problems. And, there are no user IDs, passwords, logins, or use of cookies! JavaScript is optional!

There really are some really simple, really successful Web pages on the Internet. So, sometimes simple can be good enough!!!
If software, app, and web development was easy, everyone would be doing it
In other words, there would be little demand for us.
To continue this line of reasoning: ultimately the customer, or end user, pays the bills.

Which is nonsense, of course: Neither I, nor the customers, nor the end users, have the authority to hire HR staff, sign off on their salary payments, or set their working policies.
RE value is all about location and all factors related therein. Ie everything from local legal factors through to view and relative scarcity. RE in constrained places will always have a higher price/sqft than less dense places. The markets also somewhat ensure all the other costs of RE (ie building components like steel, wood, and labor) cost around the same from place to place. But land can’t be arbitrated between localities.
Capital != labor.
Yes of course but you could be confused as to the popularity of the two views.

Again, why doesn't the journal Nature run a piece detailing how "evolution got it wrong"? Because it is incorrect and unnecessarily muddies the water. Because "Nature" has a shred of credibility and wishes to keep it. It is certainly possible to point to blind spots in our knowledge and say "Hah, you can't explain that!" Or to point at past errors and say "Hah, you're always getting it wrong!"

It is up to the paper or journal to screen such plainly and obviously fallacious information. Or at the very least categorize it in such a way that it is plainly evident that these are emerging or not-widely-held viewpoints.
HTML and CSS are slowly losing ascendancy as the main render surface for web apps. The canvas provides a standard pixel buffer for both JS and compiled applications, making HTML's limitations no longer a restriction.
it apears they have not entered the market nor created a prototype yet though. maybe the next pivot will be a platform where designers can find developers. youre very lucky as a dev to find a good designer and vice versa.
Yes, definitely agree.

I wonder if there are more introverts now than there were many years ago? It seems to me that has been a trend but I don't have any data to back it up.
Nope, we have a series of too big to fail banks which have exclusive issuance of debt as $, unconstrained by any limits other than demand now we are off the gold standard:

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

They use this privilege to capture all benefits of wealth creation via usury against land.

Just go outside. Why are banks like the new churches in the middle of the most expensive real-estate in the world? They are supposed to be the oil of real industry. The tail is wagging the dog.