skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I don't understand HN culture sometimes. ... Why is he being down-voted simply because he's not jumping on the bandwagon?"

There are a large number of people who read HN. While you might speculate as to why someone cast a particular vote in any particular direction (though we generally only notice the downvotes), it's not generally going to be useful. They may have voted for a reason you agree with, or one you don't, or one you don't understand at all. Note that you assume you know the reason they down-voted. And this is completely human: by default we attribute causes and stories and explanations, and it takes effort to explore more than those the first seem to fit the evidence. It's not a fault; as far as we can tell it's just a fact of human psychology.

And if they didn't provide an explanation at the time, the likelihood of them doing so after the fact isn't all that high. This is I suspect one of the motivations for the HN guideline

> "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If I were to speculate, I'd say it's a reaction to the last line: "Are you not the ultimate chump in participating in a system where you are bargaining implicitly from the weakest position?", as people don't generally react well to an implication that they're chumps, even made in passing as a hypothetical. I don't know whether that is the reason, or whether that's a valid reason, but I mention it as an example of another reason.

All in all, just follow the guidelines. If you have something substantial to add, do so in the most constructive way you can, keeping in mind that while you can't control how others behave on HN, you can influence it by how you comment. I believe that's how we get to a level of discussion, as you well put it, a few cuts above the rest.
It is hard to hire good anyone because reality has a surprising amount of detail: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-... and many if not most people are poorly suited to abstract symbolic manipulation work.

Add to that the difficulty of the profession itself and the constellation of ancillary skills one needs (conscientiousness, the ability to interact with other people, articulateness, the ability to disagree respectfully and intelligently, etc.) and you will find it hard to hire good "x" in general.

Finally, it is often hard to hire good "x" unless you are paying at or above the market wage for x. The people who have a hard time hiring are generally not paying the market wage or above it. When they do, they suddenly find it much easier to hire.
I read this one recently: http://www.codecamps.com/3-superpowers-of-the-flex-box-model.... Amazing article experience.
> feel the loneliness of endlessly peering into others life's from a small window on phone

At the point where everyone in his social circle is doing this, he will feel the loneliness of being the only one excluded from it. Perhaps he'll experience it peering in through someone else's phone.
I've used WebGL to visualize scientific data. It's nothing special, but the size of the data was large enough that anything like SVG or even Canvas were just slow. There is a lot of interesting stuff you can do even just in 2D in WebGL, because you're closer to the hardware.

What's annoying is that you don't get double precision or any of the compute stuff on WebGL currently. The interesting stuff isn't just graphics, but also doing computations directly in the browser.
This is a super interesting discussion. Both sides make good points. I wonder if in the future cost and technology of sequencing will evolve so much that somebody will start harvesting as much data as possible from places like metro, train stations, malls and so on. This would make it inevitable that your DNA ends up in these databases and you just have to accept it. Just like currently one kind of has to accept that thanks to facial recognition getting even better and cameras everywhere one can be tracked even without any electronic devices.
I haven't claimed to be a sociopath-- I know I'm not one. I'm not manipulative. Similarly I'm not a narcissistic because I don't have an exaggerated feeling of self importance: I believe everyone, including myself, is worthless. In person people find me selfless, & other times selfish. You've observed the latter aspect. I've only claimed to be a nihilist & rationally inclined. Being apathetic doesn't make someone a sociopath

Not sure where validation has come into this. I fumbled pointing out that there should be room for considering what the cost of a life is worth, & was instead met with attacks on my character. You're going out on a limb, making assumptions based on the slightest bit of information you've been given. Kind of goes along with my whole point about nihilism not pressing its ideology: people who have some righteous stance press their assumptions on others

Now in being told I was only giving predictable hypotheticals I decided to open up, reveal some raw humanity. But it's a kind of catch-22 fallacy: you're a charade whether responses are facetious or sincere. Similar to the catch-22 fallacy of having to be distraught over a break up because either you're torn up over it or you're just acting like you're not

Introspection happens, most often internally, but sometimes I drop a line into the id, hooking on to something: https://serprex.github.io/w/%3b but go on, reject an alternative human experience, label it 'edgy'
It will disproportionately help the well-off, period; not just "some of them". The dominant distributional effect will be to shift dollars that could have been spent on services, tax relief, or debt relief for less-advantaged households to far-better-advantaged households. It's pretty simple to see why; it's the same reason why the mortgage interest deduction is regressive.

I don't see how advocates for this policy can escape that logic without declaring math irrelevant.

If we want to improve access to and financing of higher education in the US, we should radically expand Pell Grants, not write a 12-figure check to wealthy families.
Yes it is possible to have your cake and eat it! Provided of course that you don't dine out too unhealthily and die before retirement age.
Pity, MMS didn't learn the real lesson from the Korean story, or any other story for that matter: Half measures get you no where.

Korean model involved the state putting extreme pressure
on the big business houses and at the same time going out of their way to help them as well, with the goal being to become world leaders in their respective sectors by making quality products. Some firms collapse under such weight and others thrive.

Instead though Indian companies were encouraged to focus more on exports, they by and large never managed to establish quality and leadership. Also, though they are renowned for mediocrity, they have still managed to capture large parts of the economy, thanks to government compliance.

MMS's life has been a saga of half measures, and though people rightly know him as a calm, intelligent man his failure and weakness as a leader will always define him rather than his virtuous character.
I believe you that you didn't intend it pejoratively, but if you post a comment that takes that form and don't provide information that clearly signals your intent, plenty of people are going to take it that way. That's not a question of stylistic taste, it's an empirical observation about how internet forums work.

Even if 90% of readers guess your intent correctly—an unlikely number—that leaves hundreds if not thousands who read it the other way. It doesn't take much to provoke some of them into replying in kind, and that's the downward spiral we're trying to avoid here.
The US has been the champion of free trade assuming that it was win-win or that if would win when others loose.

As soon as it looses while others are winning (in some areas) they are trying to bend (again) the rules on their favor.

The American era has been a waste: one country trying by all means to impose its agenda, to claim its divine right to progress and dominance, to unfairly try to control the rest of the economic actors. Let's hope the Chinese era is more fair and balanced.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16335205
I don't recall disputing the idea that foreign investment is helpful.
Seattle has 22 miles of track. NYC has 850.
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Sounded like blame to me. The person was attributing it to people who "don't like change" while the reality is that those people can't change even if they wanted to.
For some reason, problems with DLL libraries are called as "DLL hell", not "SO hell". ;-)

If your software needs library foo.so.x while other application needs library foo.so.y, just put both into /usr/lib. Problem solved.
It does make sense.

Generally, I agree that some people clearly have a lot of raw talent.

But also I think we’re very attracted to this idea of the “natural,” who becomes a virtuoso almost effortlessly. In my experience, most people who reach the very highest skill levels have both raw talent and a tremendous work ethic. And a lot of people who show early promise never reach their potential because they won’t put in the time.

Sometimes the distinction between talent and effort isn’t even clear. There’s a documentary called Magnus about the chess champion Magnus Carlsen. It shows him as a kid, thinking about chess from the moment he wakes up to the moment he sleeps (and he probably dreamt about chess too). While others are playing, he’s staring off into space thinking about chess. That is some kind of talent, the ability to maintain complete focus like that over many years.

I’d bet some of these Dota2 players in the top 0.5% spend an extreme amount of time playing or thinking about the game.
Is alcohol use a clear and obvious red flag too?
http://news.gallup.com/poll/200186/five-key-findings-religio...

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

https://www.prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-c...

Atheists and agnostics account for a minority of all religiously unaffiliated. Most are secular. Atheists and agnostics account for only about one-quarter (27%) of all religiously unaffiliated Americans. Nearly six in ten (58%) religiously unaffiliated Americans identify as secular, someone who is not religious; 16% of religiously unaffiliated Americans nonetheless report that they identify as a “religious person.”

Note that religiously unaffiliated represent ~21% only.

Less dominant and slowly declining, but far from what you previously described as But once modern society decided that religion is bad.
My Web pages are based on tables and have not even one DIV element! Why do I have to use DIV? Actually, I never saw any good explanation on what DIV did. What the heck is DIV good for? Why use DIV?

Why can't I use tables?
Unfortunately, GWAS data is unlikely to unlock the secrets of human genetics. We have been in the "post-GWAS era" of genetics for at least a few years now.

> And it's not that big a deal. We will be much better off for it.

I hope you are right! However, I have doubts. Also, just because sensitive information can be compromised doesn't mean that it should be offered freely.
As a person regularly in charge of hiring engineers and being engineer myself I have some observations.

In my opinion this comes down to the fact, that there is only a limited number of people genuinely interested in engineering but unsatiable demand for skilled engineers.

As in any other field requiring dedication to master, only genuinely interested will ever become highly skilled. There is only limited number of these people. There may be many "engineers", but they are not really dedicated to their field. The demand creates an opportunity for people who aren't really skilled and aren't really dedicated but who would like to profit from high wages in the field.

These people may be interested in other fields (maybe they genuinely love cinema or are dedicated parents) but the only reason they do their work is because they have to provide for them or their families and they find engineering the better choice than alternatives that would probably pay less.

It is my observation that only genuinely interested people actually produce almost all of the results of any engineering organization.

Now, if you are an engineer and you love what you do where will you want to work? Will you want to work for large company that has probably a lot of interesting problems to solve and experience to gain or will you want to work for unknown company for roughly the same money?

The issue is that all good engineers already have jobs and due to demand they never stay long on the market. To hire a good engineer you not only have to find a way to distinguish the genuinely interested, you also have to figure out a way to change their mind as to their current place of employment.

If you are a company that has only mundane problems and you don't want to pay extraordinary rates then you really are out of luck.

The best advice I can have for companies who struggle to find engineers in a field is to try and allow fully remote work. That is if the field allows this. Get your systems and company environment ready for fully remote work. You will immediately benefit for being able to choose from people all over the world and not just local to your office.

That is, provided you already have the rest of your hiring process in top shape.
You are probably thinking of NiCad and to some extent NiMH simple constant current chargers. If you do that with a lithium battery you will have problems pretty much right away, possibly involving fire.
That's very exciting. Should make BCHS even more secure and successful.
A human can provide guidance to the system and edit models. As to whether it “thinks like a human” I think that’s always a dangerous and loaded statement - but what we believe is that a Bayesian probabilistic approach is closer to the way humans learn and make decisions.
I think i have the right to do anything i want with my genome, including making it public. It's my genome ffs, it's me. If i don't have this right with my genome then I don't have any rights at all.
Except that rendering everything to canvas is not accessible to people with certain disabilities.

Also mentioned recently here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347216
Accounting for 2 & 3, and the team they work on for 1. I dunno how big a company you need to be to need a single full-time HR person, let alone a department... 50, maybe?

HR are what would be called in the military REMFs. Most corporations I've worked with have an order of magnitude more "support" staff than people who are actually doing revenue-producing work, and the bigger they are, the more wastage of this type they can afford to support, which feeds upon itself to produce yet more management and ancillary positions.
> Part of building an open, inclusive environment means fostering a culture in which those with alternative views, including different political views, feel safe sharing their opinions. But that discourse needs to work alongside the principles of equal employment found in our Code of Conduct, policies, and anti-discrimination laws.

That jumped out at me as the one sentence that most strongly supports your claim of ideological puritanism.

I mean, it wouldn't be an "alternative view" if it didn't rub The Current Standard[1] the wrong way.

In practice what this says is: we want you to feel safe to express your alternative views, so we know who to fire. Which is perfectly rational from a company's perspective, and we should all know this by now: choose your battles.

1. The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears. - Saul Williams in Coded Language.
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You can throw cycles in various ways (like with regular algorithmic code that implements various heuristics or something). So, "just throwing cycles at statistics"
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant they used to provide an API for it but that has been deprecated, just like many other useful things have been. See:

> so you have to resort to HTML scraping to do simple stuff like just using the top hit [...] There used to be an API for simple things like that.
Ha! Chinese economic policy is proudly mercantilistic. They have no pretentions towards a balanced playing field. China will do what is best for China.
This is a really bad idea. CPU burning while you wait. A better approach is setTimeout or requestAnimationFrame.
> Part of building an open, inclusive environment means fostering a culture in which those with alternative views, including different political views, feel safe sharing their opinions. But that discourse needs to work alongside the principles of equal employment found in our Code of Conduct, policies, and anti-discrimination laws.

That jumped out at me as the one sentence that most strongly supports your claim of ideological puritanism.

I mean, it wouldn't be an "alternative view" if it didn't rub The Current Standard[1] the wrong way.

In practice what this says is: we want you to feel safe to express your alternative views, so we know who to fire. Which is perfectly rational from a company's perspective, and we should all know this by now; choose your battles.

1. The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears. - Saul Williams in Coded Language.
Thank you for your comment. I grew up in a liberal Democratic household and still consider myself as such, but I’ve found a lot of happiness by going back to (Catholic) church, the religion of my mother, which she hated.

I barely even wanted to type this comment because I don’t feel like it’s that accepted of an idea on HN, but I really appreciated you posting.
It's not just helpful, it's a requirement.

Economic development from poverty to prosperity, is nearly impossible without vast foreign investment. The wealthy European powers built up the US economy in its early days, providing immense capital. Without that, the US either would have never properly developed, or it would have taken dramatically longer.

How long has Georgia been separate from the USSR at this point? It was ruled by a backwards, violent, impoverished, broken Soviet system for seven decades. You were what, expecting them to sprout $70k per capita GDP prosperity in just 15-20 years post Soviet slavery, while in the midst of a political and military confrontation with Russia?
Hence this quote:

> How about iOS? Google Maps for iOS 1.0, released late 2012, still works just fine. [And] That was [just] the first version of Google Maps ever released as a standalone app after Apple ditched Google’s map solution on iOS
China has no reason to be better than the US. Why would it if it worked for the states after all?
They were just the ones who got caught.

Truth be told, there is lots of mining going on privately 'at work' in lots of countries all over the world. Much more profitable when 'the boss' has to pay for your electricity.
I strongly recommend Seneca's On the Shortness of Life. It's one of the best books I've read, and at the very top on the subject of Carpe Diem.

https://www.amazon.com/Shortness-Life-Penguin-Great-Ideas/dp...
API would be nice
As the article says, Banks' thing is post-scarcity [1]. It's not too difficult to imagine PS as one of two possible steady state conditions for us.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy
Can you name an API that was deprecated in favor of GraphQL? (Considering that article is about maintaining backward compatibility while continuing to innovate)
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A lot of people commented on the pay.

Most companies don’t have the option to offer more to the good engineers in the first place.

First, they don’t apply at all, and if they do, the company will probably fail to identify them as good.

And if they do identity the good engineer, then they will tend to offer below market (for the good engineer), and then lose out because of pay.

But it’s not because the company is necessarily cheap: it’s so rare to have a good engineer that they probably don’t even understand the value of one (or can’t make good use of them) in the first place, and therefore can’t justify the offers that the market is swinging at them.
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Three interrelated reasons:

1) Companies have no interest in investing in job skill growth

Which leads to

2) Companies have devalued the role of engineering management

Which leads to

3) The tech interview as it exists today is fundamentally broken
One of my favorite comments on HN for this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108883.
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Where is the contradiction?
I wonder how China would cope with a long period of economic stagnation like Japan has had without the democratic release valve of being able to vote in another party. I wouldn't be surprised to see it all unravel.
As has the US, to the point (just one example) of lying on the Security Council to justify taking control of relevant geopolitical resources. It didnt even work.

Not only covertly America First, but also incompetent.
> China's will to move forward, at the expense of countless bodies, is astonishingly great

FTFY
I am switching back to Bulma again
It's nice and simple, no dependencies no build systems or funky package manages I've been happy with using the various stb_ headers as well..

yeah not perfect or modern but honestly what's modern is a clusterfuck anyway
I do not know, maybe their ideology is more fair?
You can actually use the k-d table to compute the lookup table, as the lookup table is nothing more really than an image containing a "pixel" with each possible color exactly once. The author already ran the algorithm on a 12285x14550 image, which took 10x more time than running on a 256x256x256 "image".

Of course, if you want to compute the lookup table dynamically on each run, you might use memoization and hope the image is either small (and therefore uses comparatively few colors) or large with few actual colors in use.
At least until we get the AOM: https://github.com/WICG/aom/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md
Maybe Gmail was a has example. How about the Google play store?
This. I mean I feel like anyone could make an awesome economy if they were given trillions and trillions of loans, told they could ignore all environmental regulations, and had, at least initially, a bottomless pool of cheap labor with no rights.

Of course it looks like they’re “winning”. They will lose, and ultimately it will be a tragedy for the Chinese people when standards of living collapse and the true ability to repress people with modern technology begins to show.
Hacker News comments are no less preening, let's be honest.
I saw some construction pictures of this site that make it look like the windows are a sun-porch style arrangement, not unlike a typical passivhaus design. From the artist drawings it just looks like a stereotypical modern glass midrise.

But there's something still off about it. I'm not sure what I expect a multifamily unit to look like but the fact that this one gets complaints of being too hot doesn't surprise me.
I just went to one of those sites Politifact

First link was this

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/feb/...

> thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working.

Which is true. How did they conclude that he is suggesting "don't love their health care system". You can love NHS and still march because its going broke, marching doesn't imply "don't love".
> It will be brought before a jury of your peers.

In practice you'll settle out of court, likely with an non-disclosure agreement.