skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm deeply skeptical of any explanation that claims that we have both a "shortage of labor" and "downward pressure on wages":

> If men and women from the ages 25 to 54 took part in the labor market... [t]hat would be more fuel for the U.S. economy and a bigger source of workers for businesses crying out about a shortage of labor...

> Trade with China flooded the U.S. with cheap imports, forced domestic firms to shift operations overseas and put downward pressure on wages of less-skilled Americans.

There's an obvious capitalistic answer to this problem: If you're "crying out" for labor, then you may need to offer more money. This will encourage more people to work, or to acquire the skills you want—look at all those coding bootcamps, for example.

Claiming that there's a labor shortage and downward pressure on wages is an extraordinary claim, and it requires a detailed explanation. Otherwise, the obvious assumption is that somebody wants specialized skills for below-market prices. If markets are good at one thing, it's adjusting prices to balance supply and demand.
Yes, for one shooting event. And then it crawled back to the FBI to help it unlock the iPhone at the next shooting.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/08/apple-fbi-unlock-texas-s...
What goes for articles goes for book chapters. Unless of course you get paid by the word you write. Good writing packs punch.
As a physicist I really really enjoyed this. Really cool.
I have a swift library (using Foundation’s Measurement API) that I use for so much of my calculations and the one really important thing that has helped me solve problems is the type system. Units are types and I see a lot of young physicists students make mistakes where if they just looked at the units they’d have gotten it right. Physics is some sense just dimensional analysis.
This library would be great if it were able to add unit types to really ensure that people understand _why_ a formula is the way it is.
Even if those religious rules mean the animal has to be treated more humanely than the 'secular' systems of approval?
I learnt this a while ago and haven't stopped using it since. Saves me the trouble of bending over for too long and is a great party-trick.
I fall into this category. my concentration trajectories slip fast, constant context switching actually boost my productivity. Hacker news is a god sent, when I'm stuck on at work digging myself into a rabbit hole, 10 minutes read into an interesting topic re-juice my mind (and expand my knowledge, a win-win :).
If the universe expands in a big bang, collapses in a big crunch, and then expands in another big bang, then it’s not a different universe.

The black hole wouldn’t be older than the universe. The black hole is just older than the last, most recent big bang, and the big bang doesn’t explain anything anymore.

It’s disproven as an event of creation. The big bang just becomes different parlance for turtles all the way down.
Your presumption of the causality is unsubstantiated. It may be correct, but I don’t think you claim more than correlation (unless somewhere he has admitted as such, if which case I’m clearly wrong)

You get style points for humor though. :)
>Perhaps it works because of the expense of determining which patent claims could realistically survive a motion to dismiss, i.e., the hourly rate of the patent lawyers hired to do this analysis and the number of hours they take to do it.

or may be because a patent court case is more like rolling a dice with very significant potential damage. Business likes predictability - license is just a static cost to be factored into the price of the product - vs. high risk gamble. And software patents i think are worst of the worst in that regard (nevermind that i have several of them myself :).
I’ve seen multiple version control apps pass by in recent years. However they seem to focus too heavy on one particular tool. For me as a designer I’m really looking for a version control system / app which handles multiple files from multiple software applications. On a regular day I use, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and some other smaller tools as a base. If there ever could be a (local— because of the large file sizes in video) versioning system which brings them all together that would mean the world. Preferably in a nice gui application. And I know these apps have failed in the past but I think there might just be a market for it. (Instead of versioning it all in the finder / explorer myself)
Ah, the spirit of Glompers. "More" - fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with that, but really, there's no reason for anyone outside of your group to support you any more than there is for you to support my own personal quest for more money. It's just a larger empire of crumbs.

The problem is that I don't think this will work, for the same reason that management generally doesn't unionize. Management doesn't unionize because their role is to act in the interest of capital. If capital thinks that management is in it for themselves, management becomes dramatically less useful. (and really, I think that we see a lot of management capture of resources that would normally flow to capital. Management is less useful to capital than it has been in the past. Capital knows this.)

In the ways that matter to these discussions, people who create and manage automation infrastructure are management. It's just that we manage machines that do work, rather than humans that do work. For the same reason that management that was not seen as acting in the interests of capital is worthless, developers who are seen as not acting in the interests of capital will be seen as worthless, too. (I mean, from the perspective of capital.)

Now, I do think that culturally, we are very different and there are some things we could argue for that would improve our lot and that of capital. really, in some ways, I'm very much in agreement that technical workers should be getting a lot of what capital currently gives to management. We can start by making a culture of open salaries. this will eliminate a lot of what management's job is, at our level, which is to individually and secretly negotiate salaries. There's no reason to pay tech workers who negotiate well more than those who don't, so job roles should have pay rates that are known throughout the company. (Of course, there is still negotiation involved in who gets what role, but I think that's negotiation that the technically inclined are better equipped to deal with than straight secret salary negotiations.)
DO's pricing is a lot friendlier to hobbyists, particularly if you want more than one VM and your free tier year has ended.
8 Social Media Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Not this reader, if only because I lost interest halfway.
How to write a text editor for a 31 year old computer
Isolated abnormal events aren't significant to illustrate global warming is happening, but an increasing frequency of abnormal events is.
One major way that identity corrupts arguments is when people ignore or excuse the flaws and weaknesses their position. When you hold others to a different standard than you hold yourself and your allies, it destroys the trust that is essential to a fruitful exchange of ideas.

So "not responding from identity" requires more than just being even-keeled and emotionally detached from the argument. It requires acknowledging the weaknesses in your position with the same receptiveness as you see flaws in others.
Not sure why you got downvotes, but this is exactly where such situations can lead (not always, but definitely happened in the past).
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As usual with all privacy issues, most people aren't aware of what's happening behind the scenes, and companies usually don't have any incentive to be transparent about it.

It would be nice if Apple gave all of its Chinese iPhone users a nice big prompt that told them their iCloud/iMessage backups can be accessed by the Chinese government from that point forward, and maybe even tell them how they can disable it in the settings if they want to. It's the least Apple could do.
I think we always roll back to that every couple years. The Internet does get more capable over time, so... eventually it may be true? Of course, the difference is UWP is a decent native app option, and Microsoft definitely isn't saying "all" you need is web. But PWAs will definitely fill in the gaps for people who are explicitly tied to specific products or services.
> I would think that the more scorn you show for these bikers, you are just upping their own sense of glee.

I don't doubt it, but it does make my point.

Loud pipes == jerks.
My approach is that anyone breaking into my home could do far more damage, and I'd have far more to worry about, than taking my passwords -- ultimately, nothing I have electronically is valuable/secret enough that someone is going to specifically target me and break into my house to try and gain access. Having a paper copy of my master password isn't much of a liability in that threat model (and probably makes me more secure day-to-day - I can use a longer, more complex master password without the fear that I will forget it and lose access to everything).
Suppose you know for a fact that this place has never experienced such an an event like this over the last x years with x a large number. Furthermore you have strong evidence the Earth is warming. Then this happens. Such an observation can be significant. It depends on the situation. I don’t know if this event qualifies. I don’t know enough but someone who studies the issue made the tweet. To his trained eye this was noteworthy. Not proof but noteworthy.
Are yields really low, or is that just an excuse huge conglomerates like Monsanto that wants to "DRM" seeds use, when they don't care about yields at all?

And are they giving a subpar product + patents/copyrights + DRM, and selling it with the same high prices as to make yields irrelevant (when upselling 10x and 100x what you buy produce for, the original yield is an insignificant factor to the price).
I think the jury is still out on mathematical realism. Our current physics is almost certainly an imperfect description/model however.
Note that this is in Celsius - for us Americans, this is 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
No on is proposing a ban on 2 wheeled vehicles, or at least they shouldn't. But I'm all in favor of banning ANY vehicle that can't pass a very strict quiet test.
> Now compare it to the number of people who said that they can't take your site seriously until you have it.

I imagine some people use it as a signal - if you support 2FA, you are at least considering security well, even if they don't actually make use of it.
> As long as america continue to allow free trade our wealth and jobs will flow out of the country as countries seek cheaper labor and sell it right back to America with no restrictions.

What an incredible nonsense. America has been pushing free trade all over the globe to be able to sell American products into other markets. They're not 'allowing' free trade, they have been pushing it for all it's worth and then some.
Comments such as yours -- parroting Donald Trump like talking points -- are remarkable when you consider that the US has the second highest purchase power in the world.

The US really has no incentive to allow this to happen

Except that it has opened trade for US companies, and the reported numbers are often laughably misleading. Apple, for instance, nets almost all of the profits from an iPhone, yet in the trade balance an iPhone magically counts as a $1000 deficit with China. Further, it yields cheaper goods for Americans, and more efficiency.

The US was literally built on free trade, and sits right near the top because of it, so to read these nonsensical "but what if" arguments borders on parody. It is just a profound ignorance of history and even the most rudimentary of economics. It is one of those amazing things where people really, really don't understand what they have until they lose it.
It's not odd, from what I can tell that's the current standard investment advise: safety cushion in cash, then a mix of stocks and bonds, with the proportion of stocks being inversely proportional to one's age.
> You can have perfect trains and bicycles everywhere or you can invent jazz and snowboarding. You can't do both.

Baffling.
Thanks! This is is very useful.
> From an outside perspective at a point nearly infinitely far away in time, we would seem to slow until we are right next to each other at the event horizon, correct?

Incorrect. You would still be relativisticly separated and this would be measurable especially at infinity. You would be accelerated by 4 billion more years and would have that much more relativistic acceleration in signals you sent out. This could be monitored and the outside observers would be able to tell the difference. The second person would be more blue shifted compared to you (clock ticking faster).

> Does this mean everything that falls into a black hole crosses the event horizon (from their perspective) at the same moment, a moment which only exists from the crossers' perspective, as it is always infinitely far away from a perspective outside the event horizon?

No, their clocks tick away just like they always did. They cross the event horizon just as they thought they would. They do 'see' the universe's clocks accelerate along though. But they do cross it nonetheless.

Note: By 'see' I mean that the rest of the universe blue shifts to infinity and the Lorentz transformation causes the incoming radiation to be directed to directly in front of you. Only when you cross the event horizon, the incoming radiation from the 'outside' turns into an infinitely energetic (infinite blue shift) beam of radiation coming directly at you. In your reference frame, you vaporize.

This is my BHs are soooo crazy. When we run the numbers, the Quantum Mechanical effects really do affect things. Infinitely small wavelength light isn't something we can really handle, the Plank Length should come into play. But General Relativity don't care. This is why we really need Quantum Gravity, because nothing makes sense.
I was just talking to a guy who started out in the airforce; (enlisted, so probably no flight suit) he said the food was really pretty good, comparable to what we get here.

My friend who started out in the army, though, tells me that the food here in silicon valley is way better.

For myself, I don't think I'm really together enough (and I don't really have the tolerance for authority) to make it in the armed forces.
Which would have some impact if this was some general belief/rule -- but most non-religious/lightly religious people don't care about that at all, whereas most religious people do care and insist.

Which makes this a personal whim more than something that has any effect to counter the trend.
Can you mention your instance or how you went about finding it? Sorry for more questions
The scientific significance of these two events (Arctic warming and the recent US cold snap) is not comparable. If you would like more information, you can start by referring to the wikipedia article on climate change in the Arctic [0], and the skeptical science page on why cold weather isn't evidence against global warming [1]. There are numerous other publications available online which discuss these issues that I'm sure you will be able to find.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Arctic

[1] https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-cold-weather...
The problem that opens up is the definition of intolerance. Are direct claims against the rights of others to believe something intolerant? Yes, they probably are. What about speaking against groups of people (in a broad sense, calling out some perceived problem with their behavior)? Well, sometimes that's intolerant, sometimes something needs to be said (maybe that group is the Inner Party and they're taking too much). What about speech that doesn't directly disparage anybody, but that makes certain people feel incredibly uncomfortable and unwelcome? Well, that can be exclusionary, but everything makes someone uncomfortable. (some Christians might not want you bringing evolution in to schools (which they perceive as just another competing ideology), and some trans people might not enjoy being picked apart in critical gender discussions everywhere they go. The reader might agree with one of those two but probably not both.)

So, as you can see, it's really a microcosm of the idea that "we should support good and ban evil."
+1 on Deep Work. This book changed my working habits. I'm also a developer and task switching is nearly impossible.
> "Not sure why you got downvotes"

I suspect because they went straight to an extreme position: not all examples of such behavior are genocide, and leading with that strongly tends to derail conversation. Yes, genocide may be a result of that, but so can a lot of other undesirable behaviors that stop far short of it.

If you have a substantive, supporting comment, as you do, please do add it, but leave off the "Not sure why you got downvotes". It doesn't add anything to the discussion and is against the guidelines.
The flip side: An intolerant majority. There are good reasons to avoid leaving whether minorities get civil rights to the whim of the majority, and to instead enshrine such rights in a constitution.
You would still need a commercial license for Smalltalk. And he might still get a lot of questions or demands for features.
glMapBuffer doesn't have any ability to declare that you won't overwrite data. All you can say is whether you want read/write access to the buffer. So the driver has to assume that the client might overwrite in-flight data, so synchronization is required.

As for the command stream handling, it makes decent sense to do translation up-front and your drawing commands into a command stream so a separate thread can just hammer through it as fast as possible, rather than doing GL calls in-line with the translation. Partly so the game can return to doing its thing as fast as possible, and partly to fix issues with GL's threading model being horrible ( see e.g. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24684 )
I am not sure banning their freedom of speech will solve any problem. I am pretty sure not letting them into christian countries will be much more useful policy and will not even go against the principles of western countries since they are not part of the country to start with and there is no obligation to let them in.
Paradox of Tolerance : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> The paradox of tolerance was described by Karl Popper in 1945. The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper came to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
Is profit from those partnerships not being reported as income to the holding company?
Well, some of us like our non-fiction to be as long as it takes. We don't just go for the Cliff Notes.

And there are other expectations from a short blog read than from a book.
This is so true that me and 'jacquesm actually agree on it.

I think there's an Emperor's New Clothes thing happening with Taleb. Apparently, his technical writing is important and impactful. But his popular writing is prolix, repetitive, smug, and sometimes ill-reasoned.
How can I best sell a domain name?
I own a domain name which seems pretty good to me - meeting.run which I intended to develop an application for. However I am running short of time and cash and would be interested in selling it. Any experience of people here? or links that I can read? Thanks in advance.
What exactly does this change? Now there's some extra paperwork? Presumably this wont be a problem for the companies already willing to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for the H-1B process.
This sounds odd. When I spent some time in Hawaii, houses had a gap between the top of the walls and the roof, to let the breeze blow through the house. While being impossible to air condition such a structure, it was not needed. The ambient temperature with the breeze was nearly always comfortable.
The "DC can't be transmitted long distances" myth seems to date back to a time when solid-state (read: efficient) DC-DC converters didn't exist. In Edison's time, the entire DC grid had to operate at the same voltage, whereas an AC grid could utilize transformers to step the voltage up for transmission. But if a DC "transformer" had existed at the time, DC grids would not have had that limitation. The physics (capacitance, inductance, skin effect) dictate that for a given voltage and distance, DC is always more efficient than AC transmission.
The BHs act like cosmic 'eggs', with civilizations acting like the 'sperm' then? Talk about first mover advantage!
Learning of atoms initially I was given an orbital model, like a solar system, who caused/allowed me to form a similar idea (I think it's quite common?) that solar systems could be atoms in a super-universe. I was so annoyed as a teenager to find that atoms aren't really little solar systems.
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He may have been better off as a federal government worker, if you include pension and benefits into the equation, which I find discouraging.
The secure version of this is much better and the one I use all the time. Doesn't get stuck and is quick to tie and untie.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
Not all examples are genocide, but situation tends to boil up to it quickly.

When the minority doesn't like you and you don't like said minority, what would you do? Modern law doesn't have anything that would decrease friction between two groups. I would say that maybe zoning laws do more for that than any other laws.

People tend to underestimate how close they are to genocide. "They are just very bad people", they think when they hear of it, "we are just angels compared to them, and we're incapable of genocide". Bad news that: they aren't that bad, you aren't that good, take your shining armour off, and yes you're never very far.
Germany has been called out many times for boosting trade by manipulating the Euro. They also have stronger unions which plays a roll. They also don't have millions of illegal immigrants with no federal labor protection driving wages down internally.

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/05/26/trump-right...
Ehh, I have found that people who argue in favor of this idea are generally the MOST intolerant of the bunch, and just want a righteous excuse to engage in their intolerance.

People who are tolerant generally don't go looking around for excuses to be horrible to other people.

An apt quote comes to mind: "The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
We see this all the time in tech, cannot find people is usually cannot find people with the skills and experience we want for the price we are willing to pay. This will always be true if you offer less than the current market rate which startups seems to think they are entitled to.
Granted, but I can just picture the people posting this to Facebook citing it as definitive proof that the world is melting.
Many times formulating the correct question is valuable even if the answer is obvious. I am not sure inventions of this type should be disallowed.
Feynman lectures -> Landau Lifshitz, when you can make the jump.

This will show you how to do the physics, then (Landau Lifshitz) show you how to reformulate this physics (again, it is actually in the feynman lectures too) in the terms we use in modern physics (Variational methods etc.)