skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear to me why there's no color palette/correction table exposed in libdrm/KMS at the kernel. It should just be part of the video mode, maybe with a bit to indicate when the driver/hardware doesn't support changing it. But always be able to read it out, make it linear nonsense when the support isn't there - that won't be worse than what we have now.

Then the layers up the stack like Wayland/X/GNOME/KDE are just messengers to/from the bottom @ drm.

We also need floating point frame buffers to be first-class citizens at the KMS level. I don't want to be forced into OpenGL/Vulkan just to be able to have the hardware apply gamma correction on a software-rendered frame buffer, and if I have the hardware do color correction, it kind of needs the HDR of floats - not uchars, which I don't think libdrm supports with dumb buffers of today. If not floats, at least more bits than 8 per color component.

Programs like Plymouth or other embedded style applications running directly on libdrm should be able to have color-corrected output without needing bespoke software implementations and their own calibration tables. I should be able to tell the kernel the correction table, maybe compile it in, or another payload on the boot parameters cmdline.

Hell there are fairly well-known simple algorithms for generating approximate color tables from a single gamma value. If I only want to make things look "better" in my linux kiosk, and care not about absolute color correctness, let me stick a drm.gamma=.55 field on the kernel commandline to generate the correction table in lieu of a full calibrated table.
Freon, from Wikipedia:

> They are stable, nonflammable, moderately toxic gases or liquids which have typically been used as refrigerants and as aerosol propellants.

Edit: why am I getting downvoted for this...?
Read the first paragraph and thought"come to Canada!". You delivered.

Are you paid/employed in cad or usd? If the latter is it hard with PR?
Think professions where reimbursement is controlled by an outside entity like insurance or Medicaid. Even with supply and demand you can’t pay more than those will make possible. Additionally, in many cases you’ll end up with people working and providing services before finding out that they won’t be paid for it.

That’s just off the cuff though.
Or maybe just need to be more careful. The 911 feature seems like a bad design decision.
Gödel ruined mathematics -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

Deep down its always a hackers mindset, be it law, finance or the sciences- finding the loop-holes and the brittle points - that one stone, the unconquered fortress rests upon, the one rivet holding the unsinkable ship together.

Little wonder is it, that with such guys holding public conversations in cafes- the idea of the mad, evil professor formed in the public mind. After all- they sounded a little bit like terrorists, trying to break the matter of the world appart.

PS: If you are in a field where re-combinatorics of unrelated things helps- slight schizophrenia is a plus.
It found it very easy to read, but I concede that for leaders in useless HN points it might be hard to grasp.
Did you just post a rebutal to your original comment calling for 'experiments'? If economics is as mysterious as you say, how can you design experiments that produce verifiable and reproducible results?
Hi-viz clothing and a headlight modulator are far more effective.
On the one hand, US is doing great. US grew 3% annualized last year, on a base of 19T, the most in the world. That's very impressive considering how big the base is to even have such a big percentage. You can compare that to China, where they had to keep reporting a fake 7% growth despite their provinces confessing to a 20-30% fake revenue. In the last 40 years, America's middle class shrank 7%. However, the lower middle class shrank 7% as well, and the upper middle class grew 16%. (http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/21/news/economy/upper-middle-cl...) . Implying that alot of the lower middle and middle had moved up. Especially in certain cities like San Francisco or Santa Clara, where there is just an abundance of $130k+/year jobs (and contrary to popular belief, one can easily save $50-60k/year by renting a room in a house at $1000/month).

On the other hand, it seems like the lower class has barely budged, and has remained in place and their quality of life has suffered. They have been losing manufacturing jobs to China and other countries (20M at the height in 1970, 12M currently http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/07/news/economy/us-manufacturin...). However, now with an administration dedicated to bringing jobs back from overseas (with focus on manufacturing), and enacting tariffs on countries that competes by flooding the market and destroying local competition, the jobs for lower class should be growing starting this year. The current solar/washing machine tariff, and upcoming steel and aluminum tariffs against China should help.
If I understand correctly DigitalOcean aims to capture the market that sits between shared hosting and the very first layers of managed infrastructure. It's a product that makes sense for a company or individual who needs the power of reliable cloud infrastructure at a fixed price and without paying the additional premium for platform management (e.g: Heroku)
Normally those profits would be taxed in the US...
The weird thing about your argument is if you take off the lense of national boundaries the argument gains an extra dimension and becomes more complex.

For example, I recently heard from a friend with family in China that Americans who go to China can make $50 an hour private English tutoring rich Chinese kids. How can wages be rising so much in China and they are still wildly undercutting us?

The other weird thing is Americans who move to low cost south east Asia locations and run dropship ecommerce stores that make $2000 a month and live like they were making 10 times that in the bay area.

The friend of mine who makes his living expenses for two years in Argentina in two months doing webdev.

The bottom line is someting is wrong with prices for things in America. Prices for education, price for health care, prices for rent. Everything is so expensive that people can't live on low wages and be content. When they just change their location all the prices wildly change relative to each other and it all makes sense.

I don't have an easy answer, but some unusual economic phenomenon is going on that transcends national politics and it is important for a individual who can operate internationally to take note. of it.
Such contracts would not really add any net costs to the system, since they cost virtually no resources. Whereas if I send $100 to the winner of a PoW contest, then $99 worth of electricity will be expended.

Even if the contracts did add some costs to the system, PoW systems can have similar contracts. I could join a PoW pool and agree to share any $100 rewards I receive with the pool.

Alternatively, we could just avoid the matter of contracts by replacing $100 with $1. $1 is small enough that nobody would need to think about diminishing returns, so there would be little point in spreading out the risk.
> how do we allocate rewards to innovators

The goal of the patent system is not to "pay innovators" - they already get paid by putting good products on the market.

The goal of the patent system is to get innovators to PUBLISH their solutions so that the public can benefit from them. (And build on them in the future.)

If the patent is obvious, then the public gets no benefit, and we're handing out monopolies for free.
> When the minority doesn't like you

> and you don't like said minority

The first of these factors is not particularly contributory to genocides, or at least the mechanism is mysterious. It reminds me of how people describe US racial problems as "blacks and whites disliking and distrusting each other." A desire for symmetry in genocides is a particularly egregious case, though.
Social media is normalizing stalking and breaking down privacy
what about American activists? why nobody worries about them?
Good grief, who is this yahoo? I get that he's famous but fighting through his tone to find the actual argument is like trying to breathe underwater.

It looks like I found it near the bottom when he's talking about "tolerating intolerance" and Salafism - that the West is slowly
committing suicide, by tolerating "intolerant minorities" which will eventually destroy democracy and "destroy our world".
If your standard is worrying about what people will post on FB then paralysis is your only option.
Yes? Why does the US have to fight in the global economy with one armed tied behind our back? And how are trade policy and China's human rights abuses in any way related?
I saw an ad here a few days ago on HN for a "Lead ML Researcher" for $85-100k + 0.5-2%.
Your criticism seems irrational to me. Gods playing capricious games is not a plausible explanation for anything. Human behaviour reflecting ancestral selection pressures is at the very least plausible.
I see, yea I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification.
The profit that accrues to those partnerships either never gets back to Verizon (in which case how is it relevant?) or simply "bellows" (as you put it) the cash flow to Verizon. In the latter case, it'll still show up in long-term measurements. But at the end of the day, Verizon's 5-year profit margin is 13% while AT&T's is 11%. That's about the same as Starbucks. Google and Apple are at 20%+, and Facebook is at 28%.
That only applies to companies accepting only (or virtually only) government health insurance, of which there are either few or none. In reality, it’s part of the reason treatment is so expensive. They charge private entities a lot more to make up for the government mandated rates. The law is that you can’t charge the government more than anyone else.

And this is after we swore we would never let another Rwanda or another Serbia happen.

Actually, this raises a very interesting point to parallel the author’s. By the same logic, a pacifist society must be willing to go to war to protect that pacifism.
And then, the story has it that the judge presiding over Gödel's citizenship ceremony remarked how fortunate it was that the U.S. was not a dictatorship, which in turn prompted Gödel to want to explain the inconsistency he found, but Einstein cut him off... and one successful citizenship oath later Gödel became a U.S. citizen.
> we find that the market provides a lot of variety despite the cost

You can have anything you like so long as it's manufactured by Coke.
As a counterpoint, it's entirely possible that avoiding identifying with anything also cuts off a massive range of psychological states, meaning that you may not become as empathic as other people, and thus have fewer ideas, or at least ideas of a different sort.

The ultimate trick would be to identify with everything. Hopefully a brain-computer interface might make that sort of experience possible in the future.
Do you by any chance have some links where I can read more about Linux as a front-end system in the film/graphics industry? This is field of work in which I would never have guessed Linux to be strong.
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It's a simple system. If the modules are already present in your local cache it will just use them directly. So not having network access for build time is trivial to work around: just put the packages you depend on in your local cache and you're done. Note that with this system the selected versions are deterministic, so if the modules are present there's no reason to access the network anyways.
The discussion isn't about whether we know it's happening or not. We should stop letting deniers move the goal posts.

The discussion is we know this is happening, what do we do to stop it?
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If this actually does target the outsourcing firms, eg: Tata, Infosys, Cognizant, then this is good for tech. We need more experienced foreigners and not spaghetti code shops.

But really, the system is broken. A lottery is a horrible way to decide value or qualifications. Let in the people who truly deserve it, not the ones who flood the system with applications.

Point system, please.
Motorcycles have no real chance at regenerative braking

They do, but it has to come from the front wheel. An electric generator would be heavy and add significant unsprung weight.

KTM experimented with a 2wd dirt bike. It used hydraulic lines to transfer energy to the front wheel. A similar system could be used for regenerative braking.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/motocrossactionmag.com/amp/all-...
I'm paid in CAD.

I'm lucky - my employer was sympathetic to my situation, I had built good relationships with senior management, and what I do (I'm not an engineer) is a skill that they don't have in abundance, and I had a global role in any case.

All these factors contributed to them moving me to Canada without a major hit to my salary.

There is a difference (I get paid about USD 10K less), but that's more than made up in the lack of healthcare costs (I pay absolutely nothing for healthcare coverage in Canada), and most importantly for me, peace of mind.

Also, I couldn't realistically switch jobs in the US without tons of paperwork. As a PR, I am treated exactly like a citizen and could easily switch if I got a better offer.
Cuban may be good at marketing, but he has a very shallow grasp of tech in general. I remember his big solution to video piracy was to always release movies a super high resolution so people would have to download extremely large files. This "genius" never thought that pirates could just downsample the movie. If you go back you'll find much more of this quality "advice." I would think twice about whatever he has to say. He has lots of opinions but most are off the cuff without much thought.
Interesting!

I've switched to using Ian's knot, and have found it to be both faster to tie and easier to set up. I think once you work out how to 'pick up' the laces in the right way, so that they are already in the correct starting position, it gets a lot faster/simpler to think about.

Of course, I haven't been in your shoes - my laces are all the round type and I haven't tried it with flat ones.

To each their own!
Sketch files are zip archives containing a bunch of JSON, so they're likely looking at/storing extracted state.
One-Time Grid
Constitutions aren't magic spells, they still rely on people actively choosing to honor them.
No need to wait. Just visit China, electric scooters is one of the most popular means of transport there.
You have made up two stereotypes at once. First that all gay people adopt the slogan "love wins", then that no gay people will interact with Mike Pence. Neither is correct. Further it is so obviously insane that you would cry hypocrisy at people who are loathe to interact with someone who doesn't believe they have the same rights as other human beings, and who has the power to actually make that happen, that you should be ashamed of yourself, for not even being a horrible person in a subtle way.
The tech industry’s short-sightedness when it comes to the social and moral implications of its products is largely behind it . To stem it, tech companies will have to incorporate more humanity and foresight into their visions for the future.

Companies aren't human, they are amoral. That's their design. What's their incentive to incorporate humanity, contrary to their nature? Maybe the 'benefit corporation' could achieve this, but by what metric should society compel a corporation to become a benefit corporation?
We do worry about American activists, but the legal system is different here and Americans can easily use services hosted outside the US. Chinese users cannot easily use services hosted outside China.
I appreciate this idea. My only concern would be putting ourselves in a situation where the west coast could lose power by sabotaging a single transmission line
You did good for pointing that out. Having formless, warm and fuzzy opinions adds little to the table, and makes for rather boring conversation.
There was a much better article posted to HN not long ago that did a deeper dive into what's going on: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemploy...

The overall conclusion was that automation (and, we can assume, globalization) was essentially digging away at "middle-skilled" jobs, like manufacturing. These are jobs where employees must invest a certain amount of time and training to be paid well, and then they find that their entire industry is drying up. They are faced with a few choices, and many of those lead towards a less attractive, lower-paying job than they had before.

With a social safety net, many are simply exiting the job market and relying on disability or other means to get by rather than take a crap job at crap wages.

Although the age group here is different, a lot of the same forces are likely at play. US employers do not see labor as an investment, and haven't for a long time (if ever); they are generally unwilling to hire lower-skilled employees and invest in training them. Instead, they cry constantly that there isn't a large enough pool of skilled labor to draw from (and in the tech sector, this is why they think they need lots of H-1Bs).

Meanwhile, potential employees are faced with a market where, if they work very hard and teach themselves some skill at their own cost, they might be able to get a job working for an employer who will pay them as little as they can get away with paying them (the wage pressure), and potentially also having to pay off student loans. Alternatively, they can forego this rat race and get some middle-skill job -- something between food service and senior software developer -- and make enough to get by, and with less debt, and spend whatever extra money they've got left over on cheap entertainment.

They certainly aren't going to be able to afford a house on their wages, that hasn't been possible since the 60s.

This is a complex issue with manifold causes and effects and, as the article I linked points out, nobody seems to have a solid handle on all of it yet. There's lots of ideology but not clear enough data yet.
My point is that just because one country is doing it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

Isolationism, and the concept of 'us vs. them' at a global level needs to die. Humans are a global species, and the longer it takes us to realize that the worse off we will be at trying to solve global problems, like economics.
So it looks like people want to know less about genocides and how both sides feel during it.

The assumption here is that you are armed best with rigor and lack of knowledge.

Guess what, it's not helping. You don't have to blame the victim, but you have to understand the criminal's motivation. This way you can at least gauge it against your own.
Incompetent? No.

Willing to work at the salary that employers want to ideally pay? No.

American software engineers with American degrees are expensive.

Employers see engineering as a cost sink and want to do everything possible to reduce budgetary pressures.

While some visa workers are incredibly talented (see: most of google's visa hires) most are just cheaper. Look at Cognizant, Tata, Infosys etc.

Just look at who is getting all of the visas from the program and it's clear what it's actually being used for. Importing cheap overseas labor and/or outsourcing, usually in tandem.
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Agreed. I'm about to get PR, same boat. Thanks for the info and enjoy canada!
This is actually why social networks inevitably fail; all small splinter groups become the most vocal, dominating discussion, setting narratives. Even if you remove some of the most extremist groups (like Reddit -> Voat), other, more socially accepted, still stay and might be even more dangerous due to their lower profile/higher acceptance/long-term devastating effects that are hard to predict.
In Australia we call that Tall Poppy syndrome.
I can't help but feel that if Taleb put a little more effort into fleshing out his arguments I'd enjoy his writing a lot more.

In most of what I've read from him, it always feels like he's more concerned with trying to make the reader feel smug about understanding his writing than actually trying to communicate anything meaningful. In this article, he has an aside where he complains that Agricultural Companies are running a smear campaign against him and are "idiots" and "naive".

He seems to acknowledge that clearly there is some bound on this "minority rule" argument, but doesn't bother to further explore this, and instead goes on and writes as though no bound exists, or if it does, only exists when it benefits his argument.
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> Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript

Hmm, agree to disagree on that.
There are things like git lfs, but these feel like hackarounds rather than proper fixes to me. Github's tiny LFS quotas giving me frustration over ~100MB of lfs data don't help either, which I can't raise because I'm a random dude who lacks billing/admin permissions for PistonDevelopers: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/VisualRust/issues/302
The point of patents is to entice innovators to PUBLISH their inventions.

A patent should be about some process that is so complex that nobody else has figured how to do it before (i.e. some secret trick). When it's published, humanity is better off by publishing it now (even if it's locked up for a little while) so people can investigate related solutions (some of which might not infringe).

But the patent office is allowing patents on obvious things, so the public gets no value in their publication. (Actually negative value, since people have to waste time reading them and companies are afraid to develop products).
What is so wrong with California using its leverage as America's largest state economy to protect the interests of its residents, just like China does?

It's just a thought experiment. I understand the US constitution vests the power to regulate interstate commerce with the Federal government.

Let me put it another way. If it would be advantageous for the US to erect trade barriers against Chinese exports, why would it not be advantageous for California to erect trade barriers against Mississippi, where average wages are dramatically lower, there are far fewer environmental regulations, etc.
Anecdotal: its unusually cold in Seattle this winter. So goes both ways.
It's important to keep in mind that the author of this piece is anti-GMO, so the slant in this case is to paint non-GMO foods in a more positive light.

And I agree, in general the rejection of GMOs is born out of a fear of technology.
Eizo's high end displays are great for almost all uses up to the highest end color critical installs. I recommend them over the DreamColors all the time. You can't get much better without moving to ultra high end pro solutions.
Does anyone have a favorite reader's-digest-condensed-version of Taleb's books?
Sorry, you are correct.
Maybe I'm factoring in our accelerating rate of advancement.
Taleb has been infatuated with his own writing for a long time, and unfortunately the success of the Black Swan (which was decently edited) seems to have disabused him of the idea that he should cut anything from his rambling essays.
When in the history has this "boxing" of oneself started?

Maybe other cultures don't surround the consciusness with so much fluff, like "I'm a valedictorian from the Yale class of 2010 and I work at Goldman and play polo". Or "I'm a Lenin follower and everyone should bow to international marxism".

I think eg. the Chinese take on this is more about the family or something. Any pointers?