skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I was talking to my parents recently about how they were told basically the same thing when I was in high school (let's just say over 20 years ago). "Your kids will have jobs that haven't even been invented yet!"

That turned out to be somewhat true, especially if you get really specific. I have worked on drone and SSD hardware, two things that didn't exist when I was in high school. In general though, that stuff is not that crazy and new, core math, electrical engineering, and software skills are still the same.

I suppose jobs like "self driving car backup driver" and "Bitcoin miner" are a little more out there :-)
there's a whole genre of art defined in the west as "soviet futurism". Lots of the early space race era public propaganda posters and such fall into this category.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=n9w&channel=f...

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=y9w&channel=f...
I have chosen the emacs org mode system over Jupyter, but I still like Jupyter regardless. The real tragedy is how dependent people have become on proprietary stacks like Mathematica.
> the average annual rate of basic pay of the employee's highest-paid consecutive three years of service (commonly referred to as the "high-3" period).[3] The "high-3" period normally is, but does not have to be, the final three years of service

??
Ask HN: How did you calculate your 2017 cryptocurrency capital gains?
For those that sold/traded cryptocurrency in 2017, did you file your cryptocurrency capital gains taxes? How did you calculate them? How long did it take you? What cost basis method did you use?
Even worse, it includes overtime comp, so they can do a year of crazy OT, earn a lot extra that year, then retire with that year as a basis.
The whole private sector is feeding off taxpayer dollars —that came from the private sector. Your comments regarding this are nonsensical.
Can you talk about why you think Vue turns into a mess, especially why you think it is worse in this regard than React? That runs counter to my experience, so I'd be interested n understanding your experience.
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If only Jefferson had kept the right to property in the Declaration of Independence, maybe the Bill of Rights would have had it too, "eminent domain" would be an archaic device reminiscent of royal tyranny, and we would all be a lot freer and wealthier. The future belongs to us, so we could get rid of such tyrannical power, ourselves.
I think I heard it said there has been the odd exception but the vast majority are that deal.

Update: "While we may deviate from this in exceptional cases, it will still be the case for almost all of the companies we fund." https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-new-deal/
They may have changed jobs to a lower paying position for some reason, but one that still qualifies them for the government pension plan.
Seems they might not have learned as much as they think.

Hyperbolic self-congratulatory nonsense. Numerous logical fallacies presented throughout.
There are four parties here, not two.

A is the company whose products the dumpster diver B took. C is the marketplace where B lied and said the goods were as advertised by A. The aggrieved party is D, the end consumer, who thought they were buying the quality advertised by A or implied by relevant laws and regulations.

IMHO, most of the blame lies with B, but experience has shown that C will almost always turn a blind eye in the name of growth.

> For food at least, the expiration date is usually the manufacturer's "best by" date, meaning when they no longer back the product with their brand, not whether the food is still good to consume. This, among other practices, leads to a mind blowing amount of retailer food waste in the US. I'm all for scavengers being able to profit from what would otherwise be wasted as long as they're honest.

There are legitimate ways to reduce food waste, but this is not one of them. The main problem is that dumpster divers don't advertise their wares as "scavenged from a dumpster" or "expired" or "recalled" because that would result in lower profits.
Re: Speed

Mathematica is undergoing a compiler re-vamp, which may change that.
Btw I'm the co-founder of CoinTracker (https://www.cointracker.io) and we think we have a solution that takes the immense pain out of this problem.
Fair points. Just to clarify I think the author was referring to Vandals [1] in the original sense rather than merely poking fun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals
Long time user of Python here and recent user of Mathematica.

Some observations I have are that they're both great. Python is a nice open source scripting language, but getting libraries to work can sometimes be a pain. Mathematica is basically install this and everything is included. The Mathematica documentation is amazing and it is really simple how to do most things. The whole iPhone "there is an app for that" is equivalent to "there is a function for that".

Graph Theory works flawlessly in Mathematica. In Python, there is a module to Graphviz. Let me know if Python has something new though. There are a lot of other examples. Mathematica's Import[] function can read over 150 different file types including: CSV,.XLS, genetic encoding files, optimization files....whatever. It is usually far easier and more consistent than finding a corresponding Python library and struggling with the install and minimal documentation. Let me be clear that Python is awesome and rocks and i think Jupyter is moving it in the right direction. I just feel like many dismiss Mathematica as something that does Calculus homework rather than what it is today which is a massive 20 million LOC conglomeration of C & Java & Wolfram language that does everything from Statistics, Machine Learning, Visualization, BlockChain, 3D printing, NodeGraphs, data sets and analysis...etc in a single consistent package. It is expensive and proprietary and certainly has its own faults, but a lot of that cash is funneled back into a great product.
''Kubrick found what he wanted by trying things out''
Real painfully;
No object passes the limb of a planet; 10 identical film takes with his Selson motor camera track, soup one take. Good? Add one more thing (against black) 9 takes, soup one take. Good? Add another object to the shot, 8 takes, soup one take. Good? Add star field, 7 takes, soup one take. Good? Add matt box holdout and new plastic ship, 6 takes, soup one take. Good? No? Start over.
All in 2.6 inch wide raw film stock, one frame per second.
SixthSense Technology (oldie but goodie): Pranav Mistry - https://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potent...

Inventing on Principle: Bret Victor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
It was an actual question. Sometimes people who use the word are genuinely interested in the debate. Most of the time though, it's just some idiot who is interested in blaming everything that's bad with the world on some nefarious Other.
This article doesn't tell the whole story. Yes, PERS is a problem in Oregon. However, some of the anecdotes of counties cutting services are not related to PERS. For example, Josephine County, next door county to mine, has the lowest property tax rates in the state. Property owners in the county have repeatedly rejected tax increases to pay for basic services like the Sheriff's Department, and as a result have experienced some of the cut backs described in the article. This is not a result of PERS contributions.
Pretty much every "recognized" book I've read was interesting in some way or another. I might have disliked it, or disagreed with it, but it surely wasn't boring. I used to find lots of books boring when I had no idea how to read them. Especially older works require context to read them in. You have to figure out why you are.

Another thing is that a book may not be worth the investment, but that's a different category. I don't really want to read War and Peace or Infinite Jest, but I doubt they're boring. I'll just get more enjoyment bang for my buck out of reading my preferred genre, but if I had to read them for professional reasons (I consider college such) it wouldn't be an issue.

> taste is a thing

Taste is a very, very overblown thing. It's often used as a strict thing, set in stone, and giving full carte blanche to ignore lots of works or people. But in reality it's very flippant and malleable and often developed out of sheer chance.

You'll find that people who don't read at all have no taste for any book.
Agreed, you are not the first to give this feedback. I'll work on that, it should be available tomorrow.
I similarly had a question on my 4th grade qualification exam. In the science section they asked a multiple choice question as to what would change the weight of a glass of water. One of the "wrong" answers was heating it... luckily I knew that I wasn't supposed to know relativity so I answered it correctly.
Worth noting that unlike health insurance, there's no penalty for not having insurance. Unless you're in pain, you have an idea what your procedures over the next year will look like so you could game the system (though it looks like dental policies are adjusting to that strategy, with increasing payouts or requiring you to wait 12+ months for certain kinds of work)
Robin Hanson has a recent post[0] that says this relating to eminent domain, and I thought it is pretty interesting in the context of this discussion:

"Last October I posted[1] on Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s proposal to generalize self-assessed property taxes. For many items, such as land and buildings, you’d pay an annual tax that is a standard percentage of your self-set sale-offer price for the item. This would avoid administrative property valuations, discourage people from sitting on stuff they don’t use, and make it much easier to assemble property into large units. Eminent domain would no longer be needed. They have a new book, Radical Markets, coming out in a few weeks, that I will review soon.

Some libertarian types disapprove on the grounds that this weakens property rights. Which it can, relative to a simple absolute property right. But simple property and liability have long been two quite different, and extreme, solutions to legal problems. Neither one is always best. In this post I want to point out that this alternate approach can be used not only to change traditional property to be more like liability, it can also be used to change traditional liability to be more like property. It is an interesting intermediate form between traditional property and liability. One I expect libertarian types to look on more favorably when applied to liability."

[0] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/between-property-and-l...

[1] https://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/10/for-stability-rents.h...
Well, not really. The power plant is a gas turbine but the tank is propelled by treads which are driven by the turbine through a transmission.

To say it's propelled by a gas turbine is a little misleading and implied it's a jet tank of some sort.
Thanks for mentioning SageMath and CoCalc (I founded both of these projects)! A minor clarification is that CoCalc is not a rebranding of SageMath, but is instead a new web application whose goal is to make it very easy to collaboratively use Sage, Jupyter, LaTeX, Julia, etc. In constract, Sage is a more traditional open source software package, which people install on their own computers. The goal of Sage is to be a viable open source alternative to the core Mathematica computer algebra system (and also to Magma, etc.), whereas the goal of CoCalc is to make all technical open source software very, very easily accessible, mainly to students.
But why? I mean we're in a forum if tech nerds and people are seriously advocating filling out a form and doing calculations manually?

You're missing the feature where your information is carried over year to year and all the forms you get can be automatically parsed. "Doing your taxes" with current software can be as simple as uploading a few PDFs and clicking next a bunch of times.
ORM is much easier when you know what is going on and can dove into a query plan. I have noticed most devs that struggle with ORM and or performance tend to just not understand basic RDBMS/SQL stuff. Indexes, joins, how to tell ORM to prefetch, reviewing query plans when the performance matters.
Crypto capital gains are a goldmine for the IRS and not filing will come back to bite.

We built CoinTracker (https://www.cointracker.io) to address this problem. CoinTracker makes calculating and filing your crypto capital gains painless.
I saw couple of those videos. I didn't notice this addressed in any of those. Most of the stuff was showing how car handles intersections where it is actually slow moving..

The DARPA Grand challenge only required the cars to drive across a desert.

So I am not sure how that answers my question.
Ehh I’m not convinced. I deleted my Facebook a long time ago (hard delete, not just a deactivation) and I’ve managed to replicate the same value I got from Facebook in Slacks and Discords - except it’s just stuff I want, and people I want to hear from. When some congressmen asked Zuckerberg about monopoly, I thought this: I actually think there are plenty of alternatives. I derive a lot more value from the Slack channels I’m on with friends who are now lawyers or tech gurus or thinking about doing a startup...and none of it is interrupted by ads or annoying posts from my parents and their friends. If the point here is “delete most of your ‘friends’” then why keep Facebook at all?
VAZ, the manufacturer who produced Ladas was/is situated on the Volga river, and based on my understanding (I lived in a city nearby), the word Lada came from word Lad'ya which is a type of ship that sailed on Volga river. At least that's how I remember it.
Bacteria are the "grey goo" catastrophe. Viruses are the cure.
The Fear Cycle
While I wouldn't recommend it, I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. It forced me type with good habits, such as not looking at the keyboard and keeping my fingers on home row. I went from 48 wpm to 90-100 wpm.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend actually switching. It makes me incompatible with the rest of the world.
That’s not really accurate either — it’s a complex issue.

Nobody in 1990 would have predicted the decade of double digit cost increases that came in the 2000s and 2010s.

Pension contributions did have fiscal impacts, at least in states that require that pensions actually be funded.
In California many/most public employees earn over 6-figures in total compensation. This includes government employees, teachers, police, Fire, etc.

Yea, it’s insane.

Don’t believe me? Look it up - https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2017
Ahh, thank you. I read "Western militaries were and are designed" to mean a longer time period than post-WWII.
SageMath (which I started in 2004) is in fact a Python library targeted at professional mathematicians (mainly research in pure math), and is much stronger than Mathematica in many areas, including number theory, algebraic combinatorics and algebraic dynamics. It is weaker than Mathematica in symbolic calculus.
> Because it demonstrates to senior management and the public the progress the team has made.

Public is not asking them anything. Public does not sign up being part of a beta/alpha or what ever test, for sake of "senior management"...
I will send you an email
> I believe that Waymo would not be so callous as to apply for this permit if it had not 100% proven that its technology would not do something as blatantly bad as that.

It it could prove this 100% to itself, it should be able to prove it to the general public and the authorities in a test environment..
>And I hate to say it but... the Mathematica notebook is really pretty. You put the exponents up, the fractions on top of each other...

yup. for quick and dirty type setting i preferred it to latex
Seems to suffer from same throughput problems as Bitcoin.

Very slow action.

Otherwise pretty cool idea!
I'm not either, but you can get in this way: http://archive.is/HjvCF.
The world is changing, what about public speaking?
Someone linked us last week to an essay that said that docking scene is spellbinding, but not if you’re watching it on a laptop/phone in a well lit place. In a dark theater the scale feels different.
It’s not often that you write a paper proposing a hypothesis that you don’t support.

Come work in corporate IT, we do this all the time :)
If you can't already touch type: cover the letters on the keys or get a board with no letters, switch to colemak/dvorak if you can be bothered, and practise on something like https://www.keybr.com/ which gives you nice stats over time.

I was at about 50-60 with a horrible 2 finger style on qwerty, now im at about 80-100 on colemak, and i can switch back to qwerty no problem.
A lot of great talks already mentioned. Thought I'd add a gem from Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++

https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc
Well if PERS was not there, that money would have been available to pay for Sherriff's department. Just saying lets tax them is not always the solution.
I don't know what most of that means.
I'd like to know why did you choose Spanish over other languages. Can you tell me?
is it humane or an entitlement?
most people in the private sector work their whole life never get anything remotely close to a pension

secondly, its just an intergenerational wealth transfer. another excess of the selfishness of the boomer generation. Who will pay the price ... the school kids getting a crap education in 35 student classrooms in crumbling buildings in a towns who's infrastructure is going to literally fall apart in 2 decades time from zero maintenance. Ah well at least we kept the promises some corrupt politicians made in the 90s to well-off gov workers.
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So build one. If it's good, people will use it!
To add to Doreen Michele’s comment. A friend of mine went from a GS-11 to a GS-7 to change career paths. This meant a reduction in pay for several years. Supposing he retires today (he has enough years to be vested for the pension but can’t collect for another 12 or so) his retirement pay would be based on those years he was a GS-11. Now the period 6-3 years in the past. He’s a GS-12 now (or soon) but the prior pay still works out to a higher average for him.

Additionally, locality pay is included for the calculation. It’s not just base pay. This means if he moves to DC for a few years and then later to “rest of US” (unspecified, lowest paid parts of the country) his time in DC may be what they use to calculate his pension and not his last few years.
My guess is that Elon realised that rockets are hard and handed the important decisions over to the experts (namely Gwynne Shotwell and Tom Mueller) who were able to start from blank paper.

At Tesla on the other hand we have a business that seems a lot simpler at first blush, with Elon reportedly terminating or driving away anyone who disagreed with him.

Now Elon has finally admitted that fully automating their first large scale assembly line was a bad idea.
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Public sector pensions should be run by a Federal Reserve-like "appointed but not elected" system.

As you've stated, actuarial calculations + short term politics don't mix.
> What is the difference between operating a car remotely and "giving it feedback"?

The same as the difference between what a driver does and what a driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat does, only both remote...
Yep, in this day in age it's almost horrible when you can go, oh right I saw that person's picture on the internet randomly, we've never actually met, or even talked.
Meh, what is it about viruses that makes the NOT grey goo?

Or what if prions are grey goo?

I think grey goo's is pretty much anything small enough to be gooey.
Invite the bot into the group :) (and send /start to get the webhook URL)
This is a fairly common question here. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365094

If you search the site for previous discussions, that will get you lots more hits.
I might have a mild face blindness. I was never diagnosed, and might never be. This has never affected me in any way (other then a few awkward interactions). I am able to recognize people as soon as the start talking, sometimes I can even recognize people when they start moving. I also recognize people by their clothes, hair, etc.

My wife was the first one to notice I might have this condition (and yes it has happened more then once that I don’t recognize her). This is despite the fact that I have a BS in psychology and had read a lot about face blindness in university. It just never occurred to me that I might have this. Those awkward moments I mentioned earlier, I usually blamed on me not paying attention, being stupid, shy or something else.
> How long before we have tools which generate webpack configuration programatically, and which need configuration themselves.

Haha, too late! I actually really enjoy using Laravel Mix, which despite the name is not tied to Laravel. It's a Webpack wrapper that simplifies it significantly for many common use cases.

https://github.com/JeffreyWay/laravel-mix
Most people are infected by a few viruses for their whole life and the bacteria inside us are infected by many. We don't know what any of them do or whether they are good for us.
Wasn't Vue CLI's config pretty much all webpack? (BTW they are moving into a zero-config approach with v3)
It is kind of what you might expect for many of us. Tough problems pushed me to learn more. I got started before the time of ORMs being popular. It forced me to learn a lot of fundamentals. Find data sets and interesting things to do with them. Teach yourself about the database internals. RDBMS is rows and columns. Queries are planned. Planner tries to use most optimized query. Example, you join on a column that isn't indexed. To find every matching row DB has to scan entire table. Hello O(n^2). The details a query planner gives can be overwhelming. Learn every bit of it. Find ways to query data efficiently you would just deal with it app code. Learn subqueries. Learn aggregation. Learn aggregation with subqueries. But here is the real, fundamental truth about RDBMS and SQL. It is essentially a functional data environment, like a spreadsheet. Once you adapt to the functional mindset of SQL it can feel effortless to do things you might not have even thought possible with SQL.
Anything by Bryan Cantrill, David Beazley or Joe Armstrong

Bryan Cantrill - Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers ((but really about Larry Ellison being a lawnmower...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI

David Beazley - Discovering Python (Dave is locked in a bunker for months with 1TB+ source code related to a patent law suit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8

Joe Armstrong - React 2014 : Joe Armstrong - K things I know about building Resilient Reactive Systems ("What is on the wire?" Talks about protocols and other interesting things) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8