skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the limiting factors contributing to quality of life? Raw natural resources or post-processing and value added by people to those resources?

The idea back in the twentieth century that overpopulation underlaid all problems seemed to be based on a subconscious idea that capital stock maintains itself and stuff produces itself.

It takes far fewer acres, gallons of water and farmer-hours to feed a person in 2018, because the economy is more developed. Same goes for almost everything people need in their day to day lives, because a larger population supports more specialized occupations. On an entrepreneurial site with people who like to build things there is going to be some bias towards appreciating individual self-sufficiency, like a household version of autarky, but it isn't the path to producing the good and services that are important to supporting a high quality of life for people.
The curse of “intuition” in Data Science
Facebook responds in writing to Congress' questions from Zuckerberg's testimony
Follow the money?

Who owns the apartments? The VCs?
Yes, but it could open up opportunity for new smaller players.

I don't think their monopoly would last very long, if cheaper options became available.

https://apply.nectolab.io

https://startyourownisp.com
> Mobileye is depth from motion, and apparently, so is Tesla's in-house system.

Monocular depth perception w/out motion is a thing too, e.g. [1], however I doubt it is good enough for safety-critical systems like self-driving cars.

[1] https://github.com/mrharicot/monodepth
Reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8qdnn3/goodby...
Rodin: The fastest way to build interactive WebVR experiences
The turning point in the art world was probably the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, which for most of the twentieth century was believed to be sort of dark and sinister, until a restorer finally pointed out that this was just the accumulation of centuries worth of candle smoke. The resultant restoration was controversial but certainly the right decision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Cha...
forge certs then mitm.
From previous:

"In nations in the West, an important limiting factor is the ability to get one’s own apartment. That is, the ratio of average male wage to average rent. In the USA, the happiest year for this ratio was 1958, when people were spending 22% of their income on rent, on average. Not by coincidence, this was the peak year of the Baby Boom. In some sense, it was the best year in history to be a young white male in the USA. It was the year when it was easiest for an 18 year old male to get out of high school, get their own apartment, marry their high school sweetheart, and start a family. And of course, young people did this in huge numbers, which is why 1958 remains the peak year for teenage pregnancy in the USA."

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/do-men-become-warlike...

1958 is when men had the best wage to rent ratio, and that helped create families and have children. And likewise, nowadays, as rents increase faster than wages, we should expect the birth rate to decline.
I'm glad that this discussion is peppered with the words "charge back" and "fraud". People speaking out of their element about "banks censoring their competitors" probably haven't been on the receiving side of a frivolous charge back, lost the dispute, and been SOL for it.

Crypto companies could default to push payments and/or micro-deposits for verifying ownership of a fiat instrument, but people want their coins now and that causes friction, which shrinks user activation funnels.

Anyone using a fiat on-ramp to accept payments (including exchanges) has agreements with Visa/Mastercard/AMEX/their bank to keep their charge back ratios under 1%, or else Visa/MC/the bank processing their fiat transactions will fire them (good luck running a business accepting fiat without access to the card networks or a bank).

Bank fraud analysts probably have their own bank-side metrics/reasoning to give customers the benefit of the doubt.

For example, if the fraud analyst sides with a merchant and denies filing a friendly fraud (maliciously filed) dispute, maybe the customer complains to their manager, and takes whatever sympathy-inducing narrative to social media, which would get an analyst fired and make a bank look even less sympathetic.

Through that, it's too easy for someone to maliciously load up on 2+ months of purchases, walk to their bank, state "I've never heard of Bitcoin someone hacked me and bought $6k in crypto I need that back", and win. It's not worth the headache until/unless banks and exchanges bridge the gap and determine a means of:

1. Confirming the exchange isn't providing liquidity to money launderers
2. Confirming with the bank that the KYC info requested sufficiently fulfills #1
3. Confirming with the bank that the KYC and payment instrument info (if fiat) requested sufficiently provides evidence that the owner of the instrument authorized the payment.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_w...

Quoting:

> Anyway, perfectly ordinary slaveowner DiCaprio asks a rhetorical question, a fundamental question, that has occurred to every 7th grade white boy and about 10% of 7th grade white girls, and the profound question he asked was: "Why don't they just rise up?"

Kneel down, Quentin Tarantino is a genius. That question should properly come from the mouth of the German dentist: this isn't his country, he doesn't really have an instinctive feel for the system, so it's completely legitimate for a guy who doesn't know the score to ask this question, which is why 7th grade boys ask it; they themselves haven't yet felt the crushing weight of the system, so immediately you should ask, how early have girls been crushed that they don't think to ask this? But Tarantino puts this question in the mouth of the power, it is spoken by the very lips of that system; because of course the reason they don't rise up is that he-- that system-- taught them not to. When the system tells you what to do, you have no choice but to obey.
"...that it is impossible to ever build their own identity" Sounds like a pretty poorly prescribed incantation.
Unless you make a name for yourself somehow, the best way to get recruited to FAANG's is to get hired for a summer internship, perform well, and then get hired. Another way is to attend the job fairs at your Uni and see if you can score an interview.

I wouldn't worry too much about getting into them though. SE's are in high demand across the Valley; expand your horizons and interview with some of the late stage startups and other SE companies as well (e.g. Atlassian). They will provide amazing compensation as well as being a smaller company where you can have a bigger impact. Once you build a few years of experience delivering products, your problem will be rejecting 99% of the recruiters that reach out to you lol.

Seriously as a CS student, you really just have to get a job where you can learn and write actual code and watch your career soar.
The Perfect IDE in Pictures: Part 1, *it* works for *you*
Just a quick aside: I'm in biotech/medtech and hardware engineering. A lot of the comments here are about software engineering in SV. Here in biotech-land the average salary, even in the Bay, is about $80k.

Granted, we don't have as many start-ups as the FDA puts a hell of a damper on things.
Similar to the many thousand year old schools of eastern thought!
I'm no expert, I'm not Taiwanese, and I haven't been to mainland China (though I've been to Hong Kong a couple times, which seems pretty similar to Taipei).

It is an on-the-ground feeling. There is a calm chaos here that reflects the "there are basic rules, but beyond that, everybody carves out a slice of how they think they can be useful" spirit WAY better than America (where everything is pre-apportioned, indoors, with permits, etc.).

I also feel that intergenerational households and stronger community ties lead to better group decision making, which America is having some trouble with. People here have actual hometowns. They care about their local community in a way I've literally not seen a single time in America. Putting aside individual elections or politicians, this helps build a sense of public service, not just horsetrading elections (your local DA isn't setting policy on anything in their party platform, but people in America still want party info so they can try and trade for a policy they want).

All of this is a guess, obviously, and I suppose lots of places are like Taipei.

It's also worth pointing out that the KMT probably made similar statements, about how virtuous martial law was, and how the people didn't want the changes, and western allies couldn't possibly get what they wanted without oppression. Turns out they were wrong. People with power like power, that's true every single square meter of the globe.
Thanks! Some sort of API would be pretty cool... I'll add that if this takes off.

At the very least, the function to execute T2B scripts could be exposed in a simple header.
note that this isn’t a problem with dsl lines. AT&T charges me for 50mbps down and 10mbps up. 100% of the time for the 5+ years they have exceeded these speeds (i have a traffic monitor running constantly to verify speeds)
These startups also don't stay in business for very long ;)
If good means experienced/senior, which is what the people pulling those numbers in are, then yeah I certainly don't think startups are anywhere near competitive with big companies for talent. I don't think they really need to be, or should try to be.

If you're 15 years in at Google then yeah, no shit you shouldnt take a job at some hinky dink no name company. You're severely demoting yourself. You wouldn't go wait tables at a restaurant and expect the compensation to be competitive with your software engineer salary. Your skills aren't that useful to the restaurant, they wouldn't make anywhere near enough money from you for it to make sense.

Senior level big software company employee vs startup employee is like that but on a less extreme scale. You're more useful to them than you are to a restaurant, but you still have a lot of skills and experience that it doesn't make sense for them to pay for that it does for a big company.

Its on me for not specifying and making assumptions, but imo when talking startup competitiveness it should be focused on fresh grads or those with a couple years experience in industry but not necessarily at big tech. That's where startups are going to find their cost effective generalists, and its where I think the compensation is "a little low and relying on past reputation".

Also, with good devs making $400-500k/year at bigco, I think it needs to be kept in mind that those numbers are with a lot of their compensation being in stock and big tech stock having risen a lot in the last decade. Someone whose compensation at Facebook happened to turn out to be $400k/year would have been getting signed each year for far less.

Using those numbers would be like evaluating startup packages as if theyre guaranteed a large ipo.

As for startups getting funding right from the start, that means they're being funded based on founder credentials rather than the qualities of the business. If you have those kind of credentials and use them to start a company then your opportunity cost is likely huge. That's the founders additional risk there.
I have good news for you.

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/consider-phlebas/55461/amazon...
Considering the street cred John has earned for creating jQuery, it says a lot for him to endorse GraphQL and to even write a book about it.
Anyone who dares to attempt is talented. Success is variable.
Users these days, so spoiled...
Not everybody wants to open source and give away for free everything they do, nor pay $5,000 to license something that is actually just a number. This is especially true for USB devices that follow the hid spec. They don't need drivers, so even if you happen to have one associated with that vendor ID and product id, the OS will not load it.
Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click
Literally from the article:

> As a further caveat, the correlation observed here is by no means proof that home value growth causes fertility declines. One alternative explanation could be the possibility that there is clustering into certain counties of people with careers that pay well enough for expensive homes but make it difficult to have children before 30; this could cause both trends observed in the chart above. There are many other confounding factors that could explain this relationship as well, such as the possibility that cultural values or the cost of child care varies across counties with some correlation to home values.
Good quality general purpose video cameras + FPGAs to flatten and combine video.
Comcast owns 30% of Hulu. They'd probably like for Netflix to be slow, but Hulu to be fast.
Not at all. Because it does not cost you $5,000 to get an IP address.
Cicadas have tamed a Zombie Fungus
How could it kill somebody? And can you link to where the ill are being trolled?
I can only speak from my experience with Amazon. I sent a resume in for a job at Lab126 since I'm an embedded guy with an EE background, no CS except 21 years doing embedded software. I never heard from Lab126, but the AWS team got back to me. After failing to pass all the test vectors of the coding test, they gave me a phone interview. I did OK at best. They flew me up for an interview and proceeded to ask me CS algorithm questions on a whiteboard for 6 hours. I didn't get the job(and probably would have turned it down otherwise, since it involved being on-call), but it surprised me that their screening process was so bad. Nowhere on my resume did I indicate having any knowledge of CS algorithms, yet it was seemingly vital for the role. Strangely enough, I did study up on virtualization implementations(KVM/Xen), but no one asked me a single question about that(despite it being listed as vital on the job description).
Pros:
- some startups have a really high concentration of awesome and smart people to work with
- it’s exciting to work on something new with a big vision
- you can quickly get experience building a feature (or a whole product) from concept to launch. As an engineer building a feature you can feel more ownership over more aspects of it including the business/marketing/pricing etc.
- I’ve found at early stage startups it’s easier to make friends with your coworkers than a larger company. You tend to do more together, from dinners to socials, and you become a tight group. It’s especially nice for people who are from out of the area or recently graduated etc.
- you can work on really cutting edge and innovative things. You might get that at a larger company on a team like Google X but it’s not guaranteed
- potential for big upside if your startup does well

Negatives:
- you are subject to the whims of the founders. There is much less oversight over firing, demoting, and general behavior of a founder than the oversight a manager would get in a larger company.
- If you’re a woman, you are likely one of the few in the engineering team. There’s often bad behavior and it’s very difficult to speak up about it without retaliation. I know multiple women who have been fired by YC founders and it’s been a tough environment for them to succeed in for multiple reasons. It’s also easy for women to end up doing a lot of office housework in addition to engineering in a startup where roles are not as well defined. I think it has gotten easier to at least have some recourse now in the era of me too
- Lower compensation once you factor in public company stock, bonuses, 401ks etc. Base salary might not be too different but larger companies offer a much fuller package of compensation

I could do a deeper dive on the additional factors that deter female engineers out of early stage startups but that would be a topic of its own!
It's not untrue, but it is nuanced.

Basically, Malthus was right for some people. More people tends to benefit capital and harm labor, because it increases both the potential labor pool and potential market size for capitalists & entrepreneurs but increases competition for laborers. It tends to benefit specialists and harm generalists, because specialists can more easily find buyers for their skills while generalists have to try harder to stand out from everyone else. It tends to benefit landowners (who already own part of the fixed supply of property) at the expense of renters (who must compete with more people for housing).

While I'd agree that more population is overall good for humanity (if only because there's more of it), what's good for humanity is not necessarily good for individual humans. However, since the groups that it is good for tend to be the groups that set the prevailing narrative, these distinctions usually get papered over.

There's a credible theory that Black Death lead to the Renaissance, because the depopulation of Europe allowed laborers to bargain for higher wages and kickstarted the growth of a permanent middle class. There's a bunch of resources on this if you google [black death lead to renaissance], but the Wikipedia page has a good overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Deat...
vim used to have this listed in :help design-not

- Vim is not a shell or an Operating System. You will not be able to run a
shell inside Vim or use it to control a debugger. This should work the
other way around: Use Vim as a component from a shell or in an IDE.
A satirical way to say this: "Unlike Emacs, Vim does not attempt to include
everything but the kitchen sink, but some people say that you can clean one
with it. ;-)"

In summary, it took it so long to get it because it explicitly goes against the original design (and I kind of think it was the right choice. Emacs already exists).
Cơ hội phát triển cho những Kỹ thuật viên tốt nghiệp Cao đẳng Xét nghiệm Y học
rm /bin/sh
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Oh shit. Please do not do this in your install scripts. Making permanent changes to core system utilities from an unrelated package seems like a level beyond the usual mistakes people make in third-party packages.
It's node: `apollo-server-express`

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/
You're confusing company aggregate profit for profit within each market.
Depends on the economy, the cost of living, my health, and my skills.

Those factors are not under my direct control. Some of them may have been in the past, but not in the present.
I came to comment the same. I think there could be a business for "dread task buddy on demand".

On second thought this sounds like a life coach
Having been on both sides of this, this is usually career suicide.

Not to say you get fired, but you miss too much. You miss watercooler talk. You miss the invite to a new project. You get sent maintenance and bug work.

If you want to work a 9-3 and coast, sure. If you want to do cool stuff and move up the chain? Being remote in a local company is totally suicide.
Agreed. SV is different from the rest of the markets, and it is the main reason why it attracts so many engineers from all over the country (hell, from the world).

Although I don't regret the time I spent outside of SV, from a financial perspective as a single young engineer, it absolutely, 100% makes financial sense to consider opportunities in SF that compensate you so well.
100% agreed with this, We know that prices of the home have been going up, we also know that employment is going up, so why not saying unemployment rate with that. This is what happens when you have a lot of positive results. You will have a bias, and this is a classic example of a highly biased study.
The buddhists do that and more. For example, recognizing the components of the body to such a degree that even when you see the most attractive person you may become entirely disgusted.
I didn't hear about CyanogenMod imploding. What happened there?
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... and a very willing investor.
Malthus had an interesting idea about some resources growing geometrically and others growing arithmetically. There wasn't real world data to back up the supposition. His conclusions seem to have been based on naive mathematical understandings, and misinterpreting processes that approximate logistic functions being at different stages of transitions. With changing marginal growth rates, even similar processes could appear to be fundamentally different from each other if they are in different stages.

Climate science in this century is based on mathematically sophisticated models, and beyond the comparative theoretical rigor, they have been shown to have good predictive power.
We are neither trying to denounce distributed processing nor claim that single node engines can solve all the problems. For example, we still haven't discussed how to ingest this amount of data (80 million tuples/sec) or even more than that to a single node. How realistic is this scenario?

I agree that the benchmark used here is not a good example of a real-world streaming application, as it's not even compute-intensive. However, it is still used as the main benchmark for the evaluation of streaming frameworks.

In this blogpost, we are trying to start a discussion about how modern streaming systems perform and how they are supposed to perform. Towards this direction, we should reconsider what we believe is regular. For example, in cases like this, if you can use a single node instead of 5 for your computations, why shouldn't you consider about it...
This is in fact the only way to maintain credibility with both sides when resolving an argument. Unfortunately judges who routinely follow this rule are uncommon.
LLVM Weekly – #232, June 11th 2018
REST had taken off before jQuery existed.
Vivo X21 in-display fingerprint sensor review: it really works
Or how about in person but not in SF?

Benefits of in person. But not SF salary.

Has been my route, no complaints.
200K in RSU's per year or over 4 years?
>> which is why 1958 remains the peak year for teenage pregnancy in the USA.

There are plenty more factors impacting teenage pregnancy than the cost of rent. I also hesitate to talk about teenage pregnancy rates in any sort of positive light. There is a very fine line between a 18yo married to her "high school sweetheart" who has a great job, and an unwed 17yo highschool senior who, in 1958 society, had a very rough time. I'd suggest that the later was the more common.
The single biggest con for me is asking me to move to the bay area on a sub $200k salary. I have 4 kids, I live in SoCal. The difference in mortgage alone means that I will be either losing money compared to my current job at a medium sized company or having an absurd commute.

I looked at bay-area job opportunities and FAANG would be break-even to small-raise, while all startups would be a minimum of $20k less money in my pocket for any sub 30 minute commute. My current commute is 15 minutes.

On top of this, from my sphere of people I know non-founder equity is a joke. One quote from a friend "You're more likely to get rich taking a job with no equity and sinking the difference in salary in powerball tickets." The largest exit from my social circle netted the (#3 employee) $60k, or about the difference in salary over the time working there. The best financial outcome for him was actually the massive raise he got by working at the payscales of the company that acquired the startup.