skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard it said that in policy terms, people tend to always suggest the solutions to the problems they had when they were young. In this case, for a long, long time, well into my adulthood now, we've had policy made by people for whom the Grand Crisis to be solved was the stagflation of the '70s. For my generation, that Grand Crisis is the Great Recession and the rise of the nationalist alt-right.

For the present problems of overly high inequality and falling productivity, indeed, the correct solutions probably run opposite to the "solutions" to the '70s stagflation crisis (wage repression and deflationary monetary policy).
Do we have to call it an addiction?

A video game is an immersive experience that allows an individual to effectively sync into a state of flow detached from reality.

If reality is chaotic and stressful and reinforces that sentiment from all directions to yield those internal feelings of agony, it seems obvious that anything that can alleviate such agony would be immediately ran to.

Better to be addicted to video games than heroin, right? At least video games can teach modular reasoning. And yes, extreme cases of video game addiction have led to death, but a kid having a daily hobby of playing video games after school is not the same thing.
The video clearly shows the ends are being closed up.
You know, when the Model 3 came out and terrible production difficulties meant they were producing only 200 cars a month, the Tesla-is-a-scam people told us that the company would never get production much above that.

But actually it has been improving production at a steady rate, and is now at least close to the promised 5,000 a month. So the Tesla-is-a-scam believers were quite wrong.
Well, we used to have a radium paint in our watches! Not to forget the lead piping still widely spread in the US.
I lived that era and that’s nonsense. It was popular amongst tech savvy people, with decent connections, and younger (<25yr old) ones at that. Hell CD burners were not even that mainstream around then (remember how big of a deal it was that the later candy iMacs shipped with a CD burner?)

That’s a niche. Not mainstream.
Problem is that there's a ton of money in the "review industry," (through referrals) it's very lucrative, so the big ones are spending a lot to rank high.
I relented and bought a pizza steel. Best thing ever.

And not as over the top as a dedicated wood-fired oven (single use: pizza) for garden or balcony.

It's my 80% solution.
> it demonstrates feasibility.

Not if they shut down or heavily impacted Model S/X production to achieve it.
Does anyone else remember being taught in Econ 101 about globalization and comparative advantage and how great it is? Either the educators didn't know this would happen or it was a campaign to sell the public on the idea. Or maybe it was just bad teaching. I wonder which one it was.
I agree. Personally, I don't remember what boredom is. I stop paying attention whenever I can get away with it, happy that I just reclaimed some time from a bullshit situation - time which I can use to think about problems that interest me.
Oh yes. I've been a designer for a (locally) competing maps service, and I failed miserably at convincing the PM and devs that we should do quite a lot of work (changes to already established behavior) to make sure we aren't ever moving a map viewport user has set up, and that violating this rule makes people angry.
Where are you pulling this information from? How do you know it costs billions to produce a 5k line? What quality failings do the currently produced m3s have? Can you substantiate any of this? I'm genuinely curious if you have information that I don't.
From Brewery to Bakery: A Flour That Fights Waste
If you put in, say, $0 for your stock compensation, even though you receive stock compensation, it will average it in with equal weight as entries which included actual values for their stock compensation. The same applies to cash bonuses.

That plus, as you mentioned, including old, historical data with equal weighting to newer data will drag down the averages for both salary and total compensation.
Transparency+Commitment+-+FSFE
I find the contributions where the person doesn’t speak the recording at all or appears to be intentionally not reading the corpus to be more frustrating than those where the speaker is not perfectly fluent.
The new production line is entirely devoted to the AWD and performance models. Tesla won't be producing the $35k model until next year, the market for $68k Model 3 is bigger than the market for $35k Model 3.
"Do Florida’s dense forests mask its flatness?"

That's what I believe.

I've lived in FL (#1) and IL (#2). When I moved to central IL, I noticed it wasn't flat as S. FL. On a bike ride it was clear there were up and down slopes that I didn't have growing up.

But in Florida, either city or forest or scrub blocks out the view of the horizon, while in IL there were open plains where sometimes I could see the horizon under distant trees. It made IL feel flatter, even though I knew it wasn't.
Federation v1 is legacy now. The new architecture is called MultiCluster and designed to work on top of K8S rather than having a leader cluster: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-mult...
Mint releases version 19. Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce all get 5 year support
On the one hand, I have (in the semiconductor manufacturing industry) encountered statisticians who were greatly averse to making any prior assumptions about the likelihood of something. Also, any article with the phrase "nonsense on stilts" in it is not entirely unworthy. It also does a credible job of explaining Bayes' theorem.

On the other hand, I think it somewhat exaggerates the extent to which Bayes' theorem and its associated work are rejected by statisticians, and also the extent to which a magical p > 0.05 limit was advocated. I believe it was non-statisticians who wanted easy tests that they could apply without understanding much about statistics, who were to blame in that case.
Gotta give him credit for trying.
This. Even in markets with last look, you will lose your flow if you dick about too much.
No emacs?
Would you trust a car built in a hurry?
I've got a theory that the next break though, figuring out quantum gravity and that won't come from physical experiments but from AI. Advanced physics is really hard on the human brain (physics drop out here) and in the way the AlphaGo was able to see new strategies that eluded humans for centuries I'm guessing some future AI will be able to figure out interesting new physics theories that we've missed.
These articles sadden me. As a resident of a developed country with a decent salary I am definitely the beneficiary of the exploitave practices that keep manufactureed goods as cheap as possible. It is sickening to think that my dollars flow to the people and companies that make these practices possible. It doesn’t seem necessary, and is the result of callousness and greed. Whatever your views on capitalism and market forces, the practices that make this kind of exploitation of fellow humans possible are simply not necessary or worth it to save a couple of bucks. Does anyone know what individuals can do to combat this type of thing or have further reading to recommend?
> "I'd hazard that 80% of the population doesn't even know the difference between bacteria and fungus."

Seriously? They teach this in 5th or 6th grade science classes in American public schools. I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge that mushrooms are fungus but not bacteria.
The campaign one.
We also learned about externalities, two of the biggest being sociological and ecological.
as soon as China surpasses or closes the gap with the West using all means necessary , they will ask to talk...to establish norms
7000 cars in a week. 5000 Model 3s.
I imagine "documented" is typically not part of the vocabulary of a person who chooses Excel as their coding platform.
They can be, but often aren't. I basically make spreadsheets for a living, and actively try to do a good job of documenting how it works. Among other things that can help:

Adding comments in VBA. Why nobody does this is beyond me, but I've fixed dozens of spreadsheets with no comments.

Using named ranged and tables (not just plopping data in). Named ranges make formulas beautiful (=balance * interest rather than =B17 * F14). Tables help with formulas and make VBA accessing data much nicer.

Using cell styles to clue people in about functionality. The orange "input" style is an instant clue-in for people who know my spreadsheets. If they are scared of breaking things, those are the safe cells.

Using the "explanatory text" style next to inputs or to add notes throughout.

Organizing things in a cohesive manner. Often developers define their variables at the top of a function or sub rather than mixing them in throughout. That same amount of forethought can make spreadsheets much easier to follow.
The "competitive advantage" that many countries offer has always had more to do with their willingness to grind their workers into bone meal than any sort of technological or agricultural capability.
How much APL code? And how much APL experience did you have prior?

Also...just out of curiosity, are you the Perl6 Liz?
I agree, but the companies behind explicit calls dropped it, but are refusing to implement the current spec too. Their stupid politics endanger the js ecosystem.
I was a student at that time. Common, yes, specifically with tech course students (like myself) but mainstream? No.

I had to explain it to several others students in 2001. That is not “was mainstream in the late 90s”. That’s “was breaking out” at best.
Whatever we do, it cannot be tariffs on countries that manufacture products with slave labor.
There is an advantage, the advantage is that you don't have to pay the full cost of their labor, you can offset it onto the workers so the price you pay is lower, looking like a savings.
I beg to differ. If there’s one thing consistent with a model M is its feel. Are you sure your keyboard is working properly? I do have two, and all keys have the exact same feel and weight activation.

I also own a topre hhkb and it’s a totally different experience - specially the model S with the additional rubber rings.
Adults don't have to be any different from children in terms of autonomy.

We get these weird ideas of what gives us personal security, what keeps our lives from devolving into chaos, what we are able to do and what we were never good at. Those ideas are what take away autonomy for adults, because the opposite is often demoted to a triviality like 'the innocence of children', brain plasticity (mind like sponge), etc.
Bingo. Externalities make it sound like just a cost of doing business, which in a hyper capitalist system, the exploitation of human beings is exactly that...
Yes, this is indeed true. Not sure why you're being downvoted. The distinction is still one worth making, because average retail investors can typically have better transparency on this in a mutual fund vis-a-vis tracking error and management fees, whereas a retail trader in the open market is going to have almost no idea where the market really was for that market order they dumped into their Etrade account.
You can go back and read the mailing list archives to see the benchmarks that were used by Python devs to decide on using Timsort: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/threa...

You can also read Tim Peter's notes about the sort: https://bugs.python.org/file4451/timsort.txt

That was back in 2002, so there's certainly been a lot of scrutiny since then. In particular, I've never actually read about Java sorting benchmarks, but there are tremendously sophisticated benchmarking tools/benchmarking experts in the Java world, so I imagine that it got a lot of analysis there.
Not even sure if this "paper" is wrt the physics. It just threw in batch of undergraduate-level heat transfer equations.
The font in the screenshots with the ligatures is in fact Fira Code and the font in the REPL screenshots without ligatures is Ubuntu Mono.

I guess those could be considered additional syntax, but they're also completely optional and interchangeable with the corresponding, more Clojure-like keywords.
My plan is to get a pizza steel and do the cooking in my Big Green Egg. I can get the egg up to at least 700 F and I should be able to cook the pizza in a few minutes at that temp. The kamado ceramic body of the BGE will retain heat well and cook from both top and bottom. The oak wood should add nice flavor, too.
This was the first time they hit a peak of 5000 model 3s. Undoubtedly, this was at their limits right now, but they're STILL ramping up, so it won't be their last, either, and soon (months) will be at 7000-8000 M3s per week at a peak rate.

I just want to point out one thing: hustle is valuable. Not all companies can sprint like this when they need to.
HFT has reduced costs under 99.99% of market environments. My direct cost and slippage is still so much lower than it would have been 30 years ago. Hell, even 10 years ago.
If it's indented so deep to where "80 or even 100 is too short", it's time for some refactoring.
Super valid points. Thanks. I definitely agree with giving out raises (and/or bonuses) generously.
At least the architect in question was honest. It would have been so easy to spout some generic BS about "industry standard", "principle of parsimony", etc. etc.
> Same goes for chores: children should be doing a full set of chores in household rota as soon as they are physically able. Vacuuming, dishes, pet litter, etc.

It is insane that some parents I know would like to reply to this part of your answer like this: "Kids should be kids you shouldn't force them to be adults too soon or you might steal their childhood". I've literally heard that.
What lives do you think these people would be living if not for globalization?
What difference are you making between tighter spreads and disadvantageous pricing?
Shareholders aren't debtors. It's still arbitrary, a goal they set for themselves.
You can use this Javascript to bypass the block in the F12 console or a bookmarklet:

document.getElementsByClassName("onp-sl-content")[0].style.display = "block"
Is there a way to determine which products use slavery and to what extent?

Edit: https://knowthechain.org might work. Don't drink Monster.
Interesting how many open source apps I'm using are missing:

VLC
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Brackets
http://brackets.io/

Gimp
https://www.gimp.org/

ResolutionMenu
https://github.com/robbertkl/ResolutionMenu

Geany
https://geany.org/

NVAlt
http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Does mention FSNotes though, I need to check it out.
Campaign and contribute to people who want to restrict goods to come from places with good labor protections.
"Eastern Colorado is just as flat as Kansas, both being in the High Plains Physiographic Section" (quoting the paper)

That's about 1/3 the state, so it brings down the average.
Are you comfortable with sharing what are the main tech stacks in there? PHP, Ruby, Python, something else? Which frameworks?

As an example of something I heard at least a year ago back here in HN: I get it that PHP can be secure and fast but that requires a lot of extra effort and I'd bet most sites don't want their programmers to work more because they will have to pay more?

(I am skeptical if porn sites even keep fulltime programmers on a wage; I'd bet they just hire them periodically.)

...Or am I missing something very obvious here and talking uninformed? I am curious.

I am not asking about site names or anything identifiable; just the tech side of things.
> "When weed is entirely legal, I would not be surprised if there really was an Uber for weed"

There was during the gray-market period in Washington, following the legalization vote but before the regulation was finalized. Dealers with well publicized (prominently in local newspapers) websites and phone numbers, you'd give them a call and a few minutes later they'd pull up to wherever you were. All they were missing was the app.
Don't forget: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9100107
>We are living in new Bayesian age. Applications of Bayesian probability are taking over our lives. Doctors, lawyers, engineers and financiers use computerized Bayesian networks to aid their decision-making. Psychologists and neuroscientists explore the Bayesian workings of our brains. Statisticians increasingly rely on Bayesian logic. Even our email spam filters work on Bayesian principles.

While that's true, strictly speaking, it's akin to writing that, "We are living in a new logical age" when Boolean algebra was first finding wide application in engineering and the natural sciences. "Bayesian methods" just mean using statistical modeling techniques that conform to Bayes' rule as their normative guide. In "machine learning" or "frequentist" terms, it just means that good approximate-Bayesian reasoning minimizes the KL divergence between the true posterior and the approximate model (whether variational or by sampling or by training a neural network, whatever), as opposed to minimizing the classification hinge-loss or the mean squared error (though some of those losses have formally equivalent Bayesian priors).
...and generally speaking, human. Musk might be able to work longer hours without having a stroke, but ultimately he's not magic, and lots of other people can do this, too. Let's see more people try. (But I’d suggest just one major company at a time, spend more time with your spouse and kids.)
> Is it telling me that when unemployment is low, central bank policy is to raise interest rates?

You may dimly recall from your undergraduate Macro courses a relationship between unemployment and inflation called the Phillips Curve [0], which is used to evaluate one of the "dual mandates" the Fed tries to fulfill with its interest rate setting policy.

The problem, of course, is that there is evidence from the Fed's own research that suggests that the Phillips Curve is balderdash [1]. That doesn't stop central banks (including the Fed) from pretending it's still true, though.

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

[1] https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/pu...
I see them all over in Utah. In the coastal cities it feels like 1/4 of the cars on the road.
The person in the article would most likely still be with her family. She doesn't get a net benefit from her work, she was caught by the system and now cannot leave.
Is this perhaps the natural / granted horrific progression to developing? It's not like the existing first world nations just skipped the exploitative or their own gilded age phases.

Has anyone made the jump developing without going through such an phase?

I'm not trying to justify it, just wondering.
I wouldn't want to drive a car built in a tent at breakneck pace to prove to investors how fast they could build cars. Not for me.
Spend a few years as a subsistence farmer in one of these countries. It will both drastically reduce your consumption and give you an understanding of the life you want to force on people to “save” them from exploitation.
I'm a big corrode fan and I used it (plus a really simple python script https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli/blob/master/uncorrode... ) to help translate the brotli encoder https://github.com/google/brotli/tree/master/c/enc to safe, almost-idiomatic rust.

My initial attempts used top of tree corrode, but I found that the relooper got in the way of writing idiomatic rust, so I restarted my translation efforts and actually pinned corrode to before the relooper and backported a lot of the improvements that happened since the relooping effort https://github.com/danielrh/corrode/tree/unprocessed_loops

On one hand I'm very glad corrode supported the relooper: it got me excited about the capabilities of corrode, but in the end I think any serious port of a project is going to need to think about idiomatic control flow and will require a minor rewrite of the C code. The improvements to the C brotli encoder happened here https://github.com/danielrh/brotli/commits/corrode to remove the gotos and some negative array access.

All in all, the process to get the brotli encoder into rust was very smooth. Much of it may be due to the google engineers being extremely careful about memory ownership and design.

Anyhow I'm excited about c2rust, but am nervous that corrode may be de-emphasized since I know it worked well for me.

If you want to know more about the experience of porting a large existing project to rust, I posted about the rust brotli decoder here https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/06/lossless-compression-... (subsection "The Port")
Statistics is formalized philosophy of science, so of course scientists outside the stats departments wanted "easy tests". Arguably, a lot of the new applications of computational Bayesian methods in the natural science are the same statistical witch-doctoring with a bit more rigor.

(Ok, I do computational Bayes for a living with natural scientists, so I'm inherently biased to view our work as shakier than it really is.)
Yeah and the old DMM's used to stub quote when things got rough. Same shit, different day. Under most environments, HFT has been a net positive particularly in the single name options market. Pretty much every name out there is quoted with decent depth because an algo can now quote a few vols either side and make decent coin given that it costs nothing to stay laid up these days.
I haven't heard of any other examples of US stealing intellectual properties in 1800.

In the 1800's, not in 1800.

https://creativelawcenter.com/dickens-american-copyright/

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-02-01/piracy-an...

A somewhat nuanced discussion of the above:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130228/01324622146/yes-u...
The ECML uses Intercity 225 sets, which is a much more prestigious kind of train. Cross Country appear to use the older IC 125 (among others, due to lack of ubiquitous electrification), which is diesel-powered. So it doesn't sound plausible that the ECML trains would suffer the same problem as more regional, modest services.
I really get skeptical of attitudes like this. It's not enough to just make a conscious decision to not buy them yourself because it won't accomplish much. You need systemic change or significant pressure on the slave shops at the very least.
What does Brackets offer the competitors (atom and vscode) don't?
>Whatever it’s trying to do, it got me thinking about barriers to hiring in New York City. Are there steps we could eliminate or consolidate?

The part where someone has to compete for ultra-scarce housing in and around NYC.
I remember my Econ 101 teacher being much more cautious - noting that trade produces benefits on average, and that the benefits everyone iff there is political action to redistribute the benefits; and that fiscal is better than monetary stimulus, but in most Western political systems that's harder to push through.

Generally those simple adages are very much spherical-cow observations, with assumptions of rational (i.e. operating in the system's interest) leadership, rule of law, and priced-in externalities; when those professors go from their intro classes to their research they start to account for more of the real-world complications.
They can be confused, but not quite in the same manner as a statistical clustering algorithm. Children (or adults) don't seem to learn by statistical clustering. It's often said that NNs require many samples while humans normally just need one, but a more precise description is that humans need zero. I can teach you to recognize a Chinese character without showing you even a single picture. It is true that this requires some background knowledge that small children lack, but there is little reason to believe that their learning is in any way similar to statistical clustering.
Because it's design by people-with-open-source-macOS-apps-who-have-seen-it-and-want-in.

Some of these 'awesome' lists are great, but this one is _far_ too broad in scope. Most other 'awesome' lists could probably be merged right in.
Tesla Is Still Figuring Out the Model 3 as It Builds Them