skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the developer/publisher are just responding to market pressures.

Quake Live (at least for its first few years) was relatively pure and old-school, including in the ways mentioned in this thread, but it was only moderately popular and didn't seem to do well financially. The most (financially) successful modern games tend to focus a lot on extrinsic motivations to play -- including character progression, unlockables, gambling crates etc., but also things that give extra context to individual matches, like statistics and ranking points -- rather than just the core gameplay. People also have less tolerance for being the newbie who loses 100-0, and expect to be matched against players around their level.

Not all of these things are relevant to your question, but some of them help to explain the trend toward lobbies, matchmaking queues, and other obstacles to just clicking on a server list and jumping into a game.
The US has too many MBA types that determine that the 'job' is one that either 'anyone can do' vs 'very popular', so then they push wages down. It works for a while, as those that have chosen a career path feel it's not worthwhile to change midroute, but eventually, especially with the internet, people communicate and/or look up a profession and see if it's worth pursuing. More and more, 'management / administration' are the jobs that continually give advancement and bonuses, whereas previous good jobs (like cross country truckers, airline pilots, professors, etc... ) are no longer lucrative. Then, all of a sudden, there's a panic as people realize 'how come no one is becoming blah blah blah after post grad education of x years and a salary of 22k. Just look at the rise of administrative employees of universities and hospitals in this country. Mainly, supportive, non-critical jobs (in my opinion) that determine people's salaries, make all the money, and get all the bonuses.

Moreover, how many people know someone who has 'maxed out his pay at his current job' at age 50? I believe the reason corporate America was against the ACA was to prevent capped employees from leaving bc of fear of losing health insurance. My brother is a senior EE and is 50 and is capped and financially could retire except what will insurance cost in 10 years? What if it got too expensive for him? Can you get a job after not working for 10 years? So he's kinda stuck. Of course, he no longer works weekends, even when the project is behind, bc he's told his boss he'd retire if he's let go, and he's pretty valuable to them (but not valuable enough to give more raises and bonuses (I think he makes about $150k a year))

Anyway, hopefully the pendulum will swing back to the 'workers' a bit, and not the spreadsheet gurus
I could think your entire post might've been written by me if you replaced Slackware with Arch. I haven't tried Slackware, but this makes me wonder how similar it is to Arch.

What do you mean it's missing dependency resolution? Do you need to install dependencies of packages manually?
A lot of these things that you're pointing out are pretty vague. To pick apart one: "devops", it can mean "using docker", and/or "continuous deployment of configs", and/or "greater developer empowerment", and/or "no dedicated infrastructure team", etc.

IMO, attacking all of "devops" (or "agile", or "cloud computing") at once is not productive, because it means so many things. So if you don't get specific, as others have said, it makes you seem like you just oppose new things.

For example with devops, a very rational concern is that if the infrastructure team shrinks or disappears, then there's no one on the hook for making things all work at the same time. If you leave it to the developers of each team to make their thing work, you are likely to have a continually broken development environment.

A good argument to oppose any change without a clear rationale for the change occurring is "if it ain't broke don't fix it." This, at least, leads to someone explaining why change is necessary, and then from there perhaps you can have a conversation.
Microscope or roll the dice.
My 2 cents:

While intriguing, I remain doubtful. My issue is that they give us the stats in averages.

The control that stays home has significantly higher scores on average. That part, I'm not disputing. What I'm asking is if the score distribution was normal or skewed.

Out of the kids who stayed home, how many of them were spending quality time interacting with other kids, their parents, their siblings? AFAIK it's understood that quality social time can significantly help in other facets of life, vs say spending all day watching cartoons or on a phone, especially in these young impressionable years.

If half of the kids who were at home had that experience, and _that_ boosted their scores, and pulled the average up for the entire group, then this study would be misleading.

The question isnt "is pre k better than staying home"; it should be "is pre k better than the alternative to what the child would have received". pre-K programs are good when they are better than the alternative. From the I formation given (and granted I could be misunderstanding something), this study doesn't address that.
Other reviews have predicted that the Model 3, itself, is profitable. These say Tesla's bigger financial issue is the Supercharger network. Ideally, they would pay for Supercharger through perpetuities - or perpetual annuities - from interest on part of the profit from the car; but the invested profits are sequestered from operations' use.
Yeah, if everybody stopped shopping there, the strikers would be muuuuch better off...
The Youtube video linked in the OP is pushing the doomsday scenario a little bit too much.
In general dissenting from the dominant narrative will always make you unpopular. Just don't worry about it. It takes a special personality to just be satisfied with being right even when people resist even the most inescapable logic, dogde all your points with personal attacks and flippant nonsense and so on. There is a saying that goes something like "don't worry about people stealing your ideas, if they are any good you'll have to shove it down their throats." There is no truer proverb.
thanks for the explanation! That wasn't clear to someone who has enough biochemistry and biology to be dangerous but with no experience in physiology.
Seems like you're implying the word "prediction" should not even exist. Because, obviously, you can't apply it to the past or the present.
Still fathoms me that Dropbox is worth billions of $ for the same functionality as FTP.
Using the root account is a poor practice anyway...
It looks good. Transform that to a non-profit. I'm sure you can find a free place to host that (contact me if you don't).
I never knew about those surveys. Thanks for pointing them out. They don't seem to get at what I'm seeking though. There are no connections drawn between innate ability, self described difficulty in the field and thresholds of prestige and compensation reached given the first two which is what I'm interested in. Maybe, I'm not looking at the data in the right way though.

I'm open to whatever advice you have to offer even if it comes along with "battering." I would posit though, and correct me if I'm wrong, that what maybe you don't like what I've said rather than you not trusting me? I can see how the sort of bluntness I used can be off putting to some and how the nature of the questions are inherently personal and thus uncomfortable, but I struggle to see how anything I wrote makes me seem malicious or untrustworthy. I know people tend to distrust what they dislike and trust what they like which is a huge fallacy, but a heuristic many people feel comfortable acting on or, perhaps, don't even notice they act on. If that's not the case here though, I'm very interested in why you feel distrust.

I don't see any correlation between enjoyment of the discussion about the role of IQ in software development and satisfaction as a software engineer. Can you explain what you mean?
I love my Dropbox. Except one thing. They still don't support SmartSync on their Linux client.

For all the people that commend Dropbox for supporting Linux, they now treat the Linux client as inferior.

To add insult to injury, they promote the SmartSync feature inside the preferences of the Linux client.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum ?

Strange how such a wildly popular sauce vanished from the face of the Earth.
Yes and yes.
1. https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/migrations/enable-...

2. For UUID just do what you would normally do. We don’t have it on the column drop down but you can create the table via the run_sql window with the right type and default value, if you’re generating the UUID server-side
Giant Satellite Fuel Tank Sets New Record for 3-D Printed Space Parts
This was interesting because all other evidence from large scale longitudinal studies points to the opposite conclusion. But there is the bold tag "Accurately Reported" on straighttalkonevidence.org after all

Reading through it appears authors have, maybe deliberately, misrepreented causality. The pre-k program was discontinued and kids were sent to poorly performing public school, they noticed a decline in academic achievement and blamed this on the pre-k program. Is it me or is this a good case of using statistics to tell whatever story fits your agenda?

Digging into further, looks like the website if funded by Laura and John Arnold Foundation [1]. Another billionaire (hedge fund manager) has found a way exploit the economy to siphon obscene amounts of money and as a result is the only one qualified to fix all of society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_and_John_Arnold_Foundati...
> will almost certainly also have mastered atomic transmutation as well

I don't see any reason to think that's true.
Liberty, equality, technology: France is finally poised to become a tech power
I spent some time today investigating what exactly is causing the difference between native and XAR start times. I confirmed the culprit is `pkg_resources.load_entry_point()`. Modern installations using wheels should avoid this overhead, and those native installations will be slightly faster than XARs:

black: 0.171 s (vs 0.208 for XAR)
jupyter: 0.165 s (vs 0.179 s for XAR)

My test setup used the older loading method because "pip install ." won't install wheels if the wheel package isn't installed in the virtualenv.
And what do you think about the current trend wherein 60% of people who use the term DevOps do not understand any of what you said and just use it as the new word for System Administration?
Justin Kan: Why I Love B2B Over B2C
>A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved.

>This paper represents one small step for an economist in the direction of the theory of interstellar trade.

>These complications make the theory of interstellar trade appear at first quite alien to our usual trade models; presumably it seems equally human to alien trade theorists.

This is wonderful and hilarious and full of cheeky fun (so so much more than I've quoted). It's perfect for the sigbovik crowd. Thanks for posting!

>This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject...
Now that I think about it though, it really depends. If there's no stable reflection of self identity, that's what people seek out. But if there is a stable way to identify with the self, people seek out novelty, something different.

I think the internet introduces both tunnel vision of self identity and complete chaos where self identity breaks down. This seems like it would be an obvious consequence of anonymity, but some things are easily forgotten.

It makes sense with the Democratic process. Identities constantly swapping and merging, playing both sides while being neither fundamentally. It makes sense that communism would have a valid criticism. Stable, forced sense of identity suppresses dissent before it manifests. Until revolution, war happens, that is. Scary stuff!
Anarchy doesn't object to the "violence" aspect of the monopoly on violence, so much as the "monopoly."
In other words, everybody really does like pizza.
Hate to ask a dumb question but What are the best tools/strategies to optimize images?
Not in all models. The non-touchbar 2017 13" had an upgradeable ssd.
> Ask HN: How to challenge trends without appearing like a luddite?

Wherever possible try to have ready an alternative answer to the need, niche or opportunity vacuum into which the trend is growing.

It's very difficult to get people to drop a habit- that they have already invested time, reputation and personal capital (let alone money), into. At best you may be able to entertain some of the more patient victims with articulate and substantive criticisms of the trend that hooked them, but if you don't have an alternative ready to redirect their sunk experience cost into, they will in all likelihood promptly forget any persuasive arguments you made and go right back their trusty pint of (say) blockchainism they've been refilling down the blockchain pub with their new blockchain friends.
I'm being very pedantic for the very specific cases it's applied to models of cognition.

True, I don't like the word prediction in general, aside from maybe being used for the most minimal stability one requires for survival.

That seems essential for the human mind to have enough security in it's own existing understanding to avoid descending into a state of analysis paralysis.
Most people would agree who live in Washington that they don't care; because they don't pay income tax either.

If the system needs to change; then the people who are elected need to change things.

Every state has different tax laws; Oregon has no sales tax but has an income tax. Some states tax more heavily. Should we start outing those states that Citizens can pay over 50% in taxes depending on their locality?

Articles like this make Trump's Fake news comment work...
Let the circles be positioned at points p1, p2, p3 with radii r1, r2, r3 respectively. Note that we can get a family of circles with the same exterior tangents by simultaneously inter/extra-polating the position and radius of two other circles. Solving for a radius of 0 gives the following position for the intersection of those the tangents of circles 1 and 2.

q3 = (r1 * p2 - r2 * p1) / (r1 - r2)

(with similar expression for q1 and q2). Using homogenous coordinates we get the following list for q1, q2, q3:

( r2 p3 - r3 p2 ) ( r3 p1 - r1 p3 ) ( r1 p2 - r2 p1 )
( r2 - r3 ), ( r3 - r1 ), ( r1 - r2 )

now note that r1 q1 + r2 q2 + r3 q3 = 0, showing that they're not linearly independent and hence collinear.

A somewhat neater but more advanced proof, follows by making the positions pi also homogeneous and noting that (using Einstein summation notation):

0 = ε_ijk rj rk

so we can determine the intersections to be

qi = ε_ijk rj pk

hence

ri qi = ε_ijk ri rj pk = ε_jik rj ri pk = -ε_ijk ri rj pk = 0.
Well, if your computer dies, you take the hard drive out and plug it into something else to get your files off of it. Here, your data goes with your computer, it seems.

And, if you work with confidential information, just about any issue would make these machines disposable (even within warranty) if your organization is unable to remove the drive containing said confidential information before sending the unit in for repair.
Thank you.

I will add that they should be looking at underlying causes for the negative impacts by third grade. It might not be the pre-k that caused it, but the reasons the kids were put in pre-k, such as single mom with too little time for the child and too little money.

This study was specifically of low income kids. Families with stay-at-home moms tend to have lower incomes than two career families, but this is a very different situation from a single parent situation. There are lots of different things that can contribute to a lower income. Not all are equally negative. A stay at home parent costs the family in terms of earned income, but it can enhance quality of life for all members of the family.
I'd love to see a salsas repo. There are hundreds (thousands?) of salsas in the Americas. It would be awesome to have them catalogued and to have recipes written. awesome-salsa?
Have you ever tried to drive a lorry with a satellite on it from here to Ascension? (It's a tricky road - lol!)
Slightly off topic, but I discovered the other day that shared folders count towards the disk quota for each account it's shared to.

I had several GB of photos shared with me on Dropbox, and it blew right over my free limit, despite the fact that none of them were actually mine. The photos also count towards the quota of the account sharing with me.

That's soured me quite a lot on Dropbox.
What a disgusting article! There is no Washington income tax so he’s neither “saving” 100s of millions of dollars nor denying schools or cities anything.
I've been supplementing with a lot of vitamins despite the evidence that suggests that absorption of supplements is not the same as the ingestion of, for example, fish products to get naturally synthesized omega 3 protein. I've found that a mix of good foods that you enjoy eating, as well as other dietary changes mentioned above, has been a huge boon. Furthermore, any kind of exercise is good but I have found positive mood related changes as a response to recently getting an electric bike which has helped to get regular bursts of exercise throughout the day when I get bored of being around my apartment.

Much like how interleaved learning is a key trick to use to deeply learn subject matter, I've found interleaving a diverse set of activities has been key to finding that physical "balance" - human body itself is more than sophisticated enough to handle the self regulation itself but without the right component inputs your jets aren't going to be running at peak performance
I’m blown away by the sudden and swift down votes to my original comment.

These engineers work at a world class company and are paid vast sums of money to not fuck things up. They live way better off than the majority of the country and their mere presence makes life more expensive and stressful for communities around them.

To suggest they cannot go a mere 48 hours or less without sleep on one of their company’s most hyped days is out of touch.
I don't understand your reply, or the comment you're replying to -- if it's not too much trouble, could you rephrase this?
That’s very cool. It looks like this was enabled by extremely recent advances in the FIB-SEM devices [0].

I’d say 20 total device-months is a bit optimistic, but maybe they will hit it, and even if they are anywhere close it will be impressive.

20 device-months for 1 mm^3 compared with 360 device-months with the devices I studied in 2012-14 is impressive. I hope they do it!

FWIW, my belief is that this line of research is probably more promising for strong AI than straight development of AI from e.g. meta-reinforcement learning, although in the end it probably will be a mix of these things.

[0]: < https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476429/#!po=3.... >
Or even better combine some states. Loiusiana, Alabama, and Mississippi could be one state.
I'm curious what culture you are worried about that would both ferment the food, and also kill you.
try to have ready an alternative answer

Something I heard at my corporate job: "Bring solutions, not complaints." It's a great rule of thumb to follow.
This sounds interesting, but I don't understand. If it's not too much trouble, could you simplify and rephrase this?
Nearly 1,200 Chinese Companies Caught Falsifying Financials in 2018
Actually, I just opened the site in Firefox's "responsive design mode" web-dev tool. The site is responsive up to about 1023 pixels wide, after which it no longer re-flows at all. It just becomes a 1023 pixel wide site inside of a much wider browser window.

I think the OP's point was that they wanted the "responsiveness" to not have an upper limit of width. That if (example) they had a 4k monitor that was 2,160 pixels wide, and they maximized the browser window, they wanted the site layout to reflow to use all 2,160 (minus window decorations) of pixel width to lay out content. As it is now, if they had a monitor that wide, the site will only ever use 1,023 pixels of width to lay itself out, leaving large margins of unused space on the sides.

[edit]: A bit more research shows this CSS declaration on a <div> with the class of "container": max-width: 964px;.

Turning off that one CSS declaration allows the site to widen to fit a maximized browser window.
It might not be as good as its windows and macOS counter part, but it’s much better than other vendor’s Linux clients.

The sheer fragmentation of Linux space makes something as complicated as smart sync not a very financially viable product to support.
What changed our mind: Why we decided to raise after months of bootstrapping
Your mapping of incentives are completely mistaken. This one liner is full on face palm for anyone with a lick of comprehension of the problem.

1. Startups are companies, not governments

2. Companies don’t do what’s best for customers. They do what’s best for profit. This very often means not clear, not accessible, not useful as possible. See privacy debate for one of a million easy examples.

3. Look into “voting”

4. Learn about Democracy vs. Corrupt Democracy
Have any good reads on this? Sounds like granting agencies and science funding in general are favouring a specific story about human history, but would like to read more.
> That doesn't negate the fact that there's measurable, testable reality that can be reproduced using scientific rigor.

Yes it does. Who decided what scientific rigor was? What instrument did they use to come to that conclusion? How do they perceive the results of their experiments?
New LED Lighting System on Flinders Street Railway Station (Melbourne, AU)
Carrier has arrived. /Protoss-voice
Back in the old days of broadcast TV trying to hit peak audience, the voluntary sameness of the various broadcasters was scary ...
Interstellar travel will consist of information travelling at the speed of light. Pretty much nothing else is practical.

The real problem is bootstrapping it. Because weight is so incredibly expensive to send interstellar, the only thing that could work is sending a nanorobot with an ability to self-replicate and build a receiver and a factory once it arrives.

Then information is sent to the factory, which proceeds to bootstrap a civilization.