skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bunch of thoughts:

Reading through your comments here, I see that you're 22 and an intern at Amazon. Well, at 22 I still didn't have a job, not even as an intern. You're comparing yourself to people who have full-time jobs and feeling like you're not making much money. At 22, I was making $0.

You're probably looking at people around you and thinking that they know more than you. That's how it goes as an intern. You're not supposed to know more than them. You're supposed to be learning faster than them. (The rate at which they are learning new things is probably not that high.)

You're looking at other peoples' pay, and feeling inadequate. But that's because you're looking only at the people above you. And you'll never make yourself happy by focusing on what you don't have.

Most (all?) of us are mediocre at most things. But all it takes is finding one thing that you're not mediocre at. That may not be programming (at 22, it's far too early to tell). If it's not programming, it's not. Go find what it is. (But be sure it's not programming before you go looking for something else.)

dynamicdox recommended rock climbing. I might suggest ultimate frisbee. The read-and-react style of play is a nice change of pace from the normal style of programming.

konradb said that you're mistaking your own voice for reality. That may well be true. If so, you need to talk to yourself more and listen to yourself less (if that makes sense).
> American culture tends to create the illusion that if you are not super successful, then you are a lose

Is any culture not this though. Indian/Korean culture are exactly this too.

Re: suffering. Humanity shares a common consciousness and suffering is a part of it. A poor uneducated peasent in remote village in india suffers from the same suffering that a rich hollywood celebrity in beverly hills. It makes no sense to expect that rich ppl would not have same consiousness.
Free trade benefits established economies over challengers.
I agree. Also flagging this
Nobody sell my ideal laptop.

It must have 15 inch Builtin 4K display, Ethernet, display port, multiple USB ports and No Nvidia GPU.

I usually don't move my laptop so I prefer 15 inch over 13 inch. But I like my primary computer ready to be carried anywhere so I don't want desktop.

I don't play video game or graphics on my primary computer so I don't need a dedicated GPU. Also Fuck you Nvidia.

There are 13 inch laptop which satisfy everything else or 15 inch with Nvidia GPU. I guess there is not much demand for my ideal.
It should be better in the near future:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/3/17251104/google-chrome-66-...
Sure, this is by profession group/sector, do they have statistics that are by income? ie what share of the increase went to each quintile, for example.
There are developing countries where FB is so much a monopoly that huge percentages of people don't even know that anything else exists on the Internet. To them, FB is the Internet.

But anyway, that's an argument for encouraging competition and computer literacy, not for or against free speech.
Appealing to common sense doesn't make your argument more appealing.

I mean, I could similarly assume the ideal to be mass incubation in artificial wombs, followed by randomly selected adoption.
That's quite a premise! I disagree with it extremely strongly.

People mostly don't go back to any HN thread that's more than a day old. So any conversation that requires more than a few hours of thinking can't happen here, because by the time you finish thinking hard about what you just read, no-one is reading anymore. How could that possibly lead to the superior intellectual forum on the web? It's a place for people to share their initial opinions about something in response to news. That can be good! Often people have interesting first opinions! But it's not the pinnacle of intellectual thought.
In the article it says that one of the reasons for the increase is due to upwards inflationary pressures and says 2.2% inflation.

The fact that we’ve had such tepid wage increases for the past decade that a measly .6% growth is the best in a decade can be viewed as pathetic in a vacuum or as the “biggest pay increase in nearly a decade”. Both are true, but overall I’d still say it’s good news in an area which has been extremely bleak.
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>The crown prince might be given every advantage be that doesn't mean when the king dies the crown prince is best qualified to rule. History is full of examples. Thus because the crown prince will become king regardless of his current ability when the king dies it is not a meritocracy.

Yes, there are exceptions. But for most of history the crown prince, is in fact the best person to rule. All of those instances are meritocratic? We'll admit the occasional error but would you at least say that bloodline aristocracy is often meritocratic by your definition?

>From how you have spoken, I think you would count this training as privilege and not something that increased merit.

Correct. If in Azad society my parent's wealth or the high school I attended had a significant bearing on my skill at the game then I would say that is not a meritocratic system.

>If we had a similar test that accurately predicted future success and job applications were decided by this test, would that be meritocratic?

If it was able to remove environmental and structural effects then yes, that would be meritocratic.

>Would that change if parents were able to send there kinds of a special $10k/yr school that significantly increased their children's results on the test?

Absolutely it would change. It's no longer a measure of merit, now it's a measure of merit AND your parents' wealth AND your parents' willingness to spend on your development. We can't separate out those factors so the test is now useless as a measure of merit.
A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
The big problem I have with wine is not the compatibility. It's the missing libraries. Steam handles this perfectly fine but the vast majority of games I have tried outside of steam crashed right away because of some missing library.
It's amazing to me that no one out there seems to do server-local handling of ads, either... If you put ads directly into your page instead of relying on burdensome external systems, suddenly blocking isn't a thing anymore. ALL of the functionality supposedly needed for analytics and an ad-driven business model can happen server side, without the page becoming sentient and loading a billion scripts and scattered resources, with the one exception being filtering out headless browsers. If external systems need to be communicated with, most of that can happen before or after the fact of that page load. Advertising and analytics is implemented in the most lazy, user hostile way possible on the majority of sites.
Not a design problem, ".... only that you conspicuously provide the option for obtaining informed consent ...."

The intention is that it must be obtrusive. The company has a choice between annoying you and mitigating risk.
Citing papers that you've never read – or that were never written (2009)
To all the people saying Jack Ma is only winning because of govt intervention: Have any of you guys actually been on ebay in the last 10 years? The surprising thing is not that they got beaten in China, it's that they're still in business anywhere else.
And the grass is not much greener on the other side either:

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/176

:(
I wonder if/when they'll reoease multi-master ?
Personally, I consider it beneficial, as I'd want my games and software (that hasn't been ported to my OS of choice, but I still trust) to run as fast as possible. Not fully sandboxed != "harmful" to everyone.

Maybe "VirtualBox 3D acceleration not fully sandboxed" would be a more accurate, less sensationalist title?
Choosing to dismiss Taobao's success because of the Chinese gov't stacks the deck against American companies is choosing to not learn anything from their success. For example, how to compete with eBay's business model.

>> Taobao was vastly different from eBay China. Afraid that buyers and sellers might circumvent its system and avoid paying eBay’s commissions, eBay went out of its way to keep buyers and sellers blind to each other and unable to communicate with one another before a purchase. This was a major inhibitor to commerce in an environment where people were accustomed to building a personal relationship before doing business.

>> Our approach was exactly the opposite. Because we were entirely free, it didn’t matter to us whether retailers consummated their deals with buyers through our site. In fact, we encouraged them to call each other, get to know each other, and even meet face to face for large purchases. We were confident that, just as we had found a way for Alibaba.com to make money from its users without transaction fees, we ultimately would find a way to make money from Taobao if its sellers were able to make money.
Start with "Allegations" on page 3.
Once robots are doing all the labor, and you have open source plans and code, the cost is only that of raw materials and energy.
I hear ya.

Even better when you see what seems like a high rez picture that is sized small and you click to see it better ... oh crap it is starting over downloading again ... and I'm 99% sure the pic was already there before. (granted it may not have been high res but damn it it was close enough)
Had this exact discussion today :)

party a said: let people read it and be educated

party b said: let's install OpenSCAP[0] and get some reporting

That said, I didn't mean to say "this is awesome, do it like they say" - but I'd definitely liberally use some parts of it if I were to write such a doc for my org. I'm not with BigCos usually so I'm no fan of clamping down root access, etc. I think developers basically need admin access on their machines except at the scale of Google where you have a dedicated force of people just caring for the tooling and that everyone can actually work instead of filing "please install libbzip2" tickets...

[0]: https://www.open-scap.org
I've used it for a long time now. It was set-and-forget and has done the job properly ever since I installed it. No complaints.
We have a ridiculously-backwards model on the web where you essentially pay for what you use (via your data plan, and via forced ads prior to promised content) without having any way to know in advance what it will end up costing you to display content. Heck, you don’t even know if the content will display correctly after all that loading. Worse, there are many ways to trigger loads accidentally, meaning you may want none of the content but you end up paying for it through your data plan.

We desperately need absolute maximums enforceable in the browser, reversing the firehose. I want to opt your site in to more data use, after I trust your site. And I expect sites to work within my limit or not receive visits.
> The big problem I have with wine is not the compatibility. It's the missing libraries.

What kind of libraries? I never had a problem with Wine dependencies in Debian, even when installing WineHQ packages. It just pulls them from the repo.
I use the “clean reader mode” (in safari, the small three stripe button next to the https lock in the address bar) very often to remove the clutter.

But this still means I downloaded all the unnecessary crap. Which is primarily annoying because of the delay in loading (crappy reception is the norm outside of Canadian cities).

Where as hacker news loads nearly instantly.

Is there a good alternative browser for iOS that avoids downloading JS, video, bloat?
I need to like this comment more than my single upvote allows.
I disagree. A lie by omission by wsj is news worthy in and of itself. Just change the title.
Ask HN: What are things people consider to be scientific, but actually aren't?
I've read recently about the pseudo-scientific way Nazi Germany and others approached race. I wonder if there are still similar things - ideas that we consider scientific but actually aren't.
For the lazy:

https://youtu.be/O1bY66X1JKA?t=199

https://youtu.be/O1bY66X1JKA?t=263
When I worked at an academic publisher I was surprised by this, often it's researchers at small or private institutions that don't have a library or one that pays lots of subs.

Also - used to be you'd set this to have a price context for reprints (printed version of the article with more logos) which were a much bigger & more profitable revenue source. Pharma companies would buy '00s to distribute at conferences.
Ask your doctor for valium (or similar) before your next flight. Something like valium will help remove the anxiety of the flight and perhaps even allow you to sleep for part of it. If you can teach your primal brain that everything is ok again you'll likely lose the fear as quickly as you gained it.

You just needs some experiences without the anxiety to help your subconscious learn that fear is not a useful reaction to flying.

Simply breaking the fear cycle sounds like the key for you since you learned the fear recently rather than had it from some buried childhood experience.

Another good thing to try if you don't want meds is to accept the anxiety rather than overcome it. While panic comes on observe what it feels like, let it wash over you, acquiesce to it. This has worked for me in the past with panic attacks, it is quite effective if you can get yourself into enough presence to try it. You'll find that underneath the panic or anxiety is nothing, do some belly deep breathing to help, and maybe learn a bit of light meditation to take yourself deeper. But seriously, beating anxiety in general is more about allowing it than rejecting it.
For the carefulness comment.

>While making a left turn in a large multi-lane intersection, the car signals and creeps forward before accelerating into the turn. Waymo drives conservatively, to be sure, but the robots aren’t cowards. Gone are the days where two self-driving cars facing each other in a parking lot might freeze up from an overabundance of politeness:
We're talking past each other. My claim was that Go doesn't need compaction as badly as other languages because it generates less garbage. You're refuting that with "yeah, well it still generates some garbage!". Yes, strings and arrays will often be dynamic in practice, but an array of structs in Go is 1 allocation (at most); in other many other languages it would be N allocations.

> Consider also that allocations in Go are much more expensive than in java or haskell.

This is true, but unrelated to cache performance, and it's also not a big deal for the same reason--allocations are rarer in Go.

EDIT:

Consider `[]struct{nested []struct{i int}}`. In Go, this is at most 1 allocation for the outer array and one allocation for each nested array. In Python, C#, Haskell, etc, that's something like one allocation for the outer array, one allocation for each object in the array, one allocation for each nested array in each object, and one allocation for each object in each nested array. This is what I mean when I say Go generates less garbage.
Well, Waymo is doing it right, and everybody else is nowhere.

The next big jump will be when the next-generation LIDARs come out. All solid state, and much cheaper. Industry analysts say 2020 for that.[1] They can be built now, but nobody is prepared to order enough of them yet. Continental, the big European auto parts company, is probably in the lead. (Quanergy keeps announcing, but try to order what they announced in 2016.)

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-and-china-in...
>The evidence of weapons of mass destruction was not verifiable by anyone else.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/spy-agencies...

From article:

>The Chilcot report identifies a series of major blunders by the British intelligence services that produced “flawed” information about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the basis for going to war.

So again, why trust intelligence agencies that have been untrustworthy throughout US history?
AMP is terrible. I flat out block it in my hosts file and haven't missed it yet. Its pretty much just used for advertising anyway. Or for 'news' articles that are thinly disguised ads
tl;dr

> However, to enable this impressive breakthrough in online technology, web browsers (currently Chrome and Firefox) have had to expose low level parts of their operating systems which previously could not be directly accessed by potentially malicious web pages, thus creating a number of potential security vulnerabilities.
Why Nvidia hate?
You got it all figured out.

I couldn’t reply to your message so I replied to my comment.

Epic deductive effort.

Oh noes fake points on a forum full of anons! I am reeling emotionally from this rejection.

Allow me to curate a blank identity that consists of nothing but a simple counter to indicate how appealing my arguments are to a group of unknowns
The current situation seems perfectly fine to me. In reality, lots of people are using VirtualBox for completely trusted virtual machines so why not allow 3D acceleration for that use case?
Clean up after them? I don't understand the responses here.
CLEP tests may be the answer. At many schools, you can get out of many liberal arts classes if you can pass a two-hour test on the topic. You get college credit as if from the class, too. And the tests are far cheaper than the classes.
What I find interesting is that PC-DOS (MS-DOS) was also a mostly clean room copy of CP/M.

The guy who wrote it before Microsoft acquired it literally went through a CP/M programming manual and recreated the system calls for x86, changing a name here or there.

Neat parallel to how NT doesn't copy any VMS code, but still essentially copies VMS in several aspects.
> Done right, a modern web app should be better for both developers and users.

Right, and you also don't need to make a text-based site an SPA or use any frontend framework. The web was made for documents, so no need for those kinds of sites to be apps.
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Perhaps - but not in my power to do so. In absence of that I do what I can.
> What you two agree upon, is the only thing that matters.

That's precisely why many of us use (and promote the use of) adblockers and filtering extensions.
Yeah, my data is anecdata - I only know one country and mostly small shops. But unless something drastically changed the last years where I was in startup land - many web developers tended to prefer Linux or Macs, whether they're using Rails, Python, or PHP. In general the bigger or more agency-like the company, the higher the percentage of Windows for developers.
I like this rant, you should go the next step:

All you need to 'fix' this is a fast loading news website that gets enough paid subscribers to earn enough margin from subscriptions that you can pay for a news staff, an office, and various overheads.

That is a longish way of saying that 99.9% of the overhead in any modern web site can be traced almost entirely to the mechanisms by which that web site is attempting to extract value from you for visiting/reading.

If people would visit with a 56K modem and deal with a 3 - 10 second page load, then that is the bar. And any spare bandwidth you might have is available for the web site to exploit in some way to generate revenue. The more bandwidth between you and them, the more ways they can come up with to exploit that bandwidth for additional surveillance, ads, or analytics that will get them more money.

When you are the customer, which to say it is your purchasing of a subscription or articles is the only revenue the site needs in order to survive, then the things that retain you as a customer have the highest priority (like fast page load times, minimal bandwidth usage).

But when you are a data cow, a random bit of insight into a picture much bigger than you can comprehend, a pixel in a much larger tapestry, or an action droplet in a much larger river of action. Well then there isn't really any incentive to make your life better, as long as the machine we have milking you for data can get even a couple of molecules more of that precious data milk without scaring you out of the barn. Well we'll build right up to that limit.
RequestPolicy is another addon which does this, but it doesn't work on the latest Firefox.
Here is non-bullshit cnn: http://lite.cnn.io/en
There's also Super Motherload on Steam.
I use middle click to paste all time and it's one of the reasons I bought only laptops with 3 hardware buttons on the touchpad so far. How does middle click work with the kind of touchpad on the XPS?
About a year ago I was looking to upgrade from my Thinkpad x220 and I ended up with an XPS 13 9360, a year later am comfortable saying it's the best laptop I've ever owned by a long shot. For my personal DD I like to use Arch and I've discovered basically no "linux-y" issues unique to the laptop hardware. Battery life is impressive, usually lasting 8+ hours of web browsing/casual usage with no tweaks (imo usually linux sees a much larger drop off). I'm definitely glad I went with the 1080p version, the PPI is already very high with such a small screen and I think the touchscreen/4K would have been overkill. Build quality is great and the laptop has a super premium feel. I know others have complained about build issues, I guess to them I would just repeat the old adage that you only hear about the people with issues, never from the satisfied users.

I would also say that the newer ones with multi-core are probably not worth the premium, if you can get last year's model for a good price then go for it. I got mine for $850 brand new, a few months before the multi-cores were announced. I don't think I really missed anything.
I totally understand. I would do a problem, like an equation, and I would swear by the end the original numbers had changed on me.
Willing to relocate? Friends company should be hiring. Pm me hn@raindeer.io
It is indeed a press release so that's not great, but why wouldn't their model be verifiable? We know the applicable laws of physics, someone else can code up a simulation and verify the results.
makes since since the Chinese economy is imploding on stilts.
> Why would economic rationality assume that the decision made will be made with perfect information as to resulting utilities and disutility and maximize the net lifetime experienced utility

I didn't invent rational choice theory, so don't ask me to justify it.

Ok, well, I'll take a stab at it—the whole concept is exquisitely well crafted as a basis for the argument that liberal (in the classical sense) economic, and even political, systems are ideal in terms of experienced human outcome.

> Wouldn't economic rationality assume that the decisions of actors are rational rather than based on perfect information about their consequences?

Economic rationality is defined to include both perfect information and optimality given that information, so there is no “instead of”—your two alternatives are different phrasings of the same thing.