skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real median income at present in the US is 31k meaning half make less.

You will find that the full-time median income is much closer to $50,000 though.

> Clearly not everyone who wants to is earning 45k.

But, in fact, as this is a full-time job, you are actually below the median. When you add in high school students working part time, then you're right, but that's not particularly meaningful.

> Median rent is almost 900 a month.

Seems high for the area in question, but regardless, since you are buying a home, I'm not sure why you would also pay rent to someone else?

> 2 crappy cars maybe 400 a month.

Maybe the person paying for the house needs one car to get to work. Why do you need two cars?

> Communications at least another 100.

A landline phone where the house is located is $23.50/month. Another $35/month if you want internet service. That's a long way from $100 and already way more than someone in 1940 would have. If you really want the 1940s house-buying experience, you don't need internet service.

> Incidentally areas where you can buy a three bedroom house outside of the crime ridden hood tend not to have a huge number of jobs so everyone go and move to Ohio isn't a tenable solution for the present economic situation.

I don't know about the economic situation in Ohio, but the place in question has exceptionally low unemployment and substantial job growth. That's why businesses like the one I mentioned have to hire everyone who shows up. If they didn't, they wouldn't have any employees.

I don't think anyone expects that you should be able to throw at dart at a map and be able to afford a home anywhere it lands. Not even people in the 40s and 50s could do that. They had to be quite discerning about where they settled in order to do so. That much remains true today.
Taking this argument to its logical conclusion, fishing should be banned altogether.
@dang why is the parent not banned for using hn for ideological battles?
Their reaction time seemed way too fast. It was entertaining to watch though.
Did he blink in? Is there a delay there?
Outfought the humans in teamfights, other than that not sure how much long term strategic thought was shown.
> When I travel back the to the US I wait in very long lines, often for an hour, and then they ask a bunch of questions.

Agreed. I am getting progressively more upset at the quantity of questions I get--and I'm not the only one; it is trivial to hear what is being asked of others at the same arrivals hall in the citizens-only line--asked when returning to the United States.

I realize this is probably not a controversial opinion around these parts, but since, as a US citizen, I am guaranteed the right of entry into my own country, I believe the questions should be limited solely to establishing my identity. Where I went, why I went, and what I did while I was there are none of my government's business, absent being accused of a crime.

One time I got asked why I claimed to have gone to a place on vacation but my spouse wasn't traveling with me. That seems very out of line to me.
This was a good learning experience for our engineers at our Innovation Center at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. It may bear fruit in the form of a useful solution in the future, though. What is unique to Chick-fil-A is 'volume'. We do a lot of sales in our restaurants, so anything we can do to try and make our team members lives easier is important to us. We want them to enjoy their jobs and we want to do the best we can to consistently create high quality food experiences for our customers. Our teams in restaurants are the heroes, but we are trying to use technology to help them do what they do. <thumbs up>
HA!!!
Wow, I just read the first chapter via https://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/rescue_pilot.

Yet another book to add to the wishlist... I'm gonna need a job that gives me a bit of spare time, the pile is getting pretty big, haha.

The Vulcan bit leapt out at me; I've also read Vulcan 607! That book was purely technical; I would have appreciated an explanation about the political upheaval going on with the RAF at the time as well, I had absolutely no idea.

I had no idea hovering over sea is as complex as it is - of course everything underneath the helicopter is going up and down. So the helicopter needs to match that if it doesn't want to whomp onto the deck as it lands. Hah.

And so, in the same vein, hovering over a ship doing rescue operations is clearly going to preclude the use of the kind of autopilot described in the GGP comment.

I've been interested in the idea of flying since I was about 15, but I've been dragging my feet on getting involved for years (I'm 27 now) - if I love it, I'll be depressed I can't afford to dive right in, but if I hate it or can't get my head around the flight controls (I have poor hand-eye coordination, a lot of visual things don't "click" for me, and I can't keep an RC helicopter in the air), I'm not sure if I'd handle the let-down. Because of the expense involved I'm a bit on the fence about it.

Various health issues are why I didn't go the RAAF route a long time ago. (I'm not even sure what to name my condition - I've briefly described it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005811 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780498.)
From the post:

> FoundationDB Summit is organized on a single track with plenty of time to meet and learn from early adopters, core developers, and other community members. We're also part of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Community Events Day, and will be in the same Washington Convention Center as thousands of other open source engineers that week.
> If you need to change history you can just create new events that accomplish your mutation -- and even mark them as a type 'change history' or some such obvious identifier so when you inspect the event stream you know exactly what you are looking at.

"Right to be forgotten" isn't the same as "right to be redacted".
Its not always exactly obvious. But generally speaking, number of kills + towers destroyed is always a good indicator. Another good indicator is overall networth, the team winning usually has 3 out of their 5 players at the top 5 ranks in money value.

One thing you can see is which team is constantly defending and which is constantly attacking. That's a pretty good indicator too.

No guarantees though, games have been known to flop and be unpredictable, mostly due to respawn timers / buybacks lategame. Late game is super critical on who gets first kill generally
There's a better way to frame this: Do you think an open source project creates a perpetual obligation? Even if many other developers depend on your project, are you forced to continue or can you walk away? If you assume you can walk away, you can then ask whether it makes sense to stop working on a project. And that answer requires a bit of introspection, being "honest to yourself regarding the intentions".

"advancing the state of the art" is fundamentally different from "money" and "fame" insofar as the latter involve social effects that you have less direct control over. To make money, someone else has to pay you for something.
I remember going to Best as a kid all throughout the 80s. This was the store in Langhorne Pa.

https://architectureandbranding.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/asia/china-lawyers-disappeare...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/22/why-are-people-disappear...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-deals-with-dissent...

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2014/11/28/chinese-dissidents...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/china-still-gathering-orga...
Depends on the task, but if your task is amenable to it, I'd consider writing tests which basically say, at a very high level: "Is the output for a given set of inputs the same?"

Even if you're wrapping the entire application.

We're not looking for "does this code do the right thing", just "does this code do the same thing" (as the initial code).

At which point you'll at least have some more confidence that you aren't damaging the codebase due to having not understood a part of it.
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The article mentioned storing data for a decades, which implies a backup use-case with infrequent access (of course, data only would be deposited in Glacier after the initial analysis is performed). If you expect to retrieve the data frequently, that's clearly not the right storage tier to use. S3 Infrequent Access tier is ~3x the cost, which still supports my point about the relative cost compared to total cost of sequencing.

To address some of your other points: the 40TB limit per archive is not a limit on the amount of data your can store in Glacier. And assuming 100MBps throughput is implying you'd use a single node to analyze the data, which does not make sense at this scale.
Weighing an alien exoplanet by watching it throw around its star
To me this headline is phrased in a way that gives the impression that whales are visiting places because they are prospective mining sites (maybe curious).
However, the text makes clear that that outfits are exploring places which coincidentally seem to be used by whales --if confirmed mining plans may need to be altered.

[in other words it implies some causation, but there appears to be none]
Interesting that the draft was predetermined (unlike the previous exhibition, which was live), allowing OpenAI to train ahead of time on a restricted set of matches. I wonder how long that was?
Do all those blood groups matter? How many different batches of blood do they need to keep around to handle a majority of the population?
It would seem that you're the one missing the point. Microsoft was the very first company to sign up with the NSA way back in 2007. So when it comes to the mass collection of user data and spying - Microsoft is a pioneer in the field.
OpenAI looked bad in the mid-game and non-competitive in the late-game. The team fight stuff is frustrating since it’s just learning perfect rotations where computers should obviously excel. Their continuing use of cool downs on creeps in the late game was baffling.
Tezos feels a little more worthy to be on here than many listed.
Anyone who claims to have imposter syndrome most definitely does not.

People who really suffer from imposter syndrome will never tell, because they are afraid of being found out.
I think this would have been said at the start as well.

"really, a company that is renting out air mattresses"
"another Digg clone"
"sync my folders? there are a million tools for that"

Though your knee-jerk reaction is correct, it is specifically this which makes YC stand-out. They often seem to pick the things that don't seem promising, and yet those turn in to stand-out successes.
Here is a post from the Dota 2 subreddit discussing the timing with proof that OpenAI's reaction was over the 200ms minimum:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/94vdpm/openai_hex_wa...
How to Say “I Love You” When the Language Doesn’t Exist
Also not a stretch if you already believe he has involvement in human affairs and also goes out of his way to leave no hard evidence of his existence
Not familiar with dota but I watched the tail end of the stream, what does this mean?
Sharing code can be just as confusing as it is enlightening.
And yet these stores aren't considered a monopoly? There is no competition and no one can make an app and distribute it outside the store in Apple's case, but no you can go to Google where the situation is virtually the same. Regulation is the only thing that can possibly fix it. If it's a touchy subject for people, people need to be less sensitive and ask themselves what else could possibly be a solution? Do people really think that the industry will regulate itself or something equally implausible?
This is a great conference promo brochure in the making.

BlackHat - the Burning Man and Comic Con of information security for serious professionals.

Needs to be fleshed out with a bit of Renfaire, SXSW and Anthrocon, perhaps.
> I don’t have anything against Americans, but if I can get someone who is better educated, will not jump ship in 18 months, and will do more for less then I’ll jump all over that.

By this logic, why not enslave children and teach them CS.
The argument against cisco is the "players" are clearly trying to CHEAT "the game". H1b's are for finding talent when there isn't any, not for finding workers that won't "jump ship". The freedom to jump ship is why America is great.
If you're interested in the latest nuclear weapons developments, I highly recommend reading the blog https://armscontrolwonk.com . There's lots of detailed political and technical analysis of the world's nuclear weapons systems there with an effort to track and limit their proliferation. If you've never investigated this type of thing before, you might be surprised at just how much knowledge there is to be had in unclassified "open source" material like this.
Since Saturday they said.
The criterion is using HN primarily for ideological battles.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I’m surprised there is no backlash from independent iOS developers. Not only do they have 30% taken away, they have the yearly $100 fee,they need expensive Apple products to make the app, apps have be priced low because consumers expect low priced amazing apps. Then you have to market the app to stand out.
L.A. County gets state approval of new open-source vote-counting system
Have we already forgotten about the ink girl who was disappeared[0] barely a month ago? All she did was say things and now she's gone. Probably forever. This is absolutely not disputable.

[0]: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3478513
The bots were using their ultimates pretty liberally. Maybe their "bot meta" is very group-intensive, so if they see one hero there's a good chance there are other heroes nearby? Other possible reasons: Opportunity cost of not using ultimates, getting a single kill late game can mean victory, bots penalized for games going later or their games just not running long in general?
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

>people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence".

>employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another

Note that the original text was satire, but the idea itself is quite satisfying, and if true would explain all the bad bosses in the world.
>and absolutely the thing to do when the foreign employees bring skills not available locally

... AT THAT PRICEPOiNT.

You are arguing that those software engineers should be available at the average price. Cisco has a net revenue of 12.8 billion and is dependent on software engineers

Allow the salaries to rise for godsake and then lets complain about “not finding good software engineers”
The problem with what the EU is doing is that they aren't interested in applying a rigorous standard. It's perfectly possible to define markets or abuse in various ways, but if all they're really doing is to backfill reasoning to justify enormous fines on American businesses there is no point in arguing about what is in practice a rationalization, and the response if they continue to use such ambiguous rules probably ought to be something like lobbying the US government to negotiate a truce (or retaliate in kind against EU businesses).
Would love to see your findings!
Nationalistic flamebait will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again, regardless of what you're for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternatives
SF “poop patrolers earn $71,760 a year; $184,678 with mandated benefits.”
I think it’s becoming clear that the network is overfitting to team fights (and other small duration action). OpenAI use of cooldowns in the last 20 minutes was inexcusable. It became obvious OpenAI had no working strategy.
If the presumed implication of not denying favoritism as quoted in the article:
"Cisco, the website [Bloomberg] reported, denied the allegation about pay but didn’t address the issue of favoring foreign workers." If they declined comment on both, you could have a point --but they chose to comment on one allegation but not the other.

I would say the headline is more accurate than your revision.
I don't think you've thought this through entirely, primarily because your analysis here though misses out on a cost function for stars.

>I'm definitely not going to voluntarily get worse food so I can protest the idea of ratings.

Yeah, but most people (maybe including you) certainly will "voluntarily get worse food" if you consider the price difference sufficient. In a system where 3 stars means good or excellent it can be expected there will be a non-linear increase in cost and skill requirements to hit 4 or 5 stars. They will be rarer, likely less convenient, and certainly more expensive. For a special occasion sure, maybe you go for the very best. But in general many people will be perfectly happy with a lower starred establishment that is more affordable and convenient and still perfectly decent. Sometimes people just want to fill their stomachs for the purpose of continued survival in a reasonably pleasant fashion, not have a magical gourmet experience. Scale compression removes visibility for this basic tradeoff right?

I mean, we can even find a direct example of this in the food world right now: Michelin Stars. It's a 1 to 3 scale and even a single one is a big deal. But the standards necessary to qualify and maintain it are not cheap for the restaurant. I remember reading of a very nice restaurant in a more run down area of France that had earned a star, and were very proud of it, but ultimately decided to give it up because it resulted in them being priced out of the general range of locals. Conversely there is nothing bad about going to even a 1 Michelin star restaurant, it'll still be likely to be very good.
I agree, this is 100% normal in accounting, as the earlier thread pointed out. If there is an error you add journal entries to the end to make the adjustment. It is funny that this sort of thing was invented in accounting in 1494.
* There's limits to current AI/ML technology that create a hard ceiling and extends timelines long beyond the current hype cycle and nobody wants to admit it or else funding might stop coming in.
I see the confusion. Based on Maslow's hierarchy (pyramid) of needs, one needs to start at the bottom (physiological) and build up from there like a foundation. Because factors, both internal and external to ones lives, erode at access to basic needs, ones life loses stability, hence the "hollowing" out part. A better metaphor would be turning Maslow's hierarchy/pyramid instead into a tower.

(in retrospect this wasn't one of my best thoughts)
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread, as people did in this case.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Many believe that it’s an exponential curve so there’s a substantial difference between the first and twentieth place teams.
Yes, good smart founders correlate with successfully running a startup and it gives notoriety.
That level of infrastructure investment is really playing the long game, especially for a brick and mortar business. I often feel like "traditional businesses" see technology's disruption effects but not the positives they can bring. Other businesses could benefit from this example.
No, there are way more than 200 players better than Pain, all due respect to them. That’s clear by looking at leaderboards. But team dynamics and synergy in this game matter so much that they are definitely in the top 20 of teams regardless of their individual skill.

Seeing OpenAI do so well against this team impressed the hell out of me.
>Allow the salaries to rise for godsake and then lets complain about “not finding good software engineers”

That's what I'm really saying, too. Both "there aren't enough engineers" and "the foreigners are taking our jobs" sentiments will be addressed by this.
I actually interpreted the comment a bit differently. I read it that the employee who used to have some autonomy on when to make adjustments is now doing it because the computer, which they (perhaps) have no control or insight into, is telling them to. I'm sure there's more nuance and people who would view that instruction differently. But to the comments direction, I'd assumed it was alluding to a dystopia of sorts where we do more and more things "because Computer™ said so".
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A deep neural network for particle identification in a neutrino detector
I wouldn't make a blanket statement like "the food is the only thing that should matter"; but for some Chinese restaurants, bad service is part of the fun.

My favourite is "Oriental Canteen" near South Kensington station. At lunchtime I would order takeway, and then go browse a neighbouring bookshop. One day, as I was heading back the manager (who was rude on the best of days) just wordlessly held the bag with my lunch out the window so that I just grabbed it from her hands without even setting foot in her restaurant.

An excellent combination of impoliteness and efficiency for busy people who are there to exchange money for food rather than to make friends.
Yeah. I agree. It was over the 200ms minimum but it was artificial. No human could reasonably perform that type of action as relilably. And that has nothing to do with learning performance.
> Once OpenAI Five defeat 3-4 pro teams convincingly, it could be presumed from the observation above that they will defeat any other top teams within a year at most, if sufficient resources are used for improving the AI. An exception is when a fundamental hidden weakness is found in the AI.

Not sure how you intended this, but the hero pool constraint is actually an enormous advantage for the AI. The current hero pool isn't, by any means, random. I don't know OpenAI selected it, but it's highly conducive to OpenAI Five's strengths--deathballing, mechanics, teamfight coordination, etc. It lacks essentially all of the heroes that humans would normally pick to counter that strategy.

Playing on an unrestricted hero set would test OpenAI Five in entirely different ways than playing on the current hero pool would. I would not be comfortable betting on your statement at all.
They're still the ~19th best team in the world.
I was telling someone about Best the other day. They show my hometown store in Sacramento. It looked like the corner had exploded out. I always thought that was just a one-off and it was only that particular store with the weird architecture. I had never been to another Best.

They had a weird business model too as I (barely) recall. You didn't usually go there and buy a product and take it home. It was a showroom for products that were in a catalog. You would order what you wanted from the catalog and then come back a few days later and they would have it for you. I bought a calculator watch there in grade school, which was very exciting. However the experience was so odd, even for that time, that I never bought anything else from them.
The problem is those ideas except maybe finance and computing don't convert well. When was the last one to go IPO. B2B, on the other hand, converts extremely well because they are solving real problems
It's actually internationally delayed reactions to make it more fair (200ms of delay added).
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What obligation? That's forced labor.

Why should someone be forced to walk away from a project that became popular if there is an option to monetize it to support its growth?