skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo! This debate is almost entirely predicated on all sides claiming to know the unknowable, and predict the future outcomes of policy changes where not only is the evidence and data very mixed, but where we aren't really sure what outcome we want. This is terrifying to me, because we have smart people with zero skin in the game playing with the poorest, most vulnerable people's lives in an ideological shouting match.

On what outcome we want, I think people are confused about the actual affect minimum wage has. Some people will lose their jobs when minimum wages increase. That is just inevitable, and not something anyone really argues against. The most positive response is that job losses will be small, and/or those jobs are usually not very pleasant anyway.

If we assume someone on an unlivable wage can either have their wage increased to livable, stay the same - i.e. minimum goes up, hours go down, actual pay is ballpark the same - or lose their job and become unemployed, what population level outcome is acceptable?

In the most simplistic case, what split of people losing jobs and becoming unemployed is acceptable if everyone else gets a livable wage? 60 (made unemployed) vs 40 (employed)? 50-50? 40-60?

What if the the group that works for unlivable wages stays almost static, and it is 10% job loss, 70% no change, 20% increase? Is that the success or failure?

These examples ignore people outside this group, and it is possible that some people who currently make livable wages today could have their hours cut or accelerated automation catches them as well. Even with the most simplistic outcomes, I don't know what numbers society wants to optimise for. How can we judge if a policy works if we don't know what we want to achieve?

It also ignores the economic diversity of the USA. Prices will rise a LOT in some places if Seattle/SF minimum wages are applied to less economically strong states, and the results could be disastrous. AFAIK (data is a few years old) there are a few states with median wages less than $15 in the USA - see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-lunches-like-th... A blanket $15 is troublesome, while maybe ineffective (if it works) in some other states.

So it seems to me we have no clear objectives, no outcomes we are excited by, but what we do have are people for whom minimum wage laws are an article of faith. Any attempts to actually measure the affects of any of this will be fought vociferously by all sides, usually with competing BS studies. You just have to see what happened in Seattle, where a long term, detailed but ultimately negative study was countered with a hastily written pro-report for ideological reasons.

Terrifying certainty in an uncertain domain combined with unclear goals and a determined effort to not measure? Nah, nothing could possibligh go bad here...
If they're then farmed anything like Norwegian-owned salmon, which destroy the local ecosystem with underwater clouds of shit, sea lice, excessive antibiotics, higher levels of toxins than wild-caught (PCBs, dioxins, toxaphene, dieldrin and mercury), feed preservatives, lower Omega-3 levels than wild fish and corrupt politicians pretending everything is okay, adding more GMOs to the mix seems like putting lipstick on a fish.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norway-farmed-sal...

http://salmonwars.com/

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2013/07/23/salmon-confidential-docum...
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188831
>There are known state-level actors actively pushing propaganda through the internet.

The last group of people who will be thwarted by lack of anonymity on the web are "state-level actors". Literally.

> There are companies founded with the express purpose of providing influence in exchange for money.

Probably the second- or third- last group of people who would be thwarted by deanonymization.
>It was my mistake to interpret "shoes" as "athletic shoes" even though the example in the first post looked like running shoes. You do not need to spend more than 150 on running shoes.

Well, in my here parts, sneakers (which can easily go in the $200+ and even multi-$Ks for pure aesthetics/vintage) still count as "athletic shoes".
Germany has a ton of immigrants, they don't all speak with German accents.
They've always been there. He's skipping all the mobile/embedded/high-GPU variants for the predecessor to make things look worse for 8th gen.

There have always been U, H, Y, R, and sometimes C variants for most of those prior generations. Each die gets a codename, just like now.
What if you buy it used?
LGBT rights in Saudi Arabia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
I will try to avoid rehashing things others already mentioned, but a few off the top of my head (without thinking about it any longer than it takes to type them) include:

* continuing to favor user interface philosophies that implicitly rely on undermining software security

* fostering vendor lock-in and exclusionary vertical integration

* using opt-out privacy violation where opt-in is the obvious ethical choice

* wielding power in the market to "compete" by preventing others from competing

edit: formatting
Seems pretty wasteful solution if everyone maintains a secondary burner phone for login. But it works for the short term, and I would worry about fees, and inactivity cancelations.
Colorectal cancer is killing more 20- to 30-year-olds
>There is a Nintendo DS flash cart that embeds a full GBA-compatible CPU core

I can't find that much information but you're either talking about the Supercard or the CycloDS - both look like they were running emulators. Almost makes me want to find out if it's possible to put an ESP8266 in a cart.
Casual and blanket theoretical characterizations of OT and CRDT algorithms is exactly the kind of folly that the article is trying to address.

For example, it's a logical contradiction to begin the statement with "OT's complexity is _generally_ governed by editing history (H), i.e. O(H)" to conclude that "CRDTs have much better perf than OT", then adding a qualification that argument applies only for the specific off-line editing scenario (which btw is also not true).

It's also inaccurate to base CRDT's complexity on N - the document size, i.e. number of characters visible in the document. You need to include tombstones for the case of WOOT variants or use garbage collection for RGA (which then requires vector clocks). These nuances are described in sections 4.3.

OT's complexity is governed by O(c) where c is number of concurrent operations, period.

For off-line edits, the short answers is that OT's complexity is also not O(H), if H is the number of character edits, because you can easily apply compression. Now, the longer answer: there is pretty strong spatial locality in the distribution of edits over a document -- we don't sporadically and randomly add or delete characters around a document, but intuitively, most of the inserts will be adjacent characters (i.e. strings), and many of the deletes are over newly inserted strings. OT uses string-wise operations, hence it will compress n consecutive character insert ops down to a single string op. In addition you can compress delete edits over newly inserted content: i.e. [insert 'To be or not yoo be' at 0, delete 'y' at '14', delete 'o' at '14', insert 't' at '14'] => [insert 'To be or not to be']. This is basic idea behind "operation compression" which is what OT would use to support off-line, non-real-time, asynchronous editing, however you want to call it. There is a better example here (http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/czsun/projects/otfaq/#_Toc321146...).
How does his mum feel about that?
> ...Diplomatic murder, women's rights arrests, Yemen war, Canada row, royal imprisonmemt...

There is also the failed blockade of Qatar. Seems like this has been a pretty disastrous few years for MBS and he isn't even king. Im surprised he hasn't been replaced. These are pretty massive blunders.
> I've heard that other ex-employees (and their lawyers and the courts) reaching the same conclusion is the reason that the big company in question adopted a policy of technically firing everyone from any startup they acquired, and then re-hiring them immediately under the same terms. The sole effect was to turn that continued employment into initial employment, non-consideration into consideration, validating the rest of the contract.

Do you know if that's been tested in court? Seems like such an obvious violation of the spirit of the law that it wouldn't (one hopes) hold up in appeal.
Got it.

Now your anonymously accessible forum greets newcomers with the most abusive, disgusting posts imaginable sprinkled with the occasional post of an idealistic cypherpunk who abides by the dictum, "Don't feed the trolls."

Predictably, the forum is frequented by no one outside of a handful of idealistic cypherpunks and problem even fewer trolls (because it's cheap to saturate a forum with the most vile, disgusting content).
It's never been just about phones. These chips go into all kinds of products, some of them with real thermal and size restrictions.
No metric can escape gaming when you apply it to rational actors (Campbell's Law / Goodhart's Law). Blind devotion to metrics is just as bad as no metrics at all.
Or let a friend drive?
Whichever you're more curious about! There's plenty of opportunity available in both directions and there will be for a while still. And as your career matures, you'll be pulled in still other directions: domain specialization, breadth-building, etc.

There's no optimal choice, it's just personal. The most valuable thing you bring to your career right now is enthusiasm and curiosity. Lean into that by picking something you like.
And possibly withhold consent when you buy the car. That would be an interesting decision for a salesperson eyeing their commission.
"Functioning" implies some quality criteria beyond mere existence...

We don't look at a law of the jungle society and say "this is a functioning society" (even if technically it might be true: it does perform some functions).
I'm guessing, but I suspect that cft means that humanities programs (at universities) produced people who do not value freedom of speech (or, slightly more charitably, who value other things more, such as preventing speech that offends or triggers people).

Presuming that I understood cft's point, I'm not sure I buy it. True, some of the humanities people seem less committed to free speech than one would wish. But they are hardly the first to be so. Personally, I'm not sure that there are more voices in favor of censorship than there ever have been. It' may just be that, like every other viewpoint, those calling for it can get really loud in their own echo chamber...
Every argument presented in this article is a straw man, the writing is pretty bad, and then he says SoftBank vision fund is positioned to grow because of ridesharing, AI blah blah - as if American capital isn’t hugely invested in those fields.
apologies to Jane if I implied that her skills weren't on par - that wasn't my intention.
It depends on whether your entire building exceeds productivity by a certain amount, which isn't guaranteed. Also, employees lose half or all of their bonus for the month using UPT, which puts them one flat tire or traffic jam away from potentially losing out even if they would otherwise get VCP that month.

When it works, it works, the problem is you can't predict it, and since you can't predict it, you can't depend on it.
XB1 and PS4 have been out with their 8-core APUs for 5 years now, hasn't changed the importance of single-threaded performance. Amdahl's law still applies.
What about making something useful instead
Shopify Goes Offline with Its First Brick-And-Mortar Shop
Please note that the indictment is the opinion of one prosecutor, who got the story secondhand (or worse), and writes with the express purpose (and bias) to get a conviction.

You should read it like it is SCO's legal description of the damage inflicted by IBM's Linux on SCO. Because that's exactly what it is.
I missed one trick - "Remind me". you can tell Slack to ping you about any message at a later time. This is great someone asks something that involves more time/effort than I can give right now. two clicks and I'm back at work but confident that the matter won't be lost. The options are (too) limited, but 20 mins, 1 hour, 3 hours, tomorrow, or next week do cover MOST of my needs.
I'd like to see a breakdown of the kind of equipment and labor resources needed to dig out underground habitats.

To get to the point where a Mars colony is self-sufficient in producing things like heavy-duty construction equipment and solar panels could require obscene capital expenditures.

Not saying that it wouldn't be worth doing - imagine just all the technological spin-offs that would come from overcoming the challenges of creating a self-sustaining settlement on another planet, not to mention making an entire planet's worth of resources accessible to us - just that the scope of what it would require to pull off should be appreciated.

>>The BFR isn't just meant to enable transport of people - it also aims at being able to move a lot of mass to Mars for cheap.

I agree. The BFR will be a game-changer.
The article is written assuming colonization is happening (colonization would generate demand) For colonization to happen, there is need for incentive. The article is not giving it.

Asteroids near earth provide wast quantities of water and there is cheap energy available (the Sun). Asteroids also have hydrocarbons. Asteroid mining would serve earth. Mining mars would not be competitive source of minerals for Earth.

Asteroid mining is easier to automatize. Move them even closer to earth and use partial automation and remote control.

The metals in asteroids are easier to mine because usually they have not been oxidized like they are on the Earth or in the Mars, nor are they buried deep in the ground. It's possible that there are just nodules to pick up.

Mars has low gravity, but the delta-v that determines the cost is still huge compared to asteroids. Delta-V to nearest asteroids from LEO is ~3.3. Delta-v from LEO to Mars is 9.3.

Access to Mars is also technically more challenging (Mars landers fail often. The few asteroid that have been done have been a success).
Without reading your comment I had already read from the article just by skimming it that the US was not declining it absolute terms, but rather the rest of the world was catching up.

So I think you may have jumped the gun there.
Or how about clarification on the past relationship between YC and DST Global which has ties to the Russian government?

If you don't think anything that billionaires (and their ilk) do is suspicious, then people are not looking hard enough. Just because they made their billions via tech doesn't make them any more benevolent.
To be fair, China disappears dissidents too.
I don't really think so. It's expanding a "language-level" iterable (list, etc) into a "syntactic-level" comma-separated list of those values. does the same but turns dictionaries into syntactic `name=value, ...` constructs. It's a great little feature with loads of handy uses!
Does it really? Bureaucracy can very well be counterproductive to such contingencies. The problem that caused the Challenger disaster actually did get documented and reported, but the issue still got lost in the layers and layers of red tape needed to get a shuttle off the ground. Hindsight is 20/20. There is no guarantee that adding more oversight would have avoided the accident.
Introducing Microsoft Decentralized Identity
Your friend, or the new used car owner, will get to push a button every time the car starts, agreeing to the contract. Yeah, yeah, unenforcable, blah, blah. You want to go to the mall, or not?
The goal of Guile Emacs is not to replace Elisp; it is to replace the implementation with Guile.
I'm using uMatrix, so I didn't even notice. At least it's relatively easy to get around the modal and read the interview?
> ZFS, btrfs, et al. are not actually copying user-data, because they don't have a concept of "ovewriting a block," every block that is written is written to unallocated regions of the disk

Unless you just so happen to be writing over an entire block, then there still must be a copy happening. The old data, less the bytes you modified, must be written into the new block along with your changed bytes.
If large classes of business want to remain in business, they will find a way without such abusive terms.
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I spend more time knowingly slacking off than I do reading slack.

Then again I fully subscribe to the '4 hours of full productivity per day' theory.
Amazon is anti-labor. Someone posted a leak of their union-suppression policies not long ago[0], and they're quite vocal about their anti-union stance being a part of their "ownership culture."

You're right that they're damned if they do, damned if they don't though, but let's not pretend they haven't earned that mistrust.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077434
Censorship is one thing, but luring a person to be whacked like the mafia is entirely another. As a-moral as the US' foreign policy can be, we don't do outright assassinations anymore (Bin-Laden notwithstanding). What Saudi Arabia did here is just abhorrent, and akin to something out of the Sopranos or Goodfellas.
Hawking’s final scientific paper illuminates the black hole information paradox
Spooky October for Large Cap Tech Stocks: $550B in Market Cap Vanished
According to some threads I've read it doesn't work in all circumstances.

Personally I wouldn't risk it since it could mean risking getting locked out of your account.
You quoted “...and the courts” so I think commenter answered your question.
That moral weight is part of the problem. If the State did go through the bother of taking an style of clause apart, pointing into it and saying "look, you can't do this", it's because there is a moral problem with that style.

People pushing unenforceable contracts are exerting some immoral power into other people, expecting them to comply due to those others' morality.
In my experience, what you're saying's not true. I might have given the wrong impression but the friends I mentioned aren't ignorant at all. "Well, they do have to make money somehow." It's a choice. That's why I say they don't care.

Also, I simpatize with your last sentence but you must understand that consumers expect a lot of software to be free, nowadays. It's really hard to compete with free so I don't blame companies who go the FB route.
"The malfunction became apparent about 90 seconds into the flight" Shows 90 second video I am annoyed..
Is that any worse than a MacBook or an iPad? People manage to run huge enterprise deployments of those.
I agree. This article is a case for an alt-economy more than giving evidence of the decline of Silicon Valley.
A less severe change might make sense. Make it so that, when one of the parties involved in a contract is a person who can't reasonably expected to have a lawyer review the contract or who can't reasonably be expected to negotiate the contract, that the entire contract must consist of a series of clauses, all in plain English, all individually agreed to, and all directly relating to the transaction at hand and only the transaction at hand. And that, in such contexts, the party without a lawyer cannot indemnify the other party against anything and cannot waive their right to enforce any of their rights in court and/or with a class action lawsuit. [0]

This serves two purposes:

1. Reduce the degree to which fine print can hurt the party signing it in unexpected ways.

2. Make complicated contracts have a real cost in terms of making transactions more annoying. This gives businesses an incentive not to use them.

[0] The Wells Fargo fraudulently issued credit lines, for example, were protected a bit because most of the victims had existing arbitration agreements. Those should have been unenforceable because (a) they were not directly related to the fraudulent accounts and (b) Wells Fargo customers should not be able to waive their rights. Instead, CA passed a silly after-the-fact law that says, more or less, that banks cannot enforce arbitration agreements against their customers when fraud is invonved.
For comparison the Phoronix benchmarks:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-r...

this one is more oriented to the lower end.
This is exactly what they're doing. Boeing is the commercial sector that's having cost overruns.
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> >there’s growing outrage over the week-long disappearance of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who Turkish officials say was murdered last week in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on orders from the Saudi Royal family, then cut into pieces with a bone saw and removed from the building.

It's litearally medieval, which is par on course for what this odious country (regime, to be more clear). It's pretty much what Saudi Arabia is: a medieval regime in 2018.

Of course, they just had to have trillions of dollars of oil under their feet, hence we are accustomed to seeing our elected representatives, our leaders, bowing and kissing the hands of that scum. Repugnant.
The TL;DR on this is that the 2080 Ti is the most cost effective GPU on the market today for deep learning.

It is:

- 37% faster than the 1080 Ti with FP32, 62% faster with FP16, and 25% more expensive.

- 35% faster than the 2080 with FP32, 47% faster with FP16, and 25% more expensive.

- 96% as fast as the Titan V with FP32, 3% faster with FP16, and ~1/2 of the cost.

- 80% as fast as the Tesla V100 with FP32, 82% as fast with FP16, and ~1/5 of the cost.
Not having a product yet is good! You don't need a product to make these calls. The point is to better understand the product they're wishing they had, which becomes the product you build.

Where the OP said "pitch", take it in the sense that you can pitch these leads on you and your commitment to meeting their needs. This warms them up for when you call them again in 2 or 6 or 12 months with that product. They'll be excited to hear from you and invested in learning more about the product.
In theory we have just as good a recruiting presence on the west coast, and we have an office out there to be based out of as well (I am all for completely remote, but have yet to get upper mgmt comfortable). In practice, I doubt this is true, and also working for a hedge fund probably has a lot less draw and prestige associated with it out west.

This may account for it but I still find the discrepancy to be unusual.
I like this analysis. I’d say the root problem is that it feels like there should be no trade-offs in doing “good”, when in reality there are always trade-offs. In other words, there is no way to solve the undesirable gender disparity issue that will meet the standard of YC’s behavior being “as virtuous as it seems”.
It would give you the unpersonalised experience then, where the car only knows how to drive in carparks in palo alto.