skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People not understanding marginal tax need to get educated and not spread misinformation like claiming you pay nearly 45% taxes. You pay that on the top half of your income.

Also yes; just pay the tax, and then some. It helps everyone. If the country is sane in terms of politics of course, and doesn't have the military as its biggest expense. That makes it clear they're more concerned with international affairs than their own people.
I'd argue that humanity certainly requires huge tracts of wilderness for its long term survival. So far, we've successfully transformed diverse ecosystems into vast, but basic, mono-cultural 'deserts'.

But - is it sustainable? In the century since the Haber process was introduced, the world has started to buckle at the seams from the results: huge population growth, with accompanying pollution (nitrates, pesticides, algal blooms, etc.) and degradation of biomes. What are the effects on our biochemistry? Plastic pollution is only now being noticed. Pthalates and numerous other estrogen mimickers are silently at work. Antibiotic resistance is increasing.

I think it's too early to conclude that we can indeed survive this. The outlook for the rest of this century is not positive...

A 'wilderness' is a vast library of alternative biotech. Until humanity understands the effects of its impact on Earth's ecosystems and itself, it would be wise to remember this.
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That is unfortunately not a practical option for many people whose school or workplace forces use of GMail.
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I never learned to type formally and type fast but with a lot of typos. It is a problem when programming. Particularly the location of special characters, and particularly given that many IDE are "path dependent", i.e. if you type the wrong character and press back, you are not in the state in which you were before you mistyped, auto-complete doesn't reset properly, some auto-format may have inserted lots of new lines and symbols, etc.

To me typing reliably is almost more important than typing very fast.
I also have no faith in their risk assessment. For a very long time I have only used one computer from one location to log into my Gmail account and every time I log in they consider it a suspicious activity. They even forced me to confirm my identity on my last login. What's their risk assessment doing if it can't get the baseline right?
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Yes, and all the other species of humans too.
Options and rsus are different. I don't buy my rsus, the company just gives them to me, so I pay tax on any shares they give me, because they're income.

If I purchased them as options, different things would apply. But I'm happy paying tax on income of it means I get the shares for free.

The change in price if the shares is taxed as capital gains though.
> I think the sad truth is that computer engagement is required, but literacy is optional.

You're right on, but I wouldn't call it sad.

The population is expected to operate vehicles without putting others in danger, not credentialize in how cars work. There are endless amounts of things we could demand people spend their precious time deeply understanding. We just like to demand tech-savviness because it's self-aggrandizing.

Like everything else, the solution is to help people on their own behalf.

At an online casino I once worked at, we ended up generating random passwords for our users. We had to, because otherwise attackers would lookup usernames in the large password dumps online and log in as our users. No amount of warnings on our /register page stopped password reuse. So we decided we could do better than that, and that "well, we warned you" was not an appropriate response.

If you look around at everyday objects, everything is designed to protect the user. But for some reason in computing we're still in the dark ages of snickering and rolling our eyes at users for making mistakes.
It's just like the old app "Secret" -- except huge tech companies are on it, meaning its only slightly less toxic than /pol.
But did Docker succeed in sales? They were acquired to gain control of the user base, without making money. Serverless seems headed the same way.

You need to succeed in sales if you want to make sales, otherwise not :)
Yep, this happened to me when I created a separate account for travel. Immediate, permanent lockout.
I tried to correct some of these mistakes with my latest venture. In the past, I would build something that I thought was a pervasive problem with a demand, only to learn later that I was wrong. Ideas are worth very little until they are verified in the real world. You can get a lot done by just talking with people.

This time, I've spent a lot of time asking people what they thought of the idea, and hashing it out. I got a lot of positive feedback. People understood the problem. I got a feeling that they "got" the solution. When I sat down to build it, I had more confidence in it than prior projects.

There's still a lot more selling work ahead. The project is just starting to garner interest. I feel so out of my element selling, but I realize it is just another

P.S. The project is goodgrids.com. It's an API for converting CSVs to beautifully formatted Excel spreadsheets, and extracting data from Excel spreadsheets into CSVs for uploading into legacy systems.
I used a long and supercomplicated password for one of my accounts that i access intermittently. Why I have it is a long story, but I only log into it once or twice a month to check if there is something that needs my attention.

Usually the login is in incognito, guest mode, and even from different locations and machines. Google asks for a second factor (i dont have it on for my accounts) like phone verification for my usual accounts (not so complicated password) but not for the one with complex password. So I think the level of extra steps/security is linked with how complex your password is. Not so sure if this is a good thing or bad. But, I hope they should continue basing their security measures based on the security measures you take.
Your 100% right.

Especially in mid to large B2B plays.
See a book called "The Mom Test".
The polygraph is as useful at catching lies as the Scientologist E-Meter (1) is to testing religion conviction.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/
I for one, never did choose to work for such a company, and yet now I do anyway because my chosen small company was sold to a huge one, after I am 19 years in.

It's almost like that was easier to say than to do.
being able to operate a 1.2 to 1.8m size small VSAT in Xinjiang province

Right; I think people are visualising this like a sort of Thuraya iPhone, which it very much will not be, because physics.

I mean Thuraya is amazing if you in the middle of the ocean, but no one under 40 has ever used a modem at that speed before...
Yes. But this was accomplished with heavy machinery and fertilization, which are based on imported oil. In Northern Norway you can find most pitiful attempts of agriculture above the arctic circle, indicating that the land was overpopulated and even the sea was overfished.
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Allow them to secede. There is no excuse for genocide. It happend in former Yugoslavia. It should happen in China.
My understanding of finance as vaguely magical makes this easy to believe. Buy why does does engineering pay so low in UK?
> pretty simple, [] let Google do their thing

Unfortunately El Goog is now a de facto monopoly both for makers (organic traffic) and users (AMP, discovery, federated logins etc).

I'm not angry at Goog for winning, they did it by (mostly) being 100x more awesome than the competition and surfing the network effects into the endgame. But here's the elephant in the room: outside walled gardens, Goog runs da tubes, and they're not as fluffy as Mr Cutts would have you believe. Mandatory JS and AMP are the not-even thin end of the wedge.
> Subscribe below to read this post

No thanks.
The Uighur want nothing to do with the Chinese. Historically the only reason they wanted to be a part of China was because other Central Asians were oppressing them and the Chinese gave them a better deal. China's real claim to this province is simply about resource extraction... and maybe sovereignty. What's the solution, leave them alone to do as they wish. It should be its own country without Han Chinese invading all parts of it.

That being said, the reality is that the Uighur are generally screwed just like the Tibetans were/are screwed. Empire does not compromise.
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Five years of reading HN and I’ve seen comments from all sorts of people.

Former inmates, drug addicts, surgeons, lawyers, mechanics, welders, astrophysicist, particle physicists, pilots. Need I go on?

Not once have I read anyone here who’s admitted to being a high level politician.
Well the equipment to reproduce the findings includes multimillion dollar lasers that are required to have precision under a nanometre. If I understand correctly, gravational waves require data to line up between multiple telescopes around the world, right? So all these labs have to be sharing their data through some organized means, right?

Here's a podcast I head recently that went over gravational waves in detail: https://www.danielandjorge.com/podcasts/what-are-gravitation...
This is the issue in a nutshell for me. I wish I’d bought a FHD 1080 screen instead of 4K on my XPS 13 for this very issue.

Wayland isn’t an option for me yet because I need screensharing under Hangouts, etc.

You can’t mix the HiDPI internal screen with, say, a 1440 external monitor with Gnome on X11. Scaling is applied equally across both.

Also if you drop back to plain text e.g. during boot up the internal screen will show text at 100% scaling and the text is tiny.

I guess that might be something BIOS could take care of but it’s currently a problem.

Sorry, can’t offer comparisons to Windows, I just work with macOS and Linux.
> Humanity doesn't need wilderness to survive and grow

Can you back this up? I agree with the comment by fractallyte that wilderness is a necessity for long-term survival of humans. Also guaranteeing food and water without wilderness has never been attempted before...
wait, you think LOTR is too slow but you like Robert Jordan? I'm pretty sure there are entire books in the Wheel of Time where nothing substansive even happens.
I browse without javascript all the time, sometimes i need to switch to another browser to buy something from some random site, but generally its just a faster better internet with very dodgey sites self selecting themselves out of my usage.

If there is one or two sites i really want to use in my main browser that need JS i can white list that site - but only exactly that site.

I am not an expert but it seems a better experience to me and i don't really think it make me less secure?
Even in well treated environment , speaker placement is critical. I’ve been working in pro audio 30 years and still surprised at how much moving speakers affects their performance.
Partial independence.
Let them govern themselves. The dependency of the rest of China would have led to an automatic alignment...at some point in the past.

But we're talking about China so this is not even imaginable. They'll try to put pressure until they break further, justifying even more pressure and so on.

As far as I've heard they even have a special version of that credit system so there isn't even a viable escape route for those who want to align themselves to the rest of China.
People always say this, but how many HN readers are really running anything even close to the scale of google.com? And how many should worry about completely different things..
How I ported 10K lines of Scala to Kotlin in one week?
> Allow them to secede?

Is that a serious question? If a people no longer wants to be part of a country they should be allowed to secede. The Scottish tried it via a democratic route - which would have succeeded with a wide margin post-Brexit. Actually, the British voted to secede from the EU. The Catalans want to secede from Spain.

But that's besides the point - you're almost implying that it's OK to put people in concentration camps.
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George Orwell is the most influential one I can think of.
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And ATM in the US they're called detention camps for enemy combatants.
I find it odd that the responses from the LIGO team and supporters are so hostile, while it seems Jackson have a fairly constructive perspective:

Jackson says he hope that “our concerns will be taken constructively and lead both to improved methods for data analysis and to a better understanding of LIGO’s results and its exciting long-term potential.”

It seems to me that Jackson just wants to eliminate potential flaws in the result rather than overturn the result itself. Isn't that exactly what we expect from the scientific method?

I wonder if it is a media created image that the tone between the teams are so hostile instead of collaborative.
This is outrageous. I always feel extremely anxious (and in such a case I would also feel angry) and try to imitate I'm not by playing Mr. Spock + smile when passing border (or any other) checks although I'm neither a smuggler nor a terrorist (but have some impostor syndrome). Such a device will probably notice this and put me in problems.
Is the stock posted here a full package (vesting over several years) or yearly vest amount?
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Oh yeah, Apple is being very difficult with this app; stashing all photos in a not easily accessed folder structure, and basically pushing people to preferring sharing via icloud over just the files.
Just remember that CSS3 is already Turing complete.
I'm not working in the field, so I don't really have an idea on how the attitude in banking is towards cloud integration.

I wonder: What is, from a banks perspective, the responsible solution here?

An older MS Office or current MS Office without network connectivity? LibreOffice?

I'm a huge fan of the suite, but, for example, Libres Excel isn't really comparable to MS Excel.
yes, that's a really good way to grow your comp. You have actual leverage when joining a new company that you can use to negotiate.

Obviously you can't really do it too often but whenever you do, your earning potential can be increased by quite a bit.
Most everybody knew who he was in the 90's and The Hobbit was standard fantasy fare - probably the most popular book in the genre.

It's also the basis of the whole high fantasy western culture, including D&D.
Yeah that's a thing Microsoft did a few years ago, they wanted to change the locations and names for certain types of files, but instead of doing a move / copy, they created virtual folders like Documents and Pictures where you can add multiple folders to. It's confusing and I hope they'll offer to consolidate all that at some point.

Which reminds me of iTunes, which I've used on Windows for years. It had an option to automatically consolidate files and store them in a sane location automatically when adding music. It was great.
The thing is that transistors’ behvior is more linear and controlled when fully on or off rather than when used as continuously variable. Class-D can and does sound _amazing_ if built with good theoretical understanding. Check out Hypex amps designed by Dutch engineer Bruno Putzeys on strong control theoretical foundations.
Most workloads don't need the entire storage to be at maximum speed all the time. In other words, in most situations cache is plenty for speed purposes. And the mapping layer can hide the chunk sizes. But we still don't see people writing software based around persistence. Maybe a lot of people are simply stuck in their ways, or maybe the benefits aren't actually that big.

As for cache-warming, that's also a configuration issue. When you reboot, leave the 'cache' portion of DRAM alone. Then as soon as the service resumes, the cache is already hot. When you shut down a node for an extended period, consider spending five minutes writing the cache to disc. And the article is about cloud servers anyway, where a shutdown typically implies losing all local storage whether it's persistent or not.
A friend of mine used a macro tool to automate things like mining, another thing you don't really learn in school.
True enough in the general case as you say, but in this specific case, the data in question was (reportedly) a good fit for a pre-existing model. They made a prediction, ran an experiment, observed the predicted effect, drew a conclusion, and got a Nobel for their trouble.

So the burden of proof is decisively on the accuser here, I'd think.
If they are successful with some sort of most-flat-panel phased array that can talk to two or three satellites simultaneously, I don't think it will be quite as obvious on a roof as a 1.2m cheap small VSAT... But it will still need to be big enough to have sufficient gain for a real link budget, and CNR ratios for complex modulations.

And its EIRP to Tx to a satellite >300km away at bitrates of 0.5 Mbps or better will be easy to find with portable spectrum analyzers hooked up to directional horn antennas.
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I agree. It is a high anxiety-producing situation, even though I'm doing nothing wrong. I travel yearly to other countries and I still get very stressed.
Right now, Google wants to interview me as a front end dev (I have an on site in a couple weeks). Thing is, I'm not; I'm a backend/ infrastructure person. But of their languages I knew Javascript the best. So they gave me a phone screen in that, which I passed; but can I handle an on site in something I haven't really touched in 5 years?

Will I read as senior even if I pass?
I have a saying that we didn't become all of a sudden better people, but that we are over priced like houses in the bay area, subject to similar dynamics because the demand is large and from the wealthiest companies in the world.
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Does anyone have any literature on neuroscience inspired machine learning architectures, specifically more recent ones, 2017 and onward? I believe the push to do formalize computational paradigms in the brain may yield an interesting result.
Which discussion was that?
This article already addressed it: red and black paints are used to cover up imperfections in the less-than-high-quality wood being used .. red and black both being inexpensive paints.
I'll take a finance software engineering job in NYC at these rates. It'll mean relocating, but for a 50% salary hike, I can manage.
You could make an intentionally vague reply saying; "Thanks! Here is the updated contract with my signature back.". Making the other party think you just updated the contract by adding your signature.
Personally, I enjoyed T.H. White immensely more than Tolkien, but this is surely just a matter of personal preferences.
Jin Yong didn't retell any stories, those stories were his own. Unless you see Tolkien as retelling stories of Elves, Dwarves etc. then sure Jin Yong is retelling stories.

"Tolkien melded multiple cultural traditions (the Icelandic Eddas, Anglo-Saxon literature, and rural English life) to create an original world that was at once strange and familiar to his readers"

"Jin Yong wrote stories based in Chinese history, with an extra layer of magic, spirituality, and kick-ass martial arts [to create an original world that was at once strange and familiar to his readers]"
Malthusian fallacy. People have been saying this for centuries. Maybe he can eat grass, but I think I'll stick to my meat.
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Which? I've had conversations worth Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon that all got weird about Ruby. If there are hidden Ruby jobs, I'd love a referral to them
Mostly here: https://www.wuxiaworld.com/
I did not read the article till the very last paragraph. My bad. Of course, I do not refute it. So in this particular case they went open source.

However, from my experience in years of publishing to and reviewing for several APS journals, I stand by my statement. Because of 'publish or perish' nobody wants to give up any 'competitive edge' of their particular research. So there is no incentive system in place to foster an open source everything attitude.
Firstly, it's not "genocide" at all - that's typical hyperbole from a very politically motivated party. His next quote reveals his definition of genocide:

> “They want to erase, erase, erase your identity and our culture and to melt them into Han Chinese.”

That's quite different, and also accurate. They want them to learn Chinese and acknowledge they live in China. Of course.

Interesting that you suggested the Yugoslavian "solution" which required a bloody war, in case you'd forgotten, between ethnic populations of roughly equal sizes and mass displacements. This "solution" could only ever have one outcome if you're seriously suggesting China should simply fight for its land and displace the rebels. That "war" would last roughly until tea time.
Apparently jackson just don’t trust the GW collaborations at all, so I guess he just puts it down to chance?
> Copy-paste programming in core networking code...

There is nothing special about core networking code.
How is your analogy fit with the fact that there was a case where LIGO had a detection then many telescopes were pointing into that region of sky and "seen" the cause.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2150418-gravitational-w...

This is evidence enough for me that LIGO is not detecting noise.
So, basically javascript is used for security through obscurity?
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I have a question: are you familiar with the novels by Barry Hughart? If yes, what is your opinion about these?

(I am genuinely interested in what a Chinese person would think of his own "Wuxia" novels - I enjoyed them very much, but on the other hand, I haven't read anything by Jin Yong - so far at least)?
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This proposal implements clock offsets, but does it support continuous time scaling? One clock-handy use case would be to run your programs really slow or fast (or backwards!), for testing purposes.

What use-case would you have for this? Making sure your program runs properly in the near presence of a black hole?
Why is supply and demand so confusing?
Those three are just the ones that will get you quickest interview scheduled. If you want to do something not listed it'll just take a little longer to find someone to interview you
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Okay. No more Google account. So that means I miss out on... What exactly?