skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've come to develop a nuanced opinion on this.

I used to fully believe what you said, on the grounds that willingness and ability to negotiate have no bearing on how valuable the employee will be (at least for engineering jobs - it could be different for something like sales where dealmaking ability actually matters).

However, one counterpoint I've come to realize is that if an employee doesn't value higher salary that much, it's a waste of money to pay them more. Thus, by only paying higher salaries that put time and effort into arguing for higher salaries, you make sure to only spend that money on the employees that will actually value all the extra money you're throwing at them.
<waves hi!>

As a native Lynchburger who subsequently spent about 15 years in the Raleigh area before moving to San Jose a few years ago, ... I never felt this way growing up in Lynchburg. Yes, Lynchburg is approximately 50% white / 50% black, with approximately 0% any other ethnicity, and the majority of the white population is either exurbs or specific segregated parts of the city. But even though I grew up in Boonsboro I went to RS Payne Elementary downtown and then EC Glass for high school ... in HS, I freely wandered around that part of town after school (usually while waiting for sports practice of some sort). I never felt endangered. Nor, afaik, did my [mostly white] friends.

That's a stupid anecdote, but I think it actually used to be better than it is now, and that mass & social media have created so much fearmongering that more people are hyper-insecure and wary of any unplanned interaction with anyone not in their in-group.
Note on the usage of lookup tables:
Color transitions are hard - their example here looks pretty good but in general tweening between two color spaces in a linear manner can produce unwanted "washing out" or dull in-between states. The problem is not just within the transition of individual colors, but how the relative values of nearby color affect our perception. For example, see this illusion in action:
https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/10284735661933158...
>The problem “how to find the closest 3 light sources and to calculate the distance and an angle was solved with a script running in the Update() loop.
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> Yes, it’s not the quickest way considering how much math is involved. If I programmed it today, I would use that modern Unity Jobs System. But when I did it there was no such thing so I had to optimize regular scripts we had.

I wish they'd let you in on a little more. Because my numb mind says this isn't something you should ever need to optimize. How many light sources do they have, dozens at most? And how many sprites? Dozens/hundreds? That is nothing.. what is this heavy math? I figured all they'd need is a vector from light source to object, and the vector's magnitude.
I usually reply with my reason, especially if it may not be obvious to the OP.
I have a weekday subscription, so I do read it regularly.
Except right wing populists aren't satisfied with bashing against those not willing to immigrate. The Bavarian government makes cultural assimilation as hard as possible (well, "made", at least actually. That topic died down in the media recently). Like forcing them into central camps instead of spreading them out over the country. Or deporting even those with a job and lots of backing in their newfound community. Since being hard on immigrants the kind of pandering their voters want. They willingly accept worse outcomes for all of us.
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Hi Chris, thanks for posting. Just reached out to you via HN form. Cheers!
> the first time they turned on the kitchen sink, clear water came out... but also worms.

Whatever water tank/deposit they used had not been cleaned in ages. Surprising considering recruits are basically free workforce.
>> It could be elderly consumers who consistently get bitten by a rough edge in the UX.

Or the elderly customers who call just because they want someone to talk to. I used to do some PCI compliance work and occasionally had to listen in on customer calls to call centers (to verify procedures were being followed). They don't want service. They want to chat. They may have some small issue with the UI, but then they want to add something to the order. Does it come in red? Will it match the one I ordered last week? Will the delivery people set it up? Can I make sure it doesn't arrive on monday because I'm going to the doctor?
How can you claim "we're a remote-first business" when you're saying Chicago and San Diego candidates are first?
You have learned to use big words and have taken a logic course perhaps...but have learned nothing. I have not moved the goal posts, I have stated several things about human history/governments that are as apparent as the sky is blue. OP being the pot was calling the kettle black. You are saying that the pot is not black, I asked you to show where it is not, you refuse - because you can't.
>(or, perhaps more precisely, detecting humans and excluding bots) is obviously part of that

Detecting humans is not the same as detecting bots. The algorithms are different, running a simple "negate human" clause isn't how it works. It's well known Facebook has a bot problem and is now working on addressing it.

>G is somewhat well-known for it's tools for this, including at least one that is widely used by lots of other actors on the web.

G's captcha solution is a great freemium service but any sophisticated attacker will spend the time and money to bypass it. If it solved the bot problem the paid services wouldn't exist (they're definitely not cheap). The other issue with G's service is that the automated garbage is still hitting your compute resources. So even if you captcha you're spending money on automated bad traffic.
You will roll out a fix in your application. Just like every major website when Chrome breaks something.

The scenario that Chrome is so broken you can't handle it with an update is even less likely, I'd imagine.
I worked on a game with very similar dynamic lighting. I wrote a blog post that goes into more detail code-wise on how I did it if anyone is interested: http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/dynamic-lighting-and-shado...
I don't agree; most new projects I see are like this[1] - just the code, a reasonable description and some documentation.

The flashy projects are probably more likely to appear on HN/Reddit, but I don't think they're at all more common.

[1] https://github.com/vervallsweg/cast-web-api
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Good Machiavellian way to oust competing managers as well. Personally, that would be a horrible thing to do to another person, but then again, we know at least some of these managers kept silent during this whole fiasco; we're not talking about saints here.
Courts are too OP. Un-elected officials with 0 accountability getting to override legislation put forth by elected officials seems silly.

I don't know what the 'right' system is, but the current one allows for situations like the one in the article to be perfectly OK and, IMHO, is broken.
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"just a mom'n'pop. But we knew our customers"

There was no illusions then. Now, however, people often think of big companies in an abstract way. The "you're just a number" way. And they are a number, but not just an equal customer number, but instead a "value as a customer" way.
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This could _possibly_ be because Unity's scripting engine is Mono/C# which might not be optimal for doing large amounts of math in tight loops in this particular case.

100% supposition.
Facebook is a platform where you can promote your business or political agenda and still reach a large amount of people regardless of your budget. The media doesn't cover all of the good that digital advertising does for people who are trying to make a difference and wouldn't be able to afford an ad in a major news paper.
I've noticed this as well. Running a home together with a partner, especially with children in the picture, is an organizational challenge not unlike any other. It involves a lot of listening, acting, planning, budgeting, and keeping calm in the face of (neverending) problems. When I show up to work, it's more of the same.
That's way too simplistic (and judgmental). I'm not fond of plain water, but "hates the taste of not-sugar" doesn't explain why I'd find unsweetened tea or lemonade preferable. Yes, really. Heck, I'd find salt water preferable in terms of taste, though it's a bad idea for other reasons. What theory do you have for why you're still a superior person?
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Thanks, those are the kind of chips I was looking for. And S/PDIF to I2S transceivers are also available, so they could be used with common consumer audio equipment.
> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Despite what you may have been led to believe, absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence.

More details here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mnS2WYLCGJP2kQkRn/absence-of...
> “No government has direct access to any of our users’ data,” said an unidentified company spokesperson.

"...unidentified company spokesperson."

If this was a true statement, why wouldn't anyone at Microsoft be willing to hang their name on it?
There are quite a large number of forgeries we have that date to the classical or early medieval era, that are recognized as important works of their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Dionysius_the_Areopagit...

for example.
One System, Universal Service?
"shibboleet"

https://xkcd.com/806/
There are no studies showing that percentage of people carrying a firearm is in any way connected to the crime rate. Once you account for all the other variables, there isn't any correlation.
I would be pretty surprised if most of the MBA-bro management at any FAANG had even heard of TBL, let alone gives a stuff about what he might say.
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It’s important to note that we’re often valuable and non valuable in various parts of our life. For example AA might think highly of me but my phone company might not. Maybe I just had a bad run of luck with them, if 300 million people flip coins all day some will get tails 10 times in a row some days.

Treating everyone with some base level of respect and fairness is the only way to ensure you, or anyone, isn’t subjected to awful outcomes from time to time.
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US anti trust enforcement often looks at consumer harm (which seems to focus on immediate obvious harm, or lack thereof). So adjusting the law such that the anti trust rules are stricter.

The massive consolidation in soo many US industries I think has done a large disservice to the country and long term prospects for the economy by massively reduced competition
Reproduced the bug in Golang. Pretty simple stuff. https://github.com/unixpickle/cve-2018-4407
This is still one of my favourite IgNobel winners for Physics from 1999: The optimal way to dunk a biscuit in a cup of tea *

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462987.stm

* biscuit = cookie in the UK
Exactly. The walk-out is supposedly to support "women's rights." I'm a woman right here, right now, giving my opinion. I'm being downvoted, shouted down, dismissed as naive, etc ad nauseum by people (mostly men, some of whom have a known track record of pretending to be pro women's rights while treating me personally like absolute crap) defending the folks who walked out at Google.

Color me unimpressed. Methinks if all these good guys were so interested in women's rights, it would be possible for me to get a smidgen more respect here.

But, no. And pointing that out gets further dismissed as "I don't have any clue what you're going on about."

Par for the course. And it's a big part of why I am highly skeptical that anything will actually be changed by this walk-out. If men at Google really wanted to change the culture, they could start right here, right now, in this very discussion with actually taking my questions seriously and treating me with respect instead of piling on to stomp me into the ground for saying "I don't get it. Seems to me there's maybe a better way to approach this."

Anyway, before the mods* decide that my comments here somehow constitute bad behavior for baldly saying some of the things that people the world over never like having said to them about blatantly obvious hypocrisy, I think I'm done with this utterly pointless discussion.

* Not an attack on the mods here. They've been awesome. Just long experience tells me that pushing it too much is nothing but downside.

edit:

Edit: oh, and if you regularly get kicked off of forums, perhaps it had to do with situations like these? You seem to be overreacting in a very strange and hard to follow way, that comes off kind of aggressively.

Ah, yes, let's blame the woman in the overwhelmingly male forum and say she's just behaving badly by suggesting that the guys could actually be respectful to an actual woman if they actually think women's rights are important. Bonus points for this bit of "la la la not listening at all to a word she's saying."
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tlaplus

This is the Google group and it has Lamport and others chiming in with answers to questions regularly. Though it's not terribly active.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tlaplus/

The subreddit for it. Hillel Wayne (author of this article) and Ron Pressler (pron here, pron98 on reddit) both frequent the site and post content to it. It's not terribly active, but it exists.

I think this is something that doesn't quite have a widespread and public community. Which is unfortunate, but it's just advanced enough for many to feel it's beyond them, and just abstract enough for others to feel it has no (or very limited) utility.

I will recommend exploring it though. I spent some time about 2 or 3 years back learning it to a moderate degree and successfully applied it to some problems at work. Though I haven't used it much since then.
A 1960's Unimog may not be that large but those aren't what we're talking about. Most overland trucks you'll find in Africa and South America are modern cab-over 4x4 chassis (Unimog, other Merc models, Mann, Fuso, etc), in the range of 20ft (6m) long, 8ft (2.4m) wide, and 10ft (3m) high. The cutaway chassis alone is $50-75k new.
Haven't used it, but this site looks like a great resource and is in my queue to go through.

https://learntla.com/introduction/
You might be surprised to know many (most?) libertarians are against privatization of prisons, policing, courts, national parks service, and so on.

Also, the GOP is completely fine with the military industrial complex, big budget deficit spending, tariffs, and other anti-free market policies.
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Wow - Services grew 27% year-on-year to $10bn! For comparison, AWS made about $6.8bn in Q3.

That's bananas. And it's more than just Apple Music / iCloud storage; it's the "ecosystem lock-in" and the glue that keeps folks from bouncing away from Apple hardware.

Congrats to the team!
You can have them, and you can even carry them in public if you have a good reason. Poster said "these are illegal" and that's not true.
Couldn't you use JWT's with both an access token and a refresh token? The access token can have a fairly short expiry time, after which you hit the auth service with the refresh token, at which point you can handle any token invalidation, while still allowing most of your requests to go through just using the JWT.
> Something Ive never understood (not in the sense of I dont agree. What I really mean is I'm uneducated on the topic and would like to find out more, but my searches returned little, since it's a pretty heated topic), is why the company should be the primary responsible entity for this.

Because sexual harassment is a form of illegal sex-based employment discrimination by the company. Individual unwelcome acts that don't rise to that level aren't sexual harassment (legally), but may be warning signs that if not corrected rise to the level of an offense by the company.

> Maybe for light cases where someone just need a stern talking to, but a lot of the cases are downright criminal acts.

And for those, the company’s responsibility as regards harassment does not negate the role of law enforcement as regards the criminal violation. The police are not pushed aside in favor or private action. In addition, harassment events, whether or not a crime is involved, can be directly reported to federal, or usually also state (who will dual-file with the federal EEOC), anti-discrimination authorities; the employer process mostly if a mechanism to catch conduct before it reaches the level of discrimination and to manage the company's exposure when it did reach that level.

> Shouldn't it be better to have law enforcement handle it, and have companies forced to cooperate instead?

That's not an “instead” or “better”, because the options aren't mutually exclusive; where a criminal accusation is involved,law enforcement retains their usual role in investigating and prosecuting crimes, including compulsory process which can be directed at parties with relevant information, including employers.
$59.5b in net income ($70.9b in operating income) for the last four quarters, staggering.

Their annual sales of $265b puts them ahead of the GDP of countries such as Portugal, New Zealand, Egypt and Finland.
Not only is the utter cheapness of materials a problem, but the complete lack of architectural integrity as well.

I walk around some places and they are a total mishmash. Guess what - there are no architects for most of these things, just CAD guys grabbing stuff from here and there without thinking, mishmashing it together.

Our homes are like poorly cropped photoshop mishmashes of random photos from the internet.

I was once visiting Tunisia, a local man was showing me around, he pointed out the fountain that his brother designed. He said he didn't like it, I didn't see why. He point out that the perimeter was Arabic, and the main fountain was colonial i.e. Italian renaissance. As soon as he pointed that out, even my untrained eye could see the issue immediately, I was like 'oh yeah' obviously.

This guy was not educated, I'm not sure how literate he was, and yet even he could point out basic architectural issues.

The world is such a mix we forget what the components are, and are unfortunately not able to forge our own. I feel it's not quite a 'nice mix' but 'lowest / cheapest common denominator' in most things.
Those are mostly advice for building a business, not necessarily an open source project.
I know HOW to build it, I just don't have a million dollars laying around to actually do it. The prototype needs to be built inside an MRI machine.
I guess in the case of humans we have partly outpaced natural selection - nature hasn't had time to optimise for the reality we are creating, it's too slow. Short term impulses which have worked great (until now) still govern our behaviour.

It's not altruism to try to avert long term disaster beyond your own life span. It's in your own interest to ensure your progeny survives - even several generations in the future they still carry your genes. But I don't know if inbuilt mechanisms for this exist in evolution.

I'd like to think self-inflicted extinction isn't a likely outcome of evolution - but maybe it is once a certain species dominates.