skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inequality isn't the right measure unless you make some assumptions that have, historically, not held (e.g. fixed total amount of wealth). All you care about is that the poorest people can afford somewhere to live.

Toy example: If everyone can afford a home, and then Jeff Bezos increases his wealth by 1000x, inequality goes up but no one becomes homeless.

I'm not saying wealth inequality is meaningless, but I think making it a primary concern creates an instance of Goodhart's law.
You know that neurolinguistic programming is pseudoscientific new age magic bullshit, right?

Normally I give people the benefit of the doubt and presume they meant natural language processing and expanded the acronym wrong, but I can't see how that could apply here.
Devices like the Librem 5 cannot come fast enough...
​Dell XPS 13: The best Linux laptop of 2018
Yeah, I was 100% cribbing off Taleb's broad point, which I'm familiar with. Do you know if he's suggested this particular idea, or something similar?
Containers are conceptually simple. Products like Kubernetes, Docker, etc which need to be sold or have a for-profit motive, on the other hand, need to be complex so the supporting company can sell software and support contracts.

The two purposes are directly opposed to each other.
Well, pegs with a defined fluctuation boundary aren't that uncommon, for example, Danish Krona currently is pegged to Euro in such a manner - where it's pegged to within +/- 2.25% of a specific rate.

In essence, if you declare a plausible intent of keeping a rate near 1$ by accepting limitless orders to buy it at 0.98$ and sell it at 1.02$, and can keep that promise, then that's a decent peg.
> What job do you think exists where you don't need these skills?

These jobs do exist. Data entry, library clerk, trucker, for three. These are basically asocial.

Also, there are jobs where—despite being "social" in the sense of requiring collaboration—this collaboration is structured and formalized, such that you just have to "do your part" without any room for getting to know anyone. For example, line cooks, orchestra members, and, of course, soldiers.

I want to address a deeper assumption you've made here, though. You're making it seem like there are two types of people—people who have "solved" their problems (probably through therapy), and people who just "have" the problem and don't know what to do.

But you know what? Social anxiety disorder (as opposed to an environmentally-induced social phobia) isn't something you can "solve." It's something you manage. And getting a job that's less social—or being less social in other aspects of life—is exactly one of the management strategies that a therapist will recommend.

In the words of my girlfriend's psychiatrist:

> As a sufferer of social anxiety, you only have so much social energy, so much willpower that you can dedicate to this task each day. You might be able to overcome a few obstacles successfully, but at some point you'll deplete your reserve of self-confidence, and the next time you attempt to interact with someone, you'll begin to spiral. This creates—and reinforces—a low self-evaluation of your social abilities, a dislike of socializing, and a sense of learned helplessness.

> So, don't do that! Limit your exposure to social stimuli down to an amount you can handle each day, without becoming flustered. Hopefully you will be able to work your way up, but it's okay if that takes a very long time. Choose one part of your life you want to work on becoming more social in—work, romantic relationships, family, hobbies. In all other aspects of your life, restrict the amount of social contact, to decrease the likelihood of any "emergency expenses" of your social willpower popping up from those directions. You want to feel in control of social interactions—and the first step to doing that is to stop having scary, uncontrolled, overwhelming social interactions! Prune your life back to just the simple ones, and build up from there.
Yeah I'm dealing with crap out of that area atm.

I've been recently asked why I'm extremely restrictive and careful with our primary production cluster. Well, we got 20k+ full time employees of our customers depending on this system for their everyday work. An hour of downtime of this thing will cost our end customers 20k man-hours of work done in a worse way.

We're not touching the tooling this system sits on without good reason and a lot of testing. And even then I'll be bloody scared. Sorry modern world, but in this case, I'll be wearing my hard ops hat.
Apparently I'm the only one who thinks it is, so I'll volunteer that I found it funny because it's unexpected and shocking, yet almost plausible enough to be believed, given Linus Torvalds' track record as a sometime verbal abuser of adults. Speaking of which, I just realized it also includes an unintentional satirical subtext that highlights the difference between how Linus most likely treats children (probably not like this) and how he demonstrably has treated adults (exactly like this). Which isn't "funny" per se, but there's your explanation. Explanations are rarely funny either, nor do they generally result in suddenly getting the joke and laughing. But I suspect that wasn't your aim anyway.
Agree. I also work in the building industry (Electrical Engineering - power distribution for buildings) and I love software because of the instant feedback loop.

In software, you make a typo and you get an error immediately. You fix it and go on.

In architecture, you make a typo and you hear about it 6 months later, and it's a $200,000 change order (exaggerating...somewhat).
Congrats Tracy!
>>I'd estimate the majority of active contributors to HN earn $150-300k

I can't think of any meaningful way to resolve this, but I'm guessing the majority earn less than $150k...
As soon as I read the title I started to wonder what (if anything) this means for Fuchsia. At first I thought “oh, they’re doubling down on Linux-powered Android and that in turn means they’ll be setting Fuchsia aside” to “ah, adding a HAL to the Linux kernel and reproducing it’s interfaces elsewhere is a great way to enable proprietary devices to switch OSes”. Does anybody more knowledgeable in the matter have other thoughts?
how people got there is one thing, the main tools to "fix it" are fairly straightforward: give people housing

The solution sounds straightforward, the path to get there looks like a Gordian knot. How do you pay for it? How do you get that funding source to go along with your plans to pay for it? Etc.
From an iPad App that made it easier to read blueprints to $875M. Amazing.

I had the fortune of listening to Tracy Young while at YC and the story of the company and her other founder was inspiring. I wonder if this is the shape of what will happen with other companies like Remix (former TransitMix).
Not that I can't appreciate what you are saying but it is also true that actions can speak louder than words. It isn't what you say that matters, it is what you do.

It is one thing to say you aren't a racist, but if if you act like one all the time then congratulations, you actually are a racist even if you never say you are one.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck.... it's probably a duck.
Right now a fairly tight circle of people decide for others how to spend vast amounts of time. It's not even very efficient as many jobs carry bullshit hours requirements. So after increasing free time by a large amount, a very small number of people start choosing different areas to innovate in, it still ends up as a large growth area for innovation, or social interaction, or whatever humans value individually instead of what old line accounting values.
Income equality is more about the top end changing dramatically than the bottom end changing dramatically.

"LA SF NYC are too rich and too business and super-wealthy-friendly" is a very different argument than the one you're making, and yet the only thing you note could support it just as well. So maybe it's more complicated than that.
Absolutely -- and you can see this even in the article. They talk about raising fares and cutting service, with no acknowledgement that their primary source of income shouldn't be fares, and their primary budget cuts shouldn't come from reduced service.

This article from last year does a much better job of covering how things have gotten to the state they're in - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Regret-stergram
Unions are definitely the primary driver. Construction unions in New York are using current contracts to pay for their pension liabilities. In other words, taxpayers today are paying for work that was done 30 years ago. This guy is sort of irritating if you have to read him for more than a few hours, but his blog is full of evidence and analysis on this topic.

https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/an-open-se...
Textgenrnn: train your own text-generating neural network
When it comes to stuff like housing, government regulations like zoning can stand in the way.

If we had an unfettered market perhaps cheap apartments could be built and given to the homeless by charity. In practice new housing that complies with all zoning codes, labor regulations, etc ends up costing quite a lot.

Government certainly has a role to play here even if it is just changing policies to stop driving up costs. Of course governments also have eminent domain power and other powers that private organizations can’t access.
The sole purpose of this is to help eliminate some of the pain for people attending re:Invent. The scheduling interface isn't great. I did this for myself and thought I'd share.
Pretty amazing piece of code, the loss of the C API is sad since a number of embedded systems started there and are skittish about going to C++11. I used version 3 to build a simple license plate reader that I had stuck in an upstairs window for a time. Combine that with the simple IMSI catcher that was referenced here a while ago and you've got your own little neighborhood watch station with some pretty grown up capabilities.
As if a Republicans-run state would solve the problem. That's a good joke
Yeah sorry, you're 100% correct.

Lose your inhibitions is bad advice, my point was more to go to the social gatherings, make an effort to relax and talk to people.

It's purely my own experience that alcohol helps with this, as I can identify with OP, and I've found alcohol to help with my own anxiety in these situations, and has helped me relate to people and make friends.
Which is why so many people hiring gardeners get poor results. Mow and blow is cheap and easy but also extremely bad at generating healthy landscapes.
Star Power: Carl Sagan’s 1970 Porsche 914 (2016)
I think there's another aspect here that the author is missing: break expectations, but do it in a way that confirms existing biases.

It's not just "this thing people believe is wrong", but "this thing people believe is wrong, but you were never one of those people, were you? you and me, we're more clever than that". breaking expectations in a way that makes people feel stupid for having those expectations in the first place isn't going to win you an audience.

- snowboarding with the NYPD: haven't you always wanted the roads to be shut down for everybody else, and you were the only one allowed on them?

- Bike Lanes: authority figure doing something stupid, gets called out for it. everybody's got a bit of an anti-authority streak and can sympathise with this

- Make it Count. spend a big company's money on your personal travel? who wouldn't want to do that.

- Bike thief: it's easy to see how viewers would like to feel they'd be better than all the people who ignored the "bike theives"

- iPod’s Dirty Secret: doesn't everybody wish their electronics lasted longer, and harbor a suspicion that the big rich tech companies are ripping them off?
> Definitely read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

Don't. You'll become utterly disgusted when you realize how many people use the "hacks" from that book on you and expect certain outcomes. Or if you insist, you can anti-hack them by doing the opposite of what they expected if you are bored (though significantly lowering your chances in the game of politics). Anyway, you'll see a pointless boring game played on all levels. Never seen a (not very capable) person perceivably insincerely asking something in a certain way, self-assured of its success, with arrogant body language, and then considering a person doing what was asked a disposable, predictable trash? Well, that book has something to do with it, even if it seemingly teaches the opposite, but certain agile people use it as a human hacking manual.
I see no reference to the dead salmon in the MR scanner showing correlative activation via spam mapping. Those results somewhat having been a hinderance to quite a few PET and fMRI researchers’ careers.
You can pretty much get anywhere on the ny subway system and it's pretty cheap. Bay area public transport is more expensive and it doesn't even go everywhere.
Yes. It is a deficiency/roadblock to adoption.

One that could improve.
Ah crap, I had an offer from them a few years back with good equity comp, guess I should've taken it haha...

They seemed like a really great company with mature management.
What are you saying, employee costs are the majority of expense for just about any business. It's the whole point of the economy.
Honestly, it's extremely difficult to update the kernel since it's usually tied to the BSP the SoC vendor is providing.
Also, you gotta keep in mind the difficulties associated with the lazy 3rd parties providing drivers for a single kernel version, making updates almost impossible.
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Disclosure : I work for an OEM as a system architect, and it's been one of my goals to try and get newer kernel versions running. (Suffice to say I failed so far)
I had a very similar experience. Cash flow issues during a desperate push to market of a self-financed business. My car was surprise repossessed.

I quickly pulled the cash together (it was on the cusp of a large payment coming to me) to buy it out and pay penalties and encountered a very similar experience to you. I immediately demanded to buy it out to be told I had to wait until they "calculated the amount owing". This simple bit of arithmetic took almost a week, during which they were charging me something to the tune of $200 a day. Finally they gave me the pay out amount so I headed to the fortified bunker where they keep the vehicles -- some gray building in an industrial park surrounded by giant fences -- and an employee saw me so I said I was there to see the guy who told me to come. He walked me into their bullpen and when the guy realized who I was it was like they thought I was going to shoot the place up. It was apparently a major security breach for them, all while I could hear their lines of employees doing what sounded like credit sales calls (I guess they multipurpose).

Every single penalty was grossly beyond any reasonable amount (every player in this scheme wanted their pound of flesh), but I paid it all and got my SUV. Found out later that one of the airbags mysteriously went missing during this period.

They can get away with this because as a society we have a sort of moral attitude about debt. A "they had it comin'" attitude that many people have, until the system turns on them.
If you can't harbor any feeling for even a huge, complex and intelligent mammal, you're a much bigger threat to the environment than 6kg of plastic could ever be.
Engineering Management (lessons from Facebook) (2009)
Absolutely, Tracy and the rest of the founding team are a force. Their YC story was awe inspiring and emotional.

Tracy was one of the first people to believe in me, and encourage me to apply to YC.

Glad to see this wonderful news for PlanGrid, and hope to see many more big things coming from them now that they’re at AutoDesk!
> suddenly we get very "every person for themselves" the second homelessness has a price tag.

A confounding factor involved here is that many government strategies for dealing with the homeless are endless money pits without noticeable results. I think a lot of people would be more comfortable with their tax dollars going to that purpose if they didn't feel like nothing was actually happening from it.
Talking about the politics of it and pointing out the issue, or even joining a straphanger lobbyist group are about as relevant to the real politics involved as playing Sim City 2000 and making your own subway layout. Numerous mayors and governors have tried and failed to fix an issue that is much larger than can be addressed just on the local level. There are also issues with how labor disputes work in the US that can't be addressed purely on the local level. Part of the problem is encompassed in a much larger problem that other unrelated entities have to deal with: dysfunctional impacts of precedents and legislation in US labor law. And indeed, the response that many companies have had to the failure of attempts to reform US labor law has been to just leave the US entirely and/or to just go bankrupt due to failure to work things out with unions partly owing to the widely acknowledged inflexibility of US law in this area.

There are many issues like this in which the resolution is really clear on an intellectual level. When it involves screwing the existing stakeholders, it should not be surprising when those stakeholders use all the leverage they have to resist being deprived of what they have.

For example: Medicare is broke, it doesn't take 195 space alien IQ to see that you have to implement means testing to make the system fiscally whole, but good luck proposing it because you will be annihilated politically if you do. It does not take having a giant 900 pound brain to see that you have to screw the union and blow up the MTA to fix the system. But good luck doing it. And it makes perfect sense for the average AARP member to send in their contributions to protect their entitlements under the law even if they understood intellectually that the government cannot afford to maintain that entitlement in the future.
> The 1% may have 50% (or more) of the money, but they only have 1% of the votes.

Yes, but that money also buys political votes via contributions, political influence, and affects legislation favorably towards themselves. Look at how much money Google alone spent in 2017 on lobbying ($18M). If that wasn't gaining them tremendous influence, I highly doubt they'd be doing it. Not to single Google out (they just spent more than anyone else last year)... they all do it... because they have the money to do it... and it pays off.

The 1% have a lot more influence than just their "1 vote each."

http://fortune.com/2018/01/24/google-facebook-amazon-apple-l...
This is fairly clear.

Republicans are generally kinder and more willing to help their fellow man, all the while Democrats are doing nothing except bemoaning racism.
He means move to a commutable distance away : )
Ctrl-F England and here you are. I’ve been searching for someone more informed than me that has compared and contrasted the two but haven’t found anything.
Introduction to Virtual Go (2013)
JavaScript – The State in 2018
SF can't even provide affordable housing for the working class. People with full time jobs.

It's a city where you need to be making >$100k/yr to even get a 1 bd apt.
I prefer biggest exit, don't want to always assume acquisitions.
The Second Ave line is a disaster like you'd expect in any multi-billion-dollar infrastructure in the US, but it's not fair to call it "100 years in the making". It was proposed and planned 100 years ago, but cancelled. Then they worked on it for three years in the 70s, but the recent work wasn't begun until 2007. Again, still a disaster, but an order of magnitude less than how "100 years in the making" makes it sound. They weren't working on it steadily since 1919 :)
oh my god someone smoked weed!! better run a complete audit on everything. How many boeing employees have drunk alcohol? sounds like much ado about nothing.
She also learned that when you see something wrong, and you have the ability to fix it, it's a good thing to do so. Many big problems (speaking broadly here, not just about software engineering) really consist of such tiny things that aggregate, and can be tackled in a decentralized fashion if most people bothered to contribute just a little, even when it feels like the effort is minuscule and worthless.

Think of it as the equivalent of picking up a small piece of litter on the street, and throwing it into the nearby trash can.
Awesome, congrats - amazing seeing this hard work pay off!
Not to mention, the number of people typing "fbcdn.net" into a browser has to be vanishingly small to begin with.
Do you have a source? Is that true for all charities, or just some organizations?
Please see what I added to my previous comment. You could in principle do it in the "right" order and you would get the same result. They routinely solve quantum optics problems using standard QM and the experimental results match the predictions.

What he shows in that paper is that the order of the measurments is irrelevant [1]. So he does solve the problem in the reverse order where it can be done easily writing a few quantum states [2].

Note that QM is not about causal connections, is about correlation. Once a pair is correlated, the correlation may appear when measurements are done. But it's not that observing one outcome here and now "causes" a particular outcome there and later (or before). One doesn't need to keep superpositions to think it "correlation" terms (instead of "causal" terms).

[1] Using the projection postulate in the derivation: "Say we have indeed measured on B and got OB = bJ . The state then collapses onto ..." He concludes: "None of this looks very surprising, but we want to stress that the total probability to find OA = aI and OB = bJ does not depend on the place or time at which the measurements occur."

[2] He also uses the projection postulate here in the usual way: "So the experimental outcome (encoded in the combined measurement outcomes) is bound to be the same even if we would measure the idler photon earlier, i.e. before the signal photon by shortening the optical path length of the downwards configuration. Then, if the idler is detected at D4 for example, the above state ‘collapses’ onto ..."
The issue is really that the MTA is funded and controlled by the State of New York, while it predominantly serves the City of New York. Since the population (especially the voting population) of the city is <0.5 of the state population, but the city is an outsized chunk of the state's total economy, the state uses funding of the transit system as a weapon to get the city to acquiesce to other demands.

Hence why the NYC mayor is so intent on funding worthless streetcars and ferries; they let him get out from under the thumb of the state.
See my sibling comment to yours. The outrageousness and unlikeliness of yelling at a 4-year-old (the noobiest of noobs) is exactly why I found it funny in the first place.
Good luck to PlanGrid. Eventually the corporate bureaucracy causes enough frustration to make the best people want to leave after the handcuffs have expired. I hope Autodesk has learned lessons from its prior acquisitions and can integrate them effectively.

I remember an anecdote from the current CEO of Autodesk. A few years ago, while having dinner with his wife at a San Francisco restaurant, he was seated next to a group of PlanGrid employees who proceeded to talk about their strategy. At the time, he said he was unimpressed with PlanGrid. Times have changed!

And be careful where you have your public conversations.
I don't know what sort of luminosity a GRB would have at 8k LY. But if it's strong enough to be an ELE, that's still a pretty short timeframe, in case the expected GRB jets will be pointed at us. We'd need to not only get off the planet, but to another star system entirely.
Oh, it seems that OpenCV 4.0 does not support more easy to use/bind C API. Sad.