skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal but I have long noticed a correlation between money and “skin care” at the spectrum of middle class level. In high school and college when I was dating a lot, the girls with the best acne control/make up regiment we more often to live in a better neighborhood so I assume richer family. I’m sure there’s some social component of their mom dresses up nice, cares about looks, and has passed that down.

Now I’m married now and know the costs of maintaining my wife’s face. It’s not cheap at all. A few hundred dollars a month at MAC. And she doesn’t really do much extra in terms of serums/lotions/spa but I think she does buy premium makeup (not luxury). She’s fairly “basic” in her needs but enough to be girly. It just adds up quick and it doesn’t last long.

Hair cuts and shampoos and nail care are also pretty big expenses. Probably averaging another 200-300 a month.

Dang. I’ve never added it up like this. This is crazy! So my wife’s grooming costs about $500 a month.
Bad example, as May called an election in 2017, 2 years after the prior election.
You have to either make the benefit too low, or the cost too high of doing the attacks.

And I don't think we're close to doing either in the case of China.
There is already a good name for something like this: PDA.
There's a pretty big difference between midwesterners that grew up in rural areas and ones that grew up in cities. The cultural values might not be that different depending on where you're actually from.
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Games have the equivalent of directors who receive millions, like Sid Meier, Tim Sweeny, John Carmack, Gabe Newell, Markus Persson.
And movies have the equivalent of underpaid overworked devs: extras and grips and so on.

No, they really don't. Sid Meier, et al, make relatively little of the money of the games sold under their name, with the exception of Carmack and Newell, who own/majority owned their studios outright.

In contrast, the spoils in Hollywood and Music are shared with a much larger group, which sustains the industry in a way that the obscenely hit-based nature of gaming can't.

Also, to note: almost all workers on a Hollywood production (meaning movies released in America, not just those actually made in Hollywood, CA) are union members or protected by union rules even if they aren't yet members. Even extras. After your third role as an extra, you generally have to get/qualify for SAG-AFTRA membership.

Finally: Hollywood has the lovely concept of overtime. I have a great many friends who work in the industry, and they love overtime. It starts at time and a half, and the multiple increases every few hours over the day and week so that theoretically a crew member (but not cast member) could be making 5x of their base hourly rate after a few days of Hollywood's equivalent of crunch time. (Exact amount of hours in a day/week before hourly rates go above 1.5x varies per union, but generally starts at 12 hours/day or 50 hours/week). Needless to say, because abusing their workers gets so expensive, studios plan production to limit crunch time during a production. While it's relatively common for production schedules to include overtime, generally only mismanaged productions run into crunch time.

There is no equivalent in the gaming industry, and so crunch time of a year or two is common (see e.g., EA and Telltale Games). F/X studios operate like gaming studios, so those workers are relatively abused. Like game programmers and other game studio employees, they have largely resisted unionization and so are generally the only group of Hollywood workers that can be said to be both unpaid and overworked.
Financiers understand how extraction makes money. They will have to learn how storage makes money.
The movie equivalent of devs is probably set builders, prop builders, people working on visual effects, costume design and artistic makeup. These are highly skilled jobs, but these people are considered replaceable by the movie executives, and so are not paid millions. The same can be said for devs. If you want to be paid a lot, you have to convince people that you are not replaceable.
Demanding "plane-ness" is the mistake here: you're throwing in a kind of glib idealism. If instead you demand "the possibility of forming lots and lots of electron bonds in a shape capable of performing flight" then the iron atoms did "have an amount" of the property necessary for being a plane.
This could possibly be combined with multiprocessing for great effect? I'm imaging something like having a pool of workers executing tasks (/reacting to events/serving requests/etc), and only running gc after the task has been done, but before indicating readyness to the supervising process (/loadbalancer/etc).
How is it possible that a better and easier plan was never considered to rebuilding the tunnels? This had been in deliberation for years and they only just now decided they didn't have to? If anything this just highlights the incompetence of the city.
Coconut, aka take a beautiful language and fuck it up with ugly syntax :D Well done!
I don't know about you, but all of my electrons diabolically thwart my every effort to contain or direct them, especially at higher frequencies. Petulant little bastards those electrons...
You mean you want to store your packages in your own S3 bucket? Sure, this is something we can look into adding
I am not a coal hater, however... My understanding is that there are trace amounts of uranium in coal, so burning coal puts that uranium into the air. Even a tiny amount of uranium per ton, translates to a lot when you consider how many tons of coal per year is burned.
> This is a uniquely SF setup for restaurants and it drives me nuts.

I waited in line in Paris at both Obermama (pizza & cocktails) and Kotteri Naritake (butter ramen with very few seats). I've been told to come back in an hour at a favorite spot (corsican food with very few seats).

It definitely happens elsewhere.
Android has a stable ABI for drivers since Treble, which kind of forced Linux into a pseudo-microkernel architecture, allowing for user space drivers written in either Java or C++, communicating over the HIDL messages/shared mem.
I think people miss the point that it is just a compilation check, but the runtime is still completely dynamic. If you are writing typescript that interacts with anything else in the world the types make no guarantees at runtime so it is important to know how Vanilla JS would behave in that circumstance.
The only reason I have any vague understanding of this article is all thanks to PBS Space Time on Youtube.

It's an amazing series. Must watch if you want to know how much we humans understand about our universe.
> Up close, most are sort of gross looking and not well maintained

Up close a lot of the USA looks unmaintained compared to Europe/Australia.

Every time a foreign friend visit me there it would only take a couple of hours for them to say something like "...everything looks kind of half finished" , or "wow, this place is falling apart"
their website seems down (maybe thanks to HN?) but there are videos of this you can check out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=looking+glass+h...
But it doesn't necessarily mean that devs aren't underpaid for what they produce.
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Writers get paid very little, too. There are outliers, but for the most part, scripts demand very little money even when they are turned into movies.

Writing staff on hit tv shows also don't see the monetary gain that actors do unless they own the production, which is rare.
Mike Rowe is deep in the pocket of the Koch brothers, he's very anti-union.

He wants people to work hard and suck it up, instead of unionizing and fighting for fair treatment.
I've always thought this problem was interesting and it's one of the reasons it's a real shame that amateur radio doesn't allow encrypted communications. I get that you can still do it anyways if you're willing to skirt an unjust law in the name of a higher code of ethics, but it would be handy to have it be a normal occurrence and get some herd immunity out of it.

Of course I'm also aware it's not nearly that simple, that if ham bands allowed lots of discrete encrypted communication they'd just get filled up with commercial and business users taking advantage of the privacy and snatching up free bandwidth. I'm not a genius by a long shot, but I have to wonder if there's some solution for this. Maybe some kind of open-source encrypted radio modem which operates in ham or underutilized radio bands that someone could design and put out on a torrent server for people in these situations to access and build. It would be highly illegal to possess one, but what about just designing it? People using it in desperate situations under authoritarian regimes would likely already be operating outside the law.
> But a fundamental problem stood in the way of actually building quantum computers: the innate frailty of their physical components.

It's entirely possible that there is some sort of physically limiting factor that makes it nearly impossible to entangle more than X qbits. Something akin to Amdahl's law for quantum computing. It wouldn't be a very sexy result.
>I only wish that was true[1].

he said

>for political prisoners or Muslims

Penal labor is bad and all, but equating what china's doing with what's happening in the US is giving china too much credit.
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Works only if lane splitting for motorcycles isn't allowed. You need to be able to see between lanes and the rearview can be obscured by a close following vehicle you.
The Erdos Paradox
Look we've been shooting these particles you call "humans" at varying targets and so far they've all acted the same way. They haven't shown any difference in how they reacted with different stars, for example. Even if we shoot them back at that cold planet where you collected them, they all interact with it the same way.

Consciousness at such small scale is simply not possible. Our theories don't allow it.
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NSA's Rob Joyce is presenting GHIDRA, a reverse-engineering tool developed by the NSA. They're apparently making it free to the public.

I wonder if it'll be open source. It should be public domain software but if the NSA used contractors for development, that muddies the waters a bit.
I'm not sure this analogy works though because the difference is that most game developers could choose to work in a different industry with the same skill set and make a lot more. They nevertheless choose to be there and there are plenty of people who are willing to take their spots if they don't want to be there.

I'm guessing once people get fed up enough they just leave which is much easier than forming some kind of special interest group or union.
Nobody's saying highways should be free, but you're ignoring the fact that your federal tax dollars are supposed to be paying for the interstate highways, and the ad valorem tax, license plate fees, gas taxes and myriad of other vehicular fees you get hit with are supposed to pay for the local roads.

400 in particular was a dick move. They pitched a highway and said they'd fund it by making it a toll road, to be revoked once it paid for itself. It wasn't. Traffic backed up for miles so they could continue to collect a measly $.50 out of scope for years.
Funny thing is that in Hollywood, the best actors, writers, and directors, tend to be the most pro-union.

Because before they were on the A-list, when they were no-names struggling to get by, it was the union rules that made it possible for them to eke out a living while they waited and worked for their big break, and it was the union rules that protected them from being exploited when they finally got their big break.
I’m simply pointing out the world’s second largest economy is able to do things that the world’s largest economy can’t.

I’m sure there are lots of reasons. I doubt the salaries are the only explanation.

With these advantages it’s quite likely that their ability to build infrastructure will enable them to take the number one spot in the world
Totally same experience.

Young gifted hackers and old experienced veterans.

There aren't much to say about old veterans. They write bullet-proof code. They are stable. They are good.

The young hackers... they are so unstable. Their code is unmaintainable. But they can achieve things we thought impossible or too difficult to even consider implementing it.

They are usually mentally unstable. They usually suffers multiple mental issues like sleep disorders, development disabilities, bi-polar disorders, ADHD etc.

Looking at them, they are like burning their life to achieve short-term gain.
Spelunky <3
That game took so much of my time, and the soundtrack brings back happy memories of watching my baby sister while dying to snakes over and over and over again.
One reason rich people tend to look better than the rest of us is genetics: the only reason the rich marry out of their class is for physical beauty.
> If elementary particles can't think, how can thinking arise when combinations of elementary particles are put together?

Where's the hurricane in a drop of water?
Because they are more closely aligned with the populist wing of the Republican party than the neo-conservative/elitist/globalist wing of the Republican party. The elitist wing has been the dominant force in the Republican party for decades at least.
Nice to hear I'm not the only one. I like tech and other developers but its boring when virtually everyone you meet is in the same industry.
As it turns out there are actually definitions for these things, but it can differ not just by country but also by state within the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town#United_States

CA does not legally acknowledge any distinction between towns and cities. However, many states require a "town" to have fewer than 1,000, 2,000, 6,000, etc., residents (the bound varying by state). Union City has ~75,000 people, which would prevent it from being considered a small town in the majority of states that distinguish rigorously between towns and cities.
You say it’s exclusively the government’s job to preserve affordable housing, not the tech industry. Ok. We just passed Prop C, a comprehensive measure to prevent homelessness. Guess who opposed it?
Ok, I'll add a note in my cover letter regarding this interaction. I'm sure you have thought of this, but I think it is a powerful indicator to remote ICs if their manager is also remote. It at least suggests that the manage lives the same expirience that they do.
I worked for a unicorn startup. We got in trouble when our SDRs (entry-level salespeople who did cold calls all day) kept accidentally calling 911. Ultimately the solution was to reprogram the phone system to allow 7 as a prefix in addition to 9.
>If you change any one of them out, you'll probably end up with a very different game feel.

The feel of the game is created through the cinemtography, sound, visual effects, assets, acting, etc. The only way programmers actually have an effect on the way the game feels to the player is if they screw up and introduce some game breaking bugs or fail to implement face rigging properly or something like that.

Otherwise, no, I'm sorry, but programmers are to modern games what production staff are to movies. Necessary, but utterly inconsequential in terms of the value of the final product for the consumer.
How strange it didn't answer the question?

I assume $

For actual sugar, it's bulk 50c/kg or less. It makes food really cheap. If it's to sweet add salt.

Also easy to handle no refrigeration etc

I assume baby food is the same.

You have to mess around by using 'fruit' pulp but I assume it's the same really really cheap and safe filler.
I personally don't want to see that, but who am I? I understand why these companies sell out to larger conglomerates, but it simply narrows the spectrum for regular users and as we've seen with Google, that doesn't add true value in the end.
You know why Somalia is messed up? No government to regulate dumping of toxic waste. Which means waste can be disposed off without it being illegal in Somali waters.

However this resulted in killing off all the marine life and fishes. So what do the fishermen do? Take up piracy!
Any macroscopic property doesn't exist in single elementary particles. Why single out consciousness?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_Plug-in_Hybrid
The average A-list director, of which there are many, makes more than the average Carmack/Sweeny, of which there are far fewer.

On the whole, video-gaming profits accrue almost entirely to the investors.
There isn’t an exterior in this model, just a boundary you can’t get “outside of” because everything including space and time are part of the universe. What this is all based on is the observation that the information required to describe the volume of (for example) a black hole, can be encoded on its event horizon. The theory says that the universe and it’s horizon(s) can be similarly modeled. In essence that we live not in the volume of a soap bubble but in the fluctuations of the skin of the bubble. It’s only to us, at our energy level and scale that a higher dimensional volume appears to emerge.

It’s important to say that this is all entirely speculative, based on the physical possibility which allows for the resolution of some outstanding problems in physics. That doesn’t mean it is in any way real, it is just another possible model, and one without observation to support it as the way our universe actually works.
I agree that this needs to be fixed by our politicians, but the scale of the average person deducting their mortgage taxes is not in the same league as 23 BILLION dollars being sent to Bermuda.
I've been working remotely for 2.5 years now, and it takes a lot of effort, both from me and from my boss, to keep this going, and even with all that effort I've struggled with interpersonal/communication issues.

Not everyone is willing to invest in that effort.

It would almost certainly be better if I were sitting in a chair at my office, but since I can't, remote work is the next best thing, and as long as both my boss and I are willing to work pretty damn hard to keep it going, it'll keep working.

But I can totally see how some teams would not want to go through the extra effort. I like to think I'm worth it, but my team got to figure that out while I worked on-site for some time before leaving (a year). It's hard to roll the dice on someone you don't know (a new hire).
I don't know much about it but from what I've read imagine that we are inside a black hole. Every black hole is a universe of its own. The boundary of the black hole is the outer boundary if we are inside it. From the outside it would be just the surface of the black hole. Something like that perhaps
>They did 14 bridges in 10 weekends

Meanwhile the invoice from the state police billed for 14 whole weeks of traffic detail. I'm sure that's just a typo on their part... (For anyone unaware, state police billing for hours that were never worked is a recurring scandal that happens every couple years in MA.)

Public works projects are generally treated as a "feeding trough" so to speak in MA. It's good to see them getting done faster though. Fingers crossed that they eventually decide that fixing the commuter rail is cheaper than paying Keolis to be the scapegoat.
This is a common problem when people think about consciousness: the assumption that it is a commutative physical state.

Is it? That's the problem. We don't know.
> I agree with this point. Earlier today I made a similar comment regarding the lack of political strength among software developers, for such a well paid (relative to most Americans) trade, it's hard to name a powerful special interest group for developers.

Please excuse my ignorance, but I was always under the impression that special interest groups are more likely to form for those whose conditions are pretty poor. I feel like programmers are treated pretty well compared to most other professions, especially when considering the lack of money and time required to enter the field so I'm not even sure what I'd want from a special interest group.
That's simply false.

NYT in 2003: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/us/popular-pesticide-faul...

BBC in 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1930658.stm
I set up the mirrors in my car this way and I can see the lane dividing lines just fine.
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It also means you always need to re-adjust your mirrors for parking, especially for more urban areas. I don't understand why a portion of the mirror can't simply be made convex. There are lots of aftermarket adhesive ones that do exactly this.
Fair enough. I'm sure it's happening in nearly all large metro areas in developed nations. I only said that because I hadn't noticed this trend (at least not to this extreme degree) in the course of visiting other large metro areas in the US.
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Not in California. Source: I work for municipal government in the bay area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_California...
It is rather astounding to me just how much depth of understanding Turing showed about things that were not known, studied, or conceived of during his lifetime, even in areas that are fairly unrelated to each other.
It is possible to share a google calendar and reveal only free/busy on a per-user basis, fwiw. It’s somewhere in the sharing settings.
There's only one Hayao Miyazaki.
I think Nintendo's idea of incorporating it into life is way more successful than the "escapism" route (which may be contributing to those negative stereotypes we all know and loathe by now).

Marketing video games to enhance a social setting rather than a way to escape one probably appeals to parents who are worried about the whole "screen zombies" thing.
Wow, talk about correlation != causation. Being attractive increases your likelihood of being wealthy. You know what else is good for your skin? Lower stress, something else correlated with high incomes. People who are wealthy also tend to take better care of themselves, via healthy diets, adequate hydration, and enough sleep, which the article mentions as also helping skin health.

There is no effort to exclude these confounding variables in this article, or even that the aforementioned expensive skin treatments do anything at all. Or that the rich people even use these treatments. All it says is that only the rich have access to these treatments, and therefore that's why their skin looks better.

You could just as easily write an article with the title "The Best Trick to Get Rich: Have Good Skin".
Oh come on. How many of those people had legal visas? And how many of them were doing forced labor to death?

Regardless of how you think we should handle illegal immigration, we're talking about two very, very different things here. Apparently there's good reason to believe that even if you follow all the laws of China to the letter, there's a risk they'll throw you in a death camp anyway, just because you're American.
Their net worth isn't really comparable though. Spike Lee makes polarizing movies that appeal to niche audiences. Carmack made a couple of the best and most popular games of all time. He also achieved revolutionary technological advances that pushed gaming beyond what people thought was possible on the hardware that existed 3 generations in a row. Arguably 4.

Given that the game industry is so large, his net worth should be comparable to lucas, Cameron, or Spielberg.

When it comes to excelling in a field, I don't even think Spielberg, Lucas and Cameron compare to Carmack. I can think of some actors that might, such as Daniel-Day Lewis, but not a director.
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How much of the $30 million is labor and how much would that labor cost in the US?
Just tilt your head when parking. Parking is what, <10% of mirror use?
I'm pretty sure it's developed in the US and then transferred via questionable account values to the ip holder.