skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure either way, but "seem" may be the right word given the huge chinese population number:

1) Disregarding reality for a second, consider 2 populations (one small, one large) and then assume identical probability for a student to study abroad, say one in 30 for example. Of course there will be more student from the populous to the less populous nation... Stated otherwise, how many exchange student have you seen from Luxembourg?

2) To explain richest: it is quite conceivable that kids of the rich have better access to education, so seeing a student from China (or anywhere really) has a statistical tendency of being correlated with wealth anyway.

3) Considering best, brightest: these will have a higher probability of getting permission and / or funds to study abroad. On the other hand, have you ever compared the visiting Chinese students with those that stayed in China? Perhaps the best and brightest are staying in China...

4) In order to conclude the higher quality of education in the West, you assume that the student's motivation to study in the West is it's supposed higher quality of education. This is a circular reasoning. This may be true, or false. Other reasons for studying in the West could be they perceive it like most students perceive studies abroad: an exercise in self-reliance, temporary freedom from family obligations, a vacation in what they might perceive as Disney World / Hollywood to be combined with their studies, ... this would certainly clarify the observation of "richer" Chinese students.

Most of these variables are outside of my measurement scope, so I can make no assertions on their veracity or lack thereof. I only wish to convey that the statement you made seems to make a lot of assumptions that I consider them dangerous and naive to blindly assume, if such assumption happens collectively in order to pat each other's backs...
There's a rise in speed cameras that record average speed over a longer span of road - on the A2 highway here it's very effective, a twelve lane highway where nobody goes above 100 km/h.
That study is along a single road in a single city, and only looks at the absolute number of collisions. As it says, one of the main benefits of lower speeds is that it dramatically decreases kinetic energy - but the study didn't take into account how dangerous those collisions that happened actually were. Number of injuries and fatalities seems like a much better measure of "safety" to me than just number of collisions.
It a reformatted version of this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/edzitron/status/10834763208083988...
Not "municipalities"; counties.

And they opted out because they would have had to pay in fully with no service for years, followed by inferior service forever (they were to be cash cows).
Except that once a dev builts a product once, it can be duplicated for free an infinite amount of times.
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It's in the linked page:

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Doesn't surprise me that drivers hate cyclists so much.
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Since this is a claim asserted without basis (nobody can claim to know a counterfactual, let alone someone else's mind), I can also assert the opposite: Bezos didn't get to where he was without having a hell of a drive for success, and that drive is not 100% driven by monetary reward. Prestige, power, influence are all incentives built into us at the biological level, and if he gets to be the all powerful CEO of a $800B company instead of a $1T company, I don't imagine he'd throw in the towel.
Those are also the places where you find those little crosses and similar markers at the side. The deadliest stretches of road are the most remote ones which are mistaken for race tracks...
> As a cyclist I use as much space of the road as I can just to make sure cars behind me have to use the other lane

What are you doing on the road if you're on a bike ? What do you think bicycle lanes are for ?
Given what you said is true, wouldn't it make sense to black out just the malicious ones? Unless this says that all the ones vandalized (60% of speed cameras) are actually for the sole purpose of money making?
This was intentional, the chief of police wanted to stop them being used as revenue generation, and actually used as a safety device.

As such, they're now bright yellow.
The revoking of a license also hurts poor people improportionally more. If you depend on your car and need it to get to your job, loosing the ability to drive will:
A) make you loose your job
B) go in debt to solve your mobility problem
C) make you do stupid things like driving without license
D) maybe you are lucky and there is cheap public transport or it is close enough for cycling

For a rich person A to C are usually not a problem. Just take a taxi.
> And my god, the people who will go FAR over the limit right down your street where people are pushing prams, kids are walking along, etc. is astounding.

100%. However, the majority of cameras are placed on deserted countryside main roads and non-pedestrianised motorways/interstate type roads. More camera locations should be prioritised for protecting pedestrians.
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One major issue I have is that I think the way you 'ought' make money is to make a product that you believe to be good, and put it out there. And for many years, this was the model with video games. But in the last decade or two publishers have MBA'd games. It's design by focus group, selling games piecemeal through DLC that would previously have been a part of the core experience, annoying or otherwise coercing players into buying DLC instead of creating stuff people want to buy, stripping out all but the most bare essentials of a game, rushing products out the door prematurely, etc.

And then in terms of what's published they always chase whatever's trending obsessively and generally singularly. Minecraft is the most profitable game ever made in in terms of revenue / costs. But it's something that likely would have never been picked up by a mainstream publisher. No story, no graphics, no dlc, free updates, and you just kind of play with blocks..? Notch would have been laughed out of any publisher's office. It's now the best selling game of all time, behind only tetris. Apparently we like blocks. Then he gets bought up by a big publisher and they start marketing Minecraft 4k, as in 4k resolution... I seriously thought that was a meme or a joke the first time I saw it. Just emphasizes how irredeemably out of touch these publishers tend to be.

And then there is what publishers do to the studios they acquire. When EA buys a studio it's as good as signing its death certificate. I have absolutely no understanding of why this is. It makes no economic sense at all to spend substantial sums of money to buy a studio only to completely kill it off, but it happens over and over and over. And it's no acquihires, they tend to lose most of the premium talent. But the list of studios killed off by EA alone is just completely tragic: Maxis, Mythic, Bullfrog, Origin, Westwood, Phenomic, Pandemic, etc..
here's a great hack to avoid getting fined for speeding: Don't speed!
Blizzard and Bungie have a completely different relationship to Activision. Bungie was a game developer with Activision as the publisher; Blizzard was bought by Activision, and merged to become 'Activision Blizzard studios'. We're not going to see anything of the same from Blizzard.
Yeah - here in the UK most long roadworks segments on motorways have a speed limit of 50mph, with average speed checks. It works remarkably well - I barely ever see anyone speed significantly through these segments, as opposed to segments with periodic cameras where people will speed and then slow down for the cameras.
How can anyone say this seriously? This is the stupidest thing I keep hearing from certain people.

The idea is to make money for the police department and the municipality.

https://www.leg33.com/maryland-speed-camera-fraud/

https://steemit.com/technology/@doitvoluntarily/are-traffic-...

http://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/617207/Speed-cameras-safet...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-410449/Undercover-p...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/red-light-camera-controve...
I wonder if it holds throughout history?

How many people posted letters to news papers in the hay day of paper news..
after decades in Silicon Valley, I think that execution matters much more than the idea. Uber was not alone, Amazon was not the only bookstore, Google was not the only search engine.
> Someone moving at 100km/h through a city isn't any less likely to kill someone when hit just because they are poor.

Actually we could argue that it's more likely due to the poor average condition and old age of their cars. A new Mercedes brakes much better than a 20 year old Skoda and usually has auto-braking systems and braking force enhancers.

However "going through a city" is very general. There are several actual highways (by law as well as by construction standards) in Prague going through the city where the speed limit (70 km/h) is frequently broken with no possible victims - the exact same road has 130 km/h limit outside the city.
Don’t worry, you wouldn’t mind.
A huge amount of roads doesn't have bike lanes.
99% of the time: what bicycle lanes? Even then bicycles aren't legally or morally obliged to stay in them if it's unsafe to do so.
> Those are also the places where you find those little crosses and similar markers at the side.

Usually next to a tree. I would prefer them to be used to prevent kids from being killed rather than to prevent some idiot from auto-darwinating himself.
> If enough people stop paying taxes this will get serious.

Isn't most of the income tax taken directly from the employer. So only a few people will be able to avoid that. Then there is the lovely VAT tax, how are people going to avoid that one?

In fact, I think the majority of taxes are transparent so you know you paid it but you don't really ever feel the pain of handing over the money.
As much I hate speed cameras (and as much as I sympathize with the yellow vests), they are usually more than justified.

As a car driver you experience much less of the negative side-effects of your reckless driving than the rule-abiding drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and people living next to the streets.

Look at speed cameras as police's automation solution for the problem of what to do when road signs aren't working. They are part of an evolution and if evolution has to account for destruction of these cameras then more nuanced models will get their market share (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luc-Z29KUfU).

Or we might end up with more Orwellian ways like autonomous traffic drones or the government having a direct link to your car, monitoring your every move, speed etc.

So, yeah, I don't like em but I'm fine with speed cameras.
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It has been demonstrated possible for a large range of projects that are similar in complexity. For example: web browsers (Firefox), OS kernels (Linux), 3d-modelling applications (Blender), compilers (GCC), databases (PostgreSQL).

Won't be easy for sure, neither on technical nor marketing level. Many of the successful examples took 10+ years before they got really viable. But to say it is impossible to do this for a game engine, just because no-one has done it yet, is defeatist.
Regardless, the theoretical considerations are a straw man. No serious progressive tax scheme results in a hard cap of income at something as low as $10m.
That's cool, and I'm going to give it a go: thanks for raising it.

> The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes": in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine.
> The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed. Wormhole codes are single-use and do not need to be memorized.

I love that they've put some thought into usability here: that's nice.
>>> This is pretty much exactly my project Darch

Great minds think alike ;-)

Thank you will be checking that out with interest
Personally I prefer allowing devs to submit proposals for projects, basically innovation time but they say upfront what they're going to be doing and if approved it becomes a project that is managed the same way as ordinary work but the client is the company itself. In my experience devs have proposed (and eventually built/ongoing) a new data API, a mobile app, a huge refactoring, framework upversioning, a massive dependency reduction, a geographic dashboard for our datasets, an optimisation engine and a prediction engine. Probably added more value than any other scheme I've seen.
Well, they are second to market this time around, Cosmos has had mongo api compatibility for a long time.
>Welcome to civil non-compliance 2.0: vandalism as a form of protest. So now taxes perceived as unjust warrant the destruction of state property in retaliation.

A proud history of civil non-compliance, from the French Revolution, 1848, and the Commune to May 68, is what made France what it is, and helped usher us into the modern freedoms and rights.
I feel like this is a _division of labour_ argument. Sure, most of the people consume content in one way or the other, but they also produce things (tangible or intangible) if they are employed.
we need laws. with teeth.
The trick here is to use a pair of speed cameras for measuring average speed over a stretch of road.

Everybody and their dog knows just where the three local speed cameras are, and drive accordingly (sigh).

The average measurement in the subsea tunnel we drive to get off the island? Hard to beat, unless you want to go for less enlightened tactics like driving like a bat out of hell until you approach the next speed camera, then pause until you've waited long enough for your average speed to be under the posted speed limit before proceeding past it...
In some countries, if there's no dedicated bike lane you have to cycle on the road. Germany, for example.
Looking through these threads I’m horrified that there is nary a mention of Bungie’s Myth and Myth 2.

Award winning, real time tactical multi and single player game with a map maker and a mod system. So diffeeent from their other titles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_(series)

Fond memories of the “recon” WW2 mod that transformed the game of 1 on 1 managing an army of dwarves and warlocks to team vs team each individual controlling 1 army man.

(Edit) If you want to play it, the game is still supported (with a release in Nov 2018!) here http://projectmagma.net
Some of these things are just downright silly, though... does the world REALLY need a sofa with YouTube? A humongous camera headset? Or a 'smart toilet'?

I guess there's a market for mindless consumerism products, but I can't help feeling that a lot of smart people could be of better use solving real world problems...
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I agree with this article, as I have experienced what is working for myself and working for others.

On the other hand, people need other personalities to complement their personalities. Organizing this environment is not simple for most people, as it requires a complete different set of skills than most technical work.

People will have to enter a company to get this environment, as it is already created for you. Usually not well created, but something is better than nothing.

IMHO Paul Graham acquired these skills from his now wife, thanks to that they created YC and you have all this environment of mutual support, the "family", the "Church".

It always surprising when you go to the US, how isolated most people is from each other.

This makes PG advice extremely damaging for most people in the US. The technical people that will listen to it are already not very social. Without social support, you will perish. No matter how good you are, people are social creatures.
Why do you equivocate progressive taxation with "truncating" income at a certain level? It's not a low-pass filter.
I second this. Make sure that you do the labs that are available from the books web page.
It's not true. They take from everyone, not just the poor.
I don't know if you're willing to make a 3rd comment, but I'm trying to understand the lurker mindset from the perspective of someone who posts quite actively.

Is is just that you don't care enough to reply, feel like your opinions are unpopular, don't feel like you have anything to say, or something else?
There is a C framework based in state machine:
https://bitbucket.org/yuneta/
There are places here in Belgium where everybody is officially 'speeding' (so driving more than 10km/h faster than what's allowed) and where even the police admits the speed limit was set too low. Guess where they put the hidden mobile cameras.

If they were really really interested in making the roads safer for everyone, they would combine driving on the right with the right of way for people coming from the left iso coming from the right. Statistics show (you can measure this because there are countries where they drive left and have right of way from the right) that it lowers the death toll by almost 30%.
Anyone notice this disclaimer:
Game footage captured using a PC. Quest experience may vary.

Still excited though.
i love the detail on this.

can someone estimate how many bricks it would take to build out the whole death-star at that scale? :-)
I agree wholeheartedly. Nethack is fun but gameplay-wise it's a bit of a mess, many of the mechanics are extremely obtuse if you don't spoil yourself. And when you start spoiling you never know when to stop.

On the other hand DCSS's game design is pretty stellar in my experience. It's better balanced than Nethack and relies less on arcane knowledge to get through the game. I've always ended up being frustrated while playing Nethack blindly because it feels unfair, meanwhile when I started reading spoilers I felt like I was cheating. DCSS handles that a lot better I think.
I think roads are not a place for cyclists to be. For the security of everybody only motorised vehicles should be able to use them if they have no bicycle lane.
> I'm not saying that everyone needs to achieve these things to be happy. But I would say that I think it's easy to look up to say, 2-3x your own income and say "how could anyone ever want more than that", but then when you get there, you find that actually there's a lot of interesting stuff that you might be able to do if you made 5-10x more still, and at least for me, it's mostly not about luxury. It's about being able to pursue interesting things with autonomy.

This is called the hedonic treadmill and is pretty much built into all humans. Spoiler alert: it never ends.
> Do they? Because quite simply it doesn't seem like the evidence backs that up

French stats show a large drop in road casualties linked to the installation of the first fixed speedcams (2002-2003) although actually, it started dropping when it was announced that fixed speedcams were going to be installed:
http://s1.lprs1.fr/images/2014/01/20/3512371_ide-tues-routes...
Some people are just bored..

But for many of the top creators mentioned in the article I strongly suspect that writing reviews, making comments or editing Wikipedia is a part of their identity. Something that gives their life meaning.

And to be fair, writing reviews or editing Wikipedia certainly is a meaningful thing to do.

These 1%'ers have a massive impact on the world. An impact they couldn't necessarily have if their motives were financial.
That's a thoughtful analysis, thanks. I appreciate the lack of sugar coating :)
There's also Blender. 3D modelling is arguably a fairly complex and large field (lighting, rendering, physics, simulations etc). Yet, the team behind Blender are doing an amazing job and the gap between commercial software (e.g. Maya, 3ds Max) and Blender are closing with every release.
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Clipper cards even get you a discount on the new Richmond ferry.
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Learn to get an intuition for how your code performs.

When is it appropriate to allocate memory from the heap? If you're in a rendering or audio processing routine in realtime context, avoid it at all cost.

Think about which parts of the code could profit from optimization. Does learning an assembler for a specific platform pay off or can the compiler do a sufficiently good job with -O3? Use profilers to identify performance bottlenecks.

Think about portability. Does the code have to compile with ancient C89 compatible compilers [Mine has to, and I would be excited to see a Rust to C transpiler]? Can you choose your compilers by yourself? Are they provided by your customers?
Maybe because of hotlinking media. Thanks for pointing this out.
People hate them because it's yet another tax. 1 billion+ euros in 2018: https://www.lerevenu.com/breves/les-radars-automatiques-devr...

If you drive around in France, you quickly realise most of them are installed in profitable areas, not in dangerous areas.

Looking forward to 100% of them being destroyed.
Taxes may not affect the relative ordering of the (ex-post) outcome of the different options. But they can affect the relative ordering of the (ex-ante) expected value of the different options.
The picture presented in this article is incomplete. There is a constant stream of people attempting to become supporters or contributors and going back to their respective brackets when thry fail to do so.

Some are discouraged entirely and some try again later.
People slowing because there's a speed camera are the problem, not the camera itself. If they were driving at the stated speed in the first place there'd be no need to suddenly slam the brakes on to avoid a ticket.
What is your definition of system programmer? If you mean closer to hardware, i’d recommend its worth the switch. Jobs are moving higher in stack and lower layers are more and more stable and abstracted away. Most companies dont need low layer developers off the shelf software is good enough for them. Exception being embedded system teams or customized hardware (network, storage, server) teams. Majority of things they do are age old techniques.

Only reason to go lower in stack is if you really ~like~ love hardware and exploring nitty gritty of how things work. In that case, pick any OS book and get ready to go down the rabbit hole :)
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> If only they had a competitor that could launch the same products a few months later but offered higher reliability off the bat, that could eventually force Amazon to improve their reliability or risk losing customers long term.

They have, it's Azure. I'm even a little bit scared because no one here is mentioning CosmosDB... It seems to me that most of the community only knows aws products.
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> Isn't most of the income tax taken directly from the employer. So only a few people will be able to avoid that. Then there is the lovely VAT tax, how are people going to avoid that one?

That's right. The French government probably feels lucky. Hence frustrated people resort to destroying things. And taxpayers will pay for the damages anyway. But still, you can see the pressure is real.