skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes no local candidate can do the work, there will be some exceptions but why hire someone is more of an administrative hassle with greater costs for no benefit? If the person in question is somehow better than a local candidate by enough of a margin to justify the costs then they probably are priced incorrectly. (IE miss classified as a junior dev as opposed to a senior)
There’s no market for standalone CI/CD. Everything is converging around automation, cloud platforms and version control hosting.
I don't want to diminish your comment, but we've been able to do pure HTML/CSS dropdowns for awhile now. That was actually a coding test I took back in 2014.

I strongly disagree with your last line as well. Coming from, and knowing many of my colleagues that started as HTML+CSS dev, that went into jQuery -> Backbone -> SPA frameworks -> ES6. It's definitely possible, but it depends if the person (or candidate) has the passion and aptitude to pursue that path.
I think people underestimate how incredibly hands-on experimental physics is.

It's not just about bolting, gluing, and connecting things you can buy to a few things you have to make. It's cutting-edge applied engineering with some of the closest tolerances you'll find anywhere, supported with post-doc math and often with similarly cutting-edge software development.

It gets a lot less attention than theoretical physics, which is a shame because there wouldn't any theoretical physics without it.
Recent - James Corey (what the Expanse is based off of). Daniel Suarez would be popular in these circles, but more Crichton-y science than next 100 years. Some of Stephenson's books (Seveneves, etc). Others Stephen Baxter, Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon).

All great, but I'm more old-school, William Gibson, James P. Hogan, Greg Bear (Eon series), Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow).
To be pedantic, the topic started about "wayfinders". But that shows I'm an idiot, so let's not talk about that
local at country scale I meant (France or Italy which is near)
The issue is likely speed; it takes much longer to debunk a fake or incorrect story than to publish the story to begin with. And in a world where social media is seen as a primary news source (unfortunately), a story is basically seen as 'settled' approximately X hours after being published, if that.

You would need an absolute ton of resources, and even that probably wouldn't be enough to fact check the entire online media in anything close to real time.
If you need the “absolute 1%” of engineers on your team, you go to them where they are, by having a remote-first team and hiring remotely.
This is an implementation issue, not a spec issue. Pages can delegate to another identity provider (primarily used for vanity URLs, for example I could say that https://nullable.se/ should map to my Google OpenID, for example), and the identity provider can claim a different URL than you asked for (for example, Steam always uses https://steamcommunity.com/openid as the provider, but will claim a different URL for each user).

Combine these, and Google would have been perfectly capable of making everyone just type google.com. That they didnt' says more about Google than OpenID.

Besides, people were perfectly capable of showing the same pickers back then as you are forced to use with the current OIDC/OAuth2 abomination.
A memory pill? Cognitive neuroscience's contributions to the study of memory
the elevator pitch is, it's an easy to use language, you can vectorize things if you want, but also if you hand-write loops it will be very fast. Whereas in R, hand-writing loops brings you to the 3rd circle of hell [1].

the more general version of the elevator pitch is that being in an environment where all the code is written in one high-level language that is still fast is qualitatively different. you can combine things in all kinds of strange ways with surprisingly little work. I.e. the DiffEqFlux package takes about a hundred lines of code to glue together a GPU neural network library and some very advanced differential equation solvers.

realistically, it sounds like you are hitting all of R's strongest points currently, though. I suspect right now you would be pretty dissatisfied with Julia.

1: https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
But what of the newbie developer? Is he/she going to just roll their own dependencies and do so in a way that's tenable? Green developers make up most of the category.

I guess I was trying to approach a few concerns beyond just dependencies: learning curve, conventions/standards, framework volatility, and merit assess-ability of ideas.

The more people involved (popularity), the greater the difficulty to parse the merit of an idea without pre-existing competence. How easy is it for a new developer to find a cogent way of doing things in Javascript land compared to a smaller more specific ecosystem? In the smaller ecosystem the experts are easier to determine due to a smaller population, whereas in Javascript-land there's so many people, opinions, articles, and conventional disparities; a much more challenging exercise.
It’s complicated.
Keeping salaries secret no doubt makes it more tenable to pay people who sit next to one another vastly different amounts. In a knowledge worker job where some people are way more productive than others, plus the same person’s productivity is highly variable over time, it’s probably good to pay people very different amounts of money over time, and also to have a complicated system of stock/bonus/promotions to incentivize better performance.

But companies aren’t just trying to maximize performance, they are also trying to minimize pay. It’s a lot easier to give someone a 20% raise if the starting salary is 50% lower.

Some people are underpaid because they don’t know how much they are worth, especially people from backgrounds where nobody makes this much money. Some people are overpaid because they are friends with the boss.

If a company is capable of paying $200k on average, salary transparency may make it harder for them to recruit people who are worth $500k. I’m paid a lot more than any company with a salary transparency calculator I’ve seen pays someone with my job title and experience. So I’m not going to try to work for those companies. I get the impression they are underpaying their employees, but their salary transparency allows them to recruit people who used to be even more underpaid.
> My current machine has "Fn" where "CTRL" should be

You mean directly to the left of the A?
I'd like to request tips on "what not do say" here on H.N.
Occam's razor. They are not 'scanning brain waves or some truly difficult method'. Not in this reality. You know it too. I didn't even have to suggest they built an Arab detector for you to bring it up ;)

I don't care about that hypothetical. Save it for your sci fi screenplay.
"So imagine if white women are underpaid - it is a lot worse for people for color."

How did you arrive at this conclusion?
I have an iMac and a MacBook pro 2015 ; I wanted a Unix like OS. My youngest sons use the iMac and MacBook for games essentially. I have a much older hp 600 notebook with openbsd. This perfectly fits my needs: emacs, TeX, a browser and some R. No need for Bluetooth either. I guess I paid the premium with the Macs for the build quality and the screens. Never cared about any of their apps and brewed what I needed ( openbsd provides everything I need ( except yet for pandoc)
Ymmv.
What is a Latinx? Like a super cool Latino?
No, I mean that it's not that hard to do some due diligence when picking a dependency. You just need to get over the idea that it's something you don't need to do.

No, you're not going to read every single line, but you ought to be running through the basics outlined by Russ in his post. If you're being paid to code and you're not doing those basics, you're being negligent in your professional duty.

And knowing the internet and its inability to deal with nuance, let me say again, no, it's not trivial. But it's not that hard, either. If a dependency is worth bringing in, it's bringing you enough value that you ought to be able to spare the effort of doing the basic due diligence.
> as for me I bloody never want anybody to access my "user data in another service."

You're forgetting that local applications fall into this category too: email, calendaring, storage, messaging, remote access, music/movie streaming, VPN, Twitter, code repositories, container registries, cloud cli tools, chat, chatbots, database access, directory access.

Wouldn't it be nice if you never had to click "Save my password" or use a service account ever again?
Sway: A tiling Wayland compositor
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The (legalized) bribery pockets of the big co's are too strong.
> This is a good point and also worth pointing out (in the US at least) that most ophthalmologists will be covered under your medical insurance not your eye insurance (if any) because they are medical doctors.

Make sure they code it correctly! I once had a rather large bill because the ophthalmologist's office accidentally billed me under a "routine" code that my medical insurance didn't cover. It took several hours of phone calls with the insurer and the ophthalmologist to get it corrected.
Agreed that security is super important to us because information is so sensitive and we serve a vulnerable population. We have an unusual benefit with security because the bankruptcy process only requires a short-term snapshot of financial information and the process can only happen every 8 years. We delete their sensitive information if a person finishes the process or is inactive for 3 weeks since it will be out-of-date for the forms. We soon aim to do filing on behalf of our debtors so they won't have to be concerned with personal-information filled PDFs on their devices.
One great problem - and I am but a hobbyist at best - is that of back-propagation, which is the foundation of deep learning neural networks.

As far as I know of (and I could be wrong) - there has yet to be any kind of proven method that the human brain uses any form of back-propagation for learning. From what I understand, there isn't a biological equivalent.

Which may be ok, in the long run - after all, we fly using fixed wings and propellers, and not flapping wings (as was tried over and over in the history of flight, with little to no progress and numerous failures). That is, success can be had by not replicating nature exactly.

ANNs do this at one level - neurons in the network are simplified mathematical representations. But the learning portion seems to add more complexity; the backpropagation algorithm is simple in concept, but seemingly more complex than what the human brain and natural neurons do for learning.

We also seem to learn things faster; natural neural networks - brains - regardless of species - only require relatively few examples to learn and generalize from, while deep learning artificial neural networks require thousands and more, of labeled examples.

These two issues - the need for backpropagation for learning, and the need for thousands and thousands of labeled examples exhaustively run through - both have resulted in machines and systems of hardware and software of immense complexity and power usage. We haven't even created the equivalent of a mouse brain, and if we did, it would take the energy output of Niagara Falls to run it.

From what I understand, this is also (in broad terms) Geoffrey Hinton's position as well; that our current systems, as well as they do perform (and do they - I'm still amazed at some of the things I saw my simplified implementation of NVidia's End-to-End model do to drive a simulated car around a track), are probably not the right implementation for going forward, and we should step back and find another way (Hinton's current thing is something called "Capsule Networks" which I haven't looked into too deeply - from what I have seen of them, they still appear overly complex, but again, that is just my hobbyist opinion, and certainly carries no weight here).

As a hobbyist in this field, I don't have any solutions to these issues, but they are something that keeps me thinking: How has nature actually done it? How does is it able to be done with so little energy input (beyond scale differences)? How does it work with so few training examples?
> The author flippantly violates this by claiming the credit system to be racist, but the Equal Credit Opportunity Act has been in force since 1974.

Surely you're not arguing that the law instantly solved everything?

Countrywide - once the lender for 20% of mortgages - was dinged for violating the ECOA in 2011, so violations were clearly still occurring then, and are likely continuing today.

Add in the fact that redlining has multi-generational impact, too. Housing is one of the big ways families pass wealth down to their kids and you get potential racist impact due to past actions even if the current implementation is race-blind.
Young women will now be subsidizing young men.
> "This is because of the regretful (but understandable) decision to censor discussion of it on Less Wrong, which backfired spectacularly."

Can you explain the (understandable) rationale behind Less Wrong censoring discussion of Roko's Basilisk? I've been lead to believe it was censored out of fear that discussing it could somehow inspire its actual creation.

Honestly from a distance Less Wrong has always struck me as vaguely cult-like, but I'm open to the possibility I've just gotten the wrong impression.
I agree it’s a political play. It’s not enough, we need to address tax loopholes, capital gains, offshore tax havens, etc.

The spirit of her comment- that billionaires and poverty should not coexist in our current society- I believe is clear, and my comment holds in supporting it.
>Is the code well-written? Read some of it. Does it look like the authors have been careful, conscientious, and consistent? Does it look like code you’d want to debug? You may need to.

This, 10,000x. I've repeated a similar mantra many, many times, and it's one of the most important reasons I refuse to use proprietary software. You should consider no software a black box, and consider the software you chose to use carefully, because it's your responsibility to keep it in good working order.
There are a lot of upcharge possibilites on lenses. High Refractivity, UV block, Anti-scratch, Anti-glare, Auto-tinting, etc... It gets expensive in a hurry if you say yes.

No-frills plastic can be ground out cheap but nobody wants to sell a low margin product like that.
Did a quick online 'Company Values' training recently and sustainability and environmental impact where I work will be solved by:

1. Blockchain

2. Using approved partners for travel

No mention of considering taking the train or bus instead of the approved airlines.
> I was making negligible money and when offered what seemed like a _mind-blowing_ salary of 3x my prior, accepted off the bat, without realizing until much later that I was being paid far below the rate of both my cohort and my experience level for the work being done)

That still sounds like the company that made you the offer was exploiting you; they took advantage of your tough situation to pay you less than they would have if you had more leverage.
dittos. Another very pleased Zenni Optical customer here.

I bought three complete pairs of eyeglasses for $105 total, delivered. If you can be patient, about once a year, they'll run a buy-two-get-one-free sale. I now have prescription sunglasses, distance-only, and a set of hidden-line ("transition") bifocals. All with low-reflection coating, and high refraction index plastic. All three are holding up well after three years.
Yeah, it's really rough. Most people just don't have a combination of confidence, stubbornness, willpower, and raw spite that allows them to uproot and seek out a better position for themselves.

I used to think that I could encourage and/or browbeat people into taking charge of their own destinies, but after years of a good 99.9% failure rate I'm not so sure any more. (For every 1000 downvotes/insults I eat on Reddit or elsewhere when I tell people to stop putting up with HR's BS, I get about 1-2 people who heed my advice and actually find a new job)

I think regular people just naturally can't fend for themselves, and maybe they need some form of protection..
There's a tendency in the media to 'clean up' the silly things that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez consistently says, to make them sound half rational.
I'm surprised at the traffic levels in Dubai given the city's focus on building metro and a fairly decent public transportation system(road and water). What is missing out in this city? These guys have all the money and a free hand in implementing policy without any opposition.
This was the #1 use case for Type C development BTW. I have friends who were working on silicon this for over a decade.

I anticipate that 2019 will be the year when we'll get monitors that are the "dock", so in practice most users will use at most a single port.
Considering the amount of work, the number of people and the cost of equipment it takes to make a motion picture, $1m is absolutely low budget. The average cost for a Hollywood feature film is $65m+. It's difficult to make any film with a medium size experienced crew for less than $1m. If you have any recognizable talent, it's difficult to make for less than $5m. Once you get below $1m, the terms "micro budget" and "no budget" start being used. Mini-budget, Indy budget, Ultra Low budget are also used. It depends on who's is using the term and in what part of the industry they are working in. If you are outside of the industry with no money, the terms mean little to nothing because everything is low or no budget, but if you are working with crews, talent and investors that have experience, those terms have specific meanings.

SAG (Screen Actors Guild) uses Ultra Low Budget (0-250k) Low Budget Modified (250k-700k) and Low Budget (700k-2.5m) to differentiate projects from their normal union rates.

Toward the edges of the industry I've seen the following breakdown.
No Budget = below 40k
Mini Budget = 41-80k
Micro Budget = 81-150k
Ultra Low Budget = 150k-250k
Low Budget = 251-400k
Indy Low Budget = 401-500k
Classic Low Budget= 501k-999k
Hollywood Low Budget = 1-5m

But more often I just hear the terms No Budget, Micro, Indy and Low.
I've been advocating for the rights of my own group "left handed 1/64 cherokee Americans with hazel eyes and slighly wavy brown hair" forever and I've been STUNNED at how quick people are to ignore the systemic bias against us. Some other categories of people seem to be doing much better than us, which is only explainable from systemic bias. Unless we are down with being complicit in a "right handed non partially cherokee non slightly wavy brown hair and hazel eyes" supremacist system, our society needs to start addressing this right away.
I find that Go developers also tend to have a 'vendor everything' philosophy which significantly decreases that risk.

At least the ones I meet tend to take that approach...
If AOC is an example of this new generation, we're in trouble.
Maybe off-topic a bit, because it only handled authentication, but I really miss Mozilla Persona.

You just included some javascript in your frontend, maybe a 5-line function in the backend, and people could authenticate to your web app.

No need to store a password and correctly crypt the hash, provide a password change function, provide a password reset function (what a PITA to get correct).

Why hasn't anybody created something comparable yet?
I do own XPS 13 9360 and there are number of issues:

- coil whine under load;

- poor heat sink, under little load i7 goes to 100C and CPU throttling kicks in;

- sometimes 'w' button seems to be 'stuck' in pressed state even when it's physically un-pressed; seems to be a firmware keyboard bug, since I've seen same problem on another XPS 13;

- I've had to replace Killer WiFi card, because RTT for packets spiked up every time card was scanning for networks;

- that 'spidey-fingers' webcam;

- that 'Content Adaptive Brightness Control' when gamma-level goes off every time you switch from black to white image on the screen;

- unable to replace battery, since even when I've ordered battery from authorized service center they gave me non-official third-party battery which was not accepted by laptop;

- connecting 4K@60Hz is kinda problematic, since you need to find USB-C adapter which supports it;
“ThinkPad Internal Battery” works on Google.
I would have loved to paid Travis CI for my personal private repositories I wanted to kept private, that I push to maybe 1-2 times a night on a good week. Setup is a breeze, interface is simple and straight to the point, integration works. But they priced their "Ideal for hobbyist projects" plan way out of budget for any hobbyist who just wants somewhere to run some code. $70 a month!? Make it $15, maybe $20 and you got yourself an annual subscriber.
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I think the vast majority of people would expect Twitter to keep all the tweets they've made...
Breaker is long-form clickbait. It's an interesting format and I'm curious how they pay for it.
Fair enough. I agree that HTTPS is valuable here. I was just being overly pedantic, my bad.
So You Want to Compete with Steam: Epic, Discord, Kartridge, and RobotCache
Pensions often become bloated because it's easy for a politician to hand out future benefits to get current votes. It's hit-and-run gift giving: robbing the future Peter to pay the current Paul. An average politician's reign is roughly 10 years, but pension problems show up multiple decades later. We'd have to change our political incentive system to solve that. Same goes for national debt.
Hallelujah it's a miracle!
> couldn't find a single currnet distro that would install on it

Not even Debian? Mind you, I'm not aware of any other distro that's both current and has 32-bit support... And the Asus eeePC 700 is a potato by modern standards. (I mean, 2GB SSD? At least it can easily be made to boot from an external SD card.) But even the bulk of netbook-class hardware is well supported, AFAICT.
Braid and Witness could have been written in Unity though.

I'd argue that dealing with high level concepts such as game/level design and art direction and low level stuff like graphics and rendering simultaneously is insane. I don't know how Jon Blow did it, but personally being able to abstract away all that low level stuff makes the design process way easier for me.

There was a recent game, 'Return of the Obra Dinn', which went the opposite way. It was the dev's first game with Unity, and he attributed most of his success to the Engine.

It doesn't look like a Unity game, it doesn't play like a Unity game, and it has won several game of the year awards.
America's most expensive house purchase at $238M