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Concerning the loss leader, that is correct. I should say from my Costco experience, I also got my duct glands checked. I don't remember getting that at Target/Lenscrafter the previous years. It was a few years since my last exam, so my memory could be wrong.

I believe the tear duct check is a loss leader. Most people have dry eyes (Meibomian Gland Dysfunctio) if you work in front of a computer all day. I have it and saw an actual ophthalmologist before so I knew all about it. It cost $$ so I was surprised the optometrist did it as part of the checkup. If you want to get your dry eyes fixed you have to 'melt' the clogged ducts and it cost $300 for the cheapest treatment. $900 for the one that works best (Lipiflow). The treatment isn't permanent so you gotta go back every year for the $300 treatment and every 3 for the $900.

Since the Costco optometrist can't make money from lens, I guess they make money from dry eye treatment. Also he gave me an option to dilate my pupils or he has a fancy imaging machine. The imagine machine costs $45...I opted for the imagine machine grin.

One last point - the Costco optometrist has a fancy digital goggles to check your vision. Another commenter posted that it's a waste of an education for an eye vision check. The goggles show the letters to read (it's not projected on a wall) and has lenses embedded within it. With a keystroke on the computer, it changes the lens. He really just asks "which ones looks better" and hits the keyboard. I was done in a minute.
I currently have a 9350 and the 3-4 centimeters of potential screen real estate below the display which is unused, is more or less the only thing that bothers me.
Plus, kernel 4.19 causes some wifi issues currently. But the hardware has been very reliable so far.
Have to share this related story. I recently got a new prescription and the glasses salesman at my optometrist said that my insurance is super generous and willing to pay upto $200 every year for new glasses, so I should definitely get a pair before the end of the year. So I looked around and picked a frame I liked. The salesman measured my PD and started offering me options on the lenses. Coat this, photo reflect that. I said no to every option that was offered since I know those will rack up the cost. In the end the salesman added up all the costs and said that the total will be $230. I was like that's great so I only have to pay $30 for them. But the salesman was like I already deducted your insurance payment in the calculation, the actual cost is $430 of which $230 you will have to pay. After hearing that, my eyes opened so wide that 20/20 vision was restored in them.
HP somehow became the epitomy of crappy enterprise bean counting. They lost all the talent that had any options available, and the results are readily visible.
I am pretty new to development, and I keep trying to prove myself wrong over my apprehension to willy-nilly accumulate dependencies just because “the time savings add up”.

Before starting any new project, I research and try all the existing similar projects I can find. I can predict their stability with overwhelming precision just by glancing at the dependencies, so the few projects I have built use only the most vanilla version of mainstream dependencies.

And another result of this observation has been that I have come to devalue the word of devs with that happy-go-lucky approach to dependency accumulation. It seems to correlate with the exaggerated optimism that persists around everything in the development community. I’d like to be more optimistic just like everyone else, but ignoring debt like this doesn’t seem like the right way to do it.
Also twitter whenever the app is supposed to act on behalf of a user. (OAuth 2 is simpler, and is available for accessing public data not on behalf of a user.)

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/...
How does Apple improve their bionic processor / FaceID if the embeddings never leave the Secure Enclave? Do they simply have to test this themselves at their offices?
So, is this really unique to tech?

Serious question there. How many people applying for jobs in other fields also completely lack the skills they need for said job?

Obviously, it'll be a lesser count in some fields. On paper, everyone applying for a job in medicine or law will have the appropriate qualifications and (presumably) skills.

But what about others? I suspect a lot of people going for marketing and design roles don't have the skills needed for the jobs they're applying for too. It's probably a common issue in sales too, though that field at least lets you find out pretty quickly whether someone's bluffing.

What's the percentage of unqualified applicants by role and industry?
I've been following TinySeed for a few weeks now, it's such an interesting idea!

Another great book that I'd recommend is Lost and Founder (TinySeed's terms are based on the Rand Fishkin's most recent startup terms).
Yes, it is. But if you're designing an algorithm that assesses credit risk and you do this, you will lose money compared to a company that does not do this.
It's not "another field", it's literally almost every field other than computing, as outside tech people either don't have money for top hardware, or don't have interest in buying it.

In so far as it makes developer more empathetic towards users, it's a good point to make.
The second half of the article that talks about Yudkowsky, rationalists, and Roko's Basilisk is absolute trash and a gross mischaracterization of the actual positions taken.

>Yudkowski has for more than a decade pursued the possibility of perfect human reasoning

His website is literally called "Less Wrong". It's fundamentally a quest for improvement, not perfection.

>His system of coldly logical reason, it turned out, was by many accounts completely undone by a logical paradox known as Roko’s Basilisk.

Roko's Basilisk is a thought experiment designed to import your "don't negotiate with terrorists" intuitions into a really weird corner of decision theory. It's possibly why prior decision theories held were rejected as flawed, but it's not a current issue with their logic. Roko's Basilisk has, unfortunately, gotten way more coverage and fame than it deserves in terms of actual importance. This is because of the regretful (but understandable) decision to censor discussion of it on Less Wrong, which backfired spectacularly.

>For super-nerd bonus points, it’s also arguably a spin on Godel’s incompleteness theorem, which argues that no purely rational algorithmic system can completely and consistently model reality, or prove its own rationality.

That's not at all what Godel's incompleteness theorem argues. That's much more narrowly about formal logic.
I saw this happen in reverse.
I was buying servers from Rackable in orders of several millions of dollars. They bought SGI. Fired their Bay Area support staff, moved support to Ohio which was a huge short term gain. But support became so bad it was literally worth less than nothing. They would take in a machine with a known fault (raid controller let’s say) fail to replace the card, ship back a machine that didn’t boot.

After the fifth failure in a row I had enough.
It was easier to learn how to repair my own servers and do the work in-house. I bought parts instead of support, qualified a new server provider and shifted the next six million in orders to them.

No offense against the guys in Ohio, but due to unfamiliarity with the tech, structural and leadership shortcomings etc. they were simply unable to do the job so the work shifted back to the Bay Area anyway.

I’m sure I was one customer among hundreds if not thousands who experienced this change.
Even further than that, you need faculty to teach with it. I know I use R a lot primarily because that's what I learnt at Cal, it was easy, and it worked. Things are probably shifting towards Python in schools now, but I think that's the best way you're going to get a lot of users using it persistently in their careers.
Your friend's website is missing an important benefit of being in Incline Village. A whole bunch of people who live in Incline are "Silicon Valley Ex-pats". Because there is no income tax in Nevada, a lot of founders who sell their startup move to Incline just before they get their final balloon payment. The tax savings pays for the extra house. And it's only a 3-4 hour drive (or a 45 minute flight if you had a really good exit) back to SV.

So if you leave the house and hang out in town, there's a good chance of running into a successfully exited founder!
> A photon is moving at the speed of light. Things moving at the speed of light do not experience distance or time (and have no mass), for them their creation and destruction are the same event.

How does this follow? There is still a traversal of spacetime at a limited speed between the creation and destruction. If the speed of light was infinite then yes I would agree with the proposition that no time or space experienced.

You are offering a description without the explanation.
Disparities in racial outcomes do not necessarily constitute racism.

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.

We know the factors that affect credit, some of them are income, payment history, loan balances, number of credit checks, etc.
Read about the OTC hearing aid law signed 2 years ago. http://www.hearingreview.com/2017/08/president-trump-signs-o...
Wikileaks gets green checks on:

• (1) Does not repeatedly publish false content

• (5) Avoids deceptive headlines

• (8) Reveals who's in charge, including and possible conflicts of interest

It gets red marks on:

• (2) Gathers and presents information responsibly

• (3) Regularly corrects of clarifies errors

• (4) Handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly

• (6) Website discloses ownership and financing

• (9) The site provides names of content creators, along with either contact or biographical information

On "Clearly labels advertising" it gets N/A. The parenthetical numbers are the order of the importance of the various criteria.

So, red on 1, 5, 8, green on 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9, and 7 is not applicable.

Foxnews.com gets green on 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 9, and red on 3, 6, and 8.
Once it takes more than 10 seconds, many people are likely to alt-tab to ”fun” - and often take quite a while to tab back
The problem here is, we don't even know what "fair" means. What do we mean by fair? Say we want to base fair on group outcomes, in which ways should we divide people into groups in order to perform some sort of balancing? Is hair color or texture a relevant way of subdividing people for instance? Are we being "fair" to red haired people? What if red haired people for some reason seem to be less likely to pay back loans? Will we need to adjust our credit rating model to bump the credit scores of red haired people slightly? Will we need to agonize over other features fed to our model to ensure that they can't be used as a proxy for red hair?

Maybe???? But it seems very dishonest.

I think, if anything, the models are probably too true for our tastes as social creatures who evolved to avoid social conflict (being 100% honest with your unruly neighbors can lead to a loss of harmony that is much more damaging than just putting up with some disturbances). Our idea of "unbiasing" the models is more likely actually making them biased in a way that pleases our monkey brains.
That's what I've been rocking for 7 months now and it is my best laptop ever. Highly recommend it!
>seems more like a bunch of entitled brats.

I'd say anyone that drops the money on a 4 year CS education of any rigor, survives it, survives and succeeds at the fairly rigorous interview cycles required to get a job in SWE these days... is absolutely entitled to requesting top of the line hardware to perform their duties.

I'd say your argument makes it "seem" like it's coming from envious, curmudgeonly luddites.

If individuals of other vocations feel that these developers are "entitled brats", perhaps they should switch careers? I can't imagine a teacher went in to education seriously expecting to get provisioned the latest rMBP as a perk?

Are we assuming all jobs are equally dependent on high-end hardware to provide the best RoI for time spent?
>There are many groups who are seriously disadvantaged who succeed

Yes. Cultural advantages exist. It's a part of the issue of income inequality.

>That is how Pareto distributions work.

I know. That's my point. Redistributing excessive wealth would counter this.

>Then again, the historical record shows that trying to scale egalitarian/communal societies past a relatively small size tends to result in decaying and destroyed social fabrics as well.

I am not talking about everyone being a hippy and living together in harmony. I am talking about capping wealth or income and redistributing it.
Aren't they now EssilorLuxottica and also control a good chunk of lenses market as well?
The literal difference between good and poor management. Being objective vs. subjective.
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Sadly, if you're an engineer, those savings aren't passed on to you (obviously).

If you're a software engineer and want to make an amazing salary by most people's standards, move to the Bay Area and get a job with Google/Facebook/LinkedIn/Etc.

You can literally make a 500K+ a year.
Consumer drones aren't really aiming for quiet though. My racing drones are very buzzy since the small 3-5in props are fast spinning to have quick reaction time. My heavy lift photography drone with its slow 12in props (aiming for efficiency) is way larger and much quieter.
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Is that a random number sequence? It depends where the data came from. Same goes for AI algorithms. Yes theres a risk of the data being biased, but the key is what goes in, not what comes out.
If you mean that people that earn less pay less tax--what I am trying to say is that money is being taken via taxation across the entire country. However, that money is being spent by the Federal government in high concentrations in certain places. The DC area is one such place. Any military base or Federal government office is such a place. Money is being spent there that was earned elsewhere. Why do you think senators fight so hard to keep military bases in their states? It is because a military base is a firehose of Federal money going into their state from elsewhere.
Which is not much, if you could've gotten $500M more in investments.

My experience is the complete opposite of Tim Ferris Wisdoms TM. If you are where the money is at, you have vastly more opportunity to participate on the receiving end of money flows as well as information flows. So if you are a keen developer in SF you will not live on $60k for long, but rather quickly bargain your pay up the food chain to $120k or $150k. And then check out how well you can live on $120k in Thailand, you know?

There are two exceptions to this rule of following the money, though.

Exception 1: When you hit the ceiling. It might be much higher than you initially thought, but there is one. And when you hit it, it might be more reasonable to try to stabilize on that level and find a more peaceful and cheap environment to live in.

Exception 2: When the current location is over hyped. Bay Area might still be in that phase where prices really are too ridiculously high. If you spend more than $60k/year on rent alone then maybe it's not wise to go there for $120k. But it might still be worth an internship or finding customers there.
There are also differences of building styles, maybe this is part of how we ended up with different terminology. The prototypical Parisian building has a paved driveway to the courtyard which is on the ground level. The prototypical New England house has a first floor which is a wooden thing with floorboards, 3 feet or so above ground.
I really enjoyed the article - great clarity and made a complex topic easy to understand.

I was pleasantly surprised that you are 11th grade! What other projects are you working on?
That's a lot assumptions... 1. that she'll be able to rent the rooms 2. she'll be able to get a job where she lives.

I'd be scared s* if my $610K mortgage depended on getting a job and renting out multiple rooms every month.
Why would you say that? I figured it would give employees more power in salary negotiations so I figured the salary would go up mostly.
> If you think a charter or private school is the best for your kid right now and for you then that's one thing.

If you think that, act on that, and simultaneously seek to deny that to others, I think you’re a hypocrite and adjust the coefficient of my caring about your opinion on the topic to zero or negative.
A friend of mine got a copy of the H1B petition that Oracle submitted on his behalf. The document includes a DOL classification of his job and the minimum wage for it and the amount Oracle was offering him.

My understanding is that the law says the wage being offered must at least meet the minimum wage specified by DOL
Yep. It's amazing how the early netbooks went from new hotness to piece of rubbish simply because Linux left them behind.

I pulled out my old eeePC 700 a few weeks ago and couldn't find a single currnet distro that would install on it. So it's stuck with the one that came with it and the old Firefox browser, both of which are probably full of security holes.
I do have the Developer Edition. It may not be officially supported but everything works out of the box. I've got a personal IdeaPad laptop from years ago that has a worse configuration but doesn't freeze like this Dell.
I bought 2 brand new pairs of glasses for $40 in China in 2014, including eye exam. They've lasted me for the last 4 years.
If you think developers churn out code at maximum productivity throughout the day and a 10m improvement in compile times per day will reap you benefits in a year, you're sorely mistaken. Unless that improvement lowers the compile time below a certain threshold where the dev will say "fuck it, I'll read some HN while it builds" you're probably not gaining anything.
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People with a nefarious agenda are always using tainted and biased "objective" data to support their racism. We been knew. The general populace just repeats the data like it is no big deal that much of the data is inaccurate. Once upon a time white people struggled to differentiate black people from animals.
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It's far too early to render a judgment on the long term potential of DL toward building Commander Data, both pro and con. But after some 60 years of AI research we understand the problem space pretty well, and we can see also that DL has shown little or no promise toward serving many of the component processes necessary to deliver General AI/AGI.

(And just because you can federate and combine DL networks like you can NAND gates doesn't mean they are turing equivalent to the human brain. It's fundamental to claims of such turing-AI-equivalency that we have absolutely no idea yet how to do this -- making yet another AI technique likely to suffer the same fate as all preceding AI methods in failing to solve general AI problems, that is, a failure to generalize and scale up beyond serving a specific narrow task, AKA brittleness.)

For instance, Gary Marcus at NYU has addressed the present limits of DL in terms of cognition in several papers and talks:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00631

https://medium.com/@GaryMarcus/the-deepest-problem-with-deep...

Likewise, Doug Hofstadter has been critical of using DL to automate machine translation's semantic nuances:

https://qz.com/1088714/qa-douglas-hofstadter-on-why-ai-is-fa...

At present, it's still unclear how DL could surmount single-task brittleness to address these shortcomings, much less diversify into the use of logic or the modeling of concepts, their dependencies, causality, explain itself, and much more. Unbridled faith in DL's ability to jump these sharks should be tempered by the AI community's past mismeasures of earlier AI tech that we were sure would conquer everest over the years, but in fact fell far short (e.g. perceptrons, expert systems, backprop-driven shallow nets, and oh so much more).
Same with the 9360 and running Fedora.
As somebody who has had about 1 sip of coffee in their entire life, how significant is the effect? I currently don't understand when people say that they need a coffee to 'wake up'.

Does drinking the coffee actually make you feel more awake (as if you had more hours sleep), or does it just increase response times while you still feel tired?
"the loading process into the tunnels can't be fast"

Why is that the case and can it be fixed? I would say that this problem would be easier to solve than the problem of getting a orbital class rocket booster to go into space, launch the second stage, and then return to the launch pad and land.

Musk likes to work from first principles to try and understand what is possible. What is the physics behind why you can't have a very full, steady stream of vehicles going through a tunnel? Nothing really. The vehicles just have to be very well controlled. With a good auto-vehicle you should be able to pack them in and have them enter and exit into the stream of traffic. Like a real road, only better. Why would you not want someone of Musk's caliber to not try to do this? My dad would rather have him working more on getting the automatic car working so he can continue commuting to work. I can understand that objection, but he says the Boring Company is only about 2-5% of his time. If you want something to happen you try and decide if it is possible, and then try and do it. Not spend you time figuring out how not to do it.
> 10 minutes of lost productivity a day

and yet not every developer not using a tiling windowmanager is fired on the spot for wasting company time.

"productivity" (or what people think of as productive activities) is overrated. Shiny new hardware makes employees, especially technically oriented ones, feel important and appreciated. That's about the gist of it. Nothing wrong with that, but let's not blow up egos with claims of "productivity".
Advertisements with their hearts in the right place are still advertisements. If your tool were open source (it may be? not clear from TFA...) no one would complain. Since it's commercial and TFA takes such an anti-hacker stance, the complaint above is not surprising. It's not difficult to imagine that TFA might be very effective in speaking to some of your customers. With the customers who hang out here, a different essay with a different emphasis (e.g. "this is how everyone gets OAuth wrong and here's how we do it right") might be more effective.
If you were paid at your job the same as in tech, and you know the direct value you add then you'll understand the cost of the tools you prefer is a literal drop in the bucket and not worth serious discussion.
You might even cause a financial crisis along the lines of the 2008 disaster.
> For other countries the employees are legally contractors

How do you actually pay them as contractors? Do you literally just wire them USD or do you some service?
I really wish people would at least skim the wikipedia page to figure out the vocabulary of the field they're about to opine on.

The left-progressive use of the word 'bias' is completely different than the way statisticians use the word.

If bias increases accuracy/precision, it's not bias.

The more interesting question is this - is it permissible for models to consider protected characteristics if those characteristics improve the performance of the model?
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In that case she would have a paystub..... or at least a contractor agreement.