skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's an accounting problem, or a flow of funds problem.

IOW, the flow of benefits from hiring more police officers goes in directions that make it politically difficult or impossible to get the additional money. And you need a lot of it.

Though adding officers would benefit rider safety and increase the quality and pleasantness of the rider's experience, the increased taxes would fall mostly on people who do not use the system much or at all. (To raise fares would discourage ridership.)

And police officers aren't cheap - each one costs about $150,000 per year (according to a 2011 article which estimates that adding 725 officers to the LAPD added 110 million dollars a year in costs. [0])

[0] http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/22/opinion/la-oe-ridgew...
Hobbyist here as well.

> 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.

Is there research done on how individual or a small group of neurons learn?

> 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.

When you take the point of your parent's post, then I'd assume having multiple neural nets learning at the same time and seeing things from different perspectives then we might get there as well.

> 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.

Our brain is specialized architecture. Emulating a brain on a Von Neumann machine designed computer is similar to a brain trying to emulate a computer. To me it makes sense that you'd need specialized hardware for this.

I wonder if we could simulate a neural net of a simple creature, like a worm.
The thing is that "comparable opportunities" equates to (perceived) Bay Area salaries which are more or less equated to higher-end FAANG salaries and the (perceived) ability for a random engineer to drop a few emails and be starting in a new well-compensated position the following Monday.

You're not going to get those most places. I'm not sure it's the norm in the Bay Area either though.
Apparently a gender-neutral expression for Latinos as well as Latinas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx
Gatsby uses GraphQL and React to generate a static website. I muttered angrily at it everytime some data was not available in the page because I forgot to update the GraphQL query.

It is just a static website for crying out loud.

But once I got around it, it gave me a score of 100 in performance and 80 in SEO just out of the box. Images are resized and inlined if need be; critical CSS is rendered first; the plugins added niceties like default anchor link in Github. And I could use React components to organize everything, which is a much more ergonomic way of doing reusable markup compared to server-side things like Rails partials.

I would've needed to spend weeks if I had to get here from scratch. Gatsby is bleeding edge and it does best practices - including performance better than most other static site generators. I think the web is only moving forward - there is cambrian explosion of new untested and often ill-thought ideas, but the good ones will survive in the long run.
Yes. AWS biggest advantage now is the giant marketplace of vendors and partners so you can get help and managed services for just about anything.

In my experience, most startups just want managed options they can run themselves rather than engaging partners but if that's what you need then AWS will have more companies to offer, although GCP does have qualified partners. I recommend contacting one of the GCP developer advocates either in this thread or on twitter for help, or email me separately and I'll put you in touch.

Also I havent worked with them but https://shinesolutions.com/ has put out plenty of articles and case studies that seems to show they're pretty capable, that might work for you.
I don't know if I'd call processing terabytes of data "routine" even in this day and age. Same deal with 4k video, VR/AR, etc. Yeah, some particularly large or cutting-edge companies might be doing that, but the average business will likely not have nearly as extreme of needs.

Re: the "webasm vs simple websites of 1999" factor, I think that's a case of designers (and the programmers enabling them) self-inducing such problems. Most business sites don't actually need all those newfangled features and tools; plain old HTML5+CSS3 (plus maybe a little bit of JS here and there) is more than good enough.
At Topology Eyewear, we DON'T charge extra for super-high index (1.74) lenses, and all lenses come equipped with the best anti-reflective AND superhydrophobic coating. Because one shouldn't be forced to cut corners to deliver the best and most comfortable vision possible. Happy to answer any questions. Check it out at http://www.topologyeyewear.com
I wouldn't say its impossible.

They may happen to align, you cant force it though.
Why not call it an integration or e2e test and be done with it?
It just dawned on me that the left and right absolutely do not think of “racist” exactly the same. The left looks at outcome and the right looks at intent.

We need better words.
Ask HN: What software does AWS user guides run on?
It existed long before empire.
I think the more charitable interpretation is that the discussion was taking over everything. If people are fixating on a narrow topic for a long time (without much progress) then sometimes it's helpful to say "alright people, let's move along now."

You're right about Less Wrong feeling like a cult, though. It gives me the heebie-jeebies.
One of the downsides of my support example is that there is a lot of outsourcing and cost cutting in that area of work (one of the reasons I left).

So there will be tons of stories like yours that I don't doubt are true.... it's just location probabbly had less to do with it as just a general desire to cut costs at any cost...
Why does it seem that everyone who writes articles like these seemed to have a national forest in their back yard as a kid?

Most kids don't have "an expansive wilderness" to explore. Most of them have miles and miles of residential streets to "explore" in Baltimore.
“I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct, than about being morally right”
Is there some reason why new phenomena can't occur except at these energies? Couldn't there be something interesting that isn't the unification of forces?
No it does not. I bought high-index glasses (I am 5 diopter myopic + 1 diopter of astigmatism and I chose the highest index they had, 1.6 or 1.7) and a classic frame (round) and paid a bit less than 500 Euro. This was 2 years ago in Bavaria.

E: it has all the coatings too
Sure thing. The basilisk can easily be misread as an argument to do everything in one's power to support AI research of some sort. It's more accurately an argument that you should ensure your decision theory doesn't coerce you into putting all your effort into supporting AI research. LessWrong has a bunch of really scrupulous people reading it, who take pride in taking ideas seriously, so censoring the discussion seemed worthwhile for avoiding the failure mode of having readers make the mistake mentioned previously.
Decision Awareness
Oracle pays its long-term employees less than newjoiners, that is no news. If you think you can get a raise by switching positions within the company - wrong! You get exactly the same no matter the position. Also nobody in the office got a raise in years (not even the inflation rate). The only option to get some raise is to be promoted, which does not happen very often. I don't think it has anything to do with race/gender.
It’s more clear to me than ever now that the left and the right do not use the word “racist” the same way.

The left thinks of racism in terms of outcome and the right thinks of racism in terms of intent.

We could benefit from better language around these concepts, and honest dialogue about them too.
I had a (first version?) XPS 13 running first Gentoo and then later Linux Mint and I never had problems with it. Once I even let it run for 2 months without rebooting and making it go into suspend-to-RAM from time to time and it never crashed.

But then I still sold it because I could never get used to its cursor keys and absolutely hated the impossible-to-deactivate-embedded-automatic-brightness-control.
At one workplace, I and a bunch of others were software leads/managers who rose up through many years hard work, promotions and raises. A new VP of engineering joins and finds out about our salary during the next review. He berates us individually why were are paid so much. What he didn't realize is the team leads did the heavy lifting for development at this company. Many of us said nothing and just looked for new opportunities. From what I heard, projects quickly fell behind schedule, got cancelled. The VP was eventually fired.
Personally? I don't go anywhere, I start my businesses where I already am (a relatively small town in the Pacific Northwest). I don't know what would work for you, though, because it depends on your business goals.

If your goal is to get as wealthy as possible as quickly as possible, then you need to be where the VC money is. That isn't my goal, however, so I have no such need.

For my purposes, there is usually plenty of high-grade engineering talent in the area. If I can't fill a need locally, then it's fairly easy to get someone remote that can handle it. Likewise, there is no problem with sales and distribution (I produce software -- if I produced hardware, that might change the equation). I rarely need financing -- I prefer to bootstrap that stuff rather than sell equity positions or take on debt -- but if I do, there are lots of options for that as well.

If you are happy with where you live, then the only reason to consider moving elsewhere for business purposes is if you can't meet a business need otherwise.

If you aren't happy with where you live, then choose a new place based on what would make you happy. Then analyze if it would work for you business-wise.

I do have another observation, if you're the sort who doesn't want to start your own business but just wants to do interesting engineering work: look outside of the computer industry itself. Pretty much every industry needs engineers, and most have difficulty finding exceptional ones. If you're a solid engineer, you can often write your own ticket if you avoid the obvious employers.
low key sexism allegation
The entry on the less wrong wiki has some info on it:

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Even VS Code is slower and uses much more memory than native apps.
They own the distribution channels, top to bottom[1]. Lenscrafters, sunglass hut, target optical, etc. If you don't play ball, they'll kill your distro. They did this to oakley in a hostile takeover[2] – luxottica cut them off and took almost 40% off their stock price. Oakley was then bought by lux.

What's stopping you from selling mom and pop? Mostly nothing. Warby Parker – and to a lesser degree, coastal – are doing this. But it's a weird middle-market place to live. Similar to things like Daniel Wellington in the watch game – you're selling $5 chinese products for $100 because you have a marketing and brand engine that fashionable but unlearned people don't question. In reality, the same products can be had for far less. EyeBuyDirect is the best place for cheap glasses. First pairs are often free but for shipping, about $7, and later pairs are about #30.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
[2]https://www.thestreet.com/story/1509351/1/oakley-suffers-as-...
Fun fact: Costco and Walmart surface their lenses on equipment made by Essilor (Satisloh subsidiary). Also if you're buying "transitions" branded photochromatic lenses - that's Essilor too.
Only 16GB RAM max?
I'd pay a fee to "borrow" the empty frames of 3-5 selections from Zenni and then return them prior to ordering. I've had mixed success on fitment from Zenni.
Yeah I have had some cases where I wish I had an ethernet port, but not enough cases yet to make me buy a USB-Ethernet adapter.
I find the Ehang particularly egregious, yes - it seems designed to chop people’s kneecaps and/or behead them.

The Volocopter, however, has the rotors above the vehicle, like a helicopter, and I don’t see how that is any more problematic than a helicopter.

Having ducted rotors might be another solution (should give higher efficiency, too, particularly when combined with counter rotating props).
People are afraid to let their kids play outside, and even if they did, there is no one out there to play with because all the other kids are in the house in front of a screen.
Think they meant OTC pain relievers (Advil, Tylenol, etc) which will help with the headaches/body aches.

But if they didn’t, don’t use an addictive substance to come off of another addictive substance. You might just transfer that addiction.
Hypothesis Testing with SciPy [video]
In general, women tend to negotiate less aggressively (there's research supporting that), so if your friend was paid less, it doesn't necessarily mean there was discrimination.

The question is: is she as good at negotiating her salary as her male friends?

Also, it sometimes happens that the market's salaries increase over time, and new employees get paid more than the old ones. It's a difficult and well known manager's dilemma - I cannot hire a new person for the same price as the current employees, but if I have to raise everyone's pay first, I won't be able to hire the new person anyway.

So, the question is - did the interns' wages differ between them according to gender? Did she earn less than female interns, or male interns? How good/aggressive are the people you compare in terms of salary negotiation?
It was a proof of concept.

It meant that the AI actually found a working strategy against one of the standard bots, where it had not found any before.

It will probably never work when it starts to play against itself, but we don't know if the AI is already at that point.
> Like millions of other Americans, we use a lot of Amazon products in our house. We have an Echo, an Echo Dot, two Kindles, two Amazon Prime Chase credit cards, Amazon Prime Video on our TV, and two Prime accounts. (Note to self: Why are my husband and I each paying Amazon $119/year?)

> I barely know where else to go online to buy things.

I feel like the article's conclusion basically stems from this -- good lord that's a lot of platform buy-in. Not surprised at all that it's difficult to leave. I have an Amazon account for an occasional purchase and an AWS account for playing around. I don't feel like I'm missing out by not jumping into the rest of their ecosystem but maybe I'm just blissfully ignorant.

Also is is really fair to conflate their B2B and B2C business? They might as well be separate companies as far as this article is concerned. I feel like this challenge would be a lot more meaningful if getting Amazon's consumer products out of your life wasn't combined with dropping every business that uses cloud hosting.

> Having to run to a physical store rather than opening my Amazon app every time the house runs out of paper towels is annoying

I can't say this experience is super relatable. Don't get me wrong, it's super cool for groceries and home goods to just show up on a regular schedule but this is basically arguing that someone who has been living with a team of servants is finding life more difficult without them. Amazon's service provides real tangible value and suddenly changing the balance from time to money is going to be felt. You can meet in the middle and order your groceries online and pick them up on the way home once a week.

> I would usually immediately order a weird doodad, probably within two minutes of realizing I needed it, using the Amazon app on my phone, but not this week. I ultimately order it from eBay.

Woah, the author needs to chill on the instant gratification. If your hard requirement for shopping is impulse then of course Amazon is going to scratch that itch but eBay is just the same wagon pulled by a different horse. It seems like the author needs to learn how to shop. The problem of course is that purchasing is work.

https://www.proclipusa.com

https://www.scosche.com/magic-mount-cell-phone-holder-tablet...

https://www.rammount.com/

https://www.iottie.com/Product/List?Category=SmartphoneMount
Yeah, and others may go months, or years too.
I wonder if there is a market for an iphone app that uses the Face ID sensors to measure pupillary distance (PD). Last time I got an eye exam, the optometrist would not share the PD measurement without purchasing frames as well.
Some jobs may be easier to buff until you make it. Someone going into marketing can probably get along for awhile on BS, while a welder is going to be put on the spot and actually tested on their skills.

Depends how much domain knowledge the recruiter has as well.
Well, duh!

You only consider skills that people have actually used in a job as skills they possess. Thus the only way people can acquire new skills that will be recognized on a resume is if they end up using them in their current job. It should be obvious that pretty soon the experienced people will fail to be able to include some important skill on their resume.

Presto, a "shortage" of qualified people. Employers are so obsessed with hiring the best person that they overlook plenty of people who could do the job.
Heads up, after I installed the 1.6.x BIOS update on my 9370, it takes multiple minutes to POST, every (re)boot. After the initial update, the first boot took nearly 15 minutes, I thought it had been bricked. I've reinstalled firmware, I've downgraded, I've factory reset and it still does this. They've offered to service it (I contacted them a week before my warranty expired) but it's not quite annoying enough to be without it for days.

Just a heads up, I have a lot more to complain about the XPS13, but it's basically exclusively BIOS issues [1]. I think they also need to improve the heatsink/paste, but maybe they have for the 9380 model.

[1] The BIOS releases are not always in increasing version numbers. They're repeatedly re-released versions, or released versions from different old servicing branches, etc. Someone commented that they thought Dell was sort of doing wide-scale A/B testing by releasing different versions and collecting feedback. Seems a bit presumptive but it's been in my head.
Was it you or a friend? Or did you forget to log in to your other sock puppet account?

What was the DoL level, job classification, location and wage offered?
I think a lot of people (especially on HN) view racism in terms of internal processes rather than results. If the current implementation is race-blind, that satisfies them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/8wz6g3/impartial_a...
Well, do you think my comment demonstrates deep understanding of database design?

No, it seems about on about the same level as being able to paraphrase the abstract of a paper about the system. I would not take it as showing that someone has read past the first page. A high-level overview just isn't enough for that. You have to ask your own probing questions too. Limiting the conversation to the particular problems they bring up is essentially taking them at their word when they claim to be skilled. I've seen lots of occasions where trying to drill down for a bit more detail on some part of what they talked about consistently came up empty (without going anywhere near sitting down at a computer to write a fizzbuzz equivalent).
Once the millions of migrants in Germany have the requisite EU papers they would be able to flood into the UK. Shengen is a complete red herring.
UI is roughly gamedev's equivalent of the HTML/CSS part of "front-end development", and within my experience, UI is one of the more common places for games to have problems.
> It just dawned on me that the left and right absolutely do not think of “racist” exactly the same.

This is quite true. But then, there is considerable diversity in that issue within each the right and the left, too.

> The left looks at outcome and the right looks at intent.

But this is not even approximately true. Though it is an oft-repeated talking point of the right.
Game on DeepMind vs StarCraft II
I'll be buying that mass production 30 foot yacht any day now...
> There is no design of AI that can be simultaneously utilitarian, procedurally fair, and representatively fair.

AI is just tools of humans. Any system that can be achieved with humans can also be achieved with AI.

These AIs take us backwards from our existing human systems in addition to being much harder to correct later.

The supermarket theft example in the slides you linked to is a prime example. In what store in America would that kind of display be deemed acceptable? Yeah, you save a few dollars a day on theft, but what kind of goodwill are you spending? Now that AI is here, people think they can get away with things like that because numbers.
There is a difference between the approval ratings of a lawfully elected leader, which include the opinions of folks who didn't even bothered to vote, and the minority support of a vile tyrant that in a free and fair election would have lost by a 2:1 - 3:1 margin.

After fixing the last elections, Maduro has no greater legitimacy than the coup leader, who at least recognizes that and calls for new, fair elections.
The receipt check is the mildest version of it. They can search your cart, and potentially also your person, for store items that you haven't paid for.

If you are not a member, you have not consented to it, and the transfer of ownership already occurred at the point of sale. So you can walk past the exit line and right out the doors. Attempting to hold you in the store against your will could be considered kidnapping.
Boeing moved their headquarters from the Seattle area to Chicago in 2001 for various reasons:
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/chicago-offering...

Reminiscent of Amazon's HQ2 efforts.
Why aren't insurance companies putting pressure on the market to get more inexpensive options? Is the overall savings (~$200 every few years) just not worth it?
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You know, maybe we ought to think twice before we tell a billion spanish speakers how they should or shouldn't talk?

Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting the mental image of some silicon valley kid with a 2 million dollar house telling people who live in corrugated-roof shacks that they're 'uninclusive'. And it pisses me off unreasonably.
Those words are "systemic" or "implicit" or "institutional", etc. All you really need is a proof or example that racist/sexist outcomes are possible even when there is no overt intent. And there are plenty of examples like that out there. Failure to accept that those examples exist, however, is something beyond just looking at intent instead of outcome.
Deal, I'll consider your coefficient adjusted then.

But for my benefit, can I just confirm my suspicion that you sincerely don't understand the difference between politics & personal marketplace decisions? Because if so that's some VERY strong ideology you've got going on.
But she's right. Alot of people will spend hours arguing over semantics that in the grand scheme of the debate don't actually affect the outcome, largely because people have become so uncharitable in their characterisations of 'the other side'.
I like glossy screens much more than matte, even though I use my laptop almost exclusively for development.

I just love how good it looks. That makes it better for me.

Suggesting that people who like glossy screens are unsophisticated is just unwarranted gatekeeping.