skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The number of people doing something does not strengthen your argument.

Actually it very much does, it just depends on the nature of the argument.

Here it's very relevant. It's not silly to put a glossy screen on a laptop if tons of people buy it -- and even prefer it.
Sounds like they don't negotiate efficiently. "Please give me a raise" is not efficient negotiation, no matter how aggressively or often you say it.
Tip: make sure you're using libinput and not synaptics. These days libinput seems to have the most reliable trackpad support.
> the relativistic mass of particles becomes so big that gravitational interaction is too strong to be ignored

It's not relativistic mass that's the key factor: relativistic mass is frame dependent, and it's not the source of gravity. The relevant factor is stress-energy: energy density, momentum density, pressure, and other stresses. The key factor at the planck energy scale is that the density of stress-energy is high enough that we can no longer have confidence that classical General Relativity is an accurate description of gravity; we expect to see quantum gravity phenomena at that stress-energy density.
Second Mover Advantage: The Definite Guide (2019 Update)
Computers "predict recidivism" and will tell you you're not allowed to be paroled because "the algorithm says" you're going to reoffend.

Computers will tell you you can't get a loan because the algorithm says you won't repay.

Or you can't get this job, or that opportunity, or should be spied on, or whatever.

These may be due to biases in the data (imagine a neural net confusing being black with being poor based on historical data, etc).

Now, I am pretty convinced that this stuff is going to screw us all over -- if you thought human bureaucracy was bad, wait until it's all in the computer and no one has permission or ability to change it.

It seems to me that we may have a rare opportunity here: I'm not sure if this wave of tolerance and caring about minorities is permanent or not, but while people do care, and while computers are provably screwing all kinds of people over, we may be able to get enough people to care so that we can curb some of this stuff. i.e. perhaps don't allow neural nets to predict who is going to commit a crime or who shouldn't have a job, because they're too fallible and too easy to rig.

For example, you can keep feeding it new datasets until it produces the biased result you want and now that's your model, and then you can blame "the algorithm" and "bad data" and not yourself. e.g. maybe you feed it old census data instead of recent data, or old crime data, etc.

Of course, knee-jerk "ban the algorithms" isn't a solution, but starting to talk about and think about a computer bureaucracy where no one accessible to you has permission or ability to change the output of the computer, no matter how exceptional the case may be.
> The security of package managers is something we're going to have to fix.

Companies that care about this already have dependency policies in place. The companies that don't care so much about security already have an approach to security problems that they will employ if a significant threat is revealed, spend time and money to fix it then.

It's a herd approach. Sheep and cattle band together because there's strength in numbers and the wolves can only get one or two at a time. It's extremely effective at safeguarding most of the flock.
Mathematically flawed there is no reason to suspect you can subtract the time spent waiting for the computer from the time already wasted whereas actually inefficiency from poor hardware is distributed throughout the day including productive periods.

You would actually multiply a percentage of inefficiency x hours worked.

Also honestly human beings doing intellectual work can't just do something else for 10 minutes and lose zero productivity because intellectual work is fundamentally dissimilar from assembling widgets OR managerial work.

Consider reading http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html because you fundamentally don't understand how people work and can't be a good manager without at least attempting to understand.
Also the neoreactionary bit. I literally paused on that in total surprise. As a long-time LW lurker - yes, the rationalist community plays with plenty of non-mainstream ideas and try to work them in both directions (up from first principles, and towards extreme conclusions). But characterizing rationalists as equal to neoreactionaries? That's a complete mischaracterization of the community.
This is an amazing way to run a company. I love it.
I think you meant to say "when my paper is rejected, I can trivially change the format of references to whatever the publisher of my second choice journal wants without any effort" ;-)
Fair enough. Honestly I don't know how to help you, there are just SO many jobs that involve maths and computer science, and really most jobs you can do independently if you are good enough and have the drive/motivation for it.

I myself am a software developer working out of my own company, I became an independent contractor after three years working in permanent jobs, its definitely do-able.
Yes, the majority of my clients is on AWS so I have to stick with it.
On the other hand, it seems like making automatic payments to dependencies would be easy to screw up. Adding money to a system in the wrong way tends to attract scammers and thieves, requiring more security vigilance, while also giving people incentives to take shortcuts to make money. (Consider Internet ads, SEO, and cryptocurrency.)

Monetary incentives can be powerful and dangerous. They raise the stakes. You need to be careful when designing a system that you don't screw them up, and this can be difficult. Sometimes it can be easier to insulate people from bad incentives than to design unambiguously good incentives.
If planes were built as shoddily as software is, even software that has massive material impact on people's lives, we'd have a lot more crashing planes, and a lot more people angry about it. And we have a huge group (a majority even) of software devs that are completely fine with the status quoa of how crap software is.

As a software person, I have absolutely no issue with telling other software people to do their job better, and I see no shortage of people that aren't even trying on that front.

Its your comparison between a process that takes safety, reliability and a reduction of harm as a core, first value, and a process that cares first about money, and second about novelty and somewhere way down the line people, maybe, that is offensive frankly.
Thanks for the update. Installed correctly. Can't wait to try it out.
Hrm, I guess I hadn't considered that.
Use them like the first-class vectors they are. You can use _any_ array manipulation on ranges.
???

So is this basically a revolt by the more political oriented people? I mean, the people who want to discuss the political type controversial stuff and not so much tech and science?

Just wondering why I never heard of it until I read that comment?
If it works in a specific case it isn't impossible.

I agree that its the general case that matters.
Impossible is a very strong word though.

How wide do you want to cast the 'general' net? You can still have limited scenarios that are useful. You don't have to model the entire universe.
Program allows ordinary digital camera to see round corners
Hearing aids are sold to hunters at a much lower price (as noise protection and low noise enhancement). The same work goes into them, but they are not medical devices so they have to be affordable.
The core framework of HN, Arc, has an open source variant and it's not hard to deploy a strict HN clone. https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Exactly. I was in Germany recently and saw small children walking home from school alone. In America, this can get parents arrested in many states.

In Japan, they basically force kids to walk to school without parents when they're 7-8 years old. If I ever have kids, I'd want to raise them someplace like that, not in a country where I'm legally required to be a helicopter parent until the kid is a legal adult.
Former FARC chief weighs in on Colombian peace deal﻿
> People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better.

I always enjoy it when someone arrogantly poses a subjective statement as fact from a position of arbitrary authority. I like it especially so when there are a plethora of reasons against their position as in this case.
When the Regional Connector (funded by Measure R!) is finished in 2021 and they realign Gold/Expo/Blue, there will be a direct light rail line from South Pasadena to Santa Monica: no subway transfer to hop across downtown. I think then the commute time will be around 1:00 or 0:50 each way.
And with that I declare this product dead... Idera is the last stop to squeeze cash out of a company.

Expect layoffs and all future work to be outsourced via fixed cost development to lowest bidders (mostly in India). Also expect a big sales push for multi year contracts.

Nothing wrong with India, just that companies like Idea don't like to have developers on payroll, and the ones that do write specs all day long.
It fascinates me that "virtue signalling" is used as such an easy dismissal of people's opinions because they dare to actually talk about them.

The whole point of taking a stand on an issue is to inspire others. If you, as an individual, quit your job because of ethical concerns you know full well that losing one developer is not about to make the company change course. But talking about leaving, why you left, and what you want to change, is the way of spreading that message to others. To dismiss that as "virtue signalling" is baffling. Or just extremely lazy.
How about this metaphor: There are two burger joints. One consistently gets poor health code reviews, vermin in the preparation areas/mouse feces on the cutting board, etc. while another has a mostly clean rap sheet, only marred by a "missing a hair net" violation once every few years. Which one do you go to? Certainly they're not equivalent, right?
HttpComponents Core 4.4.11 Released
Wow and what would be really cool would be to eventually manipulate gravity electromagnetically. If all the forces are unified it should be possible.
Not sure why we are going after them. It's the isp providers who need to be reined in.
I wouldn't mind trying out Semaphore for some open source projects. On the community open source page [1], from what I understand, you offer a free service, but the pricing page [2] says that it's not free yet?

[1]: https://semaphoreci.com/community/open-source

[2]: https://semaphoreci.com/pricing
Hmmm... interesting. We are using something similar (https://nextjs.org/) on our marketing site and our performance is a single digits on lighthouse.
True, the kind of US centrism is quite boring, and kinds of gives the impression of Americans as insular.

In India one could get a fancy, top of line pair of glasses for around 50$.
Touch-screen models are glossy.

Non-touch-screen models are matte.

At least that was the case for my XPS 15, and I was told it is a fairly general rule that touch screen laptops are glossy.
The US can't stop meddling in South America.
This problem exists accross disciplines. I heard someone defend the DSM manual as simply a way to standardize how psychiatrists think and talk about mental health issues. Otherwise, the field would be chaos.

Perhaps we need a DSM for society level malfunctions, with strict definitions?
> Just wondering why I never heard of it?

Because it gets flagged off the site immediately.
Do you have a swap partition? If you don't have a swap partition enabled, then your computer will freeze when your RAM fills up.

I have the XPS 16" and this happens to me under Arch Linux, but thankfully not very often because I have 16GB of RAM. If you really have to break out of the freeze, then you can try switching to another terminal window (eg. ctrl-alt-F3 or some other function key), then try to kill the offending process. It might take a minute for your keyboard inputs to take effect, but it generally can be done.
The card in the 9370 is not replaceable, and despite having bought a card and opened it with the intention of replacing it after I bought it, it hasn't actually been an issue for me in my apartment or dozens of wifi networks across Seattle.
Yes, that "too perfect" description is what made me look into the Aswan Dam situation after reading Systemantics. But I happened to have time to do just that. Most of what we read/see/hear we don't have time to assess deeply (and even if we did, we might only scratch the surface of deeper knowledge). An enduring problem.
It’s mainly feminists / activists attempting to change the language. Many languages have masculine/ feminine words. Ie Latino/Latina and la/el. For them it is deconstructing the oppressiveness of genders but imo most don’t fundamentally think there is anything wrong with something being particularly masculine or feminine.
I'd also like to bring up the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

Just because a policy seems reasonable and has straightforward justifications for all of its pieces doesn't mean it wasn't maliciously designed to another purpose. The stated intent is not always the only intent and if the results...
In the US, an individual with 300K+ income is in the top 1%. A household with 430K+ income is in the top 1%.

Sources:
-DQYDJ (https://dqydj.com/who-are-the-one-percent-united-states/)
-CNN (https://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/index.html)
> three or four days learning it

Now this is being ambitious :)
I'm saying that racism cannot be solely an issue of someone's intent, it needs to be evaluated by the outcome. An outcome is a fact that we can all observe. An intent is internal to a person, we can never get a clear view of a person's intent; at best we can make deductions as to a person's intent based on their behavior.

Claiming that racism can be evaluated only by the intent is simply moving the goal posts into an area where we can't clearly observe. It's a tactic.

In terms of this specific issue, algorithms by their very nature lack intent. Thus this particular argument has no validity; we can only judge the algorithm by it's results: the outcome.
> You can’t receive campaign contributions from the corporation the lobbyist works for—it’s illegal for corporations to contribute to a campaign.

Oh come on, but PACs can. You're insulting anyone's intelligence you tell what you wrote above to.

> You’re giving a citizen who knows about a complex industry access that regular citizens also routinely get.

From what I've seen no. Can a regular person call a senator anytime and for him personally to take the phone? Don't think so.
Also, the idea that lobbyists 'know' about a complex industry. No, they simply tell you what they want you to 'know' about the industry in order to win your favor/sympathy. It has little to do with how much they know. There are politicians who turned lobbyists within a year or so of being out of government. Do you really think they're senior folks in the industries they represent?

> How many politicians leave office to go work for industries that lobbied them?

Quite a few and in the case of people like Dick Cheney, it can be deadly for hundreds of thousands of people.

Random Google search[1].

1 - https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=Z

P.S. I mean this as kindly as possible, but are you, or do you aspire to be a lobbyist by any chance? You sound like one.
Newer iphones now have an IR projecting depth camera built in
It is a great book.
(Disclaimer: not a lawyer) Walmart might tell you not to leave, but legally speaking they probably don’t have grounds to stop you from leaving, and it may in fact be illegal for them to try.

Some states have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopkeeper's_privilege

But that still requires cause to believe you stole something, and as far as I understand it, declining to be searched on its own doesn’t provide cause for that.

Costco has a membership agreement where you consent to being searched, Walmart does not.
But I haven't seen cults talking about how to personally ensure you're not falling into trap of cult-like thinking. LW is a rather self-conscious community.
Genuine question - why make zotfile and not adding things to Zotero directly? After all it is open source. Zotfile adds a lot of useful things that feel like they should be in the main program, not optional extras.

I'm not a programmer however, so this may be very naive question!
All of the elites are player and puppet for the elites. The sooner people realize that the better off they'll be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

I first heard this from Etta James, but it's Bob Dylan that wrote it:

https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gotta-serve-somebody/
Ask HN: Back Up GSuite Team Drives
Hi all
We use GSuite Team Drives at work. We are a SMB with about 1TB of shared files. I feel like we should be backing up our files outside the team drive. Google doesn’t make that easy. We wrote a script the copies all the files to a NAS. Then we run a backup snapshot on those files.

I’m curious what others do. I feel like any efforts I would do are feable compared to googles efforts.
We do have a couple examples of companies that are transparent with salaries or comp plans (Buffer, Gitlab, even places like Basecamp).

Nowhere with open published comp numbers has ever come close to my comp. Maybe it would work better as a system if everyone was opted in but the current data points I see don't support higher salaries for people with my skillset.
Spendy! Good to know, I'll skip the app and keep using zenni.
I wonder if average human artistic ability would be considered on-par with the outputs of this model.

I.e. could an average american adult with reasonable People-magazine-based knowledge paint these celebrities as well with nothing but their names as input? Is it even the same task?
This is an ultrabook so chances are the memory modules are soldered on.
It’s literally the number one thing that those of my associates who identify as right wing universally agree on: there’s some kind of free speech apocalypse unfolding. They view this as censorship.
Those exist everywhere. The Bay Area doesn't have a monopoly on experienced software developers.
>it's just location probabbly had less to do with it as just a general desire to cut costs at any cost...

Exactly this. In a previous role at an Enterprise software company I watched customer satisfaction take a dive after cost cutting measures and support and escalations paths and metrics were changed. The same customer support people who had really happy customers started to have unhappy customers. It had very little to do with the people or location and everything to do with what options the customer services people had to help a customer.
opsgenie works pretty well
Statistical differences in outcome cannot be automatically attributed to discrimination, though they frequently are
I second this, Costco is great for eye exams. No upsells.
If you need to implement your own OIDC/OAuth I highly recommend Identity Server 4[1]. I've used it in production and it was fairly painless to get up going. It's .NET based & battle-tested. It has lots of samples on GitHub to show you how to get going for the various flows (which they even walk you through in their docs) and has a quickstart UI so you've got something you can brand quickly to give users a contiguous login experience. However, if you can manage not to host your own (don't want to mess with it), I recommend either Auth0[2] or the one of the AWS/Azure solutions mentioned elsewhere.

[1]https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4
[2]https://auth0.com/
Protesting Chinese censorship, I get that. But they lost me at "protesting projects with ICE". I happen to think that immigration and customs enforcement is a net positive. Those people deal with human trafficking, seize a ton of dangerous drugs (2370lbs of Fentanyl alone in 2017), and send a lot of people who shouldn't be here back to where they should be (or to jail if they've committed other crimes).
Okta is not a replacement for either of those things, and I didn't see the plug in the article for their services that you mention.
thanks for your explanations.

> - with opam every time you create switch you need to compile everything from scratch, with esy we try to reuse as much as possible from the build cache

Yes, that's definitely useful.

> [...] for now you can use package.json for npm/yarn for bucklescript dependencies and esy.json (esy looks for esy.json before package.json) for native dependencies.

So by acting like we use esy on Bucklescript, when we actually use npm, we get a very similar result?
I'm the author of Polar. An app very similar to both Zotero and Mendeley:

https://getpolarized.io/

Both Mendeley and Zotero are better than Polar (for now) with bibliography management but I believe we're better at both at document annotation and knowledge management.

We're also Open Source and launched on Hacker News a few months back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960

We're still rather new so not a lot of people have heard of us yet but moving forward very aggressively.

I'd also like to thank the Zotero guys for posting their notes about the Mendeley encryption issue.

I think this is a completely unacceptable situation and antithetical to what we should expect in the scientific community.

The Polar on disk repo is exactly the opposite.

We store all your data on disk and your annotations are in JSON format so they're easily hackable.

This is part of the design.

We MAY add end to end repository encryption at some point but it will be in the users control. We're not doing it to lock the user out or to prevent export.

The end to end encryption is so that you can store your repo in the cloud and not have to worry about your data being viewed by anyone other than you.
Interesting, someone I worked with at a previous job left there to go to Okta. He did our Django/python Auth stuff. His Linkedin says he's still at Okta.
Is it, though?

My ophtalmologist wouldn't only perform measurements to see if my prescription had changed. She would do a proper eye checkup. Retina, pressure and a host of other things.

It wasn't expensive. Of course, it was also not in the US.

You are only there once a year at most, so it is an opportunity to catch things before they go wrong.
This is about individual employees leaving so the individual rate is most important; the source I had open (closed the tab) listed $300k for one year and $302k for the year after that as the benchmark for 99th percentile.
interesting. Sometimes I wish I was more like them, and things didn't bother me if they seemed boring or pointless. Seems like an innately selfish view, but one i'm having trouble rectifying.
It's exceptionally difficult to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. Rare to even have someone try, quite honestly, given the state of the caselaw at this point. Basically have to be fully and permanently disabled to even have a shot at it.
It may be hard and you may be viewed as "that weird restrictive parent that won't even let their kids play fortnite", but that doesn't make you wrong. Good stuff, glad parents like you are out there.
What's the argument to call designers developers?
It pretty clearly crossed the spam line for me: The parent specifically pointed out that doctors don't give you the PD to in order to force you to buy glasses from them, but suggests there are other ways to obtain it. Eric replies to talk about how much better their app is than any do-it-yourself PD measurement but does not disclose that their app also doesn't give you the measurements in order to force you to buy glasses from them. I did not find this helpful and it is clearly commercial, since the app has no utility other than to sell you their glasses.