skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the obvious, this gives me hope that the newly emerging generation of leaders might not be as painfully technologically illiterate as the current generation, and we might finally be able to see intelligent, educated decisions and laws about technology start to appear.
With salary transparency, wouldn’t everyone be paid less? (Not a challenge, just a curiosity.)
This is a MacBook Air competitor. The Dell XPS 15 supports 32GB RAM.
Their Precision 5530 is the developer edition XPS 15. The same chassis with a different GPU and intel wireless instead of killer.

Although those tend to be a lot pricier than the regular XPS 15's
There is talent outside the valley and you can get it at a discount. I live in Berlin but I've worked with lots of Polish, Rumanian, Belarusian, Russian, etc. colleagues spread all over Europe. Good hard working people, with solid academic degrees, plenty of experience, up to date skill sets, etc. You can hire an entire team of them for the kind of money valley based teams spend on a single person. It doesn't even have to be a good one.

From what I've seen, there sure are a lot of not so great developers working in the valley. At least judging from the copycat designs, the clumsy UIs, chronic UX issues, etc. from typical startups I don't think that the grass is greener over there in any meaningful way. So, I think it is a myth that you get better than average people or products in SFO. Sure there are geniuses but the success/failure rates are not significantly different. There's simply more of both around. However, the failures are five times more expensive (ballpark, give or take, lets assume that for the sake of this argument).

That is only offset by the occasional unicorn; which due to the enormous amount of startups happens more often there as well. IMHO this is the main benefit the valley has. There are lots of unicorns creating lots of wealth which quite often gets reinvested locally. There's a lot of money flowing around there. Most of it gets wasted on the same BS that VCs are funding elsewhere. But then you get the occasional unicorn making up for that and the practice of those companies acquiring the expensive failures to funnel some of that back to investors.

Is a valley based team five times more expensive than a Eastern European team five times as good? I don't think so. I'd say it's quite easy to find people and teams elsewhere that are arguably just as good. Also, job hopping is a thing in the valley. Despite the insane salaries, the average tenure is quite short, especially at the bigger unicorns.

So, there's a bang for buck problem in the Valley and the smart VC money there is already encouraging startups there to work remotely or consider having remote developer teams. Relocating to the valley after you get funded stopped being a thing here in Europe. VCs are no longer asking or expecting that; that was a standard question a few years ago. What would be the point? Quintupling the burnrate is not a goal; you need a good excuse than vague beliefs/hopes. You basically pay five times what you pay in e.g. Eastern Europe and most of that goes directly to real-estate owners, the state of California (taxes are actually very high there, even compared to Europe), and all the other overpriced stuff that the Valley has to offer.
But it is possible to make one that is representatively fair first and foremost, with procedurally fair and utilitarianism at 2nd and 3rd priorities.
I'm an MD, and I have felt this pain moving from one state to another. I've never had a problem getting a license, but it's tedious and expensive, and then there's always the question of whether or not to keep a license after moving (which generally just means keep paying them money forever).

Getting doctors to agree about anything is nearly impossible, so a national approach to licensing has patchy support. Some feel that if they are the subject of an unfair inquiry (which is not standard but sadly not uncommon), they would have no recourse if there's a single licensing body.
>Travel time is the wrong property to optimize for when we're looking at transportation and urban design.

You'll probably eat those words. Or maybe your grandchildren or great great grandchildren will.

The value of human time has been steadily going up for millennia. We used to have slaves build pyramids and pick cotton, now we use machines. We used to churn our own butter. Now there's enough wealth in the world that we can afford to have butter specialists make butter and logistics specialists get it to the store shelves. Tasks that we used to think it was reasonable to allocate human time and effort two we no wouldn't think about doing manually today.

I would be highly surprised if in the future we did not continue to optimize for smaller travel times. Of course there are energy and space trade-offs. I think it's highly likely that we will chose to solve the problems caused by those trade-offs rather than having people endure longer travel times when we have the power to shorten them (with tradeoffs).

Spending less and less human time on "overhead" tasks (like churning butter, washing clothes, traveling, etc.) has been a constant theme for millennia. I do not see any reason why that will change.
When I try to design an "ideal" GUI system on paper, I start with a relational model. Relational is quite adept at dealing with "pointers" in terms of foreign keys. A given snippet of behavior (such as an event-handler method) can be easily associated with multiple things; something OOP has a hard time with. Thus, we don't have to go back to direct address pointers to solve this issue, but rather learn from relational modelling, as I hinted at in a nearby reply.

(One problem with traditional RDBMS and GUI's is that different widgets need a variety of similar and often overlapping attributes {columns}. It's not realistic to have a table dedicated to each widget "type". Thus, I propose using "dynamic relational" instead, in which column existence is optionally situational.)
What has particle physics given us after it gave us fusion and fission?
The article has an appropriate amount of technical and political discussion. The words “she is right” are simply not in this community’s vocabulary.
Clearly you have never used TypeScript, created a few packages, and bundled them.
Billionaires exist because any system where people are given different opportunities when starting out end in vastly different outcomes.

However, if you look at the historical record, there are many groups who are seriously disadvantaged who succeed, while other groups are advantaged or neglected and yet stay poor. One of the key differentiators is cultural isolation. Groups can remain culturally distinct, but still enter into the mainstream of cultural and economic life. These groups generally prosper. (Call these participation communities.) Other groups remain culturally and economically isolated, often through the machinations of their own elites, and they remain poor, often developing in-group militancy. (Call these isolation communities.) German immigrant groups throughout history are interesting in this regard, as some German emigrant groups were participation communities that prospered, while others were isolation communities who fell behind economically. Chinese immigrant groups also contradict the "different opportunities" narrative by arriving on new shores poorer than the poor of the new country, yet pulling themselves up into the middle class in several generations. (So success isn't genetic. It seems to be carried by culture and it's transmissible.)

Bill Gates isn't 100 billion times smarter than the top software people he worked with at IBM. Yet, he is worth that much more than them.

That is how Pareto distributions work. Shakira isn't orders of magnitude more talented than other performers who have remained obscure. Effects akin to Network Effects accrue to lucky individuals who were in the right place at the right time who had implemented "GYST" and made the right moves.

Income inequality destroys the social fabric of a community.

No disagreement there. Crime is correlated with relative poverty. Everyone does need to feel they are full participants, and have pride as such in the community. 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 thought that, but on the near vertical laptop stands its increadibly useful.
The hit to morale comes from management dismissing a serious cost-benefit analysis with phrases like "weak grit" and "latest gadget".
My comment is about ai. The thread is for an ai post.
Tempting but how is the coil whine on the new model? I had a 9370 for two days last year but the coil whine was irksome to the point of returning it.

Also what is the point of 4K on a 13" laptop? Honestly the 1080p model needs scaling to at least 1.25 as 1.0 is just painful even with perfect vision. Am I missing something obvious or is it just so Dell can tick the 4K marketing check box?

Providing it has no coil whine the only potential issue I see is the crappy SOLDERED(!) Killer wifi card. Damn shame you can't get it with an Intel one.
Everyday Usages of Image Recognition
The biggest problem with any large corporation being a arbitrator of truth, is the only truth they truly believe in is they should always make more profit at the end of the day. With whatever technical and political means they have, they will make that happen. With the massive amount of data collected at an individual level they have a large amount of potential power when it comes to influencing others towards their will.
I'd argue everyone gets paid more, as lower paid staff will churn more rapidly for higher paying positions, and in a tight labor market pay must rise to attract talent to roles.

With that said, you should always be interviewing for your next role, as you will never get a salary bump at an annual review near what you would make switching jobs. Always Be Interviewing. You are looking out for you first.
If you don't see anything wrong with dating apps and what it has done to our culture, well, I hope you enjoy your trivial date getting while it lasts!

I, personally, do not like the dystopia tech has built. I don't like 20 spam calls a day, ubiquitous tracking, insane "social media" or the fact that nitwits conduct witch hunts on the internet based on "facecrime." It sucks. Drugging yourself to put up with it seems to be standard operating procedure.
Isn't Knuth an observant christian? He doesn't strike me as the kind of character to use those words.
Frankly, I think we should replace congressmen and women with algorithms to avoid catastrophes like her.
I think the strong counter-argument to this is in [1]. Quite simply we need to make sure we don't get fooled by randomness and see bias where there is none, thereby making good algorithms worse in an attempt to fix imaginary bias.

[1]: https://jacobitemag.com/2017/08/29/a-i-bias-doesnt-mean-what...
Nothing, there are even a few startups that do that. Warby Parker for example. Plus there are cheap glasses available OTR at walmart/costco. This is mainly referring to the luxury market.
Things are precipitating to either a civil war or a fall for Maduro and a return to democracy. Unlike the Chavez years, the regime has lost the support of the majority of the population, but nonetheless there is a strong loyalist kernel. Maybe a quarter to a third of the people still support Maduro, either because they profit directly from their position in the party cleptocracy he instituted or because they remember the "good" Chavez years of high oil revenues and generous social spending and fear that a regime switch has the potential to make things ever worse for them.

It's essentially a class warfare in a highly divided society, that was political and is turning bloody. As always, authoritarians and populists very skillfully exploit such situations to get into power. The corollary is that it could happen anywhere similar conditions exist, like high inequality and dependence on mineral exports. Russia?
It's not a matter of comparing validities... just a matter of where can we get the most bang for our buck? The 20th century was the century of physics and we made tremendous progress in all areas of Physics. Precisely because of this progress, it is now time to look elsewhere. Throwing more and more money exploring increasingly esoteric regions of particle physics just because that's what we are used to doing isn't the best policy.

And while I do agree that much more money should be spent on Science, I don't think particle physics is the right area in which to invest. We can make much much more progress in other fields.
How to Write Acceptance Tests for a Facebook Messenger Bot
I was interested in the slide deck and wanted to hear the author expand on some of his thoughts, found a video of his presentation if anyone else is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn7oWIhFffs
People have already given you the answer, but macOS also supports tabs in nearly all the stock apps, so CMD+{1,2,...} is an even nicer way to work with multiple terminal windows, if you're not a fan of tmux. I don't think any stock Windows applications allow tabs.
What's crazier is that cochlear implants are covered by insurance.
So, I know I'm naive and all, but it seems odd to me that this isn't baked into normal web frameworks. It is entirely ordinary for a website to want to allow a user to login using Google/FB/Yahoo/whatever other id's, so that they don't have to make a new id (and remember a new password) just for your website. Probably half of the websites made with frameworks want this.

Oddly, if I want to do it, I rarely find this "baked in". Many other features which are less common, are, or else have middleware that makes it pretty much just "add this line to your config file".

I have had to mess with Oauth two or three times in ten years, so needless to say I am hapless at it. If I did it less often, or more often, it would be fine, but it's not. Does anyone know why this isn't rolled into frameworks like Django, as a boolean that you set to TRUE?
Decent hearing aides are quite expensive, complex devices with a substantial amount of R&D and non-trivial silicon.

For those who are interested, The Amp Hour has a great episode with Jørgen Jakobsen who talks about his experience in the industry and its quirks.

https://theamphour.com/338-an-interview-with-jorgen-jakobsen...
Hi Irhum, I really enjoyed this article. I really would like to read more about the Security implications and best practices to adopt when deploying an ML/DL model API.
Another satisfied Zenni customer. The lenses are not always perfect and the frames are not always the best. Sizing is hit or miss.

What I do is buy the frame with cheap lenses to check fit, then I buy it with nice lenses if I like it. They are so cheap there is no reason not to do it this way.

Even ordering multiples it ends up being inexpensive.
How hard was the Hackintosh process?
Hacked Nest Cam convinces family that US is being attacked by North Korea
Personally I think money is part of the issue. It always seemed like an obvious move for wealthy investors to buy properties and area infrastructure, then turn around and rent/sell it to the firms their companies are funding. This is a tried and true model, as recently discussed with WeWork, but only really works if they convince entrepreneurs to stay in one area like the Bay Area
I interviewed at Oracle, was made an offer but didn't take it. I know people who took the offer. My knowledge/experience is

1) For H1B, the offer made by Oracle was higher than the minimum wage guideline by DOL for those specific positions. You get a copy of the H1B petition submitted by Oracle and it includes all of this data.

2) Your salary is dependent on what you negotiated with your recruitment coordinator (Oracle will not change your figure once an offer has been sent to you). The recruitment coordinator makes an offer and you try as much as possible to counter. If you have prior work experience, you will most likely use your previous salary information as a basis for negotiation. I assume this figure you have quoted will form a basis for what Oracle will offer you. If you don't have prior work experience, then of course, they will make you an offer that they prefer.

3) Oracle pay increases are rare and typically small. This is why your starting salary is quite important because it basically forms the basis for your income for your years at Oracle
If H1B workers had the same rights and could demand similar salaries as their local counterparts (while also requiring additional effort and costs to hire) I suspect you would find that firms wouldn't hire very many H1B workers. in effect both policies have the same result.
I think the OTC hearing aid law will go into effect next year. For mild of moderate hearing loss, you will be able to buy the hearing aid directly without dealing with the hearing aid specialist.
I am guessing here but Solus Linux isn't probably officially supported by Dell on the Developer Edition of this laptop (you have the Developer Edition, don't you?)
What sort of critique are you trying to make of "this community?" Are the words "he is right" in our vocabulary?
If they give 2% rewards and 2% interest on savings, where does their money come from? It this just another VC-subsidized growth-hack that will eventually devolve into 0.01% returns?
Would that be such a bad thing, assuming the magnets aren't toxic? Full body EM detection possibly.
A few years ago after an exam, I asked for my prescription and they handed it over with no complaints. I asked for my PD measurement and was told that is free with the purchase of glasses. I offered $20 for just that measurement and they wouldn't do it.
I'm trying not to biased, but can't stop to notice sometimes math seems to be biased when you don't like the result:

Saavedra had repeatedly complained about supposed bias in social media algorithms, including tweeting that “tech companies tend to be liberal & something is off with their algorithms because they won’t show a lot of content I find by manual search.”
Hi all- I'm the CTO and Co-founder of Synapse Technology. Happy to answer questions about our tech & product!

p.s. We're hiring CV engineers for our Perception Team. Shoot me a note at sims[at]syntechcorporation.com if you're interested in solving hard problems with state-of-the-art methods in object detection, domain adaptation, incremental learning, and the like!
Machine learning, as well as human learning, largely work off of correlations observed in the source data. In some cases, the data itself is a flawed source for the learning it's being used for, because human biases have already influenced the dataset. An example is arrest records, which is the result of discretionary decisions made by officers whether or not to pursue an arrest.

But in other cases, the source data is less in question, but the results of the learning are nonetheless undesirable. We ought to be able to distinguish, in our professions and our political lives, between the two scenarios. It's counterproductive to conflate the two to strive for a goal, because we risk using mechanisms that never discover and won't correct the true origin factors.
Strummin’ my pain with his keystrokes....
I was looking at purchasing laptop but then I saw this: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-briefly-teases-new-XPS-13....

Does this mean a newer version of this will be out in a few months?
Nah. The 9370 is basically fully soldered down with no expansion - the only exception (if I recall) is the SSD, which I think can still be swapped for now.
It is an arms race but its worse that the progression you listed. Since the easy solution to ipv6 hosted ads is to just block ipv6 (plus anyone without ipv6 wouldn't see the ads), they just randomly generate div elements with random names making it impossible to distinquish the ads from real content.
For me it's stereo receivers/turntables and cast iron pans. Vintage Le Creusets look incredible and they feel so good to handle.
In the US, politicians suffer from learned helplessness.
I agree, the removal of the 75kWh S/X is probably to somewhat offset the margin hit they are taking by offering the mid-range M3. They seem to be working down market but each step comes with lower margins so they have to go slow to maintain some profit.
Does it come without LoJack ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoJack_for_Laptops ) ?
Is the hardware exactly the same as the non-developer version?

... meaning, could you order one with Windows 10 and then later down the line decide to run Linux on it and not have any issues?
Thanks so much! We agree that bankruptcy should be the last resort for everyone. That's why we only let people through who have over $10,000 in debt. We also have 100+ other substantive checks to stop people from using Upsolve if we're not the right service for them or if we don't think their bankruptcy will be successful. For example, we don't help homeowners because our system is not yet ready for more complex assets (like homes), and we think those users would be better served via full representation. Bankruptcy is a federal law with minimal state-by-state differences. Our in-house attorneys are NY-based and never provide legal advice. Whenever legal advice is required, we connect our users with someone in our network in the state where the user is filing.
Seems highly unlikely to ever work, but why assume the technology is evil? If you could create a system that had a high accuracy of detecting terrorists, then that would be a good system, not an evil one.

I get your point that a system that claims to detect terrorists but only really detected Arabic people would be an evil one - but you're automatically calling the terrorist system evil without knowing if it really does detect terrorists or not.

As an extra hypothetical question, do you feel a system that could detect people who were really just about to commit terrorist attacks as good or evil? At a conceptual level, assume the system somehow scanned brain waves or some other truly difficult method.
>Also the fact that some content providers put annoying blocks on their apps

It's not so much a block as the fact that adding cast support needs explicit buy-in from the content provider and whatever else that entails since it's not some open protocol. And that's generally OK. We more or less moved from flash to standard videos. We'll, hopefully, also move from all these rubbish dongles to something sensible.
> Why aren't people using them?

I've converted several people, but not being able to touch them and try them on first appears to be a significant problem.
Ok. Lets assume this is true. (Note: I'm biased in that I accept this as true)

So, as someone who has possibly implemented racist/sexist/ageist algorithms, how do I:

1. Detect if I'm running a said algorithm (whats the % racism/sexism/ageism I can do before bad?)
2. Run an open dataset to detect said problems
3. Prevent overfit with the proposed dataset from #2
4. Correct said algorithm to reduce bias

What's my way forward here? How do I do my part and take part in the solution? What percent of unintended racisms/sexism/ageism is allowed before being considered illegal?

(worried this article will be flagged, but the nuts and bolts implementation discussion needs done.. and we're the implementers )
> HTTP/2 has header compression because of the RAM limitations of networking devices in the late 1970s.

And this is why engineering is interesting. Your design choices can have lots of unintended side effects.
How are hearing aids priced in other countries compared to the US?