skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two things go hand in hand. People strike a more defiant attitude when they anticipate punishment. They can seem clueless and overly confrontational when they cop that attitude in a context where it isn't warranted.

Also, religion comes up routinely, though perhaps not frequently, in contexts where religious belief is assumed. In an ordinary conversation about the right way to handle a situation, people will ask you, "Do you think God wants me to ______?" It's just a manner of speaking, but it forces you to either pretend belief or out yourself and face their judgment. It's only in "mixed company" where people avoid the topic.
It's not self-centered or ignorant, it's an observation. Are observations inherently an attack now?

You're right that the time isn't wasted though. The fallacy here is that, if someone weren't working on <brand new totally superfluous Linux Distro X>, they would be contributing to Slackware or Knoppix. That definitely isn't what I've seen in the open-source world... People work on what interests them, and that usually means a new take on an old idea. The people who are logging into the Debian bug tracker every day looking for ways to improve Debian are a totally unrelated kind of programmer.
This has been the case for all of human history. The solution is that the economically unfavoured do not reproduce, and the favoured do. We are all the children of European tribal leaders, kings and nobles thousands of years ago.

Follow this approach, and the problem disappears in one generation. Enact some kind of wealth redistribution or welfare system and the problem will continue to grind on.
For me it's easier to understand as a working programmer, since my priorities are all set by management so I don't feel right working on things that bug me. Also little things I'd fix on my own in a second have lots of process around them.
This is an example of title that could benefit from a simple, non-editorialized, and purely factual change: "Programming the Z3 SMT solver".

I am sure I was not the first to think it was related to Konrad Zuse's Z3.
Google Blog: Federated Learning: Colaborative Learning
ROFL. Please provide proof they remove accounts based on partisan politics! Except for that case that they removed an account based on partisan politics!
> It's only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain/digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates.

I've noticed this recently - Slow RF16 encodes were _visually_ worse (as in during casual watching I was asking if the source was really this bad, and when I went back to compare it was not[1]). Going to Slower is not tenable (a movie encode already takes ~8 hous, going to Slower makes it take nearly 2 days) (and I'm not even sure it would help), and increasing the RF to 14 would mean as I'm as well off keeping the original file (in some cases, RF16 is already almost as big as the original).

[1] Random framegrab, not checking the labels until after - in every case, it was obvious which was which.
Previous comment says: "a lot of niche interest subreddits". Not "all of".
> I know Google has X-labs or whatever, but I don't really know about the politics behind it or how free their engineers are allowed to be.

i think one of the echoes from this idea at google is the "20% of your time you work on a project of your choice"

not sure if there is anything else at google like that.
Building applications with bazel and deploying them on to GKE
This is a good idea but I am a little surprised that averaging small diff’s to models works.
I actually have a friend who runs a restaurant with her husband. It's an _extremely low margins_ business with brutally long hours. She got pregnant and eventually took time off (she went back to China for a few months to get her parents to help with the baby). When she came back a few months later, surprise surprise, the business was still there. Did they have worries? Sure, stress from wait staff turnover, an air conditioner that was too expensive to fix, chairs. But leaving for an extended period of time to decompress from work stress was something her husband supported despite the temp long distance relationship and the extra burden on himself because he knew that would help them cope better in the long term.

Let's be honest, anyone can come up with ridiculous hypothetical situations where "obviously" parental leave is the only evil in the world and must be banished. But at the end of the day, they're just that: hypotheticals with no basis in reality. I've seen businesses succeed and fail and I've seen parental leaves in these businesses. Parental leaves are simply not as deciding of a factor as one might like to fantasize, and anyone who wants to argue against them might want to look at the silver spoons in their own mouths before casting stones at others.
Play stupid games with mafioso, win stupid prizes. (Pun intended.)
But the discovery of the stick is a cause of concern.

No it isn't. This is AFAIK the first occurrence of its kind (which is why it made the news) and very likely to be a rare accident. Start getting concerned when this routinely happens, or other usually considered disposable items start getting found; otherwise it's just paranoic fearmongering.
His newest contract with the company, dated January 25, 2019, includes a base pay of $1 million, a bonus of $1 million, and an additional $35,000 monthly stipend.

>It is probably still a lot of money for that, but it goes beyond just housing.

That’s good that the company is picking up all of his major expenses. After all, I don’t know how anyone is expected to live on just $2 million a year plus stock.
"American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America" by Colin Woodward.

The illuminating thing for me was the history of different groups, where they were from, where they settled, where they migrated and basically how these cultures remain in those areas for the most part.

Maybe I had a naive view before, but after moving from one region to another, it was enlightening to see things described this way and help understand aspects of southern culture.
> you need to assess the applicants on an individual basis...

Except that he probably cannot (for example) ask the applicant if they are likely to have kids or use the leave policy in the near future. That would be judging them on an individual basis, but in many jurisdictions it's prohibited.
I always thought that the main quality in sushi and sashimi fish is its freshness.

Nope, not to people who eat a lot of sushi. The point is for the fish to be aged for the correct amount of time to get the correct flavour. The longer it is aged, the stronger the flavour will be, to a point where it is unpleasant. Different people will have different tastes, if you don't eat a lot of sushi, you will probably like it not as strong.

The restaurant wants the fish as fresh as possible, so it has the most control over the ageing process.

There are types of seafood best eaten fresh, and there might be some sushi I'm not aware of like that, but almost always it needs to be aged properly.
Well, if your business was in Canada or Europe, you'd have to figure it out. And as a parent who has taken advantage of this, it's worthwhile due to the positive effect it has on the children.
Amazon has finally admitted to investors that it has a counterfeit problem
This was built through incremental edits from a Python proof-of-concept, which you can see here:
https://github.com/yeahpython/ascii-renderer/blob/master/fun...
It doesn't have any real physics, but reading through it might help reveal how the rendering works.

For the physics, I'm basically colliding against a grid of tiles, so this might be a helpful tutorial to do the same:
https://jonathanwhiting.com/tutorial/collision/
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it's ok, these scientist really know their shit, they ensure their computers are sealed from the world.
Beats me. It seems like essentially they're paying him $2.4 million, just divided into 3 separate buckets.
It would if they maintained the same revenue and innovation velocity.

The last one is really hard to judge though. Its quite common for a CEO to effectively cut R&D and be seen as a genious for reducing costs. The company dies a slow death resting on its goodwill for a decade or more.
I’d like to see a spreadsheet of McClatchy’s payroll to learn how many of its employees make less per year than the CEO gets in monthly expenses.
Consider this.

Idealized US is "freedom, liberty, and pursuit of happiness."

Idealized Canada is "peace, order, and good government." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace,_order,_and_good_governm...)

I'm neither Canadian nor American, but I have been a permanent resident of Canada, and now live in US. The day-to-day differences are relatively minor in comparable geographic regions, but mainstream American and Canadian politics and political philosophy is fairly different.
Not making enough for the level of investment taken ?
Not really. TypeScript providea much stricter checking than just checking that I have the correct syntax. Whereas this tool isn't checking that my combination of CSS properties makes sense, it's just checking the syntax...
Yeap. Kill the Messenger is the default setting. It's a miracle Snowden is still alive.
> I've heard anecdotally that after 4 kids, having more doesn't really require much additional effort because the older ones can be recruited to help with the younger ones

I've heard anecdotally, that after four (sometimes two or three, depending on who is describing it) kids having more doesn't require additional effort because there's a limit to available effort, and you're just into how it is divided at that point, effectively transitioning from K to r strategy.
The lack of 3D Touch is such an oddity, product lineup wise. Every touch device (watches, iPhones) since the SE support 3D Touch. I understand that there might be technical issues behind this decision, but I'm not sure Apple would've released the XR in this state a couple of years ago (even post Jobs).
That's the point: with dynamic linking the static signature encodes too much.

In Rust sometimes you need to switch from FnOnce to Fn, or from Rc to Arc. These changes are binary incompatible. You have to recompile every client.

Swift can't tolerate that restriction. UIKit doesn't want to have to pick from among Fn/FnOnce/etc for every function parameter, and commit to it forever.

Swift types and functions need to evolve independently from their clients, so static checks are insufficient. That's why you see more dynamic checks. If Rust had the same dynamic linking aspirations it would insert more dynamic checks as well.
Complexity by Mitchell Waldrop. An exploration of complex adaptive systems and emergence and how they relate to everything around us changed my worldview permanently.
Never thought I'd see my github repo cited in a DeepMind/Brain paper. I still have SOTA for >2 player by a large margin :)

I'd be pretty impressed if they beat my 5p strategy without Hanabi-specific stuff, but I assume that's not their goal.
Good luck to DeepMind/Brain either way!

Authors: would love to chat sometime if you're reading this! If I get back to Hanabi botting, I might try to use a learned policy to replace some of the random (very non-optimized) heuristics my bot had.
Besides management, the other obvious answers are consulting (that one might be antifragile) and defense contractors. If you want a steady paycheck for software engineering, I suppose that last possibility is for you.

To put that in concrete terms, here is a "Who is hiring?" post for a place that has people at least into their 60s, maybe older: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183
Hints made to other players can matter, too. Suppose you play after me, and I make a hint that you can see would make the next player play an unplayable card. You know that I wouldn't make that hint unless you had some course of action that would fix the situation. Since spending a hint to make you fix things via a hint is silly, that leaves playing the card you'd otherwise discard. So you can interpret a hint for an unplayable card you can see as a hint to play the oldest card in your hand.

And it can go a level deeper, where the card you played blind is a 5 (or some other card incompatible with actually making the hinted card playable). Since they see that you thought the card wasn't playable, and then it didn't become possibly playable after your play, they now know that the card isn't playable and can be safely discarded. This isn't actually much better than just direct hinting, though, so the straightforward play is higher value. Both have advantages over straight hinting, though.
Yeah, this. From the drive's contents it sounds like someone accidentally dropped it directly into the ocean, not that it was thrown in the garbage which was subsequently dumped in the ocean.
I don't think you've used the tools that can work with lambda or had to actually scale something in production, based on your response...

It's all a lot harder than you make it out to be, but at least with lambda (and something like Zappa) you don't have to figure anything out beyond how you get your first environment up. There's just no second step, and that's huge.
The millionaire next door.

It changed my mind completely on the fact that being a millionaire is actually attainable. And these are all average Joes!
So then why am I getting red light tickets at 3am on empty roads. Why is the state fine capped at $30 and the "processing fee" $120?

Being Swiss, you give the American government too much credit. The government absolutely does not care about safety.
I agree with the sentiment, but $2.4mil/year isn't exactly out of line with other CEO total comp.
> you want to advertise expensive fashion items to 20-35 y.o. women in NY/CT

Instagram, every day of the week.
And someone who is planning on jumping ship for another job isn't going to tell you anything either. So what difference does it make?
Along with articals he wrote for Scientific American as a columnist
It's trivial to cap expenses against receipts. Companies do this all the time for example with cell phone allowances.
I believe you are talking about the 'anime' encoders, as for 'scene' releases, they are all in 8bit h264 AFAIK.

Also when it comes to anime, doing a quick search on Nyaa it looks like 10bit is used on less than a tenth of releases, with h265 being in that same range as well.

I dare say 8bit h264 is still the undisputed king of piracy.
Canada also has paternity leave; and parents can split the leave in any number of different ways as long as it adds up to a year. And yes, men do take advantage of that benefit as well.
Another consequence that I observed in Canada is that employers have shifted a bit from full-time employees to perpetually renewing contracts. So exactly like that example you gave, the good temp finds another “position” which happens to be a one year contract at the same firm (not necessarily filling in for a leave). This contract gets renewed each year, and the company is not on the hook to “keep the spot open” for a year when the employee has a child. They just don’t renew the contract and hire another contractor. I knew several people in this position. (I believe one actually worked for the federal government, ironically.)

IMO this unintended consequence isn’t often discussed. IIRC it’s also an issue in France, where because it’s nearly impossible to fire someone, you’ll basically never hire full time employees if you can avoid it, especially if they’re young and unproven.
It depends on your domain. Any data structure that has links in both directions becomes a pain, and it's pretty common to have trees like that. It's usually solved by having parents own the children but not vice versa, but then you run into cases where you want the whole thing to live so long as someone holds an owning reference to a child.
>The eighth generation of PureVideo HD, introduced with the GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, GTX 1060, GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050, GT 1030 a Pascal (microarchitecture) GPU, adds full hardware-decode of HEVC Main12 profile to the GPU's video-engine.

Are x265 files different then, or is it just your software?
I read the link: "Hill and colleagues have suggested that the pattern of decline in smoking prevalence correlates with the level of tobacco control activities occurring at the time.11,12 The drop in male smoking rates seen in the early 1980s coincided with a period of new, well-funded media-led Quit campaigns"
I think it can help to at least plan your life. You may not need your best thinking days to start a family or work an average job, but if you want to invent something or research something new, it's probably best to do it in your youth.
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Office Space is similar to Dilbert in how well it describes certain aspects of cubicle life. I'm lucky to work for a good company, but they all have aspects of these worlds that describe them too well.
> it is hard to find a bad meal in Japan

I'm a fan of the food and dining experience in Japan but I disagree with this blanket statement. Okonomiyaki is pretty awful. Ramen is rubbish (cheap, non-nutritional noodles remain cheap, non-nutritional noodles however you dress them up). Japanese curry is pretty repulsive stuff and an insult to the sub-continent tradition. I could go on.
Telephone Bomb Threats Forcing Mass Evacuations Across Russia
It's sad that people conflate posting on reddit with "speaking".

From the American perspective: our love of and support for free speech means you can make your own website or newspaper and say what you want. (And people have the freedom, conversely, to tell you your content sucks and f you)

But we never envisioned a world where some private newspaper would be forced to print the speech of those they didn't want to, or disagreed with.

Considering the content of the VAST MAJORITY of quarantined subs (holocaust denial, virulent and shocking racism, white nationalism), it's actually shocking that Reddit allows this content to continue without banning.

You say it's sad they are choosing who can speak and who cannot, but I can point you to objectively evil and noxious speech on reddit today that isn't going anywhere...
I worked for a small tech company that, like many, was valued extremely highly in 1999, but the owner didn't listen to advisors and so we fell down the cliff with the other tech companies. He was dejected, along with most of the company, for most of 2000/2001. The company still had steady revenue from government stuff, though, and those of us left kinda did what we want for several months with no guidance. I watched Office Space nearly daily (the owners stayed home watching whatever and rarely showed up) during that time. It was a weird, shared misery. I wasn't the only one. We even ordered some red staplers and had them floating around for a while. We also, for whatever reason, printed out tons of Jeff Goldblum face shots and hid them all around the company. 10 years later and the owner was still swearing whenever he'd find one.
Ask HN: Why doesn't YC build a web browser?
The world needs one. To keep the internet alive. Now that Microsoft has given up, a company with reliable income, access to good devs, and a long-term interest in the open web should come along and do this.

And Firefox is slooow. (For me, anyway.)
A lot of your argument is based on H.264, which is not part of the question. H.265 is not extremely common and also hard to CPU decode.
Note that this position is mutually exclusive with "It's open source so you can just fix it yourself when it breaks". I can go fix it myself, sure, but then it is my wasted time, that there are 8 or 10 major distros. We shouldn't have to fix the same bug so many times.

I don't want 8 or 10 distros. I only want one. I don't even care which one it is. I haven't contributed to that OS in 10 years because so much of my time ended up being wasted.

Or, if you take the position that "Developers don't owe you anything", then that's fair on its own, but it means that it's not an OS that I can depend on for anything. It's true there's no literal debt to be repaid but project maintainers are supposed to be good stewards. They can be replaced, but it's a slow and rare process. I can count on my fingers how many successful open source forks I've seen. Most projects will die before they'll change maintainers.

> If existing solutions met people's needs the alternatives wouldn't have been created.

That doesn't follow at all. There are plenty of reasons for starting an alternative software project which have nothing to do with meeting any user need. "Ego" is a common one -- it serves only one person's interest.
Are we on reddit, or is it now popular to create sarcasm / pun chains on HN?
I think Albania is a bit of a special case though.

The crisis happened pretty soon after the fall of Communism. The country had not built up any the government institutions required to govern the new proto-democracy. As a result the government didn't merely fail to reign in the scams -- they actually encouraged them (presumably some government officials profited, which is why the people revolted).

The result in Albania should be seen in the context of other major post-revolutionary histories. It was worse than the transition in, say, Poland but much better than, say, the French Revolution.

The fact that the crisis happened to take the form of Ponzi schemes is just one example of the weirdness of history.
The term toxic masculinity is itself sexist. Isn’t that what we’re trying to avoid?
I was going into college around when this film came out. I loved the movie, but it also made me adamant that I never wanted to work in a work environment depicted in the movie.

This movie was definitely a part of the reason why I never majored in Comp Sci even though I loved the subject in high school. I assumed all tech employees would inevitably live the life of a cynical corporate drone in IT overwhelmed by bureaucracy and office politics.

Fortunately many different companies emerged since then which had different approaches to work culture, but this movie probably changed my life!
Consulting work if you have deep experience.
I consult/develop computer vision, computer graphics and sometimes whole products (UI included). One “trick” is to develop 30 years worth of friendships with your work colleagues.
Right, unless I'm mistaken, what you want is `Rc` with `Rc::make_mut`[0], not `Cow`.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#metho...
Why does it have to profit?
And if that senior dev just left for a better job?
I'm also in the Austin area and I'm very curious about this. I understand your initial investment on your "RV" is $50k but what is an estimate of your monthly spend on spots for water/power/etc+? And then what % of the time are you boondocking?

+And whatever else would make it equivalent to an apartment/house. Do you have to hold any special insurance or have any other special recurring expenses?
"How the film changed the way we work" -- Printers don't use the error message "PC LOAD LETTER" anymore? ;)
You could say the same thing about minimum wage, safety and environmental regulations, child labor laws, workers taking weekends, etc.

At some point, as a society we set a minimum bar on what kind of successful businesses we want to employ people. What that minimum bar is can be debated, but "more businesses will fail" is not exactly a straightforward indicator of the value of a regulation.

Plus, certain types of labor laws, particularly those around leave, only apply to businesses above a certain size.
What did you major in, and how did that turn out for you?
It's much easier to destroy than to create.

"Many that live, deserve death. Some that die, deserve life. Can you give that to them?"