skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intergenerational social contract isn't justified by laissez-faire economics of the baby boomers and globalization.

Don't worry, the uplifting of people in other countries via globalization justifies the disenfranchisement of the younger generations of America.

Of course, we won't talk about the fact that the super rich in all countries are the true beneficiaries of the wealth redistribution of laissez-faire free trade globalization.

The article is spot on though. No jobs, regressive pay (stagnant is for people in gen Y, the Millenials are experiencing shrinking pay both in real and equivalent dollars, while housing, healthcare, education, have skyrocketed.

Consumer spending may buy a bit more than it used to...

But good luck having a house, staying healthy, and getting a job to buy all that plastic crap at target, or even... food.
I understand where this comes from, but this line of reasoning tends to be very disingenuous.

I don't blame businesses for taxing advantage of our tax system (I would too), but I don't think they should be able to.

You can be an advocate for ending something while also taking advantage of it. There are a multitude of complicating factors and a business, just like a state, is going to prioritize itself before others (put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others).

This is highly political as well. These states already give more to the federal government than they take, and the states on the opposite end of the spectrum are also the states that fight against federal taxes entirely (which is some special form of irony).

This isn't a case where leading by example is going to inspire change (a billionaire voluntarily paying more taxes isn't going to either).

Leadership in Mississippi isn't going to look to California and say "wow they're really walking the walk" and start paying more federal tax.

You can extend this to just about anything if your goal is to be nothing but a total shitheel.

Do you believe in Democracy? Well guess where most of your computer components were manufactured! In countries without democracy. Guess you must hate freedom.

Do you think the US would be smart to denuclearize first to set an example for other countries? Would you die for that belief?
It depends on the phone, but I'm pretty sure there are still devices where "Unknown number" /= "Number not in my contact list".
Or at least not consider buying a house as some kind of a necessity. The rent to buy ratios in these places tend to heavily favor renting. Plus they often have tenant protections and rent control which remove many benefits of ownership. And renters have significant political power in some of these cities.

No matter how much money one has, renting typically makes a lot more financial sense. The life-script expectation of buying a house may or may not be outdated in the country as a whole, but home ownership in the major cities is definitely a pure luxury good.
That sounds plausible, but then why are robocalls not a problem in Europe?

I have two EU numbers and have never gotten a robocall on either of them. I have never heard of anyone getting a robocall in Europe, and while that might just be anecdata I think I would have heard something after two decades, especially in privacy-minded Germany.

When I get off the plane in San Francisco and activate my American SIM card, I usually have my first robocall before I get my first beer. And my mother gets so many on her land line, she always screens her calls.

What is Europe doing right here that America is doing wrong?
>if, OTOH, you want the federal government to be neutral on state policy the correct way is full deductibility.

Wouldn't that actually incentivize the federal government to take a greater interest in state policy?

If people can deduct all their state taxes, then the federal government will get less from some states than others due to state policies, not simply due to income differences, right? So if we determine that the federal government doesn't want to get less money, wouldn't they be likely to attempt to meddle in state policy to prevent this kind of tax imbalance?
Depends if the state thinks it can manage the money better than the feds.
I don't know about this author's intention, but in general with design thinking frameworks, the idea is not that each step must be followed rigidly in order and never re-visited. It's more about calling attention to the importance of each part of the framework. Once you know all the inputs needed for creating a great product, you can seamlessly move back and forth among the phases, iterating until you're arrived at the solution.
The 'people just choosing different careers' throws a lot of inequality under a rug and calls the problem solved.

1) If we tell women their whole childhood that some jobs are for men and some are for women and vice versa for men then ask them when they turn 18 what job they want we'll get horrendously unequal outcomes even though people are completely free to choose.

2) Valuation of jobs is based partially on the view of the value of the work in addition to the actual value provided. e.g. there's huge amount of societal gain to be reaped by providing better education to our children but various forces keeps the wages to teachers depressed relative to the gains to be had from providing smaller classrooms. In a more solid sense it's much harder to evaluate the value provided by a better elementary school teacher because most of the metrics for success are either years in the future (wages, college graduation rates, etc) or tied up in a huge number of other influences.

These kinds of defuse benefit jobs are a lot of what have been traditionally gendered as women's jobs and in the past were just part of the huge unpaid work that women were expected to do and often are unfairly characterized as easier or less educated/lower skilled jobs. There's a whole gendered history tied up in just how we evaluate these jobs and their benefits.
It's not like we already had a cable and protocol that could encapsulate arbitrary data and transmit it between devices without concern for what upper level protocols were in use or what the data type was, with the only concern with regards to the cable being the max speed supported.

Oh, wait, Ethernet is a thing. I wonder how they just completely missed that when making USB 3. The only thing that should be differentiated between cables is max power delivery rating and data rate.

Edit: typo
The cost shouldn't be 0% or 100%, but the percentage chance of getting the reward, multiplied by the value of the reward. IOW, E(X) = P(X) * X, so a 50% of 100K is effectively a 50K payout. The problem is P(X) is unknown, and you only really have heuristics to guesstimate. Whether you move forward with the idea 0%/100% is just if you are a glass half empty/full kind of person, but the real answer is somewhere in between.

From looking at tldroptions.io, it's just taking an empirical approach to guess the P(X) value.
The referenced work talks about floating point errors that both computer scientists and field engineers need to avoid. Many folks in both camps screw up on floating point code without such guidance. So, at least that part is potentially helpful.

You just proved their point about how you'd reply, though.
I have to live in one of these places to do my career that I trained for (not trendy or super high status). If you could go back in time and say to a student "you can't actually be whatever you want, learn something that is regionally employable" then maybe they could change. Even then with the concentration of jobs in major US cities and contraction in 2nd tier ones you might get it wrong.
Southwest Cards

https://www.southwest.com/html/rapidrewards/partners/credit-...

I have a southwest priority card, and I am pretty happy about it.
Mass shooters are almost never captured alive anyway.
Right, the likely answer is both will kill us, and many of these things seem to be correlated in so many ugly ways.

Let's not forget also that Plastics are "cheap" to consume precisely because they originate as by-products/waste-products of fossil fuel consumption. One consumption problem indirectly produces the other.
Bug potentially exposes other users’ private Google Photos on Android TV devices
Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imaging
https://ngcproject.org/statistics

> Women earned 57.3% of bachelor’s degrees in all fields in 2013 and 50.3% of science and engineering bachelor’s degrees.
>> One effect of the adjustments was to create a pronounced imbalance in compensation among lower-level software engineers, one of Google’s largest job groups, with a large number of men identified as being underpaid compared with their female peers.

The article refers throughout to "numbers" rather than "proportions", or "ratios", "percentages" etc, meaning that it is actually a larger absolute number of men rather than a larger relative number of men who are underpaid, compared to women.

Most of google's engineers are men, so even if equal proportions of men and women were underpaid, the absolute number of men being underpaid would be higher.

Google obviously has people good enough with numbers to know this. However, it's perhaps not surprising to see that there seems no mention of it in the above article. Google is, after all, defending a lawsuit by some of its former female software engineers who allege they were underpaid compared to their male peers. There is a clear incentive to allow a certain lapse from google's usual pride in employing people who understand numbers.
Expectation of option B is $100,000 - so any rational human would take that.
States should pay federal taxes out of their own budgets. How the individual states decide to collect that revenue from their residents is up to them. There should not be individual taxes paid to the federal government and to state governments which now results in some degree of double taxation due to the elimination of SALT deductions.

After all, the people do not choose the President, the states do. Each state has a certain number of electors in the electoral college and they can allocate those electors to the candidates as they see fit. In most states that happens to coincide with state's election in which the popular vote of the state determines all the electors (some states split electoral votes) but it doesn't have to be that way (see National Popular Vote Interstate Compact).

Additionally, the Senate does not represent the people, it represents the states. That's why there's huge power imbalances among people in the Senate living in California vs. Wyoming, for example. The supreme court is chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The only branch of federal government chosen by and representing the people is the House.

So if the people are not even directly choosing the major branches of the federal government, they should not be directly paying taxes to it.
I read some oregon or washington rural county threw incentives at a data center.

It ended up being so automated it employed 6 people total. Maybe in 100 years they would recoup the incentives.

... edit: but I can't find the original story. I did see ones where the automated centers still produce a lot of property tax revenue but the lack of jobs is good because it doesn't further load municipal resources...

I guess it comes down to smart accounting.
This horse has been beaten to death, beaten again, and is now resembling something less than horse-like, but women that are given equal opportunity to pursue any career path they want will choose paths they enjoy instead of paths that offer raw financial gain. Same is true for men too, actually. It just so happens that more women prefer socially oriented jobs like teaching and nursing than men do. It's not complicated. Freedom doesn't mean everyone is equal in every aspect, it just means that everyone can choose what to be instead of being told what to be and - shockingly - not everyone wants to be the same thing.
It's much more defensible to tax for war expenses than it is for schools. War expenses are necessary for the basic premise of a civilization's government - protection of property and life. Schools, not so much.
I don't work in big data. But here's what I think of your field anyway :-)

In general, you optimize software by starting from the slowest things first, and then working your way to the faster things when you run out of things to optimize. It seems like your problems are I/O bound, and therefore the bulk of optimizations can be made by simply optimizing your I/O (either through async calls, or better understanding of what the frameworks are actually doing, etc. etc.).

And that makes sense for sure.

The thing is: the next level of optimization is not CPU-optimization, but instead memory optimization. In fact, all CPU-based optimization starts at the Main-memory level. Why?

Because memory is slower than virtually everything inside of the main CPU Core.

Which means, memory-level optimization is a far more important skill than any other CPU-based optimization technique. Modern CPU Cores operate at 4GHz easily, but RAM only responds every 100ns on server systems (that's 400 CPU-cycles of RAM Latency!)

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In effect, if there's one low-level optimization any higher-level programmer should know about, it is RAM optimization. Sure, there are CPU-optimizations (SIMD registers, L1 vs L2 cache, and more), but RAM access itself is hundreds of times slower than CPU-speeds and needs to be optimized before lower-level optimizations are sought.

Once RAM access are fully optimized, then you can finally reach for the CPU-core optimizations. Instruction-level parallelism, or SIMD Registers, or what-not.

RAM is the next slowest part of your system after I/O. As such, optimizing RAM access is the most logical next step forward when your programs are running poorly.
> Sounds like some pressure is being applied...

Maybe, rightly so? It doesn't matter if you like reading, you need to learn it. For a toddler in 2019, I think coding and some math is getting close to this level of importance.
That's also a possibility. I think men are pressured more to earn a lot of money. The traditional mindset was that women didn't need to be breadwinners.
One of my use cases for long-living tabs is short-living content: pretty often I have a time to take a quick look at it but not to dive deeply nor to stash it (preferably in HTML or something that's just friendlier to grep than quick screenshots). For quite some time I'm reminding myself, among other things, to look into why Ctrl-S in browsers sometimes initiates redownloads that result in pages with comments that differ from what I see in the browser at the same time.
The cables should have a ss or ss 10 or ss 20 label on them. The end devices should too I believe.
I'm kind of amazed desktop browsers don't "pause" tabs when you open more than a set amount (a la mobile browsers). It seems like an obvious enhancement.

If a user only has ten tabs open, pausing them would probably be a bad idea in most cases. However, if a user has 100 tabs open, they almost certainly don't need to have the oldest ones running the background.
A 5 figure check is standard sign-on bonus at most medium-large companies - you don't have to wait 5 years to get that.
It totally hit me this year. I was maxed out before the mortgage interest deduction was even finished and the charitable contributions mattered exactly diddly squat. Ended up taking the standard deduction instead because it was higher.
Shameless plug: I made a FireFox extension called Check4Change which, well, you can probably guess...
Bill Gates used to take Microsoft support phone calls once in a while, to get a sense of what was really bothering the customers.
History of the Design Grid
yes, i agree that the SALT deduction is a bad idea, should be abolished, and fed taxes appropriately adjusted.

this discussion did make me think about whether the fed should tax citizens directly rather than via states, since the federal government should be in service of the states, not vice versa, but that also has other incentive/accountability problems.
I haven't actually seen an 8k monitor yet, but a couple weeks ago I was at an Apple store and checked out 5k monitor. PDF text was noticeably sharper and at the same time smoother than on my 4k monitor at home. Both are relatively recent 27" IPS panels made by LG.

So I don't know if I will be able to tell the difference between 5k and 8k in 27" size, but I know that 4k is not enough.
I probably can't see even 320x240, but that doesn't mean I don't like having the extra pixels since I don't stare at one spot the whole time. Upgrading to 4k felt extremely liberating compared with 1080, IMO - productivity is so subjective I'm not sure it can be said scientifically that more screen real estate is necessarily pointless. Plus, imagine a screen the size of a whole wall - if you want to project a life size image of a desktop computer onto it, you can only ever render some small subset of your pixels as its screen, so if you want to render it with a 1080 display you'll need a lot more than 4k. The number of pixels one needs is highly dependent on what one is doing with those pixels.
> However, why should California and the rest of the blue states be financing the whole country when the other states can collect their own taxes to pay for disaster relief and other items they need

Note that California is basically neutral on the balance of payments: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-05/think-....
No, I consider myself an independent who leans conservative/libertarian.
Exactly my point.

The mcdonalds cashier should not be compensated the same as someone like a neuroscientist.

If we get replicators invented and everyone can have whatever they please like in star trek. We still don't need communism. Capitalism will still work, stuff will just be free but if you want a PERSON to do something you still would need to pay.
It's pretty hard to find clothing that has zero synthetic content, and across 7bn people it all adds up.
Thunderbolt encapsulates PCIe frames. It's not PCIe any more than say ethernet is UDP.
No wiring issues necessary; the MacBook just isn't powerful enough to drive a 5K display.

(I think the question you meant to ask is why the MacBook can't drive an external 4K Thunderbolt display using its included cable, which is more interesting—IIRC, it can do so through an HDMI adapter plugged into the USB-C port, but it cannot do so over a USB-C cable. This still isn't about the cable, though; you can take the MacBook's cable and use it to connect an MBP to a Thunderbolt display just fine. Instead, it's about the MacBook's combined Thunderbolt/USB-C controller not supporting the recent-enough version of Thunderbolt to have the bandwidth over the wire required to feed a 4K@60Hz display. When an HDMI dongle is plugged into the USB-C port, you're taking a direct GPU->controller->HDMI path, which avoids the anemic old-Thunderbolt bottleneck path.)
1. There are already dozens of datacenters in Minnesota. They aren't prompting other businesses to pop up because they are self-contained and self-serving. Furthermore there is no "brand recognition" they are giant unmarked warehouses that could be a datacenter or could just be another nameless storage facility.

2. Why would a datacenter increase land value? This isn't a corporate headquarters, it's a datacenter.

3. Taxes on what? That's what this package is, tax exemtpion.

4. Again, the datacenter employs "20 people" which is really like 4 FTEs and a bunch of cleaning staff. And likely part-time Security guards.

5. There won't be 2,000 jobs to build a datacenter, that's wildly exaggerated. And there's no way in hell that the average construction worker is making even half of the number you just stated.

6. If they were bringing actual jobs, and not a borderline-unmanned datacenter, sure. This isn't that.
i've only heard millennials whine about how they're the victim of every injustice ever committed. I don't think i've ever heard one say the pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.
> I'm 100% OK with having to sign-in for every tab as well

I think this is the reason why people haven't done it. Most users don't want that, because it means that if you open any link in a new tab in any kind of signed in environment it'll fail. In an ideal world opening a link and opening in a new tab are functionally equivalent except for the "new tab" part.

A middle ground I'd like is for the Firefox containers function to allow you to automatically create a container for each domain you visit. That way, all the tabs I have for my logged in site will be logged in, but won't share state with anything else.
I'm not talking for the US but for what I experienced in France.

In France there is a dedicated system for engineering studies (Classes preparatoires + Grandes Ecoles).

You do 2 years of intensive Math and Physics (classe preparatoire), than pass a ranking exam, then go to the school of your choice provided you ranked high enough to get into this specific school.

Basically, the ratio was 1/3 women 2/3 men at the "classe preparatoire" stage, and overall it's the ratio for engineer when all specialties are mixed together.

But then you have disparities between fields, CS schools get between 10 to 15% of women while Chemistry is about 50%, other fields like Electronic, Civil Engineering, Applied Physics are roughly in the average of 30%. Only the schools to become a military officer have an higher disparity than CS (and the air branch is actually in the same area).

For those who can read French (or have the courage to decipher) the statistics are available here:

* http://www.scei-concours.fr/stat2018/mp.html (math dominant)

* http://www.scei-concours.fr/stat2018/pc.html (physic dominant)

* http://www.scei-concours.fr/stat2018/psi.html (technic and mechanic dominant)

(Hint: CS == Informatique (often abbreviated to "Info")
> However, I am not sure if thoroughly complete.

Of course a 1,000 word web article is not going to be complete. There are dozens of books you can check out for more info, including from Tim Brown CEO of IDEO [1] and from
Columbia Business School

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Change-Design-Transforms-Organization...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Solving-Problems-Design-Thinking-Publ...
Rust has C unions now, but without safety. I would probably write manual parsing code via the byteorder crate.
The cable problem with USB-C I think might be the largest annoyance when it comes to the promise of USB-C. For the highest speed stuff you can only really count on the cable that came with the device because for the extreme speeds you need a good cable with the right length.

(The monitor should have a compatible cable bundled with it though. There's some major cable length limits and shielding when it comes to the highest speed stuff like monitors and eGPUs with USB-C.)
I use this add-on and it's great. My overall tab count has only risen a very small amount since I adopted this tool and I feel like I actually "work through" the open tabs in a more timely manner. It helps to see something like "(4)" to denote Child Tabs, and to know I have a bunch of Stuff waiting for me to sort through.
This is for sure a tough challenge. I think supercharging stations charge at 400V and 250A for the model S. Porsche and others also have 800V chargers coming online.
not to mention the fact that there may be a junior developer 1a at a lower tier that can do everything developer 2 can do (and better) that is getting paid massively less...
Yes, and that is with a very generous assumption of no class-preferences for investors.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229615
I used the usb2.0 to dvi adapter a while back on a an old polycarbonate mac for which I wanted to drive a second monitor.

It actually worked really well for that use case (coding/ web browsing). It probably wouldn't work at all for anything stressful. Getting the driver set up was a little challenging compared to the usual no effort required.

The website for the product... well frankly not good.
https://www.newertech.com/products/viddu2dvia.php