skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paragraph seems bothersome:

"Most striking, however, is that when you hold educational attainment and other observable worker characteristics constant, pay is starkly different depending on the firm where you work, even within narrowly-defined education categories, industries and occupations. This is prima-facie evidence that the human capital model in a competitive labor market is an increasingly poor way to explain earnings inequality. Wages for similar workers do not, in fact, equilibrate across firms."

An analogy I like here is one of a basketball school. Imagine you take x students, all of a relatively reasonable capability, and put them into a school. And you give them all an identical education in basketball. Nobody in the world would ever then expect these students to be of roughly equal ability after they graduate the school 4 years later. There would be vast differences between their abilities at that point. Even if you control for obvious genetic factors such as height and perhaps athleticism, there'd still be absolutely tremendous differences. There have been thousands of professional basketball players -- all in the 0.0001% of society, yet even given that ultra-selectivity Michael Jordan stands head and shoulders above nearly all of them yet. And the same is true in most of everything. If you want to go a purely mental game, we have a series of chess players -- Paul Morphy, Jose Raul Capablanca, Bobby Fischer, Gary Kasparov, and now Magnus Carlsen that in turn stand leaps and bounds ahead of a player pool (of their respective times) that is/was once again already made up only of the most capable 0.0001%.

If it's somehow not clear, the point of this is that just because A and B go to the same school and end up with roughly the same grades - that says absolutely nothing whatsoever about the ability of A or B. I would argue that not only is the stated observation not "prima-facie evidence that the human capital model in a competitive labor market is an increasingly poor way to explain earnings inequality" but rather the exact opposite! If companies were recruiting exclusively based upon observable characteristics it would mean these less measurable differences that separate the good (or even the rather less than good) from the great would not be being factored in. That would be rather strong evidence that effective competition was not correlating to positive results. But we have the exact opposite!
Millennialist bunk, get off my lawn! ;^)

Really, Tom is old... older than the elves, and he (like the willow and the huron) are tired of having these whipper-snappers come by and ask them to save them from danger and do their -chores- adventures for them. Old men just wanna have fun... and the gold ring ain't their bag (or problem).

Merry and Frodo are lucky they remember their time with him any more than Gildor or Farmer Maggot (or they remember him differently). In the old days we didn't expect everyone to be nice or have transparent understandable motives... and we walked up Mt Doom both ways.
Yep and that 2.1 CSS Get style example is EXACTLY why I use jQuery

https://github.com/nefe/You-Dont-Need-jQuery#2.1

I don't want to have to figure out that there is a "known bug and will return 'auto' if style value is 'auto'". jQuery takes care of that crap for me.

Say what you want about jQuery, but it just works.
> the person operating the more dangerous vehicle has a higher burden of proof.

Which many times means you are basically guilty by design. Witnesses may be hard to come by and they are unreliable in all regards (memory, understanding of what happened, honesty), and unless the country accepts dash cam videos and you have one installed it means you're pretty much screwed as a driver.
I agree that learning from examples is very powerful. Good language documentation in addition to defining what each construct does, also provides examples which should be more concise than a random ones found in a codebase.
Since you are not fine with it, you have two options:

1. You quit right away.
2. You force yourself go to work and eventually burn out then quit.

Unless you are in a position that can influence the company, it doesn't worth your time to change it.

If you need the job now, invest more time and resource on yourself so you can move on to other place easier later.
There aren't many female bank robbers. She was taking advantage of that fact to evade authorities.
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As other commentators ask, for what?

I recently looked for a Linux-friendly laptop for development and general use. Linux compatibility, performance, and price were my motivators.

I ended up with a Dell Outlet XPS 15 for just under $1300, including 2-yr warranty.

Installed Pop OS, and after a few initial hiccups, I could not be happier. Best Linux OS I've used and the most powerful machine I've ever owned.

6-core 8th-gen i7-8750, 32GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and 1TB SSD.

Couldn't find anything comparable anywhere else. I _highly_ recommend Pop OS, too.
> PyPy has stagnated

seems to me that they just released updates bringing it in alignment with python 3.6, which is only one version behind current, no? I'm curious why they couldn't run the pure python implementations through PyPy to test...
I agree with the first part. "You are a fool!" is not scrutiny.

Edit: sorry, I read it wrong. I agree with the second part too
If they go to the same url, any decent reader will recognize it as already marked read. But that's not what I meant. Most news sites have much of the same stuff on the front page for hours, sometimes days. How many times do you skim over that looking for new stuff?
*p+++=0x20, for when you are converting an uppercase string to lowercase
On someone’s advice, I just skimmed the first 2/3 of his book on his data collection. Even his critics mostly acknowledge that his professional lifetime work on data collection is high quality. I carefully read the latter part of the book on his conclusions and I generally agree with him, partially because it passes my ‘common sense filter’ and partly because I am skeptical of mainstream economists. A little off topic, but reading the mises.org material in 2006 convinced me to temporarily get out of the stock market so my skepticism of mainstream economics at least paid off that one time.
Bezos’ initial medium post seemed to me like wild conspiracy theory born of Messiah complex.

But the incentives are massive. The world’s richest man had a huge PR problem with stories coming out about how his wife actually was instrumental in helping build Amazon in the early days.

Half his fortune on the line. Perhaps his controlling stake in Amazon, too? How many Amazon shares will his ex-wife walk away with at the end of this? Aside from the divorce which will be the most damaging event in Jeff’s life, the PR hit is not insignificant.

If Jeff can tie AMI to illegal spying he can possibly take down the entire company. Is revenge not a good enough motive? He is certainly not a disinterested third party.

This is a great albatross to distract from an otherwise big story.
The main discussion forum is Discord: https://discord.gg/HpnNmsG

Announcements are usually on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwapi

Another popular StarCraft-related blog is: http://satirist.org/ai/starcraft/blog/

There's a 24/7 stream of AI games at: https://twitch.tv/sscait (perfect background noise for coding)

And I have to mention the research done by my team on StarCraft at: https://torchcraft.github.io/TorchCraftAI/
On background, this was how prosthetics were always intended to run. Previous attempts were all disasters, as connection points tended to get infected and kills nerves in hands for good.
Predicting this kind of stuff is a rabbit hole. Suppose there is a strip of struggling restaurants downtown in an area with insufficient parking, so that your ride service is the best way to get there. If you lower prices by $.10/mile, you just lose money. If you lower prices by $.20/mile, the lower transportation cost allows the restaurants get enough new customers that they can make improvements, and then the restaurant improvements attract even more customers. Those customers are also your customers, and having many customers going to and from the same small area is your best case scenario because it allows you to pick up and drop off in the same place at the same time, so then you make more money too.

It's generally easier to just try it and see what happens, and then deduce the how from the what. Note however that this will not necessarily be the same thing that happens in another area or at another time, because of all the things that can be different and affect the outcome.
Books that predict the future both ways:

First it was the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, designed by the CIA for people to degrade the Soviet Union in Eastern Bloc countries, which pretty clearly predicts today’s average corporation’s middle management lol

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

And I thought that was funny. But today I found out it works the other way, private to publi : a satire manifesto from the 60s for destroying mainstream media by fake news and conspiracies:

http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/william-s-burroughs-manif...

McLemee titles his review of Burrough’s rediscovered manifesto “Distant Early Warning,” and much of it does indeed sound eerily prophetic. But we should also bear in mind the book is itself a countercultural pastiche, designed to scramble minds for reasons only Burroughs truly knew.
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People don't like Bombadil? He was always my favorite part of the books
Do you really believe that some internet videos are going to replace human contact with regard to teaching?

I would consider my experience with education sub-par at best, but even I know that this will NEVER be the case.
That's not a coincidence:

> The basic execution model follows the tradition of StarLogo and its "turtles and patches" abstraction.

StarLogo was an influence on NetLogo[0]:

> The NetLogo language and environment differ in many respects from MIT StarLogo's. Both languages were inspired by the original StarLogo, but were redesigned in different ways.

[0] http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/2.0.0/docs/faq.html#diff
This might be a great opportunity to try to understand why Avon Skin-so-Soft functions as an effective repellent when other purpose-developed products fail. Perhaps looking closely at the components in the SsS mix to see which masks the lactic acid signal would be a good place to start.
> They are probably not as bad as Intel.

Not sure there's any evidence this is likely to be true - except for the fact Intel processors are widely deployed.
The most common unemployment statistics only include people actively seeking employment. Since you'd 1) be actually willing to work and 2) have to interact with strangers to go on job interviews, it that wouldn't be considered a hikkomori.

Unemployed almost never includes retired people and 36.2% of those surveyed cited retirement as a trigger for social withdraw.
Agreed. I really like a lot of the GCP experience, but Cloud SQL definitely feels like this service they just added and forgot about.

There are a lot of factors that impact how you select a cloud provider, but database offerings are always very high on the list.

Amazon clearly gets it. Digital Ocean became legitimate when they added one finally.

Google had other offerings in the DB space that are compelling but their PG offering needs a lot of work.

I was really hoping they would be the company that purchased Citus.
American public school teachers provide childcare as they shepherd children through their education. The fact that they give lectures is almost incidental - if you had teachers stand at the back of the room and play youtube videos, the price would not go down.
I think about this too. For those who don't know the reference, I recommend reading [1].

What happened is that Dr. John Calhoun made a series of increasingly large "utopias" for mice and rats. Mice were fed, kept warm, and placed in a controlled area where there were no predators. After a bit, the mice begin to thrive and expand. But after a while things start to go astray in ways that are unexpected and a bit strange. And ultimately the population collapses and completely dies out --- even in utopia.

[1]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopi...
If you commit to RDS for 3 years you can go the server for 60% off which changes the math a lot.
This sure looks like the real deal and I'm looking forward to the PNAS article that is coming out next week, "Prelude to extinction: a seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota". It is a bit disappointing that these press articles are coming out before people can read the science journal article. Don't see any pre-prints anywhere.
Ask and you shall receive :)
https://makingcomputerdothings.com/an-index-for-the-starcraf...
They can only respond to evidence they have.

This is the entire point of publishing research. It’s the people collecting evidence’s job to make it public. Especially if it’s groundbreaking.
Give the guy credits for trying. Sure it’s not ending like in a fairy tale but I have a feeling this is just the end of a chapter, the story goes on.

I actually would love to see what Harry Dry could do with my mobile app. If you read this let’s talk. (I’m not giving you my infos on purpose cause I know you will dig and find it, cheers!)
politically opinionated BS.

they try to frame Greenwald by implying he benefited from hiding sources intent, when he did mention the sources clearly on all reports (he just refrained from guessing the intent, which is good)

then proceeds to call the russian media manipulation on the DNC email leak as the "first" (!) time a state influenced another State's democratic process. Erasing some decades of history since WWII for their narrative convenience.

this is sad. arstechnica used to be a good source of news. now they are part of the machine preaching for more government secrecy when that is in fact the only reason fake leaks are hard to protect against!
This is why we must all move to end-to-end encryption. We should limit “concentrations of information” just like “Concentrations of power”.
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...and here we are.
This is exactly why I said in my original post that I sometimes want this - in many cases I don't, but whenever a user has explicitly input the data I'd like to easily be able to return it in the same timezone. I can (and do) store two columns in the database, but I'd prefer the database and JDBC interface natively support this as a single data type.

Right now, supposing you have two columns, EventTime TIMESTAMPTZ and EventTimeZone TEXT, you'd have to do something like the following in your query to get the data returned to the application properly:

SELECT (EventTime AT TIME ZONE EventTimeZone) || ' ' || EventTimeZone
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Genuinely asking: why is he wrong?
> This dearth of reaction to such a critical work is not healthy. It is as if the rapturous reception by the public increased the resentment among Piketty’s academic economist colleagues. As an appeal to the public to resolve, or at least have a say in, what the experts consider their own domain, Piketty appears to have questioned the very value of having a credentialed economics elite empowered to make policy in the name of the public interest but not answerable to public opinion. The economics elite, it seems, answered by stonewalling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, so it would not have the impact on economics research agendas that it merits.

This disdain for those that have found popularity is fairly common in many fields. There seems to be a simultaneous feeling of 1) but what about this super complicated way of viewing it, this popular piece misses all these details, and 2) maybe a bit of jealousy.

I'm not an economist, in case it's not clear, and haven't had the time to read the book, but the critiques were short enough to read in an hour and convinced me that Piketty is right, because the critiques were so shallow and seemed like such motivated reasoning.
Oh come on. His videos don't really show you the context, only very specific moments that he want's you to see. Only the special cases. How can you count that as relevant evidence, and then dismiss the official EP records as "what if they just want you to believe..."
True to some extent of course, but HD content seems to be better protected. Then again, HD video content also takes up large amounts of bandwidth and storage space (especially with the newer features that are being added over time), which means that we'd expect it to be less common on these platforms anyway.
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An HTML analyzer with https://caniuse.com/ or tests with

https://github.com/mojoaxel/awesome-regression-testing

https://modernizr.com/ reverse
They're are definitely different motivators for finding another job vs building your own company.
Plus it looks cleaner and easier to extend in the future.
This is almost 100% true. My friend was interviewed and was offered the job. In spite of all the articles that said everyone gets paid $70K, he was offered $65K. He tried negotiating his salary but they would not budge. If I'm not mistaken, they cited that his position was a special case. Regardless, my point is that the minimum salary is not $70k.
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Are we still talking about this? Within months of the book’s release, readers had found many examples where his data selections had been incomplete. To the extent that the main points were invalidated or made far less convincing. When you include the full data in his analysis, the main conclusions are drawn into question. There are many very thorough blog posts by economists you can easily Google.

It’d be like if Origin of Species came out, but evolution was actually wrong, and Darwin had only seemed right at first because he left out the species that didn’t fit his model.

I don’t think Piketty did this on purpose, by the way. He just didn’t push hard enough on the data that he didn’t want to find fault with.
It is grammatic structure of a sentence. I was taught this in grade school. It was emphasized in high school.
> What city do you live in where hotel rates, even at half, are far cheaper than apartments?

This frequently happens in areas with aggressive tenancy laws but "temporary accommodations" are exempted. So then you get the discount that comes from not being subject to a bunch of rules that make it harder for the property owner to get rid of a bad tenant, which can affect the cost significantly, exceeding the value of those rules to a good tenant.
There are several inaccuracies and inconsistencies in this.

- Elrond knew of Tom Bombadil.

- Tom Bombadil had heard about Frodo's journey from both elves and hobbits. I.e. He was known to and communicated with both.

- Was there not a hobbit song about him?

As to why the hobbits had little to do with Tom Bombadil...

- A character of his power could easily have chosen to wipe the hobbits memories. Maybe this was his usual approach to hobbit intruders?

- Another possibility it that given Hobbits extreme social taboo about adventures and their fetish for respectability it is quite possible that many hobbits had interacted with Tom Bombadil but few talked about it (e.g. Farmer Maggot).
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You can still put in a script tag and start using vue.
I think the worst experiences are always what stands out in peoples' minds.
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A fired employee is a bad hiring decision come to fruition. If you find yourself firing a lot of your employees, then maybe you should be looking inward to find the problem.

It’s also expensive to hire people and pay them top dollar while waiting to see if they will fail or not. Again, this is what job interviews are for.

Regardless, employees should be comfortable about their jobs and not feel like they’re hanging under an axe that’s waiting to drop. If there’s a problem with performance, it’s on both the employee and the company to form a solution. Sometimes great employees, for example, can be hamstrung by situations outside of their control. Either within the company or outside it.
The streams api is a little verbose but this is mainly because of Java’s backwards compatibility policy. They want older code to still compile and run on new JDKs.

Default methods on interfaces help to add features to existing collections but they are limited in what they can do, hence streams.

If you really want more ergonomic collections while staying close to Java then use Kotlin which can be easily added to most Java code bases and has all the modern functional methods like map/reduce/filter/group on standard collections.
Wow. My first thoughts were about the debunking of the secret scam from a few years ago.
Probably more like 90k-110k.

Typical burdened labor rate is 1.3x to 1.5x of annual salary. Exceptions exist, but usually it’s clear why that’s the exception (e.g., exceptionally generous benefits for a competitve labor category, local laws, etc.).
Touché.

My reference for "bipolar" was an article written by someone who applied that term to programmers writing in a family of languages he does like. His description might even apply to me. I've never done any serious Lisp hacking, but I wrote large amounts of code in Python and Lua, which are closer to Lisp than they are to, say, C. In truth, the second paragraph in my earlier comment was me thinking out loud on why it might have been a mistake for me to use those languages in the context where I did. Maybe it didn't belong in a reply to your comment.
I think it's more the "not interacting with others" part that's unhealthy, not the "not working outside the home" part. We don't consider, for example, stay at home parents to have a problem, nor do we consider retired people.
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This is a great article. It is crazy how little things change in a hundred years. Hopefully we aren't on the brink of a 1930s type correction
This would be an excellent time to cite sources.
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Exactly. Capital was years in the making and contained an unprecedented amount of historical empirical data to support its central thesis, and it gets ignored. Meanwhile, Reinhart-Rogoff, a fraudulent paper full of elementary statistical and programming errors that should’ve gotten its authors fired, was loudly paraded around as gospel by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Guess which one served elite interests the best.
Woah, I never read that before. The PDP-2 never happened and the PDP-3 was a 36 bit PDP-1 design only built once by a customer of DEC. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
It might be related to Maslow's hierarchy.
I hope you don't walk into chick-fil-a, considering you would be funding anti-gay hate groups.
> I'd be surprised if I took 60 days of vacation in 30 years as an FTE.

Are you saying that you'd be surprised to have taken 60 days (12 weeks) in a single year, or that across 30 years you don't think you've taken 60 days in total?

The latter would be very surprising to me, but seems to be the most natural reading of your sentence.
Reads more like instructions for constructing a Basilisk to me.
I've looked for the reference, but I can't find it--An important point in earlier coverage was Price's reasoning for setting the bar at $70k/year. It's not just that this is a decent salary or a good salary. The idea, if my memory serves me, was there is a threashold. Below that level, every additional dollar adds significantly to your quality of life. It's the difference between having health care, and child care, and not just one or the other.