skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it is controversial but I think that study is better than many of the others. None of the studies on this issue are without controversy from what I've seen

Part of the reason I made this tool is so people could input their own assumptions rather than just relying on somewhat opaque studies. I personally was surprised to see how big the effect of discount rate was -- it made me reconsider my position on whether more drug dev should be publicly funded. I think the effect of cost of capital on drug price is under-discussed in some of these studies
She walked out for good. Gotta admire her integrity! Also this from her post just hits the nail on the head:

> [Google leadership] are talking to everyone who thought my story sounded familiar, anyone who’s been Through It in some form: pushed out or punished for speaking up, gaslit, discriminated against, isolated, harassed. People are telling each other their stories. Refusing to acknowledge our humanity and engage with the deeper issues being raised - well, that's not very Googley.

'Nuff said. Google is going to have serious problems in the future unless they start addressing the obvious flaws in their company culture - their vulnerability to upstarts and competitors can only increase going forward!
Bear in mind that the operation is trivial and so the overhead cost of invoking the lambda per iteration becomes more significant. I'm not trying to dismiss the performance differences, but summing 32 million floats is not a common use-case and I think the performance differences are mostly irrelevant for those using it to (for example) sum a list of line-items for an invoice or whatever.

For anyone that needs maximum performance then they should clearly be wary of anything that requires invocation of lambdas, but the usefulness of Linq shouldn't be written off because of that - the declarative style leads to fewer bugs, more stable, maintainable and easier to read code - that in itself is a performance boost.
Unless you're in certain states where engineer is a protected term.
The Tuskeegee experiment wasn't about control, it was about studying syphilis. It was as terrible was it was racist, but it had nothing to do with government control.

A false flag operation is only about control in the loosest sense. You can't successfully false flag your way into a military conflict with an allied country: it's only useful when tensions are high enough that there is already popular support for a military operation, but an excuse is needed. In that sense, other "excuses" for military conflicts work the same way. The spurious claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was popular only because of 9/11 and sentiment about the middle east at the time. (a similar argument, for example, could not have been made about other countries with WMDs, such as France, Israel, and South Africa) I'm not suggesting any of these actions are acceptable, simply that the salient point here must be deception, not control. Broadly speaking, any government-driven policy or program in some vague sense of the word requires control. There must be enough popular support for any initiative such that it can be successful. Anti-smoking campaigns require coercion as well, and sometimes even deception. Smoking used to be wildly popular, but the government, as well as some powerful groups, were able to use emotional appeals and scare tactics to vastly change the public perception of smoking. Should we lump this effort in with MKULTRA?

I'm not sure that "human-animal hybrids" are real in any non-pedantic way. Even so, not sure what the control aspect is meant to be here.

MKULTRA, however, clearly was about control. The correct conclusion about MKULTRA, however, should be that the CIA needed more oversight, since they were apparently willing to torture people and perform highly unethical experiments to learn how effectively an individual could be controlled. Often glossed over is the fact these these experiments largely didn't work at all at all. No progress on "mass-control" was ever made, and instead, all we're left with is government abuse and torture in pursuit of something that probably isn't possible.
Well, I would prefer it, but at least at the scale of towns and small cities, I simply don't trust them.

Furthermore, if they do so many things that they need a public-facing website to manage all of the sensitive information they keep on me, I probably don't want to live there.

It's all well and good wanting to access a municipal government's private records through the internet, but try to think of how likely they are to get that right, and adjust your desires accordingly.
“Make sure nobody at state or DHS or justice can subvert this new agency, they need to stand on equal footing with any company or agency.”

That’s going to be a problem. It’s a zero sum with power in dc and if you can solve that you will be fixing more problems than domestic info sec weakness.
Yeah, I wasn't entirely clear on that bit :) There absolutely is plenty of room for a word more specific than "problem-solver". But our choice of words matters — words carry nuance.

In some ways I'd consider "software engineer" as equivalent to "novelist" or "journalist" where "programmer" maps to "writer" and "coder" corresponds to "typist". Software engineer, novelist, journalist all encapsulate a lot of responsibilities, where writer and programmer both talk just about primary means of achieving the job, and coder/typist bring it down to the mechanical skills you require to get the job done.
Thats also a reason I will include as a comment the unoptimized code with comments whenever I do optimized crazycode.

That way, I can understand what is actually being done. And I can then re-analyze why I did the shortcuts to get to optimization.

But 99% of the time, we dont need to optimize. CPU/RAM is cheap. But those 1% of the times when you're going from N^2 to N^logN ... Welll.....
How to make unlimited eye catching videos for social media posts and ads
You can't tell us something like this and not show it us in action.
The "freedom" the article author is speaking of is the freedom to leech off the labour of others. I agree, it's disgusting. If you are willing and able there should be no free lunch -- and the rich are the ones who leech the most out of society.

Ironic that they criticize those who have worse outcomes for not working hard enough or focusing on the wrong things when it is those poor people who are working the hardest.
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Plus the regulatory checks can be limited to cashing out and converting the coins to fiat. Instead of within each geographic or existing regulatory boundary within the network.
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HN sometimes suffers from the emperor-has-no-clothes syndrome. I, too, like to post on several topics here which the wider community tends to ignore because their conclusions go against the grain of the community's most widely held beliefs.

I've noticed that, if I raise contrarian views in comments, those are swiftly downvoted, sometimes to oblivion. If I post a story which can't itself be downvoted, instead it's ignored.

This is one of the risks one takes when speaking out against the tragedy of the commons. Perhaps South Park [0] said it best, the crowd often chooses to "kill the wise one."

[0] http://southpark.cc.com/clips/t6qyw9/kill-the-wise-one
On the Ring Neighbors app, you see all sorts of videos where the posters are making criminal accusations all the time. (usually it's a guy selling electricity door to door, but his skin tone is wrong, so they assume he's there to rob the house)
We had the entire power to our building knocked out by a squirrel, one of the admins got a picture of it fried on the ground after it fell. Took the power company about 4 hours get power back to the building, one would think it would be a little more difficult to knock out power.

totally off topic, but we have a pear tree in the back yard by a fence and the squirrels will take bites out of the pears before they are ripe and knock them on the ground. In over a decade we have not gotten a single pear off the tree. My wife hates them and will yell at them, she has delcared war on them (but she is losing). So they are efficient at being pests.
Why should you wait until the company is worth a billion. Why not a function of employee/contractor count?
Someday our era may be known to history as "just before the Caddyshack Apocalypse."
I use Shift for coffee purchases and don't pay fees.

People built on top of Bitcoin.
On mac, docs can print to PDF. What kind of work do you need to turn into a PDF?
> Of course they had a choice to join.

Really? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia#Late_So... "The late Soviet Armed Forces were manned by mandatory draft (with some exceptions) for all able-bodied males for 2 years (3 years for seagoing parts of the Navy and Border troops), based on the 1967 Law on Universal Military Service"

I'm unclear from the article whether this was discontinued in 1989, but chernobyl was 1986 so that's moot.
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If the issue of massive inequality isn't taken care of, we are headed for even more of a cyberpunk dystopia than we are already living right now.
Try Transferwise, those kind of fees are insane.
> " the owners of finite resources profit"

That's not the issue. The issue is the Fed tilted the game in the favor those already winning the game. And as a friendly reminder, no one elected the Fed.
Far left activists will lose because they are fragile. You just have to deal them a setback and they give up.
If you think that's bad, just wait till you see what private industry is doing for the government.
A payments system on Facebook makes a ton of sense and would be very useful. I just don't get why it has to be cryptocurrency.
If you're just learning, you don't need to mess around with virtualenvs; you can install Python via the official Windows installer and install packages globally. I don't feel like installing something is a very big initial hurdle to overcome, as opposed to having it be pre-installed (but potentially very outdated in the future).
The Machine Fired Me[0] is the best written account on how people do not question the systems. Even though nominally the machine has (collective)human masters, they are hard to find when needed; the individuals will do as instructed by "the system".

0. https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
There is a long series of photos and text after the final episode that explains most of the fictionalized parts of the series and the real life outcome for most of the major players. IMHO the New Yorker piece has the perspective of a Soviet history expert who is extremely unhappy that their version of what is important to be shown was not shown or not accurately portrayed, watch Chernobyl for entertainment and a little enlightenment, but not for 100% fidelity to history.
I can give a small example of what people complained about (spoiler like New Yorker piece).
A helicopter crash in the TV series for which one can also view the historical footage - the historical footage is inexplicable - there's no obvious reason for it to happen but the TV show changes it so it has visible, plausible reasons to the viewer.
> Amazon identified her as a thief, breaking the presumption of innocence that is a bedrock of American society.

I totally agree with that principle, but I think they presumption of innocence ship sailed a long time with modern social media and news cycles.
As an attorney (this is not legal advice), I would like to know what law might be violated by publishing these videos. They're owned by the person who recorded the video; and presumably they gave Ring a license to use them for such purposes.
The subject of the video, as far as I can tell, has no rights that might be recognized in law. There's no privacy right, as there's no reasonable expectation of privacy under such circumstances. There's no right of publicity being violated AFAICT, as there's no "brand goodwill" in the person's likeness to misappropriate.

So what, then?
Minor correction: Norway was not formally a part of Sweden. The arrangement was a "personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_between_Sweden_and_Norwa....
I agree. Title doesn't matter. There is so much title inflation in the industry today.

For me, becoming a senior developer has allowed me to see code more objectively than before. Instead of following convention to the T, I can now look at code and make my own judgement whether to follow the convention. It's great to have the sense of relieve.
40% of SOFTBK's debt is in USD and most of their larger recent issuance has been in USD.
Sidenote: I believe in general a Senior developer is 8-10 years with a general expectation that you will mentor junior developers.

YMMV depending upon region and company.
There is a better argument than yours imo.

If we diverted the funding and manpower in Uber into public transportation... what happens? If we provided more affordable housing/tourist accommodations such that people did not _need_ to rent out their places in AirBnB, what happens?

The Tinder problem/solution is a weird one. It's in itself both and harmful and beneficial.
Reposts are fine on HN if a story hasn't had significant attention yet. There's a lot of randomness in what gets traction, and allowing reposts is a way to mitigate that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
That just perpetuates the problem.

Smaller cities don't have the financial wherewithal to competently run internet-facing services. Usually the best administered parts of a city are in police departments where sworn officers are filling IT roles, aided by injections of grant-driven projects done by consultants. That's not a good situation for anyone. The winning move is not to play.

I regularly hire people from cities and school districts due to some unique aspects of my workplace and benefits that makes it a smart move for them. We routinely take folks in senior tech or director roles and drop them into entry level titles -- and they are very happy to get significant raises.

End of the day, the "fix" is to dump money into rolling out modern solutions. Every user-facing city IT function should be delivered on an iPad or Chromebook.
"cool things" which wouldn't surprise me

* Always more stealth planes, likely large drones today

* Whatever that little Air Force space shuttle was doing

* Hypersonic planes/drones/missiles

* Disturbingly "smart" missiles/weapons/drones

* Small fusion reactors already exist in production

* Quantum computing already exists in production

* RSA can be cracked on demand

* Spy satellites can see way more than would make you comfortable

* Power armor

* Novel propulsion methods
There's also the little problem where when your eyeballs are up for auction, the ones putting in bids don't have any relevant inventory targeting you so all the network can do nothing is default to whatever fallback ads they have, which are usually low cost brand building ones. That's where all the almost-porn and dating ones pop up because they're desperate for eyeballs of any kind.
I'm not sure that's what's at play here. Marketers could easily be aware of the ethical concerns and simply disregard them. Their salary doesn't depend at all on their ignorance of the ethical issues involved.

More likely, at the risk of overgeneralizing, I suspect a lot of the people going into adtech aren't really the philosophical-type (I think those probably tend to avoid marketing in general), a lot of them are young, and probably excited just to get a job offer in such a well-paying, high-profile industry.
There’s never going to be _A_ metaverse. I don’t see why there ever would be. People came up with that concept when we still more or less had a consolidated media landscape with a few tv networks, one major newspaper per city, etc.

Nobody wants to live in a single shared virtual universe, hell most people don’t even seem to want to live in shared reality and have segmented themselves off into echo chambers on social media.
What is “selling electricity doir-to-door?” Is that offering solar on roof services? Cuz I can’t imagine actually selling electricity door to door.
Probably because his teachers arrogance to life experience was too high.
Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses to describe abortion bans
> A lot of people are mentioning Apple removing scripting languages at the same time as Windows is adding it.

I think a big difference here is expectations: the Apple way is to have the tool itself installed, which creates various expectations with respect to presence and capabilities (or the lack thereof).

Because microsoft only adds a hook / stub, there's no expectations that the tool will be present (as by default it's not), it just makes it easier to enable the tool.
Hmmm, maybe we're reading different papers. Ok, I admit that a lot of papers compare only against other metaheuristics, but only in cases where it is already accepted that those other metaheuristics far out-perform weaker methods.

About NFL, I agree that a lot of authors misuse it in that way. But again, in most papers in good journals, what we see is either a comprehensive experiment with a wide enough range of instances, or a real industry problem, not cherry-picking.
Yes. Conan Doyle's maxim is apt - it's just he misapplied it. In his consideration of the case of Cottingley Fairies, he wrongly considered the girls as too unsophisticated to be able to pull off a deception, and too honest to want to. He eliminated the wrong elements.
Author here. Would you be ok with your health insurer buying your pizza purchase frequency from a data broker?
Exactly. I would welcome changes that would bring software engineering to a state where it was a protected term. If someone used that term I could have a high degree of certainty that they would abide by certain standards both professional and ethical. Such as “certain percentage of test coverage” and “certain big-O tolerance” for different project levels. Etc. otherwise I’d write the person off as a coder.
> I find it hard to believe that 97.5% of people can click a link to a website and not even accidentally click something on that website.

Depends on the type of site. If I follow a link to read something, I'll probably read it and leave. If the site tries to make me click something, I'll probably just leave.
Are brain games mostly BS?
I paid 0.5% all in on a salary-sized GBP/THB transfer a few days ago.
Whether you perceive the problem as one worth solving or not, Bitcoin defined a very specific, if extreme, problem it wanted to solve, and proposed an extreme solution to that extreme problem. There's a few other projects (such as Ethereum) that are also trying to solve some very specific problems.

The issue is that the problems that Bitcoin and Ethereum are trying to solve imply almost generating money from thin air. That gave unscrupulous people a lot of silly ideas, on the one hand, and, on the other, gave the people desperate to prove they're "thought leaders" (whatever that means) a lot of different, but still silly, ideas.
So you're going to discuss all your designs in February? What if you need to make a major modification to a design, or like some priority changes or whatever.

The whole idea of agile is to design iteratively and reactively, but you're throwing that away.
Like in any business area. But in the end, it's their business and their responsibility.
Thank you. I see it just as an opensource dev tool though, no plans for marketing/monetization :)
Engineer is not a "protected term" in any US state that I'm aware of. "Professional Engineer" has a specific licensed meaning but, if I have a degree in mechanical engineering I'm pretty sure I can call myself an engineer anywhere in the US without the licensing police coming after me. (Unless, of course, I imply that I'm licensed when I'm not.)
It's time to come to terms with the fact that we're bad at doing hard things.
I'm in a similar situation. I decides to startup tracking ALL of my monthly expenses to build an average budget. With this budget in mind I'll randomly generate below and above average monthly budgets. The idea would be to never get used to spend a fixed amount of money, experiencing different things from month to month.
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so...
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-46-the-not-so...

I would recommend listening to these podcasts or skimming the show notes. _Especially_ if you're in education you know Bill Gates has done good, but he's also done a LOT of bad.
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There are Git GUI options available like SourceTree, GitHub Desktop, GitKraken and the relatively new Sublime Merge from the makers of Sublime Text. All of these will achieve the same thing, although I would recommend at least learning the basics of command line Git - each to their own, though.
Find an existing market first. It is much easier to sell to people that are already looking to buy something. Just because someone says something is a problem, it does not mean they will open up their wallet.

I have built stuff that nobody wanted. I put in far too much time on these projects only to hear crickets at launch.

Here are a couple of books that I found helpful for getting me to approach things from a different perspective:

$100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

Will It Fly by Pat Flynn

This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Regardless of the actual truth, I think it's important for people everywhere to be skeptical and to probe their governments. I'm glad this has the Russian people asking questions and discussing the undeniable tragedy at Chernobyl, this is how we prevent ourselves from repeating history. I hope the people of Russia can shake the authority's trees enough that the truth falls out.

It's also important to remember that the rest of the world is one unfortunate incident away from nuclear disaster, you only need to look at Japan's Fukushima [1]. There was also the plutonium rods picture near disaster [2]. We all need to learn from these lessons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

[2] https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence/near-dis...
Twitter et al have already decided to become the self-anointed gatekeepers of what’s okay to post on the internet.

I missed the days when it was just Google search results we had to worry about.
> strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male.

just why? every damn thread on this site these days has some racist bs.Youre projecting real hard.
> his skin tone is wrong

I'm happy this is pretty close to the extent of "racism" in our society at this point. Really grasping at straws if you have to keep reminding people about the horrors of racism when it comes out as, "Some people are upset that a wrong-colored stranger showed up at their door."
Religious Jews and Muslims don't eat in non kosher/halal restaurants because of the lack of properly prepared and sourced meats. There's a specific set of rules surrounding kosher/halal meats, it's not just abstention from pork...

I personally don't care where anyone eats, but if a Jew/Muslim eats in a non-kosher/halal restaurant, they're already compromising...
Hmm... With 5G each blade in the rack could get its own modem and sim card for OOB management.