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I was going to say amazon is pretty good at letting you find stuff...

Then I realized actual search results are manipulated by competing brands, and then when the results are displayed, they are crowded out by sponsored results.

Additionally, I thought about netflix and amazon prime videos.

In netflix you're in the browser, looking for your next show ot watch and never quite finding it, but you're trapped. Many times I've run out of time and not watched anything.

and when I first used amazon prime videos, they had better searching and filtering than netflix. And I immediately found that the scifi movies in the library that I had not watched were all like 2-star and below, and quit early, not watching anything.

So, you're right.
Sounds like the founders are in no hurry to waste your time in finding their absolutely perfect 10x candidate while you get a measly 100k - 140k in San Francisco.

No thanks and no deal.
Judging by the number of React Native jobs on Indeed that ship has already sailed.
>The article cites well grounded aggregate statistics.

That's the problem, it's in aggregate when the problem is very localized.

The nation is producing a ton of high paying jobs but only in places where rent and property values are skyrocketing, which is in a tiny sliver of American cities. That's the problem and why aggregate statistics will never capture the problem.

My wife works in biotech. I work in tech. A year back we asked ourselves if we wanted to move to the mid sized American city where my parents live. Homes are very affordable there and if we had children, we could raise them near my extended family.

One factor in choosing not to move is that there's only one employer in the entire metropolitan region that hires in her specialty of biotech. I would have to take a pay cut or work remotely, which I'm okay with, but we might be totally ending her career altogether which we are less okay with.

So instead we're now renting at 3500 a month (3 bedrooms) and saving up for the enormous downpay we will need in greater Boston

>A question with potentially constructive answers: "What federal interventions would potentially be helpful given that the housing crisis is mainly in a few high-rent cities?"

Parent already offers an answer, tell states to end exclusionary zoning or lose federal transit/highway funding. Exclusionary zoning is born out of a dark period of American policymaking (redlining) so personally I'm on board
I'm glad the label worked for you but it did not work at all for me. It kind of shoehorned me in to a personality type and limited my social options.

In all honesty I look back at my "smartness" as a kind of attention-seeking behavior where all I really wanted was the attention you got from getting the highest grade in the class or being the only one from your school to go to the ivy league.

To me, the smart label just means you are willing to sacrifice more than others to study/learn/build. Everything I have learned about people since starting college has told me that this is a net negative.
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Claiming success is a social construct seems to me to be trivially true, not a staggering claim. Intelligence is less obvious since there is a vast literature around it, but, again, it is clearly a social construct; we must struggle to agree on a useful definition of intelligence, therefore it is a social construct.

I'm also not sure what "scientific evidence" would look like here. You seem to have had some sort of allergic reaction to the assertion of social construction and retreated instinctively to familiar but hollow epistemic grounds.
> no behavioral bias can ever be persistent, a priori

Of course it can. Tripping twice over the same stone, etc.

Casinos are full of people playing games with negative expected return after all. And if the stock market is like gambling, it’s mostly on the side of “glamour” (as opposed to “boring”) stocks.
German might be grammatically inconsistent but regarding spelling it's highly regular at least compared to English.
I do not approve of any printer that watermarks my printouts. There is no two ways about that.
Tracking is a side effect of showing us ads. We will be shown ads no matter what because they pay for the services we get for free and the 99% don't mind them. Without tracking on the ad front we'll see random ads, they would be less effective, that industry will ultimately collapse and we will start paying for every single service we use. Again - I do not condone it, but I don't have the will personally to fight it or let it affect me in any way. When i want my actions to be untrackable, I will take steps to make them so. I would however like both the ad world and consumers to reach some sort of middle ground in regards to what is acceptable and what is not. They way things are now are out of balance in favour of advertisers. It should be corrected.
>Why are we so inefficient today?

We tend to one of a few extremes: a few buildings (often for show) are ultra-green and usually stuffy, others are meticulously space-optimized to maximize residency, and still others are vehemently individualist, a project (usually a house) built on a plot of land as though it were the only plot of land in the Universe. Projects in the last two categories tend to sacrifice energy efficiency because it is too expensive, in the one case because it reduces units per square inch and in the other because owner-built SFH usually optimize for a very idiosyncratic comfort/price ratio.

In the old days, construction was often managed by the army (viz. nobility), and designed at a town scale. Today, as part of a reaction to the crushing inhumanity of feudalism, we silo off our construction projects to preserve our individuality, or we "build by any means necessary" to make optimal use of what little space we haven't yet wasted. A compromise might eventually be reached.

In particular, a lot of old-school heat management relies on having some parts of a building extend high up in to the sky or down into the ground. That sort of construction is heavily regulated these days, by height zoning -- which tends to impose the same limit for a whole parcel, eradicating towers, chimneys and steeples -- and by the great deal of infrastructure underground (sewers, wires, etc). Incidentally, these regulations rule out the construction of the building we're looking at now -- you'd waste the entire "top floor" on a chimney! It would just not be cost-effective relative to a design that fills the zoning envelope with usable space.
This is by design, and rather well explained in the typescript documentation: the type system is based on structural subtyping, which seems like a good tradeoff to me (but of course, as any design choice, not everyone should agree, and it's fine).
I think hardware acquisition costs can dominate GPU prices, so perf/watt might not be a realistic measure for the cost of running such large scale/high performance experiments.

For instance, the DGX-2 has an MSRP of $399,000 and consumes 10 kW of power [1]. The average commercial electricity cost across the US is about $0.11/kWh [2], so a DGX-2 running at full tilt costs $1.10 an hour in electricity. Thus, a DGX-2 running at 100% utilization for 3 years costs $9,636 in electricity, which is ~2.5% of the cost of the box itself.

Of course, you probably could get DGX-2s for a lot cheaper if you are buying 100 of them, but the acquisition costs are still going to be significant vis-a-vis power costs.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12587/nvidias-dgx2-sixteen-v1...

[2]: https://www.pacificpower.net/about/rr/cpc.html
Exactly. It's the same with Rails.
If you're really smart, you won't need someone to tell you that. It will be evident.

Once you realize you're playing a level up, you won't need encouragement from authority figures. You'll be trying to reach and surpass the greats, all on your own.
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According to the article the jury didn't see any of the body cam video. The police should be mandated to release it if there are any court actions involved.

You're being disingenuous accusing courts of protecting the police. It's the police department itself that is doing that.

Every police department should be required to have a civilian review board with the final authority to render judgement on the behavior of officers.

The major crime here was the police department allowing the guy to be rehired temporarily just so he could apply for medical disability. That's an outrage.
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Just reading the first review on Amazon, I’m skeptical. They started with polio and ended with arsenic poisoning.

One (polio) is caused by a virus we have vaccines for. The other (arsenic) is a poison that was readily available and know in 1800s.

There is also misinformation in the description of the book, stating that polio just appeared in 1800s but it was around way before and identified in 1789. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio

This seems to be some great anti-vaccine propaganda or fear mongering for a few bucks.
Frankly, low-tech systems with more human involvement and cross-checks are much safer in this regard, because if the sheer amount of natural intelligence involved (and the amount of corruption required to interfere). This is why they are also slow and expensive.
Unless you change your clock?
Not that this thing isn't cool, but if my house has a window then is this AI too? I can now see through it and tell if there's a cat sitting on the lawn or not.
I've been learning C++ for the first time starting in 2019.

I used Marc Gregoire's Professional C++ which has a version that was published last year and includes C++17, alongside Scott Meyer's line of books, and watching a variety of YouTube videos (e.g. Jason Turner, CPP talks...)
That's not strictly the case. This practice is actually infringing on your (albeit bonkers) agreement with Elsevier. You can only share copies with those who requested it as an act of "professional courtesy".
Yes we can fight it until the cows come home. But tracking is a side effect of ads, and ads are not going to go away, unless you convince everyone to start paying for what was free services. How do you fight that? I'm seriously asking, not being cynical: You won't be fighting just the advertisers and their platforms. You'll be fighting the 99% you're trying to "liberate" because now they are going to pay.
Ask HN: What are the benefits of publishers like Elsevier?
On various thread there is a lot of criticism on publishers like Elsevier about how they add no value at all. I'd like to also hear about the good things to form a more nuanced opinion. Surely there must be things that these publishers do that provides some value? Maybe in the sense of providing funds for research or support in another form?
Go's defaults for types are great in a lot of go specific ways, but anyone who has dealt with needing to use pointers all over the place in DTOs knows how disgusting it can get.
A more niche question: how does that biased 1% figure translate into selectivity at the level of the general population?

For example, if every eligible student takes the test and 1% of examinees pass, then the threshold for passing the test is being in the top 1% of the eligible population. If 30% of the eligible population at random take the exam, and 1% pass, then the threshold for passing the test is a little more lenient than the 1% figure makes it appear. But if some people identify beforehand that they are unlikely to pass, and don't bother -- say that the top 30% of eligible students all take the test, and the bottom 70% all don't -- then the threshold is much more strict then it appears; in the example, if 1% of examinees pass, then the passing threshold would actually be top 0.3%, not top 1%.
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Immutability is very helpful, and the connection between values and identity is illuminating.

But there have been very important developments in programming languages since this post/page was written: notably, the introduction of "borrow checking" (exemplified by Rust's implementation). Borrow checking has a very significant positive effect on the sustainability of imperative code, which makes the claim that "imperative programming is founded on an unsustainable premise" feel dated.

It is worth taking the time to understand what borrow checking enables. For example: borrow checking allows even mutable datastructures to be treated as values with structural equality. It does this by guaranteeing that unless you have exclusive access to something, it may not be mutated.

A good explanation of the benefits of ownership and borrow checking: http://squidarth.com/rc/rust/2018/05/31/rust-borrowing-and-o...
Well it is a very simple solver, you can't change it after it's synthesized and it's not true it uses no power - you need strong enough incoming light. That's your power source. It's probably safe to assume that each layer removes some power in a mutiplicative fashion, therefore it's only so much you can do in a single glass step before the beam dissipates.

And as far as timing goes - 1 cm of glass delays by ~50 picoseconds. That corresponds to around 20 gigahertz. Fast, but not mind blowingly fast.
Yes, but I think a common use case would be scheduling reminders, notifications, and emails for users. Which runs into the millions of scheduled tasks at different intervals pretty quickly.
I felt being called "smart" was a disservice to me as well. I think it depends on the attitude of the child though.

For me, when I heard it, it felt like a license to be lazy. Don't need to work hard, teacher already thinks I'm smart. I wasn't bothered by poor grades because I believed I was smart (that's my natural inclination anyway).

On the other hand, I think if people had told me they were worried about me failing, or that I was nth in the class, that would've been a powerful motivator for me and I'm confident I would've worked harder at school.

The complicated thing is that different strategies will do different things for different kids. Some kids might lack self confidence and need encouragement, while others (like me) may have too much self confidence and need push back or a wake up call. The problem is delivering encouragement to the over confident and a challenge to the under confident.
Does anyone have insight into whether QSBS could go away in the foreseeable future? We're not interested in selling our small SaaS business now, but will in the next 2-10 years. It would be a shame to miss out on this.
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> If “loophole” were an incorrect choice of words it would not be in the headline.

Wow, that's... generous.
Growing up with the "smart" label was the worst thing that happened for me and my education. It made me lazy and I almost never got challenged. If I had grown up in a challenging environment I could've easily progressed years faster (in areas like math and programming) than I did. I didn't have any parental pressure, or pressure of any kind either.

It wasn't until middle of the University I learned that I actually had to work and study to understanding something.
>> ‘...look back at my "smartness" as a kind of attention-seeking behavior...’

Isn’t attention-seeking sort of hard-wired into all dependent animals? So, well. You’re normal there.
One thing the layman loses with no IPR is the ability to tell which are the "real" Prusa, or the real brakes for their bike, or whatever. That is one thing that causes clear and imminent harm.

I'm pretty communist in my thinking, rail hard against established IPR structures, but most of it would be sensible IMO if the balance were shifted back toward the demos.

Things have been allowed to slip away from the IP deals such that the demos no longer get their part of the contract -- eg as established the deal with copyright requires deposit of copies in to pubic libraries (so they fall in to public ownership in a timely manner), DRM breaks the contract at the creator/business end and so such works should not get copyright protection, simple as that.
Maybe it reflects poorly on my character, but when I was a kid I and several other "gifted" kids turned receiving undue praise into a sport. We'd compete to find the laziest way (without lying) to receive praise specifically from the 'gifted instructor' meant to be supervising us. I think I won when I printed off a picture taken from the mandrelbot set (I did not write the renderer, I just screenshotted it) and hung the printout on the blackboard with the word "Fractal" written underneath it. The response to that was as though I had invented fractals (which of course I never claimed.)

It was a dumb game, but it taught me an important life lesson about how adults will believe what they want to believe. You don't even have to lie to people if they're willing to lie to themselves.
Can't speak for Rust, and I imagine it makes more sense for them since it's a young language, but I wish the C++ folks would chill a bit and take their time a little more; it's getting kind of ridiculous. They don't need to move fast and break things (which they literally have; see e.g. result_of and invoke_result). By the time the tooling across various platforms has finally had a chance to take a breath, they've already got the next version of the standard out, and it's getting hard to keep up with all their changes. I feel there's a better balance between the 13 years ('98->'11; '03 wasn't really a new standard) and the 3 years we have now. Maybe every 5-6 years?
Aren't you assuming the risk though? Like, in practice they might not care, but in writing they could care...
Surprised that you were downvoted because this was actually the problem that led to the act: IP for work done for the federal government (not by the federal government) was often difficult to make use of.

Those seeking to use government-owned technology found a maze of rules and regulations set out by the agencies in question because there was no uniform federal policy on patents for government-sponsored inventions or on the transfer of technology from the government to the private sector.
“Rediscovering” is a bit of stretch here, given that sundials do not perform multi-tier machine learning network evaluations.

Our grasp of materials science to date has not permitted compact, stable, passive optical computational systems at the degree necessary to implement digit parsing. That’s the advancement shown here.
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Historically, single young people with starter salaries *routinely* lived in SROs

That's not true, and even your own listed source doesn't say that.
Not an expert. I do notice that the glycemic load per g of marsbars is 6x higher than that of apples, so I would be extremely surprised if it is 'the same'.
And yet the majority of players wind up only logging in when they feel they need to.

The lack of (required) grinding for XP makes the game a lot more relaxed than most other MMOs.
Does that include HTTP requests? :)
C++ is deep and nuanced, so reading books will help structure your learning. I've found Scott Meyer's books to be great for starting out. Those will give you a fantastic foundation, from which you can dive deeper. Those and others have added significantly to my ability to write clean and maintainable software.

This SO post is a great guide for where to look: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...
> What are the easier alternatives? Emailing maybe? But then you've moved the bits into someone else's account and they are there forever and can be forwarded anywhere. Maybe print a physical copy? Then that copy is around forever and can be handed to anyone else.

The second these pictures are on anybodys devices they can be exported and forwarded... Are you implying Google Photos can stop them from doing this? Because it cant.
Well, you would expect the markets to reward the people who didn't have these biases, and hurt the people who still had them. The people with the bias will get poorer and poorer, and the people without it will get richer and richer. Those who get poorer and poorer will increasingly have less influence on the world economy, and those getting richer and richer will have out-sized influence.

Eventually, the pool of suckers will disappear and the market will move onto some other bias to stamp out. You can see this very thing happening in capital markets. I work as a quant and many very simple strategies like value, momentum, quality, etc used to work remarkably well, just 15-40 years ago. Nowadays, you need more sophisticated factors, or combine these simple factors together in unique and interesting ways.

There might be a sucker born every minute, but the sucker will never accumulate enough capital for anyone to ever care about him.
I totally agree with your overall point, but I'd be remiss not to mention that these journals originally were paper-only and mailed to institutions & profs (and Xeroxed ad infinum). This did involve a cost, but surely nothing like the million dollar agreements unis are signing with multiple publishing houses.

Nowadays, publishers still put out paper versions, but their worth does indeed revolve around scientist giving them material for them to build a catalogue of copyrighted material.

I look forward to their fall.
Not surprised
Our definition of intelligence continues to refine itself to be a highly generalizable aptitude for certain abstract skills. Your example of equating intelligence with wealth or bridge building is not even close to how intelligence is measured. It will be measured in dimensions like long term memory, working memory, pattern recognition, rotation of visual space, strategy/problem solving. And these abilities invariably dictate how people will be able to learn or perform at things like bridge building or software engineering. You will never be an exceptional software engineer if you cannot keep a suitably sized problem space in working memory.

It's so frustrating to me that we keep regressing our political conversations with assertions of this nature, that intelligence is a social construction, when in doing so we are literally turning a blind eye to what is arguably one of the greatest injustices our society faces. Intelligence is not a social construction, and it's not distributed equitably, and that isn't fair. It's the single greatest psychological signifier for material success. I'd much rather accept reality as it is, and spend resources attempting to ameliorate objective injustices, rather than making assertions that intelligence is a social construction because it gives some opening for a utopian alternative that can simply dispense with our "oppressive conceptions of competence."
How about:

I lost confidence in the businesses ability to succeed, despite all my efforts to help it grow.
Further questions would hopefully allow you provide examples of what an excellent employee you were.
Hmm. This would need a fairly substantial redesign in FIDO and might make the hardware more expensive, but in outline it sounds viable.

The hardware today doesn't have a "base private key" (or public key) in the sense you mean. I feel like you're thinking about this like it's RSA, which it really isn't. RSA is weird because Encrypt and Sign are related operations, that is not how most things work. So you'd have to use key agreement plus symmetric crypto, and you'll struggle to fit everything into the current data structure sizes.