skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a lot of time in big4 consulting and it’s got a lot of high bill rate specialists in addition to normal partner people.

It’s not true that manager know your salary, nor that they can fire you. Managers there controlled projects and investments but almost no one knew salary unless you were HR. Raises and bonuses were always in percentages and only your local mega partner who didn’t actually manage you knew real numbers.

Profitability was based on averages and bands to discourage minmaxing profitability on projects as that was detrimental to delivery and to clients. Markup and overhead was so high it was pretty difficult to be unprofitable.

So maybe in some orgs there’s strict boss type ladders. But there are many orgs where parallel is real.
The problem is that "figuring out the coverage" already assumes you're modeling the pixels as little squares, and that is not the optimal model for pixels.
Who's hiding from pineapple externalities in this scenario?
I'm really sorry to hear about your son. I'm Lydia's father (the author of the medium post). What you shared is my biggest concern about going forward with Lydia's treatment. We are confident that the treatment will help her brain development, but to your point, there's a chance that will hurt her quality of life. We just don't know. How do you make a decision like that?

I think about this a lot and don't have good answers. All I can say is that I have 3 goals for my daughter - and she doesn't need to be a 100% normal child to achieve any of those goals.
1) I hope my child is not in pain
2) I hope my child feels loved
3) I hope my child can find beauty in the world.
I would gladly install a Chrome plugin that would report a ‘clickbaity-ness’ value for articles/URLs.
You seem to imagine that peoples' concerns about Facebook are in the context of a bilateral relationship.

I'm not a customer of Facebook. The customers of Facebook do not feel any obligation towards me, and I would like the government to force them to operate under more constraints.
Do you consider yourself a white nationalist?
I live a couple of hours away from Lake Louise, Alberta [1], which is a really famous photography spot because the lake (and nearby Moraine Lake) have beautiful bright blue colors. You've almost certainly seen one of them in Windows wallpapers, /r/EarthPorn, etc.

A few weeks ago, we had a friend from the US visiting, and we decided to take him there. We hadn't been there in about 10 years now, and it was insanely busy even though it was just a random Wednesday. The road from the town of Lake Louise up to the actual lake was a traffic jam the entire way (about 5km), and there was no parking at all anywhere near the lake or in the town. I ended up having to drop my wife and our friend off at the top and drive back down, then down the highway for almost 10 minutes to the "overflow lot" to find anywhere to park (and it was almost totally full too, even though it's huge).

We've talked to some people about it since, and apparently that's just how busy it is all the time now. The amount of over-tourism to some of these Instagram-famous places is getting ridiculous, and (like it goes over in the article) they're just really not able to handle it and it turns into a huge mess of people behaving selfishly because once they're there, they're not leaving without the photos they want.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Louise_(Alberta)
Somewhat off topic... but do you happen to know if the dendritic tree and its functional subunits in multi-compartment models can be treated mathematically as a multilayer network of simpler neurons?

I've been wondering if dendritic arborization means that current deep learning ANNs are hopelessly far away from biological reality, or if perhaps with deep networks simple ANNs could indeed learn to compute in a similar way to complex biological neurons, just over many layers of artificial neurons.
That's a good idea, it's basically why everyone checks the comment section first.
What proportion of their revenues comes from ads?
Is 2019 a Good Time to Buy a Home in Phoenix AZ?
“Your pay as an IC will plateau.”

This depends on your org. Also there are individual contributors literally and individual contributors who function like a force multiplier and, although not managing, provide a lot of value beyond just their commits. I’ve seen this with wizard architects and sysadmins who just a percentage of their time is great on a project.
> Cities do not want apartments because that doesn't generate revenue

Apartments absolutely generate property tax revenue.
> As advertising has increased over my lifetime, I've become so inured to it that I literally no longer register things as advertisements. I just see straight through them.

Not only are you very likely affected on a subconscious level by the nonstop avalanche of ads that surround us all, but worse, you have a false sense of security that you're immune to them.
100% chance it wasn't the only thing in that bill. It also opens up any candidate, democratic or republican, to FISA surveillance down the line, which is something that I can guarantee will be abused at some point. In fact it already _was_ abused against Trump. FISA warrants to spy on his campaign were obtained by misleading the FISA court with what we now know was fake evidence. There's also a strong possibility that McConell wants voter ID, which is something the Democrats are strangely reluctant to introduce even though it's quite a popular thing to require: Mexico, for instance, does have voter ID.

I'm hypothesizing here, I haven't read the bill, but then neither have you, so you're "making up your own mind" based on a shallow regurgitation of democrat talking points and without any critical thinking.
Moving to IPv6 (2002)
I hope people use this news to motivate changing their behavior. Of course we want governments, corporations, and other institutions to act. History shows that the fastest most effective way is for each of us to start first.

Even if disaster is inevitable, there are degrees of disaster and even individual actions can reduce suffering later.

The biggest thing I see everyone getting wrong about the environment is that acting on one's environmental values is a burden or chore. I used to think so, but found doing so improved my life, despite my expectations before acting.

Flying less, cutting out animal food, avoiding packaged food, etc. . . Now that I do them, I wish I had changed earlier.
In the Philippines, YouTube/Facebook/Twitter Moderators See the Worst of the Web
lol you are right. Its a crooked world we live in
People like Vint Cerf are pretty old and been through lots of ups and downs.
But your contract with Verizon or whoever, minus monthly portion paid towards handset, is the same. Not only that, but iOS has a pretty decent install base of older handsets, a significant chunk of iOS's ~45% market share. So even if iOS users did represent higher revenue customers, it would be years and years before optimizing for new intel-derived 5g modems would impact more than a minority of users, while inconveniencing everyone else.

For a currently-possible comparison scenario, are there issues with providers optimizing their networks for qualcom to the detriment of Samsung?
Ad blockers don't help against Youtube recommendations and autoplaying next recommended video.

Studies have documented that if you let YouTube auto play for a while, the videos would becomes increasingly more radical.
I might be wrong but I was definitely told by a YouTube rep that videos that makes more revenue get promoted more on the platform. It's not the only signal, but it is a signal.
"Only 50 of approximately 100,000 glaciers in Alaska are tidewater glaciers, and they’re some of the biggest."

The takeaways are not that all glaciers are melting faster but that this kind of glacier is melting faster and that similar underwater measurement now needs to be done on other types of glaciers (notably valley glaciers).

Most Alaskan glaciers don't end in the ocean, which is one significant factor. For Greenland where many do the ocean water is quite a bit colder - "water in LeConte Bay is warm relative to the ice, and even other fjords around the world."

Of course, further studies may end up being done without unemployed University of Alaska researchers[0][1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20479471

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383708
Isn't the whole point of the disinformation campaign to make people vote a certain way? With this in mind, altering votes _directly_ by hacking voting machines isn't necessarily the problem people are worried about. It's indirectly changing votes due to the foreign assistance/misinformation, which is illegal under our system. I think it's a reasonable concern and we shouldn't ignore it, just because votes weren't changed directly by hacking. A law that requires campaigns to disclose to authorities if they receive illegal offers of assistance is sensible IMHO.
It's nothing new; Ray Davies wrote a song about it fifty years ago! Only the front-facing camera didn't exist, so it was called "People Take Pictures of Each Other" rather than "People Take Selfies."
Many companies have team lead positions that have no formal management authority or responsibilities. Was that perhaps the case here?

The bottom line is some folks in the company do have firing authority -- or at least have broad say in initiating the process to have someone fired. Rarely are these folks not on the management track or its equivalent.
We allow paywalls with workarounds here, even though they suck, because HN would suck worse without articles from NYT, Economist, New Yorker, WSJ, and others. Rather than complaining about the paywall, it would be better to look for the workaround. There's at least one posted to this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
> Managers have more autonomy and more control.

Sometimes. I've seen orgs where middle management was not allowed to delegate enough, either by culture or by tools. The net effect was a schedule full of catch-ups and backlogs full sign-offs without much actual input into what they spent their days doing or thinking about.
Isn't that what Fediverse is all about or at least coming close to? The communication runs on ActivityPub (https://activitypub.rocks/) and anyone can setup their servers and clients as they wish.
> The Facebook app, on iPhone at least, requires you to opt in to giving it microphone access.

I just double-checked, and I have mine turned off. So, "requires"?
small farmer's cooperatives growing corn and beans were at least sustainable, but we all know how the game plan goes:

- US BigCorp (Dole mostly) starts throwing around cash to extremely poor and vulnerable populations (specifically Nicaraguan immigrants and traditional farmers in Costa Rica, where most pineapples consumed in US/EU come from); farmers get wide eyed and accept

- farmers cooperatives lose members and land, meaning value adds for things previously e.g. insurance for crop failures become unaffordable; cooperatives wane in power and shrivel up

- vicious cycle ensues: opportunities dwindle unless you're willing to be poisoned, exploited etc. at the local Dole plantation. or grow near/in Nicaragua where your stuff just gets confiscated on the way back in.

it's regrettable that my post was interpreted in the light of negative nancy style, everything is bad so no big deal, or what have you.

the increased demand for pineapples - again, consumed almost exclusively outside of Costa Rica - has had demonstrable negative impacts on Costa Rican farmers, its environment, and so forth. and, as you might have guessed, a principally US corporation makes most of the profits.
Because Mitch McConnell is not interested in democracy, he is interested in power. As long as his team is winning, he'll do everything to keep it that way.
Show HN: Windsor – See All Your Users' Events
If this is real, there would be a corresponding amendment with actual text of proposed legislation.
Outrage culture FTW

1% of the population is not the world. Stop saying it is.

And the OP is part of the problem, going somewhere to take a photo? Experience life instead.

I get it's their job and hobby but they are no different in the act, they get the journey so they still get life, but don't pretend their set up photos are real. They are fake, they admit they take days to get a good photo, that .1 of a second in time that really doesn't exist creating a culture of people also wanting that fake .1 second of life. They are feeding the beast.

If anything jumping on a floating bit of ice is actually experiencing the world.

Not really sure we have to say don't trespass and the rest is complaints that now there are so many people you can't 'fake' a photo pretending there are not.
I've considered making digital audio hardware that "ages' like the analog stuff. Goes out of tune over time, has some capacitors that you need to replace every 10 years, a manual with a trim pot calibration process, etc.
thanks, that looks great!
I mean this type of photography is a style right? Like the more people do it the more cliched it will get and then it will go out of style right? Every generation wants to do something new.
> but offered no other explanation for what had happened.

And yeah she should be suing to force discovery.
While Kurzweil is cranky in many areas like his 100 pills a day, his extrapolations of Moore's law type growth patterns seem quite sensible - here's the log graph, let's get a ruler and extrapolate the pattern continuing. Not really rocket science and you don't need Kurzweil to do it but he's perhaps the leading populizer of the approach.
I don’t, and it irks me that this has become the conventional wisdom on the matter. The unspoken assumption is that a limited amount of some good is better than an unlimited amount, which of course is silly. Unlimited is better than limited.

If a company has a culture that does not in practice allow people to take time off, then it doesn’t matter if it’s “4 weeks” or “unlimited”. The issue is the culture, and moving away from unlimited vacation will not help.

However, I will concede that a specific amount of vacation means they’ll cash you out for your remaining time when you quit.
This is why the US NIH gives out a lot of $3-5M R01 grants.
While it would represent a novel venture for Apple, they could also clobber Qualcom with the threat of competing as an OEM, threaten to not only vertically integrate, but also to license their work to everyone else, for cheap. I admit it's unlikely they would actually turn OEM though.
Every major campaign was using Facebook in 2008. To give the Obama campaign credit for being the "first" when it was used THROUGHOUT that primary by both parties at the national level and also at the state/local level makes no sense.

That said, Facebook organizing in 2008 looked nothing like what it looks like today. It looked far more like what we were doing in the MySpace days as far as political organizing online (MySpace got about the same amount of traffic back then). I personally think their work with MyBO is more noteworthy and distinguished from what other campaigns were doing, even if it wasn't built by them.
What reason is there to believe that subjective experience doesn't arise from the complex web of perceptions, sensations, neurochemical interactions and cognition that we call "I"?
If you’re a hobby project or small business that’s already not collecting customers’ personal information, then what hard work do you have to do to comply with GDPR?
I've been acquiring tools to fix/measure/improve cheap CNC mill and 3d printer, the $100 dial gague I picked has 10 µm as its smallest increment, you can just barely see a 2µm variation. The force the measurement tool imparts on the part and its support structure is more than that.

The next steps are either carelessly blinding myself trying to build a laser interferometer or spending a ridiculous amount of money on more precise gagues.
Yes tugboats tow barges loaded with cargo on some shipping routes. But it's less efficient, tow cables can break, and port operations are difficult.
> ...modern C++ development techniques...

Shipping header only is really admitting that modern C++ still has a lack of technique, sidestepping the lack of modules and packaging for instance.
Ow really I never fucking heard of it.
Some of the more esoteric Leetcode medium/hard questions are ridiculous to ask someone who hasn't been specifically preparing for them, I agree, but I think it's fair to ask Leetcode easy's where the algorithm itself is not complicated but demonstrates the interviewee understands complexity analysis, data structures, etc.
I really like the creation myth, it is only through real life interactions such as those you describe that these things happen.

I am also a pineapple fan, I like that chemical fresh pineapple has to remove the lining from your mouth. No other food items have it and, for that reason, pineapple is up there with olives, the hemp plant and the banana in 'proving' that god was a creative fellow.

However, there is a slight problem with the current National Pineapple Day. It happens during the off-season. Pineapples take two years to grow and you get just the one rather than a tree full of the things. So I would like to suggest that Pineapple Day be on a different date to celebrate the growing season.

In Europe we generally get Costa Rica pineapples, I understand that the Philippines and Thailand supply the U.S. and other markets, with different breeds of pineapple. Late June is not where the pineapple picking action is at, the ones we get in the stores at that time of year were picked green and ripened 'banana style' by ethylene.

People in warm parts of the world can grow their own pineapples, this isn't going to happen in Norway but what if in sunnier climes you had a pineapple growing competition in a Firebase sized workplace? It would take two years of dedication to be in with a chance of winning. Some people don't stick around in a job for that long. But pineapple plants in a competition could make an interesting addition to a workplace. This would also build on the history of the pineapple, which once was a status symbol.

The day is sufficiently trivial enough for people to want to celebrate it. National New Hampshire Day is never going to be celebrated in Norway. But pineapple day? Why not?

I also don't see a website for the day. This is important, pineapple awareness is needed.

So my suggestion is to hook up with people in Costa Rica and to reposition the day to a time that suits the growing season. Get people growing their own as a team building thing, furthermore, advance the cause of the pineapple as a workplace treat that is far better than chocolate, cake and other fattening nonsense.

The repositioning of the day to something seasonal is in itself a publicity garnering thing. It gives an excuse to write to people and get them to support the cause.

We do need to fix a few things by agreement and consensus at a global level so if we can all agree on a change to a national pineapple day then who knows, we could put the nuclear weapons away too.

The national pineapple day could also be used to revive using pineapple as a textile. Clearly 'pineapple silk' lost out to actual silk and other fibres but, in an age when washing 20,000 plastic fibres from a hoodie into the ocean is no longer cool, why not use the pineapple day to revive the lost art of making fancy outfits from pineapple silk?
If they'd rather have cash then why do they own GOOG instead of holding cwsh?
> Why do you feel that React-Redux has a "horrific API"?

`connect()` is a function that takes 4 optional arguments. The first one is a function, the second is an obj or a function that returns an object, the third is a function that takes 3 arguments that returns an object, the last is an options object that takes up to 7 params (four of which are functions)! Unfortunately, you aren't done yet, because connect returns a function! You pass your new function a component and it returns a different one. Now, you have something you can use! That is the most complicated interface I've ever seen in any library.

`connect` makes code much harder to understand for what seems to be a simple task - wire some data into a component when the data changes.

> Do you feel that looks any better?

Yeah!
The problem with any new media is that wealthy interests quickly figure out how to use it to achieve their ends by manipulating public opinion. Happened with radio. With TV. Now with social media. It's a problem.
> I guess. You could just pay them more though.

This is a good idea. Stop the stock game and just pay a set base salary = to comp + stock.

But we can’t do that because that would take all the fun out of seeing part of your potential income fluctuate with the whims and buffoonery of Wall Street.
Apple has a pattern here. Started with CPU's (PA Semi) and moved into flash controllers (AnoBit), GPS (coherent), GPU's (Imagine Tech), and now cellular modems. The prior have been well integrated to give us the latest Axx designs.

It's only a matter of time for the cellular modem to be integrated tightly as Apple takes it in house.

Qualcomm will be pushed out; it is only a matter of time now. Not if; but simply when.
Yea it almost certainly tanked her campaign.
Investors being wasteful with money is a good argument for them not having it in the first place (and having a more progressive taxation system dustribute that money). There is still a cost to society of investors throwing away "private" money.
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Contrarian opinion: this sounds like a business opportunity to me. I'm pretty sure an enterprising lavender farmer could make a lot more money in season by charging for access to their fields, taking a deposit to cover damage, and selling lavender bunches as props for $20 a pop.
Absolutely, dendritic trees are generally considered active and can elicit dendritic spikes. This 2-layer model is well studied in hippocampal CA1 neurons for example[1]. ANNs are far from reality but they do validate connectionism as probably the correct abstract model of learning. The thing that's harder to crack is plasticity i.e. the learning rules. Plasticity in real neurons is a very complex process and there is no indication that anything like backpropagation takes place.

1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662730...

2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279447/

3 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18270515
Because, there wasn't anything to import?! preg_match(), getopt(), system(), etc. are already available... if anything, you should be asking why I'm unfairly penalizing PHP by comparing it against a no-import Python!

And I did give you an example of Python that doesn't import anything, and as you can see (and could have easily tested yourself) it was still a lot slower...
Consider turning off your computer
The question should be whether the ladder to help you climb, or just to let you climb at the company's pace?

Not sure who the quote is from, but something like "instead of climbing the corporate ladder, why not own the ladder?"
Content aware fill is great for everything listed except for the stink!