skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At my own startup, I just tell engineers I'll pay as much as their current company"

I'm curious what exactly you mean by this. Let's say an engineer's current compensation consists of:

- $N cash per year, and

- A single stock grant of shares in a publicly traded company (worth $4N at today's closing price), vesting linearly over 4 years

So the engineer's total annual compensation is worth $2N ($N cash, plus $N worth of stock vesting at the end of the year).

When you say you'll pay as much as her current company (and that she 'will get much more equity'), are you saying you'll match her current liquid compensation (cash plus vesting of marketable securities) or just the cash portion?

If the latter (you're only matching the cash portion) then, even if her compensation has 'strictly better expected value' (based on a coon understanding of the probability distribution of outcomes), she may still prefer to avoid the 95% chance that her new compensation turns out to be worth only half of her current compensation.
This is an insanely overconfident article, given that the field in question has dozens of confounding variables that likely can't be reduced to a pat conclusion+prescription.

I guess that makes it par for the course for Tabarrok. He reminds me of all my econ friends at unnamed Ivy League school who learned linear regressions freshman year and then started applying them to everything.
Do you really think anyone believes that roads cost no money to maintain simply because they don't pay a toll to use them?
The Fed set interest rates low in 2008 in order to provide a stealth bailout to the banks that had lent too much and were sitting on collateral that was less than the money which was owed.

The low interest rates raised asset values to the point where they weren't sitting on heavy losses any more.
I don't like this kind of articles, because they start with a question that is not answered. What's the point about writing an article in a newspaper saying 'what is x' and being the answer 'we don't know' ?

Edit: The title in HN has been changed. It was called "What color evolved for" or something similar...
Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?
It's likely that the outrage is from people who don't use MongoDB. A lot of my things rely on the Community Edition. Even with the SSPL, I'm still eagerly waiting a few more weeks to upgrade to 4.2, and take advantage of some of what's new.

If I found a bug, and was adventurous to fix it, I can still open a JIRA and submit a PR to the project ...
The new translations are indeed mentioned in passing, but the piece is a good introduction for people who don't know the author.
Detecting and Reducing Bias in a High Stakes Domain
Low Code’s on Fire. Skeptics Get Smoked
The US produces almost double the GHG per capita than Western European countries, which have a longer history than the US. It's not all deterministic, it is based in choices we've made in the US.
scary story from agricultural industrial complex...all bread in western nations is fortified...chips are potatoes, which are highly nutritious...meat provides lots of essential nutrients...this kid had something else wrong with him, or else this story is fabricated
It'd be nice to diff a gist of an updated sysctl/rc.conf for this / whatever you use updated to 12.x.
There will also be a decline in house prices if demographics trends continue. This is also a store of "wealth" that many are counting on. This is more of a macrotrend though.
> Is the Linux Desktop Dead?

No, but maybe Gnome is dying?

But more seriously, this is a silly question for two reasons:

1. There's no such thing as 'The Linux Desktop' unless you create a strong tie-in between the kernel and the desktop environment. IIANM Gnome is kind of doing that through systemd, although I might be wrong. Anyway, other than that, it's "X- and Wayland-based desktops"
2. Are there libre, non-X, non-Wayland desktops which are doing better than KDE, Gnome, XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon and the rest? ... I don't think so. Maybe on mobiles.

> Isn't there potential to update the desktop into the 2020 version of itself?

(shrug) Whatever...

> And isn't it possible for GNOME to be the organization that does that?

Sounds like they want to remove even _more_ of the UI, so that in their dialogs and windows you really can't configure anything at all. Welcome to the 2020 version of lameness.
Not all pensions are public employee pensions!

There are a lot of machinists and truckers out there who are already feeling this pinch.
if there's disagreement on the odds, the entity on the confident side should bet the total value of the other satellite + usage delay costs, in escrow.

safe? let Musk put his money where his mouth is.
The days of 0% interest in savings accounts has been over for a while, but many banks are assuming most people won’t notice and have not changed their rates. You can get 2% on savings at many online banks, you just need to do some investigation. 2% is better than nothing.
Cider 0.22 (Clojure Extension for Emacs)
Btw, why doesn't the STL contain also safe versions with access control? Like a second variant where the methods operator[] and at() are switched (cf https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/at). That would be such an easy addition.
> At least on 12-stable (idk if it made it into a 12.x-release) EVDEV_SUPPORT is enabled out of the box

The GENERIC kernel configuration for FreeBSD-12.x-release does not support EVDEV out of the box. It is there however for both 12 stable and of course head.
> Don't assume that your SaaS runs on the same network as your build machines.

That wasn't the assumption. It's laughable because under any condition of where your hosting and build infrastructure live, you'll need to restore your internet connection before you can deploy whatever software fix you're trying to ('deploy' in the sense that your customers have access to the deployed fix).
Apple card is 90% titanium and 10% aluminum
Just doing a websearch on "kashmir internet shutdown" yields a plethora of "elaboration".

Gotta be a bit active when looking for information, instead of just waiting for it to fall in your lap.
Cigarettes, like airplane flights, were once new luxury things our grandparents happily took up, “escaping” life without them.

My point is: just because something is popular doesn’t mean it leads to health or happiness—especially in the long term.
So has a snob problem. People elevate themselves by over zealous downvoting. It's toxic. The site is 50% of what it could be but the a-hole factor sucks so much value.
I registered to vote because I believe in democracy
agree. marginal revolution has really gone downhill in recent years
Good god, this is an awful opinion.

Every economic system and model depends on future expansion of both capital and human resources. There are no theories of at scale planning for a future has less stuff and fewer people and no growth or even shrinkage.

The "can't afford" BS is the mantra of private capital, which does a great job of funding the .1% and an awful job of funding the 99.9%, which is what pensions do.

The fact that expected benefits may not be fully achieved due to, I don't know, inability to predict the future has been used as a straw man to dismantle what have been in historical terms far and away the most successful at scale future funding schemes. The repeated failures of unplanned models get lost down the memory hole.

We need a new term to complement "Ponzi scheme" to capture the mass reality distortion that index funds make everyone their own best investment manager.
Prefix Codes
Yeah, but ESA message is clear that space needs some regulation, now there is no rule who should do the avoidance, with more and more satellites you need some defined rules and coordination on handling this incidents. Also I am wondering if some cheap satellite destroys a expensive scientific one is there a law that could apply for recovering some damages and act as a incentive to prevent such a thing?
Search engines, an adversary knowing how the ranking works can manipulate(/'optimize') results seen by the users.
Until you figure that Ubuntu is full of shit. Snap packages are a piece of shit, and, whenever you need any kind of unmastobatory software packages you'll need to add PPAs. Ubuntu has gone to hell since the Snap ordeal. Arch is the only way to go.
I regularly get up a mountain and spend some time in a hut that is well off the grid. The end to modern communication is one of the reasons I spend time hiking to get up there.

Even still, lately, its been a great place get back to after a day of further marching around, to watch movies and catch up on some writing work, listen to or make some music (electronic) or hack on some code .. the point is: solar-all-the-things is actually working. There is so much energy up there... and especially on the side of a mountain.

On some spots up there, I can hang a portable water generator, and the camp will have electric heat .. a small wifi hub .. a couple miniPC's worth of movies and so on ..

So, I dunno, I think there is quite a way to avoid grid-based electricity consumption, as long as you a) have the gear, and b) are willing to go to remote places to harvest the hell out of it ..
Pension funds aren't trying to make a profit. They need the ~7% yield to cover the cost of paying people's pensions decades in to the future. Without that return the fund would collapse under the forces of inflation, increased pay outs to more people as we live longer, and the fund itself shrinking because it's not covering its costs.
> It usually fails to save me any time, and causes a lot of headaches.

If it takes you much more time and effort to navigate traffic than the average road user you won't benefit much from Waze because any gains in time will be negated by the time penalty (relative to average) every time you need to do something that requires being aggressive (merging, left turns, etc). Similarly if you're driving a large commercial vehicle you should probably not use Waze.
> It's as if users main priority is not to be held up

I believe this to be a very real and widespread emotional phenomenon. Not only have I observed it in countless other drivers, even as a quite experienced driver myself, I still feel it on a regular basis. Sitting at a stoplight for too long sometimes just makes me irrationally angry, and I will often add a couple minutes to my commute to avoid the experience. I know it's stupid and am trying to change the behavior, but it's difficult.
The obvious solutions seem to be either:

1. Add enough speedbumps, unsynchronized traffic lights or even unnecessary timed barriers to make the route slow enough that it's no longer optimal

2. Add cameras that fine anyone who doesn't have a permit to pass, which would be given to residents for free and anyone who pays a sufficiently high price
There really isn't much to put up with/configure on Arch. Once you've done the install a couple of times, it'll take 20-30 minutes to go from live CD to graphical boot with hardware acceleration, provided internet is decent. If you use a bigger desktop environment, things should work just the same as on the bigger distributions.

Arch really isn't that complicated, and the documentation is fantastic.

I've been trying to switch to openSUSE (want one distribution everywhere), and I've had more trouble than in Arch, and not much trouble at that. Linux in general is pretty trouble-free these days if you have decent hardware.

Most of the people who have trouble on Linux are trying to use some crappy laptop with really low quality WiFi or something. The nicer your hardware is, the better Linux will work on it. That being said, even crappy laptops seem to run Linux reasonably well these days.
Study: New Cars Are Safer, but Women Most Likely to Suffer Injury
Indeed. There's a reason for that: Most modern non-fiction books are the result of a publisher giving a book deal to an author to expand an article they wrote and people who are going to spend $20 on a book want to feel like they are getting their money's worth (more pages == better deal).

Few modern authors are willing to buck the trend and publish a 100 page book, but they do exist. Take a look at Christopher Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form.
I've read that too. That the soft tissue around the joints fills with fluid while sleeping and it takes time to get back to normal. During this time it is supposedly easier to get injured.

I've worked around this a few ways. One, it takes 10 minutes to get the the gym. I also have to get up, brush my teeth, put clothes on, etc... Second, when I do any workout, I warm up. Walk on the treadmill, then some stretching, and finally warm up to the weight I'm going to use.

I've never had an issue, except now that I'm older it can take longer to get going :)
For now.

The broader question is, if the Chinese state can demand this, then what (other than popular opinion) is stopping other states (with sufficient clout to meddle in Apple's markets and/or operations) from demanding the same?
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672

> But it also reveals that teachers can be biased towards giving girls higher results than boys, even when they have produced the same quality of work.

It would be ironic if bias against boys (likely more egregious in more subjectively marked areas like the humanities) drives them to the more lucrative STEM fields.
If you're a faggot who can't use a system then you only deserve windows 11. The rest of us invest the minutes it takes to learn sn actual system.
with 2 outlets he means 4 conductor terminals, and with "opposite phases" he means voltages in quadrature (so that power is in opposite phase, since out of phase voltages means in phase power)?
Memory Mapping – Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features
Gym exercises – how to exercise at the gym?
This mismanagement was somewhat inevitable as yields decreased. There's too much cash (because of wealth inequality) chasing too few yield bearing assets.

Assumptions that were made about the level of yield that could be achieved safely before the crisis simply don't apply today.
No Tech Magazine speaks to me on a very deep level --
You don't need to patent something to prevent others from patenting it, prior art prevents patenting by itself.
There are barriers that restrict traffic based on dimensions - such as the 'bus trap' [1] that only allows wide vehicles, and the 'sump buster' [2] that only allows high-ground-clearance vehicles through.

Of course, these have the disadvantage that (a) they damage the cars of confused motorists [6] (b) cars stuck in traps obstruct busses anyway[5], and (c) large SUVs and pick-up trucks can drive over them anyway [4].

Another option is a powered rising bollard [3] or barrier together with some mechanism (tag, ANPR, keypad) for recognising authorised vehicles. Which avoids a lot of those weaknesses - at the cost of power and maintenance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_trap
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sump_buster
[3] https://goo.gl/maps/epSrQ2641m6ccf6cA
[4] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-22352...
[5] https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
[6] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-22/car-blocks-o-bahn-for...
FWIW, I get the CPU clobbered on a non-retina MacBook air, whereas FF works flawlessly on a retina one.
Many British publications use the term.

boffin: Noun (British informal) A person engaged in scientific or technical research. [1]

It appears regularly in the Economist, too [2].

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/boffin

[2] https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/08/08/...
Manjaro is for fsggots. Only arch linux is an operating system
Comana
No, that's not the reason you're not switching away. That's an _excuse_ not to switch away from a commercial OS by a fat-cat tax-evading patent-bullying contrator-employee-suicide-inducing corporation.
One way to easily corroborate this hypothesis is to check the acceptance rates of men and women that apply for STEM fields.

This reminds me of the UC Berkeley lawsuit, where it was found that women were more likely to be accepted into almost any department, and that women were less likely to be accepted overall because they overwhelmingly applied to more competitive departments. The numbers are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#UC_Berkele... . The wiki article doesn't list the names of each department, but it's worth noting that every single department with a majority of men (think: STEM) is more likely to accept any given woman than any given man.
That's because you are a Windows 11 faggot. If you can use Linux you use arch.
That's true, but batch normalization is not software any more than multiplication is.
Did I say it would be "ergonomic"? You're deliberately refusing to use the correct tool for the job; of course the next-best thing is going to be "not as ergonomic". Is that surprising? It was never "ergonomic" in C to begin with. You had to check status codes and manually allocate and deallocate and construct and destroy everything everywhere. Now we have a language here that automates a ton of this for you, and gives you better tools. It also lets you avoid the individual tools you don't like, while letting you use the others, and while letting you fall back to your old style entirely whenever you prefer, and you're still complaining about it? What are you even complaining about? If you think it's better to have everything to be difficult instead of some things, then just stick with C. There's no point having a pointless argument with me about it.
As humans shaped dogs’ bodies, we also altered their brains
Does anyone have a read on the rigor and ideological slant of the blog? I've flipped through a couple posts and find the content easy to follow (I have no economics background). However, I haven't found any meta commentary on the blog or information about the author (Joshua Konstantinos).
I think there is somewhat of a wild west on orbit. Even in the case of known, active missions the parties in a "potential collision" may have different opinions about actual likelihood of the collision: "collision likely" usually means an estimate that both bodies will occupy the same 10-50m volume, but they may or may not actually collide. Based on this each party may decide whether they want to spend limited fuel on maneuver. Or take their chances. Or wait if the other party blinks first.

Add a ton of sats launched by spooks from multiple governments and agencies (who do not want positions of their sats known and may maneuver more frequently) add a whole new layer to this. Just my 2c -- I am not an expert; current setup may be better managed.
Pension funds tend to be distributed across local and global risks and should be actively managed and moved around in response to global events. The article speculates that pension funds will be left in high risk pots into the next resession and will then suffer losses. Lot of 'ifs' in that chain of reasoning.
I don't understand it.

So there are bots that have been posting "porn" for a bunch of years. And now they post political messages.

How does that influence anybody? Who subscribes to porn bots? I would have thought only other porn bots follow porn bots?

Can somebody link to an example of such a bot?
This is ridiculous.

Women are not drawn, for the most part, to the narrow form of detailed reasoning required in math and the hard sciences. The most important word in this statement is “narrow.”

This also means we have a major responsibility to protect the opportunities of women who choose to follow these disciplines, and to deal harshly with stereotypical discrimination.
To be clear, this is a central bank thing. The part of the government issuing debt doesn't technically have a say in it.

The Federal Reserve bank sets the Federal Funds rate. This is their "target rate" they will try to hit. They accomplish this by using their position as the central bank to "print" (not literally, it's a credit system, I'm hand-waving) money to bid on bonds. In the same way that lots of investors clamoring to lock-in rates on long bonds can bid their yield down, the federal reserve using their funny money to bid on treasuries also bids their yield down. And when the fed wants the rates below zero, they bid them to below zero. These are called "Open Market Operations".
Arch Linux is the only Linux. It's so easy to learn and use. Arch Linux is the only operating system. It takes 20 minutes to learn arch if you know Linux and Unix.
I've wondered about personal websites.

A lot of them would come in under 500kb, but the list would be huge? I'm still trying to figure out how to best to categorize and think about this list so any suggestions would be appreciated.
The annual inflation rate for the US is around 1.8% right now. 2% is better than nothing, but not by much.
Sounds like a classic lowest-bidder government contractor situation. "Sure, we have 100,000 accounts, and we'll charge 1.25 RMB per tweet per account." "Fantastic! You get the contract!" "Oh shit we need to find 100,000 accounts fast and cheap."
Whatever comparison you do, you should compare a representative subset of both populations in similar situations in life, not just cherry pick the self selected ones, the successful and survivors, ones from one population against the potatos from the other.

There is no point of comparison in five dedicated years of highly academic study versus 6 months of touching the techs du jour. Will the boot campers have also graph theory background? And compilers and assembly or just webpack preprocessors? Database design or just picking stacks? and compilers and network protocols?

Are you sure you are not comparing a 35 year old responsible person who made a boot camp to sustain his family or an entitled post-grad IT engineer who is still a bit high from the graduation party? It would be hypocrite not to admit that a hungry serious battle tested individual will have the right attitude to build a role rather than the not serious entitled individual who just wants to see what he can get from there and does not make any effort in continuously improve.

Once in a plane I met a CEO who told me he would take any day an engineer for the decision making role or business related roles. Was he crazy or it was just his previous experience conditioning him? you can take whoever you want for your company, even someone who took gender studies and ended up taking a code camp hoping to pay its former debt and ends up making high impact blog posts about thyr experience in the digital IT world as person of XYZ gender.
From the paper behind this blog article:

> Relying on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data, we show that female students who are good at math are much more likely than male students to be even better in reading

You could more naturally state that as "at the same reading level, girls tend to be worse at math."

Most people on the planet are bad at math. STEM is a funky autistic sort of thing, though useful, and I'm glad that I'm good about it. But this constant desire to remake women over into something they are not (funky and autistic) needs to stop. I wish the busy-bodies would leave my daughters alone and let them enjoy what they enjoy.
> We need a solution that actually stops a majority of people wanting to fly so much

The TSA seems to work quite well at doing that.
I think the idea was that open source was more secure when it comes to communication rather than having to choose open source for ideological reasons.

Security seems like a good reason to me.
With all that happening in Hong Kong, i wonder why UK and US are not at all involved?
> such questions often closed as “too broad”

Oh my questions were very specific usually

(the hardest one I remember was how to put a borderless window inside another window (because it could change) and making it all work. Think some good amount of win32 quirkiness was needed for that to work the way I wanted)
Good stuff.

In my experience inputs to MTCNN tend to be full frames, so the uniform dimension requirement is usually met.