skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are being paid well under market by a very wide margin. Check out https://www.levels.fyi/ for supporting data. It's possible you believe that tech workers are overpaid rather than believing you are underpaid because of psychological factors, such as the cognitive dissonance of having to face the unfortunate reality that you've been leaving money on the table for at least 7 years, and you've probably left over half a million dollars on the table due to your inability to properly understand and measure market compensation. That's unfortunate, but it probably makes sense for you to face that if you don't want to miss out on another few million over the course of your career due to a fear of revising your thinking and admitting you were wrong.

Your call.
If WeWork fails unexpectedly quickly, it'll be a nice opportunity for other players in the workspace market to increase their occupancy. Probably less to do with innovation and more with having nice enough real estate near WeWorks.
Signing bonuses often have a requirement to stay for a certain amount of time (or you have to return it).

Some signing bonuses help compensate for losing bonuses or unvested stock at a company you're leaving.

Signing bonuses are also great from a company's perspective, because they're a one-time payment that may get you to accept a lower salary. From the employee's perspective, they may be good or bad depending on your needs; consider carefully if you'd rather negotiate for a higher salary instead.
I don't think that limiting the photography or the means of the data collection is the solution. The law is going to have to apply post-mining.

In my opinion, we need to start treating data about users as intellectual property. Generally speaking, you don't have to worry about intellectual property when you're doing something personal. I can say "Just do it" all I want. In the same vein, I can make casual observations about random people on the street without having to worry about violating their privacy (that guy has cool shoes!). But if I start to use "just do it" in my business marketing materials, I'll be in trouble. Similarly, if I start keeping a database of somebody's shoes every time I see them so I can try to sell them something, that should be illegal.
"why maintain citizenship"

In fact I live in the US but haven't applied for US citizenship for this, among other, reasons("passport" being woefully misused word in this context). Anyway, that is a very poor advice since:
1. Most people have one citizenship, including expats (most return).
2. Giving up your US citizenship implies very many more things than not paying taxes. Look up ex-pat type laws.

"American passport does provide you with services" Well the passport surely doesn't. The citizenship might, but I've been an expat all of my life (started bouncing around the world at the tender age of three weeks). I've never used, no one in my family has every used, an no one I know has ever used our rich, Western countries' services [0]

I have used the services of the local police very many times.

"No, it's a safety measure"

The Special Forces aren't on a razor's edge ready to jump and come get you. That's BS from Hollywood. You get in trouble abroad, and yes, you can ask for the local consulate to send someone to see you in jail. That's, in the vast majority of cases, about it. But I try to avoid jail myself.

[0] We're not British. Apparently, Brits get into so much trouble abroad that the Brits have come up with a simple solution: charge the drunk louts for consular services!

EDIT: To be clear, when I move to another country, I take pains to declare that I'm no longer a resident lest I continue being eligible for that country's services.
I don't think it's amazing to reach large local maxima for production efficiency when the major risks are ignored and we know about problems piling up that could dramatically reduce that efficiency in the future.

I think targeting that definition of 'efficient' is a mistake, as it doesn't represent the true, whole-system consequences. The efficiency metric you quote just completely ignores the pollution from the industry, which is a part of the system you're studying.

Passing the sound barrier wouldn't have been so amazing if the plane blew up just after.
Keybase
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Often the money will be given with some agreement to pay it back if the employee leaves before a certain date(and other variations on that theme). It usually compensates for giving up a yearly bonus or the expenses of switching jobs.
Game companies often seem (to my eyes) to cluster around major CS universities, and incidentally many of these universities have vibrant arts/creative communities (especially the juggernauts like UC schools, Toronto, Vancouver, MIT, etc etc). I think if you scraped even the top 500-1000 indie games you’d see some pretty serious clustering.

But there are, of course, also very large communities for gaming online, from development to consumption. Most (if not effectively all) "core-CS" innovation takes place at university research groups, corps, and conferences, a much higher barrier to entry than itch.io for instance. CS innovation really requires a large amount of experience in a very limited subfield to make progress.

Game design is just less esoteric than the frontiers of CS imo.
Yeah, we signed up to have that happen inside of the platform, not outside of it.
> This is why I don't understand why people take gig jobs.
That's because those are the available jobs. I'm struggling to understand your question - obviously people will take whatever jobs are available to them so that they can support themselves. I doubt it's the CFA's or AI researches that take these jobs for the fun of it it's likely people who need them to survive.
They could lie about that too and just use linear regression.
It doesn't have to imply a decline in service availability. For example, the spread between Uber Pool and X could grow (since wanting your own vehicle, without sharing it, places more stress on the overall system). So, the popularity of pool could grow.
Its not whataboutism, because only Americans are ignorant of the nature of their heinous wars. Some of us are on the lines with the refugees and the orphans, and have heard more than enough details to the point where I only wish it were agitprop and cheap talk on a non-refugee-persons' website.

If you care to look, you can see the truth in the eyes of the children who have lost their parents or brothers or sisters, or arms and/or legs. They're out there, but of course, if you are living the high life in the good ol' USA, you'd have to take a long flight to see, for yourself, the truth.
This may be tangential and specific to United States, but is there a way to prevent someone from withdrawing money from your account if they know the account and routing number? Both of those numbers are on checks.
This is a precursor technology to high throughput somatic cell cloning of "humanoid" organisms.

such an organism would be deprived of maternal signalling of embryonic development, how this would play out has yet to be explored in a legitimate context.

and something to consider:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus
I'm not conviced that GCC defines the behavior of this, because the trick relies on defining a local function in a block scope, and then allowing it to escape from that block scope:

{
rettype foo(args ...) { ... }
foo;
}

GCC local functions are "downward funarg only", as far as I know. This would definitely be wrong:

{
int local = 42;
rettype foo(args ...) { ... reference local ... }
foo;
}

then, when foo is called, local no longer exists, which is bad news. The lambda macro doesn't do this (the block doesn't extend the enviornment; nothing is captured from there), and so maybe works by fluke.

Another thing to is that pointers to GCC local functions work via trampolines: pieces of executable machine code installed into the stack. When you use GCC functions, the linker has to mark the executable with a bit which says "allow stacks to be executable". The default in most distros is non-executable stacks, which guards against stack overflow exploits.

(Speaking of trampolines, I'm not sure about the effective scope of those. If we lift a pointer to a local function inside a block, requiring a trampoline, and then that block terminates, is that trampoline scoped to the block or the function? If it's scoped to the function, won't it be overwritten if we execute that logic multiple times? If the trampoline is scoped to the block, then the invocation of foo is using an out-of-scope trampoline.
For the curious, Vimium looks for these by default: prev,previous,back,older,<,‹,←,«,≪,<< next,more,newer,>,›,→,»,≫,>>. I have been using it for a month now and it works surprisingly well.
Not sure if you’re joking

Disrupting something and making it worse doesn’t make him a hero.

Put it this way: I am posting this on a thread about Uber ;-)
"Government Owned Corporation" is still way more privatized than predecessor versions that were directly public entities. The point, if it flew past, by directly comparing it to the USPS, is that privatization is not a binary, but a spectrum.

To reiterate further, Amtrak is as far further down the privatization spectrum already than is good for it. The USPS generally has sometimes had annual profits (from which Congress can skim), so it mostly will continue to operate, but is in the worst of both worlds situation where it has rarely ever had a chance to reinvest its own profits back into itself. But Congress has an incentive to keep USPS running mostly smoothly because they wouldn't have profits to skim without it.

Amtrak has the exact same worst of both worlds situation without even the excuse of occasional profit, so it shares all of the control from Congress, but none of the responsibilities of any attempt at good stewardship from Congress because it's nothing but a "cost center" on the federal books, but also "someone else's problem" because shouldn't it be the Amtrak corporate board making good decisions and leaving Congress to focus on stuff that matters?

Further privatizing Amtrak doesn't make any sense, because the current worst of both worlds privatization has already mostly killed Amtrak. Further privatizing Amtrak is just gifting on a silver platter some private equity firm (vulture capitalists) a far too cheap leveraged buy-out and eventual hugely profitable to the equity firm and hugely expensive to the American people Amtrak bankruptcy and break up into a lot of little parts. Probably would mean the entire end of passenger rail travel in the country, because our lazy cargo train operators would love nothing more than such an easy bit of extra free margin in their operating schedules.
I can outline my rough budget. Rent is roughly $2400, recurring charges and utilities is roughly $200, and then other expenses and "fun" is about $1200. Luckily all 3 meals are paid for from my employer 5 days a week.

Once all is said and done (all stock accounted for and distributed on a weekly basis rather than on the vesting cycle) and the expenses above are taken out, there's ~11k left over a month. This is post tax.
Kreuger: Genius and Swindler – Introduction
1) Society has failed and there are no superior job opportunities, forcing people to work for objectively unlivable wages driving for Uber etc

2) There are vastly superior work and educational opportunities but many choose not to take them and instead prefer the advantages of driving for Uber (mainly flexible hours)

I believe both these statements on a case by case basis are true and both need to be respected by any legislation that is passed.
I wouldn't work at any of those companies as long as I have the choice not to: they all make money off of proprietary software.
So it really depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking for say, stowaways in a truck, backscatter x-ray is sufficient to help you find them. But if you are looking for smuggled goods you might need some sort of tranmissive x-ray system the truck passes through like a flatbed scanner of sorts.
You are not answering his question, which is about the situation where the null hypothesis is true (what Taleb would call a "true" p-value of 0.5; for some reason he decided to define as the "true" p-value the average of the distribution - but it's worth noticing that there is not such a thing as a "true" p-value).

The only thing that matters to answer his question is the sampling distribution of the p-value when the null hypothesis is true, which is uniform in [0 1].

> Could someone clarify what is meant here?

If the null hypothesis is true every p-value is equally likely, by construction. However, getting a extreme value (under a small threshold) is less likely that getting not-so-extreme value (under a not-so-small threshold). The probability of getting a p-value below 0.05 is 5%, the probability of getting a p-value below 0.25 is 25%, the probability of getting a p-value below 1 is 100%.

If you show me a drug that cured 2 out of 10 ebola patients, when it's known that 10% of patients recover without treatment, I won't be impressed (high p-value). If you show me a drug that cured 9 out of 10 patients you're onto something (low p-value).

> At what point would this author say something is not consistent with the null hypothesis?

The author just doesn't like hypothesis testing. His view is that the null hypothesis is always false and everything is consistent with it.
As noted:

1. The book is announced, but not yet released (17 Sept).

2. Worldcat tends to lag acquisitions, and whilst extensive, is not fully comprehensive. There are nonlisted collections, and lagged reports.

3. Further acquisitions will be added.

And most importantly: Libraries are highly responsive to patron requests. Ask for the book to be added, and in all likelihood it will be, and you'll be notified when it's in and/or added to the waitlist.
I make a habit of finishing everything I read, to exercise my ability to maintain focus. But that only works by being extremely selective of the material I begin, particularly books.

If a book is skimmable, why bother? Presuming the author has something genuinely interesting and substantive to say, there are often better alternatives. For example, books written by scholars are often preceded by long-form journal articles which more concisely present the material. And if you were mistaken in your belief they had something interesting to say, then you've only wasted 20 pages of your time, not 400; yet you can still say you gave them the full measure of your attention and a fair chance to persuade you.
This is dangerous advice, and I wouldn't recommend that anyone assume that everything is 'just handled' when it involves taxes and anything more complex than regular salary.

RSUs, bonuses, etc. will likely be withheld at the IRS supplemental rate of 22% (37% once employees receive >$1mm of it in a year), whereas your marginal rate could easily reach above that depending on how much equity and bonus compensation you're getting.

In your first windfall year, the IRS has rules that will prevent people from being hit with overwitholding penalties. After that, if you don't pay at least 90% of your calculated end of year taxes, you're going to see a penalty.

My advice to _anyone_ starting off is to just talk to a professional when equity and bonuses are involved. It is going to cost you money, but it is going to save you money in the long run.
Artificial Uterus
Can't we do both?
This is 100%-grass-fed, free-range, organic bullshit. How on earth could anyone, with a straight face, propose an outright ban on e-cigarettes while real cigarettes are still legal...

In public opinion, this is shaping up to be another tour-de-force showcasing the defective actors of our democracy. Starring, in order of appearance:

1 Moms that want the government to do their parenting, as the technology doesn't yet exist to Black Mirror them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror))

2 Obnoxiously smug people that are willing to outlaw anything that doesn't affect them if there is morale high-ground to stand on

3 Corrupt politicians dressing up a power-move or money-grab in the name of protecting the children/public health

4 A recent but powerful entrant, Facebook users that have conjured degrees in both Medicine and Statistics, rapidly propagating the most poorly reasoned, common denominated, premature-birth-of-a-coherent-argument to all of their friends and family

Good times!
Worldcat / OCLC is pretty close to this. It's not fully open source, but it's widely used and pretty open.

(The fact that the API isn't publicly accessible without registration and payment is a major annoyance.)
Especially in a state like California, where you have to pay an $800 franchise tax each year to keep an LLC registered, regardless of if it has any income.
>For the sake of argument, there are several very successful websites that use infinite scrolling in one way or another. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit just to name a few.

Comcast is a very successful company. Do they have a great user experience?
Thank you for your reply!

I mostly wanted to provide a countervailing anecdote rather than any sort of fixed rule.

I would say that I definitely had success, by your definition of social. I've never had a problem making friends, but socialization as a kid didn't benefit me long term because being social with pre-teens and teenagers is useless training for being social with adults in a professional environment, which is where I now spend most of my time. I basically had to learn to be social all over again.

So I guess I take issue with the idea that people need to be around their peers to learn to be social at all. I agree that social skills are not formally taught, and that they need to be learned, but I think all that is required to accomplish this is that children are around people who interact with them. If they have that, I think the cost of them not being involved in whatever kids these days are doing is not that high, and definitely not as high as they might think it is in the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity

We do waste water, but this is besides the point. The point is that you could have the best resource extraction technologies, but if there are no resources left to extract due to depletion, then you are pretty much borked.
whoops, I thought they said dark energy/matter
> If the government has "extreme negotiating ability" that citizens lack, then why does it continue to allow price gouging on drugs?

Because regulations have been put in place to disallow the U.S. government from negotiating with pharma companies on drug pricing.

The regulations were put in with good intentions (and some healthy doses of lobbying) in ensuring pharma companies would have financial incentives to carry out R&D but hindsight is, as they say, 20/20.

Even in the face of these drug price regulations, though, the government still has a much higher negotiating ability than you or I do.

Check the drug prices one pays with Medicare Part D vs. the prices on "free market" Amazon or eBay.
For food distribution, historically, a free market beats central planning, hands down.
eg, flickr.

infinite scroll limits the amount of data downloaded over mobile, without forcing you to "click" to next page.

it used to be absurdly user hostile but now it's limited to 2 loads before it stops and you are presented with a page index.

it's a great compromise with a great underlying UX reason.
>>No, the trade off is being employed vs being unemployed.

For some people, yes. But we're looking at the laborers as a whole, not the individuals (and my specific example was more from the perspective of the managers at a company with a limited budget for employees).

Some people will go from "contractor job" to no job. Other people will go from "contractor job" to "employee job".

Uber still needs drivers. They're not going to not have drivers because of this. Some people currently working for Uber will keep doing that. Some people currently working for Uber will not keep doing that. In the future, some people will apply to work for Uber and be both rejected and accepted as employees.
In the UK a new screen is £166[1]. A new battery is £49[2] a new iphone 8 (without trade in) is £479 which is somewhat closer to 45%.

That’s not a clear cut win to me.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/iphone/repair/service/screen...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/iphone/repair/service/batter...
So, this doesn't work because the scope of the statement-expression is the scope of the local function, so to use the function outside that scope (as TFA shows) is UB.

C w/ GCC's local functions extensions is just not enough for lambda expressions. You have to declare the local function earlier than (and in scope of) the use site.

For example, an expression like this:

float x = add_fns(1,
lambda(float,(float x),{ return 2*x; }),
lambda(float,(float x),{ return 3*x; }));

may well assign 6.0 to x rather than 5.0 because the first lambda gets overwritten on the stack with the second. That's if it works at all -- after all, we have UB here, and this could just summon cthulhu or anything else.
Scientists Create a Device That Can Mass-Produce Human Embryo-Like Structures
> but the overall view that there is no singular "I" is very counter to my self conception

And the idea that the Earth being round and rotating around the sun is also very counter to my intuition.

Think of it this way. Instead of asking "Does this feel correct to me?", ask, "If this was correct, would I feel any different?"
Same reason applications use syscalls instead of writing low level code to write directly to your HDD. The entire point of an OS is to abstract away low-level crap, and DNS is (imo) part of that.
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This. Combined with hospitals holding insurance companies and customers captive in each region, the influx of self inflicted chronic disease is giving them that power.
GDPR is spam in its own way and its unessecary burden on smaller companies.
USD is heading towards a 40% devaluation.

I wasn't convinced at first, but it makes sense after you think about it on a longer time scale.

The amount of sovereign debt is just unpayable in any real terms ( basket of goods ).

75 million baby boomers ! with rising projected fiscal deficit from here on out.

The easiest solution is to let the currency take a hit and default nominally.

It won't cause a huge amount of inflation, only ipads, and foreign imported goods gets slightly more expensive.

I also do not think other countries devalue as many pundits think.

CNY has been trying to gain purchasing power, as a side karma benefit, the CCP gets to own people taking money out of china and moving into USD, when USD falls by 40% then nowhere is safe ! It reduces pressure from chinese citizens to move assets abroad.

The amount of dollar denominated debt globally is just too high, so trump is right.
I've replaced my last 4 phones not because I wanted something faster or thinner or any hardware improvements at all in fact.

Just that something broke and fixing it was almost as much as getting a new one. Or the software was full of security holes or incompatibilities, and no way of upgrading.

Honestly phones are pretty much where PCs are now, upgrading every year is pointless except for certain specific use cases, and something that can last 4-5 years with minor repairs and regular software updates is enough for the vast majority of users.

My only concern with the Fairphone is the high initial price.
The contrast between Brad Smith's title, and Gates's The Road Ahead (1996), speaks worlds.

(Gates writes a foreward to Smith's book. I've not yet seen it.)