skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or even electron (gasp). The application looks like simple webpages.

It might even work better as a web site, so the customers don't have to worry about backups, sharing data, etc.
The media loves their stupid clickbait. -.-
IMO the issue is not so much that Apple is leaving stuff behind, but that it makes drastic decisions and generally does not communicate its plans.

For example in one of the email responses someone from Apple says that Carbon was a temporary solution but quite frankly that was never clear from the outside world. It seems there were even plans to make Carbon 64 bits that were scratched at the last minute.

Same with the hardware. One day out of the blue Apple announced its new laptops without USB-A ports. Even 3 years later USB-A is still one of the most used peripheral ports in the PC world (including Mac and Windows). Even Apple does not ship peripherals with USB-C cables other than adapters. AFAIK its mice and keyboards still ship with USB-A cables for charging.

These tactics are maybe ok for the consumer world but not for professionals who need reliability above all else.
So, huge mistake in the article right away... It assumes total comp at Google is 110k..... The reason startup pay is nonsensical for many people isn't because startups don't have big upside, but that the upside didn't keep up with the massive increases in pay the bigcos have driven. Eg starting sde I comp at Google is 180k... , Or 60% more than the article assumes.

There is also value that bigco provides in terms of stability, benefits, professional hr (hr isn't your friend, but bigco hr will probably at least follow the law)....

Dan Lu's articles on startup vs bigco pay are well worth looking in to.
Carbon UI framework has been deprecated for 12 years

Interestingly, Carbon still pops up here and there, even in programs from large companies with tons of resources like Adobe.

The giveaway is when you ask it to do something hard and instead of getting the SPOD, you get the watch icon.
I got the impression that the author was arguing exactly against this kind of equivalency. People can be unusual and also successful. This doesn't mean that being unusual is a valid predictor of success. Also that its pretty ironic for something that would be seen as a potential red flag for someone making a relatively low risk decision (i.e. hiring a branch manager) would suddenly be viewed as an asset by someone making multi-million dollar investments.
I'm not sure I agree with the premise that everyone is blinded by some "great man" theory of innovation except for we street-wise low-middle class. But I feel the point about the double standard is valid.
If Each of Us Planted a Tree, Would It Slow Global Warming?
A coworker linked the original study to me, and was quite glib about how this new study is quite reliable and so on. I checked it out, immediately got suspicious by the article (that was even more nonsensical, since it was not written by a scientist), then went into the study's summary instead, which was already way more nuanced .

What mostly stood out to me: the study did not even try to discredit the hard and overwhelming evidence that consuming red meat regularly does give you a single-digit percent incrase of various types of cancers. They then proceeded to give a summary that says that there is no point in worrying over such small percentage likelihood increases, basically (I am obviously paraphrasing here, so)

After that, we concluded with the coworker that yeah, this was not a holy grail counter to "mainstream science", just one slightly fishy one.

But this does not diminish my trust in the scientific method. This just adds one more example to the book 'why you should always try to at least verify/clarify claims before blindly believing them'.
> There are immigrants fresh off the boat who don't speak english that own their own companies.

> Do you have numbers to back that up?
There's a lot of math for a Wired article. I'm interested in challenges to the assumptions.
> ... allowing the opportunistic speculators to swoop in ... This vulnerable group was targeted for it's high susceptibility to any number of cons, and were also the most likely to ignore the zeitgeist of the app-model.

This is where the narrative of victim and victimizer breaks down. Consider one of the sad tales from the article:

> “They used us to get rich,” said Demetrios Manolitsis, 52, a Chicago cabdriver from Greece. Mr. Manolitsis, who started driving in 1992 and owned an extra medallion as an investment, said New Yorkers in Chicago convinced him to borrow money to buy 15 more medallions at the height of the bubble, when prices were skyrocketing and the asset seemed invincible. He is now buried in debt and on the brink of losing everything.

He's both an opportunistic speculator buying 15 (!) medallions and a victim who was conned. Depending on when the market took an eventual downturn he could have been a villain. He could have been part of the ominous "they" sprinkled throughout the piece!
I'll take a good looking, non-crashing installer over an ugly installer or a crashing installer any day of the week.
No, if you have one piece of toast you put it in the slot that has the lever.
As a Columbia grad I'm not surprised at all... the Columbia Administration is insanely conservative. I have never experienced as entrenched of a bureaucracy as I did at Columbia!
Red meat is a likely carcinogen and processed meat is a known carcinogen.

Oils in general, even extra virgin olice oil are not health foods (which is a common misconception).

Beyond burguers are not healthy, they are junk food. Plant-based junk food, but still junk food.

If people are looking to learn how to eat healthy, the science say's its whole food plant-based. Don't eat plant extracts like oils, you need to eat the whole thing.

Eat peas and not pea protein isolate, eat olives and not olive oil. And so forth.

Just because something is plat-based does not make it healthy, Oreos are plant-based for example. Does anyone think they are healthy?

It's about the perception of the public on certain foods, that is very hard to break as its built on decades of conditioning via advertising and pop culture.
Bad Karma 2
Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't
It is not. Please read the summary of the study,and tell me that that the conclusions drawn there are reasonable.
If you can, make the payment using the IBAN instead.
I believe all our banks have to publish this now (probably due to EU regulations), and it will often be on ones bank statement.

Even though the latter part of the number is simply the sort code and account, the early part of the 'number' (text + digits) includes a checksum over the whole lot.
Availability of nearby services such as those is a pretty major component in the walkability scores I've seen like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Score . I agree they are very important, but I think they are considered. Where do you see them missing?
Is this the follow-up to the 1MDB investment effort? The 1MDB investment program also had Malaysia step into the shoes of investors.

What's weird about all of these is Malaysia is struggling with an austerity budget, has a fair bit of debt etc. I never fully understand these situations where things like pension funds borrow lots of money to invest in the market to make money. How can you borrow at one rate and earn a higher risk adjusted rate in an efficient market?

I know a bunch of folks in middle east are getting into the Vision fund so I know it does happen, but just interesting. At least they have the actual excess cash.
In the cold light of morning...

Here we go: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/Plant-Bas...

> A number of fast-food chains have introduced plant-based meat alternatives in recent months, partnering with meatless companies Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods.

> They are reacting to consumers' increased appetite for those foods: from April 2018 to April 2019, the plant-based retail market has registered 11% growth, according to data published on the Plant Based Foods Association website.

- - - -

Or this: https://www.starherald.com/news/nation_world/impossible-burg...

> Impossible Burger debuted on store shelves earlier this month, immediately becoming the No. 1 product sold at some of America’s favorite grocery stores -- and remaining the top performer ever since.

> Since its Sept. 20 debut, Impossible Burger has remained the No. 1 packaged item at Gelson’s 27-unit chain. Since its launch, Gelson’s has sold more Impossible Burger than all types of ground beef from cows, based on both revenue and total number of pounds sold.

> “No one could have predicted this level of pent-up demand for Impossible Burger,” said John Bagan, Gelson’s Chief Merchandising Officer.

- - - -

I think we are at the base of the "hockey-stick" curve and that meatless meat is about to eat beef's lunch.
Another (very) important consideration is the tax you will be liable for at the time of exercise but possibly before liquidity in the event of success and the information asymmetry between most engineering hires and the founding team.

It's for this reason that I believe 10 year exercise windows are the right thing to do, and young engineers should be encouraged to avoid startups with ~90 day post-employment exercise windows.

P.S. Hi Ben!
It's almost like the people complaining the loudest don't have a profitable software product that justifies regular ongoing maintenance or something.
Carbon continued to work for 13 years after it was officially deprecated. Waiting over a decade to get started on a transition doesn't mean that the transition was abrupt; it just means that you procrastinated until you got a hard deadline and so caused scheduling problems for yourself.
Hacker News looks like it was from 1995. Works fine for me.
You also get to quit publicly traded companies based on how much your unvested RSUs have increased or decreased in value since you signed on to the job. So this isn't really an advantage for startups, except to the extent that startup volatility is higher.
But this is exactly the point of studies like this. They are written in a way that allows misinterpretation, and then the media can pick it up and run with it (like they did with this one).

There is a large body of writing about P-hacking, bias in studies, this is just one more in that long, long list.
I understand. I have read Gita 2 times, in Sanskrit. The book was an excellent philosophy treatise, it opened my eyes which was rivaled only by Sapiens. But it still depends on the perspective.

From one reading it teaches you that you don't need to obsess on material things
"Startup options aren't so bad"..."adding risk aversion would decrease the offer value by a huge amount"

So the author shoots his main premise in the foot by not including one aspect of human behavior that we see in just about every worker. Sure, young people with no family are less risk averse than old people with families, but just about anyone seeking a salaried job is risk averse when considering jobs. Risk seeking individuals aren't very common in the standard job market.

Ben's articles are usually well informed, especially when it comes to probabilities and decision analysis, but not factoring in indifference curves in an analysis that is already this complicated is a pretty big miss. The bottom line is that working for a startup is a pretty big gamble, and expected values are misleading in terms of how people actually make decisions.
Find a local retailer using their website.

In reality, it's pretty hard, because very few stores have much selection at all to look at. After a number of years of buying their frames every once in awhile, I found an optometrist who invited me to "meet the sales rep" so I jumped at the chance; turned out it was a co-owner and also a model for the company's materials, he brought basically every frame they owned to the meeting, told me great stories, made great recommendations. It was the amazing experience I had been looking for but not finding. Just gotta get lucky, I guess, with smaller companies.
AMD Dishes on Zen 3 and Zen 4 Architecture, Milan and Genoa Roadmap
Do that because it's a more empowering, tangible, and DRM-free format, but that argument also holds against streaming services who don't swindle you, so it's orthogonal to this.
Under 1% of homebrew users are on 10.11 (https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/os-version/30d/), so continuing to test on that OS version would not be a good use of the maintainers' time.
I remember reading this a while ago. Thanks for reposting.

I did in faxt stumble upon the linked RFC, but I quickly realized that it's quite complex for the simple thing I would have expected. As the article nicely points out, it's trying to be the Swiss army knife but that makes things difficult.
Just checked the /about page as well, couldn't find a JD yet. Can you expand a bit about the role?
> While it’s easy to point to areas in computer science that might be over-researched (after all, Machine Learning conferences often get more papers than they can effectively review), there are still areas that are neglected with respect to their potential benefit.

It would be worth considering what drives people towards researching particular areas, even if it might seem kinda obvious. I.e. it might be tempting that it's visions of fame, loot & prizes, but I think to most people it is obvious on some level that they personally won't get any prominent position in these fields. I think it's partly a question of discoverability (say I'm a student, how do I learn about these topics, and that there are practical ways to work on them?), partly perceived prestige.

Also, getting into a particular PhD or similar currently means thinking years in advance -- I'm not talking learning/studying here, but connections, bureaucracy and applications, having paper "proofs" you know something etc. You notice some interesting area towards the end of your studies. It's too late to move even not that much from what you're doing (e.g. move from cognitive science to computational neuroscience) without wasting additional precious years. And that for entering not particularly rosy world of academia.

Myself (not academically nowadays), I see myself searching for a middle ground between overcrowded fields (where I will probably do relative "grunt work" at best) and fields that are so obscure as to be not viable. The fear of having no steady income is too real.
I've hand written them in the past. Also branches used to have partial preprinted cheques available on which one could complete the details.

However recently I've seen Bank T&Cs require that one use the banks own preprinted cheques, yet not provide them - essentially removing the cheque facility.
Is this base comp or final comp?
Interestingly this also aligns with Advaita/non duality.

One of Advaita’s pointers is to observe one’s choices. Where do they originate? How come some do manifest and some don’t? Since I’ve started doing this I’ve had to give up the concept of free will as I have been unable to observe such a thing.

This is not to say that actions and destinies are predetermined. It’s neither; the free-will-or-predetermined view of the universe is a result of limitations in perception and ability to think/imagine. We can only see the universe as we are.

For the interested, here’s a brief introduction to the False Sense of Authorship :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j95Xz_3IJWw
Yep. Sometimes you only need to know whether or see which direction not how much exactly at this exact moment.
This is a cool analysis with a bunch of giant caveats. The author lays them out at the end.

The most important seem to be that it assumes people are risk-neutral and optimizing their expected wealth, instead of trying to reach goals like maximizing the probability you'll be able to buy a house in SF. If that were the goal, I think early stage startups would fare incredibly worse in this analysis.

The next most important seems to be that there's no way for a company to fail in this model. The companies that become worth less can't become worthless. Since these early private companies' stock aren't liquid, you can't cash out before they fail. You get zero dollars from those, which is a huge difference from the model.

And the whole crazy tax thing. If you quit as this model suggests, you almost always have to exercise within 90 days (spending a bunch of your money for an uncertain future). Then the IRS sends you a huge bill if you left a successful company where you might get more than zero dollars. But you still haven't earned any cash from the stock.
Why having too many choices makes us miserable
In real life.
Since macOS updates are free, is there a reason you haven't moved off of El Capitan?

Do you just like the way it looks and feels? Is there an essential program that you use that need El Cap? Are you using a 2008 MacBook?

I'm not being critical. I have to run Jaguar on a dedicated machine I keep in the closet for a niche reason, so I'm curious what problem you face.
My wife’s most cited and quoted paper is on correctly defining the Indian middle class. Happy to share the link if there’s interest.
Onkyokei
“No tangible benefit” is a very weak assumption. Upgrading to new APIs means familiar UI controls, possibility of integration with system features - off the top of my head, iCloud copy & paste, versioning, handoff, low power/data mode, form inputs behave the same as everywhere else, font rendering, window controls - all very tangible for users.
I’m an old, cynical bastard who hasn’t had his morning coffee.

My second thought on reading this headline was “regulatory capture”. Who put it in their head to invest in R&D this way?

I mean, I’ll take this any day over pandering to real estate developers, and especially in a country with such an amazing natural heritage.
> words sound so much like old english/germanic.

The relationship you are seeing was discovered nearly two centuries ago, and has been thoroughly studied since then [1].

> there have just soo many of them and every region has their own dialects.

If linguistic diversity is the measure you are interested in, Papua New Guinea [2] and Sub Saharan Africa [3] are orders of magnitude more diverse that Europe and South or East Asia.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guine...

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa#Languages...
I'm just wondering if leaving out tSNE was intentional? I'm a big fan of UMAP too. Just created this ^1 Kaggle Kernel a couple of days back to show how UMAP works on Kannada MNIST data.

I also think PCA still rules in a lot of cases like when people try to create a new index representative of a bunch of numeric variables

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/nulldata/umap-dim-reduction-viz-on-ka...
It's not that novel or different from how we treat each other nowadays. It's not empathy. Intellectual capability determines the value of your contributions to society thus your value as a person. Bravery and stupidity disguised as "courage" were the virtues determining your worth in middles ages, now we check the intellect. Intellect tells us how valuable your life is, and intellect is what some people (e.g. politicians) are so good at faking.
Interesting that there are five times as many Brew events from Catalina machines than El Capitan machines, and Catalina isn't even out yet.
There are many kinds of great engineering. Lego making billions and billions of really cheap little plastic bricks that last forever and click together no matter when you bought them is one kind of great engineering, so is SpaceX.
Firefox 71: set a custom private browsing search engine
The implicit assumption here is that you can always change jobs. That’s not true if the economy is bad. We now have a generation of people in the workforce that have not seen a downturn. Back in 2001-2003, I was locked into a startup that cut our already below market pay by 20% due to the poor job market at the time. There are simply times when it is difficult to move companies due to macroeconomic trends.
> you'll be prepared for the small number of conspiracy theories that turn out to be true, but you'll likely incur a far larger cost by avoiding all sorts of threats that aren't actually real.

This seems like a false dichotomy....it is possible (well, for some people at least, or at least in theory) to consider conspiracy theories using disciplined reasoning, perhaps assigning a "likelihood score" to each one.

I believe that by society avoiding them altogether, and their oddly visceral (natural, or conditioned?) reaction of disgust to them when they do encounter them, it allows those who are conducting covert operations of any kind a very great degree of latitude. I mean, look at how long a subset of society knew about Epstein, and even once it does accidentally burst into the mainstream, poof it's forgotten, even though it involves the sexual abuse of children, one of societies most emotional traumatizing topics. There's a lot of very interesting human psychology involved here.
This is a good example of how titles can be misleading. I clicked on it thinking that the Guinea worm was approaching extinction (likely due to human forces that destroyed its habitat), and that conservation efforts succeeded in preventing the tragedy.
Denmark calls for EU ban on all diesel and petrol cars by 2040
The government adds value to all our lives, not merely to our consumer goods.

So perhaps a more effective and fair means of paying for it is to recognize that those with higher incomes are the most financially able to support the cost, and develop a progressive income tax that ensures that the highest burdens are put on those with the greatest ability to bear them.
180 is mid senior according to levels.fyi.
ah, I was trying to stay around in the video until he got to that, but even at 1.75x I couldn't handle it.
If you can have batteries with higher energy density than oil, why not fill up a ship with batteries?
Total compensation [0].

[0]: https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/
A Firsthand Account of Huawei's PR Drive
> I run a 980 Ti alongside a 950 in my hackintosh tower and graphical glitches on the desktop happen pretty regularly despite both cards being perfectly healthy.

The Nvidia web drivers are not great but there are so many factors that could be producing those glitches.

I've built about a dozen hackintoshes since 2010 and while I've experienced many problems I personally haver never seen graphical glitches.

I don't think it's fair to expect the same level of reliability from a frankenstein you've built yourself than a commercial product.
Why respond with begging the question and then bringing up something totally irrelevant?

Olive oil doesn't have trans fat, is low in omega-6 (unlike seed oils), has a high ratio of monunsaturated fats to saturated and polyunsaturated fats, and has a bunch of vitamins and antioxidants as well. It's pretty much the healthiest fat in existence.
I hope Libra goes through, even with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and everything.

It might lite a fire under goverments to take some action and create a proper crypto currency at the state or maybe even EU level for example, it's time.

Just try to run a business and take online payments via credit card, using something like Stripe for example. Literally near 8 to 10% of your transactions will FAIL, just like that.

Customers that want to pay you and their card fails a huge percentage of times, preventing you from gaining recurring customers.

The current credit card system is a mess, its a thing of the past sorely needing competition. It's ready to be disrupted by the next big thing and if its Facebook Libra, I'll take it.
Facebook encryption threatens public safety
You can download it (and every other old version of macOS) from the developer portal: https://download.developer.apple.com/Mac_OS_X/mac_os_x_v10.5...
mhmm, whatever you gotta tell yourself bud