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>And then use all of those tax revenues to fund renewables, public transit, and climate repair technologies

And what happens when those revenues are threatened by people responding to the incentives and cutting out oil? Any money earned by environmental tax needs to go 100% into matching environmental restoration program with a hard limit defined that decommissions the program once the incentive is "complete" with acknowledgment that this is the preferred result. Otherwise you get ridiculous pervasive incentives in government that don't fix the problem and destabilize politics further
Sounds like as good of a deal as right now where do the dollar bills I hold are guaranteed to be worth less tomorrow, with occasional periods of it being worth significantly less.
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Much worse? She just looks a bit more sleepy!
The course notes for "Learning Discrete Latent Structure" should be helpful if you're interested in this topic: https://duvenaud.github.io/learn-discrete/
Seems like if Uber is going to use this data for their benefit society should be able to use it to ours as well for planning an infrastructure purposes for example.

The way that society does stuff like this is through government bodies. The real problem here seems like a lack of trust or oversight of government bodies, which creates the impossible situation you identify.
OK, but there’s no use of SVG or canvas here, this is purely CSS.
> How come we don't see Gitlab re-considering hiring Australians then?

I can't speak to GitLab specifically, but them restricting Australian hires too has been brought up numerous times in this HN thread. Given the amount of activity on here from their team members and specifically sytse, it would seem likely that they have at least been made aware.
I don't see that the age of the practice means we have to arbitrarily change it.

On the other hand, I have two concerns:

- on the weeks where I took Friday off for travelling, I did not complete as much work as on a normal week. The output was smaller, and I had to squeeze more things into the four days which was just excruciating.

- I read about a poll in my home country where 74% of people said they will never work again if they had enough money, and only 16% said they will never quit their job even if they're rich. So perhaps ideas like 4 day work week and UBI works for those 16%, but not for the majority?
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>I expect Uber to care a lot about privacy.

Uber cares about the confidentiality of their business records. They will continue to not give a single fuck about privacy. There is a difference.
you are confusing postgrest with postgraphile :)
I looked at that too, but 1% for my low volume isn't worth the hassle of running my own processor (which would have been more expensive even before factoring in the hours I took to set it up).
It’s moronic to use a private method that may change in a minor update. If anyone is using private APIs - they should work on their development skills.

Of course Apple is going to use private methods to implement public APIs. Would it be more sound architecturally if they made all of their public APIs thousands of lines of code and copy and paste duplicated functionality so they wouldn’t use private functions?

The risk isn’t just to you. Apple has been able to get customers to upgrade their operating system at a cadence that no other platform vendor has. What happens if every time they release an operating system apps break because they use private APIs? Either they will have to take the Windows strategy of putting individual hacks to keep apps from breaking or they will just have to let them break? Microsoft has historically not been able to ship OS upgrades on time partially because of the backwards compatible bloat of Windows.

Apple has successfully done multiple platform transitions by completely changing the underlying code for public interfaces. They wouldn’t have been able to do that if developers were using private methods.

In the grand scheme of things, you as a developer aren’t and shouldn’t be Apple’s focus. The customer is. If Apple is able to keep the customer happy developers will come along.
In our current society it's certainly not normal for an adult to be climbing around on a playground alone. And it's not insane for a parent to approach such a situation with caution.

And regardless of whether you agree with the OPs's reaction, that's the reaction that the vast majority of parents are going to have.
From what I understand new professorships, NSF CAREER awards, and similar are still majority male. There is an observed phenomenon that when men enter a female-dominanted field they still gain leadership positions faster than women do. This happens in nursing and schooling, for example.
I wonder if they realize how much they are diluting their brand with this tabloid-esque garbage. The Gray Lady - how ridiculous.
We have CCPA (well we will shortly) and most companies that employ any kind of lawyers will comply with it.
GPS logging, however, contains a bunch of data unrelated to the security of bicycles themselves.

I also don’t understand how mentioning JSON is even relevant in this thread.
If you're basing that opinion on interactions with other people that you potentially don't like in the first place, who you're already judging to be inferior to engineers, it's not surprising that you find business knowledge to be useless.

You're judging them on their compatibility with your personality, not on the actual knowledge that an MBA or other sort of business degree provides. It's really easy for engineers to completely dismiss the kind of knowledge (including emotional knowledge) that people in sales, business, and marketing possess. They aren't just some dummies who don't know how to code.

It also shouldn't be surprising that pure engineering companies like AMD are run by engineers, and while HP is an engineering company in some form, it's also more of a business services company. They do things like contract out desktop support services to large corporations or the government - that is much less about engineering and technical ability and more about providing continuing services, providing a business relationship.

It's actually not a lot different than hiring a custodial firm. Why wouldn't someone with a business background run HP? HP's commodity hardware business doesn't actually make a whole lot of money from what I remember.
The flags you talk about are mostly about the presentation of the output. The, shall we say, "business logic" of `ls` is still pretty bare-bones. That could be one way to draw a line.

Also, I think these presentation/formatting flags are a consequence of the Unix shell "everything-is-text" paradigm.
In Powershell, where you pass around structured data rather than text, typically you handle presentation just by piping into the appropriate cmdlet.
If there's demand to studying the humanities, why can't the students pay for it?

You can say that the state should subsidize non-wealthy students.

But why? shouldn't they, especially, focus on providing for their family, and learn interesting things on the side, like everybody else ?
This is beyond my reach but I’m giving it a stab:

Whatever your computer actually computes is more or less a bunch of pluses, minuses, multiplications, divisions. The function you want to compute may not be differentiable, but the sequence of arithmetic operations you actually compute to arrive at your output should basically be differentiable by the chain rule. Then an AD tool should let you differentiate that.

It seems likely to me that there’s nothing extraordinarily good about this technique without further discussion of the specific problem application given that the field of derivative free optimization exists and is actively researched. I don’t really know why those guys would bother if AD (not a new thing) supplanted their field.

In numerical computing in general I’ve seen quite a bit the idea that you can either differentiate the thing you’re trying to optimize, then use a numerical method to evaluate the derivative, or use a numerical method to evaluate the thing you want to optimize and then differentiate the numerical method. I’m not expert enough to provide any real analysis of when to use each.
Right...perhaps you should ask the good people of Tibet, or the Muslims in western China if they feel that the Chinese government "minds its own effing business".
Photosynthesis is an open cycle, powered by the nuclear fusion reactor at the heart of the Solar System.
I wonder if we aren't going about this a bit wrong.

As much as I love learning about the nuts and bolts of statistics, would the general populace not be better of learning the basics of why (experiment design, independence, covariance, etc) and then the basics of how augmented with tools like probability toolkits that do the math for you?

Because, honestly, the math in statistics can be boring and error prone. I'd much rather a population capable of setting up experiments and using the right abstractions and then using a calculator for it.

And as much as I want to strive for greater mathematical literacy, perhaps that should be sought independently elsewhere. Diving too deep into the math might impede understanding of statistics.

Of course, I don't know where or how you draw the line on who should be taught what...

I'd also tend towards Bayesian approaches too (p-hacking - or equivalents-;is of course still possible, but there are presentations of results (i.e., probability distributions of a result value) which make hacking to an arbitrary value less tempting) which does tend to have a bit more complicated math past the first introduction.
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> Are there other reasons this hasn't seen more widespread adoption?

I think it's because PostgreSQL got major features for web development — like JSON and RLS — not too long ago and most developers are just catching up.

JSON was added back in 2013[1] and RLS back in 2016[2].

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/9.3.0/

[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/9.5.0/
why would you "expect" that if you don't know about it?
> If you want cryptocurrencies to succeed, you need to make them widespread as a form of payment.

This! It's unfortunate that the most well known cryptocurrency failed to grasp this and refused to prioritize scaling so that it could accommodate demand.

At the end of the day, if a cryptocurrency can't be used like cash, it has nothing to offer over existing solutions.
As always, the question is how many and to what degree.
There another angle to this--USA provides vast sums of other monetary aid to oil production.

Since it has been a (or perhaps the) strategic commodity, nationally, since WWI our foreign policy is in part directed at those supplies. We expend much military might in the effort to acquire and maintain the alliances and security of the transportation and production of the stuff.

A lot of the geopolitical game in the middle east is about the oil. Not "We're gonna take over your country and take it it!" exactly, but the Suez Canal, the Straits of Hormuz, international shipping lanes, and current geopolitical need for a gas pipeline to supply natural gas to Europe drives a lot of jockeying, international conflict, and of course, US strategic military bases, of which there are many.

Also I read in the news that some government official put boots are on the ground to protect a Saudi oil field (?...!)

So my response to your comment is: "Yes!" however, there will be a long political battle with an absurdly well funded opposition for it.
Good idea - I will write about this shortly. I've written a "how to" post, but it's mediocre.
Parents and industry do not over value degrees. They value them for reasons that are mostly, but not entirely, orthogonal to any learning that may occur in university but they value them highly for the excellent reason that they’re a wonderful signal of ability and occasionally what they learned is of some relevance.

CS isn’t worthless. CS is awesome, just like Physics or Philosophy, for those who care about them. Those who have any interest whatsoever in intellectual pursuits are at an absolute maximum 10% of the population. Many more need to get a job and for many of them a university degree is an almost absolute prerequisite. To suggest they forgo it is to do harm to them because there’s the possibility they might listen.

As a society almost everywhere in the first over spends massively on education because while it may be socially wasteful it’s individually rational. It’s a signaling arms race.

Universities have never been primarily for those who had av burning interest in the topic matter. If they became that, forsaking their roots as upper class vocational schools and finishing schools they would be vastly smaller than they are now, in terms both of faculty and student body.

My thanks for such a cordial reply to an intemperate message.
There is a presentation from EuroBSDCon 2019, that describes the techniques and hardware used to achieve that figure [0].

There is also a thread in HN if you're interested [1].

[0] https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019.pdf

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043765
And the history of every life insurance application an individual filled is collected and shared through a company called MiB[0] to help mitigate fraud.

[0]. mib.com
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> the person who decides when your food is served holds 100% of the power. If you’re going to be belligerent, you’re gonna wait to eat. If you’re gonna irritate the cooks, you’re gonna lose tips cause your food comes up last.

That works better for the customer (vs. the waiter) than for the waiter (vs. the cook). The customer has the leverage of leaving the place just as the food is served, never coming back, not leaving any tip, and/or writing scathing reviews for the restaurant. Almost none of this is useful to the waiter in the relationship with the cook. In some places even management avoids pissing off the cooks as they may be the most critical part of operating a restaurant business.
Why does this argument appear over and over?

1. I do not need to comprehensively understand a country's culture to know about security risks and totalitarian governments. In fact, both of my grandparents and parents lived in and fled from a communist country, so I know a thing or two about that.
2. I do not need to comprehensively understand a country's culture to understand when human rights abuses are happening.

This argument is a form of -gatekeeping-. "Only X people can really discuss this issue", except you can move the goalposts whenever necessary.

People often don't understand American culture or history (and sometimes don't English either) but that doesn't seem to phase them when discussing America, etc.
The thing is, these scooter APIs are getting reverse engineered pretty often. (I contribute to a github repo[0])

So Uber can’t really hide the data if they’re in noncompliance.

St Louis has this clause written in their scooter legislation that a certain number of scooters must be in certain regions for the purpose of equity. I’ll tell you it’s a damn lie as far as the data is concerned. No one seems to care though. It was written in so politicians could advertise it as a good thing, but they refuse to enforce it because of the little revenue or attention the scooters bring. I don’t really care where they put the scooters, but it still pisses me off both that scooter companies are seemingly above the law and that some politicians are lazy cheats.

[0] https://github.com/ubahnverleih/WoBike
I despise this recent (yes, it is recent) assumption that an author is obligated to include everything related in any way in their bibliography. A bibliography should be a list of papers that informed the paper in question; not every paper has to be a comprehensive survey (how exhausting that would be). If I win the lottery and find a counterexample to the Riemann Hypothesis by testing random numbers, I should be able to publish a paper with zero references, if I so desire; I should by no means be obligated to cite every paper ever written on the Riemann Hypothesis. This is just a lazy cop-out used by reviewers who want to reject papers but can't find any solid objections to the contents of those papers.
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And the boomer generation were called entitled, lazy, selfish by their parent's generation too. Think about the attitudes of the war generation to the hippies, recreational drugs etc.

This shitting on the next generation thing has been going on for a long time.

There's solid evidence going back 150 years of older generations complaining about school kids being undisciplined, not respecting their teachers ("not like back when I was at school"), and some slightly more anecdotal evidence going back some 2000 years of the same.

We always find it hard to reconcile the negative aspects of our old behaviour with our current mindset, and it's way easier to just reduce in our minds the severity or scope of our actions. We learn from our mistakes, and try to make them seem as small as possible in our minds.
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Physicists have "observed quarks" for a long time in the sense that if you scatter protons against protons or other particles, you can see that the proton scatters particles as if it was made up of three little particles.
I think the peak in "peak oil" is a very wide peak with a lot of noise in it. That makes it easy for certain people to make-believe it's not going to happen. But it is... we just might not be able to predict which decade with certainty.

Perhaps this is a kind of an intelligence test for human civilization. Can we stop the global guzzling of petroleum resources before there's a profound ecological and economic shock? I think not.

There's no "free-refill" of oil unless we all go extinct, get covered by sediment for a million years before we're liquified to petroleum.
Wouldn't this all be better spent on municipal elections to unseat NIMBY's?
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Funny how at the same time the Norwegian Government Fund is divesting from oil and gas exploration[1].

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/08/norways-1tn-we...
As the generators have gotten cheaper, there's some indication that total energy costs have increased because of the cost of dealing with the intermittent nature of wind and solar. So for economics one must look well beyond levelized cost of electricity nowadays.

If indeed energy storage costs dominate beyond 40% renewable penetration (total energy) then the exponential curve we see today at the 5% level will likely level off.

In 2018 carbon emissions increased by 2% worldwide even though renewables grew by 15%.
I don't actually know if it is another example of bias against women. I only know that the picture might be more complicated- men may pursue less education but also men can advance faster with less education comparatively. The overall picture is probably not so simple as that men pursue less education therefore men are systematically disadvantaged.

Arguably, it shows that men are disadvantaged in one axis and not necessarily the whole axis, which is why I'm bringing up that there are other spaces along this axis where men are not systematically disadvantaged. I do firmly believe that men are disadvantaged in several fields and spaces which require addressing, but not that that means men are disadvantaged overall.
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People seem to forget that the MBA (originally Master of Science in Commerce) was meant for technical undergraduate majors (like Engineers) to learn business concepts (and not meant for individuals who have a business undergrad degree). That’s also why the graduate degree was called a Master of Science.

When you hear people claim that an “MBA is useless”, it’s typically spoken by people who took business as an undergraduate degree. And hence - yes, it is useless if you already have a degree in business ... and that was not the original intended audience to be attaining such a degree.
1. I am the first to recognize it is hard to quantify, it is just my experience. I should note that I have always worked in fairly diverse environments, at least culturally (e.g. in my current team, I have people from France, the US, Australia, Spain, China, India and Japan, only 2 speak their native language), which likely affects my experience.

3. Of course, you cannot only rely on observation, and 1:1 are crucial. But especially with junior people, just asking questions is not enough. You really have to look how people work to understand your team's dynamic. In my experience, 1:1 utility decreases the more junior reports are, and observations utility increases the more junior reports are.
> How come we don't see Gitlab re-considering hiring Australians then?

Because no company has asked them to yet. Give it time ;)
Coinbase is a massive fraud target.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of the things Boomers and Millennials are blaming on each other, actually apply to Gen X (and I say this as a Gen-Xer myself). We got the best education deal before (admittedly Boomer-) politicians started to undermine education. We were the slacker generation. We're the generation that refused to grow up. We got jobs in the booming 1990s.

But sure, let Boomers and Millennials fight. We're happy to stay out of this (just know that I'm on your side, Millennials!)
Looking out how the spam act played out, which allows implicit opt in compared to Europe’s explicit opt-in.

I believe US govt will always be at the mercy of corporations.

Now some things are great. Like CCPA, California’s version of GDPR. But getting it accepted throughout the US is a mammoth task.

I have hope though.
$45k is on par for restaurant managers, especially for a new managers. I worked in hospitality on and off for 7 years. Most managers were making about the same as teachers. GMs were likely in the $100k range for most large chains. Some GMs were managing partners and they owned a stake in the store they worked in. The downside is a lot of the pay was dependent on bonuses.
> but also men still occupy the a disproportionate number of of administative, leadership, and professor positions.

Men are (scientifically speaking) generally more dominant and more competitive. They will take on more risk to reach higher and more powerful positions, and are willing to sacrifice family life to do so. Women (again in general) will sacrifice professional development in order to stay and care for their family. No amount of political/SJW pushing is going to change biology.
oh you're in for a treat.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/austral...