skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would lose money.

I disagree. I'd argue the amount of money you "lose" due to redistribution is actually MUCH less than the additional value you are able to output due to social stability. You cannot be entirely decoupled from your environment - and that environment is rapidly globalizing. That's not to say that balance can't become skewed in the future, or that other communities haven't had bad balances elsewhere otherwise. But, its not a one or the other, its more of a balancing act. Some redistribution is likely good - too much is definitely bad.

Specifically, sister comments are arguing redistribution is likely net-positive for everyone at least up to the point of providing basic needs (food, water, shelter) exactly because without those things people become disruptive. To argue that "I/we can fight anyone becoming disruptive" ignores the fact that that fighting takes away from other productive ventures (and not to mention is a wee arrogant).

EG: I can make 100$ of value a day if I don't have to constantly fight for me and mine. Forfeiting 30$ of it makes sure that everyone around me is happy enough not to threaten me. If they were starving and began threatening me (or my tools), my output drops to 10$ because i spend most of my efforts in looking out for myself/mine rather than collaborating. I'm now MUCH worse off than if i participated in some well-moderated redistribution.

If you disagree with the $100-$10 output reduction, i recommend you go try to do the same job you do now in a war-torn or economically repressed country (odds are you won't be able to find it, or it'll pay much, much less). I believe every developed nation has social safety nets precisely because of the economic sweet spot it enables.
This is such a perfect example of the vocal minority crying foul. You’re all over this thread whining that a corporation is protecting its interests from parasites because it doesn’t fit your idealistic view of open source. You don’t need to trust them not to change things in the future. If you contributed, you’re still free to use the code your modifications...for free ($).

Who is sentry hurting by making this change?
Oh shoot that's not intentional! Thanks for telling me. I'll remove those ASAP. I'm showing ads using adcash.com since the site is too new for Google Adsense. I thought the ads were family friendly though.
Google had the "20% personal projects" thing company-wide for a while. I wonder if they have some statistics that maybe proxy productivity and how they look.
I reread Bertrand Russell’s In Praise of Idleness annually and maybe you should, too.

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
I spent some time thinking about leverage and margin, and my thinking was

- I don't want to invest on margin unless the interest rate is significantly lower than stocks generally return

- as a rule of thumb, 7% is a conservative estimate for stocks in the long run, while a typical broker charges close to 10%. So it seemed like a non starter.

- however, it is possible to find rates as low as 3-4%, so then the question becomes how much leverage to use?

- my logic was, what kind of drawdown is plausible if you invest at a market peak? It appears based on known history that -70% could happen. Therefore it would be best to limit leverage so that more than a 70% decline would be needed to cause a margin call.

- which seems to lead to borrowing no more than 25-27% of one's equity.
>This raises an interesting point, which is that there seems to be a relationship between essay-writing and essay-reading. The students are able to cheat on essay-writing because the school is already cheating on essay-reading.

When they pay so little why would a person spend hours reading and analyzing one essay. The bigger issue if the lack of resources devoted to grading and not that the people on the ground are cheating.

edit: I think the commentator's emphasis should be on the lack of resources and not a supposed negligence on the grader's part.
I’m annoyed you buried such a simple suggestion after so many examples and pointless tangents. The reason this isn’t done should be obvious to you: your proposed operator isn’t ASCII, unlike everything else in the syntax. (I have to call it “your proposed operator” because I don’t know or care how to type it on my iPhone — so it’s already causing problems.) The nearest ASCII rendering, `<-` as used in R, is syntactically ambiguous. You should have started this post with your actual proposal, instead of prefacing it with pompous language and details.
Only your first paragraph is a potential concern. The rest are fine according to the license.
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I’m actually inclined to think they have similar procedures, if only because we haven’t seen “whistle blower” stories in the news about folks reading texts and looking at other private user data. Maybe I’ve missed them, but because bashing Facebook is kind of a trend one would think there’d be an appetite for “I read illicit group texts for a year here’s what I saw AMA” stories.
We agree entirely. Feelings matter for motivation and can underpin performance. But the rational view is that, at the end of the day, you must have an objective measure of performance, devoid of opinion and emotion. The kids' feelings matter when motivating them to perform, but when it comes time to evaluate said performance, feelings cannot matter one wit. If they do, you are no longer measuring performance, you're measuring something else.
Psst…I'd mark that flag volatile or atomic if I were you; a smart C11 compiler might mark your loop as terminating ;)
>The GDP would be 10 times higher. It wouldn't be a lie.

That would mean Venezuela, top in the world for printing money, has the highest GDP growth. Zimbawe and Argentina would be next.[1] In the event one might claim they are, here[2] is the actuall GDP growth rate by country.

>As for GDP it is generally accepted that setting up a free market and leaving it alone maximises the GDP.

The highest per-capita GDPs are in exactly those countries which monitor and adjust the market, for example the Scandaniavn countries. And in the US, the period 1945-1980 saw vastly more regulation and taxation than 1980-today yet vastly greater growth. So evidentilly, modest regulation and taxition and zealous anti-trust enforcemnt are actually good for an economy. Far from generally accepted, very few economist disregard all evidence and assert zero regulation means maximum growth.

> Inequality is not a problem - people can't even detect inequality!

The existence of inequality is not remotely controversial and is trivial to measure, for example with the GINI and even the absurdly blunt Elephant Curve. And indeed, vast swathes of the population very much feel the decline in their quality of life and say so loudly and are electing lunatic politicians as a consequence.

Actually, if you happen to have a reference, I'd be interested in where one hears that printing money increases the GDP, inequality is undetectable and ending anti-trust enforcement et al makes a market healthier.

>doesn't involve confiscation and redistribution of some form or another

One could call gasoline tax "confiscation" bridges toll "redistribution" and, on the other side, call rent "theft". Calling stimulus spending "confiscation" is as extreme as saying that wealth was "stolen from the proletariat in the first place". I humbly suggest it is not helpful. At any rate, as further proven by this paper, the solution to both QoL declines created by inequality as well as a stagant GDP is a wealth tax used to increase consumer spending power.

> the elephant curve can reasonably be interpreted as a massive success story that we can all be proud of as millions are lifted up to a better standard of living.

Then how is ridiculing its reality a refutation of this paper? And the rise of devolping countires is not in dispute. The problem at hand is the preciptous decline for those who lost out and who are still loosing. And who, as it turns out, are the middle and lowerclass members of the richest countries which also contain the people that benefited by far the most.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation...

[2]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.kd.zg
Fungus Makes Snakes Look Like Mummies. It Just Turned Up in California
What does ISTM stand for?
I tried to title this "Introducing Staking Rewards on Coinbase," but "Introducing" was removed automatically from the submission.
> the whole point of VR is to remove you from the real world

Who does this work for? It doesn't for people with spouses and children. I can't be removed from the real world when my child wants my attention. How many hours of game play do you think the average family person might have available to them where they can just remove themselves from the real world?

Given all of VR's problems, the people who will play VR games seriously enough to spend money on AAA VR games will always be a smaller subset of the overall gaming population. It's never going to be bigger than what exists already. All these billions dumped into VR as the next big thing seem to miss that the VR market is limited by the problems the parent comment mentioned.
Wait... what?

> Intel CFO George Davis implied during an interview with Barron's this week that the company is digging in its heels for the long haul, saying "What we’ve said though, the delay in 10 nanometer means that we’re going to be a little bit disadvantaged on unit cost for a period of time." Davis then noted the company expects to return to revenue growth and margin expansion in 2023 when it overcomes the late ramp to 10nm. As a result, it's rational to expect lower pricing on Intel's upcoming 10th-Gen Comet Lake processors, too.

If everything goes right for Intel, they don't expect revenue growth until 2023?

By the time Intel hits 10nm in stride, TSMC plans to be rolling out their 3nm... [1]

[1] https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2567/tsmc-talks-7nm-5nm-yield...
That story dates from 2010.

Snowden's revelations (2013) were a major watershed. There'd been several measures taken since, based on what I heard on the outside, largely through discussions, mostly public, a few direct, with Google staff via G+.

Starting on, of all days, November 9th, 2016, I began regularly posting an image of Jewish shop windows shattered during Krystallnacht, asking whether Google were thinking of brownshirt-proofing their data. That generated responses including from G+'s architect (then in a role with user data safety & privicy), and the data security lead.

It wasn't until some time later that I realised I'd entirely accidentally picked the anniversary of the event for the post. Though the coincidence was useful.

My understanding was that numerous protections were in place by that time. I continue to have concerns.
Plenty of hotels in SEA.
> Any competent financial advisor is going to get you to diversify out of Uber

Agreed, but they seem to have no problem suggesting putting 50% of your net worth in a home.

Having been though a company going public, while that advice is correct, the endowment effect is a real thing, and it's shocking how long people hold on.
People in this thread are saying that sort of thing but just about people they consider expendable. Not me.
If you express FICA in terms of benefits received / contributions paid, it is quite progressive.
I really like the idea of React, but I can't help but feel it will always be slow to due to DOM manipulations. It would be nice if there was a first class mechanism to pre-transform some of the structures server-side that will always be transformed.
Put another way the NW with 60% renewable is 3x higher than NY, which mixes its hydro with Nukes and avoids the use of coal.. If you assume 60% renewable with natural gas as the peak/remainder then your still 2x higher than France.

These graphs prove the failings of modern "green energy" because all that hydro was built 50+ years ago, and if instead of fighting Nukes and getting coal plants the environmentalist would have embraced Nukes we wouldn't really be talking about CO2, particularly if the widespread use of breeders brought the price down so that buying electric cars made sense without the huge subsidies both in purchase price and electric charging.

Put another way, making electric cheaper via modern fission would make electric cars more appealing than the unsustainable subsidy models currently in use.
Improved computer modeling and materials science (high-temp superconductors, better confinement vessels) are certainly helping us get closer to break-even fusion.

Practical quantum-computing is being achieved, but wasn't even dreamed of until the 80s. Have we not advanced in our understanding and scientific capability since the 60s?
That Joe tool of yours looks really cool!
Maybe, but if you eliminate the 1%, then who is going to pay that 38%?
The GM strikes devastated many of the local suppliers, which were forced to layoff employees. Some people never got their jobs back and these businesses still haven't recovered.

One of the main complaints is that they don't want GM to sell more electric cars.

The reason is that it requires a different set of skills (more engineering/software and less blue-collar mechanic work).

Instead of the unions educating their members and helping them transition to a new position, they instead strike and use mob tactics to prevent advancements in technology.
A lot of people don't appreciate that snakes pose about as much good to the environment as bee's do.
It’s a “vocal minority”. Seriously, it’s just a handful of people replying to every single comment. Sentry is being perfectly reasonable here.
That's an odd thing to say. Ever hear of a thing called 30 year bonds?
The ROAS numbers given by FB (your employer) are far from being a real estimate of the causal effect of adverts. For example, there's no way to have global holdback against other advertising channels not controlled by FB.
Double-digit anything are easy to get on any advertising perfomance metric if you don't scale your spend, so it's not really an argument.

(Disclaimer: I've built multiple bidders & ads incrementality models over the years so I'm probably biased against the "supply" side of ad inventory).
This is really the argument for abstraction
Serious safety lapses led to Uber’s fatal self-driving crash, new docs suggest
Could we have a video tag on that? Not sure how.
"It Seems To Me" is my guess based on usage.
> But these days, I like to talk about JIT bugs, because I believe anyone using a JIT in production needs to have their head checked.

So like every Java, C#, JavaScript developer?

> hunting for a code sequence corrupting a callee saved register in a chunk of code that had a very high reproduce rate but misbehaved after churning away for a few minutes

If you're able to, I usually build projects with a sanitizer to catch strange bugs like these, but the downside is that most runtimes care very little for standards outside of "this seems to work and it's fast enough" so you get a lot of false positives…
Why govt's decision to infuse ₹25000 crores in stalled housing projects is wrong
valgrind wasn't our first choice, because we were in embedded systems, and valgrind slows things down so much that our timing gets destroyed and the behavior of the system changes. Major parts of the system behavior would not work right under valgrind. So we didn't tend to run it very often.
>Wouldn't they spend a bigger part of their revenue on ads ?
_For context, we've worked with thousands of advertisers worldwide_
They do, up to a certain extent. ROI isn't the only element to look at here, what also matters is at what max scale you can keep this ROI. Let's take e-commerce as an example scenario:

A digital channel can deliver a solid ROI (>200%) at $10K-$50K / month. Advertiser is excited, wants to scale to $500K / month. ROI drops to 110%. Woops, not as good. So what does advertiser do? Advertiser finds the max scale they can run at to maintain an acceptable level of ROI (for ex, 140%) and that is $100K / month of spend on that channel.

The interesting shift we're seeing is that historically, advertisers just went on and multiplied the number of channels, spending $10K / mo on channel 1, $50K / mo on channel 2, $500K / mo on channel 3. However, the cost of maintaining each channel and optimizing is greater than the added value. So current trend we're seeing is consolidation of this spend, and understanding that they won't be able to spend as much on ads since they still to need that 140% ROI, but only on a few channels.

As to measurement, incrementality measurement (usually two methods, ITT (intention to treat, divide your entire audience in 2 parts and show ads to only 1 of the group) or ghost ads (described below) delivers a very clean metric as to whether ad spend if bringing any sort of value and how much value it actually brings. Assuming a healthy p-value is present (aka, assuming advertiser is running enough marketing spend $ that results are significant), that's your answer to how much more you should invest on the current marketing campaigns (or it will show that you need to change your campaigns because current ones are not performing)
Assuming the simian carriers don't go extinct over the next few decades.
>While I have little doubt Amazon's internal auditing and access control are better than Twitter's.

You underestimate the power of stupidity of these people.
My point in favor of the present income distribution being "natural" is that statistically, income is even somewhat more equally distributed than Tinder likes. Both are indicators of how good you are/how much people want to deal with you: give you cash or have sex with you. If there is no 'trick' in either distribution, they must be distributed equally. They are. Income slightly more equally because of the minimum wage/social pressure on businesses to hire useless workers/government providing some crappy employment to useless people.

Wealth is less equally distributed than income or Tinder likes, because it's an antiderivative of income distribution, also completely natural. And also because of the generational factor: you are very unlikely to get swiped right because of who your dad was, but your dad could have left you some cash or connections.

And yes, income is less equally distributed now than in 2008 exactly for the same reason as millenials having less sex on average than X-ers had in 2008: because we now have Tinder and it makes picking best partners a lot easier, resulting in top 1% best having sex with everyone with just scaps left for others. Money follows the same way due to the same factor of the smartphones and the Internet in general: success has become infinitely scalable.

It's extremely hard to do anything at all about it. Maybe we just need to know about this as a fact of life and build social constructs to contain the resulting pressures.

[1] https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
We always called it "Foreign Object Damage" but yeah, "Debris" would technically be more correct.

Gotta keep the FOD out of the aircraft and the flight lines!
You might be interested in the Three Layer Architecture approach, e.g. http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/tla.pdf
Edit: First of all - great idea!

At a time when I was incredibly frustrating with our time sheets system at work I started working on a new one. I never got anyone to test it out and it was never finished, but I gutted it and reused the login parts to create a system that friends of mine and I used to sign up for shared tasks.

Then I began realizing how amazingly unsecure it was (cheap hosting, no code reviews, slow patching - at that point I had way too much on my plate). I was almost begging them to replace it with something supported.

It was great fun to create something that was used regularly over time by more than 100 users but (edit: given the circumstances) also a great relief to get it away.

Today I'm also wishing to create a photo sharing solution. I'll probably try to make it on Google Cloud or Azure this time.
There is some serious issue in the programming if it has ~5.6 seconds and only decides ~1.8 seconds before to stop.
Terrible advice on every possible level.

You don’t need to “really get used” to psychedelics by abusing them at parties in order to use them effectively. You just need to learn proper technique. You won’t learn that at parties or funny movies.

Steps for productive psychedelic sessions:

Choose a calm, quiet, pleasant environment.

Have someone you absolutely trust present. No other distractions. Fewer people the better, ideally only one other.

Lie down. If psilocybin makes you nauseous, you may want to purge if you can’t handle it. Nausea will die down as the trip builds up.

Close your eyes. Wear a sleep mask if you want.

Listen to calming, ambient music or calming white noise, headphones are best.

Dive in. I repeat, dive in. Focus should be inside not outside.

After the trip, write everything down.
> The main reason that resources are concentrated in those places is because they're nicer places to live.

They are not the only nice places to live though? Theres plenty of other states that have nice areas and probably a lower crime rate altogether.

> You would have to pay me an absurd amount of money to move back to the midwest.

Or you benefit from the talen pools elsewhere... You can recruit local and not necessarily just people from one state. Lots of very capable developers across the country.
Machine Learning Pushes Us to Define Fairness
Doesn’t matter how many people use the pipes. They get bad over time. Right now a lot of the shit in the suburbs we built for the GIs and boomers is old enough to start falling apart, and public budgets have been cut to maintenance mode.
> The founders, and, incidentally, the investors.

Isn't it the other way around?
Economic models are simplified in such a way to describe causality and relationships between variables but aren't actually expected to work 1:1 with real world numbers.

That's why econometrics is a thing, that's why most economists nowadays are taught statistics, computer programming, advanced maths, etc... It's why there's a different process used to describe why things happen in a paper vs. predicting real world numbers.
" When asked if he feels responsible for writing Muyembe out of history, Piot pauses.

"I think that's a fair comment," he says

what was your comprehension of those sentences?
I am a proponent of fasting actually. I am curious about the effects on tiny people in growth spurts.
This isn't necessarily true. Without stability you can't perform certain maneuvers. And the large aircraft are super stable.

That said, we take FOD and tool control very seriously. And the aircraft had 30 / 60 / 90 /365 day inspections that varied in detail
Ah, not anymore. Outdated information, I work on a different advertising platform :)
I didn't know what Tezos was so for others:

> Tezos is a cryptocurrency and decentralized computing platform. Its features include proof of stake consensus, formal verification (which lets developers verify the correctness of their code), and the ability to let stakeholders vote on changes to the protocol. Tezos's block creation process is called "baking" — Tezos holders who stake their tokens can receive Tezos tokens as a reward for creating and verifying blocks.
Even just having a good customer service seems out of reach of Airbnb.

I recently had some issues with an Airbnb. It was not technically a scam, just an awful host making crazy demands that we cover for their illegal Airbnb.

It was extremely clear that the support wasn't interested at all in helping. I even asked if we could just cancel the reservation (the weirdness started before we arrived), the support agent pressed us to still go there.

In one reservation, Airbnb has moved from a company I liked to one that I will avoid as much as possible and only use if there aren't any hotels available.