skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found kompose didn't give me a fluid experience with any project I tried using it with. I got endless API incompatibility issues for some reason. I'd have to dig through the docs and rewrite the files kompose generated. Even then they wouldn't always work.
People are paid by ability: their ability to get people to pay them. In terms of getting paid, that is the only ability that matters.

It's kind of weird to see "ability" as some monolithic trait that people should get paid for. Ability to do what? Maybe you have a great ability to spin plates on your nose. If nobody wants you do that, you're not going to get paid for it.
On a related note, when you see purple, your brain falls over, because it's actually seeing something it thinks should be green, but knows it isn't.

https://toughcompetent.com/blog/purple-doesnt-exist/
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The difference is that the headline is designed to sound mysterious. It triggers your curiosity on which the article may be about. Was it a scam? Was the dress made out of some magic material that disappears after time? Is it even a real dress? You'll need to read the whole article to figure out what it was actually about.

If the title was something like 'Investor pays 7500 for clothing image', you wouldn't have to read the article.

This is known as clickbait and it is essentially 99% of marketing nowadays.
Then they should be reviewing display technology.
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I have seen this more than a couple times, at big places with resources to manage it. Is it just me or does the TLS and PKI tooling just seem weak? I keep thinking there should be some badass tool that helps manage this sort of thing, is there something I don’t know about?
We already pay people on ability. We pay them on their ability to navigate life and convince someone to give them a job at a certain price.

That is almost certainly correlated to specific "ability" in the task they are getting paid to do on average although you could argue to what extent.

The subtext here is "things would be more fair if you let me be dictator and pay everyone based on my subjective perception of their ability which is more fair than the collective decisions of a free society."
C and C++ have the same learning curve. Is this really true?
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not much different with a rocket, if you miss your target to e.g. sling around a planet for your return you're lost.
A portion of my that I allocate to donations goes to places like this.
Not mentioned in video: there can be only one. We couldnt have multiple 1000km long objects on different orbital planes. Collissions would be inevitable. These things change speed with every 'hook' event. Predicting collisions would be extreemly difficult, and impossible to do in time to setup an avoidance. And just give up on those 30,000+ unit sat constellations. Flies to the flyswatter.

We would have to keep them all in one plane, probably to line up with the moon. This would seriously limit thier use beyond orbits in that one plane.
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“If people were paid by their ability to play basketball, inequality would plummet.”

“If people were paid by their height, inequality would plummet.”

Hmm...
Thank you for the fascinating explanation and story
You know, people do actually learn things at school and a place to practice skills that, in the real world, there's little opportunity to find and/or require taking on significant risk.
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Perhaps, but someone's latent ability to do anything does not provide anything of value to anyone whatsoever. Conversely someone of "modest ability" who takes a risk to actually provide things people want is being, in a way, much less selfish.

A man digging a hole in the desert that no one wants, regardless of how much "ability" or "effort" went into the excavation is inherently selfish, but almost every economic system _besides_ capitalism would see that man rewarded handsomely.

...and I'm not trying to be glib about inequality, which I think is the most serious problem of our time. I'm just suspicious that anything we used to try and replace capitalism with would result in a lot of "holes in the desert". Read about the surplus of baby shoes in the Soviet Union...

There is something I think of as the "paradox of capitalism" that describes how capitalism is _simultaneously_ the best system for determining prices and the worst form of government.
Some screens have a yellow colour in addition to the usual RGB. For trichromats this just lets us see more intense yellows, but for tetrachromats it would let the screen display every hue they can see, rather than just a subset.
To be clear, if I give more, I can have some positive impact. If taxes get raised on wealthy folks like me there's much, much, much more impact.
I don't know where they get the bit count from, it seems to be based upon an understanding of the cone's operation that I've never seen justified in any of these articles.

Assuming that the cones of different frequency range have approximately the same degree of sensitivity, I'd be thinking that the number is about n^(4/3) where n is the number of colours perceivable by trichromats.

But even if that's true - which I doubt - the additional colours are in unlikely to have a useful distribution, and will be centered around the frequency response curve of the fourth cone (I believe it's generally in the yellow spectrum; somewhere between red and green).
AFAIC, the only burning Wine update right now will be a fix for 32 bit apps in macOS Catalina, which this update does not contain.
But we did murder millions of innocent people because of it. Whether that’s on par with the Patriot Act is up to you.
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I had to switch browsers to get more free articles. An interesting read for sure highlighting the equality/inequality impact of the local/regional (S-corp,LLC,etc) vs the national/multi-national (C-corp).

I don't think the aim of the author is to minimize the impact of the later, but to bring attention to how local/regional business policy and the growth of this sector, can have a real adverse impact on income inequality.

I like that he also balances some (not all) concerns between the two poles of US politics:
>Beyond a commitment to equality, possible remedies include expanding access to high-quality public services like early-childhood education and community health services for needy families. But the evidence also suggests the need for expanding access to markets and defending their integrity. Both the right and left right would have to make compromises; it would seem to be a fair trade, with big gains for all.
Do you have any proof of this?

Why would a company pay a CEO millions if they have no talent? If that were the case, they would just find a random person and pay them minimum wage.

This sounds like the reasoning of a worker that thinks managers don't actually do anything all day, when the reality is much different.

Paying by ability is foolish. I know many people that have the ability to get a good job, but choose to smoke copious amounts of weed and instead sit on the couch all day. It would be like valuing companies based on the idea only.
The article does a poor job quantifying "ability."

> Most low-wage workers are underpaid relative to their measured intelligence and personality traits, and many of the highest-paid professionals — including doctors, lawyers and financial managers — are overpaid according to the same metrics.

This is a ridiculous comparison because low wage workers are not being paid for their intelligence. Why would anybody ever think that skill at 2 different jobs should be measured by the same criteria?
Well, this certainly makes me feel better about not having any idea for a business to start.

Gonna keep being an employee/contractor for a while.
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You should get paid by how much you bring value to other people, because that's actually what we as a society want to optimize.

This author lives in a woke socialist fantasy where people are owed a living.
Why do you think Canada is undemocratic? Do you really think that Nunavut's riding should be larger, so that the number of people per district are more even? I think that would be even less democratic, because suddenly Nunavut gets even less representation, and I don't think they get enough as it is.

Geography matters.
Thanks, that's an interesting read. But I don't think it addresses my question: why shouldn't Pascal place the probability that the Mugger is an Operator from the Seventh dimension to _zero_ (rather than an infinitissemally small number)?

The point is that, at the time when the Mugger declares himself to be an Operator from the Seventh Dimension who can offer large rewards etc, there is no evidence to suggest he's saying the truth. No evidence at all. Accordingly, the probability that he's telling the truth must be zero. Where does a non-zero probability value come from?

Are you then saying that the probability of any reward should never be placed to zero because that would not maximise rewards?
The measure of ability used by the author includes factors like experience, conscientiousness, and enthusiasm, so it's probably not ranking couch potatoes very highly.
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That's relatively tame: see football, where Lionel Messi earns about $100m. Something similar applies to musicians. This kind of "tournament wages" causes a lot of really high income inequality situations.

CEOs argue that their wages are the result of a similar tournament. The example of WeWork suggests that it may in some cases just be a better position for looting money from the investors and staff.
The title should be updated to reflect the 2015 article date.
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Replying to this after having a spent a few days in Tokyo, a city based on which Alon makes many of his arguments and I have to say it is also miserable. The experience of Tokyo neighborhoods is a relentless wall of gray, right until you take the train into an outlying neighborhood which is of course mostly three and four story mixed use apartment buildings and homes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPk1pvgK7JA
That's still something...

https://youtu.be/Bcs3_b3VXSU
Color doesn’t actually exist. We don’t see actual objects as they are, we see the light that bounces off of them. Brains will create their own way of mapping wavelengths to colors, so therefore we do not see the same thing, but we perceive it as the same.

If I opened your brain and swapped your red with blue, you would not notice.
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Yup. Nobel laureate Michael Kremer points out "O-Ring" industries as another source of non-linearity - where you need N performers to be high-ability in order to achieve some outsized level of productivity, but having even a small percentage of them fail means forfeiting all gains. This creates unavoidable "superstar" effects within these industries.
I'd love to hear from John Carmack on this, it would be interesting to hear that he rarely has these 'shower' moments because he is always operating with great perspective.
Super cool, thanks!
That’s the point: we know about that. Hard to believe “this happens everywhere” when we only know a few instances, and any instance would be picked up by media.
Generally, graduate schools require graduation. But not necessarily always. When they don't, students usually have to complete undergraduate requirements first as part of the graduate program.

Academic requirements vary by institution, department, and specific program. It's possible that someplace there is something that matches your credentials. But it's a search problem that involves looking for candidate options and contacting promising candidates for more information. Then figuring out the visa part of the equation.
Don't forget the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_deve... - Kremer, incidentally, won the Nobel this year (albeit not for the O-ring model).

As Shockley and innumerable analyses have shown, 'ability' defined very narrowly may be normally distributed, but because tasks draw on many abilities and steps can multiply rather than add ('there is nothing so useless as doing well that which should not be done at all'), it's very easy for a bunch of normally-distributed abilities to yield a log-normal distribution of outputs, in which case there is massive inequality in final results: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/1957-shockley.pdf
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Maybe Boeing should publish the MCAS source?
I’m always a little surprised to be reminded that Usenet still exists.
IIRC the conversation I've had with a former Microsoft employee, some features are developed as mini competitions. Requirements are sent to the group(s) and first acceptable implementation gets merged.

e.g. for the Ribbon-UI in Office, there was 3-4 implementations until one was selected as final.

So the Windows search UI is the fastest developed one with acceptable features.
How much are the drugs? Probably not free. And they may have to be taken for the rest of the patient's life. That could add up.
I manage multiple HIPPA-compliant networks for medical companies.

YES YOU DO NEED WINDOWS. NOTHING works without the damned GUI because almost nobody knows how to write CLI-usable programs any longer.
this -- but, the categories lack detail.. a real systems diagram would quickly show a hundred influences and variables affecting both models. Without enumerating and advocating the position, rather skip to the important results .. there must be ENFORCEMENT on the Corporate, and SUSTINANCE for the not-for-Profit, to hope for any balanced future.
Well done! Shades of principal component analysis.

Paying by ability might lead to increased inequality, and put some workers in holes from which they would never recover.
I once ran it on the one year old codebase of a startup I got a job at.

That guy rewrote the whole code base every month.

New clusters growing and getten teared down all the time.
What has always amazed me about the Wine project his how they have continued, unphazed, to fight was they knew from the beginning to be a losing battle (tracking an ever changing, ever growing API with no proper documentation of what the API actually does, especially wrt side-effects) all the way to something that is actually usable.

I would even venture to wager that in 20 years, the only way to run certain old Windoze binaries will on top of Wine because the proprietary mountain of crap that is the Windows commercial API offering will have fully fossilized and been dissolved by the winds of time.

Kudos, I am truly in awe of this project.
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My daughter has something like this. She can see colours nobody else can, but pays for it a little by not being able to see as much out of the corner of her eyes than most people.

One optician panicked so much at what she said they referred her to the hospital in case she was having a stroke! And that's when we discovered what she can do. I just thought she was good at picking clothes that went together well.
Maybe if you’re logged in you can see the depths?
I wonder if the habit of listening to audio at faster than 1x speed has the side effect of muting the brain’s ability to do “background thinking.” I have noticed that when I take a day or two off from listening to a podcast or audiobook on my commute I have better focus and creativity — but the sample size is small and I do t know if this is merely coincidence.
Also in finance the highest paying skill isn't what most people think of as "financial skill", but rather skill at raising money from investors. The article really falls flat on how it measures ability.
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Wine? More like Weed lol. Yeah, anyone else?
"...even though I could've been 'milking it' instead, just like so many people around me did". I really don't like this kind of attitude, coming up with excuses for "underperforming" based on how morally superior ones behaviour is and suggesting that by just flipping the moral switch they could perform equally well.
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I guess the right things to take from the article are (1) the validity of the criticism, as a legitimate face value observation, but also as a way of sketching the kinds of problems and areas where we hope for progress and (2) the fact that Google Translate is nevertheless useful in its current form.

I think his overall thesis isn't a declaration that no further progress will be possible, but that it may have to draw from resources that are more than just statistical associations of words - things like interior human experiences. So it would not just measure words against surrounding passages, but against some understanding of concept generation that emerges from human subjectivity.

And, this is where I think a fuse blows for many people, things get complicated, circuits fry, and people find themselves filled with an urge to declare"well, computers just CAN'T do X." But I think what Hofstadter is saying is that it is a hard problem but also the kind of thing that in principle could be done to make progress on translation.
If we don’t known them, we need to get in touch with people they may know. who we most likely don’t know either, esp if the circle is small and keeps helping friends of theirs.
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No, inequality would skyrocket. The most able people are those who are usually most privileged because they've been groomed their entire lives to go off and be useful.
Adding genes for more opsins is interesting. However, the regulatory mechanisms for developing the retina and differentiating cone types appear to be quite complex.
It sounds like she doesn’t necessarily see new colors, she just can distinguish far more colors in things that look monochromatic to the rest of us. It’s not that the rest of us can’t see lime green, but we don’t see it in a pebble or tree bark.
> but he has chosen two passages where gender is critical, and moved them between languages where gender is expressed in very different ways.

So what, if the program can't handle these simple sentences, it can't claim to be a translation program. The machine 'translation' throws away the entire point of the sentence.

Why don't we just evolve towards the machines and start speaking to each other in JSON (We should come up with a more efficient way to pronounce '}' as soon as possible!)

Most of the AI revolution is just parlour tricks and marketing puffery. Fourth grade children could translate the French sentence better.
But then you'll have a model that's specific to that chip and can't be applied on another.
Isaac Arthur's series is great!
What about my ability to fit an insane amount of M&Ms in my mouth? I strongly feel that I should be generously compensated for this ability. It's not fair otherwise!
My spouse is a tetrachromat, and it's fascinating. Sometimes she sees patterns on leafs or bird feathers that other people don't see. Sometimes she can detect a very minor difference in colors of clothing items that other people see as identical. If a person wears those two items of clothing together she finds it really irritating.

She also sometimes see colors in her dreams that are outside of a pallet humans see in real life, but after she wakes up she can't describe them. It's not one color or one hue, there are several colors that she can only experience in her dreams.
> Or you're a not-for-profit foundation or the Internet Archive, where you do good things but are destined to be "poor".

Not necessarily. Wikipedia is actually pretty damn rich with a large war chest.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
Shouldn't that be "across" rather than "around" the globe? I mean, "world"? :)
I would expect the opposite instead. I don't know him personally and this is conjecture based on what I've read about him, but his being totally immersed in a particular subject, to the extent of going to a thinking retreat in a cabin, is the best way to reach those Eureka moments.

I've written in the past about this, let me copy an old comment of mine:

"Let me share a tip that might work for you as well then: some times you will procrastinate heavily because you're have a hard problem with no solution in sight. You'll want to make some semblance of progress, but you just can't sit down and concretely work on it.

It's by design! Your subconscious keeps working in the background, thinking outside the box until one day out of nowhere you get the solution right before your eyes.

I'm not sure it's possible to think outside the box if you're not procrastinating, since you need other types of unrelated input for your brain to make a different type of association and reach a conclusion from another perspective.

I'd like to read more about this phenomenon but has been one of my best tricks up my sleeve in my career. Recently I've been trying to write down a complex piece of code, the corner stone of my application critical to the whole business. I've spent weeks on that problem, tried and failed to design a working solution, spent hours reading papers during working time instead of writing anything, browsing HN mindlessly, until after 2 months, out of the blue at 4am looking at cat pics on reddit I found the answer. And I'm now enjoying this newfound wave of productivity until my next hard problem"
I really hate pieces like this. Hofstadter should know better than anyone how state-of-the-art machine translation works. Only absolute laymen would use words like “understanding” to describe what’s going on. It’s really good, and we’re a lot further than we were 10 years ago but honest to god people should just drop using anthropomorphic laden terms like “understanding” and “intelligence” into these discussions. The I in AI is unfortunately taken too literally. Maybe just do yourself a favor and watch the videos to CS224 [1] and then you’d be less surprised that these systems do not “understand” (whatever the hell that even means, unless rigorously defined).

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/
I think there are two classes of things that run under the term "ability". One is creating value for others. E.g., a chef who turns raw ingredients into appealing dishes for other people to eat. The other is to extract cash from existing value creation. Good entrepreneurs of course do this for the value they create. But there are a lot of people who get disproportionate gains from skimming value that others create.

For example, consider the case of Simmons, where a company good at creating value was bought by private equity people who were very skilled at extracting cash: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmon...

I see that some people have a "might makes right" view of this. But I think we over-reward cash extraction, and so under-reward value creation. If we shifted that, we'd get more value creation, and a fair bit less misery.
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Agreed, if the artist saw more range of colors than a normal person, I would think that they would paint using a smaller range of colors because they would find it sufficiently stimulating.

- It should be easier for them to paint highly photo-realistic scenes.

- They should struggle to find the right colors to buy in the shop.

- They should be frustrated with mixing colors because they could never get the color right as they see it.
Do you know which library (or similar one) is used for this visualization?
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