skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit on some good points and it spurred my thought to his definition of grey. To have a concept of grey you really need a black and a white. You need to define the polls of your continuum. That implies some set of functions that transforms over the continuum. Compared to defining your polls and choosing your transformation functions .... I'm not sure selecting one grey over another really has the same impact.

For some reason this makes me think of Hegel and dialectical (subjects I have limited understanding of).

I also agree that quantitative reasoning has usurped qualitative reasoning and this might be due to quantitative reasoning actually being easier. If you define a scale with which to measure then it is really just a matter of defining how you score something, gathering the inputs and turning a crank to get to an answer. IMO, choosing the scale (and maybe to a less extent the scoring mechanism) seems to be the truly difficult part of the puzzle.
Consider the massive amount of effort, comparatively, between the effort going on and the conversation around mitigating the risk of climate change, and the risk of the flamzboo event, which is destined to quickly destroy humanity in the next decade.

I can't call it something other than the flamzboo event, since we don't know what it is. The clearest picture one can have of what this event potentially is is by considering events which would have similar impact but are currently fringe in terms of public consciousness such as:

- Supervolcano eruptions

- Asteroid impacts

- AI takeoff

- Engineered bio weapons

- Autonomous lethal weapons

- Commoditized, small nuclear weapons

These are not the things I'm talking about, since they have some level of consciousness, but are the closest examples since they are not top of mind in the public consciousness but are confer high x-risk. The ones I worry about are the ones that we can't know currently, that may be lurking on the horizon. One doesn't have to look far back in history to recognize these problems are typically the ones we get hurt by: surprises.
It's insane. Fiance and I started looking this month, with plans to buy after June, and it's just downright absurd.

New construction not too far from where I'm at now, immediately west of Indianapolis, starting at $280k (more than 8x my annual income) for 1716sqft and a virtually non-existent yard that has been stripped of all the top soil so it could be sold before construction began so they can upsell you some sod...

Median household income in Indiana, $54,181.

Minimum wage $7.25 an hour.

That's basically the situation the article describes:

>To cross the current national median home price of $257,000, homebuyers need a gross income of $67,647, the report said — yet the average annual wage in the U.S. was $58,214, the report notes.
I believe the word effectively is used in the parent comment to indicate the control is through coordination and payment mechanisms.
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> In general I don’t think there is anything wrong with “peaking” at a point in your career where you feel fulfilled without feeling pressured to always take on more responsibility and stress.

So true. Especially after having a kid, I'm dreading any further promotions above the usual Senior. I'm happy at the level I am for the last 5 years and don't see why I would suddenly want to spend more hours in meetings and be held responsible for more things?
I find if you have a exciting project and you've developed a great team (which includes soft-skills; great technical skills does not necessarily make a great employee), I find a lot of team members voluntarily thinking about the project outside of hours or staying late because they want to.

Whilst more hours certainly doesn't mean more productivity, the idea of nurturing intrinsic motivation is often omitted in discussions about working late and it's more an implicit by-product of a good working environment.
A B.A., even in fine art, still opens up a ton of okay-paying jobs. Jobs like paralegals, retail managers, and HR often require a bachelors degree but don’t care what that degree was in.
I recommend News Explorer. It has seamless sync between the Mac and iOS version via iCloud.
Also, in some cases, we can make investments to get productive on the new UX.

I did that with Android. Have to be honest. I can fly on a reasonable Android phone. Apple, not so much. Didn't want to make two investments.

Content create, communications, programming, social media, all aren't a burden today. Function set is limited, but it's not as big of a deal as it was prior to really working the UX, just like many of us did with the other paradigms. And I often just do not need a deeper set of features / flows too.

Not saying it's better. It's not in my view. But, I am also saying, users can do better with it than they may think.
I heard an anecdote that there's a Feng Shui ritual to exorcise the demon that harms sleep.

They perform the ritual and then take the TV out of the room.
And yet hotels can and do permanently ban guests from their property all the time with no recourse, so I'm not sure what your implication is.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25243594/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/h...
Considering Netflix's infuriating decision to reduce the 5-star rating to the thumbs-up/down, I highly doubt they'll be adding any more buttons soon.

Edit: I continue to have hope that some higher-ups from Netflix are reading these comments, and someday will create a GUI for "pros" and a GUI for everyone else (as it is now), where the "pro" version allows at least some level of customization beyond this dark-pattern insanity.
I think survivorship bias and the need to justify the education necessarily clouds judgement.

If there's one thing the internet has taught me, it's that finding legitimate critique about anything is easy and cheap -- just put it out there and ask. There are lots of online art communities that can do this job very well.

High-pressure environments may benefit some people, but people with that kind of drive are likely to push themselves anyway. Plus, an actual commissioned project is way more pressure than any professor could add (at least to me)

Since the principles of art and design don't really change, they can be provided cheaply and easily just as you can find free (and very good) resources on basically every fundamental of programming.

$300,000 paid over a staggering 20 years at 7% interest is $560,000 by the time you're done and you're on the hook for over $2300 every single month or around $28,000 in student loan payments every single year.

(note: these numbers are from salary.com which gives the highest income of all sites I looked at)

The average artist salary seems to be $45,000 to $55,000 per year. 90th percentile salary is only around $72,000. If you're an average artist, more than 50% of your GROSS salary goes toward your student loan and even if you are top-tier, you still wind up paying 39% of your gross toward your loans. Even as an art manager, at 88k at the 50th percentile and 125k at the 90th percentile (not something you're likely to be doing with zero experience), you're going to be in a very tough situation until your mid-40s and that's assuming you don't want to have a family.

In contrast, a low-level HVAC tech makes about as much out the gate without all the debt. A high-level tech makes 62k on average (76 at 90th percentile) while that manager position 72k on average (92k at 90th percentile). An apprenticeship is generally free, but even if you wanted to go to your local community college, you'd be 10-15k out the door at the upper-end. That would be less than $120/mo over 20 years and less than $300/mo over 5 years.

Even a 25th percentile artist will make as much without a degree at 47k per year will be making about as much as a 90th percentile 72k per year paying out 28k every year. Investing the extra 4k every year you save over paying for that degree with a mild 5% ROI gives almost 80k saved for retirement by your mid 40s when your student-loan person is just breaking even. If you've managed to learn the rest of those fundamentals sometime over that last 20 years, you're going to beat that college education by a much larger margin.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/artist-sala...

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/art-manager...

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/hvac-instal...

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/hvac-mechan...

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/hvac-superv...
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Me thinks there's a bit of selection bias here.

If you're fortunate enough to hit product market fit without too much struggle ... and then can scale it as a regular company - good on you.

But I suggest in the early years, it's really not like that for most founders as they pivot and strife.

In the scale years, I suggest it probably could be more like that for most company employees and leadership. And FYI I think most companies are like this i.e. more or less 9-to-5, even very well known corps.

I also think this might have very much to do with the nature of the technology and the inherent competitiveness/barriers in the category: in companies wherein there's a significant number of talented individuals needed to focus - crunching happens.

For example: Pixar films. Apparently people work pretty long and hard to make production work. It involves a lot of specific talent, working together with ambiguous timelines and schedules, last minute creative changes.

Spotify seems to be the kind of company perhaps wherein the work can be spread out fairly efficiently thereby enabling not only 9-5 hours, but perhaps more importantly: no need for A+ Valley Top Talent. I know Ottawa very well and there isn't remotely enough raw, high end A+ talent and specialisation of skills to make something like the iPhone.

Spotify can be built with a large number of 'smart people' (which Ottawa has aplenty), but I'm doubtful there will ever be an iPhone or 'Toy Story' come out of Ottawa either (though I would desperately like to be wrong).
No idea why you're being downvoted. AirBnB controls no real estate. The properties listed there are owned by people outside AirBnB and can be rented out on other sites, such as VRBO.

Edit: Misread original comment.
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Long hours aren't necessary for success, and you should do what works for you, but they’re needed if you're aiming for the top in your field.

It's an inconvenient truth, but you're not going to be able to reach the John Carmacks of the world if you're working 40 and they're working 60: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1210593150303031296

Anyone who thinks he would've achieved the same with far fewer hours are just kidding themselves and pulling crabs down into the bucket. Also implicit in that is Carmack being a fool for working 60, when he would've been as or more(!) effective with less? Nonsense.
I hate that autoplay preview feature with a passion. So does everyone in my house. It’s gotten to the point for me where I’ll open any alternative ui (Roku app, Apple TV app, random web searches) to avoid having to use theirs.
Given the example show, I would make this a much easier problem by pulling across the center line onto the opposite side of the street, then steering back towards the right hand side. I would time this so I'm parallel with the lines. Now it's a simple back-in job since you're already lined up.

This may or may not be a legal traffic maneuver where you live and obviously can only be performed with both lanes clear.
s/arbitration/voluntary arbitration/g and you would have my upvote.
Factoring in tuition costs, plumbers earn almost the same lifetime income as doctors: https://www.high-profile.com/plumber-vs-doctor-who-brings-in...

And it's generally not a life threatening career.
Is this correlation or causation though?

Are young people who get through a degree course then super focused on getting as much money as they can because they have all this debt?

As opposed to people who don't have mountains of student debt, and can then afford to take lower-paying, better-for-their-life jobs?

Huge debt is really stressful, and hard on mental health. I don't know the comparative suicide rates of electricians and art grads, but I'd suspect art school is effectively worse for your health than a trade.

People generally have two or even three careers now. Migrating from electrician to manager is about as easy as migrating from software developer to manager.
Hold on. I thought ICs are the people who build software? Constructing a building with just architects sounds hilarious.
Right and left are arbitrary constructs necessitated by a first past the post voting system. Change the electoral system and you will see much more diverse and meaningful party affiliation.

>The effect of a system based on plurality voting is that the larger parties, and parties with more geographically concentrated support, gain a disproportionately large share of seats, while smaller parties with more evenly distributed support are left with a disproportionately small share.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
Just as with cryptocurrencies ("What do you mean my net worth just evaporated and I have no recourse!?"), it's somewhat humorous to witness platform enthusiasts demand the very regulation platforms subverted to grow to what they are today.

Your point stands though; businesses have the right to turn away customers for any reason that isn't discriminatory or class protected.

Perhaps there's a reason to consider regulating certain platforms as utilities once they reach a certain scale? (Not referring to AirBnB in this case)
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I used to be able to find things to watch on Netflix when they had publicly visible reviews. Then they removed that, presumably to hock their less than stellar original content. They optimize to try and show you as much crap as possible, which is the real reason you can't find good stuff on your own -- it's not the lack of some personalized algorithmic magic that's responsible here.
>Companies with monopoly power[1] shouldn’t be able to be people without some appeals process.

>Other services and hotels are still viable alternatives for most cases.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25243594/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/h...

Why are you singling out Airbnb and not Hilton, IHG, Marriott, or Hyatt?
And $26k is still insane, at least compared to when I went to school in the 90s. It’s tough these days.
I wouldn't worry too much about the degree in CS if you're already in the industry. Unless you want to do something very specific, your work experience will trump your academic experience in nearly every case. I don't have a degree and have been able to move companies a number of times, as have my other engineer friends without any sort of degree.

Unless you want to do some serious crypto research or something like that, more schooling probably isn't required. You'd be better served getting a CISSP or something.

I was going to school for physics and do plan to go back because I want to be in that field doing research eventually. If you want to do something similar, then school might be worthwhile.
Using LED lights to reduce bycatch in gillnet fisheries
Huh. Just went to the overview for the first time in a few months. It's much better than before and not item by season, randomized anymore.

They are now finally better than Netflix (in that regard).

Now they need to get a better player and stop it with louder-than-the-shows-I'm-watching adverts in German and clearly mark the shows they don't have English subs/dubs for and I'd be happy (well, as far as I know, they don't have as much data as, because of the bad experience, I often ended up looking for others sources than prime video)
Just like I miss out on some earnings by not being a contract killer. Some things aren't worth it. That is a personal choice. And this is mine.
Russia commissions intercontinental hypersonic weapon
I know this - I've spent plenty of time studying the phenomenon, and I'm careful not to use terms like 'snowflake', etc.

I don't think 'things were better in my generation', but I do think we now have the UK's Donald Trump in charge, and without any worthwhile opposition to keep them in check.

Do you think that a country without libraries and state education in 'non-academic' subjects like music, drama and art is a good idea?
Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves them occasionally, I guess.
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There's No Such Thing as 'Quality' Time
Show them the website of the American Visionary Art Museum. It’s a museum for art made by people who never went to art school. It’s filled with stories of people who had rich lives as artists alongside other careers.

You don’t need art school to be an artist. http://www.avam.org/
YT seems pretty bad, but I can't really speak of it as I dislike videos and prefer text (TV shows are pretty much the only videos I watch). I sometimes watch music videos on YT, but that tends to just mean clicking on the first result for my search.
CapOneMe – a vulnerable cloud environment to demonstrate the Capital One breach
Not entirely related, but I want to mention that we have almost 2020 and Safari still doesn't support service workers push notifications (Push API). Shame on you Apple.
> My theory is the more powerful AI becomes, the more it will exploit human psychology until everything sucks.

It can hardly do worse than what human beings have done to themselves over the millennia and continue to do to each other every day. But it can probably do it faster and more efficiently.
There is anecdotal information that he does indeed do what he claims. And he is the most impressive CEO in this generation, perhaps in history, so long hours must work for some people.
> Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.

I would need to see better information on this. I would think a lot of people without a degree don't do much of anything at all and bring the average way down. It would be better to see what the average is for people who complete a trade school program vs the average of people earning a degree.
Founding and being the CEO of Shopify, a $48bn company and one of the best-performing stocks of the last few years, isn't "the top"?

Different people have different styles that work for them. Some people love to work 60+ hours and are productive doing it, others get more and better work done when they limit themselves to 40 and take time off. What works for you/Tobi/John doesn't universally work for others.
> It's DARPA, not Darpa.

Well, that depends on house style; it's not unheard of to set acronyms (in the narrow sense; that is, abbreviations pronounced as words) in initial caps rather than all caps, though that's (IME, at least) a more common style for English publications outside of the US.
Off topic: Can you explain to me (a US person who doesn't understand UK politics) why the Liberal Democrats did so poorly in the last election? In my limited understanding, it seems to have been tailor-made for them to do well, with both the Conservatives and Labour looking extreme.
Interesting link, but this line is just absurd:

"In the 20th century, a lot of very smart people were Marxists — just no one who was smart about the subjects Marxism involves."

I have no idea what Graham was thinking, or if he was thinking at all, when he wrote this line. There have been hundreds, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of people all around the world who easily crossed the threshold of "smart" in fields like economics, social policy, government, psychology, game theory and many more - and they were Marxists too.
EFF Enters the Competition Fray
The current copyright system is beyond messed up. Locking up IP for multiple generations is just downright pro-corporate nonsense, and we mostly have Disney to thank for it.
True. Clear markings are like a deterrent control in security. They can mitigate damage but something that prevents wrongful use needs to be used in the end.
There's little point rewriting code which isn't modified often. And actually it's code which is modified often which accumulates design debt; structure tends to "dissolve" in the face of repeated local modifications by engineers on a time budget who don't understand the whole and don't know where to make the right changes.

Ugly code which is locked away in a module isn't a big deal unless it's a performance problem or bug magnet. I wouldn't really consider that stuff debt, though; if it's not impeding velocity, you're not paying interest on it. Technical debt which has a noticeable interest payment, that's worth reducing.

Sometimes the interest cost isn't obvious. E.g. the UI might be written using some framework which is 5 years old; it might be reasonably clean internally, but the payment comes from developer churn and lack of appeal to devs (whether current or pending hire) wanting to keep their CVs up to date. That cost is real, yet it's imposed exogenously, not because of any deficiencies in the actual technology.
Russia deploys Avangard hypersonic missile system
Guidance Counsellors are the problem here.
> They are maximizing other metrics.

Can not be customer satisfaction (by quality) or employee happiness or retention.

I wonder what those other metrics are.
I'm so sick of all this hyped up bullshit!

Someone who administers systems is a system administrator and someone who develops is a programmer.

And in my 30+ years in the business I haven't seen a single BSD or Linux system administrator who couldn't also program in C or some other language.
> Personalized suggestions on Netflix or Amazon (in sections like “Because You Watched Working Moms…”) provide me with shows I’m more likely to binge; they work to cut down my browsing time so that I hit play quickly. Other categories like “Crime” might seem generic, but the algorithm is tailored to my specific preferences within that category.
I don't see how that's worse than breaking an entire media format, but it does sound weird.
Maybe not, but it's a lot of money for most families to pay someone else to take care of their kids.
All the VPS providers are doing their part too. While Digital Ocean, etc. publish some pretty good guides on how to setup some software, step one is always "spin up a new VM on our platform". Based on discussions I see here and elsewhere, people seem to have completely forgotten how to install VirtualBox and run a local VM.
There's just one lane here — the thick line at the top is a barrier (a line of bollards).
For larger organizations, https://www.charitynavigator.org/ is great for this purpose. They don't handle local orgs, but it's still valuable.
No shit. Ever heard the phrase "trust, but verify?"
Their library isn’t that big. If it wasn’t suggested to you and you could actually just look through their library you’d have found those titles. Disney+, Hulu, HBO, and other streaming services do this and it works fine even when they also offer suggestions.
Agreed, I would never recommend someone go to art school unless they are absurdly talented ( and at that point: The school would probably give you a scholarship. )
This reads more like the power of not thinking much at all. Capitalism has good parts and bad parts is not a thought. Which parts are bad which parts are good and why. It's as if you saw kant taking a walk at the same time every day and thought that thinking consisted in taking regular walks. It's not the fact that he took walks that matters, it's the things he thought on those walks. It's not just brainlessly saying "a little of column a a little of column b," it's what you have to say about column a or b in particular that matters.

What's being described here is much more like avoiding splitting which is for your emotional well-being but which has little to do with the actual quality of your thoughts.