skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, many people are not comfortable about being evicted.

In reality that is how majority of people and business operate because they rent from somebody else. Your apartment lease usually expires after a year and you can be 'evicted' by your landlord. Businesess have contracts for longer periods (about 10years) of time because they put more investment into it.

Instead of renting from lucky private landowners, the business owners could just as easily lease from a government for 7 years.

The only question really is how long the auction should repeat after. Every year would mean people would not invest much for risk of non renewal of the contract next year. On the other hand too long between auctions (such as infinite time like in present day situation) and you get huge underutilization because the lucky winner in the first auction is not pressured to sell.

LVT (or this auction mechanism) is based on market price of the land in that area so it changes in time. To prevent sudden spikes in price, the valuation of land should happen in intervals of several years like I described above in the case of an auction.
I'd refer you to the small book called the gervais principle.
Not only do I completely agree, the original 'panic.com' site is generic looking and usability annoying. "We do generic icons for a living...you have to hover over them to get any info". Really?

I'm assuming huhtenberg works there.
I don't even know where to start with this.

So you're advocating that artists be ripped off and live in penury because benjamins bad?

You're the sociopath, dude. Get help.
The title also fails to even type-check. Models don't prove things, scientists using models do. While this may sound pedantic, it's not. A good part of the title's shock value disappears if you replace it with "Scientists too often prove...".
I don't think that's the case in any remotely practical sense. If someone cannot get to the land and use it then they effectively don't own it.
23. https://www.amazon.com/Overshoot-Ecological-Basis-Revolutionary-Change/dp/0252009886
24. http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Adaptive Cycles.html
25. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JYHX-Ib3Q5Q?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
26. https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/8394
27. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2406852
28. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v38p1/d46
29. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+18&version=NIV
30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor
31. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07n0ww0/the-creature-behind-uganda-s-moral-monster
32. https://www.amazon.com/Oneness-Great-Principles-Shared-Religions-ebook/dp/B000XUBBR8
If you want to do this, and you can consistently find interesting work, then go for it! What I mean by "these jobs aren't hard" is that one person is easy to replace, and you are not guaranteed a job in the future just because you have one now. There are always high periods and low periods in a person's career, and you have to mentally / emotionally prepare for those.

Tech has a nasty age bias once you hit 40, and I've seen people fall apart when they get laid off and finding a new job is hard for reasons that aren't exactly fair. Finding meaning in your life outside your job is how you keep sane when economic circumstances aren't working in your favor.
The most frequent misunderstanding of science, (and it applies to many other fields such as cyber security security, politics, etc.) is that an imperfect solution is worthless, that if a model is incomplete it's as good as no model, etc.

Perfect is the enemy of good. At the core of science is settling for the least errors model. You suggest solutions because doing them is better than doing nothing at all. Of course they will be partial if the problem is of such a large scale as climate change. That's not a reason not to do them.

So what if all the politicians are dirty scumbags? Voting for none is still worse than voting for the least shitty politician.

You need to accept you can't have a perfect solution. I find a perfectionist attitude to problems more common with religious people.
Because once you already have one single generalizing solution to so many questions (god / religion), it is just so tempting to believe the same applies to other problems.
The comment you are replying to suggested that 7-year leases could be auctioned. A lease cannot be revoked “at will.” But it does mean that people can be priced out of their homes when the lease expires. That’s the point.
It is true there are relevant precedents. I guess the difference is that in this digital age the scope of data is far greater than data on the paper. I don't know whether this truly matters.
Source on the 1-2 billion a year for GCP?

I didn't think the cloud revenue split was public knowledge.
There's a typo in your first url, it should probably be https://posteo.de
Undercutting on gas prices is hardly the point. Most well-known chains charge more for gas -- and get away with it because their stores are cleaner, more convenient, have more pumps (so less waiting), and a far better C-store experience.

The store side is primarily where chains threaten independent operators because they can have a lower cost structure overall -- much more purchasing power on food/snacks/soda, more ability to offer fresh food (Wawa sandwiches, Racetrac frozen yogurt, etc), better stocking, and far more labor efficiency.

Your own number of 168k gas stations proves the point -- that number is from 2004, and is 40,000 less than a decade earlier. While there are many reasons why gas stations are closing, surely increased competition from brand-name mega-stores with 16, 24+ pumps each -- is one of those reasons.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/quizzes/answerQuiz16.shtml
Does the voice recognition work hands free? On phones the microphones were never good enough to be used in the pocket or from a different room and I don't want to hold my phone in ma hand just to turn on the lights.

Another problem is that it's as closed as googles eco system so I don't know what they're doing behind the scenes anyway, if it's not free software then what's the point switching from google to apple?
To be fair, this is one of the toughest lessons for all.

It makes total sense to those who know it by heart, but at the same time it makes no sense to those who honestly don't. The line between is pretty hard.

Also, this is what makes me believe there is room for more discoverability-commands in Linux-land CLI. Especially for diagnostics. Since those developing it have a hard time seeing the same from a beginner point of view.
If this is a negative it is probably fairly specific to tech. In most industries a long tenure at a single company would been seen as positive.
lol, yeah. Partly because at my workplace jeans & t-shirts are common, and repping the employer is seen by some as "being a kiss-ass".
One explanation that I've heard (often in terms of global south v. global north) is to prevent more well-funded labs to quickly mirror your setup/method and, given their higher means/staff, deplete that line of research leaving your lab with no publications, patents, etc. and therefore no money. Science as a whole may benefit, but individual scientists still usually appreciate keeping their jobs.
I think you absolutely can find meaning at work, but it cannot replace the meaning you find outside of work. You can tolerate doing a meaningless job if you have other things in your life to sustain you, but you can't guarantee your work will always be meaningful. Finding meaning outside work is resiliency.
Fake news is working. If you saturate the information channels with enough misinformation it overwhelms people and they give up.

One great thing about science is that it encourages reproducing results. Many clickbait articles review un-reproduced or preliminary results. Those feel free to disregard.

Science isn't perfect but peer-reviewed, reproducible experiments are still the best data source we have.
But some of this data may be subject to other ownership rights, nondisclosure agreements, etc.
Mandates in a large company generally do not imply a threat to nuke the entire organization if the mandate isn't met.
“The Man Who Solved the Market”: and the Solution Was HMMs and Regression
For 2020, I am looking forward to shipping a couple of products for my "stealth mode" startup ;) - using boring stacks I know well PHP/CakePHP, Python/Flask, Java/Dropwizard with the ever reliable Postgres, and maybe Elasticsearch.

As for learning new skills; for the first half of the year I'm playing with Docker more, TUS for file uploads, Apache Pulsar for Pub/Sub, Armeria for building HTTP and RPC services (especially focusing on gRPC services), MQTT for IOT, building USSD apps and WhatsApp bots for different applications as they are increasingly popular around these parts (Africa).

The latter half of the year will focus on mobile development with Android, GraphQL, ML and hopefully get back into Computer Graphics with Processing.
“it's also true that publish or perish is creating ever-growing mountains of worthless papers.”

Is this true? Prove your claim.

”This is a real problem, and drags the quality of everything down.“

Let’s assume your first assertion is true. Is it automatically true that your second claim follows? Why?

I see no evidence that the individual productivity of scientists has changed much in the last 30 years, nor do I notice much of a change in the aggregate quality of science. Crappy science existed hundreds of years ago, and it continues to exist today. The main difference, as far as I can tell, is that we have a lot more scientists now.

In any case, these are just assertions, not arguments.
Your distinction is tortured. You absolutely have a right to do things there is a defense for.
Maybe you could, and you can believe whatever you want, but in 30 years, no one has.
Well, there are lots of different types of meditation so it's hard to give a brief, comprehensive breakdown. FWIW, the "destinations" of both meditation and Reiki are congruent, if not identical.

Metaphorically, you might say that meditation is like a lamp while Reiki is like a laser. (It's not a very good metaphor.)

The main specific difference is that Reiki is for healing. It engenders and accelerates healing physically, emotionally, and mentally.

As far as the subjective sensations of chi flow they tend to be more dramatic with Reiki than meditation, but again, so many variables that it's hard to give solid generalizations.
Beware of tech bubbles: Long-term earnings of the dot-com bubble generation
I agree with all of your points, I'd just like to point out that, even if everyone ends up using software authenticators (password manager-style) with WebAuthn, we'll still be in a much better position than we are today, where people just use the same insecure password everywhere.
Edit: I'm reading from the manual for the GE JK915 oven. I don't have any opinion on whether this satisfies any Sabbath rules.
Fashion and Class [pdf]
aka Silicon Lottery.
To Google, the name "Google Cloud" includes GSuite. GCP (the AWS/Azure competitor) is far, far less.
I agree that management is generally to blame but also think many (most?) mishaps have engineering related proximate (and potentially root) causes. For example, I think I remember hearing part of the Fukushima disaster is attributed to the engineering decision to place the diesel pump batteries in an area that could flood. The fact that these engineering risks weren’t adequately managed is why people blame management.

I think one reason the original claim is weird is that leadership should own the blame irrespective of their compensation. (E.g., if a manager has $1 salary they aren’t magically off the hook). It’s one of the core tenets of good leadership.

I think engineers sometimes are quick to jump on management because of 1) a hindsight bias and 2) because engineers often have a myopic view of risk. For example, a software engineer tends to only focus on software risks, while management must balance software risks, hardware risks, customer risks, labor risks, etc.
It's a hard problem.

I think one negative trend is the focus on creating tentpole films that eat up the competition at the box office. (As well as the consolidation of all major brands and copyrights under one studio.)

Not only are these films watered down to appeal to a wide audience, but they're safe rehashes of the same recurring themes.

By inflating the cost of films, you decrease the diversity. Fewer actors and directors get a chance. Fewer ideas are used. All the screens show the same thing.

I hope that better tooling will help democratize the market. Maybe films don't need to cost so much.

And maybe you're right about copyright. I don't think I can presume to make rules that fair without harming someone. Maybe it's not that copyright needs to be revisited, but rather that the big elephants in the room need to be made to play nice.

I still think more content creation is one answer. By having a greater diversity and abundance of content, you average out the concentration of interest (and value) across the board. This prevents singular entries from soaking up all the benefits.

I don't like the status quo, though. And it's getting worse.
Well thought out response, that is my gut feeling as well. I think packaging could have a larger than expected effect too, especially CPUs with a thermal cap.

This kind of in situ measurement might be useful to feed into a job scheduler's weight or something but at the end of the day "environment is different" and maybe you have to derate your cluster's expected performance to account?
Why is the information that needs to be sent to the server so complicated? Specifically you need to send the rawId (raw bytes), clientDataJson (json), attestationObject (cbor) and the result of `getClientExtensionResults()` (js object). And then the attestationObject further includes an `authData` field which is itself a structure which contains another field which is CBOR encoded.

Why not a single CBOR object?
Spec alpha 2 supports closed maps:
https://github.com/clojure/spec-alpha2/wiki/Differences-from...
Finance IT with a history in multiple German-speaking regions.
“The best minds of my generation...”
Not really. US taxes aren't that much lower than Europe.

The reason is supply/demand. There's the lack of VC funding and also due to the market size, European tech companies don't generate nearly as much value as the US ones and the few ones that do don't have any meaningful competition so there's no need to pay high salaries.

Take the US defense sector alone. That's generating so many high paying tech and consultancy jobs that EU employees couldn't even dream of.
>smart people in a hypercompetitive environment and they will quickly identify the traits that are being rewarded and optimize for those. What does academia reward? Large numbers of publications with lots of citations, nothing else matters. So, naturally, scientists flock to hip buzzword-filled topics and churn out papers as quickly as they can.

For some other opinions,
consider:

1) Paul Graham who states this is the biggesg lesson to unlearn in academia. He states academia selects for people who tend to 'hack,' not learn, to the easiest grades/favors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619

2) Feynman who often stated things like "the pleasure is in finding things out" and that "the whole academic department was rotten."

I'm not convinced academia is selecting primarily the attribute: intelligence.
BILL
Ooh, uh, yeah. I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with
you there. Yeah. Uh, he's been real flaky lately and I'm not sure that
he's the caliber person you want for upper management. He's been having
some problems with his TPS reports.

BOB PORTER
I'll handle this. We feel that the problem isn't with Peter.

BOB SLYDELL
Um-um.

BOB PORTER
It's that you haven't challenged him enough to get him really
motivated.

BOB SLYDELL
There it is.

BILL
Yeah, I'm not sure about that now.

BOB PORTER
All right, Bill. Let me ask you this. How much time each week would you
say you deal with these TPS reports?
You have 20+ years of experience, so what is your title now? You mention you're main tech lead so... VP of engineering? CTO?
Plastics can also be the cleanest solution if they are reused over and over.
Science is not politics, nor should it change in response to political forces.

The root problem is not that science has changed, but that you’re seeing political attacks on science.
I get that. But there's no page there.

> Unable to connect

> Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at choice.npr.org.
Sure - for some definition of "reproducible". Any metric you come up with that's easily measurable will be gamed into oblivion. Anything meaningful - like looking at dedicated reproduction studies, etc. - requires a complete change in how academia functions, because right now publishing a paper that just aims to reproduce (or fail to) a previous work is effectively impossible in most fields. Not to mention that given the incentive structure you'd be pretty crazy to even try.
EXACTLY. Nailed exactly. Strong individual performance, ime, is a product of the right conditions allowing me to do my best.
> Take Visual Studio Code as an example. Within a few years, this editor became one of the most popular code editors.

Well I wouldn't expect normal users to even consider downloading VSCode in huge numbers. There isn't a reason for them to do so, but developers will and only should care about building and get things done. User experience is different for the type of user. Developers will make this judgement if a tool gets in their way, prevents them from working or forces them to Google the issue and fix it themselves.

Perhaps Slack and Discord are better examples of apps that normal users are expected to download in large numbers. They won't care on how it looks, but they will start to question why their laptops are burning on the laps and their fans at full speed. If you run a browser + electron combo then the computer is likely to be reduced to crawling speed which negatively affects the user experience.
You can fire people in Europe if they are slackers.

Why is this considered a bad thing? I’d suggest that working with capable colleagues is a great joy.

I do agree on the pay though. For some reason the US has ludicrous salaries. Every time I go to a conference in the US I feel like a pauper by comparison.

Especially hurts when talking to a junior engineer you can basically dance circles around that’s paid more than twice as much. But meh, good for them, I think I still prefer universal healthcare, sane leadership, and the knowledge that my CEO is making at most 4 or 5 times as much as me.
All I'm saying is that there is a spectrum of ways to communicate about things like this, from "fuck you you piece of shit how dare you put out this garbage code" to "hey, bud, I see what you're trying to do. But there's a mistake here, which I can explain." Linus chose something closer to the left than the right. You can get the same technical ideas across either way, but as you move toward the latter mode of communication you will decrease the number of recipients who have trouble receiving your message because of its negative emotional content.

"maybe you're overly emotional." Feel free to label me however you please. It does not change the fact that if your goal is to communicate ideas efficiently, my way will help you avoid alienating some folks, and has no practical downside.
Indeed this is one of the first steps Paul Graham goes through in On Lisp.
>One great thing about science is that it encourages reproducing results.

The replication crisis (or replicability crisis or reproducibility crisis) is, as of 2020, an ongoing methodological crisis in which it has been found that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce. The replication crisis affects the social sciences and medicine most severely.[1][2] The crisis has long-standing roots; the phrase was coined in the early 2010s[3] as part of a growing awareness of the problem. The replication crisis represents an important body of research in the field of metascience.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Man 'bleeds to death after tripping into glass table while wearing VR headset'
Yes, OP could have just said "can we agree to", and in their case that would have worked fine. But I hope you're not proposing to hard-swap "gentlemen's agreement" for "agreement", because those are two very different things.
This is mostly true for supervised and unsupervised learning models, but for reinforcement learning the LSTM is king because of the convenient fact that it can be evaluated one time step at a time, instead of just outputting a sequence like a transformer. For things like robotic control, etc, attention-based models are pretty nonsensical.
thank you - look forward to it
Not GP but I'm a happy Apple products/services customer. Rightly or wrongly, I feel like I purchase products and services from Apple, rather than the data from my usage of their products being their core product or service.

If something abhorrent from Apple comes to the forefront then I'll happily switch back to self-build + Linux + self-hosted services, but for the time being I'm content.

On the flip side, I've done everything I can to eradicate Google from my life and will continue to do so.
Ask HN: How to be a “doer” and everybody likes you?
I work hard and complete some non trivial projects, however, in my company (LinkedIn), which is looking for some people leadership instead of technical leadership, i may get accused of just a “doer”, not a leader; when there are conflicts, if I want to get things done, people will not like me, either accusing me aggressive, bad communicator or anything unrelated to technical problems. It makes me very depressing and makes me not want to do anything anymore for the team or the company. I have sometime to read and learn soft skills, but I feel I lose more passion since it is not what i expected: I want to dive more and hands on more in technical aspected, not about how to make people like me or do those politics to get promoted. What should I do? Leave Linkedin? What other companies are better?
I think you're downplaying something here.

You got hired as a manger, so at the very least, you must have had a pretty prosperous and impressive background as an engineer for some time.

You might be cruising now, but snapshots of one's life are hardly the full story.
Oh right! Thank you for your clarifying comments, this does sound pretty interesting. Sorry for being flippant before.

Looking forward to reading about the new release!
I think 10x engineers do not actually exist, but maybe 0.1x engineers do, and when a 1x engineer is in such an environment they may seem like 10x by comparison.
It is all flash frozen when caught