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You don't need to be good at all the things you listed. As a human you can't be good at everything. You always need to balance between being average in a lot of topics and good in a few topics.

If you are able to land a job, it is means that you know enough as a software engineer.

If you want to learn new things, because they will help you build things for yourself, or are necessary to apply to a new position. Then think about a side project that would use those knowledge and build it, you will learn all what you need along the way.

For example I'm creating a jobboard now, I learnt how to build an efficient crawler, how to scale a db, regex performance, NLP PoS, NLP classification ... tons of topics I didn't know anything about before
The “claim of NASA endorsing Sanskrit” is an exaggeration that is easy to debunk, but the paper itself is real: it presents (though in a vague way) something of historical interest, namely a dialect of Sanskrit that was (and is) used for giving precise definitions and statements, attempting to avoid ambiguity. Of course from one perspective this is “just” a historical curiosity and an irrelevant dead end as far as AI is concerned, while from other it's an important landmark in the intellectual history of the world. (See my other comments in this thread if they're visible; trying to avoid repeating myself.)

Aside, just remembered: there's a talk on this Navya-nyāya tradition that I listened to recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRiv7uv_C90&feature=youtu.be... (covers Navya-nyāya in the 2nd half, but may be hard to follow if you're not familiar with the Sanskrit tradition). For a Western audience, these ideas may be easier to understand via the papers I mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14295285, or something like the “History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps” podcast, which is good in general (but which covers only the older nyāya and not navya-nyāya so far, in its 62 episodes https://historyofphilosophy.net/india).
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Wow, this is really, really cool. They're doing a music festival today at mc.blockeley.com.
Well the browser is still not good at things that say Blender or Protocols can do. Media pros still need desktop software for example audio latency in chrome is far too high to use it for any serious pro audio applications.
You might try posting this as a usual HN news item to get more response, or write a blog post about it and link to that. (Awk lover here)
> is expected to be able to produce up to two hundred thousand doses per month and the Company intends to produce a million doses at risk while seeking FDA approval

"Is expected" might be the caveat, but does sound promising from a scale perspective.
Constantly eating out would cost me as much or maybe more than my rent. So I can relate to the feeling of this coming off as a rant of a crazy person with self-image issues.
That would mean anyone who has enough money can buy the land that people live on just to harass them.

It’s an interesting idea, and I like it in principal, but I also like living in my house on my land knowing that I need to give permission before someone can buy it.
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We have researched a problem of how facial recognition works with face masks due to identification systems struggling to work accurately with medical masks appearing on human faces.
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Sales tax fails to capture the accumulation of capital, so (1) is kind of bogus. If you make 100 billion dollars and invest it you and several generations of your family coild live comfortably without ever working and your tax burden would only depend on your spending.

A sales-only tax incentivized rent seeking, basically, because the rentiers pay the same taxes as the renters while accumulating capital.
You can middle click or ctrl click links to open in a new tab.

Some may argue that it's the user choice how they want links opened and that websites should not define that. I personally disagree with that sentiment.
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What about people born with a $100M trust fund?

Comparing yourself to others or seeing the world as a meritocracy is always an exercise that will make you upset. There is always someone luckier than you.

Remember that your cousin likely won't want to do this forever, and she'll end up far behind in the job world. She's sprinting and you're running marathon.
Glo Germ is pretty neat stuff. I've seen it used to demonstrate correct handwashing techniques and it's useful because even the people who think they're pretty good get to see some areas they miss.
There's a fairly well-known 2018 book on why education (higher and lower) is the way it is now:

Bryan Caplan,
“The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money”
I thought the same, but went back further in time to the live-ish news report of the demolition team trying to vaporize a dead beached whale back into the ocean using construction dynamite.

It didn't go well. Classic news blurb though.
I'm struck with a sense that this poem with a linguistic constraint is a mirror for my life at $dayJob, with some embellishment perhaps...

"We want you to write a poem in an obsolete/mostly dead language. And oh, you may only have two consonants per stanza, no more."

Vs.

"Write and maintain web-based applications in 2020 but do not stray outside of the list of approved languages (Ruby and PL/SQL), no modern advancements such as containers or CI/CD are supported, also, remote debuggers are right out."

It was a better analogy in my head, before I wrote it down.
I went to a minecraft music festival at blockbyblockwest.com yesterday
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Why is the modern world so ugly?
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an independent non-profit organization which sets a standard for sustainable fishing.
I think it's fine to not have time to maintain code you open source. However, if your library ends up gaining a significant user base and you don't have time to maintain it, then I think you have a duty to either:

1. Allow others to step in as maintainers and review/approve new features and bug fixes in your stead.

or (if you want to maintain control of your library)

2. Be clear that your library is in maintenance mode, and encourage and bless (by linking from your README) a fork (or forks) that work for those who were using your library but want the extra features that you don't want or have time to implement in your library.

Otherwise your project is actively getting in the way of the community organising development of similar.
Ask HN: Looking for examples of false positives in automated systems
For an article I'm working on, I'm looking for good examples of big companies that created systems to auto-filter content or assets, where it's gone wrong and it severely affected small businesses who struggled to escalate the case to a human who could've reversed the decision.

Examples that come to mind:

- Podcast Addict vs. Google: https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261651512947691520

- Raisup vs. Digital Ocean: https://blog.digitalocean.com/an-update-on-last-weeks-customer-shutdown-incident/
Yes, I believe undergrads(!) cover this in Honors Advanced Truth Tables at UChicago.
It reminds me of Bernie Madoff's brother being the Head of Compliance, although even HE was allegedly kept in the dark about the Ponzi scheme.
> rich yet reserved people, who keep most of their money in the bank (which lends it) and are earning an income (=productive) ... will not penalized.

This goes against just about every standard defense of the ability to be rich: that rich people are job creators, that they power the economy by buying things, etc. Why should we discourage them from employing people and buying things? I don't want a loan (that needs to be repaid) from a bank from a rich person, I want the rich person to either employ me or buy goods and services from me.

Actually, that's another point - does employment incur your "sales" tax? If not, it's more advantageous to hire a private chef or driver than to pay for a restaurant meal or a taxi trip, which makes the tax regressive - there's a discontinuity when you're able to hire someone instead of getting a service from a business.
It was a global conflict that involved all of Europe's Great Powers, but the 7 Years' War just wasn't exceptionally lethal or even that destructive.

On the other hand, the 30 Years' War was much less global in its geography but absolutely devastated central Europe, and caused at least 8 million deaths, most of them civilian. This makes it 10 times or more deadlier than the 7 Years' War.

The older conflict was also a crucial game changer for world history because it led directly to the Treaty of Westphalia and the entrenchment of the modern, much more formalized nation state.
It's a bit rude to name something someone made a point of not mentioning.
What tax should tech companies pay then, given that the only land they really need is cheap rural land for data centers?

This taxation system does make sense for land, but there's way more economic activity happening that isn't associated with land than there is that is.
The land most people live on does have market precedent so this would be unnecessary.

This idea could still be workable for unimproved land
The first kind is the input focus and the second kind is the default button in a dialog (not really a kind of focus): "If the button is in a dialog box, the user can select the button by pressing the ENTER key, even when the button does not have the input focus."[1]

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/butt...
Putting free speech above all else will also protect manipulation and propaganda. That's a good part of what gave you Trump.
No, the rocket electric car one.
The issue I've always had with the uniform sales tax idea is that poorer you are, the larger percentage of your money you pay in taxes. As a total cost, it's ultimately regressive.
Talking about sci-fi references, my first thought was of a budong.
If you don't trust the CAs, then getting a certificate from one of them so that https is enabled and crypto works is no worse than no encryption at all, is it?

I understand it might give people a false sense of security, or perhaps they trust the CA system and it's not false in their eyes, but if distrust of CAs is the reason to use plaintext connections instead, I'm not sure that's the best choice.
> The proprietary API is guaranteed to be slower.
Yeah, most of the time that's not the case. Binary encoding/decoding is often much faster than FIX. Look at ITCH/OUCH, SBE and FastFix.
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Never seen this parody site before. Droll.
There would be likely exception for normal sized houses where people actually live or if there is way to asses the value other way. Pay normal n% tax and they can't buy it.

Mansions and expensive property would be always on the market.
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Not OP but I have the same issue in Firefox on Windows.
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You could go even further and list things outside of the programming world which you would like to learn.

Maybe take a step back and consider that one of the useful outcomes of learning is maintaining neuro-plasticity, which may allow you to continue to learn with easy. This is why you may benefit more from learning some skill further from your existing set.

In terms of the learning useful skills, I wouldn't lean to heavily on job description, they are more like a companies wishlist. Occasionally, you can tick all the boxes, but that is not indicative of job performance or productivity.

Happy learning
old ISPs and social networks, which are recycled for their users.
They generally locate where they can draw on a pool of talented people, and those people are drawn by social amenities, good schools, good infrastructure. All those things contribute to land value.
This seems to be directly in conflict with the idea that once you own land, it's yours. I don't see this flying at all, at least not with the current expectations of most people.

Any sizable company could easily bully any number of people out of their homes to acquire the land. It's hard to overstate how much people would hate this.
https://www.facebook.com/1105343159/posts/10216526131761536/...
Somebody laid a joke there:

> In the past three years whale fall sites have come under scrutiny, and new species have been discovered, including potential whale fall specialists
CAD and BIM
What's the appeal over straight approval voting, which can be explained and justified in about three sentences, and almost self-evidently produces good-enough results?
You put in 1% the effort of waiters, janitors, high school teachers, fishermen, kids working at the age of 9 so their family can eat at night. Pardon me if I'm not crying over a stem major making a couple less grand than they think they deserve.
Of course the paper is real, but not one that's particularly influential, notable, novel or one that led to anything more substantial. Regardless, its frequently used to push a political agenda of Indian/Hindu superiority. Either overtly, or covertly.
they need to allow more than 2 tabs in the free version
Don't forget presence of pre-existant antibodies in the person. (decreases)
> once you own land, it's yours.

Idea that you can buy a monopoly is generally a bad idea.
Arrow's theorem is an interesting result on its own, but its practical applicability is kind of undermined by the fact that the dictatorship criterion is actually pretty rarely interesting (and is almost totally irrelevant to a ballot).
Hi! I love the Trail Router. How did you get the data to create a Strava heatmap? I see the API can download routes by ID, but I'm curious how to do it based on geographic area. Thanks :)
Someone being able to take my house or business away at any time because they have more money doesn’t sound brilliant or practical. It’s also not market based at all. Trades are willing.
and so often it gets invested in land, which includes not just the sites under our feet, but vital natural resources, the kind that are finite in supply.
> This assumes that the farmer has to remain a farmer.

How does it assume that?
Hmm it seems you haven't finished your sentence? "The following article..." what about it?
Sanskrit is pretty close to Hindi, so much so that most people can look up Hindi courses online and be able to read Sanskrit without issue.

In many ways, Hindi was just an optimization pass on the language.

Edit: studied Hindi and Sanskrit in school. Modulo a few things, they’re very similar. Far more so than other linked languages like Latin and its derivatives
You're not being concrete. How do you properly tax a tech company whose land allocation is negligible compared to the overall value of the company? Tech companies have less than 1% of their value tied up in land. If they're all-remote and cloud-based, then they have $0 in land. How would you even tax them if the only tax is based on land?

Also, I live in an apartment. Should my tax be $0? Or if I owned and lived on land way out in a rural area where a small plot is only worth a few thousand bucks, do I only pay tax on that despite my income being mid six figures? The point is, as a knowledge worker, my economic productivity is entirely divorced from land. This is true of most white collar workers. Land value taxes may have made sense as the primary tax hundreds of years ago but they don't make sense for that purpose now.
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Some things are more subjective than others.

Reasonable people will agree that poverty is bad.

Depending on the axioms you have defined for yourself. There is statistical evidence for poverty causing health problems or people to die early on average. Infant mortality rates among poor households or kids with malnutrition.

You could always think of unexpected death as unreasonable or objectively bad. By that line of thinking, you can conclude that poverty must be objectively bad. Anything that can result in unexpected death afterwards is objectively bad.

No matter what you end up with, you still need a fundamental axiom or moral position, I believe.

Like why is 3 greater than 2?
Because I attach a greater position value to 3 but what makes this objective really? Most people agreeing with it?

Can most people agree that this world needs less unexpected deaths?

Yes.

Does stopping the number of people born reduce that?

Yes.

Should you stop the demography with highest infant/kid mortality rate first?

Yes.

What's so subjective about it now? Unless you believe that unexpected deaths are a great thing, in that case I think you are fucked up.
That's also part of a sick culture.

I've seen places where working on your free time and/or weekends would be totally frowned upon by managers, and the general culture around workers would be that working on weekends is giving up your time for free in an attempt to clib on the other's backs, so that wouldn't be very popular among your colleages.
As un-fake as Ted Haggard?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard
Family farming in Pennsylvania died years ago from land competition.

The first general category of threat came from industrial farming. Large corporations started acquiring land in order to optimize profits for their monocultures. Over time, much of the land that was historically family farms became mega-farms that out compete any new family farms.

The second general category of threat was real estate developers. They would buy up land, often from the people who used to rent to farmers. At first they might not raise rents at all. But later when the market was agreeable, they'd raise rents until farmers couldn't afford to farm it, and then develop it for more profitable commercial or residential use. (interestingly, many plots that weren't being developed sat empty, and so some farmers would actually guerilla-farm it for years/decades)

A third general category was non-developers (usually the inheritor of older farms or land owners) who owned lots of land and rented it to farmers. They would "suggest" that the most profitable crop be placed and that they receive a cut, or they'd rent the land to someone else when the lease was up. So over time most land went to farming corn even if the farmer wanted to grow real food, and eventually that land would get sold to one of the two above.
> Facebook argument is ‘we do not want to follow local laws because that increases cost and makes some business practices illegal in parts of the world. That mindset is destructive and fights agains society needs just to get higher profit.

I don’t think this is their argument at all.

Facebook regulates and removes far more content than required by law.

Under the US 1st Amendment almost everything offensive, racist, bad, pornographic, etc is legal. Facebook still removes quite a lot of legal content from their posts and their content moderators get PTSD from having to look at content which may be legal.

I think Facebook’s real issue is that they know they and their user base want them to be stricter than the law requires, but where should those standards fall?
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Clearly people don't think so, as the vast majority do agree with private property exclusive ownership.
What is the first paragraph of a README if not a pitch? It's explaining to someone who just stumbled on the repo (maybe through a search) why they should take a closer look at the repo.
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Isn't that what go is trying to alleviate, with their use of direct syscalls and no use of libc?
Yes, this, most definitely. And the land versus structure value is already calculated for most properties for insurance purposes.

Even places (like California) that do not assess tax based on value still have massive fleets of property value assessors that are used during the course of normal market transactions, since those who lend mortgages use them to prevent fraud.
It will. But a less robust free speech tradition can give you an Orban or a Modi, who are both worse than Trump. On net I'd rather take that risk because of its greater potential to correct itself when it goes wrong.
Rothbard's error: under land nationalization, state actors decide who uses the land; under single tax, who uses the land is determined by auction.
It's possible collusion is a factor, however another observation I've had could explain it: the VC-finance industrial complex - in that there are dominant incumbents who have so much profit that they simply buy any up and coming new competitors in the market, to which the founders and VCs are happy for that payday. Or you have two big companies doing mergers, giving multiple advantages including a bigger pool of profits/revenues to leverage and outbid their other large competitors in the market. This is the main reason that they're all able to continue to charge arguably unreasonable and unnecessary fees to restaurants, because the barrier to entry is heavily having enough funds to build such a platform - and the gatekeepers are in the VC industrial complex where most want unreasonable returns (requiring unreasonable, excessive fees and other grey or dark practices) and an exit event in 10 years.
You see how that's non-responsive to the parent, right?
Yeah, I use Firefox and it's fantastic for simple documents. However, Chrome is still the most popular browser so I have to wonder how it got that way. If it turns out that Chrome actually is the better browser and my hardware is the problem then ideally I'd like to know (even if I never change due to philosophical reasons).

p.s. I use Linux with a simple WM. I have gone through great lengths to ensure that my system uses very few resources. I just want to know why/how everyone else is tolerating these inefficiencies.
Perhaps that's the paper's main claim. But it's really not clear from the paper itself. You have to apply a good amount of interpretation to extract such meaning from the paper. That's what makes it a poorly written paper and I think that's the main reason why it has not been influential.

For example, I know (of) Attempto and have done a bit of reading on CNLs in general (mainly because I've done some undergraduate and post-graduate stuff with the Magic: the Gathering CNL, "ability text" :). There is no attempt by the author to describe "Shastric sanskrit" as a CNL for knowledge representation. That would have been a clearly stated claim and it would make a lot of sense- but, it's nowhere to be seen.