skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed

Expanding on this, if you want an unorthodox housing situation or have a non-standard family unit, renting can either be prohibitively expensive or impossible.

For instance, there's the Tiny House movement which all but requires you to own your home in most areas. On the other end of the spectrum, larger families (4 or more children) will often find that rental units cannot accommodate them because of local regulation regarding # of rooms per occupant
Simple answer: Capitalism.

Companies don't want to pay you more just because there is a perceived value. They will only pay you once you threaten and you are good for it (supply demand) or you change jobs (supply demand again).

I have thought about this hard. Both as an employee back in the day and now for 6+ years as a business owner. As an employee, I thought the same as you but then stopped expecting from current employers. When I was ready to jump, I jumped. Period. No ifs. No negotiations with current company. As a business owner though, I definitely understand why I am not just going to give someone a 30% raise. Now, if you are a small company and there is no a whole lot of management red tape (like my company), I encourage anyone to ask for a 30% raise and be ready to be able to justify it. If you are worth it (capitalism), I would do it. But if you never ask, I absolutely won't give you a 30% raise. Remember, you are not the only one in the company.
No, everyone knows it's a Russian ploy. /s
FB and G stock grants vest monthly and employees often have them setup to sell immediately on vesting. While there is some volatility in exactly how much you get paid its much closer to Netflix than to compensation at startups and not yet IPO'd companies where you can't realize the stock options until much later.
> And this is a trap! Getting absorbed in an identity is a trap.

As a white transwoman, I experience different micro/macroagressions from black people, and they suffer indignities that I can only understand second-hand. But lemme tell you, I've seen some shit.

I personally face a lot of harrassment from the general public, on the basis of the "identity" that you accuse me of getting absorbed in. But it's not me who chooses the verbal assaults, the clearly obvious avoidance behavior, the implicit assumption that I don't know anything relevant (hiiii, math doctorate with decades of high performance computing experience, here...), et cetera. It's our society, that gets stuck on our identities. And it's not just "general public" -- it's too many coworkers; it's any time I go to a conference; it's every time I apply for a job.

Unlike a black person, I didn't grow up with this. That gave me a significant advantage early in life, but I didn't develop the emotional skill to be resilient in the face of endless bullshit from people who are absorbed with my identity. I have decades of experience of privilege, and I know exactly what I've lost there.

And you and me have something in common: I experience depression and anxiety. Did before I came out as trans, too. Social isolation due to people deliberately or unconsciously avoiding went way up -- and with it, depression. Verbal assaults and sexual harrassment in public went way up, and with it, anxiety. Combine an invisible disability with a visible minority, and it ratchets up the bullshit.

Yeah, the author of this article has financial privilege I'll never attain... but the problem isn't that he's stuck on his identity, the problem is that everybody he meets is stuck on his identity.
> Also, when creating abbreviations, it feels weird to create one that is only one letter shorter than the full version.

This is Unix, which gave us the "creat" system call (an abbreviation of "create"). https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/creat.2.html
The Origins and Evolution of Objective-C
Calcifediol as a Biomarker of ALS Progression
> I think we should pass on costs to the consumer more often.

That's not the insane part.

> This is because the store pays a fee

Note: It's not 30%
That sounds great, the way you are doing it.
I think companies end up gamifying the product approach,to generate feelings that are similar to what happens when you engage one on one (from a neuroscience perspective)
Abstract:

> What is driving the declining quality of innovation-driven entrepreneurship? In this paper, we argue the growing entrepreneurship industry is an important yet overlooked explanation. This rapidly growing industry has transformed the nature of entrepreneurship and encouraged a particular form of low-quality entrepreneurship. It has done so by leveraging the Ideology of Entrepreneurialism to mass-produce and mass-market products that make possible what we term Veblenian Entrepreneurship. This is entrepreneurship pursued primarily as a form of conspicuous consumption. Aside from lowering average entrepreneurial quality, Veblenian Entrepreneurship has a range of (short-run) positive and (medium and long-run) negative effects for both individuals and society at large. We argue that the rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur has contributed to creating an increasingly Untrepreneurial Economy. That is an economy which superficially appears innovation-driven and dynamic, but is actually rife with inefficiencies and unable to generate economically meaningful growth through innovation.

I was hoping this paper would have some good stats about this potential phenomenon of "fake" entrepreneurship, but it seems to be a fluffed-up blog post with a few more citations for the most part. Still a good thing to investigate in the future though. I did find this quote striking:

> Freeman et al (2019) found that engagement in entrepreneurship (irrespective of failure) was associated with higher levels of depression, ADHD, substance abuse and bipolar disorder, while only 24% of entrepreneurs have no mental health issues.
Tangential to this discussion, what was AMD's original reasoning for getting rid of its own fabs and spinning them out into Global Foundries? It seems these days that fabs are so strategic. Did they realize they can't compete in that space? Thanks!
Not necessarily "bad".

Font rendering on macOS is more "authentic" to the original shape at the expense of clarity from hinting/pixel-snapping.
Humans of AI – The new video interview series
Hi All,

I've recently started a video interview series called HUMANS OF AI, where together with our guests from academia and business I try to demystify what AI is and what’s not, hopefully, making the whole AI concept a bit more approachable and digestible :)
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Yes, good point, I should have been more clear. You're right that we track unique users, but we do so in abstract. I suppose with some work we could pull together enough data from different sources to determine who a particular user was in a particular session. I just meant that we don't do that and it's not easy for us to do that because we don't care about that type of data. We only care about what each abstract user does in the sense that we want to know the aggregate of how many users did that thing.

Additionally, unlike google analytics, we do support the browser's "do not track" flag. So if a user doesn't want to be tracked at all, we completely respect that.
And the funny thing is that this very thing would not be allowed in Apple's App Store.
So you talk about how great paying through Apple is for both parties.

But you want the developers to be forced into it, rather than have a choice. If it's so beneficial to the developer, why would they choose not to make that choice. (Answer: because it actually isn't.)

And then when it comes to the benefit to the customer, it turns out that you actually don't value paying through Apple either: you're only interested in paying through them if it's also the cheapest option. All of these conveniences are not worth even one cent to you when the rubber hits the road.
Yes, that's generally how you get around a vacancy tax without spending more time and money on convoluted solutions to get around the tax, like buying furniture and setting up utilities and paying someone to periodically turn on the lights and run the water and pretend that they live there without actually living there.

(This is actually a thing that people used to do when Vancouver introduced its vacancy tax.)
Oh man, my thoughts on Free Solo are multiple and conflicted and I would love to discuss it! Unfortunately, I should get some actual work done today :-(

Thank you for the recommendation.
Yep any protocol and any app can have this problem.
It's for the same reason that large financial institutions hire entry level engineers as "VP's"

There are internal systems, some significantly older than others....they are trying to adapt the real world to their internal representation of the perceived world.

The value you truly provide vs. the value they believe you provide is lost on them....so you must find/show it. Many enterprises assume 3% bumps for all employees yearly, associate this to overhead, and report back to shareholders. This trickles down to managers as "room to work with their employees." If someone gets rewarded, this means someone else is getting punished. Need an exception....take it to the top.

Now you have a system of incentives and disincentive...want to get more for your people, take from others or take on more work.

You now have potential for lost information at your inability to display value (doing work quietly and not advocating for yourself), your manager (overloaded/ignorant of effort), the process (outdated or accounting for a percentage of unhappiness), and arguably the stock market....

You can get very analytical with game theory here which I think can be very interesting. If you find that interesting you may find Thalers "Guessing Game" and Keynes "Beauty Contest" interesting as well.

My opinion has been the more layers, the more places to lose information. These companies are accounting for external factors/information on the hiring front, once you are inside, it is internal factors/information.
I love retrocomputing. Nice project.

I'm toying with the idea of writing something in C64 assembly (something I never did learn back when I was a kid and owned one). I'm delighted to see there's an active scene of C64 fans coding new games for it even today.

Real life will interfere, of course, but a man can dream...
No, but there are things that cause you to be disordered, and then you learn to cope with it in different ways and one of the ways that a lot of people learn to cope with it is to retreat into a computer which is a world that can be controlled in different ways than the real world and thus ordered differently.

But thanks for correcting me.
China is absolutely fuelling it on the digital space. For example, in a first, TikTok is elevating BLM protests, while continuing to ban and de-elevate HK protests:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-17/tiktok-lo...

And this is just an overt action.
Docker base image for your Python application (April 2020)
I'm not sure if your sources really say what you imply that they do. Bergamo had a 58% COVID exposure rate as of last month, as determined by serology studies.

How many of those had a full blown infection? I suppose detectable antibodies suggests there was at least some level of infection, but a very mild infection plus rapid clearance in a plurality of the population fits with the sentence you quote. The other cites you provide basically show the same thing. Of course social distancing/lockdowns also help. Why not both? The reality is that there are two mysteries here:
i) a lot of people are relatively unaffected by the virus and serology shows they were exposed;
ii) a lot of people, even under very crowded conditions (USS Teddy R; prisons) just don't get COVID at all. 40% of those on the carrier simply never got it. How is that possible? The prison data is high if we take your the 80% upper level of your range, but you will expect to see those sorts of outliers in small datasets. This is particularly true where the early antibody tests were not very specific (i.e., relatively high false positive rate).
> They will only you once you threaten

employees don't threaten, they simply leave. Why would someone go through the arduous process of finding another job just to 'threaten'. If you 'threaten' they will agree at that point and fire you later.

Capitalism should account for that. So thats not it.
GitHub Repository Design Updates
> "We're not announcing anything just yet but it'll be our best release to date"

not a knock on you or fathom, but it seems like you're in fast-response sales mode here (which is totally fine)... the above is a particularly empty statement. why would any next release not be the best to date?

maybe say it should be an exciting release, which is similarly anticipatory without being meaningless sales-speak.
> So for 10-bob you get email, word, excel, teams and exchange/AzureAD -- or a chat app.

And the people making these decisions use word, excel, teams and exchange a hell of a lot in ways to try to work out how to save some money.

I for one don't need that. I need jira, confluence, slack.
One helpful perspective: a company hiring an individual has a specific problem they want to solve. If they hire you, you are the best candidate out of many they interview. You will bring a lot of value to them immediately.
This is a screenshot of the Apple Music app on Android. The point is that any music app on iOS with a screen like this would kicked out of Apple's app store.
I’d be curious to know where that person got such cheap housing. $300k/yr translates to $15k/month take home. Houses are like $10k/month if you’re looking to own. Even if you rent, it’s still close to $5-6k/month if you want a decent neighborhood.

I’m not even talking about nice houses btw.

Maybe they rent an apartment and share the rent. That’s the only way I see them coming up with those numbers.

$300k/year isn’t enough for single income families in the Bay Area.

EDIT: I'm curious if you live in the bay area and where you get your notions.
>“Good, because fear drives you,”

What a fake. Fear of what? That some rich asshole doesn't like you?

If you get a Netflix job, you can trade down to a ton of other companies with better life balances.
400K to 600K is still qualitatively significant.

For example, it can mean whether your spouse has the option to stay home to spend more quality time with the children, without having to sacrifice expenses due to income reduction; or it can mean how well (or not) you can take care of aging parents.
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Henry Warren, the author of Hacker’s Delight[0], is one of the authors of this book.

Chapters 3, 5, and Appendix D have some neat examples of bit twiddling code in Power assembly language.

The content overlaps with that of Hacker’s Delight and Bit Twiddling Hacks[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_Delight

[1] https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
> when people are defending something perceived by others to be immoral or otherwise harmful

well, i'd usually be just as surprised as the parent that people on this site are still getting surprised by it, and i sure as hell am not defending the company doing this.

all publicly traded companies should be considered amoral by default. if they take moral action, then they dont do it because of morality. they do it either because they wish to portrait themselves as moral for publicity or they have another way to profit off of it. the thing which would surprise me is that people still dont expect that.

in this particular case i'm not surprised though. hn readers are extremely positive of apple, no matter what apple does.
I didn't mean to be ambiguous. There is NO excuse for this behaviour, and it's maddening to me that any executive would engage in this kind of activity.
My point was that the team may have been built explicitly to perform illegal activities. The fact that this is repugnant was, I thought, obvious.
I guess there are fewer ways to destroy stacks of laminations and copper windings. But that doesn't make up for the extra weight, space, cost, and labor to manufacture them
I know a person who switched because of Docker prior to Docker for Mac being available and stayed because it's still a better experience.

Not a GUI app per se, but an app used on a desktop.
A quick guide to convolutional neural networks
Yeah, for a side project I want to try to model this in an agent based sim and to see if it can recreate some of these dynamics.
What worked for me was enrolling in Electronics 101 at my local community college.
My point was that when writing new code, I can write it in whatever format I want knowing that it's going to be formatted the canonical way. But when modifying code, I have to work with code in one specific format that may not be my preferred format.
This, but to take this even further, MusicKit and the Apple Music APIs even allow for 3rd party Android apps to play back purchased content.
I recommend the book "Make: Electronics 2nd Edition"

I knew nothing before starting the book and knew enough by about halfway through to start pursuing my own projects.
> it won't get much better than being a model minority, which is to say it's a more privileged existence than being black is (sorry for the bluntness),

As an Asian, I actually think that Asians are more privileged than White people. As a group we earn more, have better life expectancy, and have to deal with less historical baggage. If you search for it, any group can find areas where they feel they are being mistreated, but on the whole, your parents’ strategy has succeeded spectacularly. I think this is in part, because it was a win-win strategy. We were able to make our lives better without making another race feel bad or making their lives worse. Nobody had to lose for us to win.
Does that matter? As long as you collect data from EU residents, such as an email, then you have to comply. That is at least how I understood it, is that not the case?
Agreed. To keep Go simple and keep it from descending into the kind of extreme generics that Rust practices (nothing wrong with it, but it seems antithetical to Go's simplicity), the idea behind my syntax suggestion is to think about monomorphization as an explicit concept.

You're basically telling the compiler to generate new versions of the same function, or struct, or whatever. The mental challenge with just adding type parameters is that you're thinking of the type as generic, which creates "what colour is my code" distinctions; either types are generic or they're not.

I had another syntax in mind that would reuse the "for" keyword:

for type T:
func Max(a, b T) T {
...
}

Both syntaxes work fine for other declarations; structs and methods, for example:

for type T:
type Atomic struct {
v T
}

for type T:
func (a *Atomic) Get() T {
...
}

Of course, you still need some syntax to specify types in expressions, but that's also solvable.
If Apple is violating antitrust laws with their own store, it doesn't matter whether their use of the Google store is consistent with their own behavior. And if they're not violating antitrust law, that inconsistency also does not matter. I think you're mixing up legal concepts that are not dependent on one another.
I guess that's where high bonus low pay comes into it - if you are a "good person" you get the high bonus so you stay, if you are a "bad person" you don't, so you leave.

The problem then comes down to defining good person vs bad person, which in the real world is very tricky.
The left includes Adam Boulton, Beth Rigby, Piers Morgan, the Guardian, the BBC, the people banging pots and pans on their balconies on Thursday evenings. Getting in to power and retaining power don't require the same strategy. Example, school lunches.
>around early 2000

Things were still hot but there were at least storm clouds on the horizon at that point.

>Everybody looked at my resume and pointed out that I had never stayed at a single job for longer than a year.

A year means that, to exaggerate just a little, you were basically starting to look for a new job as soon as you started the old one. But, yeah, if someone has moved between jobs like clockwork every year or two, the working assumption of the hiring manager has to be that this time won't be the charm and you'll hop again. Whether they're OK with that doubtless depends on the role.

You might consider just leaving those right out of school jobs from 20 years ago off. If someone really wants to see them, you can tell them but it's not unreasonable to age stuff off your resume if you have lots of jobs.
there is no complexity tradeoff for users here.
Imagine a “Privacy facts” label at facebook.com/privacy.

The format of the page is mandated by the government, including the font and margins. It is easily scraped and must be by law. This label is required in place of a privacy policy.

Facebook.com will:

Store data about you forever in a profile.

Share data about you with 3rd parties.

Show you advertisements based on a profile.

Show you content based on a profile.

Share profile about you information with law enforcement.

Facebook.com’s top five markets by revenue are:

Advertising

News Redistribution

Device Development

This may still be opaque and ignored by most people. Standardizing the language and format in a way that laypeople can read delivers actual value to consumers.
It's clearly underfunded in relation to the difficulty in prosecuting these cases. Banning E2EE is a way of lowering the bar of difficulty in prosecuting these cases. The crime is reprehensible, and worthy of enforcement due to the heinous nature of abuse. Curtailing abuse via violating human right to encrypt is not the way to end abuse. Thus, more funding is likely justified, if it leads to an end to abuse. This social benefit of reduction and elimination of abuse should not come at the expense of human rights and E2EE.
Sure, thanks for responding, so I didn't say racist or racism or make any conclusion, and that was on purpose!

I left it as open ended as my actual thoughts are, but acknowledge that it would be beneficial to factor in what so many people that look like me are saying are shared experiences.

Yes, I can tell when people are consciously trying to patch their behavior around black people (or other groups), distinct from being actually insensitive and distinct from treating them like people they are actually comfortable around.

You really don't have to feel like you are stepping on eggshells, even in your explanation here. I would call that awkwardness you described as a microaggression because it is an experience that shouldn't be a part of my daily experience, and it shouldn't be something you have to worry about, but in this case it would come from you towards me. So I wouldn't interpret that as "racism", but a peculiarity that is definitely an unnecessary part of the black experience. These kinds of things affect the group decision on whether a candidate passed the "culture fit", and a whole host of other things that ultimately prevent that qualified person from being around everyone else more, or getting into a position over them, simply because the people approving it are uncomfortable for meta reasons. So I think it is important for you to address that and notice it in others as well.
But so far, you haven't advanced any theory of how Apple's behavior here ("we use external payment in Google's app store") contradicts any legal position that Apple is taking in any court case.

You can't be claiming that Apple takes the legal position that external payment handling is illegal in all app stores?
I thought quantum computing was something of science fiction? I still can’t wrap my head around it so as far as I’m concerned it’s hullabaloo.
See also how the JVM uses sigsegv signals for synchronizing safepoints for multiple threads: https://www.ateam-oracle.com/why-am-i-seeing-sigsegv-when-i-...
When has Apple argued that Google's Play Store is anticompetitive?

Apple's more likely to argue "Google's TOS lets us do X, our TOS doesn't" or something along those lines.