skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed it was from a plastics association. But my point about the life-cycle analysis work is still valid - I studied this a little in grad-school and the paper v plastic bag trade-off was frequently discussed because of the surprising results.

(Life-cycle analysis does have huge assumptions involving usage, so it's not an exact science)
Reddit can get nasty very quickly if you venture out of the few remaining sane subs!
I feel like that’s a distinction created just to let bankers skirt rules. Like what Carl Icahn and Soros did which by any sane rule book would be insanely illegal.
Zuckerberg and Gates think you can go from cutthroat business executive to kindly old sweater-wearing grandpa in twenty years. Average folk are smarter than the intelligentsia often give them credit for.
A lot of engineers don't work on their side projects because they can't. Every company I've interviewed with requires IP assignment agreement. From my experience, it's standard outside of California where they're banned.

If you asked me to work on something, it would be a toy project. Because I can't contribute to open source and if I build anything substantial it will be taken from me.

You shouldn't punish people in this situation. It's extremely common, maybe even the majority of coders outside California.
There was also this article linked about federal decrease in R&D spending: https://itif.org/publications/2018/12/14/dwindling-federal-s...

Can someone link me historical total R&D spending data for US?

I found https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44307.pdf which states:

> The United States became a global leader in R&D in the 20th century, funding as much as 69% of
annual global R&D in the period following World War II.
1 Figure 1 shows the growth in total
U.S. R&D expenditures from 1953 to 2018 in current dollars.
2 U.S. R&D in 2018 was 112 times
higher than it was in 1953 in current dollars, and more than 15 times higher in constant dollars.3
By sector, business-funded R&D grew the most during this period. However, faster growth in
total R&D spending of other nations reduced the U.S. share of global R&D to approximately
27.7% in 2017.
I already answered this elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24457320

That being said, I've interviewed hundreds of candidates over the past 5 years, and not a single one has cited IP assignment as a hesitation.
New live learning series to support Unity educators
Most of the difference between a Sr engineer vs Staff/Sr staff/Mgr is all social skills. Its not just what you get done, but how you get it done and how you leverage other people that matters. Social skills are absolutely vital to climb the engineering career ladder.
And also on Twitch VODs (recordings of past streams).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24266369
`datetime.fromisoformat()`, as of 3.7 :D

Though `dateutil` is still recommended for most cases.
> The US has always had a big regional divide in skill levels as well as respect for knowledge, with the out-of-the-way places having a problem with both.

There are a lot of really good schools in flyover states. Looking at the top 10 engineering schools in the US, depending on your definition of "flyover," there's CMU, Michigan, Purdue, Illinois, and UT.
I think that’s an insane answer. We’ve divested in public schools over a prolonged period of time, plain and simple. The public schools that have not experienced that magically are in the wealthy “rich” neighborhoods. The system is working as intended. You want an educated population? Make sure schools have the proper investments. None of this 30 kids per classroom bullshit. Do 10-15 and see what kind of students you churn out.
The weird thing is that the compiler obviously knows how to copy an array, because you can pass a copy of a struct that contains an array. I have a vague impression that early versions of C couldn't pass either structs or arrays, only scalars and pointers.
oh didn't think of that! thanks codetrotter
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Not exactly- dark pools print and report trades like exchanges, the difference is that the order book isn’t displayed, i.e there’s less information about live orders.
> Seriously, I feel the US has a big education problem, with part of it being cultural I think

I think a lot of it is pricing and the debt model we use to fund it.

> Seems being educated, knowledgeable, having expertise, learning about science and technology, medicine and law, just isn't valued anymore

The returns on that investment just aren't as good as they used to be, couple that with the required debt above, and stagnant wage growth in these industries and I'd say it's clear they aren't valued anymore.

> and has to either outsource the work or import workers who do from elsewhere.

That's actually seems more like part of the reasons for the above issues than it is something that follows from it.

Combine all this with the fact that total self-employment and other measures of entrepreneurship have been trending downwards lately while the level of corporate integration and mergers have been increasing and it's a recipe for the destruction of middle to middle-upper class incomes and careers.

> What I see instead is people pushing for anti-intellectualism and valuing the "college dropouts".

This is a symptom of a sick system, and when the system is sick, it's inhabitants become sick as well.
America’s need to redefine its space paradigm
Wow, this site is beautiful. Not something I often see around such topics. Actually, not something I often see in general.
Children of a Dead Earth - Scientifically Accurately Space Combat
that's a good idea! we're definitely looking into how to do that
It's a page discussing readability of text.

Perversely I found the way it was presented made it very difficult to read.
You are getting those offers because of your 20 years of experience, not because remote work is inherently lucrative. Most people with 10 or fewer years of experience are used to seeing remote-only offers of less than $100k.
somewhat related (2013): https://www.pcmag.com/news/10-jaw-dropping-gigapixel-photos
My personal favourite is Silicon Glen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Glen
ActiveX controls were rejected, in part, because Microsoft lost their antitrust case and had controls placed on them by the federal government.
They're generally sold to "institutional investors" (i.e. VC, or other companies that buy chunks of millions of dollars, with agreements limiting who they can sell to, and under what conditions)
What sort of control methodologies were you using for the autopilot? Classic linear negative feedback or more modern techniques? How much of the autopilot problem was novel? Could you use existing designs from other aircraft or do these tend to be kept secret?
Technical debt is a tool to be used (with caution). Getting ludicrously far behind is a risk I'd avoid, but our stability is more important than staying on the bleeding edge and testing every single version of each of our dependencies.
You can do some of that with uBO (see "hard" blocking mode), but my understanding is that uMatrix gives you more granular control. I need to learn more about using uMatrix to confirm, though.
The antitrust suit is a big part of why the web succeeded to the extent it did.
Best Standalone Smartwatches to Leave Your Phone Behind
I agree. I’m an older programmer (almost 61) and I’ve been using Perl for a long time - maybe 20 or 25 years. I reach for it when a job feels like a bit too much for a bash (1) script.

I don’t go out of my way to teach or suggest Perl to my younger colleagues. I don’t know why that is. They don’t usually reach for Python, which I think would probably be their best choice.

Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon ... and by the way, can you please stay off my lawn?

:)
Oxford University resumes Covid-19 vaccine trials
Or the rest of Y2020, for that matter.
> Did you read what I linked? (I don't intend this to be hostile, but the paper explicitly discusses this.) They control for memorization and the errors are off by one which suggest doing arithmetic poorly (which is pretty nuts for a model designed only to predict the next character).

I read about this before. I must confess that I had incorrectly remembered that they had only checked a few of their computations for their presence in the corpus, not all of them. Still, they only check for two possible representations, so there is still a possibility that it picked up other examples (e.g. "adding 10 with 11 results in 21" would not be caught - though it's still somewhat impressive if it recognizes it as 10 + 11 = 21).

> It seems less likely to me that biological intelligence (which is bounded by things like head size, energy constraints, and other selective pressures) would happen to be the theoretical max. The paperclip idea is that if you can figure out AGI and it has goals it can scale up in pursuit of those goals.

Well, intelligence doesn't seem to be so clearly correlated with some of those things - for example, crows seem to have significantly more advanced capabilities than elephants, whales or lions (tool use, human face memorization). Regardless, I agree that it is unlikely that humans are a theoretical maximum. However, I also believe that the distribution of animal intelligence to brain size may suggest that intelligence is not simply dependent on the amount of computing power available, but on other properties of the computing system. So perhaps "scaling up" is not going to be a massive growth in the amount of intelligence - that you need entirely different architectures for that.

> Would you have predicted gpt-3 kind of success ten years ago? I wouldn't have. Is gpt-3 what you'd expect to see in a world where AGI progress is failing? What would you expect to see?

I don't think GPT-3 is particularly impressive. I can't claim that I would have predicted it specifically, but the idea that we could ape human writing significantly better wouldn't have seemed that alien to me I think. GPT-3 is still extremely limited in what it can actually "say", I'm even curious if it will find any real uses that we don't already outsource as brain-dead jobs (such as writing fluff pieces).

And yes, I do agree that this is a problem worth pursuing, don't get me wrong. I don't think lots of AI research is going in the right way necessarily, but some is, and some neuroscience is also making advances in this area.
Bottom line, the ugh field is a series of thought and feelings of one’s own creation. I find it empowering to dispense with the self-made prison of paralysis, and get to work.
I use my iPhone as my camera so everything is stored in iCloud.
I was fascinated that he felt compelled to change his name from Neville to Jim when he moved to Scotland.
X is still X and Google is still Google.

Outside of X, Google was never known for crazy moonshots. Google was always an ad platform with a search engine.
Thanks, I have found this "menu", but it felt awkward and limited to either horizontal or vertical.

I have come to split first and search second.

It’s all about personal preferences.
> My own observation has been that with the 3D printer for example, innovation was stagnant for the 20 years that they were under patent. Once the patents expired, innovation in the space boomed and the price of a decent 3D printer dropped by 100x.

I've seen this in other fields as well. Regular printers were mostly giant appliances until xerox's patents expired. I suspect the extremely slow start for VR (before it finally has started going somewhere now) is due to the flurry of patents you can see from the 90's finally expiring. I'm quite hopeful that a lot of technologies will take off in this way in the next few years, due to the expiration of patents from the internet bubble's R&D.

And regardless what one thinks about patents in theory, in practice it has clearly become a horrific mess, with the patent office rejected far too few applications. Applying technology everyone learns in college to a new problem actually counts as novel and non-obvious to them.

The "saving grace" is America's "ask forgiveness later" business culture. Basically violate patents as necessary, and if you make it big, pile up your own counter portfolio of patents to go to war with. The beneficiaries are the patent office and of course lawyers. Patent trolls become a problem though, as they have no products to get counter-sued over.
Rororo – Schema first Python web framework
Such is the nature of feedback loops :P
age only covers authenticated encryption. minisign/signify covers the signing part.

Everything else is either not used in practice or needs to be shifted to a dedicated protocol.
I’d be grateful if, in this thread, anybody with an anecdote about how their perfectly fine edit was reverted by the evil career Wikipedians, could provide a link so we can judge for ourselves.
The commit can be atomic, but if prod is many machines, the deployment cannot.
As if "just plain assault" is somehow better than "sexual assault".
From a non-US perspective, you described the dominant ideology of both your political parties. I'm not saying they are 'the same', but they both are extreme neoliberale market proponents. They also both embrace a tight intertwined government and enterprise regimen to the point where it becomes very difficult to tell who owns who, or whether it is just one organisation.
Spoken words are constrained to match mouth movements in a different language, the written forms don't have this restriction.

I doubt they were considering language learning when subtitling, unfortunately.
I'm going to bite, as well. My pubkey is in keybase from my profile, and my e-mail is on github (or you can just use keybase chat)
No they're not, you're both talking past each other. You're talking about phone-only interviews, but I don't think ALittleLight is even seeing it because that's such an obviously stupid idea it couldn't possibly be what you're talking about, so they think you're complaining about having to code.
On every article in some way related to the environment vocal pro nuclear people on HN will appear. Germany is the lastest favourite example for spreading misinformation along with discrediting renewables with FUD.
Doom and gloom was real in the mid atlantic when the factory left, and suddenly everyone had to move or be unemployed. People aren't getting fired in droves in SF. They are just a little bit unhappy with city living for a while, and are still gainfully employed. Uprooting their lives and leaving is an option afforded by having the funds to stay put or live like a king in half the continental U.S.. Plenty of people will stay put because for some people the hassle of moving out of your city and reestablishing your life elsewhere sucks more than riding out a pandemic in familiar waters. Completely different scenario than the contraction of the american steel industry, where peoople had to skip town if they wanted to put food on the table. Entirely different economic classes of workers. Not to mention a lot of the movement in the past from cities was also due to white flight.
I wish for better reviews and scores too. The animated reviews are simply awful. In some genres virtually everything has near 5 stars, even the most derivative badly written dross. I now ignore any positive reviews and look at the negative reviews instead. I look at those which seem the most level-headed and mention things I care about.
> how hard it is to have an opinion outside of the mainstream.

You can very easily have an opinion outside of the mainstream, but when that opinion turns out to be wrong then don't expect people to treat you as a smart person anymore or even as a "genius" (to quote the BBC).
Ask HN: The signal/noise ratio of YouTube is abhorrent. Channel recommendations?
The suggestions I get from YouTube feel like the proverbial Idiocracy variants of all my interests. It's managed to tell I'm interested in climbing, training, video games, and some other things but I get the equivalent of junk food recommendations for each interest that I have.

Examples of how astray it is:
Training: (tired) cheat days, who's natty or not, YouTubers with insane incomes buying things for their own exercise needs, athletes trying other sports and failing "comically".
What'd be interesting: discussions of mentality, keeping a positive attitude in spite of injury, balancing life and trying to be really good at a time consuming hobby.
Video games: things you missed in Bloodborne, e-sport gamers playing games they're bad at.
What'd be interesting: symbology in level design, parallels between games and politics/history. For instance, Abe's Odyssey and slavery.

What channels do you subscribe to and why?
A big part of the Chinese education strategy has been to send lots of students to US universities to get advanced degrees and take that knowledge back to build China.
Ironically unreadable with Firefox for Android. Lots of text is cut off. Possibly due to not handling text scaling (accessibility) correctly.
The real answer is a lot of people tolerate an awful hour plus one way commute if it means having a bigger house in a better school district.
What? You are suggesting that a person is unable to share his personal experiences and opinions unless their employer agrees? Obviously this may damage the company, but personally I have no sympathy for a company worth billions of dollars who is not known for their fair treatment of workers at all. I see nothing immoral in the original commenter releasing this information.
The brits[1] complained it was guerilla warfare, but by the end, Washington had naval support (merci, france), cavalry (dziękuję, poland; köszönöm, hungary), and artillery (merci encore, france), not to mention tacit logistical support from a number of other countries[2].

General Washington explicitly stood on the principles of being a regular, so much so that he would send back british letters unopened if they had not been properly addressed according to military custom.

(that custom has been codified somewhat with the Geneva Conventions, but it remains to be seen how applicable these conventions are in the twenty-first century.)

[1] hostilities having started when the brits, acting on undeniably accurate intelligence, sent out parties to destroy rural terrorist arms caches somewhere out in the boonies of Middlesex county. After accomplishing their mission despite sporadic hostile opposition, they were subject to sustained small arms fire from unlawful combatants on the return trip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Conco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Conco...

[2] Catherine, for instance, not only engaged in sanctions busting, but (at least according to russian sources) reneged on providing troops for the british which her diplomats had initially considered, leaving the public/private military contracting to various HRE relatives of George's. No fan of democracy, she, but "enemy of my enemy" reliably trumps ideologies in geopolitics. (for contrast, the CSA would discover mere economics "but muh property rights! and cheap cotton!" didn't trump a general nineteenth century distaste for slavery:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260354 )

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesse-Hanau_Troops_in_the_Amer... provided 2'400 troops out of an estimated 30'000 germans, suggesting the coalition of the billing must've been fairly large. https://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/xbrowse/sn/hetrina might contain better information.
Not if it makes the judge hate you, too.
They'll fix that. I think they realized they will lose so many users without extension support.
It's all done live! The first time we hear about what they're working on is during the interview, and we never keep any of the code. It's great to see how they can articulate what they're working on, combined with actually working on it.

We sometimes might make suggestions, but rarely for the sake of code quality. We'll once in a while ask for something unique just to get them out of a rut, and see if they can improvise. Otherwise, we're here to learn and listen, not teach :)
> Carbon credits are issued to companies in the industry based on a certain amount they are allowed to pollute. This is the cap, the credits are the trade, in "cap-and-trade". However, all that pollution still gets polluted in the end, the only thing that changes is who does it, and who pays.

The baseline is that all the credits are being bought by industrial polluters. If you personally buy a credit, industry has to pollute less. If you buy 1.5 credits for every credit-worth of extra pollution you cause, the pollution in the world is reduced. In theory.

> The world still gets more polluted either way.

The more credits people buy and sit on, the less pollution there can be. At first this is all low hanging fruit, but eventually the price gets so high that it's cheaper for industries to pay for carbon capture than to pay for credits. If enough are bought, and the price of credits goes high enough, total regulated pollution drops to zero or even goes under zero.

That's not an indulgence if you can minimize the loopholes.
The information presented was interesting, and the way it was presented was playful and kept me reading despite me being currently exhausted. Soooo, that's a positive from me!
That just means they are enforcing their biases on the information. Winning doesn't mean they got it correct, just that they achieved control of the narrative.

That's going to push the means of winning to editing towards the collective biases of the majority of wikipedia editors. Just consider the fact that at various times in our history that commonly accepted knowledge was that the Earth was flat, the Sun, Moon and Stars revolved around it and that slaves were property instead of people.

Effectively this is a proof that mob-sourced information tends towards the mob's interpretation of information and is not necessarily the truth.

I think a lot of people reading Wikipedia forget this and makes me disagree with your last statement -- there's a high potential for danger to the reader if the prevailing mob opinion is outwardly destructive or self-destructive.
Investment in public assets that take up the slack in the labour market and /remain/ public assets is the alternative to UBI I want to see.

An asset like a solar plant or a HVDC line produces revenue for the public. And there's no reason an independent publicly owned corporation can't function well.

I'll admit guaranteeing that the revenue isn't wasted by a government that becomes addicted to its revenue streams is another problem. (Denmark has a bridge with €30 plus tolls that were promised to become toll free once the loans were paid off. Never happened. Norway seems to do a better job with its oil fund.)

To bring China back as the reference, important government posts are extremely prestigious and held by very capable people. Outside of propping up their stock market, it is hard to fault their public investment stategy.

However, I disapprove of the surveillance state and the human rights abuses.
I note that koolba's comment was evidence-lite and really rather partisan. So it is probably incorrect.

However, claiming the reverse is true is also evidence-lite. That paper looks like it was a fairly cursory piece of work and didn't account for population size or characteristics (eg, number of disadvantaged students) in the correlation work.

I suspect what it really shows is that political affiliation isn't the biggest driver of outcomes. Looking at the table at the end of the paper and thinking about population, I suspect the aim would be more of what Massachusetts does and less of what California does (both Democrat states) if possible.
Apology accepted :)
Have you seen how the working class lives in the U.S.? It's honestly not much different than a developing country. Multiple families in a tiny apartment is common in places like LA. People hold full time jobs while going back home to a tent on the sidewalk. Tenement conditions are very real in the U.S., and invisible for the most part by anyone fortunate enough not to live in them.