skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the businesses pleading poverty have execs making millions a year - funny how there is never any issue awarding huge bonuses for the top brass, but the cupboard is always bare for employees.
> And what would that be? A study linking both while accounting for every other factor? I don't think it's even possible to do such a thing.

What’s the point of saying something if you think that it’s impossible to prove?

> There is competition even in software development, it doesn't take anyone to be a bartender for competition to cause a wage drop, moreover the reality is way more stark when you look at jobs that aren't as cushy as software development. A Spanish waiter is probably used to lower salaries and is probably more dependent on his job than an English one that has a support network in his country, his chances to unionize are also lower. We see it all the time with immigrants from low income countries.

The number of software developers in the UK kept going up until the beginning of lockdowns, but salaries went up instead of going down. How’s that possible if more people mean lower wages?

Is there any evidence of Spanish bartenders pushing bartender salaries down?

> I can imagine how immigration can lead to economic growth and salary growth as a result, but I find it impossible that the race to the bottom caused in low-income jobs is worth for them at all, if anything the economic growth is caused by this low-cost labor.

Is there any evidence of this “race to the bottom [..] in low-income jobs”? Is there any evidence of it being caused by immigration?
I so want to respond with Orbital lyrics... but this is a very good point.
Until the Chinese have carriers perpetually parked in the Gulf of Mexico, they haven't even begun to reciprocate Washington's naval aggression in the South China Sea.
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but whoever posted this information in an internal message board was keen on finding a method to force the company to act on this. Was it the right thing to do? Yes. Was it meant to be leaked? 100%.

Running a company in today's environment feels very different than 20 years ago, and to make it clear - it's better for the world this way. Any employee - no matter how low or high ranking - has the ability to erase a significant amount of enterprise value from any business, no matter how large or small. This is driven by improved moral standards, but also extreme connectivity that we have in terms of obtaining information internally (slack, notion, google drive and thousands of other software solutions that have increased everyone's access to documents) and sharing it with the outside world (social media, easy access to journalists, readers' interest in holding companies accountable).

I would be surprised if we don't experience some type of a push back from the companies. At the very least, I imagine access to info will be reduced (already happened at Google), and also that we'll increasingly start seeing new ways of how employees are connected with each other (both in terms of policy as well as actual barriers that will prohibit anyone from reaching too many people). I imagine that companies will also start researching new candidates' propensity for activism by analyzing their social media content. For example, if you post "tax the rich!" on Facebook, I imagine that in the not so distant future that will have a negative impact on your market value.

If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that every action triggers a reaction (which is time-delayed in the sense that it arrives late and also overshoots the original target), and the constant yo-yoing between those two forces is what explains much of the irrational behavior in the world.
Michael Hyatt in his "Vision driven leader" book makes a good distinction between vision an mission, which I think is helpful to you. I recommend you read the book, it is right on your avenue.
I am an owner of the hardcover copy of the book as I am a huge fan of the site. The book is as detailed as the site itself and is a delight to read as a CRPG fan.
Nuclear weapons are a technology that is almost 100 years old, and is old enough for a country like North Korea to pull off.

It has a space program with rockets, a nuclear power sector, etc. It's the thing you do when you want all the pieces for a potential nuclear weapons program without signaling that you're looking to develop a nuclear weapons program.

I think the current contemporary estimate is that Japan could assemble a functioning nuke in 6-12 months.
Is it a good goal to create anything greater than oneself? Usually. The utility will be plainly evident long before AGI - software agents will fundamentally change the game for a lot of markets. I love math as much as the next guy, but the proof is in the work. Describe a scenario in which your concerns with regard to proof validation actually have a material impact on somebody who isn't retarded.

Also, if you think the concept of humanity will remain static in all this - just look at how the industrial revolution fundamentally changed education. It is no coincidence that students became interchangeable pieces with error tolerances.
yes and most java developers have come to terms with null and NPE, it's just part of programming in Java so honestly I'm fine with it being here.
The response on twitter has been totally abysmal. Very few people seem to be reacting to this in a way that recognizes he's having a manic episode. Lots of shaming, distancing, bridge burning, etc. Very concerning that it's not clear to those around him on that platform that he's not in control of any of this. The lack of compassion is alarming.
> The classification itself indeed matches with reality, as it is generally made on ancestry.

I would dispute that claim.

Due to population bottlenecks among the first 'out_of_africa' groups, a black passing south indian is genetically a lot closer to a white as milk finnish person than various african subpopulations are to each other. (Africans are orders of magntitude more diverse than the rest of the world, in a genetically quantifiable way)

Race markers like latin american and hispanic betray the fact that some countries (argentina, chile) are almost entirely white, others are have denisovan dna (natives) or are racial frankenstien's monsters due to slave trade (Brazil). It makes no sense to use these umbrella race denominations.

Race as an overloaded term for sociological, antropological, genetic and medical use is stupid. It just becomes a terrible tool for each. Genetics has smartly stopped using race much, but the others still continue to do so, despite the inconveniences it brings.

There is utility to race , only because we refuse to cut the middle man and identify clusters directly from genetic data. No one needs a cockerel to wake you up, when alarm clocks have been invented. Honestly, typing this comment has just made me want to invest in these 23nme-like companies.
It's the most modern SoC that supports mainline Linux with FLOSS drivers.
I think it is certainly possible. In Scala you enable "explicit nulls" and it will not compile if you try to set a value to null (https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/expl...) without making the type a union with Null.
The BlackBerry smartphone not so much. It might be a personal deficit, but I found myself often misunderstanding longer e-mails when reading those on that tiny screen. Eventually I just used it to be notified about new messages and then seek a proper computer / screen to digest those before answering. As a notification device, the old pagers worked better, as they used FM radio with better coverage / penetration. I miss those.
I don’t dispute that at all, but this “made up context” is the attempted exploration of the actual, human, lived in reality that was flawed from the start.

Anti racialism/color blindness has been tried before, that was the general progressive approach for decades and decades here. It didn’t work out, and the most vocal opponents were themselves “black”.

By its very nature, it is deeply unaligned with the interests of the group it’s trying to help. 5 wolves and 2 sheep deciding how to share dinner, but all of the wolves have agreed to wear little blindfolds. Or, even worse, they’re all deciding in the dark with the lights turned off! Not only can the predatory wolves still wolf, but they can do it under the cover of darkness.

To compete, the sheep must become wolves. This is okay, even encouraged in assimilationist societies. This is absolutely not an option anymore in eg the US. We have a generation of older black men with names like Reginald and Eustace to remember its utter failure by.

Strained analogy that also completely ignores structural racism, please consider discussing racialism with fellow countrymen who happen to be of a different “race” <- shorthand!, as that cultural divide can be quite wide to reach across.
Yup, if a gang of 7 beats and robs somebody; you can accurately say 7 out of 8 people improved their situation.
> Is it a _fact_ that booster shots are necessary, or is the current vaccine regimen sufficient?

The issue is that the words "necessary" and "sufficient" are left to the reader, and are deeply political.

Some people will argue that we must do every possible thing in our power to save every possible life, so even a 0.01% of increased protection would be enough to make booster shots "necessary" and the current regiment "insufficient".

Some other will accept loss of life, and will even call vaccine shots "unnecessary" since the vast majority of the population - especially the non fragile part - doesn't seem to suffer from covid. In their mind, our our natural immunity itself is "sufficient".

Most people arguing on this subject are actually not arguing over scientific arguments, but are arguing over their own position between those two extremes. And they throw in some numbers / quote experts to sound more scientific than they really are in the vain hope to convince the other part that they are somehow more "right".
NB: Post author here.

Thanks for sharing! Hadn't heard of that algorithm, have seen a number of other ones out there, we chose a couple that we knew about / were requested by users. (And we are open to more user requests if folks want to use other ones! https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-toolkit and open an issue!)
i think the new ones started wtih Greenwald-Khanna. but i definately agree - p^2 can be a little silly and misleading. in particular it is really poor at finding those little modes on the tail that correspond to interesting system behaviours.
I googled it so you do not have to...:

"A Pigovian (Pigouvian) tax is a tax assessed against private individuals or businesses for engaging in activities that create adverse side effects for society."
I would recommend some combination of Lingua Latina and Wheelock's Latin. That's what my Latin tutor used and they complement each other very well.
random side note: glasses for example, bought RayBans my nose bridge isn't the right shape for it sucks

could be genetic I suppose but I wasn't aware of this as a thing eg. Asian fit sunglasses
>Lord knows that e.g. "evolutionary psychology" (which this would fall under) is packed with just-so stories.

I think this has to be admitted, and that any explanation based on evolutionary psychology should be viewed more skeptically than other arguments. However, I think it's absolutely true that genetics do influence our psychology to some degree. And so, there must be some evolutionary psychology claims which can be said to be true. At a very high, and very basic level, some are so self-evident that no one bothers to make them: ie, that sexual attraction exists, is a strong motivator for most people, and must have a basis in evolutionary fitness. Obviously things can get more murky when you want to discuss behaviors with more nuance or complexity. Further, even when a claim is probably true it's quite hard to actually test in a scientific manner. You can isolate the behavior, but not the explanation. How can you truly prove that a behavior is caused by evolution rather than social pressure?

That said, I don't think the whole field can be thrown out, despite your accurate claim that the field can be a bit of a mess.
The right way to do this is to tax the land in such a way that discourages rent seeking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

The second thing to do are reforms to make it much much easier to build new housing, as demand far outstrips supply.
> I think wages (in AU, at least) already render many small businesses unviable.

Probably an unviable business no matter the wage. People cannot be depended on to subsidize someone's business by accepting crappy wages.
Pretty sure he thinks antibody count is the same as being protected. And since antibodies fade over time, he thinks the protection fades. But the immune system is immensely more complicated with memory cells and such.
This is definitely one of the reasons I bailed after Medical school. Unvaccinated COVID patients are new, but that kind of decision making is not. Once I realized medicine was as much begging people to make good decisions as it was actually helping people, I just didn't think I could spend a lifetime doing that. Anecdotally, the few physician contacts I've kept are regularly posting about how much they are working. Which is impressive, because to them working 60+ hours a week is not considered too much.
How can two photons collide? Aren't photons force carriers/bosons?
You can’t discount COVID deaths by using yearly flu deaths, but then only extrapolating to 8 months. Think of the other four months as “low-activity flu-months” and should be obvious why. You are intuitively mixing an attempt to estimate risk per year and risk per infection, I believe.

I’m also not entirely sure how good surveillance is for the flu? I could imagine it being recorded as “pneumonia” or “respiratory arrest”, especially when it affects poorer people, or those not admitted to hospitals.

(please not that the two issues above would pull any conclusion into opposite directions, then reflect on the relative amounts of hate and love, respectively, before deciding that I must be wrong because disagree)
I believe the vacancies are mostly bar staff, carers, farm labour and haulage.

There are a bunch of delusional pub landlords in my city who complain about the lack of staff and claim stuff like "today's youth are entitled and lazy" - but apparently failed to notice local supermarkets literally pay more with fewer hours.
>the last one of which was Java 11, 3 years ago.

Extended support still behind Java 8 =)

I suspect Java 8 will be with us for a long long time.
Thanks for the great explanation. The height analogy made it click for me.
If you have a bunch of related records you can make them public and nested within a top-level public class. You could also throw some static utility or factory methods in there too.
nVidia GPU: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-4000m.c1428
But with the taller/shorter, you would commonly have two tallers producing a shorter, or two shorters producing a taller. If we were talking about husbandry, we would say that tallers and shorters don't "breed true".

But with race, you never have two white people produce a black person, or vice versa (and no, a black person with albinism is not a white person).
The tax incidence depends on the elasticities of demand and supply. Since the supply of land is, for practical purposes, perfectly inelastic, land value tax cannot be effectively passed onto the tenant.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Tax_incidence
That isn't a description of the group's mission, it's a characterization of leadership in chapters that he researched. If they weren't getting involved with Richard Spencer and if Richard Spencer wasn't a neo-nazi, then maybe you'd be right that the term was thrown in for effect. But a quick search shows that Spencer was invited to speak at U.Buffalo by YAF chapter leaders there.
Ask HN: What 'gem' did you find on GitHub?
What opensource project did you find on GitHub that got you excited recently and think others should know about.
You were right to scoff.

Heathers was a movie also about an abusive sociopathic male engineering the deaths of his classmates in an act of petty rebellion against his abusive sociopathic father who killed his mother.

Anyone that tells you that
'All {men,women} do is about {power,sex,men,women}'.
is just telling on themselves and their social group specifically.

On the first and second statement, lesbians the world over would like a word.
You can't protect against the 80 year old Marthas who IS GOING to click the link regarding her 10,000,000$ payment from the Nigerian prince. She IS GOING to download and install the bank transfer program, and she is going to compromise the entire network.

You can't get rid of the Marthas because the Marthas have been here 30 years and hangs out with everyone from the company on weekends, and probably knows more about the business than anyone even if you wanted to get rid of her.
In the UK, lenders are resticted by the regulator - only 15% of their loans can be at greater than 4.5x income.

As a result 5x and 6x income mortgages tend to be easier to get the more you earn.
I vehemently disagree that JS, Rust, and Go are not functional languages. We have no problem classifying C++ as OOP despite it being an equally good procedural language. For some reason, we don't extend the same benefit to FP because it's foreign.

It's true that JS, Rust and Go are multi-paradigm languages (so is Haskell and other FP BTW), but FP is one of those paradigms.
Yeah, human condition.
You can't say anything about someone's bone density by deciding that they are black. Averaging the bone density of everyone that you've defined as black might be predictive of distributions of the bone densities of large numbers of people you've defined as black.

But it's just because of the metrics you've chosen. If you started defining race by bone density, and ignored ahistorical half-biblical half-mystical 19th-century human taxonomies, you might find that their classifications aren't interesting or useful for most things. If you controlled for effects that are affected by differential social treatment (like diet and upbringing), you might find most of your metrics are ghosts.

The process of sorting people into boxes for differential treatment based on their qualities affects their qualities.
Basal metabolic rate
Well, if we're imagining dystopian science-fiction stories in this vein, let's say that the salvage company automates their cleanup with an AI approximately as sophisticated as YouTube. Now every satellite launch is subject to malicious "take down" requests from competitors along with the whimsies of the algorithm.
They may not have voted for it, but its still a valid policy position to advocate for :)
related: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2021/09/1...

and the survey: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3918955
> You have a whole load of devs that will simply embrace anything with such a pedigree because it 'must be state of the art'

Dude, at the end of the day I want something done. And golang has good libraries (esp network stuff), good IDE support, and compiles to single binary that's reasonably fast and easy to deploy.

Show me another language that covers all these.
what? I don't feel it's "pointless" at all. Many popular Java libraries and frameworks (including Spring) use nullability annotations which can be interpreted correctly by Kotlin. It's true that I can't be 100% sure not to get NPEs, but I think it's close enough and I've rarely seen NPEs in Kotlin codebases.
A world of people stubbornly ingraining themselves in everything made by google and facebook, dismissing any notion of "government overreach" as disordered thinking, and proudly proclaiming they have nothing to hide, means that by the time the inertia of ignorance starts to let up it will have been too late. The electronic prison will be complete and a new dark age will be upon us.
What I meant was "the goal of regimes that implement capitalism was never to concentrate wealth".

Also I was saying what the goal wasn't.

Do you understand now?
That sounds familiar, I remember reading about Greenwald-Khanna before I found T-Digest after I ran into the "how to find a percentile of a massive data set" problem myself.
if you're coming from Java 8, here is a comprehensive list of new features since then https://ondro.inginea.eu/index.php/new-features-in-java-vers...
Twitter reopens its account verification process after another pause
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN, and particularly please don't fulminate or post flamebait. It's all against the site guidelines, and not what this site is for. You can make your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As Vinay Prasad would say, It is often our mechanistic understanding that misaligns with study results. All we can do is test.
agreed! org-mode is seriously the most lightweight tool i use on a daily basis. also the various exporters have helped me out more times than i can count now.

i recently moved over to mediawiki due to work, but it is a behemoth compared to org-mode.
Was Shockwave a platform for Flash then, or something?

I don't know any technical details here, but from a user perspective Shockwave did turn into Flash. The Flash file extension "swf" even stands for "ShockWave Flash".
Lately I have insight similar to 'what hardware improvements give, software bloat take it away', 'what JDK platforms give third party Java frameworks take it away.

I have this misfortune of dealing daily with a nasty Java framework which converts compile time errors into runtime errors, single error trace with multiple stack traces , most of them being from framework itself.

One thing that might improve situation is server side libraries instead of framework. However AFAIK there is nothing like that in Java world. Everything is bound to Servlet API at lowest level and app server/frameworks on top of it.
Do you have specific examples of "massive" progress and improvements to efficiency since, say, the late '60s?

I tend to agree with Neal Stephenson that "the threat now has become not too much innovation, but not enough". [1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE0n_5qPmRM&t=333s
Do you know about ADE?

People with a vaccine that doesn’t stop infection may have a higher chance and time to help develop mutations in order for it to survive.

It was extremely dangerous to push an imperfect vaccine, and because we know the current ones do not stop infection, transmission, or lower the viral load, that might be what has happened. IDK, not an epidemiologist.

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cent...
They are, however, making a commitment to scripting friendly URLs for the JDK downloads, making it feasible to automate the install.

Still, it is pretty lame, since they've been advocating bundling of the JDK since they deprecated the WebStart.

OTOH, since Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are identical save for branding and licensing, not sure why you wouldn't just bundle an OpenJDK build in that case.

This new license seems to be targeted to two main groups: those who depend upon a "system" install of Oracle Java for running third party apps, and those who are for some reason unwilling to use OpenJDK.
Personal anecdote: I've only gotten food poisoning from a restaurant once in my life, and it was an A&W in the early 2000's.
Do Fannie and Freddie underwrite mortgages in the UK?
I didn't make any comments on the utility of racial classification, just that the classification isn't perfect, leaves groups out, and where you decide to draw the lines between them is often arbitrary. Race is an oversimplification of a complex system, but even an oversimplification has value.

Seems like you have a pretty good grasp on my assertion here.