skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would you think someone would be happy with their salary if they wanted to own a home & have kids, if that salary didn't let them?

I think the clear implication is that if someone didn't realize that a small amount of negotiation on their part could have made the difference between being able to buy a home or not, they might regret not having negotiated when they do realize it, regardless of how happy they were in the past with their salary.

Your interpretation is essentially "if you are as happy as you could possibly be, and a higher salary couldn't possibly make you any happier, then don't negotiate," which is logically valid but fairly unrealistic.
I agree with the sentiment and salary is not in my top few priorities in terms of job satisfaction. However I will also add that anecdotally I have never known anyone who had a company retract an offer because the candidate asked for more. The worst answer you will usually get is "that was our best offer". You don't have to make it a long drawn out negotiation. You can just make it a standard practice to respond to any job offer asking for at least 10% more. There is little downside and the difference will add up over a career.
Am I missing something (IANAL), or is that case about copyright infringement?

I guess we'll find out whether or not this case against FB will move forward, but I'd be willing to put down a wager that FB will prevail. Are you equally confident in your position?
Yeah, no, not around here. Most people in rural areas aren't working on farms, the landfills aren't that far out, almost all of the warehouses are closer in to where the majority of people live, the water comes from the city (there are multiple water treatment plants that draw from the river maybe a mile from downtown and send water out to suburbs/exurbs), etc etc etc.

You're talking about jobs and uses <10% of people in rural areas are actually doing. The majority of people are instead commuting 40+ minutes in to denser areas where there jobs are.

On the other hand, all I hear is propaganda about why cities are awful places and why exurbs/rural areas are so amazing. I'm tired of huge chunks of my money getting pulled away from where I live to subsidize people living these unhealthy, expensive lifestyles.
Sounds about right. They wanted me to pay $180k for 10mb fiber to my place. It was a 12 mile pull for them with plenty of people along the way for them to sell to though.
Not an anthropologist, but my first hypothesis would be avoiding other humans (war and predation). Perhaps disease-carrying insects as well.
Tree-ring dating of musical instruments
Are there any specific mathematical properties that you find beautiful that arise out of this field?

I personally find the reasoning on graphs(neurons) to make the verification tractable really beautiful. :)
It mentions prizes, but I don’t see them listed. What are they?
He likes to sue.

He did a interview on wrestling years ago. He went in doing his cutesy made for tv interview. The kind of interview that idiots seem to like. That in you face, and I'm going to out you.

He kept on calling it fake, which it is.

A idiot wrestler got fed up up with the guy, and slaped him. An open slap that most of us might slough off.

In court, he claimed long term physical/psychological damage from the slap. He claimed his hearing was permently damaged. Just a whiny baby with a monetary motive?

He got a nice fat settlement, from the wrestler, and WWF.

(I don't condone any violence, and never understood fake wrestling, but Stossel got his taste of easy judicial money, and him suing doesn't suprise me.)
This article has got to be in the running for least informative article on the internet.
I'm Chinese and not living in the west. Don't make assumptions.
Do you have documents that show Coinbase sells Bitcoin for USDT and not USDC or simply USD when you sell through their system?
Unlikely.

The interface between two pieces of construction work, done by two different kinds of contractors is, generally speaking, far less variable than the interface between two different pieces of software, or a piece of software and a piece of hardware, or a piece of software, and a business process.

It's not uncommon for software to discover that the interface point it's supposed to work with is the digital equivalent of a plumber laying down pipes made out of sugar, instead of PVC.
Why does the chart title include the words "vs. the great recession"? I'm having trouble ascertaining precisely what the y-axis is. There doesn't seem to be any data from the great recession on the chart, despite the title clearly implying that there should be.
>The effect is the same on society, why are they treated differently? the mechanisms shouldn't matter. If FB (or HN) is to be held at a differnt standard, they should either be "100% neutral except illegal pics" or be forced to have full transparency on all their algorithms and editing decisions.

What I post on HN or Facebook or in a comment section of the NYT is my responsibility, because I am the source of those posts.

What the NYT publishes as news or opinion is their responsibility as the source of those items.

As for the algorithms in use, that's one of the reasons I quit FB seven years ago. But such algorithms are irrelevant to who authored a particular piece of prose.

The author might be liable for libel/defamation (assuming that can be proved), but the platform that hosts their content is not.

I'm not sure why you're having such a hard time with this. And I'm going to stop trying to explain it to you.

Good luck!
Unless it's now more profitable to burn everything on site, skipping the infrastructure cost of capture and delivery, while also producing more hydrocarbons for longer than they normally would have.
This is true, but I think when the tabulations are all finished, we'll discover that the war in Afghanistan really cost something north of $100 trillion -- we just aren't including everything we should be including in the tabulation currently. In these types of situations, it is very easy to exclude things like personnel and research going on at home supporting the war effort. It's also been politically convenient to fudge Afghanistan spending numbers for 20 years up until a few months ago, so we have no reason to expect the reported numbers are the full story. I say this as an ex-DOD civilian.
certbot works with apache, if you're willing to spend that effort
The 'why' is pretty much unknowable. Evolution doesn't push organisms to do new things, it simply responds to existing selective constraints. What we observe is that Humans (even archaic ones) seem to have expanded into virtually every region they could find, regardless of how hospitable it was. This particular set of changes happens to reduce physiological stress at high altitude, so it was preserved in populations experiencing that constraint.
No, because they weren't going to hire and train an excessively large infrastructure crew when they'd have to fire most of them as soon as the subsidy ran out. They just shifted all of their people from the urban area to these exurbs to do the build out.
The evidence is that every other coronavirus ever studied was zoonotic. It's still the most reasonable explanation. This story doesn't really move the needle.
The globe looks like a demo or trade show prop, when practical consumer trackballs were on the market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball
A good book about the early days of Google maps and the Keyhole company that originally built it is "Never Lost Again" by Bill Kilday.

The author was one of the founders[1] of Keyhole and stayed on when the company was bought by google.

[1] This might technically be wrong, but he was working for them from almost day one.
For those of you here that have hit your FIRE number: have you ever brought this up with your manager or potential new company? I'm in this position myself where I don't have to work any more, and mainly just want a fun job. I don't want to be underpaid for the value I'm providing, but I also don't want to be jerked around.
I’m confused as to the economics of this. Can someone explain to me why it’s cost effective to make use of this gas for crypto mining but not for other purposes? If you move crypto, you’d buy energy at the market price, no? Why pay more than the market price?
>Boarded and seated passenger is forcibly deplaned because another employee wants to deadhead in his seat.

That’s a pretty gross mischaracterization. Deadheading crew members are simply doing as asked by their employer. That man wasn’t kicked off, and abused, because an employee “wanted” his seat. He was removed because the fine print of the agreement when you purchase a ticket allows airline management to make those types of choices. The deadheading crew members weren’t involved in any of the altercation if I remember correctly.

I’m not trying to argue it was right at all but it definitely was not the fault of a crew member.
Cool. I think I can use this strategy when I add communities.
The larger point it true, but the really rural areas actually, to my surprise, had pretty good per-capita carbon tax emissions on the maps I saw. It's the suburbs that measured as by far the worst.

I guess there is just nowhere worth driving to all the time.

So don't get me wrong it's still massively subsidized, and we should stop doing that and make more parks instead (especially on the east), but it's not so polluting.
The whole point is weird - having more equations than unknowns is only needed for an exact closed form solution, it's entirely possible to solve underconstrained problems that have multiple solutions via optimization (which is what DL is). To be fair, the article says just that afterward, just weird that the high school thing was mentioned in the first place.
The corollary is that if one is not happy with the salary or work, either ask for a raise or switch.

Life is too short to subscribe to company loyalty.
If you grew up in the US I'd like to demand the resignation of whatever American history professor you had growing up.

"Mad they had to pay taxes" completely obfuscates (probably in bad faith) the fact that colonists had no say in what that taxation went toward, and the people who _did_ lived thousands of miles away before any real communication infra even existed. It's right there in the name. The way you speak about "conspiracy theory farmers" reveals your real agenda, which is to push narrative-snark bemoaning the origins of our country (even if it's at the expense of the historical truth).
It's an interesting moral question, something I would hope the church leaders very strongly consider. What difference does it make where a person lives, if they are suffering? Put another (utilitarian) way - if you can spend $100 to help 10 people across the globe not die of starvation, versus $100 to help a non-starving but down on their luck local, which gives more heaven credit?

The nature of our evolved brain prioritizes those proximate; I'm unclear of an argument why helping these people is superior, especially when you can make a bigger difference, more cheaply, by helping people in poorer countries.
actually, if your goal is "handle 99.9% of circumstances", your job is to find the edge cases and make sure they are as normal as all other cases.

thats not whats happening in ML. whats happening is "find the easiest amount of information to train a model"
Can you provide a source to support your claim that the water requirement is several orders of magnitude greater than what a fire engine can carry?

You are literally saying that the water requirement is so great it could not be supplied by 10, 100, or even 1000 fire trucks combined. Assuming several means at least 4, then you are saying it would take 10,000 fire trucks worth of water to cool a single Tesla battery fire.
Can’t we do that either way?
This is ridiculous. What’s the point? There are orders of magnitude more internal combustion engine fires. This is just anti-Tesla propaganda
Since bitcoin mining is pure electicity-to-monetary-value, without the usefulness of, say, powering a hospital or smelting aluminum, economic incentives seem to be for power providers to just set up mining rigs and generate more profit for themselves than boring old ratepayers could provide. Too bad Enron didn’t survive to enjoy this.
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Considering the vast swathes of 1.5M homes across the Bay Area that were <$100k in the mid-70s, you didn't need to be anywhere near a millionaire to making a killing in real estate if you've been here 50 years.
There's some evidence this kind of research happens. There's not really evidence it was happening in Wuhan nor evidence that the virus we have is the result of experimentation. Historically lab leaks are vanishingly rare and acquisition from animals is extremely common. For lab leak to be even a plausible story the evidence would have to be very strong and it is nowhere near convincing right now.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has pitched building one: https://www.zdnet.com/article/bom-floats-idea-of-antarctic-s...
It's in the article:

"Natural gas that is consumed on the site and would have otherwise been vented or flared under the authority of the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission has no value and is exempt from taxation as long as the natural gas is certified by the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission as to have originated from a qualifying well,” the new law reads."
according to the wiki of the referenced case

> it held that if a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit is a public official or person running for public office, not only must he or she prove the normal elements of defamation—publication of a false defamatory statement to a third party—he or she must also prove that the statement was made with "actual malice",

But as i understand it is now being applied to celebrities as well

TBH i only know stossel from his twitter and videos that i see in libertarian channels (i m not in the US). Didn't know he was so famous in the US. I wonder whether that (international audience) counts for defining what is "public official"
That link is paywalled all the same.
The hardware and software making the decision to wake the device isn't necessarily privy to concepts like "user" or "intent"; At that layer, it's all just signals. Someone has to design the system to interpret what those signals/events are supposed to lead to (e.g. should connecting a cable to a closed laptop wake it up? What if the thing on the other end of that cable is a mouse, or a storage device, or a charger, or a docking station? What if I jiggle my Bluetooth mouse, causing it to re-establish its connection to the laptop's Bluetooth radio? Should other state be considered before making a decision?).

The fact that such a subsystem exists isn't an indication of malice or a subversion of your will. There will be bugs in such a system, but the system still needs to be there.
> Forgot the first and most important commandment: always force them to open

Uh...that's literally the first one though?

> Do not — I repeat, do not — give them a number.

> What to do instead: Ask for the range they’re budgeted for the role.
There will be others. I'll wait.
A rejected proposal does not mean research does not happen. It means they were unable to get funding from DARPA. It does not necessarily mean they were unable to get funding from "somebody".

And yes we do have reason to believe this type of research caused the pandemic.
The machine I tend to use for connecting runs headless and a recent change in Mysterium has made it so that once I connect to their network I'm disconnected from that machine on the local network. Not sure if it's a feature of split tunneling that normally allows this behaviour. I might have my terminology wrong.
Maybe putting that specific guideline on the submission page might help?
I can't help but draw a comparison to Rural Electrification in the 30's. Companies in the 30's refused to build electricity to rural areas because they weren't confident that farmers would buy the electricity and because spending a lot of money for a few dozen customers is pretty bad business. Rural electrification only happened with government intervention and farmer-owned collectives who sold the electricity to the rural areas. Utilities are not a business that work in the favor of the consumer. And yes, internet is a utility. I'm amazed that's even a stance at this point.
If you aren't personally one of those protected groups, exploiting their needs to get more money for yourself seems unscrupulous. That ought to make for a weaker negotiating position, not a stronger one, so I'm surprised none of these prospective employers have called your bluff.
Dr Shiva brought up some interesting questions and I think we definitely need good answers for them from the county. And it also shows that just because there isn’t obvious evidence of fraud, doesn’t mean evidence can’t be found when you actually start investigating.

However one curious thing about his report is the question he had about how the stamp appears to go under the triangles that were printed on the envelope. He implied there was fraud involved here and that it might be some sort of “photoshop mistake”. The guy has 4 degrees from MIT, some related to computer science, it sounds like he has extensive experience in computer vision, so how is it possible that he (nor any of his team) realize they were looking at not raw images, but the output of an edge detection filter, which plainly explains why the text appears to be “under” the triangles?

It’s not possible that he could have missed a detail that anyone who paid attention in the first week of an intro computer vision class would have fought. That sort of implies his whole analysis was not done in good faith and should be thoroughly scrutinized before any other of his implied conclusions are to be taken seriously.
Why protected groups? This isn’t true. It perpetuates low pay for EVERYONE. You don’t have to be a protected group to be shy, conflict averse, ignorant of salaries, etc
In New York State, it’s illegal for them to ask your salary history.
The issue is likely mostly paywalled sites and SPAs where this isn't as simple.
You should pay him...
And even 17% is deceptive. One of my neighbors has an apple orchard. Another has a Christmas tree farm. We’re next to a bunch of conservation land. We’re urban by census classification.
Does Border Patrol need to rein it in?
I hear that advice often but I have had more success opening with a high number so the negotiation gets anchored within a certain range. I have never had much success negotiating an offer up by a significant amount.
Life is short, but is a back and forth and awkward phone call really that big a bother when it could be hundreds of thousands of dollars extra for you and your family? If anything, you probably maximize your utility by negotiating just a little bit before taking the job.
Facebook is other people
That case was indeed about copyright infringement, but:

>"Courts have held that defendants cannot escape the reach of these statutes by deliberately shielding themselves, from clear evidence of critical facts that are strongly suggested by the circumstances, understanding that those who behave in such manner should be treated as those who had actual knowledge.

I will bet on anything, but only at odds which result in a positive expected outcome. The question is what terms and odds you're giving.
Those opinions of fellow humans, and the kinds of people who have them, are about a dime a dozen on Twitter.
Both of these companies will give your data to law enforcement and 3-letter agencies. At least Microsoft seems less likely to competently mine the data.
These are crude wells for which natural gas is just a byproduct. While crude can be stored in tanks near the wells and trucked intermittently to pipelines, the natural gas requires pipelines to the wellhead which may not be economic. Generally there isn’t a productive use of small quantities of natural gas in the middle of nowhere so it’s flared. The Bitcoin mining provides a “productive” use.
So, who did they get funding from, if not one of the only bodies in the world capable of funding this kind of work?

Oh, that’s right, they didn’t. You can tell that by looking at what they did work on next. Did you look?

Like it says in the article.
It's right there in Ankura's report in the PDF.

Ankura reports that DomainTools reports the First Seen for the FQDN — with the exact same IP address throughout — as early as 2010-07-02.

If you don't believe Ankura, just purchase a report for the domain yourself from DomainTools or one of their resellers. Probably only costs a few bucks for a few lookups.
The argument is that it impacts disadvantaged groups disproportionately. Also, there are lots of studies showing that women negotiate less than men do. I don't know how good the studies are but they've certainly been reported a lot.
Well that was a waste of time.

Except for the two Michaels I guess.
One real great reason to care one way or the other is that the lab leak vs. natural origins debate heavily informs whether or not GoF research makes sense at all, as in, whether it should be pursued or globally & aggressively banned.

The basis for GoF research (at least, the publicly-espoused thesis, bioweapons research being a likely secondary interest) is that such research can help us stop or reduce the impact of a pandemic. If the natural origin theory turns out to be the truth, then this adds lots of weight to the idea that we SHOULD be aggressively pursuing GoF research in order to fix the next naturally-occuring viral pandemic. However, if sars-cov-2 actually came from a lab leak, then we have evidence that such research is both far more risky than we thought and as well that natural pandemics are less likely than we think, so we should probably not do it at all.
Patent trolls' underhanded trade schemes must be stopped
So the issue is the overhead infrastructure needed to do anything useful with the gas. The gas burns, so it is useful, and if they could've done anything profitable with it they wouldn't be burning it. It's not viable, so it is wasted. Well if you can use it on site to do something, like mine bitcoin, it can then be turned into something useful that doesn't require a ton of transport and storage infrastructure, so the state is trying to incentivize that so that they don't just keep burning it.
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I just read the whole article from the archived link. So I can confirm it Works for me™.
Here's a picture with side-by-side comparison and things numbered: https://i.imgur.com/zw6n7C7.png

EDIT: I just left this without comment because I had to go eat dinner with family, but notice how in the first picture there are four faces that are right along the split. But in the second picture, there are only three.
I'm willing to bet this guy is so good at his craft that he bangs out quality answers in less than 10 min per question. That'd actually be a fun side project: for a given SO user, compute their average time between each of their answers and the corresponding question.
I don't trust "vaccine" rushed into the market.

Politicians are pushing it so hard and so persistently so I wonder why.

I want to follow the money trail.

Who pays whom? how much? Where money goes after that?

It smells like a giant collusion between pharma and politicians.
Most parents of young children are at least seeing them onto school busses if not dropping them off at school themselves themselves. Childcare has to similarly be synced up.

Personally I don’t care much these days but many do.
I used to disable all ACPI signals (keys and lid) for exactly this reason on my Macbook 2015 running linux.

Not the most comfortable, as you have to manage sleep manually, but definitely the safest.