skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who fixes cars isn't the same as someone who builds prototypes, despite the fact they both know their way around engine parts. Lumping all developers into the same category is just as ridiculous. There are blue collar development jobs, doesn't mean all developers are blue-collar workers.

The equivalent for doctors would be nursing programs, and I'm pretty sure there are similar programs for nurses - like developers, there are a lack of nurses right now.
I don't think we should tell HN or Facebook they must host content they know to be false and contributory to the decline of the nation.

You have to draw the line somewhere on when speech is defended, and when owners of sites or infrastructure should be legally and morally required to host content they don't support.

My line is at the ISP/DNS level. Let people build their own sites to publish whatever they want, and regulate ISPs and registrars as quasi-public utilities with certain societal obligations.

I don't think that obligation should extend to individual websites.
This links to https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/opportunity/pdf/20_poverty_measu... as the original source. On page 28 of this file, you get to the actual statistics. While Asian poverty is certainly high, it is about the same as other minorities, and has been decreasing since 2014.
They should have "paid a dime" to establish a web presence. Fiverr and similar sites are widely available. I'd be surprised if one couldn't get a "business card" minimal web presence for $25+several $/year thereafter.

After a certain point, a business must switch from a "graphics design is my passion" style logo to something inexpensive designed by a (semi-)professional to be taken seriously. Why is web presence any different?
My cat would often turn the computer on or the tv off, and I swear he did it on purpose because that's when he was complaining he didn't got enough attention.
I think we could all see a pattern in the product names but I was hoping for more:

EMC Q1 (using Dell servers?)
Google P0
iCloud O-1
We might be twins.
>I find it so strange when people talk about the frame rate.

Calling out the frame rate is a quick and easy way to tell you that you are going to be able to see some details that you ordinarily don't get to see. Yes, the higher the number the more nuanced the detail can be. They could call it HFR, but until recently 60 fps was considered HFR and not normal. So 120 fps would be HFR as much as 6k fps, but lets face it 6k fps is much more impressive than 120 fps.

I don't find it to be click-baity at all to include the frame rate in a title of a video. In fact, I find it quite useful metadata.
> The "who started" it or who keeps the terrible dynamic going argument is far from settled

I'm not claiming it is. But Israel cannot turn around and say "none of this is our fault" with an innocent face. We're more talking about balance of "guilt". I wouldn't even necessarily say that Israel is more guilty than Palestine (if such comparisons even make sense, and human suffering can be reduced to a ratio). But Israel is a free, democratic, developed country. It has one of the highest ratios of university-educated people. I think the bar for acceptable behaviour is higher than for a haggard group of people living in abject poverty.

> Israel indeed has a bigger influence than it's population size, but so do the Palestinians actually

Palestine certainly gets publicity, but power doesn't seem to follow. I'm not criticising Israel for having an out-sized influence, but it's not in any way comparable to that of Palestine.

Please note I never said "Jewish lobby" or anything of the sort.
Gifted & Talented program isn't racist, critical race theory & social marxism redefines the term racism so they may point at any program and call it racist. My son qualifies and it costs the school system nothing. It's mostly about transport to middle school for higher math for him.

Reference:

"New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program. Students who are currently enrolled in gifted and talented classes will not be affected. But the highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students."
Or, like some art, of variable degrees of folks caring about it based on other interesting properties - and made for some purpose other than maintainability.

Demoscene, obfuscated coding contests, etc. seem to fall under that category.

Uselessness in the eye of the beholder or something like that.
i did something like this. cashed out bought farmland at the beginning of the year. got a job on a framing crew so i could learn to build my own house. made journeyman last month. its fun and exciting. and helped me repair the damage from sitting for 15 years.
Those only work for people that know that they need help and are able to activate the device. They don't work for people who do not know how bad a situation they are in and/or are injured to the point that they cannot activate the device.
I don't know them but I'm going to venture a guess that at least 1 of them is the DVD decryption key.
There are numerous sources in this thread that show that the Asian group, highly selected for here, are predominantly poor. Just parroting a talking point without looking at the data is as idiotic as what we all accuse Trump supporters of.
I do a lot of dev work with non-profits and such. About a year ago I was working on an extremely difficult project as a volunteer where I was insistent that a specific part was vitally important to getting the project to move forward (generalizing tables extraction from scanned OCR docs) and I was spending a lot of time on it. One of the devs I worked with, with 40+ years of experience, basically told me this exact thing. He argued that what I as working on was a waste of time and that I shouldn't work on "code golf" problems, because of the likelihood of failure and that ultimately I should consider the human side of the problem. He said it was best to work on other things instead.

Fast forward a month later, I managed to actually do it, and it worked almost flawlessly, across about 100k scanned PDFs. Multiple long-term projects spawned off from the extracted information, including some projects from the dev who told me to stop.

My point being -- sometimes it seems like that line is used as an excuse to not tackle hard problems if they seem likely to fail. I agree with the line, and it's the exact reason I worked on it as hard as I did, but the dev failed to consider that I understood the social part of the problem, on experienced principle.
I suppose that's true, but are you confident that's not possible? I'm not but as you can probably tell I'm pretty skeptical :)
Realistically, I’ve always found it a weird sentiment more because issues caused by software developers are not of the “this person is 1/10 as productive as this other person” type. A bad developer isn’t a low positive effect on a project, but an active negative effect. As such, you can put literally any Y for a (Y)X programmer, since the scale of how inefficient a programmer can be goes up to infinite.

I think the pushback against 10X programmers comes primarily from the fact that many programmers who look good to managers (constantly push out new features) are in actuality an albatross around the necks of the other programmers who constantly have to fix the messes they create (in reality, a negative on team-wide production). What matters more to me in a teammate than how productive they are is to ensure that they are on the positive side of the scale at all, which the perceived 10X programmer is often actually a failure at.

Though I’ve definitely met people who just have such a wide knowledge base and think so quickly that they are in fact 10X as effective as a standard productive programmer, so I do understand where the idea comes from.
There has been interview with one of the owner of coworking space in Bali and he mentioned most of the people living digital nomad lifestyle for few years (2-4). Looking at my friends I would agree and either they moved back home after ~2 years or settled somewhere abroad (turned expat).
Do Self-Supervised and Supervised Methods Learn Similar Visual Representations?
Ouch. As an adult, I’m finding solace in my iPhone because I didn’t succeed at social relationships (and the social fabric is shredded). Like in the movie Her, I write to my personal robots and it gives me just enough affection to get by.

I wish that to no child.

Even less if we spend time manufacturing those little spawns of the devil, instead of spending time with those who are in need.
What's the deal with unattractive private pilot women? This is such a rare thing, there must be 1-2 super annoying girls that everyone has heard of. Any insights?
Yeah so the paper I linked on contextual bayesian optimization (https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2019/hash/7876acb66640bad41f1e1...) does a combination of controlling for beta and optimizing linear MHD stability --- which is part of the problem. One of our collaborators has been working precisely on disruption prediction and mitigation but it's on most of our minds: https://www.pppl.gov/news/2021/artificial-intelligence-helps....
Presymbolic computation appears to me to be an invented term. Any theoretical or actual system can be framed in computational terms when analysed, but the properties provided through the use of symbols will still exist in a system, whether or not that analysis has been performed. The paper you cite appears to me to lean in the direction of cybernetics and control theory, that would naturally be able to translate into terms aligned to information theory. The same rules will apply to any physical system, no matter how complicated you believe it to be.
It's fascinating about the state of the nomads. I'm quite surprised that the average age of the nomads is 32. Also, isn't the most popular destination of nomads is Chiang Mai?
Maybe it is just me but I find this headline inscrutable. I have no idea what is meant by kerfuffle or brouhaha. More common vernacular might be better. Does it mean "a minor argument became a foundation threatening problem"? Does it mean "an interpersonal conflict impacted the whole org?" I don't know... And probably do not care at this point.
Sign me up.

The performance charts & graphs look nice. And (from Safari) I am excited to see what WebKit can do with extensions and other power features.

And, iPhone version.

Also:

1. The search engine (https://kagi.com/) is super cute (don’t have a login to try it).

2. Apparently this is what happened to the kagi.com (shareware payment) domain. Nice.
Followed similar tangents, but it's easy to forget the scope of fear from those earlier years. Afraid of failure, of not having the capacity to provide for anyone else let alone myself, of working a shit job I can't get out of (like my father). It wasn't even about keeping up with the Joneses; as you say, the career is a means to an end, but you still want the means. Priorities change also, we tend to be more ambitious when we're young.
For sure HN did; it was struggling to stay up from the load. Several threads were suggesting logging out -- which would let HN load static content -- to help it load, for example.
No. They were designed from a lineage of decisions intended to exclude blacks and to include whites. That's not my perspective; that's a historical fact. That's why I referenced a Dept. of Education OCR report, which in turn references National Academies publications and similar sorts of credible references, all predating the current social justice political climate.

How decisions made in the eighties and sixties impact families in 2020 is sort of complex. Now, I move away from fact to my perspective. My perspective is that many Asian immigrant families are more likely to:

- Come from a culture which values education, and especially measurable outcomes in education (e.g. math, rather than creativity)

- In some cases, come from cultures with 2000+ year histories of civil service exams and meritocracy

- Often lack the same sorts of wealth or support networks as American families, which puts a lot more pressure on having kids become self-supporting and independently successful

- Are less likely to be successful in fields which rely on having strong US-based social networks than white families, which also pushes towards areas like STEM.

... a plethora of effects like these leads to immigrant (and especially Asian immigrant) families being heavily over-represented within the system which was resulted.

On the other hand, if my family was on the Mayflower, and my uncle can get my kid a job at his law firm, my aunt can hook him up with a management position in her marketing firm, and if neither does that, at least we own the house and he can always live here, there's a lot less pressure. I have a lot more incentive to let kids be kids, let kids play more, and school less.

So immigrants, and especially Asian immigrants, now tend to do well in this system. It continues to discriminate against blacks, though.

Why is this hard to accept?
Yeah. I've gotten into the habit of asking hosts to send me their exact up/down. Even then, they often have wifi routers that are just awful, so I have to plug in via ethernet and share it from my laptop.

I'm so glad my unexpected nomad journey is coming to an end. :-)
Do you remember what story it was?
The 2 weak break spurts you talk about are mostly temporary and happens because you do them so rarely. Long term it will likely look more like those weekends.

Best case you keep your work habits and can continue working on your hobbies like you did work previously, but worst case it will all look like those weekends.
That definition is too narrow. How about this one: can someone work for 1 year and (consistently) produce 10x more value for their organization than the median engineer? This seems transparently true if you've worked in any large organization.
Yes, kids are different. That does not mean that existing systems do a good or fair job of determining which kids would benefit from special programs.

My experience being in a "gifted" program in middle and high school in Florida was that the students in the program had parents who knew enough to get them tested. That alone marks a privileged class. I sincerely believe that if every student had been tested, the makeup of the gifted, honors, and standard classes would have been much different.

(I graduated high school in 1990. Maybe things are much different now. I would have no way to know.)
Looks super interesting and potentially useful. Curious how it compares with Apache Drill (https://drill.apache.org/).
Tesla obtained a patent for something similar for use on their windshields: https://electrek.co/2021/09/08/tesla-patent-laser-windshield...
Show HN: Opening Dojo, learn chess openings using spaced repetition
What Is the Purpose of Budgeting?
Hi! I am building a personal finance app rethinking what being 'smart' about money means from first principle. Sometimes it feels that 'saving' is not a lindy framework to think about your finances given current investment opportunity climate. I do realize that the notions of 'investing' and 'saving' are not contradictory, however the lessons of 'rich dad poor dad' book are loosing their relevancy.

TO tie this back to the title, I am trying to formulate the 'end' to which 'budgeting' is a mean. To then search for a solution that requires far less attention and effort than budgeting.
Really? Whinging about syntax? You don't understand how cleanly dividing the C bits and bobs from the Smalltalk-derived object system by using distinct syntax could be considered a more elegant solution to the problem than C++'s insistence in rooting both worlds in a single hierarchy of functionality?
USA (Northern VA, specifically). Most of thee places I dine regularly have a web presence. About half, it's just a simple home page with a pdf menu. About half have some sort of online reservation or ordering platform integrated.
> Thanks to crappy tv channels and no internet

I think you have that the wrong way around. That should be:

> "Thanks" to modern distractions like binge watching and doom scrolling people lose their creativity and drive to do anything but further please their addictions.

(somewhat /s)
> You mean to say Telegram is smoother than other apps?

If those other apps are using Electron then yes; Telegram is smoother.

> In general, would you say that Qt is supposed to work just as buttery smooth and native on Mac or iPhone as a native app?

Yes. No difference in RAM, Disk, or CPU usage than any other native app.

> And will an OS built on Qt like Ubuntu Touch will be as smooth and beautifully craftable as iOS apps on iPhone?

Yes. One example is AsteriodOS which is an OS for smartwatches built using Qt. [0]

[0] https://asteroidos.org/
TIL chrome has an ssh client extension which can be used in a browser tab. Anyone care to share their experience with it?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell-app/p...
Good luck shorting something unregulated.

When you play by the rules against cheaters, you usually lose.
That's an interesting story, but to relate it to my previous comment, we have to ask: did you purposely damage the ear defenders for emotional reasons? If so, did you tell them that?
Sure, but the motivation here is explicit, and it's not about making the test more accurate.
You called this BS, but you haven't refuted anything in it...

Can you be a little more precise, please?
Miners are designed so that they cannot change the Bitcoin rules. Then the number of miners doesn't matter. There is so little competition among miners that if there is only one person and enough incentives, then everyone will try to become a miner.
I think what the parent may have been complaining about is essentially myopia in interpreting things - ‘well, this technically checks the box of what they ask for’ while willingly avoiding thinking about the larger context of what is being attempted or trying to understand requirements that don’t make much sense.

Don’t get me wrong - it has it’s place, and if everyone always tried to understand everything, there are a lot of organizations and situations it would be crushing - but it’s also very frustrating in many situations for those who want high quality products.

It’s the ‘not my job’ syndrome, essentially.
Nothing we can do but fork or switch. I'll stay on Firefox, bearing it, until they do something like this that I can't turn off. As soon as it ceases to be an option, I'm gone. It shouldn't be opt out but it's still the best browser for privacy, for now.
I eat 1 ~7oz chicken breast 6 days in a row. I'm currently working out daily and gaining lean muscle. Chicken is high in protein and low in fat. So yes, I consider that healthy. You don't?

The average American is eating corn, beef, french fries, and cheese for nearly every meal every single day.
They all do. People who leave comments like this have never actually used a tiling WM. Or they claim to have “tried” but never bothered to find out how it works.
Curious to see centrists defined as a subset of non-progressives.
No, my argument isn’t that black kids aren’t smart. And it’s distant enough from what I did write that I hesitate to even call it a straw man.
I really disagree with point 11. I've seen and worked with so many "senior" engineers who had wretched opinions about everything. One thing in particular is what I like to call "perl behavior". The structure and logic makes perfect sense to the developer but is borderline gibberish to anyone else. Eventually senior software engineers enforce their view as the baseline(which is over flooded with anti patterns) to junior developers and they too end up pouring buckets of the same gibberish everywhere. For example custom built linters which partially follow some standard, and partially doing the complete opposite of what the standard says. But you know... The senior engineers enforce it and 2 years down the line when the junior jumps into another job, it's back to the basics all over again. Anyone with X number of years of experience has strong opinions, that does not make anyone "senior". To my mind, point 11 should be the ability to consider, shift or change your strong opinions when presented with an alternative.
The main advantage is that it is quick and delivers a quantity of heat that matches what is needed to inactivate the mosquito's venom.

Assuming your leisure time is worth 20p per minute, the cost is quickly amortized.
No, the report says that Asians poverty is underreported in the data.

EDIT: I think that the report shows that Hispanics in 2020 have a higher percentage of poverty than Asians, but it seems like a lot of the articles showing Asians had the highest poverty rates came from before 2017.

It looks like in the last 5 years prior to 2020, Asians had improved the poverty rates.

Regardless even in 2020, Asian poverty in NYC was 22%, Black poverty was 19%, Hispanic poverty was 24% and White poverty was 13%.
Probably getting smaller contracts, and not being employee.
No, it's also a matter of personality. One manager used to urge me to do things in half the time at 90% of quality, and stop chasing the remaining 10% at such high opportunity cost. To this day, I try, but it's hard to overcome a natural, obsessive tendency.
Traffic to everything went up. HN itself had some service degradation as a result.
They were really aimed at us (his kids) and featured events like Johnny-Jump-Up (one of our cats) being discovered in the raspberry patch. I don't think any of them are still around, but Dad probably has an archive of floppy disks, so it's possible.
Please provide an example of a stock that has a price that behaves the way you’ve described. That paper is talking specifically about ex-dividend dates, not long term behavior.
Well, my understanding is that they are not training object detectors or segmentation models. They wouldn't be very useful anyway, you still need to have a 3d understanding of the scene and going from 2d->3d mapping wouldn't cut it. What they are doing instead is using stereo cameras, they are estimating the depth map of the field. Their model takes two rgb images, and produces a depth map. They combine this depth information with sensors on the drone such as acceleration etc and try to predict what an expert drone agent trained on perfect information in simulation would do.
They train in simulation, restrict some of the information to the student agent and have it rely on only stereo cameras and sensors like in the world to mimic the 'privileged drone agent'. Computation wise, if you can run the depth estimation network on the hardware, remaining steps(given the depth map and sensor information, predict privileged drone agent path/vector), should be trivial and most likely are shallow networks.
Correct that we call it hard cider if it's fermented. For non-fermented, we draw a distinction between apple juice and cider. Best explained by Flanders: https://youtu.be/L1BfF77Pvio?t=15
I think it is as well. Python is a batteries included language. But just like I have to hide my phone sometimes to get myself to use it less, I like to drop down into a language that is more niche so I'm less likely to find YouTube videos and Stack Overflow answers to my problems. I've found being forced to read the language reference, and just allowing myself to be stuck on a problem until I've thought my way out of it, helpful for my own personal growth. I don't have the discipline to do this in Python
They’re long-time MS employees who know how to play the political game. Highly doubtful they do anything that put their cushy jobs at risk
Counterpoint:

What is the point of having the best tech in 2021 if all capacity is allocated to a single customer?
This is quite interesting to me. How would you train children for leadership? And are there any successful training methods for adults? In the military, perhaps?
How can there not be any screenshots?