skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, get certifications.

Certifications largely exist in the enterprise domain and getting a job in the enterprise means dealing with recruiters and business people.

So the individuals with the power to hire you are precisely the ones without the required knowledge to assess your skills.

Of course having certifications and not knowing what you’re talking about won’t help. Either you’ll get hired and do a shit job and get fired or a technical person will be involved in the hiring process and out you as a fake.

However, given 2 people with similar resumes where one has a few certifications… makes it easy for the recruiter to make a choice.
True, but you also get PostgreSQL instead of Mongo, which is easily worth another 120mb.

I’m not sure what you mean by backend though? You need that regardless right?
>'Should we trust the government to spend the money more wisely than the folks who earned it'

This is a false opposition. Taxed money does not have to be spent at the point of the state. A sovereign wealth fund could raise funds from wealth taxes and assign a share to every citizen in the country. It could then use its interest-bearing assets to pay out a dividend to all shareholders every year. It could be run by an independent but publicly supervised body - like the Norwegian wealth fund - and the money would be disbursed straight into the bank accounts of citizens.

In any case we live in democratic societies in which legislated changes to the structure and distribution of wealth would then bind politicians via the rule of law. We do not have to depend on the individual virtue of politicians. On the margin I would generally prefer states whose remit includes the public interest to spend another dollar than I would private entities ruled by financial profit.
It does, but IMO it's probably worth reading The Player of Games or Use of Weapons before it anyway. With the exception of perhaps Surface Detail, none of the Culture books rely on any others. Consider Phlebas gives a good view of The Culture from "outside" (the perspective of the Idrians) but is quite slow.
Soft Serve: A self-hosted Git server for the command line
> It seems to me, the 5th gen plane projects are like trying to breed the next gen horses instead of developing the automobiles.

Absolutely not. This isn't an either/or prospect. The USAF employs plenty of drones and DoD and DARPA fund plenty of development of newer and better drones, while also funding manned aircraft improvements.
> 1. Should we trust the government to spend the money more wisely than the folks who earned it? Or said another way, how do you combat the almost inevitable corruption you see with large government spending?

The folks that have a lot of money don't spend it. Out of all of Buffett's, Gates', and Bezos' fortunes how much is being spent 'productively' and how much is just sitting around collecting interest on interest. The velocity of money hasn't been doing much in recent decades, which seems to indicate it's just sitting in accounts:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

'Coïncidentally' wealth inequality has been rising in the same time period. Perhaps the link of stagnant money and a lack of activity are linked?

There's plenty of old bridges, dams, locks, transit, airports, etc, that need to be repaired and that money could be used for those upgrades providing good pay jobs.

"Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott can’t give her billions away fast enough", and she is worth 'only' US$ 60B (21st richest person):

* https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bezoss-ex-wife-mackenzie-...

* https://archive.md/ZzeMI

Further, this is not (or does not have to be) an either-or situation: it's not like all the money goes to the government or stay with the wealthy. If (e.g.) 2-5% of someone's wealth over (say) $10B is taxed annually, they still have 98-95% to do whatever with.

> 2. What will incentivize people to work at insane rates if the vast majority of their income and wealth is taxed?

What motivates someone with $1B to work more? Is it really to make another $10M? Is Bezos working the hours he is because of money? Is Buffett? Musk? I think the people who get to this level work because of of intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic rewards.

> Would I be willing to put in the long hours and sacrifices usually required to work up to a $1m+ salary if it’s taxed at a 90% rate?

Do you understand how marginal tax brackets work? When someone makes $1M + 1 dollars, the government does not take $900K in this hypothetical 90% margin rate: they take 90¢ of the last $1. The rest of the money is taxed at lower rates:

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18171975/ta...

And a 70% top tax rate isn't unheard of in the US: it's what it used to be during the 1950s and 1960s, and economic growth was just fine. 70% isn't a bad rate to start looking at:

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/4/18168431/al...

And perhaps by having ridiculously high top tax brackets will send a signal to people that instead of send money to the top, perhaps the 'little people' should get some of it too:

* https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5620702/case-for-confiscatory-...
The go keyword executes the called function asynchronously so g() and f() won't block h(). If you need a computed result from g() or f() then you'll need to use a channel or a shared mutex guarded value to get it. A channel is the correct default choice and the mutex should only be used if you need it for performance or other reasons.
If you find Consider Phlebas too slow, try Excession before giving up on Banks.
>From an outsider's perspective, the leadership of one party recently tried to hang on to power by a variety of underhanded means, and in fact continues to deliberately undermine faith in US democracy itself.

I am also an outsider. You have to be careful with this. You clearly don't see the bigger picture and it's bad to push the narrative that it was just Trump.

The probability that the election was fraudulent is in question. Biden is the most popular president in history, as per his own words. Though also from his own mouth he has the most extensive voting fraud org. They never quite explained that one.

>It's beyond party politics at that point.

If the election was fraudulent. What was the actions taken?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/politics/voter-suppression-re...

CNN is obviously biased and is portraying it as 'voting rights under attack' but what does it say? It says the republicans as a whole saw the election was fraudulent and needed to fix voting rules. The republicans cant just say the election was fraudulent and leave the country or something. You go and do exactly what CNN is describing.
Well, I’m located here in Poland and from our perspective it would seem “they” have already done their homework. They’re using a strategy in which the US/NATO doesn’t even get to use those super-weapons because no open war has even been declared (and probably won’t be). Instead it’s this state of emergency, refugee stand-offs, strategic natural-gas pipeline construction, infiltration, proxies and media manipulation etc. A hybrid-war. However, even just the fact that your opponent is not willing to escalate from words/espionage up to actual violence based on the strange high-tech wizardry you might/might-not have is a pretty good outcome.

The Maginot Line is an interesting example. Sure, it functions as the defining joke of WW2 - they just walked around it. But one can imagine other side purposes for building such infrastructure before a war. For instance, just forcing your enemy to declare war against your neighbors (to pass through their territory) could already be seen as a pretty good payoff/deterrent. Or maybe having a large labor force capable of building similar infrastructure based on the experience from building that Maginot line might have been seen as valuable. Hell, maybe it was more about “jobs” and keeping the populace “loyal”. Again - I don’t know the details of the Maginot Line or that history but what I’m getting at is that there are so many unknown factors and results that might be at work behind the curtain that it’s very hard to say.

Coming back to the F35 I’m just wondering how they measure the expertise and loyalty of the people who have to know how to design, manufacture and build these things. Engineers are theoretically free to work where they like - so it is of strategic importance to keep them happy and keep them occupied and making progress. Maybe this could be something happening that we don’t know about? A significant amount of money has been pumped into the project, but that money doesn’t just disappear. It goes into a huge strategically crucial supply chain. It might just be worth the political loss off face to keep that healthy and operative.
They cannot.
From what I understood the part they are changing regarding scripting is in the `routing filters` feature.

Your script is probably going to break due to the new syntaxes in v7, but no significant added new features on that matter that I'm aware.
I wouldn't describe that video as "balanced" given the tone. In fact there's a few places where the debunking video is making straw man arguments about the author of first video and places where they are just presenting anecdote or opinion as fact. To me the first video felt far more balanced, even if it may have gotten a few details wrong (the second video does at least add some interesting additional context and new citations).

The ironic thing is that debunking video generally agrees with the overall point of the first video, namely that Star Wars did undergo heavy editing and was better for it. I don't think that's an unreasonable claim either because most movies do (a point also made in the first video).

Maybe if the author of the debunking video softened their tone massively it would feel more credible. Unfortunately they come across more like a bruised fanboy (despite the first video not being overly critical) rather than an impartial observer.
This is either satire or the worst possible example, since the war in Afghanistan is the only time in history article 5 has been used.
> Give this 20m to "the rich", they will invest it in food creation machinery. At least there would be more food produced after the investment.

That's the falacy. Reality is nearer they'll buy an NFT of a hamburger and then ask for another $20m
That’s not the case. All the central banks and the BIS understand and use this terminology when discussing the relationship of asset prices to demand, and it’s not at all specific to the USA or even a specific time period or specific market in the USA.

Also, the stimulus checks are a fiscal measure and have absolutely nothing to do with the wealth effect induced by loose monetary policy.
XiangShan (香山) is an open-source high-performance RISC-V processor project
I’d put some of the items in your first list as a retention perk. When it comes to perks, the devil is in the details.

On the other hand salary, x < y, is a solid decision point.

> “I always wonder how much easier hiring would have been if we dispensed with all of the expensive employee perks…”

Regarding health insurance, I don’t think employers should be involved in anyone’s health insurance. This is a holdover from a time now gone in the U.S., along with pensions and life-time employment.

That said, why not offer employees the choice to buy into the company plan after hired?
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> And the point is exactly that, instead of protecting creative output copyright is locking it down by capitalising it. Rather than creativity being a flow of meaningful communication and exchange at the level of ideas and aesthetics, it’s becoming a stock with ongoing financial and not creative dividends.

on that note, there are some proposals (superdistribution - brad cox, xanadu - ted nelson, etc) that would allow any works to be licensed from/to anyone via micro transactions.... but i've never heard of anyone actually trying to do such a thing at scale.

sounds super cool if it could work... all the stuff i made, when reused somewhere by a company, i get a residual... the more valuable, the more used, and the more i get... that could be pretty awesome (hypothetically)
Sure, there are some benefits to that for sure. But you'd still have a qualified "pilot", only somewhere else. With access to the same data as would be available in the cockpit, in order to be able to make the correct decisions as the situation changes (from both a tactical and safety perspective). And you need to ensure this with the same kind of confidence, reliability and integrity as you would in a real cockpit. And you would be able to lug this around the globe quite easily. The whole keep-the-aircrew-alive safety case goes away, but you still have the don't-crash-into-things case left.

If you want a more autonomous system I'm not sure there's even a way forward for that at this moment (i.e. if you want to fly in civilian airspace). Airspace is much more heavily regulated than e.g. carspace where companies are allowed to put pretty much anything on the road.
> none of the tradeoffs of using a general purpose program language were discussed.

Yep. And particularly the fundamental issue of so-called "general purpose" programming languages:

They are *not*, in fact, general purpose.

What we call general purpose languages are, in fact, DSLs for the domain of algorithms. See ALGOL, the ALGOrithmic Language. But we think they are general purpose, because that's what we use, lacking other options. And this mistaken categorisation leads us to the incorrect conclusion that things that aren't handled well by these "GPLs" must therefore be handled by DSLs. Or Domain Specific Tooling.

Which in turn leads to the problems described in the article, because it's all far too domain specific.

The answer, IMHO, is to make languages that actually are general purpose and not just algorithm-DSLs. That can handle integration without being integration-DSLs.

My stab at this is http://objective.st/
Arguably there is fixed bandwidth on investment. It's why negative interest rates are coming. There's few good places to put money.
Yestepad.
It's a natural function of a parasite to trick the host into thinking it is necessary.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/141031-zo...
You don’t really need an example scenario - just take YouTube, the largest source of creator content - it does nothing to prevent you from sharing the videos.

Ultimately if you feel like you’re being wronged DMCA should be used and not a programmatic approach simply because a program has no notion of who was right to begin with.

So in your example you say “my art”, but what if it were not? Should you not be able to post “your art?”

I believe people should handle people issues and computers handle, well, the other stuff.
Well, RF (30% of market share) did not decrease the supply, it was the demand that rose "unexpectedly". Well, why did the US not rescue the EU with additional supplies of LNG, for example? The gas terminals were built several years pretty much for this reason, to be able to buy LNG from the US and Qatar to diversify the supplies. Why did Norway with its 35% market share not increase the supply via its pipelines? Nope, it is Russia that must increase the supply, apparently to the level of having about 50% of market share, but that would be fine this time because... reasons?

Also, RF resisted until the very last from switching from the long-term contracts to the spot contracts, it was forced to do so by the court decision in 2019, sued by Poland that argued that the spot market price is fairer (it also got $2 billion refunded to the boot). Two years later, this November, Poland tried to sue again, arguing now that the spot market price is unfair, and Gazprom should only take the previously negotiated price, and refund whatever was overpaid to it (about $5 billion IIRC).

I understand that all this is pretty much how haggling looks like when the hagglers are nation-states who have to sell the deals to their population somehow: selective reporting, overstating some circumstances, understating other, selective application of arguments, etc. But the end result is still exorbitant heating/electrical bills and cold houses all over the country but you also get to feel outraged at the other side, as a bonus.
Fascinating. Hope someone here with experience in settlement and clearing houses could shed some light.

I wonder if any new solutions would need to use any existing crypto network or if they can just spin off their own.
Yeah, and it is pretty sad. :/
You are not locking $130K, you are locking 32ETH.

> people committed to ETH because of their mining rigs or because of the gains?

ETH is not to be priced like a stock. ETH is to be priced like a non-renewable commodity like oil. If the network is not efficient, people will move away from it, demand for ETH goes down and so does its price. People staking ETH are betting that the network utility will grow and the demand for ETH will grow as well.

> I think rich people can stake multiple times

If you think it is a bad allocation of the capital, why would you think that people with lots of it would put so much into stake?
In college, I studied Ronald Coase's famous 1920s papers. The major application ATT was infrastructure stuff.

Coase's argument was that "given 0 transaction costs," it doesn't matter who owns what property or right. The market will achieve efficient solutions as firms sell each other radio spectrum or whatnot. Policy should focus on minimizing transaction costs and let the market organize itself.

Circa 2005, I heard a podcast with 90-something Ronald Coase. He has pissed. Everyone had been teaching his theorem backwards for decades, backed with the "chalkboard economics" he despised.

What Coase actually meant is that (1) transaction costs tend to be high (2) this explains the clearly observable inefficiencies of such markets. Literally the opposite of what I was taught as "Coase Theorem."

He meant that because market are imperfect, it really matters what the starting position is. Trickle down economics is the same kind of error. If we are extremely confident that markets work the way efficiency-assuming models do... Trickle down makes sense. It doesn't really matter where the money starts, the market will deal with allocation efficiently. If not it does matter where the money starts.

In any case, the "wealth disparity" discussion is almost always badly anchored. The first thing to understand about wealth disparity is that it maps pretty much to wealth. More wealth, more wealth disparity... almost universally. Many or most people have no wealth, depending on your semantics of "wealth." Therefore, if the value/quantity of wealth rises, wealth disparity rises.

The actual equality dichotomy is ROIs vs labour/income.
Robespierre did nothing wrong.
Not an expert, but I believe many papers on other video games make a single decision for the next X frames at once, possibly including a delay factor that governs exactly when to act. I think OpenAI’s Dota2 agent does this.
How come the US military branches are so bad at working together?
Gold does pollute-but it’s probably a lot less polluting once it’s out of the ground.

You make an excellent point about modern finance. Increasingly to me it seems modern finance should be considered for its affects on money supply and finance not dissimilar to actions of central banks and certain government spending. It’s probably gone unnoticed largely exactly because the corporate finance machinations are not anywhere near as visible and widely disclosed at a Fed decision.
That's interesting. I guess you're in a cold area for snow 5o still be around, since they typically fruit June-Sept here.

I like to cut them into pieces and either sauté them or pan fry them like with light breading, like my homemade chicken nuggets.
I find it funny that the comments here split across:

“I have no doubt that life emerged from an RNA first world”

and

“I have no doubt that life emerged from a metabolism first world”

Last I checked, nobody should have absolute certainty for how life began. Progress comes from skepticism. Have more doubt!
> Tax rates are marginal, meaning that more effort leads to more reward, still.

> Why would you try to push forward your society if it seems like no matter what you do, wealth inequality is just going to increase

Curious how you seem to flip-flop between understanding marginal gains and not understanding them. The reason you would try to push forward your society is that more effort leads to more reward, still.
AWS Goes Wide and Deep with GRAVITON3 Server Chip
>> Most CEOs that I've known are out the door well before everyone else.

But did that hold true for their whole career?
The First International Delivery Drone
How to create snow effects for this Christmas with tsParticles
What Is the Purpose of NAC?
Consider Pheblas wasn't the best in my opinion. Player of Games is my favorite, but some of the other later ones are good.

I enjoy the settings and the concept of the Culture more than the plotlines.
Yeah, I would be following Field and Forest's method. Their process is supposed to have a decent success rate.
> A Web3 platform that rewards successful content

s/Web3//
> this is a reference to the browser that's actually called NetSurf

Yes, sorry, I meant http://www.netsurf-browser.org/. (I knew I should look up and put in the link, but it was late... Turns out I even misremembered the name.)

> what the statement that "WebKit hardly qualifies as independent from an ecosystem health standpoint, though" means.

That the Blink layout engine is a fork of the WebKit codebase, so if the issue is keeping the standard healthy by ensuring multiple people can implement it independently, having WebKit and Blink be the only implementations is less than ideal, even if not a complete failure.
> I think autonomous travel would be a great experiment for locomotives on isolated tracks.

I think that's a little past an experiment; the first one went in in 1981. At this point, I would think most new fully segregated metro lines are automated. It's ~a completely different problem to self-driving cars, and a far more tractable one.
Have you recently cleared your cache? For me gmail transfers 1.5 MB before displaying inbox and loading 40MB resources from cache. I am using default gmail config and latest chrome. I have 10s of thousands messages in inbox.
Politicians and the democratic government have at least a tacit responsibility to serve the people and to not let them starve; billionaires do not. It's no coincidence that open hostility to democratic values has risen along with the number of billionaires.
You’re still not getting it. The “gift” I describe can be a letter or photo of personal nature. My point stands.

Grandma gifts you a photo of her and her partner. Do you believe that you shouldn’t be able to show your own family their ancestors picture?

It’s obviously not reasonable. She could explicitly ask, but ultimately the choice is yours.
Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italy
So if I worked as a doctor for 20 years, invested most of my income in that 20 years in to dividend paying stocks, then at age 45 or so retire to live off my dividends that my hard work paid of, I did not earn any of that?