skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Handing out vouchers will increase the demand causing prices to rise. If you give people $10,000 to buy a house, congrats! You just made houses $10,000 more expensive.

To be fair, I think you are glossing over the fact that only handing out said vouchers to lower-income people will cause their buying power in the market to proportionally increase relative to wealthier buyers. However, you are absolutely right that this strategy will increase demand without increasing supply, and overall drive prices higher.

I should clarify that I don't think it's a good idea; in fact, I think it's an absolutely absurd idea for precisely this reason. How anyone can suggest making housing more affordable by taking actions that will obviously make it more expensive is beyond me. This sort of thing probably only makes sense in the eyes of wealthy urban "liberals" who want to appear virtuous while maintaining their property values, and from far-left perspectives with no qualms about making life worse for the middle class to achieve their social justice-oriented goals for a relatively small fraction of the population.

> Do you live in a skyscraper? Does anyone want to live in a skyscraper? I don't.

I'm not sure of the relevance here.
Maybe. I think it brings about more schadenfreude to just see their sales tank when they realize that maybe people don't want their tv owner to show pop ups on what should simply be a means of presenting content from other services.
I've seen the performance, advertising, bugs, and connectivity issues that happen on these smart TVs and in no way are those plug-in devices a "lesser" experience. An Apple TV interface just works and keeps rocking incredibly well. Once you've got one, you can use their one remote for their own controls as well as common TV ones (turning it off/on, volume). You pay a premium to never have to interact with the cruddy TV interface again.
Absolutely wrong. Evolutionary theory has to take a back seat to highly quantitative population genetics.

If you do not know what “effective population size” means then you should watch from the side lines.

I think I am a respectable quantitative geneticist. I do not use the term
myself but I have no fundamental distaste for the idea of junk DNA.

It is inevitable given our constant war with viruses that want to highjack our genomes.
The problem is is that the "dumb" TVs in any amount of quality or high resolution are absurdly rare, expensive or both.
Ah lovely. Voice of reason.
The "TV" part is always going to involve software; decoding DVB and sending pixels to the panel. Some years ago there was a paper about transmitting malicious TV signals and getting code exploitation on TVs. Probably even a dumb monitor involves software, for example for the menus with support for languages or the microcontroller responding to the DDC/CI protocol over VGA/DVI/HDMI.
I guarantee every time he sees an ad on his TV he smiles as he realizes the money flowing into his accounts are due to its presence.
These cheaper components are perfectly fine for a lot of people's needs. For example many companies buy display panels that failed to meet quality controls at Samsung or LG and package and sell them under their own brands at very steep discounts. Far from being unusable, they usually have minor quality differences like a worse bezel/stand, 5 allowable dead pixels instead of 3, or slightly more backlight bleed. If you can live with that, they are pretty great options to consider. Adding nonsense like advertising and sale of personal data completely kills that upside though.
Another voice of reason.
Would you ban the construction of a home unless the builder lives in the home? Why not? And why wouldnt that apply to the first person that buys the home from the builder that doesn't build in it? And the second person in that chain?
I love this. It’s simple and effective way to bolster their brand. Do other hardware manufacturers with similar stickers have equivalent programs? Like for instance AMD, or nVidia?
The cellular connection might be 'cheap' if the TVs are low bandwidth and easy to de-prioritize. So it's free revenue.

With 5G, they're adding lots of antenna's to boost connectivity. I suspect IOT 5G costs will continually go down over time relative to inflation.
Compensation for open source projects and developers has been a recognised issue for a long time.

I haven’t read the details of Tea, but there are a thousand ways that smart contracts, blockchain and cryptocurrencies could help with that.

Yes, be concerned about what further “commercialising” open source means.

But to attack a very interesting incentive and governance mechanism
just because it contains the word crypto, and cast aspertions at the Homebrew founder just because he us looking to make a living is shortsighted and unfair though.

Edit - Here’s a silly example use case: Create a DAO (virtual organisation) for all open source project developers. Charge commercial organisations for a license or extension of the open source project managed as an NFT. Any funds from that license are split between the DAO members in perpetuity based on their contributions, incentivising further development and fair compensation. The developer can keep his entitlement to the income or sell it as an asset later on. The trustless nature of Web3 supports the decentralised nature of open source.

Sure there are a million problems with that, but it has potential to accelerate open source and fairly compensate developers no?
Re: experience and working hard vs. working on what the project needs, that's definitely a trait of more seasoned engineers. I'd say it's a matter of learning strategy over tactics. I've gotten pretty good at that balance over the years. When I came into my current project I focused on aspects of the software that had been sorely neglected before me, and plenty of folk where skeptical for the first year or so. Now in hindsight the results speak for themselves, and it's apparently become a story of legend that my coworkers tell new hires.

Last week I had fully intended to spend at least 20 hours heads down coding, but instead I spent the entire work week writing and updating an architecture document. It was the best use of my time, though, as it allowed two other people to be heads down coding instead. Now this week it's three of us frantically writing code instead of just me, and we all know the final result will work and be boring. We're replacing a 7 year old piece of critical infrastructure.
It does need Internet access for ACR to work.
The smartest person I ever met at Google got PIP'ed, and a few of the engineers from my vintage did as well.
If they spent the same amount of time and attention on their UI as they do on ads, maybe my 3.5 yo TV wouldn't take 3 seconds to register a button press on the remote.
Important Update on TaigaNext and Kaleidos
Or just their desks. It’s a terrible experience to have the people in the conference room using a room camera and the remotes at least for an interactive discussion. It can make some sense if it’s basically an internal meeting but one person say couldn’t travel or missed a flight. But everyone on their own laptop if anyone is was a practice many teams followed pre-pandemic.
Yeah won’t go on forever but might go on for longer than a short human little would care
Those two statements don't conflict in any way. A more important question would be, when was the last major correction before the one 14 years ago?

(Did some quick searches and all I'm finding is rates over the past 5-10 years, rates over the past century grouped by decade that don't even register 2008, and articles talking about 2008)
https://www.writethedocs.org/job-board/
If you don't assume we don't know nearly anything, you're bound to jump into some early and bad conclusions. I have no idea what such condition may be. Heck, a year ago we thought the human body had a different number of bones than we do now. We definitely do not understand how cholesterol in the diet or otherwise affects health, and using statin studies is a really long shot.
I was all geared up for a “misconceptions software developers have about _” post but this seems mostly like … Unicode exists and data modeling should at least comprehend the domain?
Ooh, that gives me the idea to name my album the base64 encoding of it's tracks. The album itself, of course, would be empty.
> right-wing Asian prosperity cult

New boogeyman just dropped.
This is what I did for years before March 2020. Maybe I'll go in once in a while to get out of the house, but maintaining two development workstations is a drag.

Unless there's an office pizza party or a real scheduled brainstorming session, it's not worth physically being there.
> and a large chunk of them just hate the poor for not having enough money to have and maintain a car.

If you’re too poor to own a car with a $300/mo payment you certainly aren’t going to pay $1800 for a studio in the city.

The only people who “hate the poor” more than those who suggest people drive are the ones who suggest people move into dense cities.
+1 on gource. Very customizable, can be used to render video, shows contributors as little flying people, and it does offer some interesting insights depending on what you're after.
Doing a PhD later in my life is also my bucket list and I suspect I probably won’t be able to cross it off unless I really prioritise it or get lucky. That being said I think you are being a bit unfair to the author. They do acknowledge that you need to have an opportunity.

> My advice is: if you have the opportunity to dive into a new field, take it

Also, you are 41 and I would definitely agree that doing one when you are in your 40s would be almost impossible due to things like career, kids and mortgages etc. But the author around 60! I don’t think it’s “tone deaf” to suggest that one may be able to find some freedom to squeeze in a phd while working part time after working till 60.

Edit: I will acknowledge that having a good job and being able to comfortably retire or cut income around 60 is a privilege that many people unfortunately won’t have. But I don’t think its unachievable though.
They do mention Tchaikovsky there... Or what do you mean, exactly?
Hi are you Fiona Apple and if so can we be friends?
Tipping the Scale: a balance between large-scale systems and individual autonomy
> First: It's from April 1.

Here you go, from March 31, 2022 01:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220331005913/en/

It's effectively more surveillance even if it's more "more ads".
I assume we know nothing, but multiple RCTs with tens of thousands of participants in agreement tend to be the strongest forms of evidence we have in clinical matters: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

I think you have an axe to grind re: dietary cholesterol, which I have made no statements on one way or the other. Don't read more into my post than what's there.
Clang has a pure function annotation already, FWIW.

E: Actually it might be GCC that has it...
This isn't even primarily a privacy issue. It's a TAKE YOUR GODDAMN ADS OFF MY LIVE PROGRAM issue.
I did the same and it was as unbelievably worthless as I recalled from before the pandemic. You know what really stands out in the office? How sad it all is. The frowns on the subway, the fake smiles in the office, the pretending, the posturing. Bleh. I'm resigning.
That does sound ideal but it's not really something that scales with enormous companies or a globalized economy. You can always allocate the best people to the top roles in the hierarchy. The reason is not only because you don't have the right people to fill those roles who also have the skills for leadership, the reason is sometimes because you have so many of them you can't allocate them because they're aren't enough spots at the top in the hierarchy.
Dumb HDMI is exactly how I use my TV. NO internet access at all. Everything through my Apple TV which has much stronger privacy stance.
Not really. Effect sizes that are small are not subject to selection in most metazoan species because of a small effective population size. These types of variant either drift to fixation or extinction. See Michael Lynch for details.
It was just a panel swap. But I did have PGE come out to disconnect and re-connect service. It also required a permit and inspection from the city.
I think the same Turkish drones now being used by ukriane no?
This is incredible and I'm always delighted by the level of effort Pico 8 developers put into their work.
Nice site, However, those are cute children, not starving children.

Pictures of really starving children will probably turn away traffic though.
As long as they can make a reasonable argument, they’re good.

A legal requirement to maximize profits would be insane. Amazon couldn’t have spent a decade forgoing profits to build up R&D. Chipotle wouLd have to use cheaper chicken. Companies couldn’t donate to causes. It simply doesn’t work that way. (As someone else has pointed out elsewhere on this thread, the Supreme Court agrees.)
Why not just buy a cutting edge consumer TV and not connect it to the internet? Use an Apple TV or some other device.
This is the most frustrating part of being forced back to the Bay Area. Even before the pandemic, we always had distributed meetings, with people calling in from various buildings, conference rooms, phone booths, etc.

So nothing changes between last month and this month, except that managers get peace-of-mind knowing I’m calling in from somewhere on the premises, and I’m back living in a place where I can’t afford a house.

(I did have previous jobs where we worked on hard technical problems, and spending face-to-face time with a couple colleagues hashing out solutions at a whiteboard was invaluable. But that is not my FAANG job, where the whiteboards are rarely used for anything other than interview questions.)
Yep: especially the Drosophila geneticists: sonic hedgehog is a seriously important gene (even in humans).
For 10, you can get a foldscope. Nice for taking it outside. Not what you're asking for, but cheap enough to consider for a different use case.
I’m curious, why are you usually against government interference given that you’ve apparently managed to identify at least one instance in which it is a benefit to the consumer?

My own view on regulation of markets is that it is just an incorporation of externalities into the market (better reflecting the actual “costs”)
LoL: will have to watch.
> Vizio's Jump Ads initiative launches in beta meaning that you as a Vizio TV owner still have time to voice your concerns.

You "still have time to voice your concerns" when you contact the appropriate government officials, the reseller who sold you the TV, etc.

Someone trying to spy on you and defraud you doesn't get to set the rules for when you're allowed to object.
Good for him? Go get that bacon. Money is good folks.
I think they meant leave the TV off the network but use something like an Apple TV to control the media.
Completely relate to this!
I don't see that cryptocurrencies would inherently be better suited to dealing with paying open source contributing better than what you could do without cryptocurrencies.

But, there's a lot of hype and excitement around cryptocurrencies. It would be good if it had a positive outcome.

It's easy to sympathise with "I made a library which got very popular, but was unable to make a living from this".
Richard D James == "Aphex Twin" || "AFX" || "Caustic Window" || "Bradley Strider" || "GAK" || "user48736353001" || "Polygon Window" || "Universal Indicator" || "The Tuss" || "Powerpill" || "Mike & Rich"

(for me, 'artist' is the alias, 'album artist' is 'Richard D James'...)
What's the "something?"
There's a founder effect, but my contention is that at a certain size, the founder effect is swamped by the Here Comes Everybody effect, or how Reddit turned from being a techy, nerdy site with site-wide in-jokes ("The narwhal bacons at midnight") to being a site you'll get a markedly different impression of if you land in /r/SubredditDrama versus /r/news versus /r/Conservative versus any of the niche fan-subreddits for different things.

The problem is that people do see a subset of a whole site, or a subset of a whole city, or a subset of a whole country or ethnicity or culture, and come away thinking they've Seen The Thing. Take that far enough, and you get nationalism, or racism, both of which spring from the underlying notion that broad groups of humans can be classified minutely as if they were species of insect, as opposed to being large numbers of endlessly complex individuals, each with a distinct life and set of experiences.
"I don't know that much about it but basically it seems he combines some animal assessments with reasoning based on the structure as well as trialing tiny amounts and grading it up"

Actually, he avoided animal experimentation. In PiKHAL, I believe he wrote that he hadn't experimented with animals in 20 years. His method was to first try each of the substances he discovered on himself.
If, like me, you immediately thought "why not just drop the 'and' and replace it with an ampersand?", Ozma had to do that, too, and parent's quoted the album title incorrectly, alas.
Often, we are made to come and sit on Zoom calls with masks on.
> He and Hernstein advocated for abandoning affirmative action, and divert funds away from supporting low IQ groups (e.g. welfare) into supporting high performance groups.

There are perfectly good reasons to support these policies that have nothing to do with being racist.

> This is true, however the reason for this difference, and whether it is of societal significance, is up for debate.

Agreed! But calling people with different conclusions on that question 'racist' is not debating. It is giving yourself an excuse not to have the debate, while doing nothing to convince the other side.

And Murray does not have a strong opinion about how much of group differences are attributable to genes. He only argues that they very likely play a role.

> I would argue that we should care more about SAT scores then IQ scores because SAT scores are actually used as an admission metric

Why do you think those are two separate things? There is not one single IQ test. Any test that is g-loaded is an IQ test. IQ is simply a way of representing a score on any test that measures intelligence. The SAT is an intelligence test, and you can represent scores on that test as a quotient.

> Lewontin's Fallacy is a silly path to go down.

It's a perfectly reasonable path considering you commit the same fallacy.

> Group difference down these groups is way more interesting study then down gene make-up.

There's no reason we can't study all of these things, including genetic differences in population.

> If you want to see for your self how poor the scientific quality of The Bell Curve is, I recommend you read the sources it cites. Of particular interests is the meta-alalyses by R. Lynn (1991) [Here is a summary...

I'll check out the video at some point, but it is very long so I'll have to find the time. A substantive critique would be appreciated.

Murray's most recent work on human diversity, Human Diversity, is also very much worth checking out, as it does far more to address issues, like race, that people seem to be so upset about.

If you want to hear from the perspective of someone who actual works in population genetics, you should checkout what Razib Khan has had to say on Murray's work.
Don't forget Big Black. I can't find the words to describe what listening to that was like in the 80s as a young computer hacker. To me, it's like shoving a couple William Gibson novels into my eardrums. It is harsh, loud, sterile, ethereal, haunting, electric and beautiful.
The discrepancy is probably explainable by game theory. There is some set of strategies, defined by the distribution you use to place your own ships and the distribution for picking guesses at enemy positions. If we start from the naive assumption of a uniform distribution for both, this strategy is exploitable using exactly the heatmap from the article. So next we can iterate, assume that the opposing player is using the heatmap from the article, and generate a new distribution of ship placements designed to be unlikely to be picked. From there we get a new heatmap, which can be iterated again in the same manner until eventual reaching convergence with the Nash Eq. I wonder what the Nash Eq of Battleship is and how similar it is to observed real player strategies.
> Just don't connect it to an internet connection.

Some will hop on any open wifi they can reach-- better hope no one spins up a open hotspot within range.
Those people have to be (labelled) smart, don’t they?

I’ve noticed this as a very American thing to say on the lines of “I’m super excited to be here” :-)
Why is most of that abstract not a graph, or at least a table? Is there some ridiculous constraint to prevent them making it legible?
3.3% for LG last quarter, that 2018 number is better than anything they've seen in the last 2 years. Samsung is losing money manufacturing panels, but their reports are a mess.

For comparison, Apple is at 31%, Walmart is at 4.5%.
Same sex marriage is perhaps the area where conservatives are most out of the mainstream. Its a red meat issue for republican politicians who have made anti-gay laws a focus of the most recent legislative dockets across conservative controlled state legislatures, but something like 70% of Americans support same sex marriages. My guess is it backfires on them.

Similarly, liberals underestimate gun ownership. Handgun ownership is at an all time high, across demographics. Black women are leading the surge in new hand gun ownership. And anyone who spends even a second investigating gun violence understands that its handguns that cause almost all of the damage of gun ownership. Liberals are tying themselves in knots trying to find ways to ban semi-automatic rifles while their constituents buy high capacity concealed carry pistols in droves. Its going to cost them as well.

This seems like a round about way of saying that our current voting policies over emphasize the fringes at the expense of the middle. But isn’t that widely accepted?
Nor do I. But I'm the cases we seem to be talking about here, normally it's not like that tho. It's multiple rounds: 5-7 interviews. Especially since remote.
This doesn't contain anything insightful. It just states crypto is a pyramid scheme, a scam and that he's a crypto grifter for starting a new project within the web3 sphere.
I agree upon the success of your parents. It only makes sense that say a 'rich' or 'successful' parent that knows how to budget, had a better education, a strong will to persevere, and/or is extremely kind will pass on those skills of success to their children. Does that kid deserve to have the advantage? I'd say yes because it was the parents who created the life of their kid and what the parents want to do with their money and time, if that's support and educate the life they created then should be able to do that. In U.S. with public education, financial aid, and grants it is about as equal as possible monetarily but if a good blacksmith makes the best swords their son has a teacher around 24/7 that can teach them and make their son the next best blacksmith - but that applies to every single profession, but in general just budgeting or the skills I mentioned above would be enough to succeed in almost any profession, and bonus points if they have multiple of those skills.