jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some points about my personal experience with Uber in my city:
1. Drivers listening to evangelical stations very loudly, spewing hate between musics. Most get angry if you tell to lower the sound. God forbid you ask to change the station;
2. Many drivers trying to rig the system, which in turn costs me money. Uber gives me credit for most complaints, but I can only use it with Uber, so my lost money is good for them either way;
3. I've rated many drivers negatively. Whatever happened to them? Who can tell?
So what stops you from doing just that? (There is ChromeOS, anbox and co)
Yes! "trivial prediction vs surprise" ... which relates closely to tension and release
Worth noting that Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, did visit Assange. "Melzer was accompanied during his prison visit on 9 May by two medical experts specialised in examining potential victims of torture and other ill-treatment." https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

You can read the full open letter by the doctors here: https://medium.com/@doctors4assange/concerns-of-medical-doct...
Or maybe you guys in the Valley could stop offering your labour to FAANG, who then sell that information for profit to Intelligence agencies and go back to the cypherpunk and cryptoanarchist roots of the Valley and help create an alternative?

The recent episode of Silicon Valley was so typical of my short stay there of the collective mindset (#Tethics) in the Valley, which was just a summer; my family is actually from San Jose (multi-generational), but they have since divested and left to the South (where I'm from) for good because of the BS politics and police state that emerged from what was once a really awesome culture in the late 60-80s and less so but still decent mid to late 90s.

I personally moved to Boulder and rode a decent wave, but to be honest with Google coming here and a lot of its cohort following in masse with the large campus it feels about the same now.
Yes, but that’s irrelevant.

Americans are being told inflation is x because the CPI doesn’t normalize.

And this has huge socio-economic consequences
It's legit. They just got bought or partnered or something with BMW, and the business is intended to consolidate with bike sharing and some other stuffs in Europe.

I ride with FreeNow in my city, just as I did with MyTaxi before. Same drivers, same app, same prices, just different colors (and slightly less favorable terms of employment, from what I've heard from the drivers during the time of transition).
I have a bit of a "compulsive etymologist" streak in me. So when I encounter a word whose usage I ponder about, a tool like Kindle which lets me leap into that word's world in a click absolutely poisons my experience. These days I consciously tell myself "BERT can learn what a word means by only looking at usage contexts, and so can I" and move on with a note. Later on, if I feel like it, I revisit some of these contexts.
both of these things alone would work. hard to imagine the effects of them combined
Vision and dental insurance is typically not worth it. If you have a LOT of issues, you might break even.

Often schools will have a health plan / HMO style office to address common issues.

I would recommend paying into the school health plan if it is offered and it is reasonable.
> They literally do spend a lot more of products and services

Yes, but not that much more. The smart rich people do not waste money like that.

> Inflation wrecks (the typically meagre) savings of regular people.

Yes, but that is the case even now. I am not proposing any big change from status quo regarding devaluation.

> It does not affect the wealthy who will have diversified investments and that will include things that are a hedge against inflation such as (but not limited to) precious metals, overseas investments etc. etc.

That is true. It also does not affect the regular Joe who buys physical goods that appreciates in time. And devaluation helps the poor guy who is indebted and has to pay back with interest.
The biggest problem with make appears to be that people refuse to spend a little time learning how it works, and instead charge off to reimplement it, poorly, instead.
As much as I love the way HN's design goes against many trending "UX" conventions, I think the long-time refusal to put in very very basic simple fixes like this one is bizarre.

The messed up presentation on mobile is 100% a mobile bug, for which there is a very easy fix on the dev side, and no good workaround on the commenter side.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Brendan is truly one of the best educators in tech engineering. He may not think of himself as such, and he's also obviously a fantastic engineer, but what really stands out to me is his ability to communicate ideas coherently.

So much of the "staff+" engineer world is hot air, and Brendan has always struck a contrast with his straight forward, information-dense blog posts and books, and down-to-earth communication style. He explores, and often defines, the frontiers of what we do and then brings back lessons.

I'm a huge fan, and can't wait to see what he does (and shares) next.
The manifold hypothesis is true when the measurement bases aren't orthogonal, and there's lots of them eg., when we measure 3D objects by their relative position to 100 objects in a room.

That isnt a bridge principle between spaces which measure different properties.

The low-D structure of any high-D dataset is only a "washing out" of spare measurements of the same properties. These arent different "property-spaces", ie., the low-D structure isnt a world one has bridged to via statistics (or grad desc, etc.).

The properties the formal structure of text captures aren't the properties of objects.. they're something like the social-vocab-coincidental usage of language users in how they "orient their words" around topics. If we change our usage, models which find this structure, become invalidated.

We language-users routinely change this structure, and robustly against misunderstanding, because we bridge to the relevant property spaces by being in the world.
As a centrist I realize that they’re only half-lizard - not fully lizard like these ridiculous people claim
>”I find the effect of even a little alcohol both disturbing and mind-dulling and I deliberately avoid getting into that state. On the other hand, the alcoholic either experiences different physical effects from alcohol than I do and or his/her visceral perception of those physical effects of the alcohol are very different to mine.”

As an alcoholic I think an often overlooked aspect is the opposite of this: how it feels to NOT have the alcohol.
For Rust, I think improvement was almost entirely due to LLVM producing faster code. That's not applicable to Zig case, since both old and new compiler use LLVM. I don't know enough about Zig to answer.
Tangentially related point: the names of certain kinds of sticky tape are, similar to vegetables, pretty much inscrutable between English and other languages.

I've been looked at (and treated by) staff at Home Depot et al as a complete idiot for asking for 'repair tape' (which, of course, in US-English is 'duct tape', or, 'duck tape' if you really want).

One good thing about the Internet (yeah!) is that US-English terms for such items are now more or less commonplace. So, at least, if I ask for 'duck tape' (in English, in my native language it would still lead to much confusion...), I get the repair tape I need. Progress!
this is amazing thank you
Does it matter where they'll go? People will always find some spot on the internet to have conversations after a given platform hits the friction threshold, and some might not even go anywhere: They might just leave.

Where people will go doesn't really matter, because there are a billion places they can, and there's not always a clear migration path. Sometimes, a social platform just dies, and its communities form a diaspora on different platforms, without any "clear" successor (like what happened to Orkut), or just stop doing the whole social media thing (many Google+ contributors no longer post online anywhere).
An alternative view is that "selling ads" is is just a means to an end.

There seems to be plenty of evidence that Google's top leadership is more focused on finding alternate revenue streams that just "selling ads".
I love this gadget - we are trying to invest in energy efficiency (as a business - we pay upfront for efficiency improvements and collect a percentage of savings) and this could be a great way to reduce the cost of ongoing monitoring.
I don't know about putting in the least amount of effort for 5 days a week. But what I do know is that in my country, the Netherlands, part-time work is more and more becoming the standard. Already, 75% of women and 30% of men work 32 hours a week or less. In many sectors the fulltime standard has been lowered to 36 hours, which means every other Friday off.

I myself started on 40 and will move to 32 hours somewhere next year. It's your right by law to reduce your hours for the same pay/hour.

So my advice would be to look for remote only dev jobs in the Netherlands, and just ask to work 24h or 32h a week. It's very common here and won't be a roadblock.

Although this is going to entirely depend on how much money you actually need to get by.
First rule of HN: don't astroturf.

Second rule of HN: don't call out people who you think are astroturfing.

Third rule: astroturf.
I worked on a mixed C++ and C# codebase where we switched from in-process calls to IPC for that very reason, taking the efficiency hit. Having the .NET runtime running in the same address space confused any sanitizer or leak detector. You rely on those tools to manage a large C++ codebase in practice.

Also, because the .NET GC churns through a lot of memory, statistically almost every problem on the C++ turned up on the C# side first, sometimes with very confusing effects. For example, .NET has a compacting GC, so an object can get corrupted and then randomly moved somewhere else. We didn't have that kind of problem often, but when we did, it was pure hell to debug.
Since servers are ephemeral, any function call of note will need to traverse the network in some way anyway.
Having a legal opinion supporting an aggressive tax position that is eventually overturned doesn’t get you out of liability for that position. The appearance of food faith efforts to comply with the complex tax code may reduce penalties assessed.
So in a roundabout way, vaccines ARE connecting them to the Internet!
> Now I'm thinking that every recommendation and suggestion to adopt must come with a "for now this is the best way to do it, but it will probably change again"

Except for Matrix, because it is decentralized.
I would characterize this person’s goal as a ‘change of pace’, which is worthy in a long term career. At some point he/she might want the pace accelerated again.

In a great company you can find the change of pace internally, but unfortunately this not an option everywhere.
Two different groups of people. The ones complaining about location based pay are the ones who would rather work in cheaper cities.
Imagine a person today who dies. They're going to weigh on average 80 kg. If they're cremated they'll be wearing a full set of clothes, and be in a coffin, and they'll be cremated on their own. There will be a full combustion. Afterwards their remains will go through checking to remove large metal items (hips, knees, metal from the coffin or clothing) and then the remains will go through a grinder and packaged and given back to the family.

Now imagining all the people who died in the death camps.

They were malnourished and famished. They would have weighed maybe 40 - 50 kg. They weren't in coffins. They were naked. There would have been multiple corpses per crematoria burning. There may not have been full combustion. The remains went through big industrial grinders, and after that the remains were spread on fields.

Yes, it's fucking obvious that the Nazis used different cremation methods in the genocidal campaign than we use today.
> For me, if I actually skip 2 nights sleep (e.g. travelling) I'm barely able to speak in coherent sentences or make decisions, my vision blurs, I feel derealization etc.

Then do an all-day on-site technical job interview.
What you describe is the model and view part of the MVC pattern: The view is just a projection of the model.

How does the UI get notified of changes? (like the article discusses some changes might come from different part of the UI, or might even come from external like in a chat client)

How do you handle actions of the user? (Of course in the controller in MVC, but how does it work exactly?)
> I'm not particularly bothered that religious communities are struggling at the moment.

Would it be fair to assume religion doesn’t play a central role in your life? It doesn’t in mine, but I have lots of family to whom it does. And they’re hurting.

Practicing ones’ religion is also a fundamental right. For many, education is equally as important as religion.
As someone who is more interested in economics than software, I believe you are 100% right. Once companies figure out how to have employees work remotely, there won’t be as many high priced SV developer jobs. Companies just might decide to higher all (insert Eastern European block country here) developers because they are “local” to each other and are willing to work for a fraction of the cost. It’s not about what you are worth. It’s what companies can replace you for, and if you are remote that replacement value goes down.
If you get the chance, when you encounter something like this that is reproducible (or at least seems obvious what's going on), you can use the Report a Problem tool and capture as many relevant diagnostics as possible. I don't work on the C++ tools team, but generally the folks working on VS are highly interested in getting detailed bug reports.
One of my favorite Elo bugs I came across was a bug in a game called age of empires 2: DE.

Whenever my friend and I played online together, we would sporadically get absolutely creamed. We started looking up the stats of the others players we were matched with and noticed that on those bad games the average Elo of our opponents would jump to >2k Elo vs our barely 1k.

Both of us being software engineers, eventually the conversation turned to “What the hell do you think is going on here? How does a matchmaking bug like this crop up?”

Eventually we came to the conclusion that they must be summing out Elo for the Elo of our matchmaking party rather than averaging it.

Eventually the issue was patched and our worst suspicions were confirmed that indeed multiplayer party Elos were summed instead of averaged.
Azure is... really weird like that. Sometimes it feels like I'm working with Amway, not Microsoft.

A few months ago I spent like a week or two playing with Azure Sentinel -- I'm a contractor for a company that develops some security solutions, and I was trying to see if and how the feature I was working on could be integrated with a SIEM. Sentinel, of course, was one of 'em.

So I do my thing, then a few weeks pass, then out of the blue, one afternoon, my phone rings...

...and there's a Microsoft representative at the other end, asking me what I thought about Sentinel, if I encountered any difficulties with it, what my plans are and so on. She seemed to be working off a full report of my usage, too, as the questions were pretty specific.

Thing is, my total usage of Microsoft Azure Sentinel was on the order of, what, 16-20 hours? spread across several months. I don't think I've issued 50 request in total, and I would've issued less than 5 if Log Analytics didn't take like forever to show my data on the free tier (not that I'm complaining, the price is unbeatable :P). I was on the free tier the whole time, it seemed like such a gimmick that I didn't even bother going through the company I was doing all this for.

Either the Azure team is desperate for customers or they have more salespeople than Oracle has lawyers if they ended up calling a small fish like me.
This is why parents who care about education put kids in private school or move out of SF.
Elo is essentially a time dependent graph algorithm. In a static scenario, Elo probably converges to something like pagerank, but I'm sure there are differences. It is worth mentioning that pagerank has been applied to sports in a similar manner as Elo.
It's San Francisco, and big city school boards have always been utterly terrible. Hyper-liberal cities and universities have been doing ridiculous loopy stuff since basically forever. My uncle used to always complain about some ridiculous thing universities or San Francisco was doing, in the pre-internet 80s, when you had to read about it in American Spectator or someone's newsletter.

I don't get how people think stuff like this is some existential threat - when we have much bigger very real problems in this country, like 30% of the population thinks the election was rigged, and armed militias are flexing their muscle taking over statehouses.

It's a very weird form of focusing on the molehill and ignoring the mountain imo. Like walk me through how this kind of nonsense is this ever going to spread to Johnson County, KS - as opposed to being contained in hyper-liberal enclaves. I can walk you through a lot of scenarios as to how the stuff I mentioned above is a real existential threat to our democracy.
> fundamentally about communication between a human and a machine.

True! And we should not postulate who is at both sides of the communication - machine or human. It's like postulating that a hammer is a tool which must be held by a human hand, which then precludes robot-operated hammers.
"ban, ban, ban, ban, ban" - what a great idea to improve the world.
The issue is that you are pretending you can read police officers' minds and know their intent. And then you claim it's the worst possible intent.
Isn't it explicitly illegal to hire in this manner? Also in terms of diversity, I feel like SF is really only chasing visible, skin deep diversity. What they actually need is ideological diversity. Over- and under-representation should be looked on more dimensions (https://heterodoxacademy.org/ideological-underrepresentation...) than just the ones that are politically convenient or have the most coverage in news/social media.

And leaving that aside, chasing equality of opportunity is fair and just, but chasing equality of outcomes (AKA equity) is unjust and discriminatory. Progressives need to abandon that train of thought because it corrupts institutions in the very manner we are seeing in this story. Unfortunately I am also seeing a trend of big companies, particularly tech companies, adopting "equity" into their language. The move from Diversity programs making work accessible and comfortable for everyone to trying to create equal outcomes based on arbitrary group distinctions is moving them away from meritocracy and towards a victimocracy (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Victimocracy).
That only true when it serves to augment the plain English truth. When that's omitted, it's what I dare say is a "Trumpian" method of obscuring reality.
No it needs a Google account, but you can setup a burner account
- Spends ages talking about what a great opportunity it is, then switches to "So what are your resourcing needs?"

- Not telling me the name of the employer. I kinda need to know that if I'm to write an effective CV. Or if I want to move to where they're based.

- Emailing my work address. Last think I want is my Outlook to pop-up a notification saying "Thanks for the job application" while I'm presenting to my boss.

- Lying. So many do this - they lie about salary, experience needed, benefits, location, timescales.

There are some good recruiters out there - but a lot of charlatans as well.
Thank you so much for trying the application! I apologize again, it is in the beta, and it is hard to test for all environments. I would be eternally grateful if you sent me an email at ofer at enterthemist dot com with the operating system and version. Ill try to fix it right away. Also, it may simply load slowly, could you try running it again and see if it works? Thanks!
Unless your devices can turn fine/coarse adjustment knobs and handle Oscilliscope probes remotely, I might think it's a perfectly fine example. You would still need to wake up at 3am to have the teleconference, and you would need to continually be aiming your laptop at the device in question.

Additionally you would need to be able to adjust the focal range of your webcam, and it would need to be adjustable enough to pick out fine features. You might also need it to be a high-speed camera.

I don't know a lot of people whose devices have those capabilities. In that case, even a 3am videoconference is nowhere near as good as being in the same room. I've had to work with people under those conditions, and it's very difficult to convey anything other than a course of action.

Maybe 33-50% of the nonverbal communication involved in technical communication is you pointing something out to your colleague, and while it's certainly possible to do that over email using pictures, they will never have as complete a picture as you. Some things you need to see with your own eyes to understand.
Some people say that we're living in a "peace bubble", implying that it will return to the mean (much less peaceful times). See e.g. http://www.cato.org/publications/cato-online-forum/primacy-f...

"We tend to take peace for granted in most of today’s world, but the broader historical record suggests peace is an occasional luxury and never a guarantee. Standards of living have repeatedly regressed throughout human history, and very often war and its associated catastrophes have been primary causes behind these misfortunes. "
How many people did Ghengis Khan literally enslave and then raped by his 6th year in tenure?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Khwarezmia_a...

As usual, the artisans were sent back to Mongolia, young women and children were given to the Mongol soldiers as slaves, and the rest of the population was massacred.

A lot more than Obama... I'm sure.

I'm talking about historical norms here. In the great eras of single-power world dominance (US, British, Spanish, Romans, Mongolians, Chinese, Babylonian, etc. etc.), the US, the British, and the Romans were the most peaceful, in approximately that order.

US wins vs Brits because we aren't using Gatling guns against spearmen and conquering entire continents (erm... anymore).

If you disagree, name me a great period of single-power dominance and I'll offer a counter-example.
I'm old enough to remember when 'hacker' meant exactly that. Now its hip to be called a hacker; does that change its meaning? What does it mean to be a 'gangsta'?

Languages change. That doesn't mean its offensive when somebody still uses the old meaning, because its how they grew up using it.
Looks interesting! How does it compare against Chromebooks in a similar price range and specifications?
I've heard that there are 1 or 2 shows on Hulu that show an ad before and after the show, but I haven't run into any of them myself.
In the precomputing era you could (legitimately!) get a PhD for building a table of constants (e.g. log tables early on, later CRC data like steam tables and curves). In the humanities you could get one for writing a concordance of all the words in Shakespear or some other corpus, or all metaphors, and the like. It's obvious how computation killed them.

But in a few years some enterprising grad student or post doc will earn accolades by re-scanning some old sources, taking into account some important metadata which right now is irrelevant. Perhaps labeling or annotating the result in some novel way.
We also hope the kind of isolation we're currently living under to avoid COVID-19 spreading doesn't become normalized. These two special circumstances could probably remain tied together.