jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think the analogies made in this article stand for the markets nor the skills we are considering.

You may think I'm full of shit, and its within your right, but I the amount of time and resources you'll spend to find a good match for a factory worker at some assembly line, compared to that for a skilled software engineer with that's being paid 150k$, is not even remotely comparable.

And the value each bring to your company are not the same either. Perhaps you can make the argument that in both cases there are "plenty of fish in the sea", but I'd wager there's a lot less fish in the developer side of things.

I don't know, but it just smells like false analogies and I'm too tired to write about it ...
Somehow to add to what guerilla is writing..

Example: I have lots of money. Media is a profitable business. I buy some media companies because 'more profit'.

I accept and welcome the above. BUT.. I have lots of money, I made it selling heroin, and now the media are on to me, so I will 'buy a couple of media companies to counter the noise', is completely different game.

I am thinking of Italy's Berlusconi. He had sex parties, some had minor(s) [0][1], but it's all good. He owned media companies, ad companies, he was the prime minister, he was untouchable. He used all this power and control to have sex with minors? He wasn't Epstein-grade, but he wasn't a clean guy either.

So.. media consolidation helps or not the 'evils'?

[0]: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=195272...

[1]: https://www.smh.com.au/world/second-minor-at-berlusconi-part...
When I started my last job, I thought I was going to be writing a lot of Python and C. It turned out that the position had a lot more React and TypeScript than I expected, and at first I was annoyed and afraid. I wasn't a frontend developer---or worse, a designer---but I didn't have much of a choice, so I dug in and learned the stack.

At first I resisted every change. What good is VS Code when I have Vim? Why would I learn TypeScript when vanilla JS has "worked" for me for so long? What's a Webpack config?

Once I began using the tools that my coworkers recommended, I started treading water and even swimming with purpose in the ocean of Web UI technology. I still have a lot to learn, but I probably would have kept on avoiding this area if my situation hadn't forced me into it. Letting my guard down and following the trends in my group helped a lot in this case.

The best lessons I learned during that period are that learning can't kill me and using good tools doesn't make you a bad engineer.
This sounds good in theory, but how does it work in practice? 99% of people aren’t going to be able to read a scientific paper and judge the scientific merits of the conclusion, at least for anything that is not a complete farce. If I read a paper about some aspect of the event horizon of a black hole, how am I going to judge the veracity without spending a career studying the field?

Even if every person could understand every scientific paper, no one has the time to read them all.

How should some practically interpret the truth of a scientific claim? I really find it unlikely that the answer doesn’t at some point hinge on “I trust the judgment of this other person”
I'd kill for one of those around here.
I think part of it is that everybody has their own opinion of where others should start. For example, some people think that new programmers should start low-level (such as with C) and learn how memory management works; others think that a higher-level language (such as Java) is better and abstracts away all of the things that people can learn later. And of course, there's also web app programming, which brings in another curve
Does NFC actually correlate with anything? I'm curious to see what (if anything) my score means, but all the papers I'm seeing are behind pay walls.
Great! Make sure you send me a pic of the dungeon you guys create. I'm always looking for new ideas.
The message from this article seems a little flawed. Your stock price doesn't go up because you pampered Wall Street analysts, treated them nicely, etc. Your price goes up when you earn billions of dollars more than people expected. It's all about the money, not what you say. Perform well, and investors will care little whether you insulted them.

And to be honest, the fact this matters.. what does this say about Wall Street???? It's just a game of impressing people, and not based on what really matters - which is profit?
Though I agree with you mostly, I argue that Xbox and Kinect have greatly contributed to their profits.
I feel like I've heard this said before about Microsoft.
I don't think that is a definition of open-source that is widely recognized or useful. If Microsoft uses MIT license software in the next version of Windows, is Windows considered open source? No.
That is what I think. Everything is free will. From the first particle which decided to Be, to me writing this comment, to Meaning.
It takes some effort to hang goat heads from a telephone pole. You wouldn't do that if all you wanted to do was throw them away.
I find colors of the chart very confusing. IMO red should be anger and blue should be calm. Then according to mood adjust coloring from blue to red.
I don't see how a cushy 6-figure job in a nice city has any relevance to slavery at all.
The biggest difference is they published a paper on it, which I guess is good marketing ( I hadn't heard of proofofexistence.com).

More substantively, they pool transactions and eat the cost, so it's free for the user. proofofexistence.com charges the user 5 mBTC, and you need to know how to send bitcoins to an address. Also they use Twitter as a secondary hash store and provide a somewhat better interface (you can directly upload hash in case you don't trust their javascript hasher or directly type text into a box, and they provide a git plugin as well).
Recommendation: Add an input box to the page where I can type in my email and receive a notification when the android app is available. By the time tomorrow comes I won't remember that Bento exists and I really want to try out your product.
I prefer transit to driving because owning a car is vastly more expensive

I prefer transit to driving because I prefer walkable communities that I can connect to, rather than places full of parkades and parking meters.

I prefer transit to driving because I understand that a bus can take a hundred cars off the road, which results in smoother traffic and more efficient travel.

I prefer transit to driving because it gives me the opportunity to read a book or have a conversation with my travelling companions without one of us having to focus on the road.

From my perspective, the question isn't 'why do you not own a car?' but 'why do you own a car?' For me and the people I know, who fall everywhere from '20 hours at minimum wage' to 'cashed in on IPO', the default is not to own a car, or to own it and rarely use it. The extra time I would save driving halfway to work would be spent stuck in traffic for the other half. The cost of a lease + insurance is many times more than a transit pass, plus fuel, parking, maintenance, etc. It's just not practical.

Whenever I read someone talking about how 'maybe this new thing is why transit', I look around at Vancouver, which has had amazing transit for a long time, and think 'Why would you not?'
Exactly. Not just that but using GDP to measure growth is foolish.

Want to increase GDP (and thus your proxy for growth?) Take a baseball bat and go smash every window and car you can find.

Bam! GDP increases from all those new car sales.
http://www.nhs.info/ - patient portal and application framework for the nhs
You can't reason with dogmatic traditionalists like you people.
You're absolutely right in that a hard working agent will make a difference in a hot market. When my wife and I bought our house in Seattle, there were 7 offers, all pre-inspected, waiving all contingencies, everyone escalating, etc. Our agent showed up to deliver the offer in person, talked to the sellers, an elderly couple, about us (talking up how we are one day hoping to start a family in the house, won't just tear it down, etc) and hung out while other offers came in, literally calling us every time someone else had an offer competitive to ours so we could adjust if needed.

Big difference between that and submitting an online offer form.

But as an aside, I think Open Listings will be huge, or at least similar flat fee models in the future (Redfin was another big step in the right direction chunking out 1.5% of the cost for consumers and removing commission for their agents)
From this forum, which is probably my largest source of interaction with Americans, I get the impression that most Americans think life is extremely hard for the lower class there.
As usual it's tricky to conclude things from Google Books ngrams due to polysemy. If you look at the actual results for "office" in e.g. 1800-1820, the majority of them are for other words that happen to be spelled identically, not for "office" in the sense of "I work in office 802b". From a rough spot-check I'd guess only about 10% of the uses refer to offices in the sense of a place with a desk in which clerical work is done (or related senses, like "office building").

Examples of other, more common uses:

Sermons on the Person and Office of the Redeemer
Lectures on the Nature and End of the Sacred Office
If a coroner be remiss in coming to do his office...
The Office of Holy Week in Latin and English
And, though it be the office of Bishops and Presbyters to instruct...
...shall not be obliged to serve the office of sheriff.
LOL

Actually just a slight error with the last git push, it's fixed now. Thanks for the (free) heads up
The book How to Design Programs[1], with its "student languages", is an excellent example of how languages created with Racket can be used to achieve specific goals (or solve specific problems). In the book's case, the goal is to provide a programming environment for explaining and exploring a successively refined software design recipe.

Also, the Manifesto and Racket's documentation (and HtDP) are written in Scribble[2], another language built with Racket.

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

[2] http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/
When I experimented with word vector representations (word2vec), I found that the analogous embedding part was a bit oversold in a subtle way. While some sorts of analogies worked (the easiest to see was gender: woman-man+boy=girl), other sorts of analogies that appeared just as straightforward to a human were not at all understood by the embeddings.

For example,

water-boat+plane=potable_water (air, sky, etc nowhere to be found).

small-big+tall=taller (short, etc nowhere to be found).

shell-pecan+coconut=shells (husk nowhere to be found).

What I eventually realized is that the vector representations only really work in the case where an averaging operation would get the right answer anyways. For example, woman-man+boy= girl, but you can also get that through (woman+boy)/2=girl. (or even woman+boy=girl) In my experimentation I have yet to see a case where the subtraction aspect is actually necessary to recover the relationship. This would indicate that the vectors are only capturing similarity between words, and not and not any second order relationships between them as is commonly claimed.

Honestly, I wish I could discuss this directly with someone doing research in this area, because it seems to me that the vector representations really aren't capturing relationships in the way they're touted. I think it's an interesting possibility, and I haven't seen it addressed in any of the literature I've read.

EDIT: On further investigation, it looks like the google news vectors maybe just aren't that good? I wasn't able reproduce hardly any of the analogy examples given in the table "Relationship pairs in a word embedding." from the OP.
https://about.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/
>Because I believe the i3-Linux-Thinkpad crowd needs to be constantly reminded that there are other people using computers with different opinions who may be actually happy and productive on their Apple hardware and who prefer dealing with minor hiccups like these over running Windows or Linux on generic PC hardware.

Yup. When I just want to get work done and not feel like I'm having to spend more time tending to an active science fair project than getting stuff done I turn to my Macs. I have plenty of friends who prefer Windows and even a few masochists who prefer Linux on their desktops. I never feel the need to criticize them for their choices.

I'm not so curious about why someone would defend their choices, but why others who have no idea what someone else's wants or needs are feels that it's OK to pontificate as if their thoughts were relevant or even needed.
The comparison is certainly valid. Almost all the FBI's "terrorism" convictions over the last 20 years have been people set ip by a CI or agent, including the FBI supplying materiel.

The fact that there still exists, to some degree, a mechanism in the USA to challenge this in some cases is indeed something to celebrate, but the quite reasonable comparison is not just legitimate and appropriate but is a tool for trying to fix the injustice, not just retail (one victim at a time) but wholesale (change of law).
Playwright is a breath of fresh air next to selenium. And I maintain the perl selenium client and have written thousands of selenium tests!

So much so that I wrote what may? be the first third-party client for it:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Playwright

Here's my writeup on why I like playwright versus selenium:
https://troglodyne.net/posts/1617057517
There is also broot https://dystroy.org/broot/
Surely at one point the return for getting rid of the rest of the C++ code would be getting rid of the C++ build process?
I'm thinking a prepaid debit card and a donation to the FreeBSD Foundation, OpenBSD, and NetBSD might be able to get him to give his opinion. :-)

Joking aside, I'm pretty sure the GNU Manifesto already contains the polite version of his thoughts on the BSDs though.
Actually most states don't have "Stop & ID" laws, but some do. In states without "Stop & ID" laws, you only have to ID yourself when suspected of committing a crime, or suspected that you're about to commit a crime. Not sure how it works outside of the USA.
Is that the chip-on-board packaging like described here: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/9137/what-ki... ?
I think that is a misunderstanding of where the power of “democracy” comes from.

I think voting mostly works in democracies by being able to vote a party out after the government has abused us against our wishes and their promises.

In a first-past-the-post system, you often get to chose between two evils... Imagine you were forced to pick a partner for 3 years, one which you suspect will rape you and the other you think will beat you, and you must pick one or the other...

And that is ignoring the fact that usually nearly 50% of the people that voted, voted against the party they got. It is ridiculous to think that the ~50% that voted against a party deserve what they get.

That said, I like this version by H.L. Mencken better: "People deserve the government they get, and they deserve to get it good and hard."
I was going to say "scale" just like every other terse response on why the US can't do anything from universal healthcare to ultra-high speed (like Korea and Japan levels) broadband Internet, to interstate public transit, and now energy independence. There's just too damn many people in the states for it to compare favorably to any other country.

Then I saw that Brazil has 200 Million people. So there goes that argument?

Moreover, I also tried to argue about it on geographic size, only to find out that the US is only nominally larger in land size than Brazil.

So, maybe it's because of culture? As in, we have so many different races and religions and creeds, all with their own individual thoughts and beliefs, and all of them can't _possibly_ get together as one and get stuff done. I know, pathetic excuse, right? I've heard that so many times about why Asia gets fast bandwidth, cheap mobile voice/data and bullet trains and universal healthcare and why we can't.
There is nothing (that I'm aware of) stopping you from setting up your own Open ID provider that used the method you described for authentication. The downside of course is that it's Open ID, which means it's pretty much only useful at places you don't need it.
For me, I don't need to worry about what happens if humblebundle.com goes away.
We've been working on Socialblaze for over a year. We strongly believe in the product and have users who would attest to how critical/useful it has been for them. We have a very strong roadmap that clearly differentiates us and solves problems that nobody in our space is solving. However, simply, we ran out of money and weren't able to secure the funding we needed.

We have some of the top brands and agencies using it. However, we need more users and don't have the necessary budget to do proper marketing and continue to develop on our roadmap. We want to give the product to someone who can take it and has the resources it needs.

Clickable link to product: http://www.socialblazeapp.com
I think I heard this was going to be a feature of HTML 5.
Great article, am definitely going to apply some of these concepts.
Sounds like you're on the right track though... now I need to take my own advice. Good luck to you!
There's no such thing as crackpot-safe, but there is such a thing as "more crackpot-resistant" and "less crackpot-resistant".
You're forgetting about the existence of Republicans. Clearly, what we'd do is immediately fund a massive space army to go and attack the aliens.
I dare to suggest using $;=/[^a-zA-Z]+/ in the BEGIN block, then you can get away with using only split.each on the second line, and it's more perl-awk-ish :)
Your thinking is natural but ultimately mistaken because of the counter-intuitive aspects of zero-marginal-cost economics. Here's a great thought experiment which illustrates the problem:

http://makeanysense.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-choice-is-less...

A-la-carte channel choice isn't totally impossible, but it's not straightforward to make work and it's not obviously better.
9 women can all try to have baby at the same time though
I'll check out the article. Thanks for providing that additional information.

>But I'm not advocating anything more than data collection in the interest of identifying mass trends and hotspots

If you word it like that that is a legit goal yes. We just need to be aware that when something is on the Internet people are going to abuse it. There are also state actors who could be interested in manipulating data like that in the worst case. Imagine you got a country to shut down or divert ressources to certain places by feeding them false data. This is not something too far fetched these days.

>I also disagree that the US' current inept response means software engineers have a moral duty not to hand them any complicated information (if I understood you correctly) but am having a harder time phrasing that.

I understand what you want to say and yes it's the governments obligation to verify the accuracy of the data they want to act on and not the software engineers, but it does help if they already get data that they can work with.

From years of working for governments, if you work with/for the Government always pretend they have no clue what they are doing and prepare for the worst.
Yes I'm relieved to see what I consider a level headed response. I hope that I am right and we will of course see. I remember reading a quote from our "public health authority guy" something like "it's obvious that other countries decisions are based on politics, not science". That's a pretty brave thing to say, the easy decision would have been to follow along and close everything.

I am of the very unpopular opinion that all people actually die, that quality of life is the only thing that trumps life, and that we have to bring these things into the equation at some level. Now some people read this and immediately think that I suggest that we do nothing and let everyone die, but no I just want us to consider all sides of the equation thoroughly.
I’m just amazed with what Fortnite has done for them. I pass by their current HQ regularly and it’s pretty modest. You’d never suspect that’s the HQ of such a successful company. I was surprised to learn they’re still taking funding. I figured they were pulling down absurd profit.
RTGs don't provide enough energy to power a car. You're looking at 1kW electrical maximum. The one on mars lander Cruiosity provides about 100W electrical power nominal.

But the main reason is that people are stupid and some would inevitably pull theirs apart and contaminate their surroundings with pretty nasty radioactive material. There's no engineering or practical reason why we wouldn't have RTGs for a heap of civilian applications, the reason is that people suck.

NASA is currently working on a 'micro' scale fully self contained fission reactor for the next mission to meet the higher power demand of the craft.
Who do you think that allocates frequency spectrum? Imagine if every mobile phone company wanted to lock its users by operating on a specific frequency.

Imagine if Hollywood or TV studios had any saying over Digital TV standards. Streaming would never exist and we would be used to a "pay-per-view" model forever, with mandatory and built-in DRM.

This is not about enforcing how technology works. It just ensuring that no monopoly can occur. Common standards don't stifle innovation, closed ones do.
I suspect a comment above you spelled it out: corporations value stock price too highly.

When stock price is all that matters, cutting costs wherever they think they can get away with it is the end result (over a long enough period, I'd assume this will always happen as execs cycle through)

As things (engineering, components, design, UX, etc) are cut, customers notice - and switch to brands that they percieve as having cut less. One example of this I'd assume is Apple.
I assume they're not worried about the fissile material being used in a dirty bomb?
Amazon asks senior engineers MORE leadership/behavioural questions.

But no, you don't need to memorize the leadership principles themselves, and your individual stories can't highlight ALL the leadership principles. Some of them are deliberately in conflict with another.
Not if your DNS is encrypted (e.g. DNSCrypt, DoH, DoT, ...)

I suppose it does if you run your own resolver?
In light of recent events with the U.S. Capitol, why isn't now the perfect time to start something like this?
There are myriad^n places in the universe where such threats are infrequent enough for civilization to operate for millions, even billions of years.

The Fermi paradox needs another filter. Some people think it is that interstellar civilizations that arise come into contact with one another, destroying both.
It's possible that the end goal is acquisition or an aquihire-like situation. Even if that's the goal, it could be pretty cool — they may get to the point where they build a team that can execute and build chips with different design goals in mind, adding diversity of ideas to the industry. How cool is it to be part of a team that is capable of building their own chips?

Your tone ("building a company"), however, suggests that something useless is occurring here, that they are just playing house as opposed to creating value. That's the part that feels like coded cynicism.
Malcom Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast did an episode[0] awhile back on how much better McDonalds fries tasted when they were cooked in beef tallow. Now that the "fat scare" of the 90s is over, would this be a good time to switch back? I don't know if frying in tallow improves their longevity, but it may be worth trying instead of yet another chemical additive.

[0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my...