jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is why these services should be offered by actual VPN providers.
Not even. https://fairworldproject.org/starbucks-has-a-slave-labor-pro...
The way that my country has, and is handling the coronavirus pandemic, has meant that their vision of the future of society has diverged from something that I wish to be a part of.

It's not about my accomplishments, but whether I feel like I have a stake in this. I have no stake in it now. They want a future that I don't want.

No social ties, no bonds, no community. No counter-culture. No culture. No high street. No shopkeepers.

Amazon, Deliveroo, Uber, Facebook, Netflix.

Skyrocketing wealth inequality. Printing, printing, printing, QE, home prices ten times the median wage.

An elite, and an underclass.

A society that interacts, in a regulated manner, through a screen. By _force_.

Because it's "safer". De-risked. Comfortable.

And their answer for me? Therapy. Anti-depressants. Coping strategies. Learn to love the screen.

Embrace the new future.

Not me. Your insults, your attempts at control, they bounce off me now. "I'm alright, Jack", as they say.
I've been drinking wine for a while, in the range from $4-$100 and even though I wanted to say that the expensive stuff was better, I cannot tell the difference at all. It all tastes like wine. Every now and then my wife will say that a bottle is "bad" and "vinegar-like" but I still can't tell. I just don't get it. The only thing I can tell is whether a wine is sweet or not - but that only has to do with fermentation not necessarily quality.
> Because nobody with money gave a shit about the global poor until they realized they could be used for cheap labour.

They did. It's called slavery. It's only when that finally became mostly unacceptable (remember there are still millions of enslaved persons worldwide), that they had to turn to paying them wages of a dollar a day (slavery with extra steps).
I see - The other kind of hackers. This is all very confusing to me.
That's a separate problem, but there are easy payment systems to integrate with you app if you need to charge people,
This paper does not describe a working system. Instead, it presents a single idea about representation which allows advances made by several different groups to be combined into an imaginary system called GLOM. The advances include transformers, neural fields, contrastive representation learning, distillation and capsules. GLOM answers the question: How can a neural network with a fixed architecture parse an image into a part-whole hierarchy which has a different structure for each image? The idea is simply to use islands of identical vectors to represent the nodes in the parse tree. If GLOM can be made to work, it should significantly improve the interpretability of the representations produced by transformer-like systems when applied to vision or language
You know you're wrong when you put scare quotes around "tracking", and instead choose to call it "anonymous audience recognition". Anonymous audience recognition ranks amoung the most useless, actively misleading jargon I've heard.

To be clear, this system neither recognizes an audience nor can anything of this sort be fully anonymized. A universal ID such as this would recognize every individual member of an audience, not an audience as a whole. Recognizing an audience would look like telling an amazon seller that their product is popular with people who also bought paper towels. Such recognition would be possible from a list of transactions i.e. (paper towels, sunglasses), (energy bar), (dish soap), (laptop, paper towels). In this system there is no knowledge who made what transaction, no universal ID.
Any Universal ID can't be fully anonymous because your browsing history is you. You might search for something related to your current residence, your hometown, your workplace and the breed of your dog. These searches alone would be enough to uniquely identify you already, but it would be difficult. Luckily you make boatloads of searches a day, and combining all that data would make your identity much easier to discover. This all assumes your search provider bought in to this universal id system (use DuckDuckGo).
C.G. Jung once wrote that it was totally clear that the amount of conscience of a group of people is inversely proportional to the size of the group. So, if countries are like people they mostly are like psychopaths.
Score another for YCombinator.
Registering dropped domains is not domain squatting. Hold a minute before insulting someone.
These are well known issues, anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes ever on /r/androiddev is well aware. Suffice to say its almost understood these days that any dev with any sense understands all caveats when doing mobile development period.
Thanks for your encouraging feedback!

I was the sole game developer / designer working on it. It took about 2 person months of effort. I have prior experience in Java and Libgdx engine. But this is my first in Unity3D and C#. Along with Unity3D, Google Game Services and OpenIAB plugins have been used. I used Blender for 3D modeling and animation and GIMP for 2D image editing.
At least the last time I looked at Swagger, it was very much URL/endpoint-focused. Hyperlinks, while documentable, are not first-class citizens. In a real hypermedia-driven API, you want to document the links, not the URLs, as the API users will be using these named links, and not constructing URLs, to access functionality.
In the end it does not matter whether you re-read A. Christie's complete works thrice and did not finish Brothers Karamazov or vice versa.

Personally, I have a hard time not finishing a book, for example I can't decide whether I want to continue reading Gone Girl past half. This book is written cleverly yet somehow disappointing after the first big twist(it came too early imho).

One strategy I employ is reading three or four books at a time, one sci-fi, one mystery, one science, one philosophy one political and so on.
this search began because a chemist uncle of mine was curious as to what he could have made if he went into academia instead of industry

.. and were successful in academia, instead of industry.

The University of Minnesota is certainly not a top school and the professors are by no means superstars, so their salaries were surprising.

UMN is actually up there in certain medical subfields (according to USNews, it's in the 30s overall, and #5 in primary care). In any case, as I said, med and business schools are in general a special case -- they have to compete with high salaries to begin with, and they can afford it -- professional students tend to pay their way.

However, the two tenured research professors at UPMC (which is up there as far as med school rankings go) whose salaries I happen to know, make way less than 200K. And as far as I know, tenure no longer comes with a guarantee of salary -- you have to get your own funding, i.e. get lots of grants.

In any case, I hope you get your 'vacation' and it turns out to be everything you expect )
For many of the vegetarians I've known, that's a secondary argument, the primary being a healthier lifestyle.
Working okay for me, post a screenshot ?
Vokle is cool. I want to go to the meetup but I have to attend to the gym or else...

Next time!
Talloc uses the LGPL, not the GPL.
> Please don't measure cultures using a yardstick from your own culture.

Setting aside the particulars of this article, I take issue with this idea. External cultural observation and comparison is invaluable for bringing new perspectives to internal problems. That's not to say the outsider's perspective is more correct, but merely that it is illuminating in a way that is difficult to achieve from an ensconced position inside an echo chamber.
> The gleeful anticipation of a correction by investors and pundits is not helping the world get better in any meaningful way.

So very true. I think it is important for us all to remember that quotes from sources in a marketplace are often about forwarding their own interests, as opposed to being realistic or dispassionate and truthful.

This is often something people do unknowingly, especially well meaning people that are discussing a subject of great import to them. Something to keep in mind.
Yes, forgot to mention that option, as I don't use it... I've pretty much gotten used to the Hangouts integration at this point.. except the outbound dialing, it's gotten very decent. Hopefully they clear up a few of the dangling quirks.
Yeah this is a fair point! I found the rhetoric in the de-goggling community to be a bit purist and defeatist at times and I'm more of a "better done than perfect" kind of person, but I also don't want to be unrealistic about Google's reach or suggest this is all it takes to escape it. I updated the post to reflect these thoughts. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Emacs is a big Lisp interpreter.

Elisp is the most popular Lisp in the world.

Why wouldn’t you want to improve it?
The problem isn't Chinese software, it's the smartphone model that makes consumers extremely susceptible to vendor lock-in and network effects for even trivial things like sharing files.
To counter that point, high-end tumble dryers are universally built with a heat pump that is all located inside the same room (it's even in the same device).

It's because they are cooling air to dehumidify it (the drying part), then they pump the heat back into the same air to circulate back into the wet clothes.

https://images.jifo.co/10180236_1567417620885.png
The baby's cells are not wholly walled off from the mother's system. Like the best parasites, babies suppress their mother's immune system when it comes to their own cells.
I don't think the US is the same as China even if the US isn't perfect. The CCP actually commits genocide, takes political prisoners, and its justice system is a kangaroo court. Compare that to the US which spies on people and is taken to court for even attempting to kill a citizen who's become an enemy combatant in a warzone and has a justice system which often invalidates the actions of the legislative branch.

Europe with GDPR does set its own rules for how American tech can operate and penalizes them heavily for perceived infractions. So that continent is taking the actions they want to take which is their right. Beyond that, there are more examples: Spain did effectively shut down Google News, and I don't remember any retaliation.
I worked remotely for 18 months for a startup in SF.

Eventually become probably the most prolific developer in the company despite not being on site.

Has it's downsides though, you are generally overlooked for lead developer/mgmt positions because you are not on site.

I think this is a mistake, I eventually left because of said mgmt choices and I think this sent a wakeup call to them.
If by "improve" he means creating a mediocre clone of an existing and successful product, leveraging a monopolistic position to wreck the original, and then go through a long process of incremental improvement on the clone until it is objectively better that what was available 20 years ago (and selling every milestone along the way)... then I guess he's more or less right.
How can I download it? I only found it on some torrent sites, but they may contain viruses I guess.
I can't help being pedantic and reiterating that smartphones with apps and stores existed before the iPhone. Let's not rewrite history. The iPhone's historical importance is overstated, especially when one considers the global market, where it was never a leading player. The US is very particular in that regard.
Thanks for touching back!

One of the other comments mentioned that it may be better to treat Imagenet as a multi-label problem. Do you see value in treating the eval set as multi-label instead of single-label? Specifically, it may not be an erroneous label if there's actually multiple things present in the image.
Very true. Marketed "fun" is usually not. And frankly, I don't have energy or patience to play the marketing game.

But I do know what fun is. I worked in the gaming industry at one point, and later in life I worked in places with Friday parties and foosball and food and spirits. Party play time can be a whole lot of fun - the kind you talk about Monday and even Tuesday and then look forward to next Friday.

Foster an environment where people work hard and you all gain, and you get to play nicely on a regular basis, and you have a place where you don't have to compete for talent. People seek you out.
Highly leveraged firms blowing up often happen at major market tops.
Oh wow, i remember YouTrack! I have not used it for about 5 years or more now. I used it as a client to a dev agency, and really enjoyed the experience. My understanding is that the client/guest view - at least back then - wasn't even the full cool experience...so from client side, YouTrack was absolutely great! I have never used it as a dev., so no idea what the difference is, or how things work for a dev., or if better/worse, or what. I even remember that for another agency that we had to work with, they choose Jira...and my peers and i all hated Jira...but we all loved YouTrack...again, back then - no idea if things have changed. Thanks for bringing back that positive memory of YouTrack!
i don't mind this approach, you can waste an entire day with parsing even for the simplest language, this goes right to the point.

"Parsing is mostly a distraction, because we want to study the parts of programming languages that are not parsing"

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/Everything__We_W...
No, you actually dont. All ISPs operate on oversubscribing each available meg. If they did what you are proposing, the only options would be 1 mb up/down stream, 3 MB up/down speed, and 5 mb up/down speed.

Many ISPs have 100-10,000x over subscriptions per meg
Because it's easier to regulate knowing more people download / stream than upload. Only people in general uploading significant data are business or file sharing.
I think that’s kind of the point. The more people jump on this and the faster they are, the quicker you’ll saturate the “tweet space.” Once you have all historic data and a near real time replication of new data, you’ll have a near perfect clone of the platform, while only few will have the knowledge and resources to compete in this data transfer business. All you’re effectively doing is outsourcing a ton of dev time.
Not really? Python's dynamic typing and lack of variable declarations clearly shows it was designed for developer velocity, not catching bugs.

Seems like your argument is Python catches some bugs when converting to bytecode, so it cares about catching bugs early. That's not true -- for the most part, Python catches only the most trivial of typos before execution.
It's interesting how much truth, insight and self-awareness is in this article, and yet ultimately how vain the entire line of thinking is. The reality is, people who do great things (however you define great!), tend to achieve them through relentless focus within their field of expertise. When we start focusing on optics then we just become politicians.
I understand the sentiment, the traditional interviewing process doesn't seem like the best way to evaluate candidates. However, the proposal breaks down for the vast majority of good hires in that it is impractical to expect someone with a full-time position to quit in order to try out for a new team.
What website?

Function how?

There are a lot of superfluous cookies because adding cookies is "best practice."

And frameworks make it easy.

And the added complexity makes programming mundane websites more interesting to the people condemned to doing so...inventing interesting problems makes people feel clever when cleverness is superfluous.
This is what I wrote to the last place I rejected:

"I thought about it last night and I’ve decided not to go forward with the position.

Thank you for the considerable time and effort you went to on my behalf and I feel bad that it wasn’t more fruitful.
I really appreciate that you even considered me."
Good point. Even in the worst case scenario, banks can fail and get bailed out by the public. But once information leaks, there's no "bail out" remedy possible... you can't really put the "information" genie back in the bottle.
It performs an auto-update check. You know it's just performing an auto-update check. While there's not no argument to be made here, it's not like it's secretly collecting a bunch of data and reporting it before letting you opt out.

The paranoid, accusatory tone in the issue does nothing to help your argument, and I believe makes it harder for maintainers to take you seriously. Your argument is well thought out, and I don't necessarily disagree with it in principle, but you're making mountains out of molehills here. If you'd simply pointed out the issue and asked that the auto-update check be performed after the consent check - especially if it came with a PR implementing that - you'd go a lot further.
Except isn't this exactly what companies like Amazon want? They lobby for lessened regulations and bribe their way into government offices so that when they get exposed doing something bad the blame gets shifted to the government for not doing their job.
How does this technically work? Is this a server which just tunnels through tcp traffic?
So does all data pass through your server or is it a rendezvous server, which uses ICE to establish a P2P connection?
Check out Seed - https://github.com/tindzk/seed
I don't understand why Microsoft / Github doesn't get rid of Atom. It serves no purpose with Visual Studio Code around.
Toccata seems very interesting! I like the clojure-like syntax and the gradual typing aspect of it.
Thank you for this feedback. I'll be sending this info back to the dev team. We really appreciate it!
Where "flavor" means "subset of". But good on them.
That's a great point. None, I suppose. What would you recommend?
I've not used chef, but I'm in the process of setting up a new infrastructure using puppet and I've found the documentation to be pretty good.
"When the government is your one and only insurer, that option disappears."

This is never likely to be the case. In the UK, the state provides a high standard of free universal healthcare in the form of the NHS. There is also a huge network of private hospitals and clinics that you can pay for in cash or using insurance. Many employers offer private health insurance as a benefit.
As a "potential employee" I think that additional information is critical to convincing me of the stability of the company. If I think they're going to be around long enough to pay the cheques etc...

I know that many companies don't post their name, but from the point of view of someone who's been looking around - I think it's critical for me to be sold on the product & culture of the company.

Irrelevant at the end of the day though ... if they don't want to publish their name, it's likely that it's not a good fit for people who care about knowing the name.

(I know that's such a circular definition that it's almost useless - but - in my head it makes a lot of sense)

:)
I think it is not so much the legacy code that is the problem.

I think it is the fact that more and more features are being introduced and many seem to have effects on each other in a way apple has not foreseen.

Like the Wifi issue seems to have something to do with the ad-hoc networks being used for handoff or for making telephone calls from your Mac etc.

Ever since iCloud and its background services was introduced it seems the bugs happen more and more frequently. I think we need a maintenance release of Mac OS this year instead of yet another set of new features that will clash with the existing ones.
I would love to hear more about this analysis of the ontology of revolutions. I can think of instances in history where this seems to be the case (1850s America) but also instances were it does not seem to be the case (The Peasant's Revolt).

Do you know of a more nuanced (empirical) approach to predicting or recognizing which instances are driven by the masses, rather than political narrative?
Do-Not-Track failed. According to Wikipedia, Apple dropped support and not many people adopted it anyway.

It was always doomed to fail. You're asking the wolves not to eat you by setting an HTTP header. If these companies were the kind to care about the honor system, they wouldn't be tracking you in the first place.
> Not the perfect example, but I like to eat meat, yet I know I would hate to be a butcher.

That's actually a way better analogy than you think.
The judge didn't "make statements about topics they are clearly not prepared to do so". The judge asked the party on court to explain the topic.
> So is any digital "good". If you value things that way, nothing on the computer is valuable.

Hence why they are not a store of "value".

> Gold's primary value is from it's rarity. Very few cultures value gold for it's artistic attributes, India being the primary one. How often do you see someone wear gold jewelry in western countries?

Gold primary value is that it is useful. Jewelry is very useful, but it is not is gold's only use.
This definitely resonates with me as well to an extent. However, I've identified the core issue being related to where I'm working, and not so much the career itself. I'm in my early 30s, been in full stack development for the entirety of my six year career.

As another poster said, startups are tricky. I've worked for two, and the first was a poster child hostile work environment, doing subpar work for angry clients with ridiculous expectations. The second was an incredibly positive experience though the pay was junk. Now I'm at an enterprise, and burned out like I was at the first startup, but have identified a different path forward (heading into SRE now) as I know the root cause of this mentality now.

At the end of the day, if you're not interested or passionate about what you're working on, and you don't have clear upward mobility within your org, it's time to move on. Otherwise, it feels like your career stagnates and you think the career itself is the problem, not the current employment situation.
I’m heading but learned ASL at work. Ever since, I’ve tried to get my wife to learn because I’m always noticing times when it would be handy (pun not intended).

Noisy places, when I’m brushing my teeth, when I want to be more discrete in public, communicating across a room without yelling.
I think it's obvious that they were mislead. If you allow this form of defence, then I can, on one hand, sell you a privacy product, and on the other, have my subsidiary, which knows exactly how to get around it, spy on you and sell your data. Both entities are controlled by the same holding company, their 'separateness' is legal fiction.

Its basically like insider trading. You are playing both sides.

But suppose I were to take your argument - are the entities actually separate? Is Chrome development not funded by revenue from google ads? They would not pass any kind of test for 'independance'
What happened with Terraria?
This is great but where do you buy keycaps? Do you know why you virtually cannot find any flat key caps anywhere? Even the Kailh launched their v2 low profile keycap, but good luck finding any keycaps. Sure you can attach regular caps with the cherry mount, but if you want to build a flat keyboard, it's just not possible :(
Only way so far I found is to chase people who do DIY molds or pay $$$ for a custom run (which you'll end up with a bathtub of keycaps and an empty wallet). Why nobody is doing these?
Who said I’m against it? I merely raised the question.

> This is a major corporation investing billions with profound impact on the community.

Sure. Is that impact the same for everyone in the community, though? Or is it ultimately better for some, and not others? Could it also be that it may be a net negative for some members of the community?

Also, as noted by others, Samsung already has strong incentives to build this facility in Texas, and has wanted/needed to build it for a while. This latest gambit is an effort to force local government to sweeten the deal.