skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were actually more valuable then someone would buy the company, fire the noblesse oblige and hire new management.

The reality is that there’s a point of decreasing returns for productivity. If the “happy workers make more money for the company” truly had a positive ROI, then the market would pay it. There’s plenty of capital willing to make long term investments that would take companies private to jack up wages.
Those kinds of comments I personally don't have a problem with, although I can see why others might.

The problem wasn't using rape in a verb like that sentence, definitely not as a one-off. It was the fact that everything was being reduced to rape analogies. And it was culminated by a comment that very much crossed the line, and was very much meant to cross that line.

There is a comment I saw quite a long time ago which was to the effect that the use of swearing to convey emotional intensity is a sign of immaturity, not maturity.
Agree, and it can be nicely integrated with Git:
http://blog.martinfenner.org/2014/08/25/using-microsoft-word...
Does anyone think this space will be regulated across all companies to create an autonomous standard for safety reasons under the department of transportation etc or simply that the autonomous tech gets into all cars across manufacturers via some partnership?

Just like how we see all newer cars coming out with the same types of tech e.g. lane change alerting or backup camera monitoring or Android auto/Apple carplay etc, as standard features? Or is automation tech more of a first mover monopoly in and of itself since it's so unique and patentable?
API Errors as Exceptions
In the aggregate long term they do.

Shareholders don’t act rationally, but the market eventually does.
My comment made more sense before the HN headline was changed. I've edited it to make it less dependent on the exact wording.
There is no chance the Taiwanese government would allow that to happen.
I first started playing during the public beta and went on to log something like 50 days of play time on my character in the first year the game was out. I was in high school at the time and several of my friends got in much deeper than I did, to the point of failing classes and dropping out of school. I’m ultimately thankful to have been drawn away by girls and beer and whatever other teenage distractions.

To this day I feel the experience of very early WoW was easily the most magical I’ve had with a video game, though. The incredibly vast unexplored world, the total lack of walkthroughs or guides, the excitement of exploration and discovery. Just thinking about it 14 years later makes me want to buy the latest expansion...
To be totally honest, I always find these stats about some x% > 50% failure to program at all totally unbelievable. What do these people do all day, if not design and build software? Yet they're apparently completely unable to write code? How is that possible? I understand that there is always a certain amount of slack and underperformance but any workforce would be completely paralyzed by 70% completely incompetent workers. And yet companies everywhere still produce software.
I'm moderately amused. The tagline of this article is "can you help us find more [people with this condition]?" - but as it turns out, I can't, because I'm paywalled and can't read this article. There's probably something to be said about this.
Alan Kay's Answer to “How Did Alan Kay Read 20,000 Books?”
That has nothing to do with the parent's question. Rising Chinese salaries don't cause executives to need more compensation than the did in the 70's relative to their (American) workers. If your point is that high American worker salaries aren't supportable now due to competition, you would have to explain why American executives' salaries are increased compared to the 70's.
They need their customers to be competitive with their competitors, right? If Intel and Samsung by are still in the game, then AMD and Apple can only survive if TSMC remains competitive?
Doesn't follow our 10B dollars worth branding. You can make the logo bigger 'though.
I recently bombed a Triplebyte interview. I didn't realize how badly until I got the feedback email. It honestly hurt, but it was really useful. I definitely respect their approach.
Yes, and you can merge changes too.

Classic Word workflow: I make a document and send it to my boss; he makes some changes but suggests further research etc. and sends me his altered version, but I stupidly work on my own version. Making this right takes like four clicks.
Build a Random Forest Algorithm
So because some piece of paper says it's ok to screw everyone who lives in a different imaginary box, you're going to do that? (just abstracting the case here)
I mean, why not go a step further and just run it as a municipal service at that point? Don't really see the point to adding a middleman to skim money off the top when the taxpayers have done the hard part for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxysmal_dyskinesia
That makes sense. HN is larger than people usually assume—it gets about 5M monthly readers. In such a big population there are subsets who take any point of view, and on divisive topics the ones who tend to comment a lot online tend to... skew to the tails, shall we say. The vast majority just don't say anything. Since there is almost nothing to stop people from posting whatever they want, we get a wild set of initial conditions. You should see some of the content we have to deal with before you run across it (or rather, I hope you don't). There are good-citizen users who help us with this a lot.

It takes moderation to react to that and settle into some community norm. HN does have relatively cohesive community norms, but with so large and open and online a community, such norms can never be more than a statistical cloud, with large outlier regions. This is why I tend to react when people draw conclusions about the community from particular posts that appear—it leads to misleading conclusions. A better thing to draw conclusions from would be the flagging behavior, but this is harder to observe and takes time to show up.

Edit: There's another factor which is poorly understood, and which I think might have been at play in the comment you were reacting to above: HN is a highly international community. Norms on divisive issues vary greatly across countries. Many of us tend to assume that HN is composed of people mostly like ourselves (in terms of background), but that's far from true. After observing the data closely for many years, I'm convinced that many international differences come across as outrageous domestic behavior when we misinterpret who's speaking. Not that a statement would be more acceptable, necessarily, if we knew—but it would be less provocative, because people seem willing to adjust for this when encountering opposing views.
>Rape doesn't apply only to humans.

Yes, and society generally doesn't find it acceptable to rape animals, either, which was my point. As a counterpoint, try to think of the most contrived example where rape can somehow be justified. My argument is it doesn't exist in western society, whereas this isn't the case for killing and stealing.

>>Nobody's thinking of self-defense when they say "we absolutely massacred them."

My point is that there are other cases where the of killing people is justifiable in some way. Self defense may not apply, but that phrase could be used when both parties are complicit in the killing. Generally, you'd use the above phrase in competitive events - that is, two parties fighting each other and one side winning in a landslide. Same difference in warfare - what separate it from murder is the complicity of both sides. Murder keeps getting thrown out there, but again, the analogies are more in line with general killing than murder.
No one's like, actually forcing you to read an article on his personal blog, man
I'm glad the article mentions how abusive grad programs can be. That doesn't get a lot of airtime.
I think having a set of rules or ideas to apply to everyone, but foremost start with taking responsibility for those who live under the governance of those rules makes a whole lot more sense than "screw everyone who is not us".
What do you consider to be deep research? I agree that engineering research is not actually deep, but once you eliminate that almost all of the current (applied, and maybe theoretical too) Machine Learning work for instance is also dismissed.
> Hello everybody out there using minix -

> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

—Linus Torvalds, in a post[1] to comp.os.minix, 25 August 1991 (emphasis mine)

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RR...
Telling someone that something is a problem is confronting them for real.

Going to tell someone that they are a "piece of shit" is not acceptable behavior.
frustratingly slow for word docs. antiword is better for those of you who wish to convert word docs en masse
If you’re well off (from family or something like that) then sure you can of course do it in your own.

However I’d rather have a system that would still allow me to get some sort of basic income (to afford a living) while doing, say, archeology studies in Ancient Rome. Such system is academia right now.
My friend works for a large consulting company (you've heard of them). They were hired by a client who needed to reduce their labor costs by 10-15% (read: fire people) because they were hemorrhaging money. The team of consultants asked to NOT be given any performance data - and recommended that the consulting team handle the layoffs and fire randomly - this immunized the client from any discrimination lawsuits and was, according to the senior consultant, the most cost effective way to handle a layoff, once the cost of litigation was factored. The client signed off on the plan and the consultants executed it. The client was a big (>10k employees) tech company.

This is the world we live in, unfortunately.
that's a whole lot of blathering to say pre-optimization is the root of all evil... @example: the Intel meltdown &Spectre bug.
By publicly resigning and publishing why, he's literally confronting them in the most effective way possible.
not everyone has 64GB of ram.
It's clear to me that there are two distinct camps in scenarios like this:

There's one camp (camp A) whose cultural norms contain offensive practices to those outside of the culture, and another camp (camp B) who perceives those norms at face value, without context and intent, for their offense. Another poster here used The F Word (South Park) as a great example of this.

> This behavior of male-on-male aggression seemed to be a mechanism of asserting control.

I don't know where Barry gets this, and it's written like a National Geographic-esque piece of a man trying to understand the actions and intents of animals in the Serengeti. He doesn't "get" them, cannot establish trust, and as a result can't influence anyone in this piece's mind about how these actions are perceived by others outside of camp A.

> now I am having to speak to you like an exasperated camp counselor.

This is reinforced by statements like this. This isn't edifying. This is belittling, and completely ineffective. Barry's downfall here is that he believes this is "the long game, and slow and steady would win the race." He's correct, but his execution is fruitless.

Instead, what about trying to befriend these people, and then have down to earth dialogues such as, "I'm not trying to be a buzzkill, but maybe we could tone it down with the rape stuff, my dudes. It's kinda not cool."

I'm sure there are better methods for getting the idea across, but ultimately you change people's hearts and minds by appealing to them and winning them over.
Yeah. But then you can't edit it. Converting it to opendoc or something would be more useful.
There is a little more complexity that bears on why companies like Intel would have their own fab.
In practice, a processor design isn’t just a circuit diagram (or a netlist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlist). A circuit diagram is an idealized model that hardware does not totally reflect. For example, wires have capacitance and transistors leak current. In fact the smaller the process node, the less the real circuits reflect idealized circuits. High-performance designs thus are tuned for the specific properties of the process.

Historically, Intel has not only led in process technology, but has reaped benefits from having the process engineers next door to the processor designers. Intel CPUs have been tuned for the exact process that will be used to make them, including by laying out transistors by hand to maximize performance.

Custom design happens with foundaries as well, of course, but there have historically been synergies from putting processor design and process design under the same roof.
I had to google TSLA to realize it was Tesla. What's up with using stock symbols? You saved one letter by not writing Tesla.
Good. Privacy isn't a right.
> a PhD has no bearing whatsoever on your capacity to do solid research

Having worked in research at a few major tech companies now, when hiring research staff I’ve found they typical want someone in a strong position in the research community, typically evidenced by a strong publication record in the field they are recruiting in. While this can certainly be done without a PhD, I find it to be a bit rare. Our current research group is around 10 people (in a ~2K person company), 9 have PhDs.
Enabling Wide-Spread Communications on Optical Fabric with MegaSwitch [pdf]
What's the release date for this game? Or at least the ETA for when they'll be able to provide an ETA?

I just hope I can get a glimpse of it first-hand before 2077.
Don't do a PhD for the money (although it is more than adequate in STEM fields).

Do a PhD for the jobs that it unlocks (professor or researcher, mostly) or the type of freedom that it provides (it was 6 years of mostly unstructured time that I got to explore things that interested me while being paid). If all else fails, you can still go join a big tech company and make more than enough money to live a good life.

I'm a professor now and love it! Couldn't have happened without a PhD first.
Yup absolutely, plus the amount of conductor you can use is limited on a PCB. It is cool but not cheaper.
Be a good listener & keep ones head clear
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
You can't absolve a company from liability for US labor laws. So even after you sign the non-liability agreement, you can still sue. It's not a real shield for the company.
Well, rather than argue the finer points... let me just join you in a toast to those who do stand up!
I had the opposite. I met my wife playing WoW, then had a few drinking nights with the guild and one thing lead to another.
What does it mean to "keep the surplus from exports"?
SDN and Optical Flow Steering for Network Function Virtualization [pdf]
Write notes down, think about them and then re-write them.

Read books.
A good movie about why this is a bad idea is “Other People’s Money” (Danny Devito).

Employees will always optimize for themselves, eventually leading to the destruction of the company.

In power law systems, the enemy of efficiency is local optimization. The very thing that allows the behemoth corporations of today to exist and scale to work is the fact that there are compounding factors working - which is the work of the board. These factors would be less likely in a more locally optimized system, which would naturally result in the case of employee run corporations where the employees are treated fairly.

I think it says a lot that many of the most large corporations are the result of this kind of organization structure. It’s clear that this isn’t the best structure for human beings but is probably very much needed by very high level business like the tech industry. Do you really think employee run business would have led to enough free capital and accumulation of wealth to invest billions of dollars in a pair of AR goggles?
Full table scan
>Interviewers kept on saying things like, "I managed to pick out enough of the right words that he probably answered me, but I wasn't sure."

Did it ever occur to them to ask "Sorry, could you repeat that?"

Sometimes it takes a bit more effort to understand someone, whether it's because of an accent or a speech disorder or whatever. As an interviewer, you're in a position of power, and you have an obligation to put in that effort.
We always get these kinds of responses when interview testing is mentioned. This isn't some high-level algorithm analysis on a whiteboard with a panel of examiners grilling you. This is a simple test of basic competence. It's like interviewing a candidate Formula 1 driver and asking them "so which bit's the brake pedal?" If they can't tell you that instantly then they shouldn't be applying for the position in the first place.

> Please state your last exam conducted under such conditions?

University entrance exams.

University graduation exams.

Any other test that you do which you need to pass to enter or continue your career.
I disagree, but I accept that there's a lot of subjectivity to it; the Amex refresh is just that--a refresh of an existing brand identity with very strong recognition, and consistently high brand loyalty. Pentagram managed to refrain from abandoning everything, while fixing problems that were...annoying (see the alternate blue square logo for small-space digital use, for example). I'm not a fan of the more aggressively cropped 'C' but that's more a nuisance feeling than anything objectionable. Overall, I'd say Pentagram's AMEX work is interesting more for their restraint and ability to recognize when it's not appropriate to just abandon everything.

The surreal thing is that, as important as continuity and timelessness can be for financial services firms, it's even more fundamental to the LOC's roles. If you've ever been to the Thomas Jefferson Building, to walk its halls the first time is to almost be overwhelmed by a sense of connection to millennia of human thought and achievement. There are libraries out there with modern-looking identities (as an example, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh--though I really hate the combined i/l mark).[0] I don't know of any that are as in-your-face as the LOC redesign. A lot of these kinds of "make it modern" updates are because companies are trying to better connect with consumers. The really crazy part about this is just how irrelevant that is to the Library of Congress' mission. The LOC isn't trying to reinvent itself before the internet kills it, as with so many other libraries across the country.

It's really hard to imagine someone actually visiting, well, any of the LOC buildings and coming away with the impression that Druk Condensed feels right. Pentagram has an impressive body of work, but their work for the Library of Congress comes across as the sort of pitch an intern might make prior to being fired before they might accidentally stumble in front of a client.

0. http://www.landesbergdesign.com/projects/carnegielibrary.sht...
It looks exactly like their EFF logo https://www.pentagram.com/work/electronic-frontier-foundatio...
"You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages."

Lol Microsoft! why a random $5 number?
> What do you consider to be deep research?

As a guiding principle, I think deep research is answering questions that no one has approached in quite the same way before. In my own PhD work, I used the time to learn how to answer questions sufficiently (methodology) as well as how to recognize shape/distill questions in a way that they can be approached. Developing these skills don't require a PhD, but the dedicated time helped me.

I've used these skills to learn deeply and answer questions to great extent in business roles and drive some solid change in a few large orgs. It doesn't mean I do a job better than someone without a PhD. Also, the PhD signals that I have answered some deep questions to the satisfaction of others that answer deep questions (PhD committee).
How exactly did you set up that keybinding? Are you using Automator or something like Hammerspoon, etc?
> Except the groups they represent are different. Executives represent the shareholders and labor organizers represent labor. Even if you say a large part of the benefits are lost due to corruption in both cases, it shapes where the remainder ends up.

But you have to compare it to the alternative. The question is whether the incremental amount the union gets from management over what the employee would have gotten for themselves is more than the overhead/corruption cost of the union.

For shareholders of public companies there is little choice. If you own $1000 each worth of a hundred different companies, you're not going to have the time or incentive to manage them all properly yourself (and neither is any other individual shareholder), so the benefit of hiring a board to do it is worth the cost.

The math is a lot different when you only have one employer and you're getting ~100% of your income from them. In that case people have a strong incentive to do their own research and try to get the best possible employment for themselves. It's the same reason most companies with a single owner are owner-operated.

About the only thing a union is going to get you is leveraging its monopoly power, which only works against monopolistic employers that have enough margins to pay you more without themselves becoming uncompetitive and also individually represent too much of the industry to just let everyone walk out and hire all different low level employees.

This is why, for example, unions worked well for workers in the dominant era of the Big Three American auto companies, and much less well now that they have aggressive competition from Japan, Germany and Korea.

But their cars are a lot better now. A lot more people died back then. Other people wrote scathing books and passed new laws. Uncompetitive markets are terrible.
> Since I've returned to working as a programmer, I've noticed this kind of thing rearing its ugly head more and more. The idea of being a "professional" has changed quite a bit.

I'd argue that especially in the culture of HN and startups that the term "professional" only means your ability to interface between people in actual lines of work. A "professional" programmer is more akin to "professional" musician than a "professional" Dentist.

There's an overall lessening of professional employment almost everywhere - at a certain point teachers would always have suits and tie's and parents would have to dress up to go see them the same as they would a Judge or Congressperson. Nowadays the only professionals anyone actually interfaces with are doctors, and maybe lawyers.
I believe the best you could do is extract the raw OCR'd text from the document (with some other tool). No formatting or text hierarchy is preserved in the OCR process, only the physical locations and size of the text on the page. From text, you can convert to Markdown or whatever and then manually edit to give the OCR text some structure.
That piece of paper is actually the easy part of the entire process.
This is a really weird argument. It seems unlikely that you would succeed in legally justifying excluding deaf people from your team based on the idea that verbal communication is an essential duty of a software developer, which is the analysis that would likely be used against you.

Also: if your management decided to exclude deaf people from your team, wouldn't you quit? I would quit.
They're probably not "happy" to pay Apple 30%, it's just they have no alternative on that platform, whereas on Android sideloading is actually a possibility.
This must be a joke, right? Using the word “library” twice in the new logo looks ridiculous. As do the variations where “library” is split in two.
EURJPY: Sees Further Bullishness, Remains on the Offensive
Rape isn't a gendered assault.