skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did he dye his hair blue/purple? Cause that seems to be a popular in-demand hair style preferred by the cool startups.
Such contract terms might be ruled unconscionable.
On the environmental and monetary costs of training deep learning models
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So please don't do that, and please don't post unsubstantive comments in general. We're hoping for thoughtful conversation here, not flames.

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Nobody's assuming it's a representative sample. It's a counterexample.
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"(eg I’ll take an older more experienced surgeon over the new junior attending any day, but I’ll bet on the young person in a football match or tasks that require a lot of cognitive flexibility)"

You seem to be contradicting yourself there, why you would you think an older surgeon lacks cognitive flexibility?
I did this for 4 years and went back to full-time management. Even in NYC, I struggled as I (as a DevOps guy) never had the latest tech. If they needed AWS, I got AWS (experience and certs) but then they wanted Docker. Now Kubernetes. Despite years of programming experience in three languages, I still get whiteboarded. The point is, I was being treated like a full-time employee in consultant interviews. A few smaller clients I picked up were miniscule hours, we're talking 8 hours a month at most of work. Here on HN, these startup types wanted me to work for 50 pct less my rate.

I'd love to consult one day, but I haven't cracked that code. I have 18 years of systems automation, operations, and now management experience.

Something isn't good enough.
'git clone --depth=1' will only clone the latest HEAD so you won't get the history.
This is why I gave up on ever having a "real job". This thread inspired me to take a look at a job board and the first thing I saw was a mobile developer job listed as "entry level". Scrolling down, the requirements are 5 years minimum mobile development experience. This is entry level now? Five years experience? By the time I have five years experience working at some kind of theoretical pre-entry level job and finally qualify for "entry level", I'll be old enough to be age discriminated against for being too old. If I could afford it, I'd go back to school to be an accountant or something, but since programming as all I know how to do and can afford to do, it's monetize "side projects" or die poor. And yes I know, working for someone else would make way more money, but that's like saying to an Uber driver "Hey bro, you'd make way more money with an NYC cab medallion". Like they don't know that? Of course, but that is not an option.
The calculation was back of the napkin of course, and worst case scenario. But it never implied all people and professions are the same (that's not how statistics work), or that weekly productivity varies with hours worked. Rather with days worked. A day is a fully self-contained unit of work/life so to speak: it contains the commute, the breaks, the work, the recovery time (sleep), etc. This makes it a much more relevant unit of measure.

8 hour days are probably a good balance between how much work you can productively put in during one day and the auxiliary time. Increasing the number of hours per day would probably decrease productivity via fatigue. Decreasing the hours wouldn't bring much of a benefit for the worker since the auxiliary time stays mostly the same (you still commute).

A good chunk of the lost productivity would probably be offset by higher worker satisfaction.
Why don’t you say your salary and location? Geeez you’re on an unknown Internet forum. Please do us a favor by joy just bragging about your sitch but also giving us a clue what’s possible.
thanks for the kind words :-) I hope you get as much use out of the product as I already do!
If noone advertised their computers, people would still look into the various brands of computers as long as there is a natural demand for them. If you need a computer, you can go to a website or a physical store and have the ability to relatively fairly compare the different brands. Advertising doesn't really help with this.

The main problem I see with advertising is that it seems to largely exist to manufacture a demand for products, not to inform people about the differentiation between competing products. Everyone's working just as hard as they were 100 years ago, even though productivity has supposedly massively increased. Our increase in productivity seems to go towards getting people to buy into things that they probably don't need, like a new iPhone every year.

Why not halve the number of phones/laptops/ads we're exposed to in exchange for halving our working hours?
>It's also rather irrationally to believe one of the largest industries is consistently wrong by not following your preferred format of notarised feature comparison spreadsheets.

This isn't about my preferences. This is about the format of the average modern commercial, which is tantamount to clickbait.

>appealing to them is good business and, frankly, not quite the end of the world.

The industry is a fundamental conflict of interest, designed to convince people in most cases to buy things that they may not need, with the deceptive insinuation that the ad is operating in the interest of the customer, while frequently relying on totally unrelated emotional cues to influence decisions.

>For someone considering themselves hyper-rational

I'm not trying to make this about myself. However, a person who makes rational decisions can still experience and express emotions. The underhandedness of the advertisement business relies on the fact that the goal of many ads is to influence seemingly rational decisions by indirectly influencing emotions. It is an exercise in deceptiveness and manipulation, to bias people without their awareness.

Does this apply to all ads? Certainly not. But enough of the bunch is spoiled such that the whole game puts a bad taste in my mouth. And on top of all this, they're EVERYWHERE. Even if I don't consume media, simply by existing in society I'm bombarded by billboards, window TVs, and cable that I'm already paying for comes loaded with almost as much ad time as the programs themselves!

It's a race to the bottom through and through.
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100x? One person doing the work of 100, is that what that means?

I'm jealous of whatever drugs are available in Silicon Valley, because even 10X sounds fantastical to me.
This is not standard procedure at all: in most legal systems the cost to sue greatly exceeds the loss. Standard procedure is to take risk reduction measures in advance such as requiring payment up front, source code escrow, only working for clients with a known history of honest business dealings, etc.
Yes, I'll update my original comment to clarify.
> most modern workplaces are not factory floors 'processing work items', so the analogy only goes so far.

I recommend reading The Phoenix Project. It does a great job of dispelling the myth that software engineering is unpredictable and artisanal and whatnot. At the abstraction layer of a department or division manager it becomes indistinguishable and the same stochastic modeling principles apply.

But that’s besides the point. A more important point is the idea of effectiveness.

4 days of effective work are often better than 5 days of being busy but ineffective.

Personally I get more done in a 4 day week because I am more cut-throat about saying No to things that don’t matter.
It's such a fraud that so many laptops are designed for burst but not sustained performance. Nothing's more awful than your video game completely crusting out 10 mins in and never recovering.

I had a lot of luck adding thermal pads on a bunch of components on my xps-15. But the fact that I can alleviate the issues makes me wonder why they're not doing that at the factory.
> Some of the most horrifying systems I have worked with were based on the idea that you should be able to swap implementations during runtime.

And it's usually such an unnecessary feature!

There's nothing that makes me fear for a project's future more than when they get to the 'we'll make everything a plugin' phase.
> I've had a 9560 and currently have a 9570. Both have cooling issues. Undervolting helps, repasting helps, but VRMS become an issue.

I have a 9560, and would not have bought it if I was aware of the thermal issues. I'm very angry that this is even legal - Dell (and the other OEMs, including Apple) should be required to put big red signs everywhere if their customers cannot fully use the computer without buying it.

By default, just stressing the CPU makes it downclock to the minimum of 800 MHz and the computer becomes unusable. Undervolting the CPU in Linux took an hour, now I can run it at max and the temp goes to 70/75 degrees with no performance issues. But using both the CPU and Nvidia GPU kills everything, since the GPU heat also spreads to the CPU. On Windows you can underclock the GPU but it doesn't make a big difference. Playing Overwatch at minimum settings and 1080p should work well on the GTX 1050, but I have to resort to hacks like limiting the CPU to 70% speed and putting a 70 FPS limit in Overwatch to keep the GPU from burning itself. And even then it stays at 90-95 degrees and sometimes crashes. Training neural networks was a bit more doable but still not fun.

I have no idea how they put a 6-core i7 in the 9570 without it melting down. And this new 5GHz one seems similarly ridiculous.

TL;DR just buy a gaming laptop - they're cheaper for the same specs and generally have a sturdy build. You might not get 10-12 hours battery and will need to carry around a charger, but the thermal issues are not worth it. Plus you get an Ethernet port included usually, and more USB ports.
So sorry to hear about your mother.

But it seems to be a rule of life.

Rich get richer.
Top performers get more/better offers.

Poor get poorer.
Non-top performers get less/worse offers.

I remember reading something where Paul Graham of Ycombinator said top performers never apply for jobs. They are often referred and handed jobs. And on the other side, you have ton of (supposedly) not so great workers who are sending out job applications by the dozens trying to get a job.
To state the obvious, detecting anything generated with a neural net by using another neural net is an arms race because the generator was trained explicitly to fool a detector...

If you get your detector working well enough today, next week is another story.
These things unfortunately happen. I hope you don't get discouraged - plenty of fish and all that.
I have a 9575 and a 9570, and cooling is the biggest issue I have. They both run extremely hot, and charging the 9570 through the former's 130W USB-C charger causes it to reach temperatures I can only describe as "unsafe".

It doesn't help battery life that some applications I run like Docker for Windows like to enter a permanent CPU usage state that prevents the system from idling and reducing power usage below that high water mark. But since I run a lot of VMs and containers, I don't expect a lot of battery life on either.

The fixed camera placement is probably the biggest feature for me. Oh, and up to 64GB of RAM.
Thunderf00t just hates SJWs, he's not right wing in the slightest. Stefan Molymeme on the other hand is literally alt-right and believes in race 'realism'.
So you can only find your phone if it's close to another (compatible) apple appliance?
I have a 9570 with the 6-core CPU does stay over 3GHz under load and gets quite warm, but I think it's largely a function of them increasing the tolerances. I've rarely seen it dip down to the "base" clock speed of 2.2GHz.
YES! the tinny audio quality is a total deal breaker. I don’t understand how people stand it.
If this person is an indie contractor doing this as a side hustle, I don't think it's a huge deal. I would still omit the story and label it as some open source project from the get go.

If this person runs a shop where there's a bigger reputation at stake, I'd agree with what you said.
Make cool shit (great) profitable again.
Jeep (34% in 2018) and Ram (16%) account now for more than half of the sales of the group. In units, because in dollars it will be more and in earnings probably much more (but I don’t think the company discloses that info).
But what about the costs of energy storage to provide baseload capacity? And on top of that, if the goal is CO2 reduction, we need to generate 4x more electrical energy to replace fossil fuel chemical reagents and things like fertilizer production with non-fossil fuel sources that are far less 'efficient'. And that is before we start talking about future growth of electrical needs.
> All real and true criteria for a job can be tested for directly;

Analytical skills can be tested. It gets much harder on the creative skill and interaction skill side. Software is mostly about people communicating and making decisions. These standardized tests are only good to get accurate results in an area not so relevant later.
1. It's much harder to negotiate early in your job.

2. Some people are less willing or able to negotiate for various reasons.

Thus, while individuals can and should negotiate for themselves, negotiating for everyone is even better.
I've been thinking about this for a while, what would a world look like if we only had about purely informational ads without any connection to companies? Like, purely informing you that a product exists and is helpful, without ever mentioning any particular brand?
> Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.

To be honest, I don't really know how I personally can fight oil and gas industry. But I know how to stop driving. And flying.
I think it's still competition because other sites take away potential traffic from your site. That's just the nature of how search engines work, but search engines also favor big sites with many pages and tons of quality back links.

I'm not saying sites like digitalocean or stackoverflow are bad, but from an SEO perspective it's not going to be easy to out rank them in most topics where you're writing about the same or similar things -- especially not in the case of digitalocean because they are selling something, and they have a ton of $ to promote their site everywhere.
Pretty good questions, thanks.

It's generally accepted that longer work hours decrease cognitive performance (see eg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727184/), but the base is usually 40h a week.

It's hard for me to prove the first point in relation to me personally: basically, I've done an experiment where I've worked mostly 6h days (still 5 days a week) and have been consistently rated higher than my coworkers at a software company with pretty good developers overall. OTOH, when I worked usual 8h days, I mostly compared as average. But that's me comparing myself to others and in distinct time periods with different projects and opportunities, and different life circumstances. For an actual proof, I'd need to compare myself with shorter work week to myself with a longer work week, working on the same projects at roughly the same time and similar external circumstances.

So, it is certainly anecdotal, and I am aware of that.

However, in a similar vein, they don't have proof that 5-day weeks work well for them. They just "work" for them because that's the law in most places and they never tried anything else. Actual proof would require a number of long-running experiments, so it's pretty much out of the question for any one company.

As for the second point, my experience and opinion of research institutions is not as high as yours. What you get in academia are ~5% of very smart people very much interested in the subject, another ~15% of very smart people not very much interested in the subject matter, and the rest who simply went with the flow. I've tried to find data for "best in class postdoc student retention", but nothing turned up, so I can't back up my out-of-my-behind numbers with anything. Other than adding that if you look at most research papers, a lot of it is simply bull (i.e. not research at all or just one thing repeated ad-nauseam with slight modifications, for the purpose of getting appropriate academic points to keep grants and funding going).

You might also note that I've argued for a shorter work day as well, thus allowing for significantly more non-work work to be done by amateurs than just 1 day per week.

If the premise of increased productivity for shorter work weeks applies to research work as well (can't find any study on this in particular), then we'd see no drop in their productivity, and only an increase on whatever we get from amateur work.

But, for now, these are mostly "thought experiments", and surely not "science". It's mostly a simplistic, idealized view of where the civilization should go, and it's hard to prove benefits either way.
Everyone hates advertising, until they have something to advertise.
Wouldn't be too hard to monitor drastic changes to packages, or monitor for packages like cryptomining being added to an otherwise bland set of dependencies.

The bottom line is NPM should start warning people that this is a COMMON occurrence, how many NPM users are novices or bootcamp grads who don't even know that it happens?
Sounds like you can at least find the last place it was when it was near one.
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Yes, you can still reduce carbon footprint if you're not investing in nuclear. You can invest in renewables, energy efficiency, or reduce emissions in other industries.

But closing working nuclear reactors always leads to higher emissions. You can replace nuclear with renewables, but that means these new renewables would otherwise replace more fossil fuels.
Maybe, but that wasn't the original argument I replied to.

To your argument I would say that Stadia is not the "Netflix for games". So I don't see why you expect to pay $10 and play any game you want like Netflix does.
I'll never understand why people gush over the raw specs of a machine, but not the bloatware that chip away from the effectiveness of the hardware.
> Is it that older workers are much more expensive and are bidding themselves out the market?

On one cost issue. Let's say you're in a city other than SEA, LA, SF, NYC and Boston. A 55 year old on a good insurance plan will often cost you anywhere from $6,000 to $10,000 more per year in healthcare benefits versus a 20-25 year old. The cost of a 45 year old employee further increases with time due to that (over 10 years, from 45 to 55, an employee's health benefits cost can easily climb by an additional $5k-$6k per year). So if the salary in question is $90,000 (again, outside the elite tech cities), that bumps the cost of the employee considerably as they age. Some states - such as NY - have laws that alter this equation though. When an employee goes from eg 20 to 35 years old, there's a far more modest healthcare benefits cost increase (30%-40% increase would be more typical, starting from a lower base cost versus the 45 year old; from 40 to 55 the cost can easily double, from a higher starting point).

This is another serious issue that people frequently run into with the US healthcare system.
I did give my location and salary range below.

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I never really had much of an interest in psychedelics for two (and a half) reasons.

1) I’m a child of the DARE era, which scared me about the big, scary risks associated with mind-altering substances!!!

2) I get severely anxious when I smoke even a little bit too much marijuana.

2.5) I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder (specifically OCD) which I now manage with ERP. But I severely fear losing control of my thoughts.

However, I recently read How To Change Your Mind, and it did reshape my thinking about a lot of the above.

I’m still hesitant to try shrooms or LSD, but the idea of a guided trip with a trained therapist, who will walk me through the more fear-inducing moments, does have an appeal. To think that maybe this would HELP my daily anxieties seems like a dream.
I’ve never purchased a modem from Comcast. Ever.

But every now and then they seem to add “modem fee” to my bill. This has happened probably 4-5 times in the last 12 years or so. I have to call and have them remove it, then look back at old bills to see which ones also need the fee removed.

I can’t help but think they actually do this on purpose. Like they run some query to see who has service but isn’t being charged for a modem, and just add the fee to all those accounts “by accident” hoping you won’t notice.
> I also find using the <table> element generally be bad practice. There are much better/easier ways to build responsive tables using grid or flexbox than dealing with <tr>/<thead>/<td> everywhere.

Try using that monstrosity in a screen reader. You completely break vertical/column navigation. Hardly better.
For a while you could use apple headphones as an antenna for the FM radio in the iPhone.
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Thank you for your comment. Delfi's not too bad indeed, for a web news portal. Probably the best available.

I should have clarified that with "decent quality", I meant things like original investigative journalism and a verifiable ethics policy. Delfi falls short on the first and I'm not entirely sure about the second...
Sold over the counter in Amsterdam. It's not really a problem here, I suppose, because the many open canals enforce minimal sobriety
Decentralized solar also requires extensive upgrades and smarter and more robust electrical network. Electrical storage facilities will also still be centralized and you will have even more losses from bringing power in from long distances, and then releasing it back over similar distances again. A central plant is only one way, instead of both ways.
These models won't sell well in former Warsaw Pact states. Most of them are in the EU now and fuel is quite expensive. People in those states buy mainly used German cars, mainly diesels, plus cheap domestic cars (Dacia and Skoda) and French cars (Renault and PSA brands). They'd probably sell in North Africa and maybe the Arabic peninsula but that's debatable. The Emiratis are so well off that their police drives Lamborghinis, so I pretty much doubt they'll buy Dodge Chargers. China will just copy whatever model and produce a lookalike at 1/3 the price. They did it with the Range Rover Evoque and other cars.
> If the latter, it seems like a strange feature to have/want.

Seems dangerous - to not be able to accelerate out of a collision in an emergency if that is the safest thing to do.
If the phone is broadcasting the public key couldn't some malicious actor simply send the wrong location? Also couldn't they simply put it in a faraday bag or wrap in some tin foil?
This story sounds a little fishy to me. If they just "lost track of it" you don't need to sue. You need to dig out your executed contract with MS, and your set of unpaid invoices and start making phone calls. Ultimately if that fails, pay a lawyer a few hundred to send a letter to the address in the "Notices" section of the contract, demanding payment. That'll get the attention of someone who will get you paid.

Otoh if there is an actual dispute (MS disagrees that they owe you money) then you need to walk away. Nobody is going to sue MS for $7k.
ONLY a kiddo would say something like

> If you hire a young person they might be 100x or 10x or 1x in a couple years.

100x?