skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Busy with your work? It's time you free up your schedule by working smarter
Where are you getting those numbers from?
Everyone seems to act like the only option is to rewrite everything or nothing. Isn't possible to have rust and C talk to each other, and progressively rewrite the most relevant parts of the code in rust?
Surely there are many reasons to not hoard everything, but I find this argument strange. If you're in a business that is making bad decisions due to wrong analysis of data, it seems like there should be more nuanced and pertinent ways to tackle this then just throwing it out, which also prevents good analysis.
> You end up with an endless chain of causation and no real answer as to what makes the entire thing worthwhile.

There are many reasons I don't want children, but this one in particular has stood out in my mind most of my adult life as the perfect reason not to.
As I said in my other comment, maybe focus on the overt racism. I'm getting sick of seeing people nitpick at pointless garbage like perceived or circumstantial racism (something akin to 'these people must be pearl-clutching racists because they get upset that the stranger at their door is not light-skinned'). It seriously degrades actual claims of racism.

And I didn't bring race into this, the parent comment to my own did.
How would this reduce CO2 production?
> people that have had difficult relationships with their parents and I think being away from them has overall been a more positive solution for everybody.

This describes me exactly.

My parents are just hideously broken people that passed their hang-ups and neuroses onto me in such a way that I was just a shell of a person until my early 20's when I realised what was wrong with me and made effo
> On Day One, the entire workforce of every company becomes "contractors".

This is going to be increasingly difficult in Europe as they focus on “disguised employees” or “perm-tractors”. The UK has already implemented this rule (IR35) for the public sector, with the private sector set to follow suit in 2020. And the EU are beginning to consider how to clamp down on the practice.
> Some doctors who opposed the bans say the term was developed as political tactic to win support for the bills.

Isn't this what all political bills are though? Often the fight over this stuff is over language? I mean we still have the Patriot act - no one feels the need to redefine how we talk about that one?

Also, considering this:

> “What’s interpreted as a heartbeat in these bills is actually electrically induced flickering of a portion of fetal tissue that will become the heart as the embryo develops.”

Isn't a heartbeat in general to be considered an "electrically induced flickering" of sorts?

Seems weird for the newspapers to not at least call the bills what the legislators are calling it and then explain why in long-form why they're wrong.
What is temporary for you?

The examples you give are in the order of hours. Fair enough.

What if someone is in this state of despair for a week? A month? A year? Ten years?
When do you draw the line of temporary?
Different places have different standards for engineers, and any other title. It doesn’t matter that you call yourself an engineer in any case. What matters in some cases are the standards you use; is it licensed by someone or something, or is it something else? That’s what you should be asking. What are the standards used?

You can do engineering without following any official standard, and anyone who do engineering is of course an engineer, so yeah, the protected title thing is just meh.
Walmart will start delivering groceries to your fridge even when you're not home
And how to do that on random mobile devices in the area?
Anybody want to do this in Silicon Valley?

I was fairly obsessed with this concept in high school and college and then it got me in so much trouble that I dropped it. My idea is to have parents each spend a day or two a month at the school ‘teaching’ which would mean just showing what they do, or what interests them, or reading to them, or just talking to the kids about anything. This is really what I think kids need, perspective from a lot of ‘real’ adults. I think it’s possible for about $1500/mo, no profit no salary, and only because I have a volunteer with the right certifications, but I think it’s worth it.
Cool, I wonder if the pics are from the same dive.

The article you link and the IG post are both NatGeo, and the IG post claims it’s the first photo (though the claim does read weird, “first photo by a diver”).
Even without the autism, the only thing that 'kicking his butt' will accomplish is teaching him to despise his parents.
> the code doesn't matter

It does if you want someone other than the person who wrote it to be able to fix bugs and add features.
What an amazing read!
Who the actual fuck buys these ads? Ad people: are you reading hn right now? Google is screwing you out of your money, big time

We're on vacation in northern italy. Why did my 2 year old daughter just get served two consecutive ads, one for a razor blade, in german, and one for the Italian Amazon website; all while watching Dutch songs for toddlers on YouTube?

She sure as hell doesnt speak german or italian, and I don't think she needs a razor....
Say what you will about abortion, but this is giving me some serious 1984 newspeak vibes.
Who knew back in 1988 that what the Economist predicted would come true?

https://i.imgur.com/mWj0d3f.png
That is naive, the western countries had their share of failures. For example, the UK officials pushed hard on becoming part of the big boys club in 1950's and this resulted in relaxed safety and resulting disaster in Windscale. The politicians didn't care or know too much about safety even in this western country.
Probably that would require assembly workers to wear gloves. But perhaps they already do.
What is the best way to profit from all this crypto hype, as a rational person who’s convinced all coins will eventually go to zero?
> It would be a very unusual circumstance for a person caught on camera performing a criminal act

But the person wasn’t caught on camera performing a criminal act afaics. She was caught walking between two cars and pulling at a door handle, the car was locked, person continued. Is this criminal? Kids do that all the time.

It’s alleged that the person did perform a criminal act elsewhere but was not caught on camera.
Maybe because to call wife and say "take the children and leave" is easier than to evacuate the whole city for a few hours?
It is a problem.
YouTube throwing off content makers. Facebook banning campaigns. playstore banning Dev accounts. iOS store banning apps. Google search removing search results. Twitter banning people.
In a lot these cases the businesses and people behind these are victim without ever doing something wrong. Bad or no communication is something they have to deal with.
Yes, in a lot of cases there is a justified reason. But the good should not suffer from the bad. And that is what's happening right now. Same with this Twitter link ban.
Paul is your Resume template open sourced anywhere , I like that time-line style?
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars
Humanity's colonization of the stars will eventually be spurred on by the desire improve the resiliency of SaaS.
The far left activists I know were openly gay in the 90's and some of the most resilient people I know. What an absurd comment
It's funny, I've gone from "I'm a coder" -> "I'm a software developer" -> "I'm a software engineer" -> "I'm a developer" -> "I make useful things."
Hyperinflation in Venezuela
Perhaps defamation? If this person isn't actually guilty of their suspected crime, especially since no conviction has been made, couldn't this post ruin the person's reputation?
Long time ago I decided that you shouldn't second guess the compiler without a reason. So just avoid worrying about local optimizations and focus on your data structures and algorithms.
They also have the distinction of being the first page I've ever run across where temporarily enabling javascript on their domain causes the page not to load, whereas leaving it off does make it load. Makes "forbid fastcompany.com" an easy choice.
Everyone is different and that’s awesome! I’m glad you don’t feel the experience of “bi erasure,” but it’s super common among bisexuals. Polyamory is just one way of dealing with that for people who don’t jive with monogamy.

The quotes were only there because in a poly relationship, it’s not really cheating as long as there’s open communication within whatever framework you’ve agreed upon. Being poly takes like 10x more talking about your relationships.
That's a very naive and limited view, definitely not the extent of racism in the US. You're seeing it as the upper bound, when it's really more of the lower bound, and it's indicative of much deeper and serious problems.
You can be humble and still believe you know more than other people. The issue arises when your self-reported knowledge exceeds your actual knowledge.
so I tried the app.... Design looks nice.... but the features ain't workin... I like your texting-skills.... put your stuff to github.. I will help out building stuff..... the tryItFree button on you page irritates me..... I know we all need money.... maybe some Bitcoin-whale will help out, once we get some cool features running?
Here is a much better graph showing the same data:

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user330...

You are right, since 2013 BoJ has bee busy with the printing press.

> I don't know what you mean by capital efficiency. The BoJ corporate bond purchasing program lowers interest rates for all issuers on the Yen bond market, including the ones issued by SoftBank. Because SoftBank itself invests into the fund (around $28bn) and raised capital with bond issuance the link between BoJ open market interventions and startup valuations should be clear.

Soft Bank has assets that allows them to borrow, if Soft Bank didn't exist, somebody else would have taken advantage of the lower interest rate.

My point is that even when a lot of money is printed, capital goes to who is able to convince the bank the most. BoJ, Fed does not have much control in where the money is allocated.

> ... Because there was no political will to increase national debts, the central banks stepped in and started to directly purchase bonds ...

The problem here is that those bonds were about to lose a large amount of its value - as private debt repayment was not possible. So yes, private debt was high. CB's had no choice but to buy them , or else face a severe contraction in the money supply.
This statement is misleading. Apple kept up with the 2.x versions, the same as almost every linux distro. Only recently have the linux distros started to move on to Python 3.x. And most of them still include Python 2.x (specifically 2.7) as the default `python`, and have added Python 3.x as `python3`.

It is not correct to say that Apple did not maintain support for it.
Until they do and burn down towns in Northern California...
Probably because of the combination of “advertising” and dates in the path.
I have similar feelings, don't get me wrong. I too have experienced that shift. I guess I just want to know, is what technologically possible?

I see two possibilities here: one is a handful of unimaginably wealthy and powerful hedge funds and intelligence organizations (heretofore unnamed) which are somehow coordinated in their efforts to shift public opinion to... something. The example given is something about black men, white women, and white men. I'm not sure what that means.

The other, IMO far more believable scenario, is that there are many interested parties using social media and advertisement in general to change people's minds about a myriad of topics and issues, which is not remarkable except to the extent that new technology and new techniques are being used, which we may not fully understand or be aware of.

The first requires a belief in a conspiracy among the hyper rich and powerful to create some ill-defined new world, the other does not. Both are technologically possible, but I find one more convincing than the other.

Edited to add that last sentence and to correct some awkward wording.
Personally I hate the bloat/crap-ware pre-installed on my devices. I was thinking the same thing when I read this.
Yeah, but Netflix doesn't ask you for more money to see a movie on their platform. Whereas you do have to buy your own games on Stadia.
Largest single and transparent fund - the Arab funds are spread out and very opaque
Do they take periodic donations somewhere? ;)
I commented on a different article earlier which was all fear mongering. This, on the other hand, is exactly correct. This article is fantastic and spot on.
> If you report an OS bug or some other deep problem, seniors will not believe you and assume you're making excuses for your own bugs and lack of understanding.

Similarly, one thing I learned is that if I find a bug with an OS or platform, 9 times out of 10 it's actually due to some problem in my code or my own lack of understanding :)
Yes and no. Yes, being known as one of the ones who knows gives you freedom to say "I don't know" without being judged. In the past few years, I've started feeling that freedom. (Maybe others wouldn't have judged me before. Maybe the issue is that now I don't judge myself for not knowing.)

But no, being the one who doesn't know in a room full of those who do shouldn't stop you from learning. There are two different cases here, though.

If you're in a sane (not too political, and not too toxic) environment, just ask when you don't know something. (Don't do it so often that you hijack the meeting, but do it once or twice a meeting.) You will often be speaking for others as well who don't know but are unwilling to admit their ignorance (unless you're the only junior person). Your asking can free them to also ask and also learn.

If you are in a toxic or political environment, you still need to learn, without getting destroyed. That's harder. You need to try to find out who it's safe to ask. But the bigger task in that environment, in my opinion, is to not learn to be political or toxic yourself.
I love Ed Wilson. But I think it's so odd that his group selection theories get such a fawning treatment by journalists. I mean, he publishes in Nature, and the next month 140 other evolutionary biologists sign a letter telling him that he's wrong. He claims it's because his new idea is threatening everybody else's livelihoods. But surely it's more parsimonious that when it's 4 against 140 that the 4 are just plain wrong.
At one Large Org where I worked, the Pager Bearer was paid 25% time for all the time they were on the pager, and standard overtime rates (including weekend/holiday multipliers) from the time the pager went off until they cleared the problem and walked out the plant door, or logged out if the problem was diagnosed/fixed remotely.

25% time for carrying the pager was to compensate for: 1) Requirement to be able to get to the plant in 30 minutes. Fresh snow? Too bad, no skiing for you this weekend. 2) You must be sober and work-ready when the pager goes off. At a party? Great, but I hope you like cranberry juice.

As the customer who signed the time cards for the pager duty, I thought that was not only fair, but it also drove home to me as a manager that the cost was real and was coming out of my budget, not some general IT budget that someone else took the hit for. This is one case where "You want coverage for your service? Give me a charge code for the overtime." was not just senseless bureaucratic friction, it led to healthier, business-driven, decisions.
'It is weird you chose this topic' seems like you insinuate the issue is with the poster, not the topic.

My intention wasn't to troll.
Is your goal brand awareness or actual conversions (i.e. selling something or form fills)? It sounds like you're trying to do both.
> Well, I agree mostly with you, except that I'm not a probabilist.

Good enough for me. :-) (Aumann's agreement theorem notwithstanding, I have to recognise the capacity for actual humans to agree is limited.)

> I'm definitely going to read [Jayne's book]!

I have yet to read it all, but the foundations are laid out early. The preface mostly explains where the author is coming from, chapter 1 and 2 do most of the justifications. The rest focuses more on applications of probability theory. My general impression was like:

Matches my intuitions,
solid theoretical foundations,
works in practice...
...case closed I guess.

> On the evaluative side we have thought experiments like Spectrum Cases (Temkin, Rachels): Suppose A gives you extremely high pleasure for a month, B gives you a little bit less pleasure than A (barely noticeable) for 3 months, C gives you a little bit less pleasure than B (barely noticeable) for 9 months, and so on.

Hmm, that's a hard one. Depending on the value I attach to pleasure, there should be 3 possibilities: A is best, Z (or whatever is the last iteration) is best, or there's a sweet spot in between. I get the circular preference, and would likely fall prey to it if the circle is hidden to me. But stuff like that is like a big warning sign that most probably requires more thought than a quick intuitive judgement.

> Couldn't you just say that any heuristics are permissible in certain circumstances as shortcuts that - under these circumstances - are conducive to adequate probability approximations?

I could. I didn't because once we start making shortcuts, evaluating the impact on the shortcut on the final assessment is very difficult. Probabilities are non-linear, it's very easy for a seemingly innocuous approximation to translate to snowball into a huge error. But if careful, it often can (and does) work.

It's a bit like floating point approximations. The ideal math on real numbers is correct, floating points only introduce small errors, but some operations (like a division close to zero) can magnify those errors from "approximate" to "utterly wrong". Special care is typically taken to ensure that does not happen.

> Anyway, it was nice chatting with you!

For me as well. I'll keep your references in mind, and thank you for your patience.
I apologise for assuming anything about you. Sincerely. I just wanted to remind people how vitriolic real racism can be, even in just day-to-day interactions.

The "racism discussion" keeps being skimmed on by these sorts of articles/observations, rather than directly confronting the issues, and it's upsetting.
Slow down, I think it's crossed wires. I'm not suggesting that they chose a nasty death by rad poisoning, I'm saying that a military career is risky in many aspects, war being being what it is. The military tend to get used for other risky things as well.

> Now you're trying to deflect and act like I'm arguing about whether or not conscription existed

I thought you were saying they had a choice to join up, I said they certainly didn't. I guess I misunderstood your point. No offence.
There are laws that determine who is and who isn't a contractor. The entire workforce of every company will not be reclassified. Under the proposal, the employees will thus get board representation and thus a big piece of leverage that you correctly say they currently do not have.

On a broader note, your comment falls into one of the very annoying category of constructing a hip-shot theoretical model to explain why something won't work when it has actually already been implemented for decades in some places. YOUNGER READERS may not remember that Germany required codetermination for all companies over 2000 employees back in 1976.
Bloop v1.3.0, a fast build server for Scala
Any predictions about whether the Google Walkout ends up feeling, five years from now, as the beginning of a movement or a flash in the pan?
Without regulation we would be much worse off. There is a lot of room for improvement though
It's more blurry but Games are still DONE in a way that an ongoing project where new features are constantly being added aren't. There are some exceptions like Minecraft but on average most games can not economically justify multiple full time engineers working on them for over a decade.

There is also the side issue of game engines which many teams reuse from game to game so maybe that doesn't really apply.
> "anti-abortion" over "pro-life"

Seems fair.

> and “pro-choice” over “pro-abortion”

ok... what
"...dump money into rolling out modern solutions."

Yep. Ongoing maintenance and pro-active replacement is a cost. A cost that needs to be solidified as an ongoing expense. A lot of the people in leadership positions see technology as a one-time cost. ("I still have the computer I bought 10 years ago at home! It works just fine. Why do we need to buy new computers?")
Employees are a meaningful constituency of any company, as meaningful as shareholders IMHO. Totally agree with you.
from linked tweet:

> is it legal for ring/amazon to use faces of people, suspected BY THEIR CUSTOMERS to have done crimes, in an advertisement? especially given they haven't consented or been convicted or anything. seems uhhh not right

This really comes down to the consequences.

"A calculated risk betting that the people shown allegedly committing crimes won't risk identifying themselves to sue"

or a paid actor.

generally a win for everyone
COPS like any TV show blurs people's faces unless they sign a release.
That's for price discrimination. This is more like the usual case of don't pay if you don't have to, though in Google's case it could well be that they don't care.
Hmm, what I learned is something more like: everyone talks about simplicity, but people tend to have wildly different notions of what that means. At the end, a lot of times it boils down to "what I like is simple, what you like is complex".
When seniors (and above) complain about the low quality of junior code, I tell them to go look at their own code from 6 months ago.

It's an endemic issue, core to the problem of poor software.

> My goals used to be to write code that looked and felt cool to myself and others, ... My goals are now to: - make code so easy to read it’s boring

Same for me, and I'm sure same to many of the folks that have advanced past senior level. The problem of other people, other senior people, needing to read, understand, and significantly modify your code is one of the reasons why you can't really advance past senior in a startup. There aren't enough experienced folks that you have to write "up to". Of course the other part of being post-senior is the ability to scale your expertise, but now I'm digressing quite far. Then once you're that advanced, you don't want to take a pay and scope cut to work at a startup. This is a major contributor to startup technical debt accumulation, one that can't readily be solved.

I still do write "cool code", for code that I will only use myself that doesn't go into production. But for all others, I write easy-to-read code. And I review code with that in mind. When comments have a typo that alter the meaning of the comment, I insist that be fixed. Juniors hate me for being too picky. (and I hate them for being too sloppy.)

Remember, the most important part of your job as senior+ is not what you do yourself, it's how you guide others.