skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any links? Googling seems to just give me a list of random shortcuts rather than any discussion on how he uses them
Does reserving a domain name fall under the category of "Announcing your plans"? If so, my experience absolutely correlates with this. I might as well save my ideas to pocket. At least that's a free way to keep really interesting things I'll never see again.
But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong.

Amen. Thankfully, hackernews are the smart people.
Great point. I feel the same. If employees are told that company can spend X dollars on office space and hence open office is only thing we can afford, it will be quite better than buzzword productivity bullshit. After all in my experience companies are reasonable straightforward in term of expenses they plan to have on office supplies, hardware/software etc.
I think of this as something similar to the ability to expunge court records. It allows people to move on from their mistakes. Of course as everything it can be abused.
People victim of the internet, because they did something bad(or rumor about).
Then shitty "news" pop about it, the victim loose his job, and can't get another one because any other recruiter will type "FirstName Last name" on Google and find article about the rumor.
I would have a SurfShop that is connected to a Restaurant & Bar in Hawaii - in close proximity to the beach. My life would be complete.
>How would you like it if people sold information about you based on what they saw and heard you do in public

I wouldn't like it but I wouldn't want it to be illegal either.
Yes, thankfully, closed doors are enough for most people to curb their curiosity :)
The one big argument for a totalitarian state is that it can at least make the trains run on time. If your totalitarian state can't even manage to make the trains run on time, it's just a bunch of downsides (stifling disciplinarianism, reduced opportunity, pervasive fear, etc.) with no obvious upside to compensate for them.
To Meet or Not to Meet: Effective Remote Meetings
> How would you like it if people sold information about you based on what they saw and heard you do in public?

You mean like PIs?

> That is a gross violation of your privacy and illegal theft of your data.

Most people don't like it, but it's certainly not illegal.
Some* crimes anyway.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

I try to share this article as much as I can. It’s likely much of what we think we know about sun exposure is very wrong.
2-5 person offices are great. Even if you don’t work directly together you can have meaningful relaxed conversation where you can actually learn something about each other.

Open office seems to be designed for people who like to yell at each other or who isolate themselves completely via headphones. I have almost never seen any meaningful collaboration in large open office. It always happens in smaller more intimate spaces.
This is why laws have exceptions, e.g. one has the right to require that information about oneself be deleted, unless there is another law that requires the retention of the information.
That's awesome, Chris! Thanks for reading. How far along are you in the process?
The more we have to invest into standing up an energy source, the more cogs you have to put into simply maintaining the energy infrastructure, and the less that we have available at any given time to upkeep the rest of our logistical chains.

Consider arguably the worst scenario: a civilization that has to derive all its energy needs from ethanol (which IIRC, has a 2:1 ratio). At least half of it is going to have to be dedicated to farming grain for energy and processing it into ethanol for the rest of that civilization to function. And of that non-farming half, how much of that will end up being support industry for the ethanol creating half? The amount of high technology industry that could ultimately be supported by that civilization would be dramatically lower because a much higher proportion needs to be dedicated to lower necessities.
I'm not getting into this here. It's not the subject of the thread. I don't appreciate the derailing and false comparisons.
Honestly I'm not sure. If you don't allow someone the opportunity to reform aren't you strong arming then into continuing their criminal behaviour?
Once you're in orbit (say around the sun), you have to cancel the orbital velocity to fall into the object you're orbiting around. If you point at the sun and accelerate 1 km/s directly at it, you're still moving 30 km/s "sideways". All you'd end up doing is making the orbit more elliptical-shaped.

At least that's how I see it, but I am far from being an authority on this topic.
Let's not forget cataracts, which are much more common in equatorial regions, even among people whose skin pigment helps protect them from skin cancers.
You can still remember -- you're just restricted from publishing or storing insecurely. Privacy effectively means the right to be left alone.
My oldest kid was at a Danish outdoor pre-school. They wouldn't be in execpt for taking nap. Other than that they were outside come rain or shine.
I've worked in a situation like that and felt productive but that was only because we were all basically on a tiger team locked in a room together to work on the same project. Me and one other developer, a tech writer, a QA person, and a PM. In the end we were successful and it was a successful product for the company.

Compare that with being thrown in an office with long rows of desks working with everyone in the company. That's not productive. That's a din of noise and people either interrupting your flow or interrupting the flow of the people immediately next to you, thus interrupting your flow. That, for lack of a better term, is a sweat shop.
Ever been on a merri-go-round?

While spinning it’s hard to get to the center. Once it stops, it’s easy.

The earth is spinning around the sun. To get to the sun, you need to slow down.
This is an interesting example because it demonstrates a way to confuse programmers that wasn't previously possible. Thanks for sharing it; it was a gem on an article otherwise full of confused comments.

After sharing it at work, someone pointed out that it isn't technically a race condition. The problem isn't caused by operations happening in an unpredictable order. It's unlikely that any of the promises are already resolved, so the lhs is always evaluated first. It's just that the programmer is surprised by the order of operations.

The takeaway is unsurprising: that `await` should be a signal to make one think carefully about state change; having `await` right after `+=` should be a big signal.

But the fact that an unwary programmer can actually be tripped up is interesting, despite some other comments on this article claiming such trip-ups are inevitable.
Further science fiction tangent: Asimov wrote a novel called Nemesis that (among other things) discussed the concept of a red or brown star hidden in the outer solar system. That concept was a strange hypothesis debated back to at least the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)
I've had several items with near daily use that have lasted me well over seven years.

If you want to build a solid, long lasting wardrobe, you can't go wrong with the following:

Boots: Redwing Iron Rangers

Jeans: Levi 501stf or anything unsanfordized that's heavier than about 11oz

Shirts: Anything 2ply 100% cotton
~11 km/s to escape the sun, ~30 km/s to fall into it. Escaping is easier.
If it's already illegal, then I don't see how a right to be forgotten changes anything in that case.
> varsectomy...

That's awesome! Well, the name is awesome, not the digital "surgical" procedure, of course. ;-)
They are idiomatic to people who haven’t learned how to program. Perhaps it was named with Product Managers, Project Managers, QA, and Business Analysts in mind?
I Invented Autocorrect. Sorry About That; You're Welcome
Thanks for the downvote and a thorough list of examples proving me wrong.
> I would far rather RTBF requests be reviewed and approved or rejected by a government office, not a search engine company.

Wouldn't that mean politicians and their cronies can more easily scrub their own histories? Government holding the keys to approve/reject RTBF means it will be biased in favor of self-serving government-related RTBF requests
Sample Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Analog Circuit Design
I get it from a local tea place that specializes in chinese and japanese teas. It looks like the price I'm paying is a bit higher than what I'm seeing from a cursory look on the Internet. No idea how the quality compares.
Are you trolling? How is erasing past related to social credit score?
Unless you store it on servers in Asia or the US.

That's kind of the ginormous loophole in the whole RTBF issue. If you can't compel anyone in the US or Asia to remove anything, then you're pretty much a$$ out.
>Could you expound on these checks?

First tell me where you draw the line? Like X can be forgotten but not Y and I refer at regular people not persons with public interest.
just a typical clutching of pearls "scandal" that follows every completely plausible but as of yet unknown .gov action
This theory always brings to mind when I worked at a grocery store. I had just gone vegetarian for environmental reasons and a lady came to the cash register with ~20 or so of the 1lb ground beef packets. I asked her what they were for and she said “my dog”. Even at my peak I would eat maybe 2-3lbs or ground beef a week, her dog eats 20X that.

This was maybe 8 years ago, global warming was well known, the horrors of the meat industry were well known. My main gripe with this theory is that it acts like we have a choice about whatever fate our nature is driving us towards.
Fluent Python is an amazing book, even the first chapter made loads of weird python stuff just click for me (len, for example).
There are other comments about Patagonia specifically, but broadly speaking, there are a bunch of recent examples of companies whose business growth benefited from adopting public political positions: Penzey's spices against Trump, Nike's Colin Kaepernick ads, or Chick-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby on political issues related to Christian faith. Eco-politics has been part of Patagonia's identity for decades and is arguably important to their business success.

There's a growing sense among business leaders that companies benefit from participating more broadly in society than just making a profit. You can see this discussed in tons of business articles, and in the recent statement from Business Roundtable on the purpose of corporations.
Did Chromium users on MacOS have this issue as well?

If not, what is Chrome doing differently than Chromium?
So you essentially saying Google can do anything successfully since they already attract lots of traffic
Are you sure they barely bothered, or did they just not mention it? I have heard stories of lots of “cutting edge” ML research actually just being the result of extremely fine hyperparameter tuning
That's what's called a confirmation bias.
Neurons also seem to be doing local, protein-based computations.
BillionToOne (YC S17) is hiring engineer #1 to advance prenatal diagnostics
It's probably best not to use such language at work or one may be labelled a dick oneself. Keep it polite and any complaints formal.
The very most recent US Flynn effect study finds the opposite pattern, actually (falling for low end, rising for high end): https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2019-platt.pdf

Personally, I don't buy it. The Flynn effect is large enough, and the way the normal distribution works with tail effects, that if there were any Flynn effect in general (much less focused on the high end), that you should see dramatic effects like several-fold increases in the number of perfect SAT scores. You don't see anything remotely like that - even despite loads of countervailing factors like increases in SAT access and prep!
I'm the same way, Except I've been listening to a youtube playlist that has all of the OC Remix on it.

The benefit is that every once in a while there WILL be a song with lyrics, and that's my indicator that I should take a quick break.
Why is it that opening this link causes a redirect to the 1.1.1.1 iOS application?

Why isn't any content available at https://warp.plus ?

Oh, this is a referral link.
People Are Flooding the Bob Ross Art Exhibition in Virginia
Thanks, I've been interested in meta learning since finding out how powerful SRS systems can be for foreign languages, but I've never seen much similar to what you've written about mental data structures etc. In comparison, I tried Coursera's Learning How to Learn but was so basic, almost something you already would had to have known to complete a college degree in a difficult subject. I'd be fascinated if you ever have a chance to write any more about the C++ 250 concepts etc.
You can but then you're using a lot of propellant rather than gravity to reach your target.
I'm no rocket scientist but perhaps that would cause the object to shift from the Earth's kinda-circular orbit into a highly-elliptical orbit, its existing sideways velocity (relative to the sun) causing it to be flung past the sun at more of a straight line and hence way out into the solar system instead.
Perhaps they think suffering under the state is worse.
It means the search engines can't stick their fingers in their ears and ignore real people's legitimate needs to put their past mistakes behind them.
I've found that about 300-350 miles for actual running works for me (but then I am a bit of a heavier build) - by then the soles and insole are fairly worn. I do not doubt that I probably get a good 100+ miles extra wear where I am not actually running.

300 feels low, but when you get into a new pair of basically the same trainer after running around in a 300-350 mile old pair, the new ones feels amazing in comparison so I feel like there is some accuracy in that.
You had me until Antifa riots. Source?
I feel that the right to be forgotten is valid because people are irrational and will be prejudiced against a person regardless of how different the current reality is. This would make me want to put a time limit (like you have to wait 10 years or something) rather than allow current/relevant information to be suppressed.

I also feel that people don't get to pick and choose. If you want to be forgotten then everything should be forgotten, not just the stuff you don't like.
> more about aptitude

Though this was some years ago, I took both ACT and SAT and found them almost identical.

I know SAT at least has added an essay section and otherwise moved away from multiple choice but still, to imagine you can't cram for it seems absurd.

In middle 70s, Federal Trade Commission investigated Stanley H. Kaplan, the big test prep company, over advertising that they could raise test scores. Well, investigation showed that yes, Kaplan could raise your SAT scores.

Like the College Board claims they can give approximately the same test for decades but somehow you can't study for it? Something doesn't seem right.
> How would you like it if people sold information about you based on what they saw and heard you do in public?

That sounds like a partial definition of journalism
> So you would end up in whatever team lead decided that its best.

That's poor leadership on their part.

> Well if the rest of the team, is in their own offices and you are alone or with people from other groups/teams how exactly will that work for you, you might as well be in coffee shop across the street.

If the rest of the team is in their own offices, sure. That hasn't been the case for most teams I've worked on, however (which may be self-selection on my part--but it's never been hard for me to find a team I work well with).

> I am not trying to say that you should like individual offices, but you can't really mix both of them together, unless your teams are huge (which I personally dislike).

1. What's huge to you? The only team I've worked with which had a really mixed open/private space ranged from 6-10 people while I was there. There were 2-3 people who worked consistently together (let's call these extroverts, which includes me), 3-5 who worked consistently on their own (let's call these introverts) and 1-2 who floated back and forth (let's call these ambiverts). The shared space was mixed with other teams--it's also worth noting that even if the people around you aren't on your team, there still needs to be some collaboration between teams, so even if you're the only extrovert on your team, working in a shared space that still isn't the same as working in a coffee shop across the street. A team of 10 is starting to get a bit bigger than I like personally, but 6-8 feels pretty ideal to me.

Now I work for myself and I'm not seated with my client's team at all. But I tend to work in coworking spaces[1] frequented by other people working in my field, with people who frequently bounce designs and coding questions off of each other. This is a lot like your coffee shop idea, so that has some validity. But it isn't super ideal for me--if I continue getting consistent business, I may hire some people just to have some more direct collaboration in my life.

2. There also doesn't need to be this kind of diversity in the same team. You can have a team that's all introverts, or a team that's all extroverts, and in those cases, picking a completely private layout or a completely open layout, respectively, is fine. The point is to assess the needs of your team and build your workspace around their needs instead of looking for a one-size-fits all solution for some "normal" team that doesn't exist.

I'll note that it's harder to integrate one extrovert into a team with a lot of introverts than the opposite. I don't really have a good solution for that problem.

[1] Not WeWork. They're so expensive and overcrowded! Just because I am an extrovert doesn't mean I want to be sitting on top of my neighbor.
I may have been using JavaScript's replace method wrong my entire life...
>The US has far more ethnic diversity than any country that’s at a remotely similar level economically.

That sounds like a cherry picked criterion to make a point.

In any case, looking at GDP per capita, Singapore is similar to the US, and also similar in terms of racial/ethnic diversity. Yet Singapore (as a whole) tops your rankings, and the US as a whole is way down in the list.
> I do like buying new clothes. I do like changing how I look. I do like looking good. And I'm far from alone in this regard.

I like eating cheesecake until I'm stuffed with it, but I don't because it's not good for me. Liking something isn't sufficient justification for doing it. Maturity means knowing when to heed your impulses and when not to.

I understand that it's hard to scale that philosophy and solve a systemic problem, but I don't think we should just blindly accept that people are gonna do what they feel all the time.

That desire to change how you look partially comes from a cultural value. You're surrounded by people doing that and showing you them doing it, and talking about how great it is. Change that culture, and I bet that desire would evaporate.
Or you could stop trying to be in control of everything.
Agreed, I do and don't want to know what on earth Google was doing with /var that led to this situation in the first place...
I think it's this:

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=110-300&full=tr...

>(6) Licensed outdoor play areas must be enclosed with a fence or barrier that is intended to prevent children from exiting and discourages climbing. If the outdoor play area is enclosed by a barrier that is not a fence, the barrier may be a wall constructed with brick, stone, or a similar material.

For some background a co-worker's wife works at one of the outdoor preschools and said that in order to be full time you have to have a fence in play space next to the indoor school.
SIP is a relatively new feature. This would have been devastating only a few years ago. What Google did was effectively:

sudo rm -Rf /var

Would you trust a program that even attempted such a command on your machine? "But they had SIP disabled" is no defense for software that tries to take destructive action.

SIP is intended to protect against malicious software and against users accidentally hosing their system; there are legitimate reasons for disabling it. This was not anyone's fault but Google's.
The 2021 Crisis
I'm coming here to warn you about a huge political and economic crisis coming soon. It will start in 2021 but it will last for a long time.

We'll start having many power blackouts. Most of our supply chain will suffer - both for goods and services. Climate change will give stronger signs of destruction.

If you have stocks, I highly recommend you to sell them by the end of the next year. Otherwise, you'll lose a lot of money.

The banking system will also suffer a lot. Don't keep all of your money in banks or you'll risk lose it too. There are also three big FinTech startups which will go bankrupt stealing billions of dollars from customers.

That's just the beginning. Humankind didn't listen to all the warnings given to you. Now it's too late, you're already compromised and you'll be discontinued. People from my world think that The Human Experiment failed.

I'm risking my life coming here to send this message. I think you've demonstrated signs of evolution and you're aware beings. I wish I could save you but I'm not sure I can.

Be nice to each other. Protect each other. Stop this violent, egocentric madness you've created. You're not alone in the universe and you're hurting many people from other places with your life-style.

You've created something called "money" and that's going to destroy your civilization. You have all the resources you need to provide a good life-style for all humans. Please, do it wisely. Stop wasting your resources. Use your minds. Maybe if you become a civilized society, there will still be hope to save you. But I'm tired of fighting for you. I've been doing this for over two thousand years. It's time for you to either grow up or face the consequences of your actions.
Anecdotally, building my resume has recently consisted of AWS, Node, and Python. I don't think any of those are "flash in the pan".
I posted that one too ;-)
How many Chrome updates have you gotten that did not break your computer? Was your computer broken by this? My understanding is the rollout was stopped fairly quickly.
They've unlocked the article for HN readers, and we've swapped in that URL above, so it should work now.
> You mean like PIs?

Yes, but they have a government-approved license to do so, normal citizens do not. Random civilians aren't allowed to just PI people.

In terms of privacy rights, it would be for the best if people had mandatory implants inserted at birth that automatically prevented brains from recording things about other people in public that haven't consented to your recording. I'm thinking something like White Christmas (Black Mirror) where the default is that strangers that haven't opted in are fuzzed out visually and audibly. This would be a huge win for privacy rights.
So, Google:

1) included code that performed dangerous system-level operations, despite the fact that

2) the included code was guaranteed to fail under the expected / default OS configuration?

The only logic I could see for such a state would be "let's teach them a lesson" for those users who chose to operate in the "dangerous" configuration. It doesn't make sense why they'd even attempt the symlink removal.
I'm definitely going to steal that.