skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 100%. Twitter is utterly irrelevant to 99% of people and organisations on the planet, and the opinions of people on it don't reflect the mainstream in any way whatsoever. It's especially noticeable in election cycles, where the 'extremes' seem to do really well on Twitter but get curbstomped in the actual polls.

But it's also noticeable in many so called examples of cancel culture too, since the whole result of your usual internet backdraft is... nothing much in particular. Everyone I've seen get hammered by negative reactions after saying something controversial online has seen the popularity not change one jot. Logan Paul? Still doing decently. The Nostalgia Critic? Still going strong. The people making these complaints have virtually zero pull as far as actual influence goes, and the angry gnashing of a few hundred/thousand Twitter users is vastly outweighed by a hundred times more people subscribing/following/supporting stars as normal.

For the most part, almost every business is in the same boat. The people on Twitter don't matter. They're not your customers. Most of your real customers don't give a toss what some angry internet 'influencer' thinks or their complaints about your 'offensive' remarks.

When people finally realise that, everything will quiet down and sanity will return.
Saucelabs are kings of the "100% outage for 5% of our users = 95% availability" status update.

In particular I'd see repeatable problems where they couldn't launch whatever browser X operating system in under 2 minutes (when our tests would time out) and list allocation time as 'elevated' (say, 8s average vs their normal of 3s). If you start believing your own statistics you get into almost as much trouble as believing your own PR.

For an 18 month period where they were particularly bad, I think they only copped to an actual problem one time out of around a dozen cases where our CD pipeline was blocked for half a day or more unless we just turned off e2e tests entirely.
This is a dangerous gamble though. Airlines can and do ban people for life when they discover this.
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Been using LastPass for years. Couldn't imagine living without it, with the gazzilon of passwords we have to handle. There's other services of course, but I've never felt compelled to leave. But I'd much prefer to not have to deal with any passwords at all in any service;
Join a church, or other Meetup group. Join a union, or other vocational association.
It indeed strikes me as particularly domain-narrow when I hear neuro or ML scientists claim as self-evident that "humans can learn new stuff with just a few examples!.." when the hardware upon which said learning takes place has been exposed to such 'examples' likely trillions of times over billions of years before — encoded as DNA and whatever else runs the 'make' command on us.

The usual corollary (that ML should "therefore" be able to learn with a few examples) may only apply, as I see it, if we somehow encode previous "learning" about the problem in very the structure (architecture, hardware, design) of the model itself.

It's really intuition based on 'natural' evolution, but I think you don't get to train much "intelligence" in 1 generation of being, however complex your being might be (or else humans would be rising exponentially in intelligence every generation by now, and think of what that means to the symmetrical assumption about silicon-based intelligence).
One of the reasons why I think 100% distributed, remote team might not be the best.
Which is why a middle ground where you work remote but within 1 hour of a “company hub” so you get to see you team a few times a month.

Ive been remote for a year and a half and I feel I’m not making lasting connections. It’s probably different for single folks but it’s hard to visit coworkers with a family.
Let's delete the Tweet and unflag it. it was an honest mistake
I agree with you, I think the content is also interesting, and would have upvoted it myself, if I didn't happen to come across the tweet at the very same time.

Maybe a re-submission as a "Show HN" from vjeux himself (but read the rules first https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html ) without any solicitation and see if it organically arrives to the frontpage, would be a good compromise.
Meetups, volunteering, hobbies (climbing gyms, etc). Essentially use a similar interest/cause to break the ice with others.
Personally, I think the problem isn't in the supply but in the demand.

We've structured modern society in a way that forces demand for this information:

- Companies must sell products to users

- The more saturated the market for a good, the more incentive there is to game these sales (instill false desire, target vulnerable audiences, find and target users who might be convinced to buy your product through any means)

- This kind of "gaming" requires knowing more and more information about your potential customers, because the companies that engage most in those practices are the most successful.

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The problem is that eventually this starts to look like a nightmare Oroboros situation - We are all both employees of companies doing this targeting and the targeted users.

The snake is literally eating its own tail. Users want privacy, Employees want data. But Users ARE Employees, and Employees ARE users.

In my opinion, the only question is whether the snake chokes to death on its tail, or eventually spits it out.
Yes, actually right across from Charlestown in East Somerville. I like it a lot. Seekwell looks awesome btw. What stage are you at with it?
> Religion, language, culture, where you lived... socioeconomic status

Those are all socialized by, and therefore downstream of, one's milieu, aka social network.

> temperament

Also, largely, socialized. Sad how you miss the forest for the trees, here.

Edit:

IQ, hilariously, is a supposed "biological" attribute, and yet has been shown to be more about one's acculturation into the proctors' cultural memes.
How can one accurately predict that the code won't be changing in the future? If you needed to get something done once, isn't there a good chance that in the future someone else, including your future self, may need to rely on or modify it?
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I'm not sure where you're coming from, where soliciting for votes/likes/whatever is NOT frowned upon. Only community I can come up with is producthunt, where it used to be frowned upon but doesn't seem to be anymore.

Edit: also, missing to read the rules of community before participating doesn't seem like a honest mistake. vjeux been around for a long time and I'm sure knows how to navigate the different communities. Also since the whole "no vote rings please" thing is mentioned in 3 or more places on news.ycombinator.com.
That is certainly the common wisdom. As is throwing away return legs if a round-trip is cheaper. I've done it at various times for various good reasons--mostly changes in plans. And I doubt anyone is going to get banned for doing it now and then. But if you do it every week? Maybe.
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I see. My point is that all these efforts are really validating deep learning as an approach for solving previously intractable biophysics problems. Science is a series of stepping stones.
I have no info about this, it is interesting that there are no consequences for short-sellers to completely make up anything they want about a company.
Oh god this is a terrible idea when talking about identifying a suspect. You’re basically making an educated guess to construct evidence that could then be used to falsely accuse someone. Please don’t do this.
Just from the comments it seems like a local copy is opt-in and also in the past the local copy was inaccessible when the servers weren't working.
Are you referring to the actual organ? How was that eaten? And which animals? I enjoy weird foods, but I can't say I've ever seen thyroid on a menu.
Having spent from teens till 50's in tech I offer my insight.

When I started out, I was all trained up in cutting edge and to walk into a job that did not do that. I learned why.

1) Bleeding edge tech is just that, something will bleed.
2) Skill debt
3) Standards

Those are the main three.

1) Bleeding edge - all software has bugs, anything new needs time to mature and when your running a business and want your nth 9's uptime, stability, robustness.....just works and does the job at hand - everything that something less mature, tried and trusted offers. Sure it may be that rare - just works from day one, but the odds are terrible when most often it will not.

2) New skills will be needed and paradigm shifts just never happen, it's costly and transitions are gradual and glacial almost. You also have legacy stuff that needs support. I've worked at companies doing paradim shifts, ended up leaving existing employees stuck supporting the old and they got new staff in to play with the new toys. This saw the buisness knowledge in the old team ignored and also saw many leave as the new team was, well, arragant and in the end, the old system lost traction and the new system never ever worked as well as the old system due to lots of bleeding edge gotcha you would never expect, like many bugs. But that was the days of 4Gl's in the late 80's. We still have COBOL today for many reasons - it just works and does the job at hand and has proven to do that for a long time. "Trust is earned, never given away" Klingon proverb that is true for IT in the business world.

3) Standards - this ties up with the previous two, but equally is important as you need to have standards and anything new takes time to curate those standards, in coding and operation, these nuances take time to perfect and equally are important if you want to start out right with any tech in business that depends upon such tech. Standards, whilst operation and some best practices will be common for all, but each buisness will haev it's own nuances and that plays out in standards. Be that naming convention. Though you can and I have seen odd standards that had a passing back to the legacy code/system and that was due to making things logical across those systems and that would be mostly in naming standards, data formats, many things that all add up.

But yes, it's nice to play with new bleeding edge toys, but for many businesses - that will not be what they want. They prefer toys which have seen every possible accident happen and all safety revisions are in place and it is now stable without updates every other day.

But for some businesses - being able to run with cutting edge is their business, or case of the new project in which the risk is offset by the gains more easily and everybody has their own segway...
There's no reason that any of those couldn't be written in c++ by good coders. It's just a historical thing.
> I have a coworker who passed on a great opportunity just because he really likes working with everyone.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your tone makes me believe you think your coworker made the wrong decision.

I'm actually jealous of your coworker. Currently, if someone offered me a better career opportunity, I'd likely take it without hesitation; but I wish that weren't the case. I don't hate my current position, but I wish I loved it more to the point where leveling up, learning the newest framework, and making more money wasn't the priority.

On top of that, everyone around me seems to be more focused on the trajectory of their life rather than their current situation, so I feel like its hard for me to get out of this rat race mindset.
I agree with you, and I too kept thinking "Hmm, that is a really good point." but I found the statement you called out somewhat at odds with the rest of the thesis.

What I understood him to say was that his thesis is that culture wars are not about identity and yet this endless conflict is about a lack of identity. So where does identity really fit in there?

The economic and political incentives of inciting "beefing" were spot on. And there is nothing like amping up the inequality of the distribution of wealth to put energy into the "beef battery" (if such a thing existed).
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Is there an exporter available for BitWarden then? I'm guessing your 1,200 password had a seamless transition because of some tooling the project provides? Is that correct? Cheers.
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> Hence, nothing is gained.

I disagree. It's a fun fact, not a reprimand.
Don't forget that miscarriages effect the spouse too.
This is already being done in places such as the university of Arizona (Chomsky and his former students). The subject is narrower of course (computational linguistics and some neuroscience), but there are taking an approach that is more Galilean in nature, by designing experiments that reduce externalities rather that simply looking at massive amounts of data. I think that's what's going be the most useful, at least in areas that continue to be challenging for the current trends in AI, namely language.
I agree with Amateur as well. The Olympics (until the 90s [think USA Dream Team]) were only open to AMATEUR athletes. No one would argue that Olympians weren't skilled, and Olympians never felt slighted by this category. It simply implied that athletes trained and participated in a sport out of love for the game rather than for profit. Amateur literally describes: 'pursuing an activity independently of their source of income', that's all.
Not saying capitalism is devoid of fault but it seems like consumerism is more directly to blame
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What are some great events in 2020 to go and promote one's SaaS to others?
Didn't see your reply before commenting, but it gave me a thought: We really only need a "local" solution. If there were a way of requesting fd's that weren't required to be the lowest available ones (perhaps even 64-bit ones with a process unique uppper part), that'd probably be good enough here. Of course we're still sharing address space with buggy code, so maybe it's not worth it.
Thank you for crystallising this succinctly.

The loss of cultural meeting places, be they churches, or arcades, or malls, is something I consider a huge loss as well. The pendulum might swing the other way yet, however.

If we can reinvest in our community centers and hacker spaces and make them part of the zeitgeist, we might all be rehumanize a bit.
The tool deserves some visibility!
Whenever a manager proposes a metric, they should be required to preface it with an explanation of Campbell's Law and why they believe it wouldn't apply in this case.
The Senseboard virtual keyboard tried to do that a decade ago: https://sandipsandilya.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/senseboard-v... and the AirType as well a bit more recently https://www.ohgizmo.com/airtype-keyless-keyboard-future/
If you visit the grocery store twice a week, then with 24 cents rounded up each trip (worst case, not average case), you pay about $25 a year more for groceries. Meanwhile, if you round up to the penny, then the worst case is .9 cents twice a week, which is about a dollar a year.

All this pales in comparison to the 1%+ markup due to people using credit cards and charging the same price for credit cards as cash, though.
Not sure about any US/USSR differences, but there can be pretty big differences between people individually, between measurements in the same person throughout the day (or month for women), and between how it's measured. 37°C is an average.

Axillary (armpit) measurements, for example, are a lot colder than oral or rectal measurements. Perhaps the Russians favoured the former, while the Americans preferred the latter?

I suspect there's a nice little bell curve with 37°C in the middle.
Alternative proposition.

'Moving on in your career' may be horribly overrated, or at the very least not something everyone prioritises the same way.

Enjoying the work you do, and the people you do it with, and being satisfied by same, may be a sufficiently compelling reason to not engage in high-risk behaviour for the sake of 'advancing your salary'.
I have gone through some major change in the programming tools and methods I use every two or three years, largely driven by the needs of the market.

I wrote highly complex Rich Internet Applications long before most people, but I kept away from Javascript for the last few years mostly because I heard other people complaining about the instability.

React work has come my way and I am having fun with it. Right now it seems to me that the tools are where they should be.

I am all for developer convenience, but I am also for performance and the fact is that the subjective performance of computers today isn't consistently better than computers 40 years ago. The "Internet of things" won't really happen unless we get cheap chips with high real-world performance with an absolute minimum of bloat.
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Very nice! I think i will write a free open source alternative to this.
Perhaps you should do a bit more reading on these tools. With life experience you will learn that these tools really help you get your work done, and right now you're likely solving what they have already solved for you. Rails is a highly modular architecture with some sane implementations by default, but I promise you there are many pluggable pieces that exist that do just about everything you could ever dream of.
The American Dream is much easier to achieve in Canada
The elite ones will probably be neutral to favorable. Certainly there will be a lot of individual administrators who feel strongly about education and want to make it accessible to more people.

I doubt competition will hurt the private ones that much. They already have orders of magnitude more qualified applicants than they can accept, and are making very difficult decisions to turn a lot of them away whom they'd love to have.
I think you're seriously underestimating the decline of participation in organized religion in the US both during the second half of the 20th century and in the twenty years since. Here are just a few numbers to chew on from Gallop's long-running polls[1]:

* The number of religious "Nones" - people identifying themselves with no religion - was right around 1% through the 1950s. In the 1970s it increased from 3-7%, and stayed below 10% through the end of the century. It's now over 20%. In the 1950's, ~70% of people were Protestant Christians. Now it's half that amount.

* In the year 2000, 12% of Americans reported that religion was "not very important" in their lives. Now it's double that amount.

* In the year 2000, 13% of Americans reported that they "never" attend religious services. Now 29% never attend.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx
Isn't consumerism caused by capitalism?
Isomorphism can yield eye-opening insights and inspire new behaviors. Drawing connections between similar ideas in different domains can be an enjoyable and creative mental exercise.
> Have you considered that if people didn't pay rent or mortgages to the bank that it would be trivial for many people to self-finance repairs?

I paid cash for my house, and yes, that does mean that my present income is more fully available for repairs.

Rent and mortgages don't go solely toward upkeep of the property. The property itself has a value.

On the extreme short end of space ownership, you have hotel rooms that you rent day to day.

Zooming out a bit more, you have apartments and rental houses that you can rent month to month or year to year from the land lord.

Zooming out even more, you have mortgages, which are basically you in a rent-to-own agreement with a bank over the course of the mortgage.

I don't think most people have issues paying night-to-night for hotels. If you don't mind paying for a night in a hotel, why would longer term space rentals be an issue?

Further, mortgage rates are more or less at all time lows. So the bank isn't even taking that big of a cut of your money.

Landlords don't make that great of a return on their money either. Housing prices effect them just as much as someone buying a primary residence. Often the rent is too damn high because the housing cost itself is too damn high.

As to why housing markets in some major metros are so messed up, that seems to be largely down to artificial restrictions on supply vs demand.
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I like the "tiny" version that has a minimal lisp written in C and then builds upon that with this bit of magic:

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp/blob/master/tiny/s...
Simple solution: if a unit is vacant for 12 months, the city gets to use the space for housing the homeless.

That's an egregious suggestion.

OK, I had an empty apartment for years. It was too expensive to renovate it, and I didn't want to get sued or scammed by tenants who would use small violations to avoid paying rent, so it was empty. It's a small house with a couple of apartments in it. What you're suggesting is straight up expropriation. And you trust NYC government workers to do the right thing, constitutional violations aside?

Is this the new norm of thinking? Turning our government into some dictatorship who decides winners and losers? You'd have me personally go bankrupt and your personal thinking process is, oh I bet those landlords will fight tooth and nail?

Your stance is as miguided as it is deeply immoral.
That's an opinion someone can hold.

In general, we let the HN community decide of what's worthy of visibility, and it worked out great so far. Let's keep it that way! :)
> The essence in non-legalese is this: If you offer a license that isn't a copyleft license, the copyleft provisions collapse and the software is now available to all under a non-copyleft, hyper-permissive FOSS license.

Why would anyone choose this?

It must be for the sake of giving the downstream users some sort of assurance that a Bad Thing won't happen to them, as a sort of promise.

"If we ever commercialize this, we will give all of you the opportunity to do the same."

It seems that the only authors for whom it would make sense to choosing this license would be authors who have no intention of going mixed proprietary licensing now, or in the future. Moreover, authors who believe in copyleft FOSS licenses and want to keep the project that way.

Someone who chooses that license knowing they will likely issue proprietary versions might as well skip straight to a simpler BSD-style license that is implied in that action.

Someone who doesn't believe in copyleft FOSS would also just skip this sort of thing and give the users the "hyper-permissive" license.

No matter what promises a copyright holder makes, they can retract them. However, at least this will be in force for users who hold existing copies. So that is to say, if the authors decide to commercialize and switch to Affero GPL, then only the new issues of the software going forward will be bound by that AGPL; the existing users will have the "hyper-permissive" license for the code up to that point.
Sure, but I hadn't come across it before (or if I did, I forgot), and I like to keep track of such things.
It WAS for Civil Engineering and it was 30 years ago. FEA was JUST starting to be a thing and it sure didn't reach down into anything I encountered.

looking back through the google, I may be dimly remembering the calculations dealing with turbulent flow. It was a whole different experience to a College Junior that was used to the relatively simple equations from Physics, Statics and Dynamics.