skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with this article to some extent, I have also had my eyes opened up to a very plausible alternative. Etiquette surrounding meeting start and end times turns out to be are very culturally subjective.

Being "somewhat" German, I have always held that being late to a meeting was as rude as suggested in this article. However, I also felt that a meeting that extended beyond the allotted time was even more disrespectful and it potentially meant everyone would be late for their next appointment. I held no qualms about up and leaving (current context be damned) in order to make my next appointment on-time.

A few years back though, a colleague from South America told me that in their culture the exact opposite is true.

If you were to leave an ongoing meeting that was being productive just because time was up then you were being very rude to the others whose productivity would would disrupt. Everyone understood that it was more important to continue a productive meeting than to be on-time for a meeting that had not even started. Even those in the next meeting would understand and take no slight.

I still feel that one should be on-time (5 minutes before in fact) but I have also come to expect that there are other perspectives. At a 10km level, it actually seems clear to me that a productive meeting should have priority and continue at the expense of one that had not started.
No, you are not punctual and respectful.

You are the result of the de-humanizing alienation of people's natural time and daily cycles, that went full strong in the 18th and 19th century to train factory workers and other replaceable cogs to work "on time", and metastasised to all aspects of modern life...

>And I don’t care if I sound old-fashioned, because actually it’s nothing to do with ‘fashion’ or ‘generation’. It’s got everything to do with basic good manners and respect for other people.

Actually it very has much to do with both fashion and generation. It's not some innate aspect of human society, it was introduced (read: forced upon people) with the advent of the personal watch, factory shifts, mechanized production, etc. In fact, even up to today, outside of urban communities, the sense of pressure to be "on time" is much less present, as is in general (even in urban ares) in many societies (think of the idea of the more laid-back Southerners for example).

As uberman above notes, "Etiquette surrounding meeting start and end times turns out to be are very culturally subjective.".

If anything, more of humanity (Asia, Africa, Latin America, Mediterranean, Middle East, etc) is less against being punctual than in favor of it. So you [well, people with the author's mindset] are also racist, imposing your provincial protestant values [whether yours or adopted from migrating to some such place] upon the whole world.
One of them costs 702$

That's the Apple between the chairs
Yes there is no single correct planning horizon. The optimal horizon is proportional to requirements stability. At the extreme when requirements flux is extremely high then the best approach can be a Kanban process, planning no more than a day in advance.
These types of chairs are basically everywhere in Austin, TX. I actually sat on one earlier today at a cafe. (Probably was a knockoff as it had 4 vertical struts.)
Not voting is a people's right. It's just you can't complain about the government when things don't work out.
Hi there! I used to work at the NFL. We were VERY early adopters of React, and I was lucky enough to work with some of the best frontend engineers I’ve ever worked with in my entire career. We built our own version of NextJs and Create React App 2+ YEARS before those projects became popular in the community (https://github.com/nfl/react-wildcat). This is what I primarily worked on, along with being responsible for making sure NFL.com was accessible, and working on the build/test/deploy pipeline for NFL.com and the NFL.com App (which is react-native). 1.5 years ago my boss and I left and joined System1.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the website was farmed out to contractors, so we weren’t given too much business support to really push some of these open source projects forward and give them the same level of "marketing sparkle" that a company like Facebook would encourage. For example, part of me was STOKED to see NextJs come out, because it was a better version of react-wildcat. But to be honest part of me felt like with that extra level of marketing sparkle react-wildcat could have been what NextJs was built on to begin with.

I don't really fault NFL for this because these projects didn't drive any revenue. Also the way NFL.com's business model worked didn't really give engineering a "wedge" to increase profits, so engineers were all considered a cost center. E.g. at most adtech or publishing companies you can write a few lines of ad related code and prove revenue increased in an A/B test 24 hours later. NFL had no problem selling ads directly because of how amazing their brand is, so fancier code wouldn't really make a difference.

Also career-wise I learned even though I got to touch decently high profile open source projects like React Helmet, React GPT, and React Metrics, it didn't really transition to any benefit in job interviews. Before leaving NFL I interviewed at top FANG level companies and got rejected at the phone screen. Even non-FANG companies didn't really seem to care. Keep doing those leetcode problems kids!

Most of the original team members from that era of the NFL have moved on to different companies after it became pretty clear that more and more work was going to become outsourced. I got lucky and really clicked with my boss at the NFL, so when he left I tagged along and fumbled (no pun intended) into an absolutely excellent opportunity at System1. All in all, working there was a great experience!
Bringing HLSL Ray Tracing to Vulkan
Wouldn't it only prevent formal legal entities (ie US companies) from making purchases? End users could trivially purchase via non-US payment services, and I don't see how the US could actually prevent "import" or use of crypto tokens in practice.

To me, it seems similar to the way the GDPR claims to apply to entities which don't operate in the EU - good luck enforcing that in practice!
As others have mentioned a lot of this boils down to the wording of the 5th amendment. Specifically: "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...".

I recently found out that, for example, the Texas Bill of Rights [1] has stronger wording that addresses this. From section 10: "...He shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself...".

1. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/SOTWDocs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm
Retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist here.

No, this is not standard practice for all brain surgery. Feedback from a conscious patient is not useful in most cases of tumor resection, nor is it employed in neurovascular procedures such as cerebral aneurysm clipping.

Awake craniotomy is used in brain tumor resection when the mass encroaches on or borders crucial motor areas of the cerebral cortex, as was the case in the OP.

A more frequent use case for this technique is in patients with intractable seizure disorders in whom partial temporal lobe resection is planned. Mapping the hyperactive areas with electrical stimulation applied by the neurosurgeon directly to brain tissue delineates pathological loci while minimizing resection of unaffected contiguous areas.

A personal note: I very much enjoyed providing anesthesia for awake craniotomies. Everything about them required me to be at the very top of my game every second. For my preoperative visit on the evening before the procedure, to take a history and perform a physical examination, I made certain to make it clear to the patient and their family that I had all the time in the world, so that by the time I was finished, they were clear as to exactly what would happen, down to the questions I would be asking them when I woke them up from anesthesia with the top of their skull in a sterile tray and their brain exposed.

There is an art to making someone about to undergo such a formidable procedure comfortable and able to get some sleep the night before surgery.

I gave anesthesia for awake craniotomies perhaps 50-100 times over my 38 years of practice, the youngest patients being in their early teens.
They really should do a Disney Vault type deal, and rerelease some of their back catalog periodically. They tried this once around 2000, and I was able to get a couple of classic Castle sets, but it was sort of a one-off.

In some cases, they don't have the molds to make some of the parts anymore, but even if they had to substitute some parts, people would buy them.

It's been four or five years since I've bought anything new from Lego; the few original themes aren't that appealing, and the licensed stuff is pretty tired as well (how many times do you really want to buy slightly different Millenial Falcons or Hogwarts Castles?).
> How the SEC (or the US in general) intends to undertake effective enforcement action against a cryptocurrency provider operating out of either of those jurisdictions

If you sell securities to American investors, you’re subject to U.S. securities law. This is true for practically every financial market.

As for exerting influence, I can’t think of many easier foreign jurisdictions for U.S. law enforcement to get its way in than BVI, particularly post-Brexit.
Why? It's durable you can clean the chair and reuse it without throwing it away and creating a new chair.
While I agree with much of what is being said, I find the anti-China tone troubling. The monopolization and centralization of the U.S. economy (and thus politics) would be equally problematic, even if China had a democratic government and we had 0% chance of a military conflict with them. The "China is dangerous, we need to be ready for a war with them" subtext, I think, just detracts from the overall point about the problems of bigness in the private sector (which, again, I fundamentally agree with).
It's a hipster thing.

As a lifelong US resident I've seen those no more than a handful of times, always at hipster bars or restaurants.
I find this paper super cool, and highly unintuitive that an operation as discrete as sorting can be done entirely with smooth functions, and efficiently to boot.

However I must admit that I do not fully grasp the implications of this paper. Why do we really need differentiable sorting for deep learning in the first place? What new possibilities open up as a result? My best uneducated guess is that the gradients produced by differentiable sorting are more informative than regular piecewise sorting, and this allows the gradient descent to progress faster, therefore training faster. (Think about how you can know an entire analytic function can be completely known from any small neighborhood. Are these sorting functions analytic too?) My intuition tells me that the derivatives produced with this technique allow the optimizer to see true gradients across classes.

Are higher order derivatives also meaningful here?
And how many people know Ada vs. C? Orders of magnitude more right?

I think that’s the problem here - it’s important to analyze orders of magnitude accurately. C isn’t a little more conservative than Rust or Ada. It is orders of magnitude more conservative.
In a 2003 interview, Vernor Vinge points to what may be a reason for the overall reaction to the book.

I also like grand sweep stories such as Olaf Stapledon wrote. I find a collision there, since many of the things I like to talk about -- interstellar empires or even interplanetary empires -- now appear likely to be post-human-era events. That's sad, since the present-day audience and I are not post-human. It's very hard to write stories that realistically talk about such futures.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131203143751/http://www.strang...
You're missing the point. In the real world some of those requirements are unknowable on any reasonable cost or schedule basis regardless of your analysis process. From an economic standpoint sometimes the best choice is to accept some uncertainty and get moving.
The red solo cup of international chairs.
> we once rejected someone on ethical grounds after they passed all the interviews

What did they do? Suggest sacrificing a puppy to moloch to make a feature release go smoothly?
probably one of the objects most washed up on the shores of the planet. creates piles of indestructible garbage
That would make switching jobs really hard, effectively making the interview process three months long. Only now, candidates have to quit their current job before they can interview, and if the first "contract" doesn't end in a job offer, the candidate no longer has a job.
Exams or not, there will be no fix as long as there is zero-sum competition for a scarce good. And in this case, there is necessarily scarcity because prestige is positional: "the top schools" will necessarily always be a small fraction of all schools. (Of course all of this also applies to western countries.)
I don't get it.

What's the use for this? ( in a mainstream product way, not in some cool personal private project way)
I should have said “commercial airplanes are among the most important and critical things that use software.” It’s obviously difficult to determine the objective most important use case.
Just skimmed the abstract — on a practical level — can this be used to better train a global ranking function given subsets of example ranked data?
I view the usefulness as expanding the class of programmatic functions we can differentiate. One usefulness of differentiating programmatic functions is the ability to perform gradient descent optimization on that function... which has applications in operations research for example.
>The amount of proprietary stuff that has immense impact on global business (with no oversight) is huge...

The issue isn't market share alone - it's whether or not the company leverages that in an anti-competitive way. Ex: installing Microsoft Office on a Mac doesn't uninstall Numbers or Keynote off your machine. Or installing the Outlook app on Android doesn't ask you to switch your default email client every time you open the app. However, try using Google Search in Edge or Safari and you'll see a bunch of ads and tool tips pushing the user to install Chrome. Or see the reported cases of Edge users not being able to play on Google Stadia unless they switch to Chrome.

> And unlike google search, there is no alternative for Microsoft windows.

Google Docs / Apple iWork Suite (Numbers, Pages, Keynote, etc.) would disagree.
I don't disagree. I just don't think this can be enforced in any way. Community defines itself. We've got 75042 people who can cast close votes. Requiring multiple votes helps, but you can't make that many people behave the same way with the same values.
Then throw your hands in the air and say that whatever business problem your company is trying to solve, well, they'll just have to deal with it?

No. Autonomy here is figuring out what you can figure out. Figure out what you can't figure out. Use whatever resources (people, code, whatever) are available to you, and make the best decision for your company. It's not letting roadblocks get in the way. And if, after every avenue has been explored and there still is not an answer, then having the experience to produce an actual report demonstrating the code is too complex to reasonably make the required changes, present it to executives, and expect to be taken seriously. It will contain details of your investigations and alternatives to explore.

Autonomous here means you're not dead when something seems intractable. You keep pushing.
Geometric algebra is something that hasn't found a "killer app," if you will. The largest users of vector calculus are physicists and engineers, and those communities have 1) enormous existing literature using Gibbs-Heaviside vectors, and 2) enormous institutional investment in teaching them across departments. We haven't found a justification for switching that would outweigh the amount of inertia involved.

It's hardly a new thing. David Hestenes has been writing books about its advantages in physics since the 1960's.
Your comment seems to ignore my assertion that there was more innovation in 3D printing after the patents expired, with much of that innovation being open source. That was not an example of catching up with someone else by copying them, it was an example of novel development done in the public interest.
I've consistently weighed between 80 and 95 kg over the past 25 years, and have never broken one of these chairs by sitting in them.

I don't think I would risk standing on one, though.
You can go an entire lifetime without ever even knowing about GADTs. I don’t find their absence limiting at all.
You've seen this at Google or faang?
hmm ... I didn't think about that. I wonder if the term is building a negative connotation?
Unit test !== only type of test though.

Functional tests are a must. I would also say that in this day and age integration tests are also a must. I don’t think there is any domain now where you are commonly interfacing with only your code end to end, some level of integration is happening and that should be tested too.

Nothing’s perfect because we are human, I will say though that having proper functional, unit, and integration tests for a codebase I don’t see this issue crop often and when it does it becomes apparent, and then you write a test for that and then you have coverage for that etc.

Software is an organism composed of changing structures, after all.
Resources are still limited.
>That's missing in a lot of corporate communication,

Instead of a lot, How about the other way around, name a Fortune Global 500 company that actually communicate the true health of the company in the most accurate way possible. Because honestly apart from Berkshire, I dont see one.

And I cant blame them, after all their job is to tell you everything is ok.
It's pretty small on the scale of other damage. I liked https://equilibriabook.com/ for an interesting recent perspective on this sort of thing, not limited to politics. Still, nobody made them go into that field.
I'd quibble that it's your customers that fall under American jurisdiction, and that in order to retain them you voluntarily choose to adhere to the applicable regulations. Naturally US companies wouldn't be legally permitted to purchase their tokens, but other than using that as a form of coercion I don't see how enforcement could be achieved.

Regarding BVI, I'm admittedly not familiar with them or their legal system. Do they have financial enforcement agreements (or some other arrangement) in place with the US?
Seconded! react-helmet is some terrific work.
Does anyone have personal/anecdotal experience with TLA+ being used in a professional setting? I'm interested in hearing stories/use-cases of practical application.

I've always been intrigued by formal methods but when I try to think of an application of TLA+ my problems are either too trivial to need formal analysis or too complicated for formal analysis to appear feasible.
I do choose between one or the other, I do not have time to do both.
You know its the old boiling frog trope - until you pointed that out

> this model tends to separate social from news.

i hadn't realised how much the two had become intertwined. FB, twitter etc all started off as interacting with your friends then drifted very far from that.

They should be separate.
"After hours of searching for solutions ...."

Linux reinstalls so quickly, it's hardly worth wasting the time. With a proper daily backup, you can have the system completely reinstalled over the Internet from a disastrous crash AND replace all your stuff from a backup in under 90-120 minutes.
Here is a video of Leslie Lamport presenting TLA+ at Build 2014. It has a nice intro to TLA+ from the creator of TLA+ himself!

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-642
Take-home test is my preferred method, but

- only after I had a face to face (can be on skype, but not on phone) interview with a hiring manager/engineer, so I know I really want to work for that company. Job ads usually not very useful determinating that (Interview should work both ways.)

- Not used as a prescreening. It should prove that I really know what I'm talking about. Otherwise, maybe I'm just wasting my time (See above)

- No more than 2-4 hour (we agree on that)

- We review my code. It's good for both of us. I get feedback, the Interview gets more inside why I did what and if I really write the code. (Optional, but prefered)
> you voluntarily choose to adhere to the applicable regulations

This is a fine philosophical argument. But practically, it isn’t how any financial laws work.

(To illustrate why, imagine an American fraudster selling Ponzi schemes to Germans. Would it make any sense to say the fraudster is beyond German law? Of course not.)

> Do they have financial enforcement agreements (or some other arrangement) in place with the US?

BVI is a British Overseas Territory. It’s a common Europe-U.S. linkage.

If they ignore U.S. court orders, everything from asset freezing and seizure to extradition is on the table.
They might not be quite as common as I thought, but a quick search turns up quite a few riffs on this in just the past year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289878 -- 12 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21920554 -- 2 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21852826 -- 2 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357595 -- 4 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19733500 -- 10 months ago

Nonetheless, I hope some good stuff gets posted in response. But past experience suggests these threads don't get a lot of activity. shrug
Isn’t that great for the middle and upper classes? Instead of having to compete in one single fair competition they have all the advantages of more money, a greater professional network and more cultural capital. If Little Abdul’s SAT results are mediocre we can get him an essay coach, send him to Costa Rica for a summer to teach the poor and arrange an internship in his uncle’s lab at the hospital.
Check the video I posted in the comments. Leslie Lamport goes into how Amazon Cloud services team uses TLA+.
Canada, walking the aisles of Toys R Us.

Thank you very much for the link, this is exactly what I've been looking for. Seeing the kits actually brought a smile to my face :)
We, along with Europe, had "social points" system for a long time. If you smoked weed, were associated with communist/socialist circles, etc, you were or could be barred from certain jobs (public and private), banks, voting, etc. The idea that it's bad when china does it is just hypocrisy or borderline jealousy.

> Today, in the West, we call that "fake news", and limit its spread too.

We say/use "civility" or "western values" to censor, attack, etc. The chinese use "harmony", "chinese characteristics", etc to censor, attack, etc.

We shame the chinese and demand they treat muslims better while killing millions of muslims and destroying a few muslim countries. The chinese shame the west and demand we treat muslims better while interning millions of muslims.

Too bad hypocrisy isn't a currency or we'd all be rich and living large.
There's plenty of work that doesn't require an experienced expensive senior level dev to do it. If you have no juniors you have to have your seniors doing that work.

So, it makes sense somewhat.
I hate to break it to you heymijo, but I am more of an expert on disagreeing than Paul Graham is.
Yes mostly people are engaged in agile theater and then blaming agile as a concept add to that the whole industry of meddlers middlers and muddlers that has sprung up and it's no wonder most of it has devolved into nothing more than a wholly ineffectual circlejerk to put it mildly

If agile is done in such a way to amplify the voices of invested parties then I'm all for it -- starting with the team