skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want interpretability you can use Transformer and look at the attention heads. Or, like in a recent paper, train a language model to give textual justifications for its decision.
Push and pull: when and why to update your application dependencies
And I should clarify we work in JavaScript.
Could the micromanager write code?

People who can't work, manage.
The air didn't get the good keyboard until this year.
Not just Norway, India too.
You're correct, I've only tested it on Android. I edited the post to clarify.
Yes, agreed 100%. Pay is one of the many things collective bargaining is good for addressing.

Workplace safety is another. Greater autonomy is another; maybe these people want a 45 minute lunch break? Who knows? (Well, the workers know what they want...)

Another thing I've seen a lot, can't remember off the top of my head if this applied to Amazon too, is doing mandated security searches off the clock when people leave the job site. Imagine you're off at 5, but you don't get to leave til 5:30 because you're in a big line waiting to have your bag checked when you leave. Why should you be obligated to give the company that time? If they wanted, they could crunch the numbers and figure out what would cost them less, employee theft or paying for security checks, but they don't, because they can steal the worker's time at no cost to them. (And I guarantee you the security guards are being paid for that security check time, it's just the rank and file who aren't.)

Germany's got another thing I'd like to see here in the states, where the unions have a seat on the board and play a role in higher-level decisions as well. This is something I'd like to see even for high-paid tech workers, especially for morally questionable things like taking contracts with ICE -- there's been walkouts and worker organizing over companies taking contracts with ICE, but better still would be if the workers had a formal lever of power (in the form of a union) to stop that before it started.
Bad math. Two people making a "fair wage" in a single household does not make it suddenly unfair... unless your point is that people shouldn't be allowed to live together.
> The majority of US spy agencies think it escaped from the lab across the street from the Wuhan wet market. The UK is no longer discounting this theory

Seems plausible. And yet when people started dropping like flies from a nerve agent just down the road from the UK's top nerve agent lab: definitely just the hand of Russia again.
Depending on what your needs are, the TouchID and T2 might be pros (or cons). Same thing with macOS, but that might simply be a matter of 'need it' and 'do not need it' and isn't much of a gradient. If you need macOS, you'll buy a Mac and the whole comparison matters a whole lot less.
90% of India’s workforce are without food or shelter
In the US, Amazon warehouse workers make more than double the federal minimum wage.

And what does minimum wage represent? A livable wage? An inflation-adjusted wage? Some random number that has no basis in real-life living and expenses?

If you chose option C, congratulations, you probably won't be basing any arguments on a number that only represents (if it represents anything) the stinginess and or fossilization of American politics.
Of course, there's an "ar-cutpaste" GitHub repo [0]

[0] https://github.com/cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste
Ditto. I had it in Mali (not so bad) and Angola which was 5 days of not eating, sleeping, walking talking eating or drinking. I lost 20lbs.

I sincerely hope the end is in sight!
> Some comments here really had me scratching my head

You're probably running into the contrarian dynamic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...): an initial wave of comments making objections, followed by a wave of objections to the objections, which the community then upvotes heavily.

What determines the initial wave of comments is not community opinion—it's what's the easiest thing to make reflexive objections to.
I once had two employees and was definitely not in a high income bracket.
Great book. I loved it as my first clojure book! Thank you. Definitely would recommend to people wanting to learn clojure.
It is in SFO.
You can say that, but people gain a lot from working there. There are many pluses to working at these companies. Pay/benefits/relocation packages, provided on-the-job training and free access to a lot of technical courses, relatively-effective engineering practices (ethics are a separate issue), little-to-no dress code, free food, technical managers (not nontechnical ones) and a nice name on the resume when you leave, to name a few. I'm not saying they are unique to these co's, just that these co's tend to offer all of the above.

Plus, oftentimes the job app requirements are pretty general and loose, as opposed to all those shitty firms that want entry-level engineers to have graduated in the past 6 mos, and have experience with 10 different Javascript frameworks. (And then underpay them and work the hell out of them.) I know I saw a lot of those when I was leaving college in 2017/18.
Backup manifests and pg_verifybackup in PostgreSQL 13
> USB-C was all about standardizing.

USB-C is all about having a thinner connector and giving the appearance of standardizing.

Previously if the cable fit, it worked. There were just a bunch of different cables but that had largely settled down to USB-A cables to like 2 maybe 3 connectors on the other end.

Now we have cables that have the same connector on each end but do vastly different things and there's no clue as to what.

- Does it carry data or just power?

- Does it carry a video signal?

- How much data can it carry?

- How much power can it charge?

A USB-C cable that does everything is limited to about 30cm (1 foot) in length, give or take. I know because I use them to connect to a USB-C dock. If I wanted a longer cable to connect to something else, I could. I'd just have to remember not to use it for the dock.

How is this a good user experience?
(I don't want to get into a pedantic fight over Any Rand / objectivism / Atlas Shrugged, I simply want to share an alternative viewpoint)

It seems to me that Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged get used to justify a lot of brutalist ideas, even among her direct inheritors. Having watched some of her interviews and read several of her books, I'm not convinced that the elimination of government was her intent. Further, while she tried to paint a realistic picture, ultimately Atlas Shrugged is a work of fiction that falls apart when placed within real-world constructs, especially 50+ years on after its publication.

At the heart of it, what Rand appeared to most argue in Atlas Shrugged was against regulation and governance that superseded the inalienable rights of citizens plus centralized power in an authoritarian state and took away the economic agency of the individual. That doesn't preclude a functioning republic where people can own businesses, own the rights to their creations, and still pay taxes for the benefits of services best provided by government.

Now here's the irony: Rather than coming for our system via communism, which was Rand's concern, instead it was nominal capitalists who came to destroy the system via regulatory capture. I don't see what the right-wing, nominal capitalists in the US have done to be any different than the moochers in Rand's book.
Every day I have to use something like 4gb of data to let Backblaze sync. This is despite the fact that I might only have created/changed 100mb worth of files since the previous day's sync.
And my doctor told me that having fungus in my genitals was a bad thing
Cool game, but I think pricing maybe a value issue. Might make more $$ if you just had a donation button, and some ads and maybe an option to upgrade to remove ads/donation nags. Plus you'd get a lot more word of mouth, and maybe add some social sharing of 'accomplishments' etc...
Emoji might be weird symbols, still, although I make no estimation how they'll be perceived 100 years from now. Whereas Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Cyrillic characters are not weird. There should be some reasonable subset of UTF8 supported/supportable for passphrases. The kinds of characters routinely seen printed in newspapers of record around the world.
I understood what you meant. Somehow, other people are not.
Sorry, to clarify, I'm not the one making that decision. Each person should weight that themselves - but I wanted to highlight that it is a decision we're all empowered to make. Given how often the refrain "the market will decide" is repeated... well, this is how the market decides.

Ideally the government would also be willing to step in and make sure ethical business practices are in place but they're out for lunch.
Bringing back the escape key is such a admission of their original screw up. I'm glad they admitted it and reversed the design decision. But I'm still on a 2012 15" MacBook that's running strong. I normally would have updated but using my work 15" has been horrific between the dongles, the keyboard randomly dropping keys (last week "G" would not work, now it's back. The most infuriating thing about the touch bar, out of many things, is the fact that the Escape Key doesn't line up with the upper left, it's offset. So decades of muscle memory has to change by s quarter inch. What a pain in the ass. Yes I'm a vi user.
Adobe announces to stop updating Flash by the end of 2020
Mark Stiving at Impact Pricing does a very good job at exploring and analyzing pricing issues.
You know there are subsets of tech that look at developers as a group that needs to be kept in line also. It’s a very bad way to look at people.

Just think about you and your colleagues being seen with a very narrow dismissive lens.
This.

Scheduling meetings is a pain despite good Outlook tools, because they're always booked. A decent sized office would make this a non issue.
There may be some unstated assumptions here that I'm missing, but as presented this does not appear to be a useful idea.

The meat of the idea, as I understand it, is: passports can be easily validated (because they contain a secret key signed by a government's Document Signing Certificate), but they cannot be cloned (because that secret key is in tamper-resistant hardware). So let's prove work by generating preimages of signatures under these keys.

Trusting this purported PoW system requires that you trust the government not to issue fake certificates. Otherwise, they can just use their signing key to generate lots of new certificates and massively parallelize the "proof of work". Moreover, at the point that you trust the government to behave honestly, there's no need for proof of work! Since you're trusting that a passport key is uniquely tied to an individual, you can (for example) just vote---the required assumption already implies that there cannot be any Sybils. (Or use any other mechanism that requires Sybil-free PKI, since that's what the assumption implies.)

(As another practical matter, there does not appear to be any reason to believe that each individual only has one physical passport. Some countries allow people to have multiple passports.)
What I am really hoping for is a 14" laptop that includes a discrete GPU. Hopefully an Nvidia one to allow CUDA work.
In general, unicode requires you think differently about strings depending on context. Here's my rule of thumb.

1. If you are transporting a unicode string, reading/writing over the network or to a file, think in terms of UTF-8 bytes. Do not attempt to splice the string, treat it as an atomic unit.

2. If you are parsing a string, think in terms of code points (runes in Go, chars in Rust). A good example would be the Servo CSS parser. [1]

3. If you're comparing/searching/inspecting/sorting a string in code, segment by grapheme clusters and normalize, then do what you came to do. [2]

4. If you're displaying a string, think in terms of pixels. Do not attempt to limit a string by length in "characters" (nee grapheme clusters in the unicode world) but rather measure by what the renderer does with the string. Each character can be a thoroughly arbitrary width and height.

5. If you're building a WYSIWYG editor, there's more to it than I even know myself, but I suggest reading into what Xi did. It's going to be some combination of everything above. [3]

[1] https://github.com/servo/rust-cssparser/blob/master/src/toke...

[2] https://github.com/unicode-rs/unicode-segmentation

[3] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
It was definitely not the best information at the time. Everyone knew that masks worked, but many organizations and governments lied to the public because they didn't have enough masks. And how could anyone think that encouraging people to go to crowded public events during a pandemic is the best available information? It was clearly harmful at the time and it's one of the reasons why over 18,000 New Yorkers are now dead from coronavirus.

It's easy to find far more harmful information than a stupid conspiracy theory that almost nobody believes. Here's a fun one: Should we ban all pro-life messages? After all, they reliably lead to some crazies attacking abortion doctors. Should we ban all pro-communist sentiment? Communism led to mass death and starvation in the USSR, China, and North Korea. If there's a more harmful ideology, I have yet to hear it.

Getting back to cell phones: Should we ban anyone who says that cell phones cause cancer? The exact same argument applies: It can cause people to damage cell phone towers and threaten maintenance workers.

There is no coherent framework for censorship that allows these things while also banning 5g conspiracy theories. The double-standard could not be more obvious.
The FAANG's overwhelmingly employ younger folks, give them the college atmosphere - free food, drinks, laundry on site, foosball table. And they spend their entire day at work for these so-called "benefits". I met one guy who was so happy that his company provided breakfast, lunch, and dinner at work, thought it was the greatest thing, he felt bad that he could not have the same arrangement for the weekend. I was like, dude, you live once, get a fuckin life!
Because, unlike what you suggested, policymakers are able to calibrate the minimum wage so it doesn't cause companies to go out of business.
That story describes random employees being asked to become investors, speculators, silent partners in the business. Here are the conditions:

* you do lots of work now, up front

* you have no say in the business

* you have no say in the investment returns, for example, if profits are made, management can just give themselves higher salaries that come straight out of your share of returns

* your investment isn't portable or recoupable, if you leave it's nothing

* if management is bad, it's also nothing

* you're skeptical of current management

Should you invest your time in this business?
For that integration it's just the download fees. The transactions do still get billed, but many people can stay within the free daily allotment.
Building with Web Components
I have the 16" and the keyboard is glorious. I came from a 2015 MBP 15" and the keyboard feel is almost the same.
A while back I helped a startup that was doing managed video services, specifically internal surveillance. A very logical "service" for them was to have actual humans review and verify various incidents and so they staffed up a small team of hourly video watchers.

It was a culture shock. Things like acceptable workplace attire were issues; and there was no store-front or exposure to customers, it was just what's acceptable in a professional office. Someone quitting with no notice wasn't uncommon. I think the most shocking aspect was most lived in this sort of land of grand illusion, they had no concept that there were non-hourly jobs or workers building the system they used. All of them lived in a fairly delicate balance, a small inconvenience like some car trouble was potentially life altering for them. We did these somewhat terrible Thursday night deployments (think 4 hours most of the time) and more than a few times some of these guys wanted to "help" to get some overtime pay, they were incredulous at the idea that we didn't get paid extra for that. Everyone deserves dignity and respect but it's also easy to see how these untrusting sorts of institutions come to be.

The big difference between ordering on Amazon and walking in to a Walmart is you have to look some of those people in the eye in Walmart. Credit to Tim for shining a little light on this. I've sort of thought that we might be in for a wave of 21st century unionization, I think the floor is a lot lower than that though. It's hard to imagine what could spark a cultural shift that would unite workers in today's world.
> I know that they don't like to experiment as much as I would in their place.

Hard to know. Do you think there's zero chance that, when you're their age, you might be the one telling your adult kid that you've had a happy, long life, and don't feel the need to experiment with longevity?
I think larger companies attract and depend on “yes people” to function. If everybody questioned everything, nothing would get done due to the increased coordination cost. In turn, that’s the kind of organization capable of executing on hard/amoral decisions, whereas a smaller company would probably just implode as critical people disagree and leave.
> In this lineup, the first two models are the 8th generation processors

Anyone knows which processors?
This is a frighteningly naive take on the rationality of humans.

If you are an engineer at a tech company you really don't have a grasp of how unfathomably dumb most people are because you only associate with smart people all the time.
EDIT: No more Telemetry nvm
I've only played around with it a bit and haven't used it extensively before, but PptxGenJS may be what you need to build this yourself.

https://github.com/gitbrent/PptxGenJS

https://gitbrent.github.io/PptxGenJS/
Same here. Using it for all "small" projects, no idea on what to expect on large ones though.
Here’s mine:

Noctua NH-L9A-AM4, 37mm Premium Low-profile CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 (Brown) £36.17 incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noctua-NH-L9A-AM4-Premium-Low-profi...

ASRock USB 2.0 Header to 2 x USB 2.0 Cable for DeskMini Series Chassis £10.93 Incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASRock-Cable-Deskmini-Mini-Stx-Chas...

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Processor (4C/8T, 6MB cache, 4.2GHz Max Boost) with Radeon™ RX Vega 11 Graphics £139.99 incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SXNDKNM/?tag=pcp0f-21

Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-1TB) £109.99 incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07LGF54XR/?tag=pcp0f-21&th=1

ASRock DeskMini A300 Mini PC Barebone for Socket AM4 £146.94 incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07P9GL1LN/?tag=pcp0f-21

ASRock Wi-Fi Kit for DeskMini Series Chassis, includes 2 x Antennas £29.42 incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASRock-Wi-Fi-DeskMini-Chassis-Anten...

2 x ADATA AD4S2666316G19-S 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz Memory Module - Memory Modules (16GB, 1x 16GB, DDR4, 2666MHz, 260-pin SO-DIMM) 2 x £73.12 incl. VAT https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADATA-AD4S2666316G19-S-16GB-Memory-...

Cost from a few months ago - £619.68
really get's tough when the 'entry' point of those grades now has double the students (new incoming students; not those also repeating a grade), as people will want their kids to start schooling at the 'normal' (maybe this changes?) age.
Why would age of the source be relevant here? (Beyond the obvious "it's a literal first person account"?)
It's out. The server was shut down months ago and v2 doesn't have a telemetry client at all.
I've always been kind of autodidactic, so maybe this might not be the opinion of everyone. But I think apart from the degree signaling my employability, meeting and working with smart people was the main benefit of university.

If it's all online you've lost this important place to connect with others. What you learn is basically available for a fraction of the price. It's only the degree that you're left with basically.
A 'Deus Ex-Machina' argument is not an argument.

Yes, we could invent some magical technology tomorrow that solved all of our energy problems, but lacking divine intervention - there is no foreseeable path in which the Oil stays in the ground.

Telling the 3rd world they must stay poor because 'we already used up all the Co2 emissions' is not going to work. Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Iran, etc. etc. will sell Oil to willing buyers.
They changed it because on 50% of all machines (stats from our office) the keyboard went bad within a year, causing massive warranty cost for Apple.
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I don't know how to define what is "misinformation" but I could surely call out a couple examples. Maybe we can figure out what makes them misinformation.

1) 5G causes COVID-19
2) COVID-19 doesn't exist, i.e. it's all a hoax
3) Aquarium cleaning solution is a cure for COVID

I don't know what makes those different from "masks are worthless" but they seem qualitatively different. Maybe for a couple of reasons.

Maybe for #1, there's no plausible mechanism of action linking 5G and covid. But the people claim there is! Using a nested series of faulty reasoning and unreproduceable evidence to back it up.

Maybe for #2, there's no observable evidence that it's a hoax, i.e. people claiming otherwise are doing so with no supporting evidence, only reasoning that they (subjectively) do not trust government or media, therefore their claim is supportable.

But I don't know. I don't think the answer is that it's unknowable (which you may or may not have been getting at).
There's a handy chart out there that plots change in worker productivity and change in purchasing power by income percentile over time that answers this in a single graphic.

If a task normally takes 10 minutes, and an employee completes it in five, is that a donation of effort?

Is it theft to titrate the productivity of your labor to fit the rate of pay you receive for it? Employees do not get paid more for effort that exceeds par.

If I get paid $7/hour, I can easily reduce my productivity until one hour of my labor produces $21 for the employer. Or maybe I work two hours to produce $160 and slack off for six.

Two consecutive generations of not being rewarded for contributing additional effort for the benefit of the company has taken its toll, culturally. Nobody is willing to uphold a string work ethic for an unethical employer.

The employers burned through all their credit with labor, and are trying to refinance by redefining all the rules. It won't work. It's time for them to pay up.
There's an expression, with respect to rock music: "Before any artist did anything, Elvis did everything..."

Or, with respect to classical music, substitute Mozart or Beethoven for Elvis...

With respect to this kind of stuff, there was John Ernst Worrell Keely:

Hans von Lieven: KeelyTech: Paper on John Ernst Worrell Keely

https://merlib.org/node/5064

"Before the Navy did anything, Keely did everything..."

Also, if you're going to study Keely, watch out -- there's a lot of fake news and disinformation...