skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. It is much easier to mute a thread when some colleagues are having a slow day than it is to move desk in an office when those same people are having an all day conversation as you're trying to work.

Of course you could tell them to STFU (perhaps in a more professional vernacular) but that can be difficult to do if you're not an assertive or confident person.
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Yeah, I haven't quite got the hang of it myself. The encoding of formal logic in English sentences is fraught with ambiguity until you grok the specific style used.

Here's an example (SPOILER ALERT: with solution) of what I mean. The English version is just a verbose translation of a simple Boolean table.

==================================
Black-Hat Chuck
==================================

:date: 2014-02-01 10:56
:summary: A solution to the Three Hats puzzle.

I recently ran across a `cool puzzle site`_. Here is one of the puzzles
and a solution:

There are 3 black hats and 2 white hats in a box. Three men (we will
call them A, B, & C) each reach into the box and place one of the
hats on his own head. They cannot see what color hat they have
chosen. The men are situated in a way that A can see the hats on B &
C's heads, B can only see the hat on C's head and C cannot see any
hats. When A is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is wearing,
he says no. When B is asked if he knows the color of the hat he is
wearing he says no. When C is asked if he knows the color of the hat
he is wearing he says yes and he is correct. What color hat and how
can this be?

.. class:: attribution caption

~ `Three Hats`_

Solution
------------

I'm going to call the three men Alan, Bob, and Chuck.

First, let's imagine what Alan might be able to see. There are four
possibilities.

=========== =============
Bob's Hat Chuck's Hat
=========== =============
White White
Black White
White Black
Black Black
=========== =============

Since there are only two white hats, if Alan sees that both Bob's and
Chuck's hats are white his own hat would have to be black. In other
words, by admitting that he can't tell which hat he is wearing Alan is
saying that either or both of Bob's and Chuck's hats are black. If we
eliminate the case of both hats being white we are left with three
possibilities.

=========== =============
Bob's Hat Chuck's Hat
=========== =============
Black White
White Black
Black Black
=========== =============

From this it should be easy to see that if Bob sees that Chuck's hat is
white his own hat would have to be black. Bob would be uncertain of the
color of his own hat only if Chuck's hat is black. So Chuck, being no
dummy, can conclude that his own hat is black.

It's an elegant puzzle with a very simple and satisfying solution.

.. _cool puzzle site: http://wuriddles.com/

.. _Three Hats: http://wuriddles.com/easy.shtml#3hats
My take on the trilemma is that Jesus never actually claimed to be God in the first place.
> A team room means that to ask a co-worker on another team a simple question (or to just see what they are working on) becomes a big deal because you are now entering that other team's space and interrupting a dozen people.

Isn't that kind of the point of having team offices?
The NVIDIA HGX-A100, with 8x NVIDIA Tesla Ampere A100 accelerators
you are a literal npc. the hospitals are empty. the curve is at zero. you need to have people get sick to keep the curve going. stop parroting what people are telling you.
I agree that our poor initial response to this crisis sealed our fate.
> It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to teach basic CS well

Why do you think so? If anything it's harder than doing a regular programming job, because in addition to knowing CS, you have to know how to teach. And programming pays better than teaching.
I think OP was referring to the on-package eDRAM. It helps quite a bit with bandwidth and latency.
Oh, I definitely agree with you on that. Unless you're a school or similar institution that needs to go with the safe choice, I really don't understand how Arduino™ makes any sales.

The clones are so much less expensive than the official Arduinos that there's no comparison. Even the versions that Adafruit makes that IMHO, improve the design cost less than the official arduinos. So it's not a surprise that the Chinese clones will be dirt cheap. I'm not complaining though. I have a board where the Nano (clone) itself is by far the cheapest "chip" in the BOM. Precision analog devices are expensive and my 50 or so boards sold each year can't compete with the Shenzen manufacturers' economies of scale.
Pretty much everyone in charge is elected
Goodness, it seems your speech becomes more inflammatory with every edit. I'm sorry if I offended you—I think talking about the disasters are important in engineering—it's part of the process. In the same vein that FAA regulations are "written in blood". The deceased's weight could have been (and sounds like it was) a compounding factor in this event. It seems a process improvement could have prevented this, but we should avoid the entire conversation because it involved death?

edit: To address the content of another edit you made: yes, part of what makes HackerNews the incredible place it is is from people sharing anecdotes and semi-related stories.

I really don't care to continue this conversation, your hostility is unwarranted.
I have found getting accurate data to be very difficult.

I saw one chart which allegedly mapped the effect of the lockdown over four weeks with various various indexes:

COVID - significant drop. Death from other medical items - even more significant drop. Death from traffic accidents - even moreso.

Number of deaths from suicide - significant jump. From drug overdose - even more significant jump. Number of mental breakdowns and newly diagnosed illnesses - jump. Number of deaths from people not getting care they needed - jump.

I cannot find that chart anymore, and when I tried to verify the items, I could not.

Anyone who knows the chart I am referring to, or generally reliably sources for these things (and not just COVID deaths), please reply!
Having worked in multiple German Blue Chips, my 5 cents:

- Brain-drain, likely (US vs German salaries is a joke) but also likely offset by brain-gain from other places (in my experience only Scandinavia, Netherlands and Switzerland beat German salaries, lately)

- safety-seeking culture draws the wrong people to the big corps. The more of them there are, the worse productivity and innovation gets.

- because of their appeal to masses of safety-seeking underperformers wages at German blue-chips are usually noticeably lower than at consultancies or Mittelstand, pushing away even those few talented they did recruit

- keeping talented and motivated people long-term is even harder because if enough of the wrong there are, you’ll often have strictly defined career-options, so that e.g. after 10 years you cannot possibly get another raise unless you stop engineering and do Inner-corporate bureaucracy work.

- I’ve seen niches in these companies where people shield their team / unit from that mess, pro-actively outsmarting the corporate machine (e.g. hacking the hiring process, securing backing from CEOs, pushing for technological visions...) Those units have a big draw on inner-company talent, but are limited in how much talent they can take into care. Working there is very pleasant. As maybe highlighted by the fact that these guys are more likely aware that their pay is an insult, but they stay regardless.
Meanwhile, parents and kids alike are starting to feel their blood boil...
Officially - yes. It's affirmative action. About 40% or more of the seats are reserved for students from a "lower caste".
I wonder if all this AI to build self driving cars should have gone into AI that simply saves lives a lot more easily:
- detect if the driver is insane, drunk, swerving (tired?), stolen.
- detect baby in the backseat parked, and temp rising?

If all the AI did was decide you're unfit to drive, that it take over for a few minutes to get to the next stop and pull over and call the cops on you, we might save more lives by that alone.
No, they can't sell it unless someone wants to buy it. Miners will either go out of business or get into the business until the difficulty level approaches whatever a marginal profit is above whatever the current price of BTC is
The connection between influx of new COVID cases, deaths, and safe-from-home is pretty clear from looking at the daily new cases, which flattened exactly two weeks after lockdown began. Look here at the general US statistics: https://covid19info.live/us/
Of course we don't have a proper meritocracy or a significant one, and I don't think the OP or anyone advocating it thinks so. Meritocracy is an ideal to strive for and one we'd probably never fully obtain due to the nature of the universe, randomness, and plain out inequality attached to circumstance. What it does mean is that we should aim to reward based on merit in as many places as is feasible and, one could argue, fair.

I.e.: to each according to his value and ability, not purely according to his need. But do so with compassion. I think a fair bit of what goes wrong when this topic and other related ones come up, is that people that advocate for things such as meritocracy are immediately portrayed as heartless and lacking compassion because they advocate for that thing.
The minute this disease hit the US, 0.3% of the population was immediately living on borrowed time. The goal of the lockdowns was to keep that 0.3% from rising to 3% because of overwhelmed medical services. For most of the country it's worked, but there's nothing you can do to save the 0.3%, and inciting the country to riot is only going to add to the toll.
Dunno if this is good or bad news for designing new ways to put stuff I don't want in my timeline, but good luck with it, whatever you all do during the day.
LOL – Tiger King Cocktail
You probably shouldn't be uploading sensitive pdfs regardless.
Perhaps this explains why SoCal is doing poorly compared to the Bay Area: https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...
> founding fathers would have been appalled at these ideas

Look at export-import licensing norms, and the limits on incorporation, in the time of the founding fathers. Enterprise is, on average, far freer today.

> laws sound totally anti-constitutional

They’re not. Congress has vast Constitutional powers to regulate interstate commerce. It used these laws to curtail securities fraud in the 1930s. Those are the laws being violated here.
Especially considering how unforgiving the battles can be at times. The slapdash "throw every mechanic in" gameplay design and stair-step leveling curve makes for an ever-repeating swing between complete invulnerability and intense frustration.
How are things in Peru, COVID-19 wise?? That's my wife's home country and she's not heard a lot about how well (or not) things are going.
Yeah. I'm pretty introverted but the number of good friends I've made in my life that I didn't meet through either school or work is exactly 0. I've never quite understood the anti-coworker-socialization sentiment here. For some people it seems to go beyond that they've given their coworkers a chance and they just don't like them; rather they seem determined not to socialize with coworkers as a matter of principle. Why would it be more likely that you're going to enjoy socializing with your neighbors or your disc golf teammates than your coworkers?
As the only person doing that role within an company, you’ve probably been promoted as an acknowledgement of what you’re already doing what your superiors expect.

Keep learning always but the only person who can tell you how to be a success in this role is your boss and the stakeholders who pressure him
> I don't know, do you think that Google Maps and Google Search (and all of its contribution to QoL improvements) have been brought to you by way of exploitation of people? Which people?

Absolutely. The tech industry doesn't exist in a vacuum. I'm definitely not an expert or very knowledgable on this, but it seems unlikely that Silicon Valley could have come into existence without cheap food, clothes, electricity, and hardware, all of which we have as a product of cheap labor (farming, resource extraction, manufacturing) and resources.

For example, My phone--and I assume the laptop I used to type and send this message--has a good chance of having been assembled using forced/slave labor.

> Or if you're referring to the outsourcing of work to the 3rd world as exploitation, how does that square with the fact that the standard of living has been dramatically increasing, globally? Do you think that out-sourcing of work will happen forever? Why do we choose to out-source manufacturing work to China instead of Belgium or Japan?

I assume it will continue forever in some form, although I'd expect where it happens will shift. Do you expect outsourcing to stop?

> I don't think that I disagree that resources are exploited, but that's true regardless. The only way to produce modern goods & services to people is through resource extraction. Either that operation is centrally coordinated by state actors, or it's de-centrally coordinated by corporations.

I suppose one of my points is that resource extraction harms people without regard to whether or not they benefit from it, and that it doesn't seem like people benefit in proportion to how much it harms them. Further, the people who are benefiting the most from extracted resources tend to live far away from where it happens.
> I'm really sick of everything being made "secure", when in fact the "security" is for someone other than the legitimate user of the thing.

It's less binary than that for me. Yes, the same technologies that keep my data secure also act as a buttress against jailbreaking. But people who want to jailbreak can simply choose less-secure devices, while I would personally not trade that security for greater hackability. There are other, lower-risk devices than phones and cars that I can use for that.
Looks interesting!

I had something like a SQLite backend with a full spreadsheet front with all the usual functions plus SQL queries etc. all in a local application. Kind of like MS Access if it had Excel bolted onto its front.

I really like Apple’s Numbers and I’ve always thought that adding a database backend and support for Pivot tables and iterative solutions would make it into a real powerhouse.
Testing has indeed "ramped up" in Los Angeles. Last time I checked there were 39 locations in Los Angeles where you could get a free test, no symptoms necessary. That count does not include going to your doctor or to a private lab. Would love to see the models behind 300k-500k test count and what that achieves. The goal is unclear in Los Angeles.
Compliance is already way down; as someone who has to drive across LA a few times a week (from one isolated situation to another) it has gone from "Night of the Comet" ghost town to "not quite the normal traffic jams but sure a lot of cars out there".

Someone else said he fears riots; I think that's unlikely. Much like when a substitute teacher is there, it will just be more and more people slowly pushing the rules until it's like there are no rules.
While I agree with your point, in a spirit of fairness, I think a lot of people are tired of being bludgeoned with "implication" rhetoric. "Socioeconomic inequality" is a pretty loaded term and some people use it to make others feel guilty or attempt a sweeping indictment of the society we live in. Many economists and sociologists use it more in the sense of this article, but it's not surprising that such an overloaded term sets some people off.
For sure! I've spent time in orgs that do this approach inherently, and it's tremendously fulfilling, more than ping pong tables and after-work beers ever could be.

Shared hardship and superior performance that is greater than the sum of a team's individual talents are tremendous motivators and a dominant source of personal fulfillment.

There's a bit of a challenge to get people to seek this environment out, but setting the tone from the top, as Netflix does, is a Step 0 to achieving it.
I hate to deliver triumphant "told you so" messages, but I hope that all the people who say "nobody wants to lock down forever" are starting to understand they've been misled.
> Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious?

> Christof Koch: No. It doesn't matter whether the Von Neumann machine is running a weather simulation, playing poker, or simulating the human brain; its integrated information is minute. Consciousness is not about computation; it's a causal power associated with the physics of the system.

I find this claim, proclaimed with certainty, strange (not to use much stronger words).

Unless one follows some highly non-mainstream interpretation of consciousness it seems that consciousness is purely an information phenomenon, not depending on a particular interpretation.
For that, we need a fundamentally new physics (vide Roger Penrose), or we run into mysticism.

The claim in the interview suggests a position much stronger than claiming that Searle's Chinese room is not thinking.
I once automated myself out of a job, in my first banking internship, with AutoHotkey. I would fire up a script and then head out to lunch and be done by the time i got back, so then I went home.

wish I got the hint that i might have what it takes to be a developer right then. instead I waited ~6 years climbing the rungs in finance.
For a more modern and youthful perspective, I'd recommend "Trick Mirror" by Jia Tolentino. It really dives into how chaotic world of internet and media has influenced younger generations.
It is. People are still getting sick. They are dying in greater numbers. They are getting Vitamin D which actually helps with fighting. But they are mildly discomforted.
I feel like it's inevitable that Microsoft will acquire Canonical at some point.
Due to that issue being closed maintainers assumed it was fixed and went around closing related issues without testing if the problems were fixed.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/198570#note_2936...

I have had a really negative experience reporting bugs to GitLab in the last 12 months. I have spent tons of time investigating bugs in new features only to have the devs ignore it. It feels like they are sweeping things under the rug so they can hit deadlines for officially announcing new features.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/39534#note_283...
With the military outside making sure you stay in or else you get arrested? Not sure my concept of lockdown is the same as yours.
Just copy the text and use `sed` on your clipboard to transform your text.

On macOS:

pbpaste | sed 's/^.*$/ &/' | pbcopy
"Throughout college, also I have sought physical engagement outside of martial arts, taking up climbing and lifting." [0]

Not to be harsh, but I wouldn't buy a book from someone writing about writing that writes awkward/grammatically incorrect sentences like the one above. Also your background doesn't "checkout". You're writing about writing for software engineers, but how long have you been a software engineer? 3 years? 5 years?

Again, my comments are a little harsh, but this has to stop with people filling the internet with useless content, making it harder and harder to find good content.

[0] (https://philipkiely.com/essays/black-belt-white-belt.html)
Hm...I wonder whether this could also be an effect of a special case of company culture legacy - with the eMagic-based Logic/Core Audio team very much retained as a unit in Rellingen, Germany and co-founder Lengerling being Sr. Director in Cupertino.
It bears repeating the the majority of software development happens on Windows (and I say that as a Mac guy).
The only thing that offends me in this conversation is what this profession, and forum, do to people. You very poignantly included.

Keep trying to turn this around on me and my sensibilities or sense of offense, and I’ll keep right on ignoring it. I’m very comfortable on the absolutely right side of this, and just about as annoyed as OP was that you’re interacting with me at all and that I have to share a planet with people who think like you.

When an FAA policymaker gets on HN and tells us what the deceased passengers on the airplane smelled like, you’ll have an argument. There’s a difference between dancing among the foul and treating it clinically, and hitting me with the latter in a thread doing the former is incredibly disingenuous.
So far, they have double the fatality rate of LA county.
Why Designer and Developer Can`t Be the Same Person?
Given that consciousness is not super well defined, being conscious is a philosophical issue that depends on belief.

For example, if you believe that consciousness is a fundamental property of everything in the universe, then anything and everything is conscious (ie. panpsychism). So under this belief, AI is technically already conscious, just in a different way than humans.

In some eastern religions/practices, there are methods to experience the consciousness of other things (e.g. another animal, an insect or a tree), I wonder if the people that can do that would be able to experience the consciousness of AI.
>"For me too many companies use the "family" aspect of things too much."

I'm not sure if I'm in total agreement or in total opposition.

Family is an analogy... At the scale of many of our workplaces "tribe" might be more fitting. I'm also note convinced people quite believe it... It's more that they're learning the language of their new social structure, whether that's "team," or "family" or whatnot.

In any case, it's suspicious that we're using analogies here at all. Workplaces, usually a company, are the main social institutions of our society. Only the family rivals it. Why do we need analogies to describe workplace the relationship?

I agree that it's not a family. What is it though? A purely transactional definition doesn't work in this context. Your workplace is not your bank. You don't have to be emotionally vested in your bank. You can't avoid being emotionally vested in your workplace in a psychologically sound way.

So... going to the OP's point somewhat... Something is very broken, socially, in the thing we call companies. It's often unpleasant and for many people this lockdown is a reprieve.

I think work from home, as a norm, is a move towards a more transactional relationship with work. This may be better than whatever sucks about your workplace, but it's also got problems. We spend so much of our lives working. A minimalist relationship may not be enough.
I have trouble believing the "founding fathers" had much of an opinion on anything like the finical systems of today, let alone how we got there. I'd be surprised if they were able to observe things over time if they felt there should be no limitations on something like TON.
If we keep everyone locked up all the time all kinds of deaths will drop!