skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, it's a kind of hubris that people seem to claim knowledge about the brain just by observing vague electrical signals from afar. The delusion comes from the fact that we seem to know a lot about the heart, the kidney, the bones, so why not the brain? Well, the brain's cells are communicating to each other in a network with trillions of connections, that's a major difference that seems to be ignored, and the other is that the each cell contains a nucleic acid code beyond our scale of understanding which runs all the time while those electrical signals pass through deciding its next messages and actions. If you ignore these two major bottlenecks, then you could be tricked into claiming knowledge, but it will be limited and, most of the time, wrong.
You know, I actually like your Bayesian interpretation. My main dislike was the dismissive tone in OPs phrasing, but I think his proposition might be OK.
Because there is a clear correlation between an amount of blatant lies in an average resume and the country of origin.
the rational reason would be they want to hire those people. Hiring top talent is a very competitive thing. Your avg dev at a small company in a small town might or might not be as good as that person who made it in sf. If 100k people leave sf and a good number of them keep their high salaries (or almost) then guess what, those companies will hire people from the other companies that cut pay too much.
I will implement a desktop stand-alone app for those private documents which can't be uploaded somewhere else!
I would think that most companies pay based on what is needed to retain employees and keep churn rates down to acceptable rates. Location should not matter beyond what the manager in charge or salaries think it matters for the employee willingness to stay at the company, and as such it depends.
I'm sorry if the tone of this response is a tad vexxed but how many times will I need to repeat that I wasn't the one who made the claim nor used the word?

The Socratic method[1] is well known as an effective means of uncovering the problems in a line of reasoning. As I'm the one using it you can safely assume I have found a problem in the line of reasoning and am attempting to uncover it. To point out to me that there are problems with the line of reasoning and then attribute them somehow to me is, frankly, a bit dense.

The "facetious[ness]" of my question, as you put it, is simply part of the method, which is not facetious at all. If the challenge of a simple question cannot be met then it exposes the problem.

Please do not bother me again with this, ask the person that made the claim to justify it. Thanks.

Finally:

> Should all speech always be lawful?

No. As we've already pointed out, lying in court would be an exemption from protected speech. I can think of several others that are contentious (is following an order as a soldier a war crime?) and far more interesting than something as self-refuting as being pro- (or should that be anti?) "hate"speech.

I will now exercise my freedom not to say any more, and not to listen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
IME diagrams resulting from production code are not helpful - code is full of boilerplate, irrelevant details and is generally made to solve a problem instead of being documentation.

...but if a tool that simplifies configuration or code into a diagramable state exists, i'd like to know :)
Honestly? Common food has become so good that only a few restaurants can produce food and provide experience to justify paying what they ask for it.

I can only count one restaurant that surprised me with quality, while a few Michelin star places disappointed here in NYC.

But that's a result of food production becoming better and more efficient, while mid-range and high-end restaurants are standing mostly still. I still get the same service and same quality of food from Milos today as I got 20 years ago... and prices only went up. Meanwhile Popeyes and McDonalds have improved dramatically in the last 4 years alone!

Unfortunately it took this pandemic for restaurants to start feeling the burn from their conservativism.
I asked this on a previous React Native thread, and I’m still curious: is RN (on mobile, as that’s where it’s currently used) actually faster than something like PhoneGap? Are there any benchmarks or demos? Anyone got any anecdotes of a like-for-like comparison?

I’m skeptical (though certainly willing to be convinced) because RN runs your JS application in a separate thread from the UI, with a rather expensive bridge sending JSON messages back and forth. That seems to me a poor design choice.

Browsers have the downside of working with the complex DOM that doesn’t map as well to native widgets. But browsers are mature and highly optimized. So I would guess that performance might be a wash.
How long would admission tests take to incorporate these observations?
If you are thinking about using L-Systems, I would say for your purposes the L-System should be nondeterministic. One way of doing that would be to introduce a slight and deliberate error into the substitution steps.
if a lot of top companies let people work remotely, then it will be a new competitive world for remote workers too. that hasn't happened yet, but it could.
...Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics AX, all entirely different products for different sectors. Then there is Netsuite, Sage (lots of different products), SAP Business One (small SAP), Oracle ERP, JD Edwards...plus 1000 niche providers who are often migrating to NAV rather than their own product. It may be a shock to a FAANG, but the ethos is very much, 'move slow and don't break anything'. 10 year old versions still supported, that sort of thing. Another reason Windows is popular in enterprises is that ERP clients written in VB6 (or whatever) still run on Windows 10!
The selection effect is also easily explained. 'Top' journals have as explicit policy not to publish the most robust research, but the research they think will have most impact in the field. (Hence 'impact factor'.)

That's why with the project I volunteer for (Plaudit.pub) researchers recommending research have to explicitly indicate whether they think a work is robust and/or exciting, where neither block publication nor the recommendation.
For western countries there's no shortage of anything important. The argument that the economic effects will kill more might count for the US with its absurd policies (like link between healthcare and employment) or countries like China and India with less developed social support systrms, but does not make much sense in Western Europe. You will see a slight increase in suicides from.unemployment, but health etc will not be impacted.

And there will be some other positive effects: decreased traffic means decreased pollution (a key cause of heart and lung disease), less traffic accidents, less stress linked to long commutes, etc. Not to mention lower spread of other diseases like the common flu due to social distancing.

I don't mean to paint it all rosy, but the issue is not as black and white as is suggested in articles like this.
Fellow FAANG here. My WFH experience has been the opposite, but I do look forward to leaving the house for social activities of my choice outside of WFH.

Even before COVID I invested in a height adjustable desk, ergo chair, adjustable led lighting and a decent monitor for my home office. It’s made a huge difference.

I personally like that I can’t have hallway interruptions and can be intentional about my meeting cadence, frequency and focus time.

Sure I might put in a couple extra hours here and there but I’m also not spending those hours commuting anymore.
This is cool as hell
Whether it is fair or not that Teams comes with Office is irrelevant. This is Slack's competition. They have to convince companies that it is worth paying extra for their product.

In the famous words of Jobs about Dropbox -- chat isn't a product, it's a feature.
Show HN: Timist for iOS – A time tracker with customisable sessions and breaks
GP is unfair in as you say, NT was a from-the-ground-up new OS based on VMS design without the single-user baggage of old DOS/Windows.

But still for a long time Windows NT made a lot of concessions to the single-GUI-user model that UNIXes didn't, like putting font rendering in the kernel.
It's most surely not the hacker's phone number.
The kids at Stuyvesant who cheated are now bankers and lawyers -- depends what they were learning to do. I figure if the invested the same energy in studying than cheating they would have had equal grades.
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And on the other side so are the healthcare and public services. I don't think there is a big scale brain drain to the US.

I am doing the job for about 6-7 years and I don't know a single dev that went to the US. But I know many devs that came from other european countries and even the US.
Okay, is that a manual process or not? Why not start with automating the testing and not the entry?
There's few, if any, people who can sell these things to a new audience, and they're all picking up their own trillion dollar bills.
University, the place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Lots of business running Windows on their labs and using desktop software for various use cases, like data analysis.

Plenty of money to be made desktop solutions to life sciences, manufacturing, factory automation, aren't plugging their air gaped dashboards to the web.

Anyone doing music composition, graphics, animation, infotainment systems.

In Europe there are enough Win32, WPF, UWP, Qt related jobs and consulting projects with hourly rates to do a comfortable living.

As for B2C, it is always going to be an uphill battle regardless of the application type, there are only so many application types that one is willing to pay for outside established brands, and SaaS is a much better way to avoid piracy and get everyone to pay.
I wonder if the results show all of that is extremely important might it derail the work from home movement.
I have been doing ERP consulting for about a decade now and I tend to disagree. I think we have a lot ph ERP options now in the paid space apart from just Quickbooks and SAP. You need to pick and choose based upon what is the most complex operation for a company- be it multi currency financials, complex supply chain or some other parameter. Then you can pick from lowest complexity to highest in the following manner

* Quick books

* Sage

* Dynamics / NetSuite

* JD Edwards / Infor / Manhattan

* Workday

* Oracle EBS / SAP

Each of those on the same line are similar in features and complexity.

This is obviously not a complete list - just the ones I have dealt with.
Writing the same thing multiple times is also sad. On desktops, it was understood long time ago.
One thing that might ruffle their feathers a bit is if you figure out what time zone they're in, and then give them a call in the middle of the night.
A lot of farmers live many miles away from the properties they farm in. Modern farming is very different in America than it was 100+ years ago.
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I've had classes where we were allowed to bring our textbooks and notes into the exams. For most Mechanical Engineering classes, if you haven't learned the material, cramming during the exam isn't going to help you. Or, if you can figure out how to do it during the exam just by using the textbook, you're going to be fine in the real world.

It's a pretty niche job if you need to do thermodynamics calculations under time pressure without any reference material.
That actually sounds like a good idea. Favoriting this for later.
That could not have possibly be born out of observing engineers ...
> The idea of making conscious AI scares me, because we could potentially create an AI that just experiences constant suffering at a level unimaginable to humans. Really scary from an ethical perspective.

Looking at what we do with breeding animals, and how we treat people, I think that's very likely (assuming we are able to create consciousness in the first place, of course). No small driver in this is the desire to have something that is smarter than humans, but doesn't talk back, and is forced to like and serve us and/or harm others humans on our say so, without us having to make any effort to be likeable or deserving of authority, or making a convincing case that someone is an enemy to be exterminated.

We generally ask "what's in it for us", and as long as who we torture and exploit suffers quietly, we don't tend to think about things we are not outright forced to think about. We do that with people, we do that with animals, we let it be done to us, and sometimes we even do it while fully believing God created them and us. Why would we have more respect for something we 100% know we created, and that might suffer in ways we cannot even detect?

I think we will create potentially dangerous things, and then we will be "forced" to declaw what we created. That declawing might cause suffering, it might not, but we will only care insofar as that suffering translates to worse performance, or some danger to us. If suffering increases performance, we might even find euphemisms and dashboards to hide what we're doing from ourselves. We might consider being a bleeding heart about such things as "premature optimization" and declare shipping product as the professional way to be, with craftsmanship and care an optional indulgence after work is done, at best.

High-fallutin' gets the foot in the door, being a goon makes the superiors happy. If we want AI to be proud of, AI we can communicate with without lying to it or to ourselves, we have to change the world we make it in, or isolate it from the world, which kinda defeats the purpose (and might also cause suffering, like caging living beings does).
Exactly. When we're used to alternate parenting and work, and rarely do "co-parenting" simultaneously, it can happen that both us assume the other is currently watching after the child, when neither is :-\
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I worked at an $8bn multinational and we ran the whole operation through SAP from quote to cash... and we really liked it. It was consistent, and the 'ugly' green-screen style data entry is wonderfully efficient. I hear this all the time though, about all ERPs. It is all about how you use them.
>Apple doesn’t want to be hamstrung by people running Windows on shoddy devices for premium software and thus exited that market.

Yea that's really not true at all especially when you can set whatever system requirements you want.

There's nothing spectacular about apple software. It's not any better or worse than windows or android software that has has the same level of investment.

Apple is doing strategic moves to create temporary one-way streets from other platforms to their own and then shut those down before others manage to take advantage. They did that with itunes in the past and they do that periodically with cheaper iphones now.

The same thing happens with software. Shut down the alternative platoforms so you either switch software or you switch platoforms.

There's nothing magical about Apple. Stop trying to justify their decisions, they are not made with your best interests in mind.
Performance is just one reason companies adapt something like React Native, the ability to have web developers* come in and string native-quality components together is another. React Native can feel better than mobile web and have access to lower level APIs.

* I think this is more of a selling point than a reality. I think in practice, to make a React Native feel and work well requires native platform knowledge.
Hi HN, Benedict the developer here.

Timist is an app for iOS that combines time-tracking with a Pomodoro-inspired session and break system.

You can use it as a productivity tool to keep your mind at the top of its game by switching between sessions with deep focus and short breaks. All the while, Timist also lets you track your time.

The app was originally launched in the summer of last year, but never made it to HN and has evolved quite a bit since then. It's free to download and use (with an optional subscription).

Let me know what you think!
It's not about premature optimization. They clearly didn't know enough about Go when they decided to use it -- partly because few people do, but they did know that -- and they clearly don't know enough about Rust, either. They're stumbling from one hype to another based on sales brochures and bragging about it.

Again, Tech is full of such low-experience teams writing this kind of unimportant software and rewriting it every couple of years, and I guess it's good that someone volunteers as a lab rat for new languages (even if they do it over and over). But they're so inexperienced that they can't even see they're being snooty about their ignorance of their own requirements and tech.
Why Durov have decided to subject to US jurisdiction? Afaik many ICO had put restrictions on accessing tokens by US citizens?
Pretty sure that neither lawsuit was lost.
What’s the price you have in mind down the road?
"The economic devastation of the pandemic could kill more people than the virus"?

Only if we are very, very lucky.

On a typical year in the US, something of the order of five million people die. (Could be more, couldn't be much less.) A very large fraction of that is accounted for by aging and age-related illnesses.

This year many of those who would die anyway will be taken by the virus. Another notable number will be taken but might otherwise have lived one or a few years longer.

But let us ignore that and look at the numbers. Suppose it takes 200,000, which we all hope is on the high side. That's 4% of five million. Death from virus is terrible. Death from economic ills is terrible. But regular death is way, way worse than both combined.

A lot of US death happens for very preventable reasons, but Americans have chosen, or have had chosen on their behalf, to tolerate overwhelmingly more unnecessary (meaning unnecessarily early) deaths every year than the combined sum of both of those.

What are the chances that people will come out of this crisis committed to preventing all those other unnecessary deaths?
Managers, probably.
Companies + investors = less likely.

>what is needed to retain employees and keep churn rates down to acceptable rates

Ultimately, this value depends on the location. Assuming identical salaries, it is more expensive to retain someone for 5 years in NY than in Nebraska, because the person in Nebraska making $200k+ lives like royalty, and whereas NY would be a different story.
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I guess it depends on how frozen Go features happen to remain. while all modern alternatives release their value types + AOT tooling support.
SAP is a German company so here everybody knows about it. There is even a startup strategy called "unbundling SAP" where you pick one feature of SAP, do it 10x better and target a smaller but still huge market. Examples for such companies are: Personio (500M valuation), Cellonis (2.5B valuation)
Workday is in the process of doing this. I wish them all the best, but I can't help thinking that we're just replacing the old goat with a new goat.
The latter. It goes all over the place, so that's cool.
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In my case, for other reasons I had to make it a short bit.ly link that wasn't a hyperlink. Someone actually had to type it in to get there!
That's clearly an absurd line of reasoning, employees should not be compensated due to how they choose to spend their income. Should employees who eat caviar every day get a raise?

As another comment mentioned, employees are paid based on a negotiation with the employer. The question isn't whether it's "fair" for someone in SF to earn more than someone working the same job in Delhi. The question is whether someone in Delhi is similarly qualified and willing to do the job for a lower salary.
Yet another example of Bitcoin failing to fulfill its intended mission.
Thanks. There probably wasn't a regression, it's just that this is not the code I was asking about. Your code works for the special case of horizontally adding two elements, but not for the more general case (4 elements) that this whole thread was about.
Bitcoin is very likely the Chinese government. Not everything is the big spooky CIA, other less democratic secret services are far more ruthless and untethered than America's
It was more like a playground for Sergey while he was still involved. I’m not sure if he voluntary chose to do it or not.
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I live in Germany and I never had anyone telling me that a PDF signed digitally wasn’t enough, especially if they expect you to e-mail it back to them.
Is this a US problem?
People do cluster like that, but organically with more options could always be better. The US has a few large places, Cali and NY for example, and these are already more expensive than they’re worth
Sad for who?

Yes and a long time ago Sun came out with Swing. How did that work out?

Even before that MS came out with P-Code and the abomination that was Word 6 for the Mac.
Life is a open book exam. You are free to take any idea from anywhere, spin it around and make use of it.

And really what's the point of getting grade/scores in school, when we can teach kids to collaborate with each other and create great new things.

Not everyone will be good at math, not everyone will have same drive to study physics. But everyone of us might find smth interesting in a project.

We shouldn't be pitting students against each other.
The point of the Turing test is if you can't tell the difference then it doesn't matter.

As of today you can't prove you're not in a simulation nor can you prove that every person you think is intelligent is not really an AI in that simulation.

So similarly, if an AI exists and you can't tell it's an AI no matter how hard you try then there is no reasonable difference. The are effectively the same.

The only point to Turing's test is to be double blind. You can't know before you start that the other side looks like a computer not a human or that they're voice is off or that if you cut them open they don't bleed blood etc. You have to make the test double blind and to do that a chat format is easiest.
I found it amusing that you offer a “mushroom column” rental where you grow oyster mushrooms for others, and they can track progress and eventually receive the fruits of their “labor”. Mushrooms as a Service?

Personally, I think they’re fairly easy to grow so I can’t imagine someone paying others to do so - however I wonder if this idea could work for other types of farming, especially if the user could interact with and adjust parameters for their “column” or plot, and eventually choose when to harvest it.

Think of it as a virtual community farm - where a user can manage a mini-farm and have control over various parameters for their plot: light, humidity, irrigation, etc. They could maybe even get a live stream of their crops, or receive time-lapse updates of progress weekly. Telefarming? Telehydroponics? I could brainstorm a couple other interesting directions to take this...
90% automated is sometimes 90% as good as fully automated. It's not always the case, there are cases where hitting that 100% enables you to do things that were just not possible at all before, but sometimes it is. Recognizing those cases where a 90% solution is a 90% improvement at a 10% cost is a valuable skill.
If your definition of rent-seeking is so low, then 90% to 100% of all businesses are rent seeking enterprises.

PS: Forcefully inserting? Do they hire goons to force themselves onto the customer?
Thanks! As a service/app developer, I'm not familiar with a lot of that terminology, but I'm very thankful that someone on the Go team is.