skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually did code hinting for PHP in a fairly popular commercial product, more than 10 years ago - and I disagree with you that it has to be less capable. You can use heuristics - people are forgiving because they understand you can't get everything right. You can use configuration files & user hints to help the semantic analysis. You can absolutely get the hints mostly right - and it's automatic, so probably closer to being correct than anything that'd have to be maintained by hand.
Why are we assuming that Amazon, the third largest corporation in the world by market cap, needs to limit itself to small teams?

They could afford to 3x the teams if they wanted to. They just don't want to, because management prefers to just keep the money and burn out their subordinates. (There's always more where they came from.)
[[]], the most obvious benefit would be, with the growing trend of the note-taking app adopting [[]] style backlinks, people can easily convert their notes into blog posts to build a static site.
It's more nuanced. If it's in a public place and not invasive (eg taken through a street window) you have little case to get anything taken down. So no stranger appearing in your Disneyland pictures can force you to delete them.
yes it's easier at home to have this stuff on the fridge for reference (also she can just ask me to login for her) but at actual school it was a real problem
http://nats.io
On top of that, you have to realize that these countries (YT, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc) are completely obedient to the government of China. Not because it's their biggest market, but because China will shut them out if they don't toe the line. Whereas the US and Europe have never indicated a willingness to sanction these companies no matter what. It's a tyranny of the minority.
Call options I guess? I endeavored to just buy stock during the dip for unfairly devalued blue chips but not impressed with my return.
And plenty of banks don't. That's also very common. Bank with one of the ones that don't.
While is isn't a continued source of cashflow, it IS the very first thing that anyone needing money quickly should look it. It's relatively easy and op mentioned, you can clean out the garage too!
Ha, that brings back memories from high school.

Some classes had HPs, other TIs, it was like Vim vs emacs during puperty.

I was in the TI-85 class and we programmed the heck out of the devices (for cheating too, obviously). I re-wired the link cable with a phone cable and was able to chat over that link with class mates 5m away.
Can't gauge if you're being sarcastic or serious honestly.
Youtube

Vimeo

Name the next five that are discoverable, host your videos for free, and can stream that to millions of people in a single day.
I genuinely can't tell if the parent is being sarcastic or not.
Blunt for css, and Blazor for the rest of the front-end, and I'm all set.
Here's a LGPL decoder:
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif
I think that people can accept a universal program, but legislators and the think tanks that govern their policy cannot. The point of Dorsey's funding is to provide high quality data to bolster the policy, and this might have that effect even if, like you say, the payments aren't universal.
Thanks for sharing this point of view: it does indeed seems to be sorely missing in the article as well as in this thread.
It is the right option for anything numerical and array-based. Any super-cool array-based feature that people see in MATLAB and Python was inherited from Fortran 90. Yes, that is true. Sadly, modern Fortran is treated quite unfairly within the field of computer science and engineering because of people's lack of knowledge of modern Fortran, which reminds me of the famous quote: "People hate each other because they do not know each other, and they do not want to know each other, because they hate each other".
I don't want to minimize what this guy went through - anything that takes you to the edge is too much - but I can't help but interpret this story as a story of professional & personal growth rather than an example of why Amazon sucks (Sidenote: I happen to agree they suck, just not for this particular reason).

How many people in other professions have had similar experiences from the perspective of intensity/amount of work? I-banking is _built_ around this level of intensity for years, and I've heard similar stories from people at other tech companies, plus VC, PE, consulting, medical residencies...

My big takeaway here is much less that Amazon sucks than that in a high pressure job, it's critical to know your limits: "I can go so far and no further." The author seems to acknowledge this; why are so many comments implying Amazon is uniquely terrible?
I think the parent means that in a Facebook interview they shared a laugh at how terrible the Amazon interview was.
Until the state starts preempting these idiotic local laws and push builders to build, nothing will change. They have the power. Do they have the votes?
> I'm disappointing none of these tech companies are acknowledging the happiness that comes from camaraderie and togetherness

Exactly, which is why I work so I can experience camaraderie and togetherness with the people I actually want to: my family and my friends. Working from home allows me to do that more, much more than working in an office.
> they provided a demo in which the photo upload function appears to have been stubbed (e.g. "if 'PNG|JPG|JPEG' is filename, print "Success"), giving students and teachers false assurance that photo uploads would work on test day.

I don't think it was exactly that it was stubbed out, per se; I would guess it was that the whole "backend" process involved either a human or an async batch process opening the file; and so in both the demo and prod environments, the upload of a file can succeed while the parsing of said file can fail (much later on, after the test is completed, during the grading phase.)
That doesn't look like an e-ink display to me? Perhaps you meant e-paper? Or do they have one that is actually e-ink?
In this context, we are talking about the Seattle Head tax, which is NOT applied equally.

In the larger discussion of payroll taxes, to disprove that workers bear the entire burden of payroll taxes, just go through the thought experiment where we eliminate the employer side of the SS tax and whether wages would rise 6.2%. They wouldn't. Workers were willing to work for $N previously, there is no reason that they would stop working/change jobs unless they were paid $N + 6.2%.
This is a good book, but the first time I read it, I was puzzled. There's all this stuff about "infinitely small pieces" like every other calculus resource. It wasn't until I had practice using the derivative rules and the chain rule that calculus clicked for me.

I think calculus should be taught like "here's a set of tools to help you rewrite your equations to make them output the slope of their graph".

Then, afterwards, you can get into what makes it all tick. Sort of like teaching a student to write "hello world" before diving into the low level mechanics of a compiler.
Ah no in the UK they now try put you on the list before you need to go on dialysis - I had managed long term decline for almost 20 years.

I also passed on the first before I was on dialysis and passed on the second as it was a "problematic" donor - they where not sure if they where HIV +ve - the Doctors send line was "don't worry we have good drugs for HIV these days"

I just did 2 10l bags in the evening and one filler to tide me over
By the same token, the PRC also tends to end any anti-Japan protests or related violence, but you have a point.
Do you hire in Jakarta?
You might like it or not but that's the direction the tech world is going. A lot of people hating WFH hate it because they always worked in an office and don't want to change what they are used to.

In 10 years you will have a whole new generation of engineers that always worked from home and by then I would be surprised if the ratio is only 1:10.

As another comment mentioned, this current pandemic makes you hate a lot of aspect of life, regardless if you worked from home or from the office.

The world is moving in that direction. Adapt or become extinct.
Experienced same problems with aggressive individuals or groups trying to engineer or buy there way into digital properties. Found the whole experience very odd, since while I had no interest in making a deal, the amount of effort they were putting forth made no sense to me. Luckily, after they realized I would not agree, get tricked, etc — they moved on.
Why doesn't he just fund this experiment himself ?

From wikipedia:

"Originally a corporate lawyer, Yang began working in various startups and early stage growth companies as a founder or executive from 2000 to 2009."

Maybe this a matching donation from Dorsey ?
It seems we are getting in philosophical territory here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_love
I think rents and other costs will rise to the equilibrium point where a lot of people are stressed by the price but just about able to pay it.

Same as now.

It's not a coincidence that the cost of living is equal to the amount which lots of people struggle with, yet are just about coping with.

However, a key benefit of UBI is that the situation is stable and predictable for people on it. Currently, people who are just about coping are living in constant low-level fear that their circumstances will change for the worse. For people who would have to turn to government support, a legitimate fear is not knowing what claims will be allowed, or being asked difficult questions about lifestyle for which there is no safe, honest answer.

That fear has a lot of consequences. For example measured IQ is lowered in that state. People do not make the best decisions; they can't. They are sicker too. They can't make plans. They can't make investments in their own future.

UBI addresses this uncertainty and fear, even if the markets react so nobody (on average) is better off compared with basic costs of living such as rent and food. And so it makes life better.
The parent comment that I replied to was asking about transparency and I tried my best to answer.

> Why doesn't MS just stop forcibly collecting data from my machine?

Updates.

At the minimum data collection level for client SKU (set via user settings), MS asserts that only data needed to keep the machine running and secure is collected (i.e, updates). They really do try hard to honor this assert, although I understand I'm not going to be able to entirely eliminate skepticism.

You can argue that you should be allowed to disable telemetry for updates, but I think that's a different conversation. MS didn't want Windows reputation to suffer due to undeployed fixes (this was a big problem prior to win8), and they took a hard line on the updates.

Enterprise SKUs have a zero exhaust option (no telemetry), but alas, it's not free.
Closed/liscenced crap != innovation.

I don’t care which part of California it came out of.
I'm talking about being competition to an entity like YouTube which is funded by an internet advertising behemoth. Is that what you're talking about?

YouTube can afford to offer a lot of value to the customer, much more than it would have been able to sustain by itself without the Google support.

Without offering all that value, definitionally, Youtube would not be as attractive to consumers.

Therefore consumers would be more likely to choose other alternatives like PeerTube

Therefore projects like PeerTube would have more support and therefore would develop more quickly.
Wouldn't that just end up applying to whatever subset of employees are up for living in Alabama?

Sure, if you can grow that subset to 100% then you can keep all the pizza for yourself, but the reason tech salaries are so high is the companies are that profitable.

If Zuckerberg is paying Alabama rates to everyone, it will be trivially easy to poach talent from him, and he knows this, so while he might have in mind a pool of "superfungibles" making $ALABAMA in $WHEREVER, you will not see Big Tech start slashing the compensation of the people they want to keep.
This changed with the 2013 Defamation Act, although not in Northern Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013

https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/defamation.html
When I shifted to working from home I started exercising a lot less. My office had an onsite gym. I would go in early and start every day with exercise.

I don't have all the equipment at home, so I only go to the gym once a week (well before lockdown, now I go 0 times but did end up getting some equipment).

Also the food. The office had free healthy food. Now I have to make my own lunch, which is often cheap easy crap and late in the day.

Also I miss socializing with adults that aren't my spouse. She's great and all, but we've already heard all of each other's stories. :)

I very much value all the extra time I get to spend with my family, and I also value the fact that when we wanted to spend a week in the mountains I could just up and go and work from there.

But there are definitely tradeoffs.
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My wife and I have the same opinion. So far, both sides of our family are complying to our wishes, except that one or two times my in-laws managed to put our kid in a Facebook story by accident - apparently the Messenger app is confusing enough that they don't even realize when it happens.
Yes, yes, and thankfully I left that environment. Now I work in the public sector, I guess you could say. Mostly because of the gas-lighting of reviews and performance "feedback." I've been on both sides of it, and seeing that I'm the same person, it really made it obvious how arbitrary it is.

I feel like it's common wisdom now that forced culling is not a great strategy and has lots of perverse incentives, but still not universal.
There is a sort of Gopher "successor" in the works called Gemini that was featured recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424

It aims to fix flaws in the Gopher protocol while still making it easy to implement clients.

If you haven't dug into Gopher, there's lots of cool stuff in it from ASCII art and old computer manuals to games and lots of blogs (called "phlogs"). I suggest grabbing a client and heading to the Gopher Lawn to get a taste:

gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn

(Lynx works as a client, but there are a ton more out there with fun UIs.)
I guess I would have assumed that these positions would all have been furloughed months ago since I don't imagine very many of them fit the qualification of "essential"
There are still some gopher holes. For instance, the bitreich is quite active:

gopher://bitreich.org

Some of the content is rather funny, other is a bit too much for insiders to be comprehensible. It seems to be a "pure" fork of the suckless.org community.
There has been one around for the past 7 decades and still evolving: Fortran
Sounds like someone forgot to turn the pretend button on.
She does not have $22B in cash. You pay employees in cash. Impact investing is just as brutal as any other investment fund. Dollars can be deployed more impactfully elsewhere. The goal is investments that create long term structural change and subsidizing employees of a declining business doesn’t move them towards that goal.
Happens in every GDPR discussion. Even when you post strictly factual information without any opinion, you get downvoted if you showed in other comments sympathy for the GDPR.
> as long as you can meet the margin requirements of your broker

I see thanks for the info
It's very common for large companies to give stories to journalists early with an embargo date/time.

#notspeakingforfacebook
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In recent history in developed countries? Yea seems so. In human history? Most other cultures place way more importance on family than we do in the west, in many even today, kids continue living with their parents until marriage.
This is a classic pre-distribution versus redistribution debate. I’d just note that they are not mutually exclusive strategies and can both be undertaken simultaneously.

You can see Sweden has been able to do so but countries like US, France, Germany, UK all have similar levels of inequality before redistribution.

The US inequality compared to those countries is primarily due to lack of redistribution:

Around ~29 minute mark:
https://youtu.be/DCUq5_ERDp8
I agree with the sentiment, but I have to disagree. Strict codes need tend to strict on the wrong thing. I want your house to not spread fire, but that doesn't mean mandate brick or steel construction (and ban many other fire resistant materials that meet the intent but not the letter of the code)
Washington Post's depictions of autism shift from 'cause and cure' to acceptance
Yeah, I'd probably go back if they started paying more than G/FB/N.
A big part is anxiety about the future. You are not guaranteed economic opportunities in the future, so we make the most we have of the present to ensure we can provide for ourselves in the future.

You also enjoy not subsisting. I enjoy not subsisting.
^^^^ This guy right here, just cracked the code. Agree 110%
I agree, but this is kind of self-defeating behavior by the CCP. Human nature being what it is, saying "We own you and you have no say in the matter" elicits a response of "Oh, yeah? We'll see about that".

If Taiwan is ever going to unite with China peacefully, it is going to come after China changes its stance.
I think that's a much broader question than whether one content distribution company has the right to ban a person from their own channel--which is actually what's happening here.

Passive voice makes the situation seem more universal and nefarious than it actually is.

"Do you think that such people should be banned from sleeping in houses"? No, but I think I should be allowed to decide who sleeps in my house.
I don’t think excel can do joins which is a big part of the “R” in RDBMS but I don’t use excel often so I could be wrong.
Because it's hard to drive change if there isn't a "need". Going into the office is the status quo, and there wasn't any real pressing drive to change/innovate there.

Now that companies have been forced to go remote, I think they're seeing some benefits from it, and there's a lot less inertia to fight against.
I think you've got a witty metaphor here, but after mulling it over:

Doesn't CI rely on robust testing to ensure buggy software doesn't make it into production? I'm not sure the fire-and-forget of the 24/7 news cycle lends itself to a comparison to continuous deployment, as there is a strong bias to 'deliver now' given competition to break the news first, and it's hard to build in 'automated testing' (vetting?) of content.
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YouTube is perceived as a family-friendly, PG to PG-13 brand. It would be a very different, and much more niche, environment if it were a free-for-all of pornography, obscene language and graphic violence.
This is an interesting problem. I typically don't post pictures of other people; though I don't generally ask I don't do it if I think the person might not be happy with it.

But the way GDPR is written someone could come back years later, having changed their mind, and have a picture taken down. Perhaps a couple broke up and one party wants all photos with them together removed. I suppose that's OK, but implies a kind of curation (and an obligation) that isn't always easy.

The second is random passers-by who appear unintentionally (by all parties) the background of photos. On one hand, what expectation of tangental privacy should you have when you're out in the option and people can see you with their eyes? On the other hand, permitting this seems like it would open a mass surveillance loophole.

I can imagine a relatively easy fix for the latter, which is an automatic blur filter for those who aren't the "subject" of a photo, similar to what street view uses.
must have been some pretty big integrals, these examples in exact form seem to be close to instant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoDkeg166xU

maybe not the TI-89 which ran 68K processor.
Hm. I've been an independent consultant for too long I guess. Back in the day, we signed a dozen forms to get hired including one indicating pay and duties.
IMHO, this is an incredibly authoritarian point of view.

Is it authoritarian if misinformation are being spread?
The government shouldn't be in the business of providing free car storage for residents, anyway. Free street parking is the problem here, not the completely inevitable demand for that underpriced service.
It might, though the viral replication factories aren't necessarily the ones that are used for cells to replicate. If they do work, well, you'd have all those side effects of stopping cell replication that the parent mentioned - all those horrible side effects of chemo. Maybe it would be worth it, but it would have to be pretty darn effective to be worth those side effects.
What have you found already?

As AGI isn't something that is widely agreed upon to be currently extant you'll want to search for Computer Science and more specifically Cognitive Science instead.

Read a bunch of papers. Find some authors that think like you. Reach out to them.
There are many actors that want to convince you something bad, is good. Historically, cigarettes, sugar, even cocaine were advertised as healthy, or as better substitutes to things. Hell, even grain is still pushed by industry and government, when low-carb has a lot of evidence backing it.

Guess what happened when we decided "telling people sugar is great for kids" was bad? The government now regulates the information people are provided regarding nutritional content in food.

Speech isn't so easy, which is why the analogy still doesn't work.
Incorrect. They both have their strengths and weaknesses:

https://medium.com/@leventov/comparison-of-the-open-source-o...
Axios doesn't have a paywall, so I'm going with meta comment
Buffalo wants to find out whether a mobility revolution will work
I'd have to disagree with that. The press shouldn't need permission to engage in photographic journalism. The restrictions we place on them should be very narrow and specific.
This is one of the things that's always bothered me.

Let's say you hire me for your company in San Francisco and pay me $150K. You've made a calculation: my value to the company is greater than $150K, and $150K is a price you're willing to pay to leverage that value. In other words, the company will (eventually) make more than $150K per year off my contributions to the company.

But now if I decide to move to Tulsa, OK, you want to cut my pay and reduce it to 90K, because of "cost of living".

Why? My value to the company hasn't changed! I am still worth the same amount as I was before! The only thing that changed is where I choose to reside. What difference is that to the company?

As remote working becomes more and more acceptable, we're going to start to see companies like Twitter and Facebook competing nationwide, not just in Silicon Valley. An engineer in Oklahoma will now be in a market that includes all of the big giants, and not just the local banks or whatever. Likewise, Twitter and Facebook will be competing against each other in the lower COL areas like Oklahoma! And not just SF startups, but competing against NYC and London startups as well.

This whole area is really fascinating to me, but the "you get paid differently depending on where you live" thing has always struck me as bizarre and one-sided in favor of the businesses and not the people in high demand, like good software engineers.
Frankly those people are just dumb, and there's nothing we can do to truly protect society from them. So, you might as well allow such content to exist.