skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard for me to explain why I don’t like that distinction.

Once you can write code you can architect a system. There’s nothing stopping you. The information is out there.

Perhaps the real question is whether your company trusts you enough to make something from scratch. Or whether your solution is good enough to handle large amounts of customers, traffic, or usage.

People learn to do so with a combination of experience and just general learning (documentation, tutorials, references, talks, conferences, etc) over time.

I think a modern company would simply call both roles “software developer” and apply different levels of seniority (e.g. junior, senior, staff, or they could use numerical levels).
Google is being sued for tracking users even when browsing in incognito mode
Is it still accessible to you? If you can still play it you can screen record it. (Command-Shift-5 on Mac)
Sounds like a good reason to show your receipt... at the returns counter.
There is a damn good reason why good PR people often refuse to comment. People remember stupid responses, but forget that “Zoom declined to comment to this article” very quickly.
There's nothing to keep Grubhub from changing their site design. And someone else might get the same bright idea. So learning what a fake site looks like isn't going to be a long term solution.
I dont think it is amazing at all. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

Adhering to aesthetic cues signals conforming with society at large. If you are not in, you are clearly a threat. For example, if you dont follow simpler things, what bona fides can you provide that you will respect fundamental aspects of the society you are part of?

First impressions are a self-preservation mechanism.

Its not illogical. That being said this presents very interesting diamond-in-the-rough opportunities to visionaries
> Again I'm not trying to defend the police

You're doing a great job of it anyway trying to justify marching in brutes covered head to toe in armor all prepared for a gas attack and then mysteriously "reacting" to an _umbrella_ a minute later by bombing a crowd of people standing around chanting.

You're doing some heavy concern trolling here. I see you.

> The kid effectively corners him into a wall

If I push between you and the wall, you have not cornered me into the wall. The person who pushes in is responsible for being there.

> Whether it was actually a threat I have no idea

Kid has a phone in one hand and sunglasses in the other. If you have no idea then you're intentionally not paying attention.

> Other than taking the kid down there is no visible brutality

Other than the visible brutality, there is no visible brutality. Well, by _that_ definition...
But if they worked for Star Theory they would likely benefit a lot more than if they worked for Take Two directly (I believe the article touches on that).
>the kinds of things that qualify as weird have definitely shifted

Weird to think about what is considered 'weird' now, actually.

For instance, more people have distanced from me after I politely tell them that "I don't do drugs" than any other thing I can think of. I honesty don't get it, but yeah, the standards by which people are judged have varied greatly with time.
China: What We Must Do, What We Must Not Do
@dang why was the parent comment flagged? I read it before it was flagged, and it didn't seem inflammatory in any way. Can you please comment?
The Future of AI Is Open
For most people and most uses, a cell phone camera is all you ever need. But its more akin to having an iPad vs a MacbookPro. For most, all they ever need is in the iPad but for professionals and techies, its limitations come into play quickly.

Small screens and social media make cell phone pics shine. But their images fall apart with closer inspection and they do not produce the quality needed for fine art or commercial work.

The old saying that the best camera is the one you have on you holds true. And yes, my iPhone Pro is amazing compared to shooting with a Fuji 100 and a Nikon FM2... but I never use it for final shots.
Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (2018)
I think the relevant question is, when arguing semantics with the US Executive Branch, is the statement more or less precisely accurate than the common use of language by the Executive Branch's leader and commander-in-chief?

By that standard, it's tear gas.
This. People are so desperate to attack Trump that they're willing to accept any result that paints him as doing something stupid. And if they can blame him for people dying, all the better. In the meantime, ignoring the science and falling for the politics means that people may well die since the science may not be able to happen now.
Can't you just accomplish the same thing with a trust? Admittedly it's a few hundred dollars instead of whatever the marriage license fee is, but, really?
From the article, it seems like the contract was ending, and there were talks of a 6mo extension when everything came apart.
E-Bikes Are Having Their Moment. They Deserve It
Is there a word to describe a behavior e.g. doing just enough to look like you are actively trying to solve a problem?

It probably goes together with greenwashing and astroturfing.
Lots of normal people pretending to be on the spectrum of Aspergers/autism may make that sound accepted but the people who really have it face the same hurdles they always have, except maybe in a less honest way, sometimes, which is probably worse. The same goes for mental illness, mental disability and physical disability. SSDD
Good point. It’s a minefield these days isn’t it.
> But if you’re an avid photographer (or a professional photographer), you spend so much more of your time than the average person in the 5%-to-10% area where cell phones fall down, that you become painfully aware of how far they have yet to go, regardless of how far they have come. This isn’t about snobbery (or more accurately, shouldn’t be) — it’s about use cases. For how I use cameras, my Pixel phone, as wonderful as the photography out of it is on a regular basis, still can’t give me everything I want and need, and it’s frustrating for me that it can’t.

The article goes into use cases and technical differences, not just a "one is better than the other".
I think this is the right call. Putting up a financial barrier so you have fewer trolls numerically is the right solution (also- the credit card used can help track down the identity of zoom bombers).
I don't think Python would be a problem. I've used it for lots of other similar configuration-esque tasks (which is what the Nix expression language is doing--producing a configuration payload that describes how to build a target) and it works well. If you really want to constrain it, there is Starlark (https://go.starlark.net) for exactly this purpose, but in practice I haven't really needed these constraints.
Designing for the Future: what my ancestors taught me
As long as pensions aren’t inflation adjusted and we have near-constant low level inflation, it’s just not a big deal. This article is about an approximately $1000/year benefit received by a single person. It’s an extreme outlier and its cost is many orders of magnitude from being even a rounding error.

To your question, though, designers of pension funds definitely do understand that pensions which survive the original recipient can start to look like perpetuities.
Great post.

Couldn’t agree more. Defending Sweden’s strategy displays “results oriented thinking”, a derogatory term used in poker to describe someone who claims they did the right thing just because they got lucky and won a single hand, completely disregarding the long term viability of the choices they made. It’s the kind of player you’d love to have at your table as they’ll eventually lose everything.
Anyone here shipping a Smalltalk built application these days? I had fun playing with Pharo and Squeak, but in terms of shipping desktop apps to clients I don't know how it could be done with Smalltalk. Maybe Cincom is the only game in town, not sure. Anyone has a story to tell?
Some media conglomerates, like CNN, were clearly using this study as a political attack. Not uncommon these days to cherry pick your favourite paper.

On top of that, there is no patent money to be made by big pharmaceuticals on this drug. It makes me wonder where the funding really came from in this Lancet study.
Doc may have been a weirdo, but he was also the most popular and liked person in the entire town. The plot revolves around people trying to throw parties for him because they think he's so great.

Today, no matter your weirdness, it's likely been productized and advertised to the masses in some way.
Optimise your queries as well, complex queries with multiple many-to-many joins will add up quick to tons of rows to filter. Look at separating queries; to keep the overall in a single query, the db may have to churn through tens of thousands of rows. Where if you do a first select than a second based on the result of the first, you can bring it down to just hundreds or tens - with a quicker response than just one query.
I _am_ a computational physicist. The main problem I'm interested in is of a slightly different nature: just compute properties of protons, neutrons, and light nuclei from QCD, the theory of quarks and gluons. However, because the "operating system" of quantum mechanics is the same, many of the computational difficulties are shared.

I described the method we use and some of the computational difficulties in some previous threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15780514

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048170

But, if you're comfortable with an argument from authority, suffice it to say that much of the computational power in the largest supercomputing centers all across the world are dedicated to quantum many-body problems.

If you want equilibrium properties at temperature T [non equilibrium properties, like real-time dynamics have additional exponentially-bad computational intractabilities, known as the sign problem], you want to evaluate a partition function

Z = tr[ exp( - H / T ) ]

where H is the Hamiltonian that, given an eigenstate, has an the state's energy as the eigenvalue. The space H acts on grows exponentially with the number of particles in your simulation [simulations to determine crystal structures are typically in the canonical ensemble; if that doesn't mean anything to you, that's OK, but it's something you can read further on; basically it means: you try to take the number of particles to be large, rather than, for example, fix a density].

We have importance-sampling Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques for evaluating Z. For some problems it succeeds with flying colors, although demonstrating that you're in the thermodynamic [infinite number of particles and infinite volume] limit requires calculating at a variety of volumes and particle numbers, for extrapolation. If you just do random updates to your state vector, most updates will be rejected; use HMC to update the whole state at once [HMC = Hybrid Monte Carlo, or Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, if you're not a computational physicist, strangely].

This approach is not naively parallelizable, and the machines where HMC is performed requires extremely high-performance interconnects, think 10-100 times faster than what's available in a standard datacenter.

The method is inherently statistical: give me more computing time and I can shrink the error bars. But if the problem has certain technical difficulties (or is in real-time, for example, rather than equilibrium), you encounter the sign problem, where the partition function you want to evaluate now becomes

Z = tr[ exp( i H / T ) ]

and you need an exponentially large sample to resolve the intricate cancellations that arise from summing just a bunch of phases.
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Use youtube-dl: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html . It's both free and the source is public domain: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
"I know I'm not going to trust the Lancet or the NEJM ever again. It's all political now."

This is an absurd reaction and I suspect you know it. There isn't a single scientific journal in the world not subject to some bias, trend, or failure of one form or another. To dismiss an entire platform because of an imperfect record amounts to an abdication of your own responsibility to form your own opinions about scientific matters. This is a responsibility for which journal reviewers can only ever take partial responsibility for both practical and intrinsic reasons.

Peer review is not a rubber stamp which blesses anything which passes through it as "TRUTH." It is a minimal standard and subject, at any rate, to all the uncertainties and biases implicit in any human endeavor. It is entirely possible this paper represents a political bias. Almost everything does. It still falls to us to make reasonable judgments about science. What doesn't make sense is to reject the entire process because it fails to meet some unreachable expectation of perfection.
I said we have well structured channels to address any kinds of issues. I never said they were being used to address racism internally but they could be used for it though, but like I said, we don't have this issue. You have misunderstood my comment to support your own worldview into mine.
For sure, but the former is off the table. So they’ve got to decide which is more valuable to them: finishing KSP2, or the extra comp they could get somewhere else.
They would, but the consultancy company would want you to buy them out (it has happened with some of my colleagues), and that's not going to be cheap.

There's also been at least one instance where people left the company and were rehired by their client during the do-not-compete timeout of a year; in practice, a do-not-compete clause cannot be enforced in a court, and given that the client is several orders of magnitude larger in terms of finances than the consultancy company, a legal battle wouldn't pan out the way they want it to.

So the guy took the job and the risk, and he still works there. Probably earns a lot more as well.
Anti-poaching clauses are basically unenforceable. At most you can add a clause that they may not approach your employees. If the employee is willing to tell a white lie on who approach/hinted at whom that's easily circumvented.

Cleanest version I've seen thus far is a financial penalty built in that is probably not enforceable but is carefully calibrated so that it's "fk it just pay it instead of making a legal fuss about it & ruining a good commercial relationship on top of it". Leaves everyone somewhat unhappy but nobody left empty-handed. Both sides saw it as cost of doing business in a way.
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites
You're slipping into the "4D chess" trap a bit. The "not tear gas" is merely banal grasping at straws to find any way they can to defend their behavior. Thoughtful observers will see that the defense incriminates more than it exonerates
I'm livid with companies that aren't talking about this with their employees and giving them space and flexibility on deadlines, meetings, telling them to not worry about taking vacation if they need to, etc.

I've talked to so many friends that are stressed out and barely able to work or function right now and they have massive anxiety and stress from world events that are only being compounded by managers and C's not leading by example and telling them to take time for themselves and stopping the unnecessary meetings or TELLING them that they understand their productivity might be gone.

And these are fairly privileged people with the ability to work from home and a stable income.

My wife is a black engineer and she's hanging on the last 2 days still taking client meetings and putting on her "work is still important" face but she's miserable before and after dealing with them. She's also, like a lot of us who haven't been hearing direct empathy from leadership, afraid to take PTO/Vacation right now BECAUSE of the economy and fear of losing her job.

On the flip side I have seen a lot of companies that are giving people Fridays off, 3-4 day weekends to decompress, etc.

I think after this I'll be moving to only working for companies that I find to be very active in social movements.
You don’t get to arbitrate what has and has not happened to me. What sort of oddball remark was this?

Funny story about that banquet though. A guy at my table paid a few hundred dollars in a silent auction thinking that he was bidding on a gun. He was actually bidding on a lottery ticket for a gun. His wife was unhappy with his mistake. He did win a duck call alongside the lottery ticket IIRC. This was in NW Arkansas and was a part of a crawfish boil. Definitely not the Bay Area.
Thank you so much. I use the built in point cloud primitive which I think is a list of billboards geometry and all you can change is the size of each point.
If you don't fit in in school, you still have to go. Adults get to decide for themselves and can find their niche even before the internet.
The lengths to which the American media will go to score points against President Trump should worry any reasonable person. Sadly the filter bubbles of the Internet bury so many of the retractions and fact checks that favour Trump, so many of the aforementioned reasonable folks almost never see the whole story.

The most egregious lie peddled by the media is the "Very Fine People" statement, which, is claimed to be a reference to white supremacists, when in fact in he clarifies in the very speech, "and I am not talking about the white supremacists, they should be condemned totally". Armed with those facts, the reader/viewer is free to draw their own conclusions with regard to the President's inner thoughts and hidden meanings, but the whole, unfiltered picture is almost never presented. An omission like this is what potentially amplifies racial tensions across the country.

We are now seeing this type of narrative again with the Hydroxychloroquine charade. A number of scientists and academics in Brazil penned a great open letter on this topic (the media and HCQ) a few weeks ago, which I thought was a great read:

https://conexaopolitica.com.br/ultimas/brazilian-scientists-...
The best quote is at the end:

“Here we are in the middle of a pandemic with hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the two most prestigious medical journals have failed us.”

There should be prison time if an investigation determines that this was done to increase certain drug sales.
I heard Squad screwed over the developers of KSP as well, their wages were low compared to how successful the game was.
Yeah, sorry about being vague. Didn't want to expose anyone to potential dox anyone. In retrospect I should have dropped the source and added the reference.
Some people just want to make change happen in fields where there is no existing problem. Of course we face other issues that require change all the time but racism is not one of them in our company.
Why would they? Encrypted LE comms is a horrible idea in the first place. How is the public supposed to monitor what their paid servants are doing, and provide any measure of oversight / demand accountability, if they can't listen to the calls???
Yeah (commenter) I thought it was reasonable - what could I have done better?
Non-solicit agreements often extend well beyond the terms of work, a year or two seem to be common.
The 16hours battle to installed pychess
"They will often not engage and retreat and get backup in numbers if under danger."

That's extremely common in the US as well
That link redirects me to https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-f..., which, what the hell?

It also seems to be conflating me using CloudFlare's DNS with me using DoH. Also, they're ironically removing my choice, because I chose CloudFlare's DNS yet I can't see the content because of that.
6kg of wheat is well within pannier/backpack/cargo bike range. 60kg wouldn't be.

If we ever get small "flow" batteries viable then the range problem can be solved cheaply, but even at the moment the 200 mile range is pretty good if you're prepared to stop slightly more often.
The text itself was DE. The lang attribute was set to EN. I don’t know what language defaults his browser has. I assume DE. I thought Chrome was smarter then relying on this one attribute for translation…
From an European perspective, this has not exactly been my experience working with an international team.

The US collective mentality is sometime overly optimistic specially in public. This is sometimes a positive since it removes almost any inhibition regarding challenges, but it can lead to things blowing-up spectacularly, and then having to put in place hacks and brute force to make it kind of work relatively inefficiently and inelegantly.

But it also leads to great successes (biggest economy in the world, lots of major companies, very attractive country for talents) and innovations never seen before.

This positivism is prevalent in public statement but in private cracks start to appear. It gives me the impression that this positivism is pretty much a cultural obligation, so while not authoritarian, the group mentality is geared toward not talking to much about possible difficulties out of fear of being seen as too negative by the group.
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Tbf, often contractor developers have tried to do the right thing (e.g. write tests) and been bitten ("I didn't pay for a test suite!"). Individual initiative in the contracting world usually goes unrewarded and is often punished, so you quickly learn to do what you are told, no more, no less. And you have gone the extra mile for deadbeat clients that have left you hanging with unpaid invoices, so why bother wasting potential billable hours?

Which is why I avoid contract work full stop, at either end of the table. It actively encourages mediocrity and decentivizes initiative and effort.
That's only true if all of the N contacts are infected. If I walk past 60 people on the street, there's a much lower chance than if I have lunch for an hour with someone who's infected. You don't instantly get sick just by getting close to someone who is, but every second you're near them is a roll of the dice on it transmitting.
>> I'm amazed that the contract Star Theory had with Take-Two didn't have a clause prohibiting Take-Two from poaching employees like this.

I'm amazed that people sign contracts accepting this kind of restrictions to their lives.

That's (fortunately) illegal in the EU country I live in, as it creates artificial barriers in the job "market", i.e. it is illegal to limit people's access to work. Still, cartel practices like not hiring from "friendly companies" abound.

>> If I hire a consultancy company to build something for me, would I normally be able to directly hire the employees who did the work?

I see contracts imposing restrictions like this all the time where I live, and people sadly just nod and accept, but these clauses never hold up in court as no company has a right to decide where people can or can't work.

Having worked as a consultant, I'm repulsed by the idea that I'd need my company's permission to leave and go work for a client. Especially because the provision stinks of "cheaper than actually investing in people retention". If the issue is intellectual property transfer, that's what an NDA is for.
The carriers had every plan to use Huawei, the cost savings would drive far better profit margins and faster rollout for the same capital investment.

However, with the extradition situation with Meng and the threats from the CCP, it is clear that it isn't possible to do business with the company. The risk of a future need to tear out and replace Huawei product due to geo-political/ cyber-warfare in the future outweighs the savings from dealing with Ericsson or Nokia.
That's a self contradictory statement.