skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all fairness, it is not as if anyone is going to put up a big protest in the current economic circumstances. Not even Facebook employees can find another job easily in the current environment.

With 40+ million or so unemployed, and no end in sight for COVID at the moment, Zuckerberg can get away with whatever he wants over the next few months. "Never let a good crisis go to waste", as the saying goes.

So FB employees will follow what I call MZM - Mark Zuckerberg Method. Pretend like you care for a while, wait for people's short attention spans to automatically move on to the next big scandal, and then make the scandal of the day as the "new normal".
> Smells like political rent seeking to me.

Pleonasm.

But fully agree with your point.
> Which field(s) of engineering do you talk about? What are the highest level(s) of promotion the persons who don't write well reach and continue to work in?

Electrical, computer, and SW.

I'm not saying communicating well is not needed. I'm saying writing well is not needed. What I've seen: A good presentation (including PPT skills) is much more valued than writing. Decisions are usually made because of them, not because someone wrote a good brief outlining positives/negatives. Emails longer than a few lines tend not to be read, so people don't focus on it. Documents are usually not read by many except those beneath them, etc. I almost never see a senior management write anything of substance unless it is required by Legal/HR - they'll always get an underling to write them (and no, writing them is not how underlings become senior management).

I'm not saying I like the state of affairs, but it is how I've seen it.
Carbs metabolize differently and faster then fat. So when you eat sugar, it gets converted into energy available fast and then stored when not used. When you eat fat or protein, you have less new instantly available energy, but you can use it longer.

That makes massive difference in bodyweight management.

Also satiety, ability to stay active and normal mood is super important for your ability to keep bodyweight and diet. One problem with focus on calories is that it ignores other human needs and other nutrients body needs and make it impossible to keep up long term.
This is where I land too. My IDE is dark. So are my terminals and slack. Everything else is black on white background. I tried using dark mode in the reading mode on my browsers, but it never felt natural, especially for long form reading.
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Yep, these were the UAs we also saw (amongst others). And also in our case those bots were executing the JS, even hitting our Google Analytics.
For some reason GA reported this traffic to come from Peru and Philippines, while an IP lookup showed it belonged to FB registered in the US or Ireland
The school uses terms (5 per year) rather than semesters, so each course is 8 weeks (plus 4 days for finals) rather than the usual 15 weeks plus finals week.
The Mathematics of Nonviolent Communication
Ah, well if that’s the case then I apologise. My bad!
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>>Section 1: The policy of the United States is to be carried out "by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment..."

Section 7: "Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or bargain collectively through representation of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining..."

Section 8(a): "It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer . . . to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7..."

From https://www.ueunion.org/org_rights.html

Looks like that would be illegal to my non-lawyer interpretation.

Worse happens every day, this would be extremely evident though.
I have an option to email them, live chat, or have our account manager contact us. I guess if you spend enough on ads per month you are entitled to more support...?
Short clip of inside SpaceX fairing, showing separation
I've gotten lots of emails from bosses and bosses' bosses like "i semt the file,pls confirm." Few seem to care about writing well in the workplace. With psychological things like how talking like someone makes them like you more, I wouldn't be surprised if "proper" writing was a hinderance to career advancement in such a scenario.
Thanks, cool question. The insane performance gains we have when visualising are mostly because of conceptual decisions we made. One such thing is that we don't try to plot more datapoints than there are pixels on the users screen. But when a user does calculations on data (e.g. a low pass filter), we really have to do all the math. So in that case we are mostly using numpy (python) operations, which are optimised in C already. But I don't know if this includes vectorisation
The facet options with the simple “split” arguments look quite nice.
Ugh right you are. I misread the whois output and didn't stop to consider how realistic a /12 was. This is embarrassing.
What a weirdly contentious article. This does not need to be a debate with a final answer that everyone shares. It’s personal preference.
> Satiety vs calories is everything. If you give people “all you can eat” bland boiled potatoes with no butter or salt and nothing else, they will not overeat. They will lose weight.

Yes, but they will also get sick from malnutrition. They will also become passive, unable to fulfill their job and family responsibilities. They will also have hard time regulate their mood.

There is unstated requirement in loosing weight game that should be more prominent I guess: "while not making that person much more sick and dysfunctional"
Which ones are broken?
> mathematics for music theory

Oh boy now that's a fun one

There's a great book called "The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music"[0] that has many insights into that! Some philosophical, some really mathy.

[0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-...
> It sounds cliche, but “scratch your own itch”

Couldn’t agree more. What better way to learn development than actually experiencing the direct results of your actions. Not only do you practice app development, your UX design skills will
Improve dramatically.

About 10 years ago, while at school, I achieved the second highest non-degree qualification in piano, an LRSM diploma. But, gone are the days of being able to or even wanting to spend 4 hours a day practicing. I needed to get more efficient. The problem is that I’m objectively terrible at practice - I learn the first page, then enjoy playing it so much I never get on to the second.

I made an app that helps me with this. I upload an svg score (lilypond, I use Mutopia scores then correct any discrepancies with whatever urtext I have), then use the app to break it into a tree of segments. The app then shows me, for 5 minutes at a time, the first 5 segments I haven’t marked as completed. Right now, it does nothing more, but it’s fantastic.

It’s also objectively terrible proof of concept code, but crucially I’ve learned more about the UX requirements with the POC than I would ever have learned by planning ahead.
I'm not the person you responded to, but that comment was just reacting considering how jacquesms comment ended.

He (jacquesm) is always judgemental to a silly degree, despite not actually knowing even close to enough to form a useful opinion. That does get tiresome considering how often he comments and can end in snippish comments like the one before.
I personally find the Python plotting landscape a mess and confusing. It always seems to be a lot harder than is necessary to do anything and make it look good.
There aren't overwhelming riches to be had on either platform (unless you're Apple or Google of course).

The point I'm trying to make here is that people will use that figure (often without much thought) to justify giving Android users a sub-par experience - which only serves to reinforce it. I've worked for several companies that have given parity to iOS and Android, and one that did not. For the former we did not observe a disparity that large. YMMV by region and industry of course.
> even if they just think it looks better

This is the reason why I use dark mode now. Eye strain and saving battery I don't think about. Easier to read? Sure, because it's my preference. I even use lights behind my monitors to counteract the "flash" you get when you switch from a dark IDE to a white web browser. I don't like complete _darkness_, I just like the look.
Lonar lake turns pink overnight, experts blame salinity and presence of algae
YouTube is mainly a 3-way market; the content producer, the content consumer and the ad seller. All of which benefit from network effects. In addition to that, a high 7 day active user count is a very attractive goal in itself as you can upsell them almost anything adjacent. Eg. Premium subscription, music service, movies, tv channels...
> the whole point of efforts to get people to recognize racism as an institutional problem rather than a mere personal one is so that the institutional problems which maintain it can be attacked

No, the whole point of efforts to get people to recognize racism as an institutional problem rather than a mere personal one has been to co-opt the much greater power of institutions as compared to individuals in the effort to browbeat people into thinking nice thoughts. Yes, institutions will sometimes reluctantly settle for people just exhibiting nice behavior if that's the best that can be done at a particular time, but since even people who have never in their life shown a sign of racism in their behavior are still forced to undergo continual training in "diversity" and "awareness", clearly behavior alone is not what is being targeted.
Is this a system that runs on a laptop or is it on cloud?
The backlash to Silicon Valley returns with a vengeance
I wouldn't agree with that. People may have made their choice based on incorrect research or incorrect assumptions: there is value in discussing the latest research.

It's like saying discussions about whether cigarettes are good or bad for you are pointless, the important thing is that people are able to buy them if they want.
You know this in dynamic languages too, based on imports.

So if you have the build graph represented for your dynamic language, you get the same result.

This is just a poor (poor, poor) buggy implementation of Bazel.
Unionize!
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It sucks to live like that, from your perspective.

From their perspective, trying to make sense of everything everyday would likely seem awful.

People are different - some people loved school and got good grades, others couldn't sit still and would love nothing more than to get out and run around and cause havoc.

Finding a set of rules that works well for most people is the tricky bit - so far we've been finding the lowest common denominator. Another strategy would be to separate people based on their inclinations and give them what would make them excel. We have yet to try that, in that setup, some would be drinking alcohol, some would be using psychedelics and another set would be stone sober, and all of them would be perfectly happy and accepting that other sets have different wants and needs.
It was used as an example, not a recommendation. The point is that food these days is more pleasurable than ever and people eat for pleasure. It’s perfectly possible to have a healthy but bland diet. Nobody wants to do that though.
No idea. I don't recall anyone from my classes who has specifically mentioned being from India. I did a quick search on the internal social network, and there's quite a few students who mention being from various parts though. So, "some" is the best answer I can offer.
It echoes a Confucius quote I like: “Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.” (Analects 2:15)
> Gitlab looks more and more like SAP these days. That's not necessarily a bad thing

Unless you are talking about revenue or profit, then I don't think could you could give a worse insult

> they need tech that covers the most ground with the easiest budget allocation

I think this is the sales pitch of every software product. SAP does not come cheap, in terms of both software and the total cost of moving to SAP. Two classic examples of Lidl pouring 500 Euros into SAP and then walking away and Nike pouring $400 million into a SAP project that was such a disaster they lost $100 million in sales.
Do you mean that your system theme (e.g. the UI of system apps like Finder) doesn’t switch between light and dark based on the time of day? I haven’t encountered that problem, I’ve only seen third-party apps not keep their theme in sync with the system theme.
> Writing and communication skills are absolutely necessary for career growth. The power of persuasion is directly linked to the ability to communicate your ideas well.

I've updated my original comment to reflect that I was referring to writing and not general communications in general (although I wrote it more broadly).

I've seen people really value presentation skills and PPT. Persuasion on 1:1 and via presentations is definitely valued.

But via writing? No. They're atrocious when writing emails. And they rarely write docs/briefs. If they do the latter, it's really meant to be a teaser to get someone interested, and then that person will go talk 1:1 to get the details or ask for a presentation.

My experience at work: Writing anything longer than 1-2 pages is a good way to ensure no one will read it. And again, if I have a good enough "lead", what will happen is the senior person will read the lead, stop reading, and schedule something to talk to me in person so he can understand in detail. At some level, I understand why he would do that - it can be an interactive conversation where he can interrupt, ask for clarification, etc. Whereas if he read the thing, he would have to write up a response, or even worse, make notes to ask me the next time he sees me.

I almost never get anything as well written as a typical HN comment. Even (internal) documentation/manuals/Wikis are poorly written.
From my personal experience dark mode helps my eyes significantly. Without dark mode I get dry eye symptoms within a few hours regardless of the screen, but I can watch a dark screen basically forever without any issues. I also use a slight red shift, the dark reader browser extension, dark terminal, dark vim theme, dark wallpaper and android 10 in dark mode on OLED.
I wonder how they're computing total effective monetary value, especially when it comes to 401k contribution. For instance, it has MSFT as 50% up to 19500 (it should actually be 100% up to 20000, but I digress), but a total effective benefit of just over 10k. I'd put the 401k contribution multiplier at >=1, but they clearly have it much less than that.

Really what would make more sense is allowing customization of how much you value particular benefits (i.e. free dinner means nothing to me, if not negative, because it also means you're "expected" to stick around for it)
In FX world any currency pair with yaun is not considered Major. It is not even deliverable out side of china. So not sure what is the meaning of stable here.
Best guess they use an integral images to do the zooming
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Exactly this. If I have pager duty and wake up in the night and need to read an e-mail (LCD screen), light mode blinds me so much I cannot even keep my eyes open. With dark mode I can read fine.

This is what I like about iOS (and probably every OS has it): after sundown, turn on dark mode.
No. I was emphasising on the "high end ARM chip" part. Nuvia has plans to create the highest end ARM chips for data centers and such. Hopefully that trickles down to laptop size chips too one day. But "high end chips" and laptops don't go hand in hand anyway. The "regular ARM Chips" are already powerful enough to power laptop usage.
I'm taking this Uni in my free time. I am a full-time at a large IT company, and when I started, I had too much free time. I thought, I don't have a degree, I learned everything myself, let's see what the rigorous side of CS is.

Well, UoPeople is both good and bad, as everything in life.

On the bad side, some teachers are not only useless, but actively making your experience worse. This is mostly cultural, but teachers coming from Africa and some Asian countries really make you want to stick to the tiniest details of rules and assignments.

For example, if you have to write a learning journal (and you will), and the example of an LJ contains entries starting with date such as "DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM", African and some Asian teachers will ask you to correct it from any other format. I found this infuriating. What's more, when I had questions, most often, I got no help from these teachers. Some teachers would be amazing, most teachers would give me a non-helpful question, some would ignore my question outright.

I also feel like there's a ton of hoops you have to jump through. An associate CS degree consists of a number of health/philosophy/econ classes that I have zero interest in. This is, again, cultural, as UoP is highly US-centric. If you're coming from other country, you'll realize how many assumptions you had (and how silly the UoP/US system can be).

On the good side, however, I do feel like I'm learning a lot. If you really spend time in reading the materials, I have found the exercises in courses quite useful. I'm 100% sure it's not as rigorous as a brick-and-mortar university, no. They will let pass students who have learnt nothing as long as they put in work.

But, if you want, you can surprisingly learn a lot. Even after being a number of years in IT (engineering and now architecture), I found something new (especially their Database and other specialized courses are quite good). I haven't done math since high school (my brick-and-mortar degree was not in CS) and some of the math courses were really kicking my ass, which is great.

It's also insanely flexible in that it's online. You decide when to do stuff. You decide when to read. There's only deadlines for every week. Other than that, it's up to you.

Overall, I think my experience with UoP is quite good, but it takes a very specific mindset. If you're from a poor non-US and non-EU country, I'd say UoP is great for you (provided you can pay for it, since it's still not free). If you're from US or any EU country, UoP degree will have almost zero value in terms of having a degree, but might provide you with a lot of new knowledge. If you're in for the knowledge, I'd say it's nice. If you're in for the degree, I'd say go for Georgia's Tech OMSCS.

Feel free to ask any questions if you'd like. I'll be checking replies to this post for a day or two.
The CCP has done a fantastic job manipulating their currency to benefit China in the past few decades. Whether that will continue to benefit them over the longer term remains to be seen.
> there were the Obama-era federal investigations

The institutional problems in question are mostly local. For example, the fact that a Minneapolis city cop killed a citizen without just cause is a problem for the local government in Minneapolis. Citizens there should be demanding to know how their local government allowed the police force to reach the level of corruption that allowed such an act to take place in the presence of other cops without any of them intervening. In the absence of good answers (and I find it hard to imagine how there could be good answers), those citizens should be voting out the government that allowed this to happen. In any case, a federal investigation is the wrong tool for that job.
As of writing this comment all but one comment here is either a question answered by the article, or a statement superseded by the article with better information. Good job, guys.

> What does that really mean? Is it stable for those who hold it in China where the amount you can legally transfer overseas is limited and that limit has been both going down and much more effectively enforced in recent years?

Literally the entire point of the article is talking about this.

> Well, sure, when you manipulate the forex market, you can act to alter the value of your own currency.

That's not the only method described, though it's powerful. Article describes the rest - which are very interesting.

> The Bank of China pegs the yuan to the US Dollar afaik...

Better information in the article.

> The Yuan is pegged to the US Dollar

Better information in the article.
With a more stable currency, this means more investor confidence, and more confidence for other countries to trade using that currency. There are a lot to be said on this topic, but overall, countries use another's currency to facilitate trade look at 2 main factors: how big your economy is (to cushion the global trade) and how stable your currency is. This was why the pound was THE major global currency about 100 years ago, until it lost its empire, which massively reduced the size of its economy, and hence the mantle was passed onto the US dollar. In recent years, the US dollar seem to be starting to lose its shine given the country is losing its stability and some US politician's allure to the MMT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

As for the amount limit that's transferrable, this is only there to individuals to prevent capital flight (limited to $50,000 per annum), it's not limited to companies.

I remember the last time I tried to buy a flight ticket with Qatar Airways, one of the currencies they accepted was the yuan (kinda upset they didn't accept the sterling). This probably will challenge the US Dollar's role as the dominant currency, which is actually terrible for the US in its long term debt structuring.
I picked up some other link from the site by mistake.

This is the actual link: https://www.firstpost.com/india/green-waters-of-maharashtras...

The lake in the cotext is 50000 years old and was created due to an asteroid collision.
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See 'arguing with zombies'.

These ideas have been allowed to dominate political conversation because they are politically effective.

Note that the Republicans, who are politically the anti deficit party, only seem to care when arguing to end programs they don't like.