skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distractig, useless virtue signaling and political correctness taken to the max. It's a gesture that does nothing to unite. It only encourages viewing everything in racial terms. Even this diatribe https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/ finds nothing to tie the terms to race. What will be next in the language scrubbing? These types of changes will only increase accusations of racism in innocuous situations and will lead to career ending events and resentment. Very harmful to race relations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461326
Reality is constructed by your brain
That's one of its main uses. One thing it does not do (or I don't know how) and graphviz does, though, is arranging nodes intelligently so as to minimize clutter and edge distances. That's one of the nice things in graphviz.
Is it actually possible to de-orbit without over-heating?

If you come in at some super shallow angle you'd think you could do it, but at some point one ends up going from an orbit to a trajectory, at which point unless your air resistance can throttle your air speed below some value, you'll always over-heat?
You can always keep VSCode and make a symlink on the extension directory (~/.vscode and ~/.vscode-oss for vscodium) so you can access the MS ones.
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What better options? Can you drop some links? Thanks :)
Talking to people working in retail I keep hearing the same thing:

People are bored. Often see the same people coming in several times a week, buying random stuff and browsing the shelves. Standing in line outside stores for 30 minutes just to buy a few knickknacks.
There are also hot springs all over Hungary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9chenyi_thermal_bath, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9v%C3%ADz) and the western part of Romania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%83ile_Herculane, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%83ile_Felix), hundreds of kilometers (or miles if you prefer) away from any other form of volcanic activity...
Yeah that argument, that chaos = free will is usually made by people, who never studied any philosophy or read much about determinism (which one exactly?). I read that aaall the time and it's also annoying to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459963
It can only be attributable to human error.

No IBM computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. They are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
I suspect Apple would have struggled to attract the amount of developers they did, by moving to a non-unix systems; which in turn might have hampered their efforts on mobile.
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The frequent problem with these types of reports is that they only focus on one part of the geography (USA).

That said, I recall reading a report that mostly middle class administrative and coordination roles are eliminated due to digitalization and dedicated software. Leading to negative wage pressure on the middle class.

These are repetitive human jobs like looking at a bunch of papers and creating a report.

Manual work is getting more productive and often shifted abroad but on a global scale is actually expanding in line with global gdp growth.
https://reports.weforum.org/future-of-jobs-2016/employment-t...

Interesting in this report is that geopolitical instability is more destructive to jobs than artificial intelligence for now.
Right, it's pretty clear elsewhere that it's per core. But the section you quoted doesn't clarify anything, it's actually contradictory and bizarre that it's present.
That's a good point, though there's currently more that 600 courses there for "sales". So we immediately get into the territory of not knowing what you don't know, or not seeing the forest through the trees - depending on what you like.

I'm trying to answer the question on what needs to be learned first. I honestly don't know.
This has been my strategy too and so far has been working well
I'm not sure quite how you got "tertiary", but, I mean, to some degree I agree with you. The qualities I pointed out are certainly not sufficient qualities for something to be engineering, and if I had to say which was more important, the design-and-craft or the responsibility, I'd say it was the design-and-craft.

But many things fit that Merriam's definition, and are not engineering. Since you were so honest as to note that dictionaries aren't perfect, I don't want to be a jerk about how useless that definition is, but since you went on to say that software seems to fit, let's just look at some examples of just how excessively inclusive that definition is.

(I'll assume that 2a means "matter and/or energy", because if it means "matter and also energy" then clearly software doesn't qualify anyway.)

Knitting fits those definitions perfectly. Science, yes, mathematics, yes, properties of matter, yes, useful to people, yes, design and manufacture of complex products, yes. Are you claiming that knitting is engineering?

Filmmaking manipulates matter and energy, creates a thing that is useful to people, and involves complex design and complex manufacture.

Music composition depends on math and science, manipulates sources of energy in nature, is useful to people, and involves the design of products (although composition doesn't involve the manufacture of those products; we call that manufacture "performance").

Accounting doesn't worry about "properties of matter and energy" (much as software doesn't, as you point out), but it involves the application of mathematics to create things useful to people, and there's often the design and manufacture of complex (informational) products. (Note that I'm not saying that clerical work fits the definition, I'm saying that the design of accounting processes fits the definition. Obviously many "accountants" are not designing processes but are simply doing bookkeeping, in the same way that a rivetter is not an engineer.)

Compared to any of these, software creation involves no science, typically little mathematics (although there are certainly very deep exceptions to that, haha), and doesn't involve any manufacture. If you're gonna put software creation in the club, you're basically saying that "engineering is creation stuff (including non-physical stuff"). No one agrees with that concept.

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That has all been arguably a bit of an over-reaction to the details of your argument, so I want to just return here to my core point. Yes, certification and sign-off and ethics and liability and law and culture is arguably a less-essential characteristic of engineering than something to do with making stuff. But in this day and age, the certification and ethics and sign-off and so on is a necessary part of what makes it engineering. And it's one of the main reasons that software engineering as practices isn't real engineering. Yet.
The Internet’s most important–and misunderstood–law, explained
C# really hits a weird sweet spot that people on the outside don't really recognize due to C#'s heritage as a Java clone , previous windows dependencies and anti-MS bias of the early 00s.

While i still really can't stand C#'s VB based naming conventions and property happyness the language is extremely practical in many situations.

Writing LINQ you still think mostly in SQL but don't have to worry about string escaping, while on the other side of the spectrum you have structs,spans,stack allocs and in/out/ref vars that gives the code written in the language a chance to keep up with C/C++ on modern CPU's where cache-friendlyness is paramount.

Java on the other hand has opted to avoid much of this and thus has to depend on GC's magically becomming while when working with C# developers can dig down and optimize things on their own instead.
Apple ARM-Based Macs May Arrive Soon. Developers Need to Prepare
That's also why it's usually a multi-year project to introduce SAP systems at an existing company. The hard part is not installing the software (though I'm not saying it's always easy either). The hard part is getting all layers of the company to change away from their pre-existing, sometimes nonsensical processes.

(Disclosure: I work at SAP, though not on customer-facing software.)
Pen & paper.

It helps me getting away from the drive to 'just give it a shot' and forces me to work so much more structured.

I still love to doodle with a pen and different color markers and it allows me to have it permanently in view on my desk with the option to add boxes and arrows as required.
Thanks. Any books, blogs, Twitter accounts you'd recommend?
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Dah, like if this is the first pandamic humanity faces, these americans and their fallout really. too much what ifs and yadayada.
Hmm.

I agree in part, but I am not sure if we can compare COVID-19 against the horrors of two world wars where tens of millions died (15-22,000,000 deaths in WW1 and 70-85,000,000 deaths in WW2 according to wikipedia) and entire cities were literally flattened and millions more left homeless and jobless?

The strange thing about COVID-19 is that it is largely invisible (unless you happen to work in a hospital or morgue or something). Apart from people wearing masks and Starbucks only doing takeaway and those unlucky enough to have lost a loved one/friend/colleague (my condolences if so) it is hard for people to actually "see" the impact. For me, the largest impact is I have to plan my grocery deliveries a bit more carefully (since I can't do a top-up shop easily) and I work from home more than I usually did - nothing else has changed in my life really.

Will Starbucks re-open their doors and be selling double-tall skinny frap extra-cold within a few days of getting the say-so? You bet - and who can blame them? Nothing will have changed for them - people will still buy the coffee just like they are buying them right now during the pandemic.

Did Hiroshima/Dresden/Hamburg/Berlin/Tokyo/Stalingrad/others re-open after VE/VJ day? No - because they were absolutely physically obliterated with the population killed, maimed or displaced (...and even if they weren't, physiologically it must have been absolutely crippling to be a survivor).

Were I alive in WW2, would my life only be mildly inconvenienced like it is today with COVID-19? No way - if I had even survived at all, I'd be happy to have a home to live in (and no doubt without reliable electricity, gas or sewage), even luckier to have a job to work at, and even luckier still to have shops to visit with stock to allow me to even purchase any food. And I'd no doubt have known friends family and colleagues who died in unspeakably horrible ways. Whatever happened I'd be psychologically scarred for life.

It just doesn't feel like COVID-19 is in the same league... And this is before we even mention genocide from WW2.

That said though I am all for fiscal stimulus only going to green companies though! No government hand-outs to the cruiseline, airline, oil, or shipping industries please! :)

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Aside: ... I note that COVID-19 is now "worse" than the WW2 Blitz in London in that it has killed more people (1). I sincerely hope now that the rose-tinted nostalgia for people citing the "Blitz Spirit" etc in the context of Brexit can go away. London has now faced worse than the Blitz - and when it did it was immigrant nurses (one from the EU, one from the Commonwealth) that literally nursed even our Prime Minister back to health. We are stronger together.</politics>

1 - https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/04/30/covid-19-is-kil...
I'm not sure how you envision that would work. Should the contents of a package mutate when another version of the same package is installed? Would you consider that to be a sane behavior?
> were based on the hacker ethos from the 80's and 90's, where a group of passionate and crazy smart people worked on tough and important problems, pulling engineering miracles daily.

This sound a lot like a startup. Being a dev at a startup is very different from the big Coorp. Maybe you only had experience with large companies?

If this is going to be your first time at trying something with startups, try to find A Job in one. Or maybe for founders looking for a CTO. Avoid funding a startup unless you have this crazy will that just pushes you to do it.
I got a pi 4 around 6 months ago and got the flirc case based on the recommendation of TFA. I've been very pleased with it - makes the pi look nice; I no longer worry about other people touching it; and of course it cools well (the very thick thermal pad connecting to the case is a bit unusual, but it works).

I got the flirc usb dongle for remotes at the same time, since I thought I'd want it (my pi is a media center) and there was a discount at the time if you bought both it and the case.. I've been far less impressed. It's a great idea in theory, but in my experience there was enough flakiness/delay with each button press, especially with Kodi for some reason, that it was basically unusable. Also, their utility for programming the dongle did not run well on the pi itself (it stores configuration on-device so you don't need to program it from the device you'll be using it on), and the install process involved setting up a repo that is served over http and does not have an associated gpg key, which gave me a bad feeling (although overall it felt more like a startup flying by the rest of its pants than anything malicious). I am somewhat hopeful that with more time/polish these issues will be fixed in software, but can't currently recommend it.
They didn't start from scratch, Zircon is based on lk which they already used in Android.
I am not in favor of any kind of dictatorship, although obviously a dark dictatorship is even worse than an enlightened one. Here in Argentina Perón's supposedly enlightened dictatorship — supported by the masses — destroyed the universities' academic freedom, and therefore the universities themselves, and squandered our chances of nuclear-energy leadership on a politically-favored con man who claimed to have built a usable fusion reactor.
I just cannot see why the introspection is needed
and to what regard it extends the functional paradigma.

For the outcome of reaction - there is no introspection needed.
The difference between a pain value and qualia of pain is not clear with regard to the function of behaviour and evolution.

Qualia is not simply a state. a state can also be modelled with a function.
The examples with people deactivating the "warning prothetics" are no real explanation.
I think a (non conscious but complex)function or set of functions could simulate human behaviour without introspection or conscious sense.

There is, from evolutionary perspective, no necessity for it.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the authors work.
I maybe just missed where the magic begins.
The rules (in Germany, but also other places) say you either have to offer the cows these brushes or brush them manually. It's not really a choice.
Was going to reply this too. The idea of TAP was to allow tests to be streamed too. So in theory a producer could output/emit events of test results. And a consumer would be able to parse/interpret the results. Upon a number like 1..2, it would know that the test set is done.

It gets more complicated with subtests, but that was part of TAP 13 I think, which wasn't formally released.
"Are they saying that higher a job pays, the more likely it is to get automated?"

Yes. One aspect that I've seen in e.g. computer vision and robotics for industrial automation is that there are a lot of processes for which we have the technology to automate production, but it's not worth because it's currently cheaper to get the job done manually by someone in a poor country getting paid very, very little.

However, the obvious implication is that if/when the worker conditions in the world improve and these workers start requiring reasonable wages then these jobs will be automated pretty much immediately. If the shop owner has to choose between buying a robot or providing a handful of rice to a team of near-slaves, the people are cheaper; If the shop owner has to pay something comparable to the minimum wages in the first world, then the best worker gets to supervise and clean the imported robots and all the others are out on the street.

If the first world would stop offshoring these jobs to poor countries, then that would not mean large numbers of blue collar jobs coming back, that would mean shifting to automation.
P-hacking in clinical trials,how incentives shape the distribution of results
Logo UX UIDesigner info for Y Combinator companies
What are some of the logo design / UX UI companies Ycombinator portfolio companies work with.

I love the work across their portfolio and looking for options. Thanks for your reference to some of them
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A similar thing happened post 2001-bubble-pop and post 2008.

Post 2001, there was a huge shift to offshore models, ticketing-workflow models, and a shift to a blossoming open source environment.

Post 2008, there was another huge shift to more flexible infrastructure models, and to automation.

Companies are often reluctant to restructure workforces, even when there are potential efficiencies available. Economic crises provide an "opportunity" for them to right-size.
>I want an economy where we can celebrate automation and distribute the profits evenly.

Not going to happen under capitalism.

Look at the numbers, they are pretty horrifying.

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/images/wealth/Net_wor...

https://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
I was thinking that a d3 implementation would help with this, except for the 90 degree, and found a project [0].

It’s not a force directed graph, but does seem to me to look better. And since the output is javascript it can be styled and formatted as you like it.

[0] https://github.com/magjac/d3-graphviz
The Jevons paradox absolutely does play a part, especially at first, but I don't believe it's enough for higher efficiency to result in an overall win (edit: for the employees). Most markets saturate surprisingly quickly when you apply 10x - 100x efficiency increases.
Please stop moving goalposts.

I think we need to re-examine the playing field here.

Correct me if I'm wrong but Haiku appears aimed strictly at the desktop as a general purpose OS.

Cellphones, servers and embedded systems are all out of it's league --- and thus the success of Linux in these areas is not really relevant to the topic at hand.
I don't know your whole background; I think location plays a factor.

Add to that: we tend to romanticise the past, and also the fact for every John Carmack there were thousands of behind the scenes people simply doing a job and maybe you'll see that the reality today is not much different.

The hacker ethos you envision does exist to some extent, I've been part of small units of people pushing boundaries, and it's deeply, deeply difficult work. Persistent frustration is the name of the game, and often a years worth of work will be rendered completely useless by something that happens a few weeks after you've completed something grandiose.

What I'm trying to drive at here is that there is a hacker ethos in large or small companies, but I don't think it's what you believe. And you have to seek it out, you don't "get a job" doing those kinds of things- passionate people seek passionate people.
Graphviz works great with LaTeX. It removes the pain point of moving your workflow out of LaTeX.
That kind of free will isn't controversial, but it's also not what people mean when they debate determinism, free will, consciousness, etc.

If we define free will as just an abstraction over some behaviours then nobody's going to argue. But then determinism, quantum mechanics, soul, consciousness and intelligence is irrelevant. You can then speak of free will of a bacteria or a Roomba just as well.
My favorite simple and interesting algorithm is "one person cuts the cake in halves, and the other person chooses a piece" and its extension to more than two people.
Many companies have interpreted Scrum Agile as a blueprint for a software factory line, where features are drawn up by product management, sprints are scheduled and work items cranked through with little discretion or agency for engineers, for immediate deployment once implemented and off to the next feature on the product management's roadmap. Sprint sprint sprint until sprints are a slog through technical debt, agile short term thinking always short-changing refactoring.
I used it with Java with tap4j (https://tupilabs.com/tap4j/). For my project I needed a multi-language format to use in Jenkins. Ended up quickly writing tap4j and the Jenkins TAP Plugin.

Both were used by multiple users back at the time, and we managed to integrate the test results of the projects (PHP, Java, and some JavaScript) through TAP in Jenkins, reporting the test coverage too (in the YAMLish, which is not exactly part of the TAP spec, unless the latest release included it)
Fast men are very competitive with horses over long distances [0]. Horses have other advantages like being able to carry more weight and live off grass.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
The true spherical cow model of circuits.

I do wonder though if this is really the mechanism behind the observed N^.5 law. As you allude to with Bekenstein, just because there is an eventual physical limit doesn't mean the structure of real hardware mirrors it.

Also, we are not limited to dissipation to transport heat away...
I wish, I only ever found 'warm' springs.. do you have a recommendation?
I think their logic is 3 fold:

1) Everyone benefits greatly from collaboration across companies and researchers at univiersities
2) There is a lot of value for google (and everyone else) as a company to show their achievements for many reasons, such as attacting talent, partners and so on.
3) And lastly, they don't expect the secrecy of their research to accomplish much, i.e. someone might re-discover similar results not that far into the future
Not being able to talk to a lawyer is insanity. How is that legal?
I thought about it, but how would this work exactly? I passed the airport on a highway, so I didn't connect to any wifi. Maybe my phone probed some access point, but still this would require the said point to send my phones identity to FR24 servers. Or maybe it was my cell provider? I pinged a cell base station nearby the airport, and this fact was registered and sent to a 3rd party, and FR24 has a subscription with that 3rd party monitoring users? But that'd be surveillance on another level. Thus my first guess is something happened on my phone, FR24 somehow came up with a solution to go around various privacy restrictions of iOS.
> One thing it does not do (or I don't know how) and graphviz does, though, is arranging nodes intelligently

That's exactly what "graph drawing" means [0]. Can tikz choose the position of the vertices itself or you have to specify the positions yourself? If it is you who chooses the positions, then tikz does not do "graph drawing".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing
Only a plurality. More than half the electorate consistently voted for somebody else:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme#Socialdemokraternas...
Sadly, so true.

Making money from open source is somewhere between the Hollywood aspiring actress and the fool's gold level of wishful thinking.