skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the Ambiguity Trap here?

That aside I find this more useful when it comes to organizations where momentum is pretty hard to change. I can't tell you how many initiatives I've seen with "We're going to do this now!" and really that group doesn't do that well, is busy not doing that, and just as an organization isn't built to do ... the new thing. The result is inevitable.
Cuz they're busy showing edge in everyone's face instead of offering easy to use firewall options for all the trackcrap out there xD
Unrelated, but Terminal.app still doesn't support True Color. Only thing holding me back in iTerm2.
Well, there's very few places in the area where this could come from and Russia has a history of lying like a rug about pretty much everything. So there's that.
What happens when China forces all manufacturer to install 'non-removable' system-app (in ROM)?
I'm not sure I understand. And tbh I'm not sure I originally expressed myself well.

But I think we all agree that laws against child labor are good, that laws requiring a weekend are good, and that basic safety laws in dangerous environments like meatpacking plants are good.

And we'd all agree that those things fall somewhere on the spectrum of "human rights".

And, if someone doesn't agree then that's an entirely conversation that needs to be had.

But for those of us that do, well, all those things came from organized labor. So --- organized labor, imperfect as it is, like all human institutions, has been and is one of the ways in which people have fought for their rights over time.

Period.
That's correct. So, for instance, invalid curve attacks --- which broke JWT --- are in cryptopals 8. JWT isn't. There's probably a malleability-gadget challenge we could do that's abstract enough to fit and captures what's interesting about EFAIL, but then, the underlying cryptographic flaw in EFAIL is so simple it's already in there. Weird how relevant "historical" cryptography is when you're in the real world, looking at real systems.
This is not supported by polling data. See for example:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-an...

"Some 81% of the public say that the potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits, and 66% say the same about government data collection."
Famous VC Ben Horowitz writes about Toussaint Louverture often [0], I think it's generally interesting, although I strongly disagree with his stance that he "won" against Napoleon in a battle, as he simply won against French troops, NOT led by Napoleon himself.

[0]: https://medium.com/@4thlettertech/ben-horowitz-my-unlikely-h...
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That's the odd thing about it. I literally got paid (quite well) to do things that I happily do for free in my spare time anyway.

You have to pay me to work on your problems, but there's a big part of me that would happily do it for free.
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I use an Ikea Jerker desk as my main desk. I love it.

You can set it to any height you want, adjust the monitor shelf height, and it's so sturdy. For my home office I got two... one for work, and one for gaming.

They cost like $50 when you can find them on Craigslist.

No clue why Ikea stopped making this desk, it's better than anything they have made to date.

https://www.jerkersearcher.com/
> - In a Java class I took in college, it was standing room only for the first two sessions, after 3 weeks the class was 70% reduced, by the end of the class it was about 25% of its original size. CS is hard, lets be honest(for most people), to excel you have to love it or be mathematically inclined.

Yes CS is hard. But arguably so are Maths, Physics, Psychology, Medicine, Law, Engineering, etc. I wonder what the drop out rates are for those are. And more importantly they seem to be popular in terms of the numbers of people that want to pursue those courses.

> - Most engineers don't have much 'clout' in a organization that isn't a pure tech company, I have been solicited by GS and other hedge funds but always pass as I know I will always be 2nd fiddle to finance folks/business majors.

I think you're right about this. Although you get some clout as a Quant developer in those types of places
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627274
I am always a bit surprised how often people call hacker news toxic. Has that word changed or am I just to old and jaded?
I mean, sure, it's opinionated, it's got quite a few blind spots, it's a bit rough around the edges sometime. But the only comments I would really call toxic are already dead
[0].
Now, I am not saying hacker news could not be nicer, but many people here seem to at least try to make reasonable arguments and I have yet to see it devolve into shouting matches like so many other places on the Internet. Maybe I just read to many Forums back in the day, but Hacker News by and large seems civil enough to me.

This is of course enforced through the only thin sheer of community, where you really have to look out for peoples usernames to get even an idea of who you are talking to.
While probably beneficial in this regard, I often wish there were some sort of avatars or other features to more easily recognize people from thread to thread.

[0] Though it is interesting, that among the dead comments is nearly always one that just seems harmless and often even a valid argument. So turning dead comments to display seems kind of important to not miss those. I wonder what is up with that?
Your opinions aside, the current administration has been the first in decades to stand up to China both in philosophy and in policy. You can't say the same about Clinton, Bush, Obama et al who actually empowered the Chinese by letting them off easy on the Tiananmen Square Massacre, allowing them to join the WTO, and militarize the South China Seas, among other things.
I've been on Android for a long time now, but as I've become more aware of my privacy in recent years I've concluded my next phone will probably be an apple.

My problems with Android are largely around all the things you can't do without turning on web and location tracking. The most egregious of these is probably the aparant inability to set your home address in the google map app. There is no reason it can't store this as some kind of favourite. It is ridiculous, and indicative of an approach designed to maximise the amount of information you give up to them.
For people who like Android but not how Google is handling it, https://e.foundation/ is a very interesting project.
Details: "Full-time employees at Amazon, its Whole Foods Market business and drivers in its contracted delivery program will receive $500, while those in part-time positions will receive $250, Mr. Clark said.

Leaders at Amazon and Whole Foods will receive a $1,000 bonus, and owners running contracted delivery-service operations will get $3,000, he said. Amazon will also pay $150 to some drivers working through another one of the company’s initiatives."
I think GP is a bit overly harsh, but he's not responding to someone who is poor or being exploited working a shitty job. He even explicitly mentions that it's because the needy have more of a right to be supplied, so I'd wager that he is simply in favor of a means tested solution.

So while I agree with most of your post, you're not really addressing his point. Is it righteous for those in well paying and value generating jobs to stop working just because they'd be more interested in going after more leisurely activities? If their work has no value to others, is that righteous?

>Remember that we serve God and not Mammon. Framing the value of human work only in terms of its economic return is dangerously close to reducing the value of a human to their contribution to GDP.

Sure, but economic value often correlates at least somewhat with non-economic value to others. An indie game developer who makes no money is likely simply producing nothing of value to anyone but themselves.
For many wealthy, continually fueling pure unstoppable hedonism is the entire point.
I of course have to conceed to the possibility that I am not remembering it accurately; I sincerely don't think so.

I don't think it entered the atmosphere (I never witnessed any atmospheric entry flames or fireball, I think it missed us (which is why I'm bringing it up here related to 'Near Earth' items.
One of those essential qualifications is being technically competent, which he clearly is.

Having a CAB is not one of those qualifications, most NSA directors have not had one or had any combat experience.

Just as most CEOs are hired for their business expertise, not only their technical abilities.
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> When I briefly worked for non profits in rural America, despite offering VERY lucrative salaries, we were simply not able to fill positions because no one wants to relocate to middle of nowhere.

That just means that relocating to the middle of nowhere isn't worth that lucrative salary you offered. Raise it, and they will come. The issue is that for lots of people, living there has huge costs: less networking, harder to get the next job, friends are far away. But if you offer enough money, some will say "I can see my friends at Christmas" and will live & work in the middle of nowhere.

On the other hand: with remote work, that shouldn't even be an issue. They don't need to relocate to the middle of nowhere to write code for nowhere's local government.

That's the market doing its work. It sucks when you can't fill positions, but I don't think we're anywhere close to "everybody gets FAANG level salaries". Those are 1%-Salaries, and the lower 25% are below $100k.
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I identify with this quite deeply.

One thing that your idea prompts is thins: as I have gotten better at learning things I have gotten better at just adopting as-close-to-perfect form as I can from the get go.

When I learned to play guitar at age 20, I had horrible form, and I did go through a period of unlearning habits (after a period of trying to have a "style" LOL).

When I learned to play pedal steel guitar in my late 30s, I was careful to start with good habits from the get-go. Same with snow skiing, banjo, and yoga. :D

I dunno how I'd approach this lesson when dealing with younger folks... it was a painful process, but learning that starting with good habits/ form makes things so much faster and easier is maybe just a thing people have to experience on their own.
Damn your right, the US is very stable. And the US made 10 times more regions unstable than China could ever do.

If you exchange China to US, and Mongolia/Tibet to Middle East and South America your sentence matches perfectly too.
It started in april 2020, ie 3 months ago. I think it's presumptuous to say that it "failed" already. It's just below its own target.

Lot ot things can still happen. They can release a show that'll become viral and bring them million of subscribers.

But of course there are some very strange decisions:

- Mobile-only is weird. Why not make mobile a priority, but people are used to watch shows on their TV or PC. And you cannot watch things with multiple other people. Even with one person, it's not really practical.

- Did not allow screenshot: for a mobile only, it's strange, they failed to understand something about the internet. Heck, they could have made a button to annotate and share a screenshot on social media in-app since they're in mobile-only. That would have been something people are used to. But at least allow people to share the content they like. You're just forbidding free advertisment.
And when factory workers try to unionize, and the company spends millions of dollars on anti-union propaganda, that's just price signals, too, I suppose?

No. That is the owners of capital wielding their power to keep the workers--the foundation that keeps the whole show running--underpaid, so that the owners can maximize their profits. Capitalism 101. Maybe actually read the book I linked to. 7 billion people in this world don't live in the free market fantasy land that you're describing.
Contact-tracing: France snubs Apple and Google but its StopCovid app underwhelms
Can we talk about how much more CS people are expected to work than people in other fields ?

For most people here, CS is their hobby. So a lot of learning and knowledge acquisition happens during 'leisure' time. This is rarely the case in other professions.

If we count all the time we spend resolving environments, getting setups right, learning new tools and reading papers as work (as we rightly should), then most people in tech would be working far more than 55 hours/week.

This already ignores a lot of the quiet time people spend pondering over things and letting them stew semi-consciously. CS work is flexible, but is not easy or less-time consuming by any means.

If we try to force people into CS, then we will get what India has. A massive glut of incompetent tech 'talent' with BS in CS, but need to be retrained all over-again to even do the most mundane sweat shop coding that companies like Infosys and TCS need their employees to do. (I say this as an Indian). Millions who hate their job, earn low pay and have a very small set of nontransferable skills, because what they actually know is 'sweat shop tools' and not CS.
IMO, if there is any demographic that AI/ML is most poised for eradicating, it is likely this one.

If CS in the US wants to increase participation without compromising on its present identity, then the only solution might be to foster interest and love for science/math/coding early in life and hope you can cast a wider net to capture everyone who would come to consider this profession a hobby.

Alternatively, it can go the way of every other mature profession and turn into a 9-5 boring thing you hate, but still continue doing because you need to put food on the table.
How would you migrate to a different SQL implementation? It would have to be 100% SQLite compatible in the early days because that's what all websites would expect. It makes migration nigh impossible.

That said, as long as the SQL implementation they choose is free and open source I'm not sure this is such a bad thing. I mean we are also stuck with Javascript in the browser and that hasn't been a total disaster. The whole point of standardization is to choose one particular solution and have everybody use it.
I immediately thought about Richard Feynman's account of being part of the textbook selection committee in California: https://web.archive.org/web/20020617183211/http://www.textbo...
Better yet, reasonably abstract the raw MIDI protocol away with something that has suitable security and privacy properties for the web, and translate it to MIDI on the host. In any case, the current proposal does not seem to cut it.
Because every other site will start asking you to scan Bluetooth when some ad network starts using it to fingerprint you
Hey HN! Builder of Model Zoo here.

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I built Model Zoo to address that gap. Deploy your model to an HTTP endpoint with a single line of code, from any Python environment. Plus, you get all the features you'll need from a production ML system for free (monitoring features / predictions, autoscaling, web interface for documentation).

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My little sister liked Android phones because she found the green robot thing cute.

But after Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns, she bough an iPhone.

She's 8.
It doesn't just mean "very." It is defined as "increasing rapidly by a large amount" in several dictionaries. Sometimes we have different words for varying degrees of things, and most people seem to accept thats perfectly cromulent.
USB->ADB adapters are more like ADB->USB translators than ADB on a USB bus, though. They'll only support some peripherals, and they'll show up as normal HID devices. You won't be able to connect your PageMaker dongle, unfortunately.
Balance is a good beginner philosophy, but adults need to do better. Most things are orthogonal, nothing really balances it out, and it appears from this article that peoples obsession with balance is also a self destructive obsession with opposites.

At this point, any time the word balance comes up as an answer, my mind jumps towards "paradox" as a means to nip that fallacy in the bud.
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Well it depends on the media but let's say it is a blog. First just write about something, anything that catches your fancy. Leave it for a day or two at least then reread it and if you seem that it is something you wish to publish pick a random blog site or medium and create a username not attached to you and just post it there, and if the several blog posts after that seem to be under the similar subject or idea your blog has got an overarching topic or theme.

Then just continue to post there when you want to say something and over time you will get wuote a collection and probably a few readers as well.

Now this is how it is done from a standpoint of a person that just wants to write and doesn't want to profit in any way from it rather than to have a place where they can manifest their thoughts, so if you are in it for something more I don't have any useful advice.

One of my first post, in retrospect, where so shallow and badly written but I am fond of them because it I'd because of that person that I am able to now much better express my thoughts, so don't fall in the trap of perfection, it is that imperfection that makes it unique. All perfection is the same, as such it has no room to grow, and that kinda misses the point for me.

Good luck, be honest yo yourself about your creation but dont be judgmental, see it as a learning process that will just happen to last your whole life :)
Not all CS algorithmic or systems design problems, you know there _is_ a fix.
You can inhale those too but it's much harder.
Don't want to have children or having children has become a much larger economic burden?

I want to understand your argument better - are you arguing in favour of replacement of population for the economic benefits (of who?)?

So why would I - a person living in a country with my own culture surrounded by my own people - want to have adults from another culture with their own sets of values and morals over children from my own people?
Article: https://newatlas.com/medical/deep-red-light-aging-retinas/

> As our bodies age we can expect different components to deteriorate in performance, however, not all do so at the same pace. The retinas are one example of a part that ages sooner than most, but a new study has demonstrated how a form of deep red light therapy can help arrest this slide. Hitting the eyeball with just the right wavelength of light has been found to “recharge the energy system” and bring significant improvements to vision in those over 40.
Russia is not the only country under the US sanctions. It always ends the same way — the government is largely unaffected, the people die in poverty. Sometimes they die because of the lack of medical equipment. It’s hard for them to leave because other countries are not eager to welcome them.

It’s not war, but there end up being millions of casualties. Understandably, a country values its interests above the lives of foreigners. It all looks like a world-scale trolley problem.
No, manufacturing and engineering, for example, computing the offset of a 3D-body represented by a surface. This benefited heavily from massive parallel computation via Metal.

I also implemented other algorithms from scratch for solid body operations, and here indeed arbitrary precision rationals were needed first, but then I could get it working with normal double arithmetic in a lot of cases later on; I didn't use Metal here though.

I find that libraries like CGAL etc. are just either too slow or not general enough for my purposes. The whole sector seems ripe for disruption via proper algorithms implemented on graphics cards.
Reminded me of someone recently asking on Reddit for advice on making videos for YouTube. They had been at it for a few weeks and only had a handful of YouTube subscribers to show for it. They wanted to give up.

The thing I always remind folks of in that situation is that to succeed at many things, particularly creative things like YouTube and writing, you have to do it for intrinsic reasons. You want the writing or videos out there because somehow the act of putting them together and publishing satisfies you even if not another single person was there to see it.

I think it applies really well in entrepreneurship. It's not a strict rule obviously. There's people making stuff for other people all the time. But one of the best ways to stick through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship is to be working on something that has that intrinsic satisfaction. You're the best user. Even if no one buys the thing, at least you have a piece of kit that fixes some need you have.
> WebSQL would have been a spec, could have been a living spec too. Start out with SQLite in all the major browsers, and then gradually have them diverge. Blink and Webkit started the same way. Independent implementation does not mean "implementation of uncommon history".

You need to think about the barriers to implementation: if everyone ships SQLite, developers will inevitably write code which depends on that exact implementation and anyone shipping something new will need to copy it - including unintentional behavior and bugs – to work with existing sites. That is extremely expensive and might lock in something we’re going to regret later if someone finds a behavior which wasn’t intended for this context and has security or performance issues.

Anyone working on the web should be especially sensitive to this since we came close to having the specs for all web technologies be “whatever IE6 does”.
Fortunately I am not at HashiCorp, and where I work isn't quite that bad- the company wide email only went out due to the protests.

That said, we do have higher ups who have no problem talking politics while waiting for people to join video calls, and naturally they all agree with each other. Noone with half a brain would speak up unless they were also agreeing- higher ups are our bosses, not our friends, after all.
> My own anecdata suggests that best programmers are the craziest ones. But that’s also true for just about every other field that requires extensive self discipline to master.

That's interesting. I can see this being true for Math, Astrophysics, Genetics, etc. Somehow it doesn't ring true for Law, Accounting, or Actuarial Science
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Having my own place has really helped with my social life and relationships. It's nice to have a place to invite people over that you can call your own.
Interestingly, there was almost no bullying in my high school in Poland in the nineties. I think school bullying may be a product of Anglo-Saxxon culture, which is very individualistic, success oriented (i.e. if you're a "loser" you're barely a human being) and also kind of heartless. Currently, as Poland converges to the standard of global culture emanating from the US, there are reports of some cases of bullying, but still I don't think it's the everyday reality of each school.
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