skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that I had LSP in mind when writing my previous comment. :-)

I think there is a wider issue here than the (still very useful) scope of LSP, though. If you are building a tool that depends heavily on the semantics of the source language, beyond common operations like “go to definition”, you might need more than a standardised language server can provide, and then you’re back to the position I described before.
When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows?
> Note the eye-watering scale of the business however, quoted at nearly $100 Billion in sales, which is rather a lot of money indicating that it may take a product with a very long life cycle wherein there are considerable profits for this to be feasible.

You mention Apple. The iPhone SE 2 is basically "iPhone 11 guts in an iPhone 8 shell" – and as I understand it Apple went to software to handle things like the camera so they could keep the older generation optics and not change the body. That type of tick/tock cadence would support this nicely.
It just makes me think of the story of the fisherman: https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the...

Your replies seem to indicate that he should spend his time doing "productive" things instead; that would be more "optimal". I guess I'm tired of this race-to-the-bottom mentality where we spend so much time "optimizing" our productivity that we optimize the joy out of life. Productivity is a good thing, but I'm not convinced it is the greatest good.
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> As soon as Apple runs out of an audience that platform is dead.

That's true for any platform, isn't it?

I mean, I see your point about an open platform, but on something that's intended to 'just work' like a PS, trading openness for guaranteed working games and known-good [enough] quality is fair enough. The platform only needs to keep its side of the promise (and not be a monopoly, which would open another can of worms).
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There's the concept of the "expert beginner" who works in a role when they're never challenged, so they quickly assume they're great at the thing when from a global perspective, the just stopped learning very quickly.

There's also the type that accidentally falls into a manager-type role way too soon, before they've actually had a proper chance to learn programming well. Then whatever basic skills they had atrophies quickly.
Also, Sony has to hit a much lower price point, and they made about 10x as many consoles last year as Tesla made Model 3s. Both of those seem like they'd make the automation ROI better for Sony.
30% is very low for big companies, I’ve never heard of somewhere being lower than 50% and 75-90% seems more standard (though offer does not necessarily lead to an acceptance).
It is a pendulum swing: these countries advanced a lot after WW2, then they believed they found the ideal way and got stuck there. In the meanwhile time flows linear, other countries were left behind but caught up and moved on. This way Japan and Germany still work well due to their excellent history, not recent trends.
It's partially just a numbers game.

If you assume the top third of candidates only need 2 interviews to get an offer, the middle third need 5, and the bottom third need 15, then 15 / (2 + 5 + 15) = 68% percent of the candidates you interview will be from the bottom third.

This, of course, ignores every human factor but it is a starting point.
If you can afford to do so , yes it makes sense .

However public company leadership and professional fund managers cannot stop worrying about short term impact , their job is on the line .

There is enormous pressure to deliver short term results very few people like buffet can escape that.

He is able do it due to his reputation, wealth and peculiar holding structure of Berkshire Hathaway (no splits or dividends )

I should mention as much as short term focus is painted as bad , on average it is good strategy to base people’s performance on. It is better management fails faster than fails slower . “Blue chip” companies should reduce risk more than maximise gain .
It's tactical nihilism.

Guess what: most of us can make some pretty intelligent guesses about things just based on looking at them. The observation may not be perfect, it may not even be true, but if the goal of the observation is to inform a system for self-preservation, false positives might be totally acceptable if the cost of taking a preservative action is not too high. For example, avoiding a person your subconscious tells you is dangerous - you can ignore it and overrule it, or you can give in and take the safe action. Much of the time, the latter is the better choice, even if you didn't need to be scared, even if there was no danger, because you have no better way of knowing in advance what the situation truly is.

Should we use this kind of heuristic in law enforcement? No, this is not Minority Report or the Asimov world of Multivac; while it may be useful for an aggregate at scale we will not get good enough accuracy to know much about individuals. However, it's entirely possible it will tell us about the behaviours of groups of people, and that could still be useful for policy decisions.
I laughed when I read “victim” but I guess yes you are being an aggressive jerk.
From what I understand, a retail store doesn’t make any profit selling gift cards for other stores.

The Safeway in this story didn’t make any money off of that $2k purchase of Target cards and it could’ve saved/boosted its reputation if it had some better protective measures in place. It also means that maybe people who would’ve spent money at Safeway now can’t because they’ve lost several thousand dollars.
“We couldn't have scaled HEY without the public cloud”
I originally posted this (in 2013! reposted today prompted by HN's second chance pool) because it struck me how, with very few modifications, this exact article could be republished today. I find it fascinating that we can be having the same arguments that people a half century ago were having, with little to no awareness that we're repeating the exact same things. It makes me realize that perhaps software is not as young a field as we like to sometimes pretend (it's common to read on HN that e.g. software is so young and immature compared to civil or electrical engineering, etc)

It's also interesting to dig into the author's name - apparently a half century ago he had some reputation in tech circles, but as far as I can tell he's mostly forgotten today.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/what-...

He sadly seems to have passed a couple years ago:

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/erik-sandberg-diment-...
yes,that is the article I was referring.
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You want to have fewer people in each class so that they don't have to be in such close proximity to each other.
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And have you ever actually tried to use something like that? Because I have and it's insanely uncomfortable.

Look- if I don't want to sit in front of my computer but want to be in front of a big screen (projector in my case).. that's because I want to be able to sit back and relax.

Holding a controller I can sitback and relax, my wrist is not moving all over the place. I'm basically stationary except for my fingers. That is HUGE for me as I otherwise sit infront of a computer all day.

How in the world do you get comfortable sitting on a couch trying to use a keyboard and mouse to play a game?
While I don’t think Buffett is going to live long enough to see if this bet pays off, it’s reasonable that this natural gas play is going to fall flat considering renewables uptake and the cost decline curve of battery storage. This is without even discussing that many jurisdictions are considering or are starting to ban natural gas distribution to residences. After coal is driven out for electricity and heating, climate advocates and policy makers will be coming after natural gas next (and rightfully so if we intend to limit total carbon emissions).

It’s not quite as “dumb money” as SoftBank, but very similar to T Boone Pickens’ natural gas play. Dominion sees the writing on the wall and found a greater fool.

http://pickensplan.com/the-plan/natural-gas/

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/utilities-dont-see-stranded... ("We get approached a lot about buying gas plants in the U.S. — I wouldn't touch one ... In a lot of these [jurisdictions] it's the next coal, and I think it's coming quicker than we think." — Ken Hartwick, President and CEO, Ontario Power Generation)

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/renewables-storage-poised-t... (“If all proposed gas plants are built, 70% of those investments will be rendered uneconomic by 2035, according to the Rocky Mountain Institute“)
A significant portion of the public is interested, but crucially those who have influence presently are not. The post-carbon energy debate is dominated by green energy advocates who are fully invested in wind and solar to the exclusion of nuclear. Their militant anti nuclear views have been accepted by the public due to reactor meltdowns and nuclear's justifiably poor reputation.

However I believe the debate is shifting. With increased public awareness of safe(er) modern reactor designs I think the public's fear of nuclear is receding which will lead to increased nuclear advocacy, especially among politicians who will view nuclear advocacy as a prudent middle ground that can win over people who are concerned about climate change but also uncomfortable supporting aggressively anti-nuclear environmentalists who have up until now been the face of climate change advocacy.
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Is that....
No it can't be...
Is that a CD ROM Tray?
On a new production 2020 laptop?
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My wife got my hook on the game wordscapes on our iPhones.

I will continue to play without this program, but, I figured it would be really easy to 'beat' the game with a quick python program.

The key is two python libraries: PyEnchant (relies on the Enchant C library) and 'itertools' from the Python standard library.

https://pyenchant.github.io/pyenchant/install.html
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yes that assumes a lot of spare time. without that 7 weeks of vacation - the avg pay would be lower still.

my point being that the hourly rate of something considered pretty expensive for companies - is still comparable to very low freelancer/consulting rates.

no source, just some back of the napkin math (https://www.google.com/search?q=120000+%2F+%2845+*+5+*+10%29...)
Certainly not my intention at all! I'm learning marketing as I go and this is a blueprint of the things I want to achieve.

I wanted to share how we get on, what works and what doesn't with everyone. We've been growing the business through LinkedIn / Call outreach so far, and it's probably why despite being a successful business, in my opinion we're underachieving on the potential.

I recently had a choice to either outsource marketing or hire, and I chose to hire but junior. Part of the reason I started the business was to challenge myself and I'm really enjoying exploring marketing.

On another note, I'm very happy that you said it's well-designed! I made it in Canva :).
1. I won't go into depth about my issues with the copy on that page, but I didn't see that narrative on the page anywhere. Maybe you should include that.

It actually seems like a good idea to provide such people with electronic communication devices, whether you believe in their conditions or not. They should be able to stay in contact with the outside world, if they are indeed unable to come in contact with EMF.

2. My statement wasn't about who they were, but how a company would go from releasing a music album, to manufacturing electronic devices. As far as I can tell you haven't shipped any hardware to consumers before(?)

3. Well I would hope you'd give that assurance, but any company developing vaporware would probably say it isn't vaporware. I'll check it out later this year though, it seems like an interesting idea so I hope it ends up materializing.
A good example would be Getting Back To Work, our economic-recovery playbook for cities. https://gettingbacktowork.org
I think "trawling" is a lot more common, "trolling for cock" is the exception where it's always "trolling" and never "trawling".
I got myself a Garmin device for exactly this purpose. Put your own OpenStreetMaps on it and you‘re good to go. Perfect GPS reception and much longer battery life included.

But note that it‘s not the same als Google Maps/Apple Maps. If you want to test it out first, use an OSM-based app for a while, like OSMand, and see if it fits your bill. You get better hiking maps, but you might miss the integration of business opening hours, Yelp, traffic, etc. But for me it‘s worth it, for GP‘s reasons.

People used to live without all these features before, after all.
I guess I'm thinking Buffett's lack of interest is related to the public's lack of interest at the current price point.

On June 23, a Pew Research poll about energy preference came out. Nuclear did relatively poorly compared to renewables but, to your point, it did beat out most fossil-based solutions (barely).

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
Any individual spot Amazon is advertising you something they could easily know you will not buy is a spot they could have instead used for an ad for something they do not have this knowledge about.

So yes, it is either/or.
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You could just use thunderbird as your email client and don't click the links in the emails. No 2 hour wait required.

Unless you are in England I don't believe they can hold up your line for minutes after you hang up.
An opt-in feature to have your notification center fill with ads, and be paid for it. Currently its not hard to get $10/m.
> Do you think the fact that some journalists maliciously crop social media posts means that we should replace the institutional model with a "Github" model of professional journalists?

No, I definitely don't.

I think techies who think they've got all the answers for how to fix journalism are hubristic, but I also think journalists who think all is well with their industry need to get off their high horse and do some introspection too. I think both industries are in a crisis, and it happens that the two crises have nontrivial overlap; the tools the tech industry has been creating over the past 15 or so years have been exacerbating the problems in journalism. So no, I definitely don't think the tech industry is situated to solve the problems with journalism; judging by past performance the tech industry has a deleterious effect on journalism and I don't foresee this changing soon.

I don't know how to fix journalism, nor do I know how to fix the tech industry.
This is so backwards. Many people seem to fill their time with social media and other pointless activities. These types of hobbies and projects are a missing, and critical, component to staying fulfilled and happy while avoiding many of the traps of modern technology. If a person gets fulfillment out of it no one here should be judging them. It is no different than reading for enjoyment.
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Yes, it's absolutely a thing. I don't know how experiences vary, but Alex Azar, the current secretary of health and human services, former president of Eli Lilly, was an alumni of my frat.

I've also hit up random alums at various companies who have given me referrals, there are a lot of friends of friends who are in pretty good positions, such as founder/CEO/partner at various companies and VCs that will be willing to chat with you if you happen to know someone they're connected to that can vouch for you. I was actually interviewing with a company, and I found out the CEO was an alum of my school, and we had a lot of fun talking about college.
Time to start creating honey pots.
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I remember back in the early 2000’s my father was investing in a company building a flywheel. They were working on installing one in New York, not really sure what happened but I believe they installed one or two before the company went bust.
> > The military is an institution that sometimes put numerous limits on one's professional career regardless of contribution.

> And they are also a very special case, with lots of intricacies and paranoia and not something that comes to mind when you ask people about rewarding merit and efficiency.

The elephant in the room is however, what is merit and efficiency in academia. I would argue the attempt to somehow make scientific output measurable has led to the big problems plaguing academia today, salami publishing, churning out more and more papers with less and less results, making papers purposefully difficult to reproduce, time spend on applying for funding instead of research, crazy work hours...
In many ways academia is similar to the military in that short term incentives are actually counterproductive to the end goal that you try to achieve.

> Nobody is arguing that anything and everything must "only consist of natural laws". But to claim that something as basic as "more effort = more results" shouldn't be allowed to be real because it's too much of a natural law and has no place in civilized society sound ridiculous.

Again the difficulty being what does more results mean and is it necessarily good.

That being said I don't think artificially capping work hours (how even) would alleviate the situation, work hours are a symptom not the cause.
IRLRosie, also very funny

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J9MPy2qAc7U
I'm specifically responding to your last section:

According to CDC data, 81% of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are people over 65 years old, most with preexisting conditions. If you add in 55-64-year-olds that number jumps to 93%. For those below age 55, preexisting conditions play a significant role, but the death rate is currently around 0.0022%, or one death per 45,000 people in this age range. Below 25 years old the fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.00008%, or roughly one in 1.25 million.

These are odds any risk taker would take.

I read this as being focused on the students, and ignoring the fact that many of the potentially affected people would be in the 65+ group that is most at risk. You seem to be ignoring that in favor of focusing on the minuscule risk of death to college students themselves.
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Having administered over 600 interviews, I second this. Most people can’t code, despite degrees and years of experience.
I took apart my PS4 Pro several times since I own it. It’s very easy to do, nothing is glued, and the plastic clips that hold the cover in place don’t break when you unsnap and snap them back.

The only thing is an obnoxious warranty void sticker that delaminates if you don’t lift it carefully but even then I don’t think it’s legal to void the warranty with a sticker (Switzerland, bought from a EU retailer)
Archive link since the site is hammered: https://archive.is/ACRGl
Bird got a Covid-19 bailout loan of at least $5M
I dunno, there are a lot of reasons companies choose technologies. If Fraunhofer gets this thing into hardware (by whatever means it takes), that could be the end of the debate. There's also probably a bit of "no one ever got fired for choosing Fraunhofer" going on as well.
He didn't say it was 'easier to fly under the radar'.

He made a vastly more hurtful claim - that everyone else was 'barred'.

You're simply not responding to the charge that's been made, you've chosen to try to argue a far weaker claim (which is trivially true) instead in the hopes that nobody notices the difference.
For insider background info: Postmates had to do a "pay for play" at one point, wiping out investors who wouldn't put more money into the company because it was so desperate for cash.

The company also was shopped around for years by Frank Quattrone, who runs the "most" successful M&A advisory business - QATALYST. They didn't get anywhere with a deal, this was led by a different bank after they were fired.
Andy Grove used to talk about this a lot - that manufacturing know-how does not come easily, and that continuous improvement and innovation in manufacturing depends on continuing to actually do it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warni...
I love talking to them because it's time they aren't talking to someone else. My goal is to waste their time, not "outwit" them.

I'd like to think that if enough people did this they wouldn't make any money.
Replying a bit late:

This is the difference between "Reach" (number of people who see the ad) and "Impressions" (number of times an ad was shown). Advertisers have the ability to optimize for either (or neither if they optimize for something else).

Usually this is based on some internal metrics they have, like a report that correlates the number of impressions it takes someone to convert. Nobody will buy a product based on a single impression, so some amount of repetition is required. There are also industries with really long sales cycles where consumers may only make buying decisions once a year or less, so if you buy ads, you need to do it over a long period of time.

That's not to say every advertiser is doing things logically or efficiently. There are a lot of dumb strategies. Just like the stock market, it's full of really dumb decisions, and it only seems sensible when you stand back and look at it as a whole.
> doing the exact same thing as a lot of other researchers, which is basing their research on old biased benchmarks

They might have a reason. I can understand if they want to compare the result of the model with a past experiment. That's normal.

> attempt to move the needle forward

Completely agree, so just let them work.

By the way, I don't see "evil" in these experiments and I want a 100% free from bias model too, but I wouldn't dare to attribute the result to lazyness, stupidity or racism. If I come with something completely new then I would try to compare it with something that already exists too.
Unless you urgently need to start a business right now, I don’t see how this has a higher expected value compared to doing the same after you graduate.
The font on the sign warning about gift card scams seems pretty small. Given that most of the targets of these sort of scams are people who likely need reading glasses, these signs and the font should be bigger.
see more details, https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/

I know that's not fair comparison, but imaging clever compressions were not invented and you would download terabytes of data to view a small movie.
Allow developers/engineers to use an OS and tooling that they're comfortable with. There must be choice between text editors, IDEs, browsers, shells, etc.

Also don't try to control this centrally. Once developers have proven themselves to be competent at operating a computer, they shouldn't be forced to use a locked-down corporate machine.
The counterexample here is the declarative style of programming. Most ideally this looks like an executable spec and is documentation itself.
You should copy this information as a comment in your other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23751226
Hang up for another reason. That is less data they have to fake they are you. Say "yes" and any audio tech with a reel to real tape recorder can insert that yes into a different conversion where you are agreeing to whatever scam. (it is easier with modern technology of course) say enough and they can clone your voice inflections and record your voice saying anything they want.
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