skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of an internet fable

> A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.

> The next day the farmer drove up and said: “Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey died.”

> Kenny replied, “Well then, just give me my money back.”

> The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”

> Kenny said, “OK, then just unload the donkey.”

> The farmer asked, “What ya gonna do with him?”

> Kenny: “I’m going to raffle him off.”

> Farmer: “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!”

> Kenny: “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he is dead.”

> A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, “What happened with that dead donkey?”

> Kenny: “I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at $2 a piece and made a profit of $998.00.”

> Farmer: “Didn’t anyone complain?”

> Kenny: “Just the guy who won. So I gave him his $2 back.”

> Kenny grew up and eventually became the chairman of [company you want to mock]
How to Build Your Own Electric Car – Ben Nelson
Over 1k people at Twitter had access to ‘God Mode’ admin panel
A lot of it seems to depend on if you have a family at home or not. With my wife, dog, and cat at home, I don't feel isolated at all. If I was here by myself, I could see how there could be a desire to go back to the office just to be around other people during working hours.
If you work in AWS security, then you of all people know about the litany of service teams who don't meet their security goals every year.
I feel that us going to Mars is like re-writing an enormous legacy code base, maybe using fancier tools, but still stuck in the same culture as before.

Of course, we’ll build the same mess as before and forget the million special cases we didn’t bother thinking about.

No need to be defeatist though. The prospect of space exploration picking up again is an exciting one. And even if we’re not going anywhere, we’ll learn new stuff along the way.

Other than that, Antarctic or below the sea are other viable options to escape to. And they’re right here.
Grokking deep learning is an awesome book!
It’s complicated. They are also more likely to say abortion is morally wrong than many other groups, which has political implications. (Legality versus non-legality isn’t really the main issue today.)
I'm not sure I'm bought into this. I consulted at a big bank and am currently at a government department where I can see the in-house trend reversing.

10 years ago there was a big backlash against outsourcers and tech moved to "Agile" delivery and shiny AWS. Companies started investing believing they were being left behind.

We're going through a low point in the hype cycle right now. Blockchain/AI/Data science have all been a bit disappointing for Enterprise. Much of the mobile revolution passed them by too! Cloud is a bit pricier than expected and keeping on top of trends (CloudFoundry/K8S) has been exhausting for in-house staff.

Outsourcing is great for handle-crank, cheap IT and that's not going away.

Also, why is Saas being frequently mentioned as a solution here? Enterprise system complexity is not very Saas friendly.
Frequent, Fast, and Cheap Is Better Than Sensitive
It's an interesting question for a lot of reasons. I live in the South, so perhaps if I had been living in the South in 1859 I would have supported slavery. But my ancestors were living in the North, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and fought in the Civil War on the side of the Union, so presumably they opposed slavery. So if I had been reared by those ancestors, I likely would have opposed slavery. But then again, I'm a bit of a contrarian by personality, so I may have had the opposite viewpoint from my surroundings. Perhaps not opposing slavery in the South, but opposing fighting to preserve it. Perhaps not supporting slavery in the North, but opposing a destructive war and supporting the rights of individual states to determine their own fate and secede. Or personal things could be involved. Suppose as a northerner I saw an opportunity to join the family of a wealthy Southern planter. Or as a southerner, I wished that certain slaves who were friends could be free. So it goes down to what your environment is and what person you are in that environment.
I am not sure how such posts make it in here, but if the author thinks the writer of a complex API should posses the skills of a CSS and usability guru then the writer is simply wrong. Also the notion that backend devs do more “serious” stuff than front end devs may be common in toxic work environments, but not so much in proper teams. Front end work is not just creating buttons and setting styles. It is also about understanding users, a whole range if devices, browsers, screens and many more things that simply cam’t be mastered at the same time as one masters heck knows how many layers of apis services and what else goes behind more than just a word press app.
The Worst for U.S. Renters and Apartment Owners Is yet to Come
The non-violent answer to this polarization and hysteria is subsidiarity and devolution of political power to the various states. Libertarianism at the state level.

We will not pick this answer, and, if we did, it would not be allowed.

"You are an Acceptable Level of Threat and If You Were Not You Would Know About it"
Abundantly clear from his Twitter that like so many others that are used to having an unassailable platform of privilege to express themselves, PG has recognized that normal people now have a voice to push back and criticize opinions he has, and so he's joined those expressing "concern" about this.

Instead of expressing in concrete terms his views to make them available for criticism, he talks about the dangers of "cancel culture" instead, presumably because he knows his views are now beyond community norms and they'd get him cancelled.

This essay is a scaffolding effort to rebrand people that would seek to express intolerant opinions as "independent minded" and "free inqueryiers" so that they can escape criticism.

Nah sorry not gonna work.
True!

But there's a different tendency that is also similar to various physical processes.

Imagine water flowing out of a bottle. It gulps down in parts instead of flowing steadily because of the decreasing air pressure inside the bottle.

A similar thing happens with these ownership gaps. Problems pile up until the person least capable of tolerating the stress decides that enough is enough. That person will temporarily take the responsibility upon themselves and clean up the mess, and so the process will start over.
For those of us who've read The Economist for two or three or four decades, perhaps more, "rethinking economics" is a reliably recurring evergreen which gets trotted out at times of crisis. When the paper is feeling merely foreward, a possibility that Keynes may not have been completely wrong is broached. In periods of sheer desperation, a hesitant suggestion that subscribers might read (but never follow) Marx is hauled from the deepest rhetorical powder magazines.

But that's about the limit of it.

The one change I have noted is that where the tactic was invoked only once or twice a decade, its use now seems far more frequent, every few years in the aughts, now only months apart. A search of the paper's archives, or external Web search, largely confirms this:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rethinking+(macroeconomics%7Cmicro...

Whilst I'm strongly convinced that economic orthodoxy is sharply flawed, monetarism a stunted model like its progenitor, Keynes was insightful, and that Marx's class-consciousness has merits, full understanding and remedy for present concerns must look further afield.

MMT, W. Brian Arthur's complexity economics, and Steve Keen's work unifying capital, labour, class, and energy would be a good start.
Yeah. it's white Christian nationalism. Manifest destiny and all that.
In terms of CS, it's NCSU that regularly produces the most accomplishments of the NC higher education universities, but it doesn't have the same national standing because the humanities departments at NCSU are a complete joke. What Duke and UNC-CH do well is that all their departments are generally considered rigorous and that increases their standing in the rankings.
Although an obscure market, the new platform war is in VR and exclusive titles. PlayStation VR versus Oculus Quest versus Valve Index.
Oh for video conference calls so the video resolution is high/kosher.

Not for "surveillance."
Virtually all intelligent people take "equality" to mean equality of opportunity. The type of equality you seem to mean is where individual personalities, talents and desires don't exist. In other words, where everyone is the same person. What a boring world. I just don't think inequality matters as long as the poorest in society are never cold or hungry. That's pretty much where we are today.
Not a lawyer, but far as I know flights are not restricted between the US and Canada only ground border crossings.
I didn't think about it until I read your comment, but I really got a eureka moment from reading this, so thank you, and this is what I love about HN's comment sections.

The irony shouldn't be lost that pg is primarily arguing for freer discussion of ideas, while at the same time showing the same traits of "other-ing" (i.e., folks not in your group are somehow defective) that I believe is the most important reason that free discourse seems to be in decline.
Seems like copycats are not allowed as per iOS store policy ?
Non technical folks under-appreciate the cost and frequency of long-term technical debt.

It's easy to save money on developers, yet very quickly produce a net-negative result for the company.

Sadly, few companies have guardrails to prevent these sort of shortsighted choices. E.g. requiring parallel approval of projects by IT architects (whose existence admittedly carries its own hazard).
Says who? I routinely refer to something I did a long time ago as "two decades ago", whether the current year ends in zero, one, or something else.
If only there were some way to modify the axis of rotation of the earth. If we could get antarctica into temperate zones we'd add a major continent for settling.
> no matter how much you work there is always going to be more, and no matter how much you do you're still getting paid the same salary.

There can be two factors at work:

- intrinsic motivation: you care about a problem and are curious and have some drive to solve it. By not having an environment that pulls you out (i.e. colleagues leaving the office) one can get lost in it

- fear of being rated as unproductive: when not in the office, you might have the fear that your manage might think you are lazy or somebody else might outperform you or whatever and you want to be able to show results. That's the main thing you have to show. In an office scenario you would also have your presence "oh he did something" in WFH focus on result is higher.

One thing I try (sometimes with more , sometimes with less consequence) to do is if I receive a message late or see late commits or such i tell my engineer "you are working too long hours" to remind them that they don't have to work long and it's good to call it a day ...
Working on our internal machine learning platform (opened it to some users at https://iko.ai). Writing docs, reviewing merge requests, pruning issues, checking if assumptions holding back features and bug fixes are still true, reading documentation for some external components we use, playing with the new real time collaboration on notebooks, testing the implementation for model deployment, attempting to do one video that goes through the different things to reveal usability issues, and checking upon a colleague who's backtesting the platform on projects we delivered in the past before we buit this (aiming for dividing time to ship by 4 folds at least), implementing a proof of concept for one integration, and improving one Python library I started writing for Minio administration (https://big-mama-tech.gitlab.io/bmc/), as they only have a Python client which can't configure hosts, start servers, or change policies, etc.
If you add a one paragraph or even one sentence cover letter that is unique to the company your applying for, you'll already be ahead of 95% of the other applicants in my experience.

Even when we state that a cover letter is required, the number of people who actually supply one is minuscule. It does effectively filter out people who can't read or follow instructions though.
I'm a bit surprised that there are so many Canadian & Europeans wanting to get into the US to work at this point given our rapidly deteriorating political and covid19 situation.
Access to rocket would be greater on Mars so you can temporary evacuate. Access to tools to say underground etc.
Yes, any company can file PERM for even non US-based employees (they'll have to go through consular processing and they might not be able to travel to the US in the meantime until the visa is done processing since they have expressed immigration intent).
Agree. The billing data gets explicitly or implicitly discussed when various orgs talk about their successes, annual planning etc.
It's not removing the president by force. If Trump fails to win the electoral college vote by 12:01p on Jan 20th, the president will be Biden or Pelosi. If Trump then refuses to leave the white house he'll be treated as an intruder and arrested and/or shot. He has no individual power, and no loyalty to him, the loyalty is to the office of president, which is currently occupied by Trump, but unless he is declared

The peaceful transfer of power is about the operation of the government transferring - the head of the army, the secret service, the finance, etc.

You might get civil unrest if some Trump supporters refuse to accept it, but unlike other countries where ballots are counted, the US does not elect a president by popular vote, instead a joint session of congress counts registered votes from 538 electors across the country. The sitting president isn't even the room. There is no question.
>He pushed a personal view, without the consent of his management

You should have said this originally. I can understand if this was some crusade he was pursuing, but nobody could infer that from your original post. Also, you should really consider how ironic it is, in a thread about people being afraid to express political opinions, that, when asked how not reimbursing alcohol is political, you responded with a hyperbolic analogy in a sarcastic tone to the effect of "we had this thing called prohibition" (you've since edited that comment, though the tone mostly remains).
> is Japan an autocracy too?

Ehh... it is a "flawed democracy" in that same index, as you would expect from a country where the same party has ruled almost uninterrupted for 65 years.
In the UK this URL silently redirects away from the article.
Yes, success is rented, not bought, and the rent is due every day.
"I'm not a psychopath/sociopath, I'm aggressively non-conformist!"
The Awk Programming Language – Brian Kernighan, 1988 [pdf]
It wasn’t that long ago that you could buy a “rose gold” 12" Macbook, in fact I bought one last spring for my gf on closeout. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this sort of thing come back once ARM Macs are here.
Just reading through the story, it struck me how bad the Xbox naming scheme is. I am a PlayStation owner and casual gamer, I generally follow consoles. But looking through that list it’s difficult for me to put the consoles in order, and difficult to tell what games will work on which system at a glance.

I can’t help but think that confusion would be far worse, for example, for parents buying a console for their kids for Christmas.

I wonder if it’s possible to quantify how much that mental friction adds up to reduced sales.
It's the author's use of metrics that doesn't have product/market fit, if you ask me.
Your wife can't apply for work authorization while in H-4 status unless and until you are the beneficiary of an approved I-140 petition (which is a step in the green card process) and the only way for an accompanying nanny to work in the U.S. is to apply for work authorization while in the U.S. in B-1 status.
Unlikely to be the same blanket, as Amazon did not request that I send it back to them as I recall.
It is not easy to run the infrastructure for a Facebook clone, even with 10M users. Technology is absolutely part of their entrenchment.
“Designed by American Apple in California. Assembled by Taiwanese Foxconn in India.”
In Algiers, Algeria.
I have been keeping my ear to the ground in the local job market (Switzerland) and personally haven't encountered any company that outsourced to India specifically.

Most popular are Eastern Europe (Serbia, Ukraine, Romania) and Asia (Vietnam).

The """savings""" multiplier is still in the order of 3-4x, but time zones work out better.

I am however, still baffled how this happened after seemingly every company made the discovery that outsourcing too much of your business doesn't tend to work out (20 years ago, during the last boom).

I also talked to several companies that were willing to trust their outsourced teams to work remotely, but not the staff located in Switzerland (who once again have to come to the office during the pandemic).
This 100% it's not a problem with talent alone or their approach to their problems presented to them. It's what they are engaged on and that's controlled by the consumers of these services.
Ha, I'm sure if this became widespread, you'd start seeing the opposite, where people only expect longform emails to come from humans.
A very common tactic during the period when video cards were improving rapidly was to buy a card, use it for six months, and then return it and buy the newer one.

Rinse and repeat.

For a while a lot of these electronics retailers had a zero question policy, but when they moved to asking "Why?", people would proudly talk about ruining the card with 120v to justify the return.

There are ways that people can rationalize these gaming of the system behaviors, but it just seems to be a descent to crapitude, where every retailer treats every return as a crime, because often it really is.
I find myself waiting and hoping for a complete and utter financial crash just for the opportunity to be able to afford a home. My income is several times above the poverty line.

It makes me feel sad and guilty but that is the reality. Inflation is real when you look for it.
The US, or at least the bay area, pays more.

Besides, you guys are generating herdv immunity as fast as possible. Time it right and moving to the US could greatly decrease your chances of being infected.
It is also a good solution for the US. The blue states are much more richer and should block money transfers to the red states. Punish financially until the red states will vote for the correct party and establish more progressive laws.
Why is that weird? Both Trump and Jobs have/had huge sway with crowds. It's not surprising to me their speech patterns are similar.
I would describe mask wearing somewhat differently:

Top Left: People who want to throw anyone who isn't wearing a mask in jail.

Bottom Left: People who are wearing masks everywhere, including situations where it doesn't make sense to, because that's what the rules say.

Bottom Right: People who wear masks when it makes sense to wear them, and don't wear masks when it makes sense not to, even if that isn't what the rules say (for example, not wearing a mask when taking a walk outdoors where you can easily social distance, even if the letter of the rules in your area say to wear a mask whenever you leave your house).

Top Right: People who insist on pointing out that the rules on mask wearing are arbitrary and don't allow for common sense, even as they wear masks when common sense says you ought to.
"a monetary policy that is not constrained by the presence of physical cash", that is like saying a democratic government that is not constrained by the need for voting.
> his parting words were “if someone offers you a seat on a spaceship, don’t ask which seat”

Lol what a jackass
Or even more clearly, "Boeing 737 NG and 737 Classic", since it wasn't obvious to me that they're all 737 variants.
And why not just "NG and Classic"? Really curious, I see this replacement of "and" for a comma in a lot on headlines, and I don't know why or where it comes from (English is not my first language). Is there a name for this?
> 3. You can write comments without fear of the comment changing program behaviour (probably of little concern in practice, but still)

There's historical exceptions, but the new rule is this:

Comments begin with "// ", pragmas don't have that space.
TLDR; Rushed journalists didn't understand complicated new reporting format at first.

He didn't say data was untrustworthy, he said the reporters were in a hurry.

Per author: Reporters have a 30 minute window between receiving the report and the expiration of embargo. The format changed because we are giving a new kind of unemployment payment. The data is complicated and the aggregate of the new PEUC+state unemployment claims number is several pages into the report.
how'd that go?
I'll add Colin Kaepernick to the list for next time! I should also include things like the woman who lots her internship after she made a bad pro-BLM analogy: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/03/ima-stab-you-connectic...

In my mind, "cancel culture" refers to the phenomenon where an outraged group (usually on social media) seeks to retaliate against someone over a (possibly inferred) political opinion. Firing union organizers or harassing whistleblowers is bad, but doesn't fit into my mental model of cancel culture.
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According to him, he didn't just kickbox with a 30 pound weight advantage, he also won entirely by forcing ring-outs. He essentially treated the competitions like a sumo match, something other competitors didn't typically try for or practice defending against all that much.
Exactly.

WWIII has already started - but its "hearts and minds" but with Corporatocracy and with covid being the opening salvo to drive fear and socially engineered behavior into the global populous.

You cant control 7B people without first taking over their minds.... (emotions and behaviors)
China was more totalitarian before globalization. Without it, they would be more like North Korea. You don't need technology to send people to labor camp or burn books.

Globalization is why extreme poverty has plummeted in the last few decades. Hundreds of millions of people chose to leave their subsidence farm to work long hours in a factory because it's still an improvement for the quality of life of themselves and their families. Sure it would be better if an Indonesia factory worker got paid $20 a day instead of $10, but nobody is offering them $20 and you can't force anyone to.
I'd caveat this with the note that many unicorns, including a couple I've worked with, didn't solve any problem that a solution wasn't available for - they instead solved it better/more cheaply or in a new way. This is especially true in the B2B SaaS market where any large addressable market likely has incumbents you'll be fighting against, even if only tangentially.
Oh so that's why where I'm from most stores require an ID to return something.
fwiw i am on an O-1 without a degree, and didn’t have any trouble
> decided to force the currency issue with their largest economic contributor

Wait, what? The UK has a perpetual opt-out for the euro, and the euro was not a significant issue in the Brexit vote.
They missed:

You appear to believe that: [ ] The entire world speaks Unicode

Unfortunately, your language (has/lacks): [ ] comments [ ] include files [ ] hygienic macros [ ] unhygienic macros [ ] string escaping [ ] name quoting [ ] come from [ ] undefined behaviour

Your implementation has the following flaws: [ ] It won't let you program dangerous behaviour
What specific accommodations would you expect, which would not break the EU?