skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>at least in this case people are paid to do this.

I've done commercial moderation before and I would sooner go jobless than go back to exposing myself to the kinds of things people have to when doing this professionally. It's the kind of things you wish there was a brain cleaning solution for, but there isn't so it's stuck there basically forever (though I suspect the alcoholism rate is higher among people who have to handle this kind of thing than in the general population).

The commercial moderation team I was on actually ended up separating out a task force for handling particularly gnarly content so that people had a way of opting out of being exposed to it (in our case we were responding to user reports rather than randomly stumbling on things, so manually filtering reports was feasible), which I think is the responsible approach since there are plenty of other moderation tasks to handle and some people are more or less sensitive to this content.
> Tuition can't be changed because (whatever)

Nope. What you're saying is "I cant restructure my business becasue I have high costs".

Your competitor disrupting your business could not care less.
That assumption holds for most of the population in European countries, even the poorest ones. In fact it's common for young people to live with their parents a long time.

One has to be either dirt poor or very unlucky not to he able to move back with relatives. This sound like an excuse.
Mid 30s. I have a small but slowly growing stock portfolio. If I keep going the way I am, in 5 years I might be able to buy a Model 3 with its worth. My family growing up invested in my education, not in a stock portfolio, so what I have is skills, not cash.
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Yeah sure, I agree. At the same time: isn’t that exactly the kind of perpetual armament that’s going on in many fields?
Another factor is the working conditions at Cognizant. The difference between Reddit moderators and Cognizant employees is that the former are allowed to have bathroom breaks and individual agency. The latter not only have to deal with fairly oppressive workplace policies, but they also rely on this work to live.
This is because apple feels its too easy to trick users into elevating software permissions - which in turn may cause risks and harms to their user base.

Let me ask you - do you have your elderly parents on an android? Then you will know already how totally owned those phones can become.
I will have to dedicate an evening to this paper. However I can say that I admire Vitalik's tenacity. This is not a detraction of his achievement; keeping in mind that this guy dropped out of his formal education to pursue explorations and meditations in the field of crypto, and succeeding as he is is nothing short of inspirational.

Great work Vitalik. Rooting for you.
Because he's virtue signaling.

From this guy's blog:

> Those of you who know me know that I’m a self-described brunch enthusiast. This more or less means that I go to bottomless brunch at a new place in SF every weekend.

> As a tech bro in San Francisco (San Franciscbro?), it was only a matter of time until I had the obvious thought – “How can I monetize brunch?” I’ve been meaning to dabble in SEO at some point, both because I generally enjoy dabbling and because it seems like a useful thing to at least be partially acquainted with, so this seemed like a good option.

Lmao. Keep the downvotes coming noobs (been here longer than most of you).
Do you know what community organizing is? How movements accomplish change? Everything does not have some easy optimization method, only in silicon valley does everyone think it does.

edit: What I mean to say is, people have been organizing against FB, AMZN, and tech in general for the past few years now. The last is reactionary but opposition to FB and AMZN has meaningful academia, ngo/gov, and general support.
There is a saying in karate. Fall down 7 times. Get up 8.

But also, definitely, make sure you are not going to be financially destroyed by your actions. Take time to be with your family. Remain focused upon your life, and life goals.

Do I regret my time building some of the insanest things in market (at the time)? No.

It was an itch, I had to scratch.
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If you want to become a millionaire some day, then you're already on that path as a software developer. You can get top dollar by working for FAANG and working your way up the levels.fyi. That's probably the peak you can get by working for someone else.

If you want to make it to become a billionaire, then the only way is to not work for someone else, to become the boss (owner). Which means, taking a huge risk in starting your own company and working until it becomes big. You can try to become huge quickly, as a startup unicorn (which then will take many tries till you succeed) or go for a more traditional business and continuously build it over a long period of time.

If you want to go somewhere in the middle and make tens of millions, maybe hundreds, then you can switch from the software developer track to the CEO track (note that i didn't say middle-manager track). In that case, you essentially prove that you can basically be a mini-CEO, but within the confines of a very large company, by heading up a department. Then you keep on doing this with larger and larger departments, until at the end you're the CEO of the company. And then from there you leap frog from company to company, being CEO of larger and larger companies. Of course, it's often very difficult to get to those chances within a company, so succeeding as the CEO of a startup and then getting acquired (and becoming the mini-CEO of your newly formed department) is kind a way to jump onto that track from the outside.

Or, you could try switching tracks and going into finance. There, starting as an employee, there's a more clear path to make your way up the chain to partner. And since your salary is more along the lines of a percentage of revenue, as opposed to a flat salary, there's an order of magnitude more potential than as an engineer employee.
JPMorgan Banked Millions for Ghislaine Maxwell, as It Had for Jeffrey Epstein
I’d think it’d be difficult to run in both circles for too long.
> and are honestly not _that_ hard to orchestrate together with the liberal application of Terraform.

I love Terraform, but the fact that you require an entirely different company's orchestration tools to make AWS "not that hard to orchestrate" is evidence of how poor the UX of AWS is.
My father recently went through prostate cancer radiation treatment, and here is our experience. The doctor did not say that unless it is treated, he will die. He did emphasize that with the modern day treatments, the risks and side effects are much lower than that of non-treatment. The radiation treatment was non-invasive, except for the placement of 3 markers inside the prostate to guide the radiation beams. My father did have stronger-than-normal side effects, however after 3 months the side effects have gone. We were actually amazed that cancer treatment was so easy. It is now a waiting game to see whether the cancer has been completely eliminated, but the peace of mind from having had the treatment is worth a lot.

On the other hand, a family friend had prostate cancer many years before, when the radiation treatment was not available, and he had to go through surgery. The surgery caused strong side effects, and also turned out to be not successful, as the cancer spread to his bones after 10 years, for which he is now receiving further treatment. In this case, where the loss of quality of life was high, it's not as easy of a choice.
even more flabbergasting is Tesla using it under LGPL in their cars. They had to be forced into compliance though: https://twitter.com/qtproject/status/998902009922285568?lang...
Even if the payload was not malicious when they looked, it could change at any time. I don't see how that can be confidently labeled non-malicious.
An Intel Haswell chip, when doing floating point vector operations, can dispatch one addition per cycle, or two fused-multiply-add. The latency is worse for the FMA (5 cycles versus 3 cycles), but if you've got enough parallel accumulations to hide that latency, then using FMAs for addition will be faster than addition.

This is a consequence of Intel optimising for FLOPs (or - equivalently - for matrix multiplication), as an FMA counts as two FLOPs, versus addition counting as just one.
Not the author; just a fellow ML practitioner.
Regarding the lack of a degree, the author writes "I believe it matters less over time." This is a narrative I've been hearing for twenty years.

Can we point to any published stats about tech companies, in the US or elsewhere, hiring a higher fraction of engineering candidates with less than a bachelor's degree?

Similarly, can we point to any published stats illustrating the growing ability of startup founders without an exclusive education background to get funding? (No, "dropped out of Stanford to go work with Joe Lonsdale" doesn't count.)
As I said in an earlier thread:

Apple pioneered the 30% cut, and it was a massive improvement over the status quo. But they haven't ramped down at all since and that's why these conversations and cases are happening.

Also for game theoretic reasons, they should charge a higher % for in-game purchases and lower their cut for outright purchases.
Yeah, I really hate it when people say what sounds like, "We recommend against even trying this test because people are incapable of responding appropriately to the answer."

It shouldn't even be that hard to state. "X% of people your age [+ whatever other factors they're using for a reference class] have [type of] cancer. Based on that and your test results, there's a Y% chance you have that type of cancer." Forgive me if I'm too disconnected from the average person, but is that too difficult to understand?
Based on the responses in this thread, you're not alone. It's not often that a series of arguments is so thoroughly undermined by just one spectacularly bad one, but that's really the comment that's been driving all the discussion. His point about batch sizes is maybe something worth actually discussing, but there's nearly no discussion on that (and maybe a couple comments on how YC should stop funding everything but consumer companies which is also IMO ridiculous).
I haven't seen that particular book and will give it a read, but I have attempted about a dozen lifestyle SaaS businesses. All went best like I was selling peanuts at an allergy sufferers' convention. I am always looking for more opportunities for something like this, but nothing so far has had the right overlap of profitable/my area of expertise/not requiring a stupidly high upfront investment.
I think there’s a difference that depends on scale and privacy. If your network is private (or something more akin to p2p / messaging) this is much less of an issue, especially if you have strong blocking controls. Users moderate themselves.

I think the problems that Facebook, Youtube, etc are seeing stem from the fact that the content is much more public, thus in much more need of moderation.
If you are going to do OMSCS for a resume, I would say you are vastly underestimating it. Its a full fledged masters from a top 10 school and many classes require as much as 20 hours/week work sometimes. Its far from something watered down.
I would guess that if you are a founder with a consumer startup, good luck getting an interview!

I think this makes sense too – YC is in the business of picking will-be billion dollar companies. The number of consumer startups that make it this far is probably significantly lower, percentage-wise, than B2B SaaS companies.
Nice forward progress on the search for a preventative treatment. Also TIL bad gum health can lead to colon cancer. So counter intuitive. runs off to brush teeth
Looks neat. Are you considering a flake8 extension like bandit for easy adoption (in CI and in VS Code)?
It’s procedurally generated, dungeon crawler, with collectible items and permadeath and resource management. I don’t like arguing over definitions, so call it whatever you want, but those are a number of components that feed into the appeal of roguelikes!
MySpace had to deal with this. They also had content moderators who were kept in a separate room at HQ who had to view all manner of flagged videos/photos. The turnover was really high even though at the time, MySpace had the kind of cool factor that developers would pick up women at bars with the promise of taking them into the offices after hours (which is a whole other weirdness and the corporate higher ups had to ban the practice after a drunk couple were injured after falling off a table one Saturday night). I don't know that there was anything acting at this kind of scale before MySpace.
I agree with almost all the comments here. The standardized curriculum (or, as some people put it, making you take even the classes you think you won't enjoy), and the coaching (having someone hold you accountable to deliver) is a key aspect of schools.

I will add that so is the job pipeline. I think having companies come, sign up dozens of students and recruit wholesale completely changes your odds of ending up at one of the top companies (for whatever your definition of top is: whether you want to write algos at a hedge fund, perform tech diligence for a consulting firm, work at the big tech companies, etc)
I run an open source team chat product (Zulip) and I have no love for Slack (https://zulip.com/why-zulip/). But I also think Microsoft's behavior in the team chat market is definitely anticompetitive.

* Many businesses have purchasing rules that discourage buying 2 duplicate products -- so by bundling a bad team chat product with Office 365, they significantly reduce Slack's ability to get paying customers simply because of their monopoly position (not because of their product's quality).

* Microsoft is in a market position where they can effectively bribe potential customers with discounts on other services they sell (E.g. we'll add another $250K in Azure credits if you agree to go all Microsoft).

> You're going to get eaten, and there's not much you can do about it now.

This I agree with -- but the reason is that we're in a world of essentially unconstrained monopolistic tech giants, and it's basically impossible to stop a tech giant 100 times your size from taking your market if they really focus on doing so. And Microsoft is clearly very focused on the team chat market.

There are very few markets where it's possible to create a moat that can resist a monopolist copying your product (however badly) and then making the price of their copy zero (or negative!). I don't think we should accept a world where the only long-term outcomes for a fast-growing technology company are to be acquired or destroyed by a tech monopoly.

> Something any fifteen year old can write with web sockets

This is a common misconception. While you can make "chat" as a demo with any web framework, nobody would willingly use that tool. Creating a team chat user experience that isn't terrible requires a huge amount of work because there are hundreds of features that significantly improve important workflows for large classes of people (if you don't believe me that it's hundreds, read https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/changelog.ht... and https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen...).
you can look at the 30% in two ways:
1/ the dev is paying
2/ the user is paying
I look at it from 2/ so Apple charges me 30 on top of 70 which is almost 43% extra for consuming a service via their distribution channel, for which I already paid a premium price.
Most large telescope arrays (that I know of) are for radio astronomy, largely for geographical reasons (as far as I know).

Earth is a source of noise throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, so I think the benefits of building on the far side (eliminating Earth noise), will likely outweigh the costs (limited/more costly bandwidth).

I think a mixed array, consisting of "radio" and "light" telescopes could present very interesting possibilities, especially because you could dynamically allocate sparse sets of the array to different tasks.

All of that being said, I am an engineer (with an interest in array signal processing), not an astronomer.
So you post the link taking you directly to the login page, but don't tell anyone that you can't even try out the Go course without buying 500 gems (costing $12)? You have to provide an email address before you even find out it costs money.

This seems VERY spammy to me.
If your company had decided it wasn't worth the extra effort to port to Google, that extra 20% might potentially cover the cost of the extra employees and overhead, or at least lessen the sting.
Yup, I've had good luck with those in the past. Main problem: I am not making way below my market salary. I might be maybe $20k lower than average due to some job perks, but just switching from small software company A to small software company B won't make me a ton more money. Equity in a hot startup might, so I guess I'll be on the lookout.
> Boycotting is an economic mechanism, "cancelling" is a social one. It's not just not buying things associated with a person, it's completely shunning them.

You could characterize the Industrial Age by saying that it was the time where the primary way people interacted was by making and buying physical goods. Boycotting severs that connection.

In the Information Age, the primary way people interact is by making, sharing and consuming information. Cancel culture—deplatforming people and organizations on social media—severs that connection.

In some ways, it's the same act, just translated to the currency of the time.
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Things are much better than what they used to be.

AWS Config is easy to setup and can be used to warn for that type of access-control issues. It's a good layer of additional defense.

The new S3 UI is also much better and won't let you do insecure things by default.

AWS also sends emails when they find an open bucket. I don't know exactly when those are triggered but I got them in the past.
Bolt visual scripting is now included in all Unity plans
> maybe there are more sane, emotionally healthy people watching snuff films for fun than I instinctively expect.

Probably not, since there are no documented instances of any snuff films ever found.
Well, good for you, bit you can run into the exact same problems with undefined (which you do use), and TypeScript still helps with those in the exact same way.

Which is to say: whether you use null or undefined is not really relevant to the point that was being made...
No, but then again in those situations of extreme poverty one probably has bigger problems than not being able to get a start-up off the ground.

And of their parents threw them out or don't otherwise like them that's just bad luck. Some people will not have an easy life, I don't see why we have to make those with loving families feel bad about it.
There's something about being on a campus that made a big difference for me in college. Some experiences that I had that are hard to replicate remotely include:

* Group discussions in seminars. When you are in person, there's a better dynamic to holding a discussion. You can read others' body language and see when to speak up. Zoom works fine for very small groups (<7) but anything larger than that and it seems to get out of hand in my experience.

* Impromptu chats after class with professors to ask questions that I don't want to bug everyone else with. Same goes for chats during office hours.

* The opportunity to stumble upon events that you otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to. For example, I'm not muslim, but I attended a series of lectures on Islam aimed at Muslim students, put on by the Muslim student association. I learned a lot there and got to speak to fellow students and learn about their views and experiences firsthand. You're not gonna find an event like that online, and even if you did, you'd have to have filtered through all the other garbage on the internet to find it.

* Playing intramural broomball after pre-gaming with my friends. Aside from good memories, the social connections you make in college are very important and can help you a lot later in life. Many years later and it's great having a network of people in all sorts of industries.

* Living in a freshman dorm and getting exposed to people from many different backgrounds for the first time in my life. If you grew up in one place, then almost by definition, you didn't have much diversity in K-12.

You can't really replicate these remotely and in my mind, these sorts of things were half the value of college for me. And this is aside from the fact that I personally find it very hard to pay attention on a zoom lecture, especially if I'm sitting through 4 or 5 of them a day.
Completely wrong. You do not have to at all use Facebook, or Twitter. They are a private website, and it is you and others who so choose to go onto their platform and post your own private information, and allow them to moderate your own private conversations. The problem is that all these people never should have allowed that from day one. I can 100% honestly say that I work professionally in network engineering and I do not and have never used Twitter, Facebook, or even a LinkedIn profile. They are not required, they are information silos and you've chosen to go into someone else's domain and host your private thoughts there for others to moderate. That's the problem. Create your own hosted website like the web is made for, and keep your conversation and your own personal control there. Period.
Consider Android is open source and people have been able to get root access on devices since the beginning.

Still, it seems for overall security to have this program exist then not have a program at all.
Historical Perspective on Free Speech/Cancel Culture Debates (Thread)
It's possible I also just needed to rant about how tired I am of the rat race. You are right of course (though I might not 100% agree on your point #3; valuable connections often come out of spreading the word about your project and my motivation usually increases afterwards).
Good analysis. You're right. I'm no expert at the game, but killing elites is a great tip and not obvious to a new player.

All of my most successful winning decks have been built off of synergies though.
Ryan O'Donnell from cmu has lectures to understand qc from an algorithm design perspective, so quantum information theory https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3YL5qLskC6xQ2...

His quote: "90% of the understanding of the quantum circuit model is achieved by reviewing three purely 'classical' topics: classical Boolean circuits; reversible classical circuits; and randomized computation"
I was thinking that in out case hot or cold is not the main issue, but the area where to look.

If you look at a star 300 light years away, you just have to search a couple of pixels away from the star.

But if you searched for such a planet at 300 AU from out Sun, you would have a massive amount of space to search throug -- like a massive cilindrical wall of space around the Sun(if it was not exactly on our plane around the Sun).

But in anycase, I was wondering if we had such a planet in our solar system, but obviously cold by now, could we detect it?
The moon is basically a giant reflector for (many bands of) radio. The reason the US government funded so many radio telescope arrays was to monitor Soviet ballistic missile tests, by looking at signals reflected off the moon.
This is all great. Thx so much for the detailed response. A lot to get through but plenty to get started with.
Everyone is living with an invisible list made up by them in their minds. This is what drives people to exercise, eat healthy foods, get vaccinated, and wash their hands. This just clarifies the list, perhaps adding some items, perhaps changing the priorities.
Piracy is fantasy?
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