skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had to pay on a subscription basis, I would ditch every single one of them.
WhatsApp is basically glorified SMS. I can live very well without the occassional "look at this funny video" shit.
The only value I get out of Facebook is its event calendar. Since most of the type of events I used to love to go to are banned since Covid, I don't see a reason to continue using FB anyway.
Twitter is pretty US-centric and basically just a journalist tool in my area.
Reddit used to be fun until it wasn't.
And HN is a nice to have, but I wouldn't pay for a subscription.
But I might be the wrong person to ask, I find subscription models scammy. I had NetFlix and Audible, and am very happy to have jumped off the train. I never had Spotify, and I felt majorly pissed when Apple started to push its Apple Music pop ups in the Music app. In fact, my dislike of subscription models is so strong that you will likely alienate me as a customer if you ever inform me about the ability to subscribe more then once.
Yes it does. A good way to getting "millionaire" salary in the world is to work remotely for US/UK companies. In the "new" remote age, it matters.
Ask HN: What is a business anti-pattern you've experienced at work?
I've seen a couple of posts recently where commenters refer to anti-patterns they've experienced while at work.

One referred to the team consisting of one manager plus one team member. Causing the team member issues as there was no way to validate thinking or to validate output (if anyone knows the post let me know)

I've experienced attempting to run Scrum teams with an off-shore company whose resourcing model was flexible. Meaning that our team composition was fluid over time and there was competition between projects to get an individuals time on the project.

Better yet, do we have names for these anti-patterns?
What's happening in the Pacific Northwest?
> I actually find the notion of "patriarchy" incredibly sexist -- were not men the canaries in the coalmine -- the original victims -- for the dehumanization of capitalism?

"Patriarchy" is intertwined with the means of production but is also distinct therefrom. Women in Victorian England were not fully legally recognized as persons and did not have the same property rights as their husbands, and this is in a period during which capitalism obtained in England. This arrangement with men as the "patriarch" of the household, exercising control over subaltern women, predates capitalism by millenia (c.f. Roman "pater familias").

This "patriarchy" doesn't only consist of formal law, but may exist in tradition and social mores. For example adultery may be technically equally penalized for men and women but carry a vastly greater stigma and punishment in practice for women, as in feudal China. As another example, women may technically have recourse to the law if they are subjected to domestic violence but be prevented from doing this by the fear of social opprobrium and further mistreatment by family and community, as was again the case in Victorian England.
"Patriarchy" doesn't refer to any concerted effort or plot, but is a description of the outcome of social institutions and cultural attitudes which, AS A SYSTEM, disadvantage women.

> capitalism ... should be understood as an abstract, inhuman force

Capitalism, and patriarchy, are BOTH generally understood as being systemic: i.e. properties of human institutions. The concepts DO NOT inherently place blame on individuals, or even make judgments about the morality of the system.

Whether or not our society exhibits patriarchy is an empirical question, to be answered with reference to data. Arising from but separate from this, there is the ethical question of value-judgment about the society. But there is absolutely no basis to call the notion of patriarchy "sexist".
Can you expand on what the static IPs give you?
You seem to really like the word "bigot". Section 230 [1] is much more than "literally two sentences" and related to the current subject it clearly states that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Hence the argument that Twitter removes user content because this is what publishers do doesn't apply: Twitter is not a publisher of this content. It does have some moderation rights, but the list of moderation reasons is limited and cannot be extended at will by Twitter policy; see III.A in [2].

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=149134315940390...
Pointless blurb that won't get traction:

This is part of why I blog and run r/GigWorks and r/ClothingStartups: I figured out how to make money from the street while very ill.

This is solvable. We just aren't working on the right things.

We need to get people working again in a way that doesn't spread the virus. We need to work on resolving our housing supply issues. We've torn down a million SROs and not replaced them. We've largely zoned Missing Middle housing out of existence.

We collectively know how to create affordable market rate housing in walkable neighborhoods. We just basically choose not to in the US.

And now it's A Real Crisis, not "just a few losers with personal problems". We need to get our head out the sand and stop pretending we are too stupid to fix this, good god. We aren't too stupid. That's not the issue.
You will have a hard time creating a situation where pushing the button for an emergency landing creates a disaster.
Because ultimately as a company you need workers past the current generation. If women stop making babies due to having to bear a financial and occupational burden, then your company will quickly disappear due to a lack of workers and customers.
I only compare gross income because I work remotely. My healthcare costs are the same if I work for German client or US client. And German pay sucks.
Surviving cannot be the ambition of IBM.
A few years ago, thinking of emotions, their ubiquitous appearance in human ccultures and history, and many aanalogues amongst other animals, that these must represent some deep evolutionary role, and adaptive benefit. I then wondered if there were anything in evolutionary biology literature that addressed this.

As it turns out, one of Charles Darwin's last published books is The expression of the emotions in man and animals. Chapter XII addresses self-attention: shame, shyness, modesty, blushing.

https://archive.org/details/expressionofemot1872darw/page/31...

You might care to reasses your casual dismissal of shame's relevance.
GAN and SiC power semiconductor market evolving, says Omdia
Patents have a 20-year lifespan so the common x86_32 patents must have already expired.

As for x86_64, the patents would expire in either 2020 or 2023 depending on if you count from the first published documentation or from the first shipping CPU (IANAL).

Of course that is only the baseline ISA (and SSE2). The future extensions (SSE3+/FMA/AVX and AES-NI/RDRAND/...) would not yet be patent-free but most software is really just compiled against the baseline. Apple managed to split x86_64 into a sub-architecture x86_64h for post-Haswell, but broadly speaking, nobody else has: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/x86-64_micro-architec...
Are fish sauces in Southeast Asia a relic of Roman Empire?
An additional car needs >100m additional road lane, except in unusual and uninteresting cases. Try comparing the tax you pay with the cost of acquiring >300m² of land in the areas where you want to drive and building road on it.
> Linux's sync call is synchronous. You get the same guarantees as you do from fsync. This behavior was introduced in 1.3.20, released in 1995. Prior to that the same sync dance advice was useful since early versions of Linux were more aggressively asynchronous in their handling of disk writes than other contemporary systems. While this helped it compete in benchmarks, it caused data integrity problems when Linux machines started to be put into production (which was one of the reasons motivating the change). Modern Linux systems flush out all the dirty buffers as part of the shutdown sequence and wait for the flush to complete before proceeding to reboot, turning the system off or halting.

I developed a habit (more a tick, really) of invoking sync on Linux. Not just because of shutdown behavior, but because of crash behavior. The Linux filesystem didn't recover very gracefully on a crash, so many times I found myself having to reinstall Linux.

3.5" floppy disks, the media I had to use to install Linux, had a penchant for corrupting themselves while sitting in my desk drawer. A Slackware disk set required something like 8 or 10 or more disks, invariably one of which would have gone bad. I only had a 2400 baud modem, so downloading a replacement disk took forever, and that's after I was lucky enough to find a free BBC (or later SLIP/PPP) line. And because you would only discover a corrupted disk during installation, the process of reinstalling Linux could easily take 1 or 2 sleepless nights given it might happen midway through an install, requiring a reboot back into Windows for downloading and then restarting the process from scratch. (I had high school during the day, and part-time work many week nights.)

So, yeah, a handful of bad experiences and to this day I sync almost religiously. Until recently I would sync three times in a row, manually, presumably because I had picked up the mythic BSD advice somewhere.

I was also fortunate to have had my first accidental `rm -fr /` experience back then, which makes me far more cautious in interactive shell sessions than many others, sometimes to their impatience. Because I had already learned my lesson and became reflexively cautious, I absolutely hated Red Hat Linux, which aliased common commands to request confirmation before destructive operations.
You do raise a very important point. At my organisation, Apache Avro was selected by the Java Devs due to the "cross-platform" marketing. However, they found out after it was too late, that the C/C++ implementations were too buggy/incomplete to effectively interoperate with the Java versions.
In fact, life for the US working class these days is shitty, and it’s not by accident, it’s by design. It was called the Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal consensus, and it was wrapped up with lots of high-flying rhetoric about this freedom and that dynamism and those flexibilities, but you don’t have to be that cynical to see it as good old-fashioned class war. It’s obvious who’s winning.

Yes. Back in the 1970s, the working class was winning. Working class wages were going up 3x faster than CEO wages. The average employee at an auto factory could afford a house, a car, a non-working wife, a college education for his kids, and a good retirement.

That had to stop. So a plan was put together by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.[1] This is the actual memo.[2] It's worth reading. Before this, businesses did not lobby much, except over narrow issues. This got the U.S. Chamber of Commmerce into lobbying for business vs labor on a broad front, with funding from big companies.

It worked. Near total victory over union power in the private sector has been achieved in the US. The 8 hour day, the 40 hour week, and the minimum wage have been made ineffective. Funded retirement plans are history. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." became national policy. Marketed as "individual rights" and "opportunity", of course.

[1] https://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arm...

[2] https://d1uu3oy1fdfoio.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...
I'm kind of offended at all these comments that assume women should be at home by themselves. Men should get paternity leave too.

In most countries they do. You can barf up capitalism nonsense all you want but European countries typically have better health overall, and free education. We could stand to learn a little humanity on the most basic tenants of human decency.

Taking notes on all y'all boys in here who are so busy telling women creating you has no economic value (only the rich white kids whose Mama's sacrificed raised them to work at google get the pay bit no the moms who have birth to them and sacrificed the next 18-21yrs of their lives so you could go to a top tecc company and barf up this entitled nonsense) who doesn't even cross your mind that as a potential father one day you might also be obligated to play a role in birth of your SOs child via paternity leave.

Man I really thought it was a joke that men in silicon valley attend business dinners while their wives are in labour but I guess I believe the women I know from there now.

Good luck parenting your kids and remember to tell your mom thank you every once in a while while you scoop up those six figure salaries..

You spoiled brats.
Won't happen, the risk is 0. Because the Fed's creeping mandate and upcoming elections. The both parties want to buy votes.

If you like your fiat money, you can keep your fiat money (and your Big Government). By the time this is over savers will be completely destroyed.
> I actually find the notion of "patriarchy" incredibly sexist -- were not men the canaries in the coalmine -- the original victims -- for the dehumanization of capitalism?

Given that women didn’t have a vote when the Industrial Age made coal mining into a primary power source, and given that marriage was seen as making the concept of rape logically impossible until 1992 in the UK [0], I disagree.

Separately, I would argue that while capitalism will exploit such prejudices, I don’t think it is the origin of them.

[0] obvious trigger warning applies: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/1991/12.html
I have ignored remote work for exactly this reason - it's obvious that someone on a six figure SV salary can live like a king in Asia but in the SV still may be forced to live in a car (both literally as in rough sleeping or figuratively as in being stuck in commute hours a day). But jobs and people capable and willing to do this are rare in absolute numbers.
It's more of a strategy to maximise short-term gains, and the downsides aren't considered - because they don't need to be.

Public shareholders have absolutely no loyalty to any company they extract wealth from, and they can move their capital elsewhere in seconds. And CxO/execs are typically awarded bonuses on share price movements.

So any action that moves the needle on the share price is a good thing. If this has bad long-term consequences, CxO/execs can always try to bail if they see incoming. They don't always succeed, but they have a fair chance. Employees are more likely to be left without lifeboats in the sinking ship.
When a pilot declares an emergency s/he can rely on the airport and airspace around it being cleared by flight control. If a hypothetical red button was pushed, there would be a standard procedure the aircraft computers execute which in turn can be relied on by flight control.
Interesting to consider whether this limitation of BPE points to a more fundamental issue with the model. Does GPT-3 "fail" when BPE is replaced with the conventional English alphabet as input symbols (for various definitions of "fail")?

If so, wouldn't this be evidence that the model is using its mind-blowingly large latent space to memorize surface patterns that bear no real relationship to the underlying language (as most people suspect)?

I suppose this comes back to my question about Transformer models in general - the use of a very large attention window of BPE tokens.

When I finish reading a paragraph, I can probably use my own words to explain it. But there's no chance I could even try to recreate the sentences using the exact words I just read. So I doubt our brains are keeping some running stack of the last XXXX words, or even some smaller distributed representation thereof.

It's more plausible that we're using some kind of natural hierarchical compression/comprehension mechanism that operating on the character/word/sentence/paragraph level.

It certainly feels like GPT-3 is using a huge parameter space to bypass this mechanism and simply learn a "reconstitutable" representation.

Either way, I'd be really interested to see how it handles character-level input symbols.
As someone literally doing the same thing right now, I feel like the author is missing the point. Perhaps she's too young for the full impact of these tapes to hit.

Yes there are some pretty cool things she described. Finding significant scene transitions, doing audio transcription, etc. can help enhance the project. But I take issue with this statement: "You can only watch old family friends open Christmas gifts so many times"

I've now digitized probably over 50 VHS tapes with more to go. What's particularly striking to me is how old cameras were used. They were used for long continuous captures because they weren't "on you," were ergonomically suited towards it, had no expectation of sharing/editing, and were such a hassle to pull it out you really had to want to use it. That means that unlike today, you might get 30 minutes straight of that "opening of Christmas gifts" and the banal conversation that follows. It really is a snapshot in time who's length lets you fully appreciate the era and the people, along with their essence and personalities.

I'm guessing that most people in the author's life are still alive. She's young enough to not be as sentimental. But as you get older and many important people pass, watching the entirety of this archive is of great value. It's almost like the people in them are still alive by capturing the plainness of the moments instead of just the exceptional.

I wonder if she digitized all those hours at once, or had a service do it for her. If so, then receiving such a large chunk might feel daunting. I've written my own software to automate this with a high end VHS player, but the captures still occur in real-time. It's been my quarantine project. And as such, I've watched far more of this archive than I originally ever thought I would because of the forced serial nature. Each tape brings its own bag of wonderful surprises. And my family couldn't be any more appreciative... everyone watches nearly every video as I send them out, and then shares comments back by email. It's been an amazing gift to my entire family from the past.

I wonder what she plans to use all that machine learning for in the end. Is she really going to be searching for such moments on a frequent basis? I'm guessing not. To me it's not a search problem -- it's a long discovery process about how your own life has unfolded and changed over time.
Yes, but IntelliJ's "Show History for Selection" takes the cake. It opens up a timemachine-like view that shows just the changes/commits affecting that block and lets you scroll through them.
It would take a while, but if sustained, I think these policies would lead to a significant drop in skilled immigration.
If you're looking for worse examples (not to excuse the FDA), there are many.

I've a special place for the Texas Railroad Commission, for example:

https://independentleaguetx.org/legislature-fails-texas-rail...
If you enjoyed this comment you might also like “Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance” by Jane Gleeson-White
Still, as a trained engineer in the US+EU I went for a non engineering career out of university in the early 2000s as even here engineers are badly paid.
If you work in a place where labour laws allow working 1000 percent, why not?
Good for letting us know! You deserve to feel better about yourself already!
How to remove Twitter Trends permanently, both on the site and on the mobile app:

1. Open Twitter in a desktop browser (should work the same on mobile but I did this on desktop)

2. Go to Settings -> Content Preferences -> Explore Settings

3. De-select "Show content in this location"

4. Click on "Explore locations" and select Bhutan

5. Ignore the warning informing you that Buthan's Trending section does not exist, and save.
I always thought of the upper class as relying on return on capital rather than a job. The well educated professionals with high incomes that the article talks about are upper-middle class.
> I am aware how HR works, the question was about the whittled down 100. Appreciate the word salad, though.

Apparently you aren’t aware of any sort of common courtesy. Or how HR works.

Edit: D&I is a deliberate, well-documented effort by many HR departments across many, many large organizations now. Any attempt to reduce this to a cutesy analogy about fractions is highly suspect at best.
LFS?
Ironically, this happened to Apple.
Love Avocados? Thank the Toxodon
Compare to https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1898
> making me download another of your apps

Downloading another app is bad makes me realize mega-apps like Wechat existed for a reason.
And when everyone is fed, housed, clothed and given a smart phone, somebody will still stay "but is the world actually better? Look, inequality is still a thing, that guy has a much better smartphone."

You can't remove capitalism from the last few centuries of massive progress and just say "it would have happened without it as well".
Your last example is a reductio ad absurdum.

It is really easy to say that overcompensation for a mistake is a bad thing when you are on the side who did the initial mistake. A white man in tech, or a citizen of a 1st world industrialized country which grew as an economic behemoth by polluting the world without thinking of the consequences for 50 years.
People gets easily, really easily used to their good conditions and privileges, especially if their real cost is somehow hidden and at the expense of others. It is part of the human nature in the end, but that doesn't mean it is "right".
You could, instead of looking at the score only, also use the tags on imdb to at least guide you to films of interest to you.
They have, in the form of government programs. Moon exploration or the internet didn't need super-companies or ultra rich people.
| Under Moloch, everyone is irresistibly incentivized to ignore the things that unite us in favor of forever picking at the things that divide us in exactly the way that is most likely to make them more divisive.

In social networks the leverage point in eliminating toxoplasma from your life are the bridge people: people who are being rewarded for taking offense in your in-group, and therefore select for the worst possible behavior of the outgroup. These people act as stressors, specifically triggering ideations of worst-case-scenarios. The fix here is removing these people from your feeds/circles of influence.

I wrote more of efficient defense systems in the age of attention at https://sdrinf.com/age-of-attention .
> By staying home, a pregnant woman may have less stress from commuting and from work

Classically in Psychology the stress of planning a holiday is more than the stress of the death of a loved one.

This might now be considered wrong (?), but you are taught this because stress is not what the average person thinks it is.

That said, shopping and going out is now really stressful, it's an ongoing changing conditions we are not used to, so surely they mean physical stress, but not sure why they did not say that?

Is it because you can't politically say if women rest at home when pregnant it's better for the baby?
Yes so I think although salaries can vary 2 or 3 times (probably less post tax) the actual job you do can be a major differentiator in lifestyle.

An artist doing their own thing making the same amount of money as a person at a corporate job has a fundamentally different lifestyle although salaries may be comparable.
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I am really sorry. I could have worded it better. I didn't meant to be condescending to you. My reaction was more to the government.

Governments have a history of putting up solutions that work in their favor by selective enforcement and securing power to self. Encryption debate is one such example.