skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh... that's not counterintuitive. That's the point.

The problem is that right wingers seem to feel that they're part of the conversation. Nobody involved in what they call "cancel culture" cares what right wingers think. They already know what right wingers think. In the US, the right wing exists to oppose everything left wingers want -- even if it's something they used to like. We already know that. It's predictable and obvious.

This is a conversation that the left wing has within itself. Unlike the American right wing, where an irreligious, adulterous, multiply-bankrupt draft dodger can become the universally-beloved darling of the "law and order party" because they are exciting and therefore win elections, the left wing is asking itself hard questions. People aren't always good, even the ones you like, and you need to decide what you're going to do about that.

There's no way to discuss that without elevating it. There's nothing wrong with people knowing that JK Rowling is a transphobe, and that some people are going to be angry enough about it to want to be shut of her. They see transphobia as a threat to themselves, and it won't go away by pretending it doesn't exist. That means airing it.

As I said, nobody really cares what right-wingers make of that. It's safe enough to treat all right wingers as already transphobic: they will, reliably, vote for transphobic candidates, and mock those who want to deal with trans issues because they themselves don't have to care about it. The discussion doesn't involve them, and if they happen to hear about it and invent new epithets to call left wingers, that's just Tuesday.

I'll close by saying, even though it's really not the done thing, that I do find it amusing that I'm about to be downvoted into oblivion by people complaining about "cancel culture". That, too, is OK. I've said what needed to be said, and it's part of a difficult conversation that will be full of false starts and failures. Even among people who didn't reach for the downvote button six words in, there are actual, genuine disagreements that need to be worked out. If it happens here, fine. If not, it will continue to happen.
Yes but is it any better than parquet or hdf?

edit - this looks a good explanation, parquet is more widely used and smaller, but slower.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48083405/what-are-the-di...
"doing different stuff than they were doing a few years back" so engineers who fail and need constant redos? Because the project I'm working on has had the same stable and productive architecture and tools for years. The only reason to redo it would be if the opposite were true. Our users don't know what technology we use. They just know the product does what they want, and keeps getting cool new features.
> It's ironic that you cite social security, which is a giant unfunded liability.

Social security is not an unfunded liability. If you look at your paycheck you will see a line that explicitly goes toward funding social security. It is currently underfunded due to (1) Congressional malfeasance; and (2) the $120K cap on paying into the fund.

Even the underfunding is nowhere near as bad as advertised - current funding is sufficient to pay full benefits through 2035 and about 80% of benefits from 2035-2094. If we pay back the borrowed money and remove the income cap the funding issue would resolve.
I feel like one the best examples of out-spoken minority rules might be the recent rabid defense of confederate statues. I agree that we have yet to see conclusive evidence - but we've got a whole bunch of strong indicators including my absolute least favorite: rampant nepotism.
This is because words lose all meaning with "Agile".

Functional teams and companies will make good products and set up their staff for success, with or without agile.

Dysfunctional teams will have all sorts of perverse incentives and set each other up for failure, with or without agile.
Github too.
Obligatory: https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-ke...
Oh god no, don't seal them in the shoes! The device would require custom shoes with venting to dump heat out of the top of the toebox. Or as you say, an external leg-mounted heatpump, but that sounds quite uncomfortable
>Seriously, I feel like one of the most damaging things to the space as a whole is that it's almost impossible to find a level-headed conversation about it.

Just because you think that someone has to be for or against it, why not see it as plus and minus like every technology?
No it's not. Business management and finance obviously don't mean the same thing. If that wasn't clear, sorry for the confusion.
And it has a broad-level of support through it's libraries!

"Libraries are available for C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Python, R, Ruby, and Rust."
Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks so much.

I hope this is beneficial for others in the same boat as me.
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I've run into 3 big limitations when using Workers:

1) The CPU limit.

2) Not being able to use Node modules.

3) Not being able to add domains other than adding those to our CF account. SSL for SaaS solves this but, so far, it's only available to enterprise customers.

The CPU limit was not so bad when considering Workers were not intended as a general use-case for serverless functions. Now that this has been lifted I feel the Workers environment limitations are going to be much more important.

You can't, for example, use many Node packages in Workers since these are running in a custom V8 environment which resembles browser service workers. I say "resembles" because the API is not 100% identical. For example, you can use streams, but you don't get the full API.
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In San Francisco the guidance has been “you idiots keep having social gatherings, this is why we can’t let you go shopping.” But to me it seems absolutely insane to spend our “exposure budget” on shopping, or on a return to the office. There are perfectly good substitutes for these things. Not so for friends.
I’d like to go on the record as being a GPT-3 skeptic. Yes, it’s a massive improvement over markov models, and yes, it will be used for propaganda. But the AI effect is very strong, and in a year or two people will be used to it and you’ll see more writing to the effect “why GPT-3 wasn’t such a big deal after all”.

Personally, my guess is that it’s actually just plagiarizing the training set in a way that most researchers will come to view as a kind of cheating. What I mean by that is, if you take some plagiarism detection software and run it on GPT-3’s output, it will ring like crazy.

I say this both because I believe it and because if it’s not the case, if we really have a proto-AGI on our hands, then being wrong won’t matter. I sincerely hope that we are a thousand years away from that, because otherwise we are plainly doomed.
Some of us that recognize the severe damage that can be inflicted on you if said documents were to fall into the wrong hands because most companies don't give a shit and allow their CSR to be socially engineered into fucking someone over?
Museums and summer camps are excluding non-white people
> Each officer probably has on the order of a thousand interactions with citizens each year on the low end. Over a ten year period, wouldn’t even a high performing nearly perfect officer violate some rule within their complex policing guidelines just because they are imperfect humans, as we all are?

No, this narrative is disgusting. People don't punch people in the face, choke them, hit them with nightsticks, spray them with tear gas and pepper spray, shoot them with rubber bullets, and fucking murder people, because they're "imperfect humans, as we all are". You wouldn't cut anyone else this kind of slack, stop putting police officers above the rest of us.

People don't report officers because they "violate some rule within their complex policing guidelines", for the simple reason that people don't know all the complex policing guidelines. People report officers because they do stuff that is obviously illegal (or should be).

What's unexpected here are how few officers have received any sort of disciplinary action.
I wrote task manager and I just remembered
What about the .me TLD? I've been waiting on that one for a long time as well, and it was alluded in the past it was soon™.
Americans Now Say They Need Less Money to Feel Rich
> Wanna rock climb and take the risk? We should allow it

That's different from broadcasting a free soloing climbing tournament across the world, and giving rewards to the winners (survivors)

"Allowing" need not meen "encouraging"
The problem isn't farmer's, it's the breathless tone of the journalist who seems to know nothing about aquifer depletion.

Classic capitalism-aggrandizing faux-environmentalism.
I think it's heavily dependent on the company and the employee and that blanket statements about it oversimplify the issue.

Full-remote companies like GitLab seem to have an effective remote-work culture, while others seem to be struggling to convert their existing processes and communication avenues to remote. On the other hand, I dramatically prefer working from an office, while several of my coworkers prefer working from home.
How long does it take to generate a good quality voice?
A month later, this NYC primary is still a train wreck and a warning to us all
Great points and thanks for the encouragement.

Certainly the internet would be a lot better if larger tech platforms were more responsive to the feedback of their users, but you're right that there are entrenched interests that might work against that. We do plan on opening the platform up so that the public can report issues directly to morehumaninternet.org even for websites who have not signed up. At that point, if many other websites are having success in engaging directly with the public and if there's enough demand for certain issues to be looked at, maybe those larger platforms will see that it's in their best interest to respond.

As for integration with Github issues, I definitely like the idea of having the platform feel like a universal way of feeding feedback to site owners, but of course those site owners may use any number of tools internally to track issues (Github issues, JIRA, Trello, etc.) so we'll want to integrate with those platforms. We are planning on allowing users to upvote other users' issues to make it easier for site owners to know which issues are higher priority. To support that, we'll need a publicly accessible link to the issue at morehumaninternet.org but that same issue can be kept in sync with a corresponding card/issue/ticket in some other system.
Hi former-aws: I'm one of the reporters and would like to hear more about your experience. Mind sending me an email at cara.lombardo@wsj.com so we can connect?
I'm working in an outsourcing company on a project which makes use of all kinds of engineers, not the homogeneous programmers working on the same stack in the same language, but actually a lot of diverse tasks - some work on analog hardware, some on digital hardware, some people specialize in controllers A, others in B, some specialists in video, some "regular" application programmers, and the list goes on. And most of engineers are in two offices - one Ukraine, another in Israel.

So this very long preface was about age of our employees - despite working on the exact same problems office in Ukraine almost never hires "older" engineers of any specialization. By "older" I mean probably 50+, maybe even 45+. From the same general space where I'm sitting the oldest I know for sure is 40 years old and he is not a recent hire, so he was hired when he just passed 30 years.

In the Israel on the other hand there are a lot of "older" engineers by share, and they are getting hired being "older", hired because of their experience in all kinds of domains we are working on.

Just wanted to share how this problem looks like in two different countries.
I agree in general but "skills" are not the only valuable commodity. Real experience matters and I personally feel a lot of so called experienced veterans are more like "1 year of experience 10 times" instead of "10 years worth of experience". So that is another challenge with people who have been in the industry for a while.
While most of the Portland protesters have been peaceful, a minority of violent rioters have injured several federal officers.

https://apnews.com/1dd1bb39093a3691f4e78093787ab877

There is no "single movement". There are a variety of movements participating in the protests with a wide range of different goals.
> What's next?

Text To Video webapp that renders text to video + voice synchronised of famous people.

Who wouldn't like to laugh 5X more when social scrolling?

The first platform that enables creators with the ability to produce deep fakes of celebs from text that they can broadcast as HQ video content to their audience will kill both Youtube & Instagram.

Ranking based on likes so the best jokes of the day are trending on top of the feed.

Recommendation engine with a multibandid ML algo from the start so you can leverage all that incoming data.
I find the same, but normally most Apache projects have an overview link at the top of the project.
Given the process of interviewing I think that burden is on anybody who attempts to go through the process of interviewing to a degree, young or old, male, female, or non-binary no matter the color or creed. A normal interview should dig through the qualities of 1 and 2 - although in practice many are downright insane powertripping prejudices that a stranger couldn't possibly know like filtering based upon if they follow arcane, arbitrary and archaic fashion "rules", or if they write a thank you letter afterwards.
Important Open Exposition Problems?
Exactly. But my team didn't think it was a problem, we just forgave ourselves and moved on and I finished testing and deploying early in the next sprint. The problem came when external executives noticed how little we completed compared to our usual throughput and insisted that I be punished for it since I was the bottleneck. My team was just as confused as I was, but I had been meaning to move from QA/Test automation to being a developer for some time, so that just hurried me along and I left within a couple weeks.
I'm waiting for GE to implode. Their pension liability is easily near $100 billion and they have no ability to fund it.

And of course because this is America, we are going to end up giving GE some welfare.
I've had a Prime membership forever, originating from when it actually meant something to have it.

Prime changed from being "We're going to have the package to you in two days" to "We'll get it to you in two days, if we feel like it and it's convenient and inexpensive for us to do so".

Repeatedly, lately, I've bought items based on delivery times only to receive updates a few hours later pushing the delivery times back by days. It's one thing to have an exceptional circumstance during delivery, and quite another to change the committed (was it really?) delivery time within a few hours of the purchase decision.

Yeah, COVID, I get it. But it's not just COVID.
> You need central planning to decide how many cars are to be built

Isn't it what every non-banana-republic is doing already, indirectly [0]. And if we get serious about achieving net-zero economy and price carbon accordingly the car makers will have to adjust even further. They could plant trillions of trees, or they could make fewer cars. Up to them. I am just saying that in my view making fewer cars will be a more viable economic decision. And consumers will redirect their purchasing power to something else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_emission_standard
I think that's the point in the UK HMRC is super strict on that.

I recall 20 years ago a large UK company wanted to offer free tea and coffee as a perk.

And avoid also to avoid every group having its own coffee/tea club - which lead to messy looking offices and also incidents when some ones decides to take Wally" to task for not contributing.

Basically HMRC said oh that's nice here's the tax bill so that was the end of that.

Ironically it bit the HMRC in the ass as the CFO used the ability to distribute profit based tax free shares as a big F&% you.
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Ok, that's a fair point.

If we change my hypothesised experiment to be add high glucose concentration to cells and look for a cancerous tumor that is greater than $size after $time, I think you'd find an effect (you can read about the effects of hyperglycaemia on cancer, and given that a cancer is present, it will grow more quickly in the presence of more glucose).

I guess I wanted to clarify that glucose doesn't cause cancer, but I think I understand your point now, and I think we're in agreement.
Everyone working at a large tech organization above a certain size on projects of central importance to the organization has worked on projects split like this.

Does no one have a project management/coordination role for your team? It's literally their job to make sure this doesn't happen.
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https://github.com/lsds/faasm

Looks like Python there is an existing python <-> wasm interop
> Most of the people writing OSS do it for fun/side project/to solve a problem, not for the money.

Not to pick on you personally, but this sort of assertion is often thrown around with no data.

It's not even clear to me that it's one or the other. For me personally it was always a mixture of both -- there's a lot of fun but I wouldn't do it without the money. But that's kinda true for my non-OSS engineering work, too!

> pure engineers

I see what you're saying, but I think there is an element of "making a product" that goes into almost any new OSS project; there is an attraction of exploring the product space from a fresh start that is part of the motivation of many many new open source projects.

(Also I think the notion that a "pure engineer" doesn't care about all those things is just wrong, but that's a whole other conversation.)
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Haha! Given they listed k8 and JS together with ML, clearly that must be something "trendy", i.e. Machine Learning. I love how acronyms can be translated completely differently depending on where you're coming from.
Ok, that’s a big nope for me and my use case. I’ll check back in a year or so.
> remote or in-office makes very little difference

(Genuinely asking) what makes you think that way? From what I have seen, remote works only if everyone on the team is remote and timezone differences are somehow taken care of. If you are the only remote member of the team and everyone else is in office in close proximity of each other, you are going to suffer mainly in terms of career growth.

Here are the things remote members miss out on when a lot of team members are in office: water cooler conversations (great to forge bond and trust), quick one-minute clarifications, grabbing a minute from your super busy bosses (when they are walking from one meeting to another), grokking and perceiving things that are not said during in-person 1:1's (important for managers or leads to understand the issues of their team members) etc. If you are missing out on all this while the rest of your team members have these advantages, guess who is going to be more productive in the long run?
Ask HN: Assume GTP-X arrives in 6 months and is 100X – what now?
After reading https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6vZEnCn6A95Xn39p/are-we-in-an-ai-overhang I was thinking...

What would a 100x improvement on GTP-3 do to your employability, for example? What changes would this bring in the short term? Medium term? What should one do to stay afloat in the medium term?

For the purposes of this question, I don't care about the details of the network/GTP etc... just the outcomes of a 100x improvement in results.
What’s your carb limit on a keto diet, 20g, 30g or 50g?
I can say with all sincerity, that I have been on projects like that.

And because "remote' is such an incredible afterthought, co-dev production is harmed immensely as a kind of collateral damage.

I have worked in companies that did this right, we had offices in NYC/London/Bangkok and we did everything over RT tickets+IRC, mostly because it was incredibly frictionless (yes, I know IRC and RT are not the best tools in the world, but once they were set up and everyone was in people preferred using them to taking in person meetings).

Contrast with today: we have teams in Sweden, UK, North Carolina, San Francisco and Helsinki- and we use Jira/Teams/Confluence as our "tools".... but they're so /slow/ that we have to be dragged through the coals to use them, we much prefer in-person meetings, we much prefer hashing things out over a coffee.. and thus, our co-dev is very much out of the loop, and it's "odd" (as in, not default) to include them. So what happens is we carve out bits of responsibility and we restrict immensely the communication channels.. in fact some peoples entire job is to ensure those communication channels run smoothly.. and it's still very many shades of terrible.

I want to blame the tools, but really, it's the culture, if you're more comfortable engaging over IM/Tickets w/e then it doesn't matter if you're sitting 10ft away or 100mi away.
Strange logic.

We're doomed regardless. We don't have a thousand years. Maybe not even 100.
I think your product would work great as an "a la carte" consultancy, it seems well aligned with startups which may have some incentives to pick particular pieces but need help to wire it together - and already need to allocate a developer's salary to do it.
Most Americans don't have these either.
Now Arrow already stable hopefully TileDB can properly support it since they really complement each other [1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15561090
All the quantum numbers that define a particle can be looked at as values within a dimension. It's possible that some are redundant in the standard model, or not the greatest basis.

The simplest states that exist in the largest dimensions we know of are the position/spacetime states. String theory posits that these little tiny looped strings of matter, exist in dimensions that are on the verge of a planck length. They just loop around. If you went from where you are, to where I am, you'll have looped around those tiny string dimensions a crap ton of times.
> As developers, we are often one of the last lines of defense against potentially dangerous and unethical practices.

> We’re approaching a time where software will drive the vehicle that transports your family to soccer practice. There are already AI programs that help doctors diagnose disease. It’s not hard to imagine them recommending prescription drugs soon, too.

> The more software continues to take over every aspect of our lives, the more important it will be for us to take a stand and ensure that our ethics are ever-present in our code.
It could be argued that every time a company comes out with a new product they are adding alternative revenue streams. By this definition it happens all the time.
You will even more so if your part of a couple - a lot of places wont want your SO listening in of conference calls.
Yeah, it's usually a mistake for a manager to have 1 report, except in temporary situations like you are planning to have a 6-person iOS team, the team started off with just a manager and a budget, and they just hired the first person.

An org chart is like a B-tree; if you split it up and create a new node too early, you'll have more inefficient hierarchy than you need. Wait until one team is getting large before splitting it into multiples.
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