skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, the ranking needs constant tweaking to deal with spam/SEO.
You're fine. HN is uniquely unsuited to judging the quality of humor.
https://www.afr.com/rear-window/is-news-corp-still-paying-ze...

> ... there’s the withholding tax [News Australia Holdings] pays on interest it pays to a News Corp associate offshore, which News likes to lump in with income tax.

(AFR is Fairfax / Channel 9, take that what you will.)
“Why?” Questions
Better off in what sense? I think it depends on one's life goals and value system. I've seen people live amazingly fulfilling lives in flyover country while making average incomes, far better than an average income earner stuck in a big city.
You can already do this on Linux with the infra docker taps into.

The BOINC project for distributed computing research uses this method
I agree, and argued as much. Going so far as ask what their policy would be if I rent a cheep room, return every few months, and pay local taxes.

My argument being that If I remain local but because of a long commute and choose to be full time remote, how would they really know the difference.
Then one planet would not be enough to hold this much of population.
Off-topic, but please tell us more about the diagramming app.
>reason is what is not present in statistical inference.

But why think reason isn't a kind of statistical inference? GPT-3 demonstrates a rudimentary capacity for reasoning and its "merely" a statistical inference engine.
(rant)

> they behave much better...

https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-inter...

> decent custodians of their users data

They cannot protect that data from law and enforcement no matter what. De-anonymized, aggregated, ephemeral... no matter which way you look at it, data they collect is a ticking time-bomb. And because they amass so much, others that have similar business models are forced to follow suit, so much so that it has heralded us into an era where companies like Facebook [0], FourSquare [1] build and promote spyware without remorse or regret.

Smartphones have only added to the problem. It is madness to claim anyone in big-tech is "well behaved". I'd wager that they're well-behaved only when it is convenient [2].

> I trust Murdoch less than the government, much much less than Google

Peak Silicon Valley?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16363694

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19341079

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17581988
I always wondered why kids could learn a handful of languages and adults struggle to learn anything past one.

Language is an interesting one. Maybe it’s my personal bias but it seems a lot easier to learn other things than language as an adult. Instruments, skills, etc.
To me that meaning checks out, but is a bit archaic. It’s how you might see it used in an older translation of the Bible, or a 19th century translation of the Greek tragedians, or maybe Tolkien, or something like that.

Modern, and especially colloquial, usage tends to be as a synonym of “envious”, so far as I know. “I’m jealous of her hair”. “His Instagram posts of his beach house make me so jealous”. “Stop mocking her car—you’re just jealous”. I don’t think I’ve ever heard or seen the older meaning intended in colloquial speech or all but the stuffiest of writing in the last 20+ years.

So, as is typical, two useful words have become one word through misuse.
Have you ever been to Chicago? There is nothing like the museum scene there in San Francisco.
> But as renewables get cheaper and more useful, at some point it becomes worth it to pay the cost of renewables rather than continue to have a ~1 year reduced life expectancy

Why is nobody talking about nuclear though? The energy density of nuclear blows everything else out of the water, and so far it's been CO2 free for the most part and safer or at the same level of safety as renewables (btw there is no such thing as 'renewable' energy, it's an abuse of language).
Your link doesn't work. I think HN makes you leave a space between the URL and the quote if you want it not to mangle the URL.
It's like asking "why is a flopping disc the icon for Save? Still today?" It's because it's the easiest approach to understanding "this means Save".

If eggs are what's for breakfast, fine. Don't make me think. It's too early.
San Francisco's budget is $12B/year.
Hmm, I'm 45 and it doesn't seem hard. I think adults have a lot less time and more stress rather than some hobbled brain.
Being on other side of the interviews like this , trust me most interviewers know that .

The logic being if you can pick up leetcode in few
months you can pick up most things on the job fast.

Understand that interviewers are first and foremost are looking for ability to learn and understand complex topics , it is not all that important which specific topic it is.

nobody really knows what you will be working on by the time you join or 6months later , even if the interviewer wanted to it he is not able to ask the right questions beyond the basgics.

Also university education in IT is woefully behind the industry. Functional programming, or dev tooling is barely covered in most places . Maybe they teach MVC a bit , I don’t expect most kids to understand CQRS or event programming .

Similarly I would be pleasantly surprised if you have setup a simple app, I wouldn’t expect you to know nuances between different cloud vendors , or have experience with zipkin,istio, helm , grafana or similar tools or be able to grok a explain analyse and fine tune a 500GB dB.

it is unlikely a fresh grad has production experience at best they may already know some frameworks and maybe developed a few small apps of their own, however working in large project with 1m+ lines and complex tooling is a skill that takes time to learn , there is a lot of gotchas in every area you will learn only when you see it .

So all I am left with is, does this candidate know the basics , can he understand and learn fast .

That is why these questions make sense for junior developers and never for senior devs.
Despite this being obvious hn catnip, I’m interested.

I loved the little and seasoned schemer books, yet found both racket and CL somehow divergent and unappealing.

Does anyone here use it? I can’t find if it deals with continuations well. I’ve never used many languages that allow eloquent use.
You kinda made his point.

Hanging out with a group of guys with everyone drinking a ramos gin fizz while overlooking the Pacfic doesn't seem what the average guy would seek in a bar.

What does on point mean? Is this a drink you order everywhere and the quality at this place is comparable to others you've tried?

Is Gin a popular choice for a young person in sf?

"Ramos Gin Fizz is on point and you can sip it while looking out plate glass windows overlooking the Pacific."
> For now. If it's not sustainable for more than a few centuries then our offspring are in for a rude awakening.

Typically you don't make plans for the future by assuming nothing ever improves.
This is just Android's problem, but I sometimes very hard to copy PDF's URL:

Chrome for Android doesn't support to load PDF so it automatically downloads and opens in another PDF app. Reading PDF in app is fine but I can't copy url from app because it's already downloaded.
Normally I can just copy url from link but some site like Google and Twitter uses link jumper so I unable to copy url.

Yes it's same as other file types that can't be opened by browser, but other file types are rarely directly linked. PDF shouldn't be first-class citizen in web.
Could you elaborate more on that or perhaps give specific illustrative examples of how one may do so? This will benefit a lot of us at FAANG. Thanks!
While I laud the analysis, the methodology seems questionable at best. Lacking strawberry, quinoa, chia, and even paprika. Where's the rigour?
There's been a very noticeable drop in quality in The Age's reporting though. And then there was this back in June:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/14/journalists-at...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/18/age-editor-ale...
Australia is 'nice' when the powerful are winning all their arguments.

Terrorism, climate change, the challenge to single-narrative media, gay marriage, and a number of other examples of recent societal change are shifting the ground underneath the powerful, and they're not winning 'naturally' as often as they'd like, so they're resolving to win 'unnaturally', which very quickly degenerates from a position of 'nice'.

Sky News is what it is because of chasing popularity. Unfortunately it has a suitably sized audience to maintain it's virulently ignorant and hateful narratives. It's representative of a distilled version of a Australia's hopes and dreams for the future. Oh so sadly.
You are now about to witness the extent of my oxbridge[1] knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McMSHqWM3G8

[1] to understand this locution it may help to understand that there is also a breakaway technical college somewhere off in the fens...
You can provide frequency control in one part to keep another part stable. For example if you have a part of your grid with a high level of renewables (for example, South Australia), system stability can be provided by large intertia generators in other parts of the grid (in our example, coal power stations in Victoria).

Take away the interconnect, and the islanded part of the grid is no longer stable, requiring the renewables to be switched off and replaced with gas and diesel generators. This happened after a storm earlier this year:

https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/sa-to-remain-cut-off-fr...
There is no such thing as absence of influence. Government funding always comes with political influence, and almost always negative.

Norwegian sovereign fund is an investment fund that holds a tiny fraction of each public companies stock in its fund. For the UK to engineer a purchase of ARM would require raising $32B, offering to kick in 1.3% would go nowhere. Anyone with 99% of $32B doesn’t need the UK.

An alternate deal is only possible if the UK offered to kick in a large part, probably at least $10B, and taking a large minority stake. At that level they’d have to have significant influence, or the politicians who engineer it will get run right out of office. What if the new owner moves R&D from the UK?
> Ultimately, as long as they have anything resembling "secret sauce" they will be in the cross hairs of regulators for unfair treatment

I don't see how this follows: this regulation isn't precipitated by "unfair treatment" of news media, nor are the gov't and media pretending it is. Quite the opposite: this is a plea for giving news media an unfair advantage.
I took the video to be more like "This Snowden guy -- how would you (the media) cover it if I pardoned him? How would you cover it if the pardon also came with some dirt I need?" This type of test will serve to settle his direction without having to completely remember his past positions, or even precisely who Edward Snowden is.

This is a bit different than the way we do it -- we expect more statistical power with a saved history of repeated trials. "Floating" has been mentioned here. Perhaps "floating" involves trying two different frames to see how the media covers each, rather than numerous A/B trials for more statistical power.
I'm an atheist with zero spiritual inclinations whatsoever, but it does seem to me that science has not properly grappled with the hard problem of consciousness.

Everything I've read that tackles it from a science perspective seems like side-stepping, weasel words ("emergent property"), or wholesale denial ("it's an illusion"). Not very scientific!

There seems to be a collective hubris at play, where people are afraid to say "I don't know".
It is not correct to say that the elite has always been able to insulate themselves from disaster. The Paris Commune, revolutionary France in general, or non-State societies dont have that issue (taking the state to mean an instrument of class conflict, which is the definition that's appropriate here).

You just need a government that wasn't captured by the rich, or any other elite. It's not impossible to attain. In fact, simply making the justice system free of charge and not allow advantages from money, the castration of the power of the executive, electoral reform to end the two-party system, income caps on representatives with complete removal of external financing, the implementation of referendums on major bills every 6 months and bolstering of direct democracy, réglementation on media to limit consolidation and financing, super-linear fine in relation to income, increased taxation of the top earners, and universal Healthcare.

It even that doesn't work, then the nuclear option is to progressively turn every corporation of over 3-10 employees into a co-op. Now you really can't have an elite anymore.
so, i'm not getting this. they take revenue, not profit offshore. profit meaning global profit. you want to tax the money they make in your country, without them first paying expenses in other countries?

so if i have developers and research in america, and software sales in australia, my australian costs are $0, and all revenue is taxable profit. yeah, that seems fair. double fair for australia.
Well, the LA mayor said he was going to turn off water and power to home that continue to hold parties.[1]

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53680761
> The idea that web companies are liberal and unfair to conservatives is popular and widespread.

For being unfair to conservatives, it's not clear, but web companies being liberal is pretty much a fact. Even Zuck said it directly in last year's congressional hearing - I forgot the exact words but he pointed out that Silicon Valley is located in a very progressive State so it's hard not to account for that trend within the company employees as well.
While these events are terrible, I am pleased that the decisions made by Ofqual are open to judicial review—and that the Good Law Project are considering issuing a claim to force Ofqual to fix this mess.
Lol, you can ‘confidently assure’ huh?

Clicking that link, turns out I’ve had all of those personalisation features switched off for nearly a year.

Don’t be so confident that your ranking/personalisation products are universally appreciated
This article perfectly articulates my sentiments about the "hard problem of consciousness". It's a made up problem. There is no such thing as consciousness. It's a term we made up to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the matter in the universe because we wanted to feel special. There is no mystery of consciousness, the only mystery is why humans are incapable of accepting the fact that they are just stuff, like any other matter in the universe.
The ABC (our government funded "for the people" service) only changed their tune, a bit, since the libs threatened, and followed through with, budget cuts. Oh, and the unprecedented event of Prime Minister Turnbull ringing the head of the ABC to complain about an article that was eventually found to be primarily based on sound economics. (yes, Australia's leadership are that petty).
I know living in a city contrary to living in the middle of nowhere really depends on how your kids will be. I would've preferred if I had been living in a city my whole life. Especially as a child to young adulthood. I did everything there is to do while not living in a city. The outdoors with being able to do whatever is nice but the social dynamic of a life in a city is hands down superior than anything imo. Something to consider as it can really be different per individual.
Which is what's happening right now.

The only difference would be that you don't need to do industrial espionage on google to see what works first, so the cost of the seo would drop.
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Salton Sea is indeed gross, but it used to be a lake, but then drained, so I understand it's a mix of farm runoff and dead fish.

My comment was in jest anyways, nothing wrong with the Death Valley ecosystem.
It's lacking everything. Eggs and paprika are cheap as hell. The amazing egg is healthy despite 40 years lies
Irrelevant ads in this situation, sounds like they are less annoying than invasive ads
Of course the public application could just scrape Facebook, as the Supreme Court has ruled that webscraping is not illegal (well, at least in the United States). [0]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kek83/linkedin-data-scra...
> He has control over the FDA, which bungled the early response. He also controls the CDC and has appointed many inexperienced donors to important positions (many of my friends work there, and whistleblowers have come forward).

Yet this has nothing to do with the fact that whether to go into lock-down or not and what kind of measures to take are taken by State actors, not the federal government. We can see that right now with the debate on school opening: the Federal government has no power.

I am not sure where you think that States play almost no role, the USA is one of the countries where the local States have the most power compared to any other Western democracy out there.
Those who quote George Santayana are doomed to repeat him.
I'd say it's not a good choice if like your example, you want to integrate with a mature web framework, or something else that only Python has (though Julia FFI allows to call Python almost like you're writing python directly in the Julia code), or if you already have an infrastructure in Python.

For run-of-the-mill numerical computation, like you said it's good writing loops and code that is really natural and run it fast. Most commonly used algorithms for data science and scientific computing are already written in Julia, you don't need to write them from scratch. But it's good to have libraries that you can easily inspect, understand and extend within your code.
Mac os quietly removed the paragraph sign for me when switching keyboards to non-apple ones if you used a non-standard layout that had moved the key they use to detect what kind of keyboard you are using.

It wouldn't have been much of a bother, had I not used the key as my Emacs leader...
SF is not that great even for young single professionals that would like to start a family at some point.
Yet. Support for these and more is coming: https://github.com/webassembly/proposals
How do you define a "good school"? At least in CA, it seems to be test scores, which aren't just a reflection of the school, but also the students. Low income students who don't get support at home from parents or even an emphasis on education are probably going to have low test scores no matter how good the school is.
Consciousness does exist in some form though. The "experience" of sensations that we're both having right now is what many would label being conscious surely? I too don't think it's anything necessarily magical or separate from physicality about it, but it certainly exists.
People don't yell in close proximity to me on public transit.
(googler, opinion is my own)

My understanding is that Google is locally incorporated in australia, as you can see on this page[0], at least for Ads, likely other businesses. If you select Australia on there you will see Ads payments are made to "Google Australia Pty Limited".

[0] https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375370?hl=en
Look up transfer pricing
As a teenager / college-aged kid, I provided "IT assistance" to family, friends, and friends of family/friends for a fee.

One of my best clients was middle-aged mother of three - let's call her Pat, because that's close enough - whose home IT setup always needed a lot of extra love. Weird viruses on old machines, ancient printers that had to be coaxed to work well when shared over a network, "what laptop should I buy my son for college" - the usual.

She was a court reporter, by trade. I had to help her with her laptop and court reporting software / hardware from time to time - it was very interesting. She had a custom "keyboard" that only had 10-15 unlabeled keys that really looked more like long and thin paddles than anything else; it worked with a program that recorded audio and tracked it to her inputs.

So she could wind the report back to any given point in time, and it would highlight what she'd typed as it went. So if she needed clarification on something - she could enable audio playback that showed what she had transcribed, not unlike a karaoke machine.

It was all very interesting stuff. I was a little sad when I had to tell her that I couldn't do work for her anymore, because I didn't have the time to do side work due to a developing career and social life.
> some kind of first-class OS-agnostic APIs for outside the browser

That's called WASI
> "Coming in 2020-09/11" doesn't scan anywhere near as well, and would confuse way more people than it would satisfy.

Sure, but those aren't our only options. "Late 2020" or "towards the end of 2020" capture that kind of vague time frame at least as well.
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eBay makes it easy to filter by location.
I was explaining this to someone on twitter the other day. Well said.
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For Windows folks, now that Window 10 WSL2 has been released, running Wordpress locally in something like Ubuntu seems like a better way to go.

I find the drawbacks to WSL2 is that (1) there's no one-click GUI that will install Ubuntu + Wordpress; console commands are still required. It's still a virtual container, so network/file access isn't directly accessible like you get with XAMPP. There was an issue where webservers hosted inside WSL2 were not available on localhost, but that looks to be resolved and should hopefully be available to everyone soon: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5298

You could also install Docker inside WSL2 and run a WordPress image. However, wrapping your head around Docker poses its own challenges. Tutorials for Docker + Windows aren't really up to speed with WSL2 and troubleshooting often gives out-of-date advice. For instance PHPStorm Wordpress + Docker tutorials have files mounts from Windows into the container, which gives poor performance. However, I did have luck getting WordPress up and running on my local machine in Docker following this guide: https://www.singularaspect.com/phpstorm-using-xdebug-for-wor...
You might prefer this description of breakfast:

https://meaningness.com/eggplant/routine
ARM isn’t independent if the UK takes a stake. It’s beholden to those politicians, and those politicians are beholden to their key supporters.

NVidia will be contractually obligated to support ARM customers. If over time they do a poor job, they just flushed $32B down the drain.this is an imaginary problem that requires zero preemptive government action. It’s like trying to stop someone from buying an expensive car they can afford on the unsupported theory they won’t take care of it.
Let's google win the next elections
:)

I might try compiling it on my personal machine this week while I’m at work. I’ll keep you informed as well if anything interesting happens.
I was referring to your reference [1].

The AU government wants to give private media a leg up, but won't allow the ABC (or SBS) to receive any moneys from Google/FB, and at the same time regularly cuts funds to both the government funded media entities.
My car registered 114 as I passed through Stockton, CA today.
It's a little hard to digest, but definitely food for thought.
It is like Java bytecode, but design geared more towards supporting C.

Wasm in many ways is dumb. They could have easily adopted CLR or JVM bytecode. But no, the web is too "cool" for that. It's better to have a brand new VM that's slower and missing GC and a standard library.
This is so cool! Incoming rabbit hole of electric grid research...
There are a lot. My favorite in my short look:
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