skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think it is necessary. It's one thing to share your experience about remote work as the author does. It's something entirely different to interleave it with with vague concerns of economic hardship for younger people or stunted career growth for women. What is the purpose of this?

In my mind I imagine a boardroom full of Don Draper types sipping scotch and smoking cigarettes fretting over the decline in office leasing revenue while Draper spins a brilliant web of fiction. "We'll tell them that it is bad for the careers of women and we'll make them miss the smell of their co-worker's day old spaghetti as it spins on the microwave turntable. We'll even make them long for the awkward interactions in the hallway while they go down a level to the inconveniently placed restroom on the floor below. They'll eat it up."

The anti-remote work hit-piece aspect is really my point. To me these articles feel like some kind of thinly veiled attempt to make people believe they missed working in the office. Maybe even make people fear for their futures if they don't work in an office. Maybe this isn't the case and isn't what the author intended, but that is how it reads to me.
Ah, for sure. Thanks! Too bad the editing window is past.
Not sure if Gates has shown that.

> According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans believe that Bill Gates is plotting to use a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a pretext to implant microchips in billions of people and monitor their movements — a widely debunked conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.[0]

[0]: https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-shows-cor...
I think OP is just saying that articles written by bots are currently worse than articles written by people, while pondering the time in the future where articles written by bots are better than those written by people. I'm pretty sure OP is commenting on the quality of writing in general, not journalism...

So...who's cynical here?
Before Neuralink: we can already connect our brains
I've been a manager for only 7 years now, but so far I've actively avoided managing personal friends.

Good work colleagues, having a pint after work once in a while, sure. But I wouldn't manage people I spend time with on the weekends.

I can easily see myself either being too harsh on them to compensate, or inadvertently giving them a pass instead of feedback when necessary.
And what if you don't have anyone to ask? The article very clearly states why the documentation is useless for a beginner.

Other OSes have a concept called forgiveness that allows you to easily reverse a change you made explicitly so that you can experiment with it and figure things out for yourself. The problem is that Unix fundamentally doesn't allow you to figure things out by yourself. You absolutely need either a manual (that you will never find if you haven't already been told how to find it), or you need to have someone you can ask questions to.
This is such a nice thing to market because you can laser focus on niches. However, the copy on this landing page reads like a technical specs sheet.

I suggest you take the three benefits you have below the headline (affordable, precise, easy to use) and rewrite the copy by expanding on the benefits. Also use the examples listed. Like, how is this a great buy for a home brewer?
Though by that standard most humans would be right wing.
And then there is prototype polymorphism (SELF, JavaScript), pattern based polymorphism (BETA), component based polymorphism (COM, SOM, UWP), protocol based polymorphism (Objective-C, Swift, Smalltalk), ....

That is the thing, there isn't one OOP.
Sweden. My grandmother had it and I worried. But she survived and didn't even get any symptoms. I think it's a sham. I don't wear a mask but I'm careful with my hands and wash them a lot. I avoid crowds too.
I'm asking, why is there a conflict? Why don't you know whether or not that tuple is in the relation before you start?

In OLTP, this practice (UPSERT) would cause all sorts of mayhem.
"let" is not accurate word choice, for mukrtiple reasons.
bit of literary history, William Shakespeare’s father was a glove-maker. This factoid is considered one bit of evidence that Shakespeare really was Shakespeare (that is, not a cover for Francis Bacon or some ludicrous conspiracy).

One of the arguments against his authorship is, "how would the son of a glove-maker have gotten the sort of education that would have produced such fine writing?" This reveals an ignorance of the sort of craftsmanship required to make gloves by hand in ye olden times or even today. Shakespeare Sr. would have been among the upper echelons of tradesmen and non-nobility.
It's depressing knowing how large swaths of people are anti science and have made it part of their political identity to boot
You don't drop out and get 120M.

You drop out, start a company because nobody wants you, get some seeds funding with sheer luck, grow the business progressively, hire some more people, grow some more and eventually raise 2 more rounds reaching 120M. That takes many many years.

It's a massive combination of luck and being at the right place at the right time selling an okay thing. Then persevering over numerous years and executing decently. Most people won't get there not because they are incapable but because they don't have the environment and the bit of luck.
Top Companies Experimenting with 4-Day Work Weeks
I was just watching another mostly Molyneux centered documentary:
30 Years of God Game History | Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, Spore and more
https://youtu.be/gt4-tBFIcsI
I always saw the stock market as governed by heavy hands and hype, and always assumed that investors need to MOSTLY base their financial models on a simulation of heavy hand agents and hype rather than fundamentals.

If we wanted a stock market based on fundamentals, it should not be a free market. Instead, the power to set prices should be left to qualified experts in each stock's industry, and stocks should be allowed to change hands only at those prices. The experts should come from both scientific and business backgrounds and not analysts who spend their lives on Wall St. and are so incredibly out of touch with technology. Unfortunately the reality of the system we have created is that the more knowledgeable you are about something, typically the less money you have, and the more money you have, the less knowledge you have. We need to reverse that.
I get a long fantastically with my manager. We do happy hours every other Friday. I'd probably invite him to a BBQ at my house or something like that. But I don't think I consider him a friend. That said, I _am_ friends with some of my old managers, and (as a manager) with some of my old employees.

For current, active working relationships? Nope. We keep that professional distance. Once we no longer work together, I'm open to closer relationships with them. It usually doesn't happen, though.

The truth of the matter is that the thing most of us have in common with one another is that we work together, and once that's no longer true, there's just not that much more to the relationship, and so we inevitably drift apart.
What is this weird spam?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR99DO1AKJrh_GGg...

I gave up on the story when it started to get romantic because I wasn't really in that kind of a mood at the time.
People love to repeat this accusation, but it's true only for smallish local papers. And for them, I don't even see what's so terrible about it: agencies came about as a model to cooperate without merging, and it allowed even small-town newspapers to inform their reader about national and international events.

For papers like the NYT, WSJ, or WP, every story with a byline involves a day's work at least. They read the feeds, sure. But if read carefully, you will notice (among other things) that almost every story will state that the journalist tried to get into contact with the major subjects of the story. It will either include their comment, or something like "... declined to answer/did not respond to inquiries/etc".

Then, there are the magazines, like the Atlantic or New Yorker. They make up a good chunk of what's generally considered "journalism", and rewriting wire stories just isn't something they do.
That is as irrelevant as the people second-guessing messages: “was this written by a woman?”

Judge the content, not the source.
Pareidolia, face detection on grains of sand
I can't even imagine how huge a chip on your shoulder you must need to interpret the parent comment so ludicrously.
Meh, I think you are over-correcting a bit here. GPT-3 is not just your standard annual incremental progress in AI.
"Uh hey? Fella? can you do me a solid and take this small bag through customs and onto London for me? It's, er, floppy disks"
The early EA games on the Amiga really had some magic about them, down to the box designs and the tone of their ads. It really felt like a whole new era with new possibilities was on the horizon.
Thanks for your answer, and I see where you are coming from. But your unix is not the same as my unix. For me, unix means programs that can be easily written using only the getchar and putchar functions. If you have "types" and whatnot, it's not unix.
Have you read The Mastermind?

I won't spoil things, but what a man Paul Le Roux is.... SUrprised there aren't 10 documentaries & films on Netflix about him.
>which isn't really logical, since Gold is a save haven, usually.

I don't know anything about anything, but it seems to me this is a logical consequence of inflation? Purchasing power of $ goes down, prices (of everything) go up.
It is notable, though, that the source of the word "dictator" did come from the Roman Republic, which would have the senate appoint a dictator for a term of 6 months during major war crises when they needed a unified front and quicker decision-making.

In fact, Julius Caesar was "dictator in perpetuity" of Rome when he was assassinated.
The niche will be a multitude of single-reader "filter bubbles". The AI will figure out what the reader wants, and give it to her/him as intensely as possible. Eventually the content produced for particular readers will only be roughly literate, let alone clever or stylish. Other humans might not even be able to read it, but the marketing bots won't have any trouble. One would like to think that literature in general can survive this hyper-personalization, but optimism is cowardice.
This article is mostly about options trading. If you take a basic options course and learn about greeks, some of it will start to make sense. Tasty Trade and TD Ameritrade offer free courses, though you might need to open an account for the latter.
I let him out when I'm out with him, but I don't really live in a place where he can get free reign. The first 7 years of his life, he had to stay in, I lived in a busy industrial area with no yard, there was always vehicles and machinery around, I found more than a couple dead cats(among other cat sized animals) in the area over the years.

Where I live now, there's a fenced yard, but there's a busy highway a block away, a pack of coyotes that lives up the street, a couple owls that live in the yard, a few eagle's nests, there's regularly bears and racoons and a fair bit of forest just behind the yard.

His life as an indoor cat hasn't really given him the instincts to look after himself. He walks and lays out in thr open, doesn't really understand he can jump on things until he tries, doesn't hide from shadows or other things outdoor cats do to avoid dying.

He seems pretty happy getting to go out with the dogs and stuff though. He tends to stick by them and alerts when they do and stuff. He doesn't try to escape or anything unless we're going outside with the dogs, then he's right there at the door with them.

We did leave a window open one time recently and he jumped out. But he freaked himself out or something when he couldn't get back in. He was just lying under the window when I got home and went running back in as soon as I opened the door and wouldn't go outside for a couple days.
How someone who is visually impaired uses an iPhone
Zuckerberg has always been obsessed with power.

He was leading all-hands meetings by having the teams shout "Domination!"[0][1] He's always been obsessed with Roman Emperors too, particularly Augustus (though as a Romanophile myself, I relate). Kara Swisher mentions this a lot. Even in his early days he was the "alpha nerd." Dude is obsessed with power and always has been. He explicitly cultivates this image of being above it all and just wanting to connect the world, but if you watch Facebook/Zuckerberg's actions they're always about expanding power. Similarly, Augustus PR was legendary enough to found a dynasty. He never called himself an Emperor, just the "first citizen", a citizen like everyone else, and he only was the "first" one to provide peace and stability to the people.[2] He only acquires personal power at all costs for you. Also, Zuckerberg builds shadow profiles of everyone that ever browses a website that has a facebook 'Like' button on it because it and will never delete your data because he's creating a connected global utopia.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2012/05/network-effects-and-global-dom...

[1] https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/11/17221344/mark-zuc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeps#Roman_Emperor
Interesting!

You want secure asemic cipher? say hello to Format-preserving encryption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format-preserving_encryption
A rising tide lifts all boats. If the majority of the money in the market is on autopilot then why not fluctuate it?
I think it’s dangerous to be friends with bosses, it can cause you to lose perspective on what the relationship between you and your work actually is: you sell your labour, usually for far less than it is worth to the company.

I believe it is healthier to have a stark perspective on what is actually happening in employer/employee relationships, and keep work as something that I do in order to be able to afford a place to live and food to eat and nothing more. Whether I enjoy whatever job I have at the time is secondary to this: it’s a bonus, but again I try very hard not to let my job become a part of how I see myself.

If you let yourself become “friends” with your boss I think you’re in danger of blurring these lines and getting into the strange position where not only must you do something you don’t necessarily want to do, but you must do it or let a “friend” down. This seems like a fast-track way of burning out.
Ahh I've gotta find my buddy Glenn and tell him the game he did the artwork for, artwork which Royal Mail then minted _on a stamp_, is top of HN!
And Bezos and Bloomberg and...
In zen context -
Don't force yourself to start over. You will start over when you have to. Until then just try to be aware and have guilty pleasure. Some people call it meditation while some call it acceptance. Same thing with different names. Follow your heart, it will never let you down !
I think a lot of people say they "believe" that, but really the question they are answering is, "do you like Bill Gates, or do you think him morally capable of doing this horrible thing?" Bill Gates was one of the early, big proponents of Common Core, and educational testing and reform movement which ended up becoming very unpopular on the right.
> FB groups are mostly a bunch of conspiranoids and retards.

Depends what groups you're on. I don't see them in any of the groups I'm in.

> And sure a 30 minute video with shitty poses is better than a damn written guide being read and done in less than 10 minutes, even 5 as I am a able to quicly parse it.

Definitely true, but not something I've ever had a problem with. I was confused a bit by some of the instructions for the auto bed leveling kit I got for my 3D printer, searched YouTube, and found a 6 minute video that was quite succinct.

> Even usenet and IRC are far more superior for highly technical issues.

Because generally it's only highly technical people on those platforms.

> Back in the day I had lots of info in fora and IRC channels instead of FB being blocked to outsiders and worse, full of trackers, add and being 90% of it, noise.

Forums and IRC channels still exist.
They're not anti-science: they're ignorant.

If we had better basic education, presumably people would be able to understand how things work.
It isn't problematic, just silly. There is no need to police other people's thoughts as long as they keep within the bounds of the law. He is even free to express those thoughts, within the bounds of the law, just like people are free to hollder 'death to America' during demonstrations in Oakland. One of the pillars of a well-functioning state is that things which are not forbidden by law are allowed. It might not be wise, it might not be smart, it might sound stupid (Qanon) or reprehensible (death to America) but it is allowed.
With bonuses and stuff, I'd be lucky to hit $100k.

Your thinking sounds correct to me.
Thank you for your work! Postgres is great to use and the regular release of useful features has been a very nice benefit.

One unobvious (to me) but possibly necessary side effect of the INSERT...ON CONFLICT pattern is that it reserves a primary id for every row ahead of time, presumably because it does not know what will be updated and what will be inserted. We have a heavily updated table that started failing inserts one day because the primary id sequence hit the max int (2.1b), despite the table only reaching 100mm rows. The immediate fix was to reset the sequence to -1 and have it start going down...
It's confusing, because at the top they say "This rockets don't use a catalyst" but further down the page they say "all this thanks to our proprietary formula of the penta metallic catalyst pack invented by Juan Manuel Lozano Gallegos from TAM."

(Side note: I saw that name and wondered where I had seen it before; turns out he's the guy Popular Science wrote about fifteen years ago for building his own peroxide-powered jetpack.)
As a parent, yes. I prefer an office because there are fewer distractions. If you hear your kid laughing outside your office, it's hard not to want to take a look. Plus, my commute is me time, where i get to listen to podcasts/audiobooks and relax.

Sure, if my commute were especially long, I might say otherwise, but that's a different discussion.
FWIW the GDP decline may have been overblown, and it seems at least plausible that it will be followed by GDP spike, as production fills in unmet demand at higher prices.
Interestingly, the $360 quoted in the article is not that far off from a modern desktop Intel chip. For $25 today you can get an entire computer in the form of a Raspberry Pi 3 A+.

It was a cheap to manufacture chip with extremely limited capabilities. We certainly still have those, but the art has advanced to where the "extremely limited" part is not as limiting as it once was.
Anecdata: I don’t know what that acronym is off the top of my head, and I’ve worked with databases in some form consistently for over ten years.
T-Rex Run! - Chrome Dinosaur Game controlled by real-time eye blinks
I'm not sure it's to do with more capable software or hardware. Instead it was far more about economic incentives. When Molyneux was earlier in his career he had strong constraints from his bosses and from his publishers. This forced the compromises needed to actually deliver achievable visions. As his reputation grew and he had more and more power in those relationships he was less and less constrained to adhere to an achievable vision. By the time of Black and White core parts of the game were just unbalanced and the economics of the game were broken because it was busy with the creature gimick. By the time you got to 22 cans he owned the company, he didn't need a publisher, hell he could just kickstarter the games. So suddenly all bets were off, he could make any promise he wanted and there was no one around to actually force him to deliver something.

I don't think Molyneux would've created Populous if he had had the reputation he has today. He would, and did, create Godus instead.
In principle, I agree. Theoretically older users should be more emotionally stable, and produce less drama.

In practice though we’ve seen FB become basically the conspiracy theory fever swamps during a demographic change. Maybe there is some other factor beyond the age of the user at play here, but I certainly have no idea what that might be.
This is how big companies with professional IT operate.
Not to sound glib, but this is part of what LinkedIn and even Facebook to a lesser degree is for. I keep LinkedIn to professional relationships and Facebook is mostly family and casual relationships (old HS friends etc).

I am friends with prior managers, but not anyone currently in management tree above/below me. I am friends with one coworker currently.
Decomposition of a Japanese Sentence
Great idea - on it.
It literally is two glucose molecules bonded via a condensation reaction. The linkage between the molecules is what makes it different from starch, and subsequently what makes it not useful as a food source for most animals.
That's why I mentioned anti-endorsements. Pure PageRank doesn't have any notion of negative reputation, so by itself it's more of a popularity metric than a quality metric.
I don't think I am. It is an incremental improvement, albeit a fairly impressive one, and yes, it can do some interesting "mildly new-ish" things, but at the end of the day, it still very often just a nonsense factory.

IMO, GANs were a much bigger and far more important step forward than GPT-2 ---> GPT-3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle

"a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms an endeavor to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided."
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/997604313362034689

> My experience: everything I own in one suitcase, here’s my sleeping situation. Would shower at YMCA and work at coworking space. $300/mo personal burn. If you could combine the two you’d fill it 100% and make SF possible again.

https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1093540469022195712

> Lambda School wouldn't exist without Gumroad.

> We bootstrapped for the first several months without salaries from the proceeds of the book I sold there. Gave us enough runway to try the crazy “pay back when you’re hired” things. Thanks Sahil!

Wanna try again?
> mystery

a concept that is probably comatose in the current era