skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When does high skilled kick in? Senior software engineer?
It seems very easy from the outside looking in to conclude that an organization should play judge and jury for external conflicts. But having run a small internet forum and occasionally being asked to resolve disputes, even trivial he-said she-said spats can be incredibly difficult to investigate and untangle.

I won't pretend I know what Apple should do here. But I certainly don't agree with the cavalier assertion that unrelated organizations need to confidently pick sides in moral and political battles. Just because you're so certain what the answer should be doesn't mean that you're right. And your lack of visibility and accountability means you risk much less when you quickly come to strong moral conclusions than do large organizations.
I think the point was that propaganda from the military industrial complex with a vested interest in eternal war is also bad for the US.
I’m pretty sure people were consenting to have their number listed there in their agreement with their Telco.
H1Bs are supposed to be used only if you can't find domestic talent. So it makes sense that something scarce would be expensive.
I guess George Lucas gets to sue Google now.
As I understand it (i.e., correct me if I'm mistaken), when you are a trademark holder the less you defend (note: not the right word) that trademark its scope (?) erodes, ar least from the POV of the courts.

What's unfortunate is, the law allows those with the deepest bench of lawyers the broadest scope of their trademark. The Googles of the world are obligated to do these things. The law could do better to pursue justice that independent of bank account assets.
> Wages are generally lower in non bay area locations. Employers in low COL areas might lose out to those in high COL areas.

Maybe it's time to start valuing employees on the value they add instead of some arbitrary rent price! The talent is global after all.
Micromobility story that will never be told and the one that I admire
There’s a substantive technical/engineering case to be made for buying the latest every other year, depending on the maker’s R&D tick tock.

A survey is unlikely to pick this sort of nuance up.
Looks like they had a reasonable alternative of getting back into the app store and placing the 30% revenue collection into an escrow account.

Seems like a very sensible approach that they refused.
If you buy the new iPhone every year you can sell the old one for around 70% of its initial cost on Craigslist in a day (if you’re in the Bay Area).

For me this makes it worth it because the resell value decays over time and you always get the newest device with a fresh battery.

Seems like a reasonable place to spend money for something you use probably more than anything else.
I love this essay so much I translated it to spanish some years ago (https://jcaramuel.es/jefe.html)

I like to go beyond the superficial "be your own boss". After all, a world full of "own-bosses" is not possible.

IMHO, the big lecture here is that big, fat hierarchies are poisonous and it's better for your happiness to search some small sized group to be on.
If it’s for profession and level, it’s crazy high. If it’s just profession, it seems meaningless.
It is a bug in a library which you can avoid using with a flag. Take what you want from that. I won't reply to this nonsense.
Basically just a straight continuation of her decision regarding a TRO.

The 30% escrow offer I think misses the point for both Epic and Apple. Because while both want the money, Apple's entire argument is predicated on the "privacy and safety" of only going through their payment processing, whilst Epic's entire argument is predicated on that requirement being monopolistic and unfair and that third party processors must be allowed.

Neither wants the other's system to hold, even if the money is being held somewhere until the end of the case.
There's a lot of this that I like, but wouldn't the auction just create a single market rate for H1-B employees that's independent of the market rate for the position they're filling? The clause where the employer has to pay the govt the remaining salary if the employee leaves early sounds like it's designed to encourage employers to pay more to discourage that, but I'm not sure what incentive other employers would have to pay more than the H1-B market rate to hire H1-B visa holders who are already here when they could pay the market rate to hire a new visa holder.
Depends on the rent contract.

If, as you say Apple is like a landlord, Apple can demand specific things in the contract (ie no pets) and the person renting needs to comply.

Not getting into the moral side of the argument of Apple Vs Telegram but want to point out that the landlord example isn't applicable in my opinion.
Do FETs really require QM to understand them?
Book Review: “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout
But it’s recursive. If something is that scarce, all the comps will already be high. It doesn’t seem necessary that marginal labor should be required to come in at the 95th percentile.
The real question is: why not just suck it up and include that "ou"?
You can get a phone that has 98% of their features for 1/5 of the price... it's not a hard decision if you are willing do do a bit of reasearch.
It is also common in Germany, however here the insurance can state it had enough from you and after a certain threshold refuse to cover up.
My dictionary offers "A resident of an area represented by an elected official".

This is actually acutely important to both the history of the United States of America and to a grasp of how a representative democracy (if the US is to remain one) works

So, let's go back to the mid-18th century. America is a colony. The colonists are unhappy because they feel unrepresented, but in Westminster, London, the Members of Parliament are content that indeed those colonists are represented - by them - even though the colonists don't get a vote. This concept is named "virtual representation" and we'll return to it. The colonists oppose it, "No taxation without representation" they cry.

It is worth taking a moment here to consider that those Members were not elected by the majority of the people in the districts they were elected to. Only wealthy men in England could vote at that time, a tiny fraction of the population who'd be affected by the Parliament's decisions. This is also prior to Great Reform, so the districts represented do not closely resemble one another in population (though next century things would get much worse before they got better)

So, the Americans revolt, and having won their independence they set up for themselves a new system of government. In many ways this system is reminiscent of the one they've just got rid of, except that (no surprises) the rich old white men who didn't like the old system are instead placed in charge of the new one. In particular, the United States of America does not in fact enfranchise all its citizens, it actually only gives the vote to wealthy men, almost exactly the same as England had done. Still, they now feel represented (and indeed have become important political figures in their new country) and so for them it seems mission accomplished.

The US Congress offers exactly the same weak rationale as the English parliament, virtual representation. Sure, women, the poor, slaves, children and so on are not allowed to vote but we promise your Congress people are representing you anyway.

And so that's the status quo. Either you aren't really a representative democracy, with your millions who are disenfranchised for various reasons†, or you accept that representation is necessarily distinct from enfranchisement - the right to vote.

† In both England and the US the franchise was greatly expanded, to include more men, and eventually women, but although such expansions are almost invariably described as "universal" by their proponents in both countries many people can't vote, and neither is close to even achieving the more reasonable standard of allowing everybody who can meaningfully express an opinion (which would rule out newborns for example) the vote. Not least both prevent people from voting if they are in prison, as if somehow prison reform wouldn't be a very significant issue those people might now have more insight into than other voters...
Camera are still making good spec progress, faster than other features. This has a big impact I feel, parents/grandparents like high quality photos of kids. And in general when you take some photos, see the results are average vs your friends latest camera I think this must trigger upgrade thoughts.

I upgraded our household as VoWifi is needed due to limited reception but I suspect thats a fairly small user case...
That's kind of the point. It's meant to discourage use unless necessary.
This is from January 2013 so please add (2013) to the title.
> This is a classic story and fun in its own way, but thinking about humanity future reach for the stars (provided it happens) will most likely require us to move to some trans human form. Think transformers or sentient ships. The human life is too short and body is too fragile for cosmic voyages. If we are going to be advanced enough to build interstellar ships, we should be advanced enough to travel in a different vessel.

That's a bit pessimistic on the one hand, and overly optimistic on the other. While I would not suggest that classic "generation ships" would be possible given current technology or any possible technology that can be extrapolated from our current knowledge (the ecological complexities alone seem insurmountable), what pops out at the other end could very possibly be a mostly biological human with a consciousness downloaded from cold storage.

My intuition is that while AGIs may be possible, and uploading, storing, and downloading a human mind may be possible, actually running a complete copy of a human mind in-silico in realtime may prove to be quite difficult, in any fashion that preserves a sense of continuity of experience and identity[0].

But a bioprinted copy of an uploaded brain (especially with integrated connections to ancillary hardware) transplanted into a meat-puppet could very well be prodded into running a more-or-less faithful approximation of the original mind, sufficiently well to fool itself that it was the same person.

It's a rather roundabout way of doing things, but it would let us, as humans, explore "strange new worlds" personally.

[0] That is, after you were done recompiling and optimizing the uploaded copy to be able to run semi-efficiently on a hardware substrate, I doubt that such an intellect would subjectively feel like it was still the same person it remembered being previously, which might be problematic if you're expecting it to make any important decisions.
I tend to wait a fairly long time between upgrades (I still have an iPhone X) but I still generally agree. If you can afford it, it's hard for me to say that something you use all the time is a waste of money. The waste of money IMO is something which I have absolutely been guilty of at times which is buying something for a few hundred dollars and then barely using it.
An example of a "high trust" community network that works is mail. Anyone can open someones mailbox and read or steal any content. Atleast by houses.

The main difference might be that it is easier to hide on a network of 1s and 0s?
My experience with Android is vastly different from yours.
Specifying PS4 when using the -x flag can be even more helpful while debugging. The variable PS4 denotes the value is the prompt printed before the command line is echoed when the -x option is set and defaults to : followed by space.

A number of useful debugging tips are listed at <https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/debuggingtips>.
Role, but you’d have a harder problem arguing for something to be hard to hire for if it’s junior and above market rate
Magic Trackpad, of course :)
Faster how, exactly? The clock rate is ~4/3. It has 128 half-cores, but the benefits will depend on the workload. :-)
Maybe so, but there is still friction in that approach in terms of advertising, evaluating potential buyers , exchanging goods, handling money.

I don't know how iPhones handle the transfer process but anyone I know with an Android phone also dreads setting up a new phone because there's always something manually tedious that needs to be done.
This means discouraging immigration correct?
For sure, infact "successful" people are probably in general less happy because they do not prioritize happiness. Sure they might be able to more easily achieve some artificially (vacations, new stuff). But that isn't the same as truly learning how to be happy.
Crispr Is Dead
Is it just based on salary or TC? TC for a lot of these roles is not that high.
True, but even software developers at banks are often titled ‘VP of Technology’ or similar.
The only reason Apple has (the only) key to the front door is because they refused to give those keys to anyone else (including their property leasees) for "their own protection."
If you're not already offering 95th percentile for a job, how do you know you can't hire anyone locally to do it and why do you need a H1B?
Buying new consumer electronics or durable goods is mostly for the birds, e.g., people who have their money separated from them most easily. I have an iPhone 6S and will consider a used iPhone SE 2020 at some point when I drive this one into the ground.
By the time I got to the university I was using a premechanical[0] Rapidograph fountain pen to take lecture notes on high quality paper where I wrote down everything the professor wrote on the board, everything they said, and everything I thought about it at the time, especially something that might make a performance difference.

I don't know how it compares to an ipad, but it was great because there was less friction and latency compared to a pencil or ball point pen. It did change your writing since you had to hold it almost vertical, not as big a change as the increased speed though. With a thin tip you could make small detailed diagrams.

[0] like this:
https://www.blackrockgalleries.com/product/vintage-rapidogra...
Note: does not actually take a cartridge, it's a suction plunger assembly for liquid ink uptake, attached to the color-coded tip-size indicating band. You may want a thinner tip than No. 2 and ink having different viscosity, solids content, and drying rate than used for engineering drawing.

not like this:
https://www.kohinoorusa.com/rapidograph

not even this:
https://twitter.com/yesteryearsfp/status/1016296550736293888
> Mortgages and renting just bring despair and trigger apocalyptic emotions in humans, which is why the Bronx looks like the Bronx, and Bellevue looks like Bellevue.

I’m assuming you’re referring specifically to the South Bronx with your comment. An area that is in the state it’s in primarily because of decades of racist redlining that prevented any sort of leveraged investment in properties and services.
"remember, we have a legal system, not a justice system"
It is easy to try to blame a problem caused by people consuming on the people that own the means of harvesting. The demand for harvesting animals from the commons (i.e. seas) or mining oil exists regardless of who owns it. Someone else will step in to provide the food and the energy. The problem remains demand, and regardless of economic status, people contribute to that. The whale in the room isn't the whale. It's the low cost of harvesting fish, or pumping oil compared to the alternatives.
Anyone wants to offer an alternative hypothesis on why HN traffic didn't get skyrocketed like every other outlet?
... which is why JIT compiled code is slower in some circumstances.
This is unjustly harsh. At least it's got tangible benefits and customers without harming a soul. GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.

I'm hoping we can finish some of Tolkien's unpublished books (Please give me beta access OpenAI heh)
Depends, if you are an immigrant that wants to escape a dictatorship, this makes it much less appealing to hire that worker from that country.

And corporations are paying more money for an employee.

The winners are the current workers and well connected workers. Losers are everyone else correct?
You do however VW outsells BMW ten to one. The market share of companies like Rolex or Gucci is tiny compared to Apple’s.
To save you the trouble of loading the page: the Amazon returns they tracked for this article ended up in a landfill.
Most of what gives meaning and joy to our lives are tied to our physical bodies.

Sure, you could upload a faithful simulation of my brain to a computer. But what do I do for fun once there?
What is „green energy and space travel“? Some sort of greenwashing spin on rocketry, one of the most energy intensive ways to travel?
Some other languages do not discern that much between "meat" and "flesh".

German "Fleisch" means both and in my native Czech "maso" can definitely used be in context of living humans as well ("až do živého masa" = "into the living flesh").

For us outsiders the wordplay probably works better than in original English.
Visual Studio Code 1.50
Immigration laws were passed and signed even after 1960s. Since I only focused on H1B in my original comment I will only seek to address that point.

H1B changes were not implemented by administrative fiat. The AC21 act was passed to provide unlimited H1B extensions with an approved employment-based immigration application.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Exactly why h1bs we’re never intended to be used for marginal labor.
> 30 to 40 per cent of all online purchases are sent back

That seems almost an order of magnitude higher than I’d expect. Setting aside kids shoes (which probably do get 50% returned), I can’t imagine sending back even 5% of my online purchases, let alone 30-40%.

I think I’ve sent back exactly 1 Amazon order in the last year, out of nearly 100.
Let us talk when China's TikTok equivalent allows similar content by PLA members inside China.
Because it's still trivially vulnerable to phishing

Any kind of otp/totp leaves you with too much risk
They translate most of those names differently in other languages, in German, they use German puns, etc. (strangely enough, Idefix wasn't translated).
How are these enforced? Is there a team from the federal government that regularly audits companies?
George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'
could it mean lowering salaries across the board?

downvoted, hmm.. I'm just wondering what's going to give. maybe department budgets will just go up?
I have the iMac Pro with the Xeon W-2150B and I definitely expected more compilation speed.

It's fast, sure, but for that price tag I expected more. Currently evaluating buying a TR 2950x workstation. That seems to be amazingly fast though my research on the net is still ongoing.
Because the nubs of it matter. The "ou" does not.
> What does this have to do with the discussion about OpenAI changing not just strategy

Nothing to do with that.

Nor is this a case of whataboutism. I am not justifying one company's actions based on another unrelated company's poor business decisioins.

I am stating that given this deal with Microsoft, the "Open" in OpenAI's name is now meaningless and/or dishonest. I used the example of Progress/OpenEdge as another example of a company putting "open" right into their name but failing to live up to their name - implying that Progress' name-change (and also: OpenAI's initial name) was a cynical marketing ploy to make people believe they're the _good guys_ in all this, especially when the AI/ML field has many detractors from the altruistic camps, especially after Deep-Fakes, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook have all left a bad taste in everyone's' mouth.
If anyone prefers this as a readable document:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1314237833276612609.html

That’s the link most news sites are using.
The Quantum Internet Will Blow Your Mind
The concept of trademarks dates back to master craftsmen putting identifying marks on their work to build up a reputation. Trademark law gives that practice some legal enforcement.

I’m sure you can find some anarchist who would oppose any law, but I’m much more familiar with people who want a small government and wouldn’t mind that government enforcing trademark laws. They also generally support truth in advertising laws or labeling laws (“you should be able to sell anything you want, as long as you tell people what’s in it”), or product liability laws. Those laws make for a better functioning marketplace.
I've been enjoying my ergodox, but have yet to venture out into the layout customization side of things.

The default layout (mostly QWERTY, but split ortholinear) took a week or so to learn and has been totally fine. My only problem with it is that so many of the modifiers depend on my pinkies, which are my weakest finger.

Luckily, the default layout maps control as "hold Z key" which means my pinky doesn't need to travel as much, but it still leaves me with a sore pinky. I'm thinking of mapping a key like "O" that gets hit with a stronger finger like my ring, but inertia is great when changing a habit you've developed daily.

One thing I'll say about the ergodox is that you really notice it's value when you go back to your e.g. laptop's keyboard. Whenever I use my T495, I immediately notice that, while my typing speed is higher, it's putting a far greater strain on my hands and wrists (and back!)
I know his comments on food are a metaphor, but when it's blatantly incorrect, I couldn't make it to his main point.

On a separate point, I highly encourage everyone to understand the scientific method. There are too many Engineers and programmers that can do labor, but don't ask about data, evidence, or methodology. Rather accepting Authority as fact.
Recursive descent parsers are usually hand-coded and vice versa.
I like this context. New-age hippies are cargo-cult electronics engineers.
The specific issue here is that the shared information is targeted at a specific group and seems likely to be used with dangerous intent

That doesn't characterize a general record of numbers/addresses, which more or less ensures some basic anonymity as connecting names to numbers doesn't do much outside some other qualifier, like, these people are the police who are suppressing our cause
As a matter of fact, you can see here [0] that 72.4% of the 57k developers who took the survey primarily use Windows or Linux over a Mac. This is certainly in line with general desktop OS market share statistics [1] showing that Macs are only used by about 17% of the general population world wide with Windows taking the lion's share.

Perhaps I've offended someones feelings with these statistics. Sorry, I can't apologize for facts though.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
Here's how it looks with multiple lines : https://imgur.com/a/VTpvNS3
Are cars, planes and trains all actually even one order of magnitude more efficient than a horse? What does that actually mean? I don't have any numbers on hand, but I would be surprised if a car has more than 2x the energy efficiency of a horse.