skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice, but has nothing to do with whether they're a bad and irresponsible actor.
Some of my coworkers have done this. One of them has moved to Santa Cruz and another is staying with their parents. I would have moved if it wasn’t for immigration complications and laziness. Depending on how things work out from here, I might just go back to live with my parents until things blow over. If not, I am going to upgrade to a nicer apartment as a compromise
>Therefore, most people at Facebook, Google etc. are not creative.

I'd disagree with that. Take the average programmer at Google who went to work this morning and wrote a hundred lines of code that didn't already exist. They created something that didn't exist before so must be a creative individual.
For example, “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a valid English sentence.
Salaries do get affected by WFH policies, since if you move to a cheaper state/country, a company will often do a pay adjustment. So, from a cost savings perspective, it becomes a question of how much a company thinks being in the Bay Area brings in terms of attracting talent, vs how much they can save by having their employees work from Pennsylvania or Canada or India.

I know companies in Canada that are way ahead of the curve on this: they've been consulting for American companies for years, meaning they can afford way more person hours than american counterparts given a US dollar contract size solely because of the salary gap difference.
Seems like a whole lot of accidents are happening.
Why? It seems like Apple can sue someone in pretty much any country they like.
> "Wildly unpopular" ~= 49% of the voters approve.

Citation? While it's possible there's ~49% support of the party, that doesn't necessarily mean an equivalent amount of support for the economic policy.
Policy proposals such as "the rich should be taxed more" routinely get approval from ~65% of voters. Thankfully for that party, they've found a way to get people to vote based on fear, racism, abortion, guns and other divisive issues instead of economic policy.
This could be cool, at least in theory. But after thinking it over, then we'd have people farming points, which would probably lead to lower quality of all forms of participation.

Maybe if it were to be spent on like adding notes about posts/comments or something purely fluff/sparkle. Different color schemes maybe?
Covid-19 Vaccine Appears Effective in Developing Antibodies in Older Adults
Turing Completeness in Conway's Game of Life Means You Can Code Life in Life ⠠⠵
This is really nicely from a UX standpoint.
This is also a good source for PM interview questions
My understanding is that any kind of measurement will do, it doesn't matter how you get it. You could use photons to do the measurement but there are other ways which all have the same result.

It's a mystery how the particle "knows" (In other words, nobody knows when the wave function collapses) but one popular interpretation is that the particle exists in all states, i.e. in a pure description of reality. When any quantum system interacts with it, then it becomes entangled with the result of that measurement, branching it into a new universe (edit for clarification: a new world where it was as if it was never a wave, and it was always a particle). That's my understanding of the many-worlds theory.

That entanglement propagates across nearby particles, so it doesn't have anything to do with eyes or consciousness. If the air molecules around your body interact with the particle then that entanglement propagates through your body and places you in the new world.
> We are yet to see a peice of art or media that really challenges the world, since the 60s.

I think we've seen so much challenging since the 1950s that perhaps everything that could be challenged was already challenged to death by multiple artists and there's nothing else left to challenge.
If I remember correctly, Mozilla didn't want to support video DRM but ended up adding it to Firefox[0] in fear of losing marketshare because Netflix required DRM video playback[1].

Today's browsers are just trying to keep up with whatever Chrome decides to adopt.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r...
[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2014-05-14-mozilla-bends-on-drm.htm...
> companies should be most concerned about employee and team productivity rather then office expenses.

Can companies measure productivity of knowledge workers to that granularity?

Office expenses make a relatively small fraction of employee overall expenses. Say 10% to be extremely generous. NYC five-borough average back in 2015 was around $15K per year [1]. A fully-burdened employee expense is around 2X base salary, so a $100K salary position clocks in around $200K fully-burdened, or around 7.5% of that 2015 NYC average figure. I don't currently see companies wholesale changing employment strategies for 10% differentials.

I'm not sure companies can measure productivity down to that expense detail level for knowledge workers.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-much-your-compan...
The only thing that's new here are the last two points. We've got a president from an unpopular minority party that increasingly relies on various tactics rather than actually appealing to voters.

The decentralized nature of our elections means that the elections have always been a patchwork of potentially problematic local jurisdictions, each one so small that it's unlikely for issues to shift the outcome of a national election.

Perhaps our greatest strength was our TRUST in the people involved to do the right thing, and that trust has been abused. And a not-insignificant number of people have decided to go along with it for their own advantage, whatever that may be.
Even during the lockdowns only 40% of the US workforce worked from home. Here’s another stat: only 33% of the us population has a bachelors degree or higher.

Step out of your bubble and think about all of the people making the goods you order, maintaining your roads, construction workers that fix your home, the workers at the grocery store, the person that delivers your packages, the warehouse workers, etc etc etc.

The world runs on people being physically present working jobs that can’t be done from home... that must continue so that you CAN work from home. Until robots can do those jobs, it'll always be the minority that works from home.
Your spouse must be fairly old school to be using a dialect that isn't mando/canto...

Most millennials I know from mainland china and even Malaysia/Singapore will speak putonghua with their parents/family now. Ofc people from Sichuan and Shanghai love to preserve their dialect. Plus you got the cantos and hokkien/teochew/hakka and even changsharen.

In any case, my recommendation would be to stay with Mandarin and go deep on it. Learning a dialect afterwards is quite straightforward and you can be 80-90% proficient esp with understanding by just developing a sound mapping of each character from dialect->mandarin.

The common idioms you'll pick up with enough exposure.

You'll never regret learning Mandarin first - you'll be able to read/listen to the news and your relatives will understand you. Whereas if you try to learn dialect first you'll find it harder due to the less set of materials AND less people to talk to.

A lot of chinese people joke that they learned their 2nd/3rd... dialect by doing KTV and there's definitely some truth in that
Apple's T2 Security Chip Vulnerable to Attack via USB-C
If the "no" argument here was what you are saying, that they don't want the feature bloat of XPath, then that would be reasonable. But they are actually arguing that they don't want the feature bloat of XML capability, and XPath doesn't need to have any dependency on XML capability.

So they haven't really addressed the request itself, and they are being extremely dismissive about any suggestion that they might be interpreting things in an unfair light. I think that is why people are frustrated.

I don't even want this feature and I am frustrated just by reading the linked thread.
Yes, legacy systems cost a lot to replace, but continuous development over 20 years isn’t exactly cheap either. Hardly anyone talks about that though.

And let’s be real, if a system is non-legacy it’s likely being completely rewritten every 5-10 years anyway. Not many active codebases have 10 year old code still running.
"In practice preparing for that kind of failure is a complete waste of time because you can never guarantee anything"

Oh, but you can. Hence the decades of research. And determining exactly what can be guaranteed, when, and what the tradeoffs are, is the whole point.

You're using refunds as a proxy for system correctness. That may make sense for your particular business case, but it doesn't make sense for many others. And it definitely isn't sufficient for a generic technical implementation that has to be able to be evaluated for an arbitrary business case.
> they only thing I was saying there was that backwards should be considered when potentially changing an API

The only thing that was said there: "we released this API into the world against multiple objections by multiple parties. This feature is used exclusively by our own developers and almost exclusively on our own properties. It's used on a whopping 0.8% pageviews (once again, almost exclusively on our properties). So now we will not remove it".

> But sure, try to weaponize anything related to web components at every opportunity.

No. That was a very recent example, and that example had a number of pageviews in it, so it serves as an interesting comparison of approaches.

0.8% pageviews by Google's own devs for a standard Google rammed through despite objections? Oh, it's good, ain't gonna remove it. 1-2% pageviews by people outside Google for a standard Google had no say in? Oh, not gonna do anything about it.

And if you paid a grain of attention, I also have this to say about Google's hypocrisy (with links to Mozilla's stance on standards and to Chromes feature list page):

--- quote ---

when other browsers consider standards harmful, Chrome just ships them

--- end quote ---

Which is a fact of life regardless of my feelings towards particular standards.

I can add another link, of course: Web API counts across browsers [1] It's so nice to see Chrome shipping in total over 1000 more APIs than competition, of them many considered harmful, and including over 600 browser-specific APIs. Because it's all for the greater good.

[1] https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
Thanks for the specific advice. I think spear fishing will be a good starting strategy since there are a few topics I am very interested in.
The downvotes are presumably because your point is moot, and also because it brands anyone who disagrees with you as an apologist.

Yes, Apple limits access to program the t2.
> 49% of the voters approve.

I wouldn't assume that 100% of voters even know the economic policies of the people they're voting for, let alone approve of them. It seems like people mostly vote because they've been told the party they're voting against is evil[1], not because they actually support the policies.

[1] Of course those of us who think they're both evil are not left with much motivation to vote for either, which partly explains (along with voter suppression, gerrymandering making voting less effective, etc) why half the country doesn't bother to vote at all.
Well, I have operated a MMO on my system for 4 years and the source is open. What do you think?

Please stop down voting without arguments, you are making the world a lesser place.
The Altaic theory isn't necessary to postulate a connection between Japanese and Korean. It's known that genetically the Japanese population was seeded by Korean settlers which largely displaced the native Ainu populations. Japanese is likely a descendent of the language spoken by these colonists from the Korean peninsula.

The two languages are very divergent, and the usual mechanisms for classifying languages are difficult to apply because the dominant Chinese influence came to each separately after they diverged.
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Anyone else think that news isn't really all that exciting? Everyone gets news spammed by Google, Apple, Microsoft and every media related thing already... Will be interesting to see how the whole family/friends content works with this in the long run because it sure seems like FB was successful by presenting a stream of personal stuff that users cared much more deeply about (like my neices new kitten picutres).

Honestly, news is mostly terrible experience right now, and the prospects of facebook delivering news is about as exciting as Mafia Wars invites and Farmeville status posts from back in the day.
If I recall, these have some kind of tube that is plugged on one end with some time-release mechanism, perhaps a material that slowly dissolves in the water. Eventually water enters the tube and equalizes pressure on both sides, causing it to detach. This allows them to recover the beacon and make another deployment.
"Denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use." [1]

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/legacy
But, as an outsider: is it the case for Bay Area?

I mean, tech companies have way more males than females, I would expect that areas full of tech employees like the Bay Area would not be ideal for males trying to find partners due to the bigger competition.

Is that the case? How is the male/female ratio in those areas?
> The banana taped to the wall a few years ago inspired people to think about how much art costs to buy, and how art is a money-laundering front for rich people.

Before that, we had Artist's Shit [1] in 1961 and countless similar stunts. I'm under impression that the main thing art does today is rebel and "force to reflect". Perhaps that's why almost no one is interested in it, as what it has to say is usualy quite shallow in its message (capitalism sucks, we get it) and also not very linked to the actual piece (The pieces often require lengthy explanation on what the artist was actually trying to say).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
Time is not a measure of productivity
Coiled Launches Dask Product
Korean has a somewhat similar problem where the unicode displays ㅈ/ㅅ, but they're not written like that. It's a common beginner mistake. After all, who would expect characters to be written like they're displayed on a computer? :-) For the curious, ou can see how they're written here. [0]

[0]: https://blogs.transparent.com/korean/files/2017/08/Stroke-Or...
Interesting....

I just want to say there is at least one unicorn in France, BlaBlaCar. Granted, it's not as big as FB. But unicorn nevertheless.
For an amateur's blog post in 2009 to call Altaic theory utter horseshit would been rather hubristic to begin with, and moreover, not even the point. The Altaic hypotheses were higher-profile proposals that happened to include common origin for Japanese and Korean. Even dismissing the former, the latter is not exactly out of consideration.

And, as the post points out, the whole line of argument is a curiosity that has little concrete bearing on the fact that the two are very similar from a learner's perspective.
I could not imagine two things that are more unrelated.
> The rest of the world used to see the US as a beacon of democracy.

this has never been the case except in the minds of Americans

parts of the the US had legalised segregation until the 60s, it still has systematic legalised gerrymandering, and the voter suppression problem has never been dealt with to an extent where it could be considered to be a "beacon of democracy"
Presumably that would get you the previous release, if running Ubuntu 20.04? You'd either need a custom ppa, build it yourself, or run the early version of 20.10 (oth look at the date, I guess 20.10 is out? So maybe wait for 21.04?).

Ed: not quite yet, October 22nd, apparently :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

And 20.10 will "only" come with plasma 5.19 - so it's ppa/bacports or 21.04 alpha for 5.20 looks like:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GroovyGorilla/Beta/Kubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/kde-plasma-5-20-release-...
How-To Guide: Preventing an Elasticsearch Server Breach
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Seconded. Also each chapter has a comprehensive reference
providing pointers to various technical topics mentioned in the chapter. The provided references serve a good starting if one wants to explore further any the area interests him/her. These references are also maintained at: https://github.com/ept/ddia-references
Re: You cannot be creative without being a contrarian and corporations don't hire contrarians.

Amen! "Shut up and go with the flow" is common advice I hear when I question the logic of various decisions in multiple organizations. If a corporation really wants creativity, they'll allow and REWARD asking "pesky questions" that may hurt egos of those with higher rank.

Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends & Influence People" basically confirms this: you have to have a personal relationship to truly influence somebody, logic alone won't cut it. I hate that book, but it's speaks the ugly truth. Humans are not Vulcans.

It's there if you want it, most orgs don't. I'm just the messenger.

That being said, some contrarians gum up the works with low-quality questions and research. (Sometimes called "trolls".) There does need to be a systematic way to ask questions and make suggestions with a vetting process, but such requires a skill-set and training, which does require org resources and time.
> But the same principle must require there to be no Preferred Orientation. This leads to the requirement that Planck's constant h be the same in all frames. If the Stern-Gerlach experiment could give results between +h and -h, then the orientation producing the maximum value would be a preferred frame.

OK, I think I understand that.

> And because of that, when Alice and Bob measure entangled quantum particles, their combined results must violate Bell's inequality.

Could you be slightly less ridiculously condensed here? Give a one-or-two-paragraph, accessible-to-the-semi-layman explanation of why this means the result must violate Bell's Inequality?

> But to my mind, the biggest take-away is that Einstein's Principle of Relativity absolutely requires that conservation can only be on average.

And the same request here. Why does the principle of relativity require that?
You’re correct. It’s a Republic with a sane voting system that keeps the mobs from the population centers from ruling the country. You say weakness I say strength.
If you can't afford $30 then what is wrong with waiting until you can?
You don't need Turing completeness to mine.
We had that utterly compelling framework in the early 2000s. Write generic code, upload to any provider you want, watch it run - that's exactly how shared-hosting PHP worked in ye olden days and to this day no one has made a developer experience as nice and It Just Works as that.
> Alma was hiding trinkets in her vagina and shooting them out via some kind of muscular spasm.

Really?
The US was downgraded in 2016, per your link. That’s hardly ‘always’.
Hear hear. As someone who grew up in Europe in a couple of different countries, one opinion has always been the same in all countries: The US is a country that likes to brag about democracy and likes to "bring democracy to others" while having a poor implementation of it themselves.
i think theyre saying that to be creative, you need to think in a way that's not thought of by everybody, so that by definition makes you contrarian. its an interesting point, not sure how much i agree with it, but i think it definitely shows amongst people we define to be successful authors/painters, etc. the epic ones had always gone "against the grain"
I keep reading people make this claim.

I haven't found it to be even remotely true for the food my family is inclined to eat. Every time I've gone to visit hip small college towns for the last 5 years, I've eagerly sought out the talked-about eateries, and they were all... distinctly mediocre compared to NYC or Bay Area or LA food.

You still can't find anything but Americanized Asian food, even the California-cuisine upscale places are decidedly mediocre, and the food trucks are... fine.

Certainly, it's better than it was at the margin, but it really depends on what your baseline is.
Doesn't actually look like there is the latter "yep; commit" decision. Or any rollback or other recognition of failure.
The real definition of legacy for most developers is “whatever is running in production right now”.
Marty writes up some of the variety of implementations here https://martymcgui.re/2020/07/15/what-we-talk-about-when-wer...
(which I saw because he webmentioned my in it).
Yeah it's spam. I clicked through one, it was a one-slide PP with a link going to a phishing site.
Senator Mike Lee wasn't just being honest, his statement that the US is not a democracy is factual. This isn't actually new, and there's a reason that the white house and senate have been packing the courts with justices from the Federalist Society. The ideological disagreement between federalists and democrats is as old as the country. The "weird" thing is that the country has been quite focused on installing democracies elsewhere, but that rather makes sense because we maintain influence over those countries and often "observe" their elections.
YC Gaming: Tech Talks and Job Expo W Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch (Nov 10)
YC's Work at a Startup and founders and teams of 8 YC gaming startups are coming together to host a first ever job expo focused on gaming this November. Emmett Shear, CEO of Twitch will be joining us to share his insights on how the business and technology of gaming is rapidly changing.

Aside from Emmett (if you haven't seen it, check out his excellent TED Talk on what streaming means for the future of entertainment: https://www.ted.com/talks/emmett_shear_what_streaming_means_...), we've got three pretty cool 10-minute lightning talks lined up:

- Designing Characters with Deep Learning, Cory Li, Founder at Spellbrush (W18)

- Synthetic Media: Virtual Influencers and Live Animation, Jay Rosenkrantz, Founder at Figments (S19)

- MMOs in the Instagram Era, Jimmy Xu, Founder at Highrise (S18)

After the talks, we'll open up a virtual expo hall to meet with the founders and teams.

Many of the gaming startups fly under the radar at YC, but in my (biased!) opinion, if you love games they're some of the most exciting. And the gaming industry often tackles some of the most exciting and challenging frontier technology problems before anyone else.

Working at a startup is not for everyone - and gaming startups are some of the craziest for sure. But if you're in a position to go for it, based on my experiences I can say there might be no greater adventure. So if this piques your interest, check out the event link and apply to attend/come learn about open roles in engineering, game design, art, marketing/media and more.

Hope to see you there! https://www.workatastartup.com/events/gaming-tech-talks-2020