skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong: I'm not suggesting that this program (as it's currently structured) wouldn't be beneficial to the student. There's no substitute for real experience working with a real team on real projects with real clients.

I appreciate the level of qualification that you're doing -- I think that definitely protects against (at least to some extent) predatory/exploitative behavior and it's great that that process is part of the program from day one.

That said: if a company is getting free (or negative cost) labor for real commercial work that they would otherwise have to pay a substantial amount of money for, there is a clear, material benefit to the company. If this program were ever considered in court, I suspect that it would boil down to figuring out what the ratio of benefits is (is it 20% company and 80% student, vice versa, or closer to 50/50?) and that's a really risky proposition to consider.

From my standpoint, the thing that would make this program essentially risk-free is a requirement to pay at least the minimum wage for whatever jurisdiction the company is operating in. That may significantly reduce the number of companies that can/will utilize this program, but it sends a very clear message: Lambda grads are worth paying for, even in an apprenticeship role. Another model would be to have the grad work as a contractor for a flat, predetermined fee on a project identified and scoped at the beginning of the engagement.

Additionally, rather than selling this as a mentoring/apprenticeship/internship program, you could consider selling it to employers as a _hiring_ program. For instance, something along these lines:

* Work with a Lambda grad for 4 weeks
* Employer does all of the vetting steps you mentioned before and pays $x/hour
* At the end of the 4 weeks, employer is obligated to hire the grad, try a different grad, or close the role req for x days (or something like that -- maybe if n grads don't work out, waive this requirement or something)

Structured like that, it changes the _hiring_ process in the same way that Lambda is trying to change the education process. Best case, I'd be looking at $1600 for the cost of acquisition of a new employee. We have a fairly rigorous interview/hiring process. I'm not sure exactly how much it costs, but the amount of time and attention required from various members of the team is certainly above $1600, so this would be a bargain for me.
Super happy to see a BoostVC "cockroach" still at it 2.5 years later! Keep up the good work. I use ListenNotes myself to discover and play podcasts.
A 'hamburger' tries to stuff all of the food groups into a single serving. What you're really after is a balanced diet of positive feedback, negative feedback, and neutral interactions. If you will, non-negative interactions are sort of the fiber that is missing from most of these diets.

Being around someone where every interaction is going to be intense, regardless of whether it's a positive or negative interaction, is just exhausting.
I believe it to be pretty much neutral, as business travelers are AFAIK largely (like 99%) going to hotels and not to bed and breakfasts.
No, the study would only be worthwhile if it fitted the narrative and proved the usefulness of masks. Otherwise its time to break out the excuses.
It's funny that the only research he mentions is about the positive effects of drinking:

> Research has shown a lower risk of ischaemic events (heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes) among middle-aged and older, light-to-moderate drinkers. But the detrimental effects of alcohol far outweigh any potential protective benefits. An older person will get much greater health benefits from being physically active and eating healthy food than from alcohol.

... what? Someone should tell this guy that you can both have a drink and exercise. To paint it as a choice between the two is silly.

> alcohol doesn’t just harm the drinker; it’s related to violence on the street and in the family.

Having a glass of wine does not lead to "violence on the street and in the family" -- this is "War on Drugs" levels of disinformation.
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Thanks for the input.

I've been monkeying around open source long enough to know veeeery well that "Suggesting [...] is 0.0000001% of the work towards that goal" , and I've been culprit of that myself :) .

Still, I like SE a lot and might be interested in doing the work. So, I'll make my point to the ML (expanding on A. points I brought here, and B. contradictions that you and other commenters wrote, thanks), asking if folks are convinced by the vision, and asking for technical advice to build the incremental path. Then if there's agreement, maybe I, or someone else, will commit to it.
Ahh yes, I enjoyed that one as well, and had a great professor for it!

I remember going back over the derivation and integration proofs while taking Real II and feeling like that was when they finally clicked.

I was working as a math tutor at the time and Real Analysis was actually a lot of help when trying to explain concepts in Calc I and II.
If you don't know why they want to lock it down, if Apple says they don't want to lock it down, and Apple Silicon Macs show no further evidence of things being locked down (they're just different), then why do you still think it's so evident they will lock it down? I honestly get the impression you're caught up in some narrative that has very little substantiation, just a fear that macOS will become iOS.

> I rather watch their actions.

And which actions are those? Gatekeeper and the Apple T2 are not enough to make the Mac not an "open computing platform", let alone something close to iOS. I'd argue they're not even on the way there, just like Windows SmartScreen isn't on the way there. And note that the T2 is even gone from Apple Silicon Macs.

Apple deserves all the added scrutiny in this area because of their attitude on iOS [1]. But there's absolutely no reason to believe that Apple's direction towards locking down Macs is either "clear" or "inevitable" in my view.

[1]: There are some identifiable explanations as to why iOS is so locked down whereas the Mac isn't, but let's talk about that some other time.
Is there a way to support multi-line input?
Not really.

The 1929 crash coincided with the great Dust Bowl, where many family farms were destroyed by a dust storm.

All those farmers left their broken farms, and went to the city looking for work... Only to find that the great depression wreaked the cities too. Back then, a much larger portion of America was farmers.
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If you see it from the perspective of being able to retain staff or hiring new employees, it definitely seem worth it.
That explanation seems to be having it both ways. If it's really a spoofing security risk, do they still intend to provide functionality that is sufficient for the original purpose?
> Who wants little clones? Narcissists who want to live through their children.

Feels like that's most parents these days. At least - feels like it is within the bay area.
> Apple / Google’s 30% take is the anti-competitive elephant in the room here, not a few crumbs thrown to small developers.

This percentage is something that small businesses feel, but is not really what makes the marketplace for apps “anti-competitive”, and personally I think it’s a distraction from the main issue:

Is the total addressable market for “apps” defined by and exclusive to a single platform (iOS, Android, etc.) or not?

How you answer this makes the percentage either a number arrived at through a competitive market or a “tax”.
> What kind of explanation could you possibly want?

Something that isn’t a tautology. “Why do you pay $4 for a cappuccino?” “Because that is the market price for a cappuccino.” “What does ‘market price’ mean?” “It means the amount of money people pay in the given market.”

You can see that nothing at all has been explained.

So when someone says that people are paying a certain price in a certain market “because it is market price”, that is getting things backwards, and not explaining anything at all. It’s like the surly teenager whose parents ask “Where are you going?” and he says, “Out.”
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how does one find a therapist? Like what search terms and what kinds do we need advise as someone who works on the tech field.
That's a really good observation. Thank you for that.
TL;DR: people are too lazy to have really good opsec. They use their own computers, networks, and personal accounts to conduct their online villainy, and are easily exposed thereby.
Thanks for asking!

The hardest part is to make small incremental improvements over a long period of time :)

Like most software projects, this API is never a finished product. It's always work-in-progress.

Small incremental improvements are not glamorous, typically not newsworthy to share to the public.

Some examples of small incremental improvements:

1. Improve API docs. I heard that many API-focused startups have a dedicated team to maintain their API doc page.

2. Dealing with edge cases. As more apps/websites use our API, we'll see some edge cases that we would never know, which could be as simple as adding a data field in the response with 2 lines code change, or changing search index that requires to re-index the whole thing for a few days. There could also be some strange edge cases with billing, e.g. what if a user subscribe to the paid plan, then unsubscribe, then subscribe again, then do something strange, then unsubscribe...

3. Customer support. This involves adding FAQ (tweaking the texts) and preparing email templates to answer frequently asked questions from users.

4. Doing things to keep the service robust & performant, e.g., adding new alerts via Datadog/Pagerduty so we can know what go wrong in time. We also need to have mechanism to be able to know if a particular app sends tons of requests (e.g., send request in an infinite loop) in a short amount of time and we should be able to do something about it (e.g., suspend the account).
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Thank you for your work on this, I was very happy when I saw Poe's writing pop up this morning among the releases [1]!

[1]: https://standardebooks.org/rss/new-releases
That’s simply not true. There are games available across Apple products, and partnerships with AAA studios announced last year - and they haven’t launched a console yet.
If a company is found to be discriminating by protected class, they are in big trouble. Sure, it can be difficult to catch. But what is your point exactly?

Markets currently play a massive role in determining prices across our entire society. A wage is a price paid for an individual's labor.

Labor markets are not perfect. No market is (despite the wailings of the ideologues). We try to fix these issues with specific policies and regulations. There is plenty more work to do here. But if you are advocating for the abolishment of labor markets entirely, I would love to see the details of your proposal. I don't know of any society today that has managed to do so.
That's likely down to TSMC 7nm vs Samsung 8nm rather than anything AMD did specifically.
I find it fascinating how many comments argue that these lives aren't worth living in a forum that just a few days ago had a (albeit unscientific) poll that said that most of you are currently depressed. 55-45 when I checked it. I was surprised it wasn't higher.

This despite being a population that largely skews young, educated, healthy, high earning, highly sought after. We hold the power to insist that ours are the "Good Values". We are the beautiful people Marlyn Manson sung about.

And yet, a set of people who are largely unappreciative of the value of their own lives, are passing judgement the lives of the disabled.

Why do you think their lives aren't worth living?
The Fed pushed a ton of money in a very inefficient manner. If congress approved another round of direct stimulus and bolstered the unemployment programs, people who are now struggling would have funds to make ends meet and could stimulate the economy.

Instead, by purchasing large amounts of junk bonds, the Fed basically backstopped Wall Street, leading to the all-time highs in the stock market indices. The stock market completely decoupled from the economic reality on main street
> The market's only real "failure" is that it's too democratic for the liking of certain individuals

It's interesting to see this sort of rhetoric re-emerge after it took a long break after the '08 recession. Of course, the idea that the market is "too democratic" is absurd. At least, I haven't seen a democratic system where 1% of the population gets 40% of the vote.

As long as "willingness to pay" is the market proxy for the utility a consumer gets from a good, the market is not "democratic".
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Here's some of it:
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/the-biden-rat-year...

Strange that the Cathay Bank wire transfer document has the amount redacted, of all things.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-evidence-b...
WoW feels like a remote job. I can barely convince myself to show up to meetings on time, sure as hell am not going to show up on time to raid.
> OSM is to Wikipedia as an atlas is to an encyclopedia.

LOL?

OSM is to an atlas as Wikipedia is to an encyclopedia.

Surely?
But that is a shit definition. :)

Portability has to take into account the scope of where it will be ported to. And, often, porting the software is something that has to be done. It will not be an intrinsic of the language or the program, but work that was done for them. Is why SCUMM is probably the most ported software. Was not necessarily an intrinsic property of the engine; though, it clearly had affordances that helped.

Really, I think Linux shot down a large part of the portability debate. It was made to be non portable. And now it has been ported everywhere.
I've done this before and found it excellent.
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> Telling Eric Schmidt (while at Google) to "go fuck yourself" and walk out the door to never return was the most empowering thing I have ever done.

You can't mention this and not tell the full story. You know what you were doing here :)
The Yellow Pages business model is always ripe for takeover. Remember those big books they placed near your doorstep?
> - cool story. are you living in alaska for fun?

While I did enjoy the fun, my primary reason for moving up there was to escape the heat. I have a medical condition that flares up in the heat. There are good temperate places in the USA pacific northwest, but cost of living there was so high that there's no way I could have done it on Salt Lake City based wages. Even just the higher CoL in Alaska was pretty painful.

> - also w3m.

Hadn't seen this, will check it out :-)

> - why don't you git clone everything to your laptop when you have a chance? then keeping it up to date won't be expensive.

I definitely did, but we had a ton of services with new ones springing up all the time, so even though I would grab what I could when I could, there was still frequent needs for more. Also git wasn't the worst part, the worst part was downloading docker images (base images and prod images). Since they change regularly, sometimes daily, there was no real way around it.
Fair point. Without moving the goal posts, I should have clarified that I was referring to Windows on x86, and have never owned a Windows ARM device. What I was trying to say is that, if you want compatibility with the broadest swath of software, you don't generally buy a Mac. This is not as true as it used to be, but it's still true.

I don't have a Surface Pro X and would never buy one, but it's an example of how ARM isn't necessarily the answer to the user's problem, because the user may well use his device for more than running Microsoft Office and browsing the internet.

A glimmer of hope from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface-pro-arm-app... on Oct 1, 2020:

With 64-bit emulation coming soon in Preview via the Windows Insider program, you'll be able to run 64-bit (x64) apps on Surface Pro X.
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100Wh.
There is a newer type of test, only very briefly mentioned in the article, and strangely not even by name: NIPT (Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing).

It works by testing tiny amounts of the baby's DNA that can be found in the mother's blood. It is close to 100% effective for detecting Down's Syndrome.

It needs only a blood sample, so carries no meaningful risk for mother or fetus, but it's more expensive than the older amnio or sampling methods, so is usually only available privately (at least in the UK).
The problem is you're "applying" for jobs. Those applications almost always get filtered out by terrible decision makers (AI, HR, etc). Instead of applying for jobs, you need to network for jobs.

Part of your research about the job is figuring out who in the company will be your manager and getting your resume directly to them. People are often willing to help each other make helpful introductions, so check linkedin to see who you know at that company or at least your closest contact and then contact that person and ask for help getting your resume to the right person.

This is what they're talking about when they say most people get jobs through people they know. It's more work than simply applying, and that's why you can only afford the time to do it with 4-5 jobs. Even still, it's far more effective than applying for hundreds of jobs.
Except now you have to hire a staff to maintain and manage hardware, batteries, generators, buildings, security?
Yes, that's a good file manager too! Especially for people familiar with vim.
Q: What kind of reasonable person would spend 4 YEARS doing work and PAYING between $10k - $35k a year (on average) for the privilege of doing so? And get 0 support for finding a job afterwards?

A: US college student.

Keep that in mind when you complain about 4 weeks of unpaid work with a high chance of getting a highly paid job afterwards.

"High chance" because obviously Lambda will stop working with companies who see it as a free labor program.
Can the vim executable run without vim-runtime, or the other shared libaries it installz? I don't know the internal architecture of vim, I am genuinely asking.
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That’s not what I’m saying.

The case law on this is not as definitive as you are claiming. I don’t think their behavior is illegally anti-competitive.

Sure, you can say that not supporting a specific 3rd party application (e.g. an App Store) on your device is “anti-competitive” but obviously not illegally so for any business.

Behavior which is totally legal can become illegal in a monopoly situation.
Having my grandfather's diary entries from 1963 through 1995 sure helped jog his memory as we work on his memoirs.

If, God forbid, he were to pass, those journals would remain, echoing some of his memories, experiences, feelings, and conclusions.

I think about that when I'm feeling down on journalling that day.
Imagine you've lived in the same house your entire life. There's a big couch taking up half the living room, but one of the legs is broken. When you were really little, it tipped over when you sat in it, so you just learned to walk around the couch over to the not-very-comfortable armchair and sit there instead.

This was so long ago that you don't even remember learning not to sit in the couch. You don't think about how much room that couch is wasting or how much time you spend walking around the couch to get to the chair. Sometmies you stub your toe on the way around, but everyone trips every now and then. You've been doing this so long that it is completely unconscious. Hell, you can and do navigate the room in the dark.

Friends ask you about your living room furniture and you—completely honestly as far as you know—say it's all fine. You describe your chair in detail. It's not perfect, but it's serviceable. Certainly lots of other people have furniture that's in worse shape. At least you don't have any of those problems.

Then you sit down with a therapist for a few hours and they say, "Hey, what's up with that couch?"
> What would you do if you had a million dollars?

> I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two monitors at the same time.

Maybe I have less mental swap space than the average person, but nothing has increased my productivity like monitor space.

Plunking down for an ultawidescreen was the best development decision I've made. Being able to have specs/docs + IDE + search + chat/email open at the same time, accessible with a physical turn of my head, greatly boosted my productivity.
A timeout would most certainly not trigger during a busy loop in JS. Timeouts can only trigger when the main thread is not running code.

Browsers will complain against code running for too long without interruption though.
Yes, by selecting the lines.
Execution-method looks at selection first.
Isn't that extortion?
"Doubts are growing about one of the first and most high-profile efforts by Google owner Alphabet to show that it can be more than an advertising cash machine.

Loon, a decadelong project to provide internet to rural areas and islands around the world using high-altitude helium balloons, earned the company years of fawning coverage in the press and photo-ops with government and telecom officials eager for the balloons to float over their lands. But after Loon spent all of the cash it raised from an external investor last year, Alphabet has had to float money for the project’s operations while it searched for new investors, said two people with direct knowledge of the situation."
I carry my laptop to work and back with me. I want to ditch the laptop bag and just carry a stick to plug in anywhere.
Please stop spamming HN with your link. We just asked you about this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25128211
That makes no difference:

OSM <-----> Wikipedia

^ ^
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v v

Atlas <-----> Encyclopedia

It's just which parallels of the commutativity diagram do you focus on. The map-versus-text operator (left to right), or the digital-versus-dead-tree operator (top down).
Yep! That's the one. Start today!
If you're in the US, Psychology Today's "Find a Therapist" tool [0] is excellent and lets you filter by a number of things including whether they accept your insurance plan, location, gender, specialty, and so on.

0: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
Her memoirs/autobiography are really interesting.
That's objectively still a lot of money that can pay for a lot of things.
I agree, and I'd go so far as to say that it's important for most office workers, even if you're not planning to be remote.

Writing is a great proxy for thinking, and a lot of people have great thoughts, but aren't good at organizing those thoughts into a coherent story.

(Note that there are a lot of people who think they're "good at writing" because they know a lot of words and can commit them to the screen quickly, and a lot of people who think they are bad at writing because they get a mental block trying to commit words to the screen.)
In a true apprenticeship, the apprentice makes wages while learning the craft/trade - and the apprentice doesn't pay the organization that they apprentice under or through... An apprenticeship where the apprentice is required to pay 17% of their wages to the organization that merely coordinated the apprenticeship represents a continuation of the elite amassing wealth, while the working class are expected to pick up more and more of the tab.
Yes I made the switch back to "normal" hotels last year and everything was so much easier we arrived much earlier than expected and they had a better room available at that time so they gave us that one. Then took our bags while they cleaned the room went to the hotel's cafe for a coffee. Easy peasy.