skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's fair to say there is less tolerance for certain extremes in public spaces, but practically speaking the meritocratic mentality still rules the day. If you're a well-known public face of an organization you might have to watch what you say in public (but not always, e.g. Elon), but this is the exception not the rule.
This seems to be supported by data https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761452458...

I have been transitioning to Remarkable 2 to see if there's some benefit to uniting the concepts. So far, though, I seem to be taking fewer notes.
You mean the EU ruling? What is wrong with it?
https://www.affordablecolleges.com/rankings/public-schools-f...
Legalize consenting-adult-sex-work and remove the regulatory barriers that force these sites to use usurious, alternative payment processors.

If you must, tax these services to fund investigations and prosecution of abuse and trafficking. Note that the savings these services would enjoy from being able to use mainstream financial services would be so enormous that even with some kind of "sin tax" they'd still come out ahead.

(note, I generally don't approve of sin taxes, but since you asked, I think this is one option)
I like this comment. People don’t do good or evil because they choose to. They have incentives or goals that push and pull against others goals. Determining right and wrong often isn’t as simple as weighing those scales or determining which is correct. As both are “correct“ but in inherent conflict. We are forced to play zero sum games regardless of our own desire.

In this case, being a good CEO means making decisions that are worse for your workers over time. The world is set up in such a way to bias you towards that conclusion unless you work against it.

Does that mean you’re evil if you don’t? Or if you minimize your responsibility? Perhaps. But it’s still complicated. Thinking of the world as a massive weighted graph of wants, needs, and goals can be a helpful model.
We've been trying to hire a part-time contract dev recently and we hate the process so we've been a little half-assed about it.

As a result I think we've stumbled across a fairly effective approach.

We ask them to do a half day to day coding task based on a real requirement. We pay them for this as we have few enough applicants that we want to test that we can afford to.

We give them the requirement as if it came directly from the client. It's incomplete and there's a few assumptions they might make that would be incorrect.

It's fascinating to watch how people have approached this. We've only done two so far but the degree to which they ask the right questions vs leap in and try and code their way through it is revealing a lot.

Our initial setup instructions had a couple of errors in and this too has been really useful. Watching how they respond and how they resolve the problem.

It's remarkably close to real world tasks - poorly worded requirements, problems with documentation, missed assumptions that it feels like we're testing the things we really want to test.

The difficulty is that we can't come right out and tell them this is what we're doing and the artificial nature of the test might make them less likely to ask questions that they would ask in a live task. We've tried to drop hints to guide them into doing so however.
Yep, I assumed this was about another Google cancellation. Mods, would it be possible to change the post title to something mentioning font-loading or performance or self hosting? I can't really think of a title myself at the moment.
And you would call that "research" terminal-based?
Bad code can be anywhere. It's definitely the exception for web apps to store data locally in a way that works though. They might try to cache a bunch of stuff, but you always run into problems where 1. the cache is stale or 2. your working through something and it ends up having to hit the network anyway.

But yeah, I definitely agree that it's easier to profile the network activity of a web app. It's pretty cool that you can just open the browser devtools and see all the network requests, and there's no way for a page to "fake" it. I like the web for that reason, and it's also why I leave the devtools on in the electron version on desktop (users could open it and do the same, but it's not as trustworthy, i.e. I could hack electron and fake it)
I agree with you: When you say "do X or I quit", that's resigning and not being fired.

There's still a ton of people, including her, who think that she was fired. The amount of pushback from those folks for saying that she resigned has silenced a lot of people, from what I've seen.
Display resolution is alright for a laptop. What some of us want is more battery life and humongous disk space and ram.
I think similarly, but after giving the notes app a shot for a few days, I went back to a text doc on iCloud Drive.

I never really made notes on my phone, and I like being able to stay in my text editor (acme) on macOS.

For me, the presentation and structure around this workflow is what's too complicated. To adopt do something similar on macOS, I'd just:

> % echo 'notes () { acme-open ~/iCloud\ Drive/notes/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md }' >> ~/.zshrc

This would give me a function to create a new, dated notes doc and open with my editor anywhere from the terminal. And then I'd just use standard tools for searching, instead of using a script.

(FYI: acme-open is my wrapper to acme, and I keep a link to the actual iCloud Drive directory in my home folder.)
I know C++ and I know Rust is growing because of memory problems in C++ code. I would agree with this statement "It requires years of experience and great discipline to avoid errors in C++" from this article https://www.toptal.com/c-plus-plus/top-10-common-c-plus-plus...
It all starts with sex education, both in school and home.
No. Developers are a tiny, tiny fraction of the market for MacBook Pros.
Resurgence? Sounds like the writer never played multiplayer games. Arguably the top games of the 2010s are without any narratives: Minecraft, Fortnite, League of Legends, Dota 2, PUBG, Overwatch, CSGO, Rocket League etc.

Also Among Us came out in 2018, it's not a new game, and it was mostly picked by the Twitch streaming community not the pandemic per se.
ATM Timinit's work is nothing but a decoration.

Unless the underrepresented people got their deserved social and economic status, these so called fairness ethical study would just be building a mansion over empty air.

I am also wholly assured that the rich and powerful progressives know very well of this truth. And they are very willing to indulge these self-righteous elite intellectual. As long as they do not roll up their sleeves and get to help the unprivileged to rectify the system.
The article had 2 short sentences about C# and Python and several paragraphs about HackerRank and LeetCode.
I agree that this should be an individual responsibility, but sadly it just won't work. If you're the only individual in your company who protects their private time, then you'll feel pressure to fall in line. Even if the boss doesn't give you any grief, your coworkers will: "I respond to emails after hours, so why doesn't he?"

The bosses will likely favor those who work more than they should. And often working longer is seen more favorably than working better. This is mainly because it's more visible.

I tend to think that salaried positions and unpaid overtime shouldn't exist. But I'm open to arguments in favor of them. I just have a hard time seeing how they help align incentives of the employer and the employee.
> 13 years from "never designed a high-perf CPU" to "dominating x86 perf / watt

The people who designed these chips are from intel, amd, samsung etc. Apple can spend way more money than amd or intel.
Only if the company realize your important.
WOW what a misleading quote.

Here's the full paragraph that that is from:

> Imagine this: You’ve sent a paper for feedback to 30+ researchers, you’re awaiting feedback from PR & Policy who you gave a heads up before you even wrote the work saying “we’re thinking of doing this”, working on a revision plan figuring out how to address different feedback from people, haven’t heard from PR & Policy besides them asking you for updates (in 2 months). A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar (this popped up at around 2pm). No one would tell you what the meeting was about in advance. Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells you “it has been decided” that you need to retract this paper by next week, Nov. 27, the week when almost everyone would be out (and a date which has nothing to do with the conference process). You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognized by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organizations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company.
What do you mean? Are you saying she was undeserving of the position based on her qualifications?
No. Innovation does not require law breaking. This is an opinion espoused by people who lack ethics.

Tech firms and startups are just businesses. Breaking laws/regulations is not a requirement to operate a new business.
This is true for dektop monitors as well. I had to scout around for a 2560x1440 display for my desktop Ubuntu box. You would think they would be relatively common, but as you say everything was 1080p or 4k, at least when I was shopping in-person pre-covid. I ended up with an AOC gaming monitor that I really like that I bought online.
Well, refusing to consider the idea that someone might do something with more than zero layers of subtlety... would lead to falling for every trick anybody ever tries to play. ;) A more appropriate response would be to admit that it's not easy to tell the difference, and maybe, if the interlocutor cares enough, to do some research to determine whether or not it's still suspicious once the facts are known. One example of some facts that could resolve or strengthen the suspicion would be: How many other emails of equal or greater verbal strength were sent at Google, but then not followed up by dismissal?
Was that also the case when Amazon started? How did they get to scale? And are we arguing that Barnes and Noble didn’t have scale when Amazon started competing with them. If “scale = success”, how is it that the former incumbents failed and the initially small startup succeeded?
My attempt at answering that question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305383
I would say that the general trend these days is definitely in the other direction outside of some niches.

Performance is a design issue and it is hard to do as an afterthought. In fact often microptimizations are the only optimizations you can do without changing your design.
Gotcha, okay! I thought you meant somehow there wasn't a way to guarantee the security of personal vaults in a vacuum, and that was... concerning.

This makes a lot more sense.
I agree, I understand the concerns about the ballooning complexity of browsers. However I think overall an open app ecosystem built on the web using PWAs/wasm/other stuff, is a preferable outcome to all software having to go through an app store.
Unfortunately, there's nothing "previous" about NC. It's right there with the others in 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

But you are right that NC is the anti-commerce or rather, commercial-rights-reserved license.

Without the NC, SA is indeed free for commercial use!
Acceptable yes, but once you get used to "retina" it's hard to go back...
> Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.

As an employee, I agree, it is twisted to call it a resignation.

As an employer, of course that's exactly what they'd do with any employee who says "I quit, I'll tell you exactly when" and then proceeds to blast out a disruptive email.
California is controlled top-to-bottom by Democrats and still has remarkably poor worker protections by the standard of any other developed country and is even worse when you compare things like the state of housing, poverty, and healthcare. They have tremendous latitude to make better conditions for workers and yet somehow this never pans out in California or other "blue" states. At what point do these excuses wear thin?
I'm not sure how this follows from what I said which only concerns people being forced to pay for childcare for other peoples children, but if a parent cannot afford to stay at home at look after their own kids then what is the alternative? I'm also not assuming "childcare done by employees" is necessarily worse than from their parents, at least employees could be regulated.
> The paper's only in review

You submit a final version for review. You cannot change a paper significantly after it was accepted.
The same argument applies to developers not using the state of the art computers packed with RAM. These problems can't be found in QA: if they even show up at all it's too late.

Sure, their code will compile faster but they won't get a feel for how it behaves in the real world. Probably the best is to have fast build servers on the LAN while typing at pedestrian machines.
For that I have seen too much code from C hackers, who consider each abstraction bad and try to outsmart the compiler, while seeing great architectures in JavaScript from people who have no idea what a pointer might be.

Being capable of two different languages (TS and JS doesn't count ;)) however is a useful indicator.
At scale, it might be hard to do that, however this doesn't address the key problem. One of the hallmarks of good engineering is to add technical safeguards, rather than relying solely on Smart People.

It would be comical to hear, "Hire better pilots" as an alternative to building parachutes, or fly-by-wire systems.

Every one makes mistakes. This is why we have tests, linting, code review. Our choice of tools that we use (or, in this case, create) reflect our engineering needs as well. The goal is not just to hire Smart People, but to make it _hard for people to make critical errors_. At Google's scale, I can completely understand why they might feel that developing a new tool was the best way to prevent a core set of problems.
Uber Is Asking the CDC to Give Drivers Priority Vaccine Access
The always-on approach to remote work
How is "Barnes and Noble" relevant to "small bookstores" and "small businesses"?
Worth keeping an eye on Teddit development [1] [2], an alternative, open-source/self-hostable/JS-free interface similar to Invidious/YouTube, Bibliogram/Instagram, and Nitter/Twitter. Login functionality isn’t supported yet but apparently on the roadmap.

[1] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
[2] https://teddit.net
You're looking for a mobile workstation / desktop replacement. Some of these care little enough about the "thin and light" to have built-in carrying handles :)
Also, to put the double standard here into context, HN comment threads always had plenty of people defending Linus Torvalds tone.
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The torso is also different.
exactly. How would that work in an electronic setting?
My thoughts exactly. Also, I guess “web surfing” has a new meaning. They’re literally surfing invisible magnetic waves with web surfboards!
Most people don't understand how various options should be set if they even know those options exist.
Every analysis ever has basically concluded that money in politics only matters up until the point of name recognition. Once voters know about both sides of an issue, you actually have to convince them. That's why money is really only interesting for obscure offices (like judges)
It was just an assumption. At the very least you think like one.

And I’m not following. I’m not asserting some secret knowledge. This work is knowledge. It’s not practically useful for you. But it doesn’t have to be. And you’re the “ding dong” if you think it has to be valuable to you for someone to get something from it.
Gebru did not engage LeCun in a reasoned debate. She said he should stop taking, listen to her and her allies (and only them). She said "Let us lead here and you follow" and "Just listen", essentially telling the inventor of convolutional neural nets that it was now his role to sit and shut up.

That's how woke Twitter works: you define the group of people who are allowed to speak as only you and your allies. You pursue the meta-argument whenever someone not in your group attempts to speak.
Stimulus.js 2.0
While Apple's volumes are low, often their parts are mostly the higher end chips. I think just about every i9 laptop mention I've ever seen has been in a MBP 16". So while it's 10-15% of Intel's volumes, I've heard numbers as high as 40% of the profit.
From reading Jeff Dean phrase her request, this was the sense of what he and the company want to illustrate. But reading his assistant’s termination email and Gebru’s emails to management and subsequently to allies (for which she was quoted as not being worthy of a manager), the real issue is the company feels she’s too independent and threatened by her lack of submissive attitude. This has spoken more about the company’s attitude toward culture and perception, elucidating the very points in Gebru’s email to Brain allies that the company doesn’t care about opinions or humanity. Ironically, the very reason she is in her role to help with as an ethicist - which also puts into question how they see this role not as innovative but as a shill. Gebru’s mistake is she worked for the wrong employer.
Edmonton is cold, but it isn't Fort Mack cold.
Gregg is wrong. Thanks but no thanks Gregg, you are confusing people. CC-BY-SA allows free commercial use. It just means that if someone makes a derivative of the work, they also keep that derivative CC-BY-SA (which is good) rather than locking down the rights. But they can do commercial use without any limitations.
I've seen the retina displays of my colleagues, and while there's nothing bad about them, I don't really see the point. But I have rather bad eyesight and use huge fonts. I care more about the physical height of the screen in centimeters.

If anything, I would prefer to have more battery life and less memory usage than super-minuscule pixels.
> So why weren't they charged with distributing CP? This is what we should be focusing on, rather than, what, complaining that Pornhub doesn't have some sort of magical age-detecting AI?

This is the part I never understand about CP being shared among high school kids. Why are the schools and police not coming down on the high school kids sharing CP? Make it really simple, receive CP and don't report it, you will get punished. CP is no joke and letting people off who have received it and not reported it is not sending a proper message to these High School kids.
State Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the US, 2000-2018 [pdf]
Same way google and big tech companies fund pro-privacy groups. The intent is not to have stronger privacy laws that doesn't benefit them.
The text is full of non-breaking spaces between words instead of normal spaces, which very much restricts the browser's choice in where to put line breaks. Together with spaces sometimes completely missing between words, it makes it impossible for the browser to layout the text nicely. Trying to justify it only makes things worse.
> Sometimes your work computer is so locked down that some work tasks are made much easier by having a machine you have full access to.

This is not very persuasive. What you really have there is two work laptops.
The way you have phrased it makes it a firing not a resignation, in my mind.

"I will/would resign if" reserves her the right to resign; it does not have the same meaning as "I am resigning if"

Compare to e.g.: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/511062-trump-vaccine-o...

We can't take this ultimatum as a resignation.
The big problem in the US is the older population who paid $20k and up for their college tends to get upset at the idea of free college because they had to “work for that $20k.” This, of course, ignores the ridiculous inflation rate of college tuition.

It’s also why many people are upset at the idea of forgiving student loans. “I spent $20k for my degree, but Person X got into med school and is $250k in debt on their own will. Make them pay for it!”

There’s some parallels between making college/university free and the free K-12 education mandates decades ago. (Yes, it’s not “free free” but “taxed to be free”, but that’s beside the point)

Also, people don’t want their taxes raised when there’s no benefit to them. If one’s kids have all graduated, you see no reason to pay more money and get nothing in return.
"Corporate culture" is a culture of bland, and empty niceties, with a veneer of politeness and it's 100% needed so that a large corporation can focus on getting things done without every interaction turning into twitter.

Hacker news also requires a certain amount of politeness in the way you speak and it's one of the many reasons the discourse is better than twitter.
Depends a bit on age groups but membership is still pretty high [0].

The collective point is critical - unions negotiate wages as part of a tripartite arrangement in Finland. It's industry-wide sets of wages.

[0] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9036556
Innovation made improvements in work conditions possible, protests and the following regulations made them real. I'm all-in for a 20h work week.
It's truly wild these extremists are trying to cancel Jeff Dean at this point.

If they succeed you should assume Google is dead, sell your stocks and backup your data.
WET (write everything twice) > DRY (don't repeat yourself)
Nope. I find the personal phone sufficient. If corporate IT wants to know when I'm browsing linkedin, im fine with that.

Also, corporate has given itself the right to search any and all devices on me while at work, so that's double incentive to leave the home laptop at home.
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>If I missed weeks of work I wouldn't also take a vacation that year regardless.

Why wouldn't you?
You don't exist outside of the world, do you? If the most you ever do is "occasionally advocate against unfair policies," you certainly don't get to pat yourself on the back much for helping anything or anybody.

If you replace the word fault with "responsibility" or even a more neutral "influence" it's much more obvious, I think. You would clearly have less responsibility than the person advocating for said policies, but more than the person fighting them more vigorously or more effectively.

Nobody looks back and says "boy, I'm glad there were all those people who occasionally complained about Windows in the late 90s," they look back and respect and value the people who built alternatives instead.
I don't doubt that you're required to maintain your own code after you've checked it in for others to use ("pass it off") but have you always designed your own solution or have you had to implement designs by higher ups for some not insignificant percentage of the time?
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Here are some more I collected:

* https://undraw.co/illustrations HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858822

* https://www.drawkit.io/peach

* https://icons8.com/ouch

* https://www.humaaans.com/

* https://www.manypixels.co/

* https://craftwork.design/

* https://webpixels.io/illustrations

* https://www.pixeltrue.com/frontliner-heroes
I second this. Use it as a reference for quick mvp.
> The neon lights in themselves strike me as rather tacky [...]

I think this might also just be an effect of the fake high dynamic range on the pictures (i.e. a rather large amount of color bleed from an underexposed slice of the image was artificially enlarged to make it "pop" more).