skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it reasonable to fire someone for dragging other employees into a personal dispute with the person's manager?

I absolutely do not believe it is, barring mitigating circumstances or policies that neither you nor I are privileged to access.

In most cases, this is called "venting". I have NO doubts my subordinates probably talk about me in DM or have gripes about some of my issues as their leader. But I know and have seen my direct reports be very opinionated with me in 1:1, they are very outspoken with me. One person had a moment of raw emotion, not because of something I had done but the organization at large.

And I encourage all of it because it means I can trust them to be honest with me when I need that candor, and in return, because I meet people where they are, give them room for expression and authenticity, they know they can trust me not to bring retribution upon them for being opinionated, even amongst themselves. I might not always be able to move the needle in the direction they wish, but they know I will always make sure their opinions have a voice at the leadership table-even if it means I am the one who has to take the hit for it while we continue trying to meet our mission as Ops Engineers. That's Leadership. Capital L.

Among larger groups? So what? No really, so what? Can I tell you that I am a founding and sitting member of an org wide DEI initiative and we actively encourage affinitized groups of employees to form resource groups, kvetch among themselves and present areas of contention to us to enact positive change at large? That we have two diverse members of the executive team on this initiative? That it has the full support of our board of directors and even our group of investors?

Would you believe me if I told you we had five people accept offers at the company who specifically said the reason, not one reason, the reason they accepted the offer was learning that this was something our organization has in place?

Now:

This is not most cases-granted, but I am regressing my interpretation to the mean intentionally because reacting to outliers in any direction as a default response gives room for extraneous and unnecessary harm. I default to maximizing good and giving people a voice, not looking for a reason to exclude them from making the business better for customers and employees with equal vigor.
Thanks, that explains it. Couldn't inspect it from mobile to track it down myself.

This helps cement my view of "don't use &nbsp; unless you really know what you're doing", as in, you're an expert in textual design.

Does it look like perhaps it's an artifact of automatic translation from one source to another?
All you need to do is store a "permit" or "contract" ID which a government agency or law firm can verify.

Performer would need to enter an agreement with the distributor as authorized by a government agency or third party, an agreement number is issued to the distributor. The distributor need not even know the name of the performer if they are incorporated.

You effectively (1) blanket deny distributors agreements with underage persons (2) create a paper-trail which makes trafficking easier to prosecute (3) force takedown/prosecute distributors of pornography where they do not have a documented agreement with performers.
This used to be accurate in the days of auto initializing jquery plugins, but probably isn’t the case today if you’re actually using stimulus.
The fragment amplification stage is definitely oversampling. I feel the original poster might have been referring to how the input DNA could’ve been heterogenous as it is from multiple cells. Could’ve also been confounding GWAS with sequencing, too, I suppose.

Given the technical limitations of single cell techniques it seems you both could be technically correct regarding the sampling.
He was laboring with contracts that stipulated severance, which got paid out.
Sigh. I tried using fizz buzz as an interview question for awhile and never got a single applicant who could solve it. Some just had no idea how to do much of anything but it turned out almost no-one had ever even heard of the modulo operator before.
Thank you for writing this.

Some years ago I served as a CTO for a major news media org.

Google approached us and asked to implement some 'structured web' stuff on our pages, so I dug in and realised there is a mandatory field for a link to a book or movie reviewers personal page in wikipedia.

So I've found out that one of the most notable Russian book reviewers does not have an wikipedia page. No big deal, I've created one with some very basic info and some links to prove she's 'notable enough'.

What ensued shortly after is kafkaesque story of some entitled shitheads who have power because they know some local lingo and have unlimited time resources to waste.

Luckily, someone poured too much time and effort and made that page 'standard wikipedia article about a person' with all those 'templates and boxes' and used the right lingo to defend it's notability.

I swear I tried to do it myself and failed. I am not stupid, the wikipedia editing is just too complicated.

Thanks for reading, a few years passed and apparently I still have not got it fully out of my system. That feeling of complete helplessness, when those bureaucrats are clearly toying with you and enjoying it. It sucks big time.
Telling another employee of a company that you're a manager at that "their humanity is not valued by the employer" is not activism.
The 80 column “rule” also discourages the use of descriptive naming, which IMO is far more important to readability than short lines.

Also 80 columns is near impossible to adhere to for more verbose language.
Again, you can make it a newbie question by just accepting any sort, including one you come up with on your own (so no need to remember). I'm sure you can design your own sort given enough time, granted 10 minutes might be too short to get it nice and clean, but with a bit more you're on the level of difficulty of fizzbuzz.

To make my point clear, you can implement a dumb and inefficient sort by implementing a min function, taking this min, then iteratively call it on what's left of the array and append the values to a new array which you then return. That won't get you into FAANGM, but maybe that's enough to get some discussion started in an interview at a company that's not too much into leetcode and is trying to evaluate other skills like communication. And I do think that 99% of people who write code every week could come up with something like this or better fairly quickly.
The most noticeable switch happened in 2015 before the election; it was like night and day. Propaganda companies were hired and went to town and all the default subs were taken over. Elections are every 4 years so they are on permanent hire now.
For me it's not. Being bored makes me restless, unfulfilled.

It gives me a feeling of fulfillment if I can do a bit of work for 10 minutes and help people out.
Past discussion, 19 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25096877
>is an exaggeration even embarrassing for HN

Hardware discussion on HN has always been subpar, and Apple's M1 discussion sort of confirm that. I guess most developers dont really give a damn about hardware.
While designed obsolesce is probably a thing, don't forget the main thing about vintage clothing is the style is what people are looking for when specifically shopping vintage. Thrift stores are different than vintage.
love to see pg get more out of touch with every single passing day.
Google didn't do that. They terminated her employment immediately. They also said it was because of her email.
gah, Java
Okay so you look at domain-specific keywords.

I’m interested in general terms that mark important parts. “The key here is...” “pay attention to...” “the most common mistake” etc
A lot of (really anyone who isn't already elite level) high school athletes realize this when they go to college. I wrestled in college and it was like starting over. I went from being one of the best wrestlers in my state to being one of the worst wrestlers at my Division II small not that great wrestling team.

By my second year I'd closed the gap considerably as had many of the other incoming freshmen who returned for a second year. Two of the freshmen were actually ready to compete their freshmen year and I found out later that they had practiced with college wrestlers quite a lot during their high school careers.

I heard someone once say compare yourself to those at the level above you rather than your current level. It's a bit draining but it is a good way to progress quickly for athletes.
How do you think people discovered what it does if it's not discoverable?
So-called "Right to Work" laws mean that a union-negotiated contract may be made available to non-union members. At that point, the individually rational action is to leave the union, keep the dues, but benefit from the union's negotiation. As everybody does this, the union declines.

"At-will employment" laws mean that the burden of proof for the cause of firing is on the employee, rather than the employer. This gives free rein to employer's to fire workers considering unionizing, so long as there is the barest pretext of another cause. As forming a union becomes economically risky, unions decline, or fail to form in new industries.

Unions have been attacked in the US, through explicit policies meant to defund unions, and to prevent unions from forming.
Do you use Alpine with Turbolinks?
I keep two TiddlyWiki [0] files, one public, one private.

If I feel that a certain note can become its own piece of knowledge in a Zettlekasten fashion and can have any value for someone else, I put it in my public file and I run a script that will copy it to my hosting provider. My public site is a single file! [1].

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[1] https://ramirosalas.com/
Yeah...anyone who thinks fx32 was faster in the real world than a native Intel core never actually ran it.
pg's priors are wrong. He would be correct if all or even lots of the world's billionaires were picked by YC, but they aren't. Sure, it may be possible to become a billionaire or build a billion dollar company without exploiting others, even as those others do not become billionaires themselves.

But is it even worth parsing this out? Income inequality is real, capitalism is fundamentally exploitative at its core, end of argument. YC's interview process is... not at all relevant.

> I'll tell you how it's really done, so you can at least tell your own kids the truth. It's all about users. The most reliable way to become a billionaire is to start a company that grows fast, and the way to grow fast is to make what users want.

There's a second part, and it's "hoard the profit by under paying the workers who built your company." Sometimes there's a third part, and it's "corrupt your government and lobby against tax rates that threaten your wealth."

Billionaires build, let's stipulate. They also hoard money for themselves while others desperately need it. It's not any more complicated than that.
1. It was an aquihire. Usually there's some performance secondary payout strings attached.

2. It doesn't matter what their deal was. It matters what public perception is. I'm talking entirely about public perception.

Regardless of what their deal was, Google has to send a signal that _impacts future deals_. If the general developer public thinks that Android was acquired for too little, then we will all be reluctant to sell our projects to Google. That's the whole point.

It has nothing to do with him thinking Google treated him fairly. It has to do with whether we think we could keep a company going long enough to make more money than his payout on _our_ work.

Google needs to make more Android-like deals in the future.
Well, there's the selection/survivorship bias there: You only see what was deemed notable. The stuff that wasn't isn't there for you to see.

(Unless you specifically go looking for it, in discussions about what was deleted or whatever.)
Yes, they're typically treated with a borate flame retardant.
That’s my biggest gripe as well. When opening a reddit thread from google I have to replace ‘www’ with ‘old’ in order to see all the comments, it’s truly absurd.

The only explanation I can think of for this behavior is sheer incompetence.
That is true but now even more expensive clothes are designed to break faster, back in the day expensive stuff was good durable stuff. For example theres a new trend for shoes in which soles wear out faster because of the material used. I’ve seen myself throwing out shoes that were in perfect condition or still very wearable if it wasnt for the hole in the heel. A lot of classic shoes that one used to be able to take to a shoe repair shop are now unfixable for this reason
Rpi has capability of being simultaneously an access point for your device and a bridge towards another wifi network but in my tests on RPi3 it was unstable. Better use wifi and cable
Yes I said “could” as a path to future utility. Light-speed complex computation.
Even better are claims of data coverage. USER: And every possible combination of data has been tested and validated to be correct like your management assured us? PROGRAMMER: No, that's simply not possible. For example, if there are 10,000 possible values for variable one, 1,000,000 values for variable two, and 5,000 values for variable three, that'd be 50 trillion possible combinations. And you have thousands of variables. USER: OK, but if that's true, why did your management assure us you'd verify every possible combination? PROGRAMMER: Because that's what you wanted to hear?
Yeah, let's use Unicode symbols. That lets us, for example, make it a challenge for others to figure out how to type stuff that they need to type. It lets us create variables that use characters that have almost exactly the same appearance as latin characters, but aren't. For bonus hilarity, create two versions of the same variable name, one with a non-latin-but-similar-appearance character, and the other with the latin character.

No thanks. Hard pass.
The difference between 141 PPI and 193 PPI isn't going to be that great for most.
This seems to fit neatly under "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
How does htmx fail?
I have experienced this myself...

If you are average in your level, and move one level up, you will suck at that level. You will probably be below average and struggle. <- Important keyword

When you move back to your level, you will be above average. Your teammates will feel slow, you can anticipate/read read the game much better... etc.. etc..

It seems that 'struggle' at the higher level, forces players to learn much faster. It can have un-intended consequences in some though (give up playing). You, when going a level up, it has to be a level you can still manage.

eg. a 9yo (second grade), could manage to play with 10yo (third grade), but would never be able to cope with 11-12+ yo (fourth grade)

If you are an adult recreational player, you could move from lower-intermediate, to upper intermediate, but you will flame out at a semi-competitive level.
You can engage in employee activism without making shrill claims about how you're being treated as a subhuman. If this seems difficult then thank god I don't work with you.
A curated list of useful Django OSS projects
I’d be delighted if they replaced the mailing address requirement with email. The fact that I need to either pay for a P.O. Box or have my home address and legal name in a public database is ridiculous and dangerous.
> after a year of frustrated searching for parking

:-)
Show HN: Linux 0-day Russian Roulette
I wonder if these select industry labs with full creative freedom (DeepMind, Brain, OpenAI) will end up being a Xerox Parc/ Bell labs moment for our generation.

A group of incredibly intelligent people allowed to do whatever fundamental research they want at the expense of parent company's business, whose value will not be appreciated for a couple decades until everything new in technology points back to a fundamental innovation coming out of that lab.
i dont think most companies are talking about ending the office culture. I know for sure my company is not, and its one of the ones thats already publicly stated WFH is a permanent option. There are a ton of people like you who would rather work in an office. There's also a ton who would rather work from home. It seems like the expectation is more work wherever you work best, home or office or hybrid. That does mean you will probably have more remote teammates, however I expect there will be density in offices for a long time still.
If old.reddit is killed off I might have to resort to browsing through the rtv terminal client.. though this likely would be deprecated as well
It's pretty simple: he did made ML work before almost anybody else did, and kept working on during the deep network explosion, and is now running Facebook AI, which has to deal with these sorts of problems with practical solutions on a daily basis, with billions of users. That sort of daily experience counts so much that I would I would place him in the "knows 100X about every area of ML" (excluding rare subfields).

It's rare but I have encountered people outside my field who knew more than I did about my field, because of their daily experiences over decades, or their raw intelligence. Yann seems to have both.
indeed! virtio helps us tailor the transport layer to an acceleration use-case, rather than just frames to be transmitted or blocks to be completed. The interesting turn on vAccelRT (of the runtime system that is) is that apart from the simplicity for running on a VM that the virtio backend gives, it seems that people are eager to use the vAccelRT mechanism, to map a complicated piece of code to a simple function call that is hardware agnostic. We'll see how this will turn out...

After all, API remoting is out there for quite some time (see rCUDA); some people are using it, but we think that a more general, semantic abstraction needs to be introduced... especially for the Serverless use-case.
Replace the parking lots with housing? Would drop costs, and allow more people to live within the city, decreasing the need for cars.
> where the numerator is such a small percentage of the denominator

Especially considering that we don't know how many people would have "rallied" in favor of her firing (if there were such a thing), even if we could believe that they could do so without fear of reprisals as those rallying "against" it can.
A Continuous Integration Mystery
Oh yes I agree. But the problem with this legislation (as introduced in France and Germany where a hard shutdown is imposed after hours with actual comms features disabled) is that it makes my way of working impossible (although usually us tech workers find a way to get an exception one way or another :) ).

Thus obviously I'm against legislation that restricts my desired way of life. As long as it's the choice of the worker it should be possible IMO.
> Ways to [support a market for longer-lasting clothing] include offering warranties on clothing and making tags that inform consumers of a product's expected lifespan.

Yes, please!
The problem is that long haul trucking isn't just "most big interstates", the only advantage of long-haul trucking is the logistical flexibility, if you're constrained to "most big interstates" you might as well use a train.

The remote on-call strategy doesn't scale, yes it'll save some money relative to drivers, but there's a delicate balancing act involved in mitigating risk of multiple simultaneous failures, yes this might be rare, but it'll also be costly.

See my response to wpietri for more about security, but with respect to warehouses and the like, they are frequently staffed by armed guards or dogs, it's also orders of magnitude easier to secure a stationary facility compared to a mobile autonomous vehicle traveling across the country. Insurance will only cover it if they can tolerate the risk.

Increased availability is definitely a win, but the other advantages you listed are just alternative ways of saying "lower cost". Yes, the costs are lower, but truck driver salaries aren't that high to begin with and the cost of building out and maintaining automated trucking infrastructure will be passed on to any trucking companies that decide to adopt the technology.
If you look at many top professional performers, it usually seems like the younger siblings are better. Haven't read the article yet, but my theory would be that the younger brother gets to practice against his sibling that's a year or two older. My guess would be that this would be particular to sports where 1v1 is a priority like tennis or basketball.
Sure, but that's all it can do. You could categorize the same payee differently based on dates or notes, and really anything you want to do. In the future it'll create rules to automatically mark recurring transactions, etc.
Fine. Don't take the word of the President regarding who was on the President's "truly great team." The National Archives will log it as his words, as per their mandate to collect the writings of the President in his official capacity, but you don't have to believe them.

Then when we evaluate her claims, we still find them to be utterly baseless accusations, detached from demonstrable fact.

The court cases are being thrown out consistently, and the hearings in front of state legislatures have been downright embarrassing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878445

Whereby I say in response to someone questioning the source of that quote: "That's the best you're going to find, some journalist's reminiscence twenty-some years after the fact. So I would caution anyone to be wary of whipping that quote out to make a point."

Until I hear of a better source (and I won't), I am putting this quote in the "urban legend" bucket. All that's missing is an attribution to Mark Twain.
now that we have this inevitable discussion venue after everyone has digested the PR (and some of the people her might have even had a chance to ask some questions to deepmind) some remarks (questions - if anyone from the team is here):

- I thought that open code was becoming the standard and also being pushed by Google? But apparently this does not apply to deepmind, because of $$$s? For the original Alphafold (which actually was 3 models) no code is available except, where it had to be (their nature publication on one of the three models used in the competition).

- why did they not participate with all the available proteins? I guess it's some loophole in the rules, to allow for greater "improvements" even when models are not super general, but from a naive scientific view that is absolutely stupid.

- maybe they went fully generative this time, but in CASP13, 2/3 of their models were just blackbox-predictors, which they optimized with simulated annealing. Given that the configurational sample space for the protein is huge, doing that seems still rather costly. I wonder how the actual spectra fitting works and compares to that and why experimentalists could not go this route as well? (just do simulated annealing, until the spectrum fits).

- they already trained on all known proteins, yet with some they are still far off. Seems like it's not solved really, though results are certainly impressive and it could be a great tool for any person interested in frozen protein structures.
Only specific sub’s are worth visiting nowadays. The front page is curated and China’s influence takes away any true organic feel.
I don’t even understand the label of on call. If you’re on call, you’re obligated to your employer. If you’re obligated to your employer, you should be getting paid.

If your employer wants to pay you for time that you spend at home doing non work stuff until they call, that’s up to them.

How is the pressure of “on call” any different than any other day at work? Unless you mean that your employer wants you to work 7 days a week, with 2 of them where you’re at home waiting to get a call. But then that issue is working 7 days a week.
does anyone know where the latest code for this is ?
i can see CASP 13 is here - https://github.com/deepmind/deepmind-research/tree/master/al...