skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the article was written based primarily on Gebru's Twitter feed, which casts her in a sympathetic light. This is a common problem news organizations face these days; Twitter drama is an unreliable source, but it's so much faster than independent research that you almost have to use it sometimes.
Yes but I don't understand how this can be seen as modelling anything but the experiment one is performing: the way I interpret this proof of quantum supremacy is (and again I know this is incorrect but don't know why) almost like selecting any physical phenomena to which a simulation of it is computationally hard, and then say that the result of this experiment is the returned value of a "computation". I feel it's almost like claiming you are going to simulate fluid dynamics with an actual water tank, some dye, and a camera.
Bit of a spoiler there, isn't that the end of S1?
List of Healthcare Industry Statistics to Know in 2021
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https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/disability-insurance-plans...

Only 1/3rd of non government employees have short term disability insurance. If you're a white collar office employee, you maybe have a 50% chance of having short term disability insurance, with the higher you get paid, the more likely you have it.

But for the people that need it the most, lower paid service workers, only 20% have it.
Celebrating 50 years of the Unix Operating system
Yeah, this is a great point. It’s easy to think that most of their companies are explorative, because those companies quickly come to mind.

But if you actually scroll through the list of them, https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/, most seem beneficial to society
Hello, creator here. This is (I hope obviously) just a short snippet you can and should use as a starting point to hack on. For smaller data sets, this is perfectly fine, but if you're at the point where you need this, you will certainly have business-specific requirements that I don't really want to bake into this from the beginning.

Here's my use case: I wrote this because I was (and am) working on a music streaming service, and I needed a youtube-like shortkey for public links to artists, albums etc. For my scale (~10,000 artists, ~120,000 tracks), I haven't run into any problems.
I build a whole iOS/Mac app around the idea of daily notes and now also backlinking :)

https://noteplan.co
The bus factor is often the last thing considered
Oh, I thought I remembered them having dropped that because it was hard to define and actually reducing freedoms or something. Perhaps that was the FSF/OSI standpoint instead (though GPL never had it, so idk where this idea came from). I stand corrected about it being "previous" :)
PCNT instruction is in the proposed bit manipulation extension of RISC-V. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip/blob/master/bitmanip...
It seems pornhub could make three easy changes to satisfy everyone (or at least some of this author’s pts):

1. Use a dumber search recommendation system that chooses from a list of “safe” searches. Mostly for PR.

2. When someone uploads a video, check if it’s similar to something that was taken down. This article implies they don’t do that — surely this would save pornhub a lot of hassle anyway.

3. Publish some metrics about how many videos were taken down/list some positive actions they’ve taken. Also obv for PR.
Thanks for these resources! Definitely relate. CLI is the original chatbot
That's only slightly better--an "attacker" (tracker?) still knows that everything except the longest response times are cache hits.
I think your post is good fodder for the "quantum formalism" described in the article, because it seems like you're getting pretty carried away with interpretation, what with terms like "metaphysics" and the conclusion that chairs are illusions. Some chairs may be illusory, but in general they would reveal themselves as such because you can't, for example, sit in them.
> How 'bout a pencil and paper?

I hereby salute your nitpicking :)
just like the majority of americans voted for trump
Let’s be honest, Google knew this was going to blow up and they didn’t want to have a public conversation about whether she’s “abrasive”. Whether you agree or not with what Google did, it seems clear that they wanted to fire her for a while. They made the calculation that using this as a justification would allow them to get rid of her at a PR cost that was acceptable to them. None of the comments coming out of either side should be taken at face value, what’s being said is just window dressing and justification of the real motivations.
There’s no such this as “overtime” in most salaried jobs though. You’re paid just for being an employee, not for hours worked.

This used to be true, but has changed in a lot of states and cities in the last decade or so. Many people still think that salaried=work as long as the boss says.

In those places, being salaried doesn't mean you have to work unlimited hours with no compensation. This only applies to managers. If you don't directly manage people, you are legally entitled to overtime. Pre-pandemic, some states were cracking down on this.

It's worth checking your state and city's labor laws every couple of years because things change all the time.
XPS are great but I would caution about poor thermal management, even after reseating the GPU and CPU cores it doesn't take much to hit the CPU temp limits with full fans.
Adorable Holding Back: Speaking Up (Or Not)
Any idea why this hasn't been addressed in the C standard? Like C21 could say "math.h shall have a popcnt() function with these semantics", and then the compiler treats that like the intrinsic?
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/disability-insurance-plans...

Only 20% of service workers have disability insurance, and I don't know of any fast food franchisee or hotel franchisee or pretty much any other small business that offers disability insurance. I would say it's still pretty barbaric. The lower your pay, the lower your benefits.
Wouldn't that cut the battery autonomy by 4? Is it really that different having 4K in just a measly 15" surface? (I get it on a 32" screen or a living room TV, but a 15" computer screen?)

Also note the Apple Retina screens were great due to more features apart from just resolution.
> Premature Generalization is worse than Premature Optimization

I don't think that's true, I just think premature generalization is more common among people who have internalized the maxim about premature optimization.
What a stark contrast to America. A country of "Personal freedom" that utterly entraps you to work and shames you as a socialist for asking for support from your government. Ironically, the cut throat work environment that has trained me to always keep an eye out for a better deal is drawing me to immigrating away from this country to the EU.

(This is a throw away comment to vent my personal frustrations. I'm quite afraid of the terrible responses this will draw from my fellow Americans so pardon me if I skip out form here.)
As a concrete example, not too long ago I saw an engineer spend a few days trying to use a React plugin for some UI thing. Another engineer eventually took it over and implemented the same UI thing from scratch, in about 50 lines of CSS and JS, in about 30 minutes. There were clearly two different approaches to the problem there!

What I see from many people (especially coming out of bootcamps) is that they learn one tool. They make one or two apps with it, the apps work fine, and so they believe they can do anything. That works great until they come up against something they haven't seen before. Once they do, they have no framework in their mind as to how they can move forward in solving the problem. All they know are those one or two tools. So if they can't find a plugin or something to copy/paste into those tools, they become lost.

HTDP is genius because it shows you how simple the fundamental process really is. They literally call it a "design recipe". It's basically understanding the shape of your data, defining inputs and outputs, and writing tests. With those ideas and some practice with that methodology, you can handle any situation that comes your way, forever.

It's not the junior engineers' fault, though. A lot of people in the industry speak in terms of tools. "We're looking for React people", etc. The idea that your skills are defined solely by the tools you know is widely accepted in startup circles. It's no wonder that bootcamps operate the way they do.

From what I have seen, the mythical "10x" programmers really do exist, and they're the ones who are really great at keeping it simple. They're not necessarily FP-oriented, just focused on writing simple code to accomplish a goal (and very good at it). HTDP is a great way to start down that path.
> would lead to falling for every trick anybody ever tries to play

Welcome to engineers playing organizational politics.
What’s outdated about sexism or racism? Has the scientifically proven difference between races or sexes changed fundamentally lately and I haven’t heard of it?
Why GitHub built their own Internal Developer Platform
I do something similar with Drift [0], a customized distribution of TiddlyWiki [1]. I capture as many thoughts and ideas as I can using the Zettlekasten methodology [2]. If it can be distilled to a single piece of knowledge, I assess, should this be private for me? or it can be useful to anyone else? if b, then I publish add it as a Tiddler on my public TiddlyWiki file, and I run an update that will upload it to my web site [3]. If private, I keep it in my private file.

TiddlyWiki has been around for a very long time, and it keeps evolving. My personal file has over 3,000 Tiddlers and it keeps growing. It's unbelievable all you can do in a single file with just HTML and JavaScript. As long as those standards exist in 20-30 years, I can be sure my files, all tags and all relationships are still available and highly usable.

[0] https://akhater.github.io/drift/

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[2] https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/

[3] https://ramirosalas.com
South China sea, Taiwan, india. They are in border dispute with all neighbours other the Pakistan.
Go figure...
> Play this forward ten years with a family to support and a mortgage which committed you to personal inflation and a track record of ...?

Being an excellent employee?

I understand your point, but I actually have been doing this for about 10 years now, and I consistently have improved my "career trajectory" by switching jobs when I start to feel that my coworkers are overachieving and throwing me under the bus. I look at it like a forcing function to switch jobs and get a raise.

I already had a decade of pre-work experience just from being a lifelong hacker, so it's not like I'm relying on my job to learn new technology. I don't have a fear of falling behind. If anything, I've noticed a huge decrease in SWE competence over my time in industry.

Some of my most "successful" friends at FAANGs are bad developers that just devote more time to playing the system than I am willing to do. I find the social con-man stuff to be really draining and I hate doing it. I also hate interviewing, which limited my career more than I'd care to admit.

Also, I've opted to not support a family or carry a mortgage. I'm doing something similar to FIRE. I'm hoping to be FI with a total of 15 years as a tech employee.

"But do you really hate working so much that you would sacrifice having children!?". Yes. Very yes.

It's also likely that tech workers are "overpaid" right now, as we're compartmentalizing more work, lowering the skills required to join tech companies, and remote work is now the norm. It's a race to the bottom, and I want out as soon as possible.
You can define it however you choose to.

As an end user with an Apple chip in my hands, I get better performance than competing products.

I know what you're saying--all those market factors are why the chip in an iPhone achieves better performance than competing phones.

So maybe you can stretch better to mean "well Qualcomm still manages to extract profit". Bully for them--as a user, an A series chip is better.
I'm in the same boat where my eyes were not as good as they used to be and I often run a scaled display rather than 1:1. I'm using Ubuntu 18.x LTS and it comes out of the box with gnome but I primarily use i3wm. I was able to scale my display to be 25% larger and every app by adding this line to my .Xresources:

Xft.dpi: 125
Really?

>The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated.

We wouldn't have any billionaires if this was even remotely true. If having 999 million dollars doesn't satiate you, I submit there is no amount of money that will. We look down on hoarders who fill their house with old newspapers and knickknacks but when it's money hoarding we lionize it.
Once you submit your paper it is visible to experts you probably know (or at least know of). The double blind process does not work when the subject matter, and writing style, and citations correspond closely to specific labs or researchers. You stake your reputation as well as that of your lab/company from the moment you submit.

I say this from personal experience, I once published last minute for a conference and was violently chewed out by my bosses because of things they disagreed with in the paper.
And here am I with the 1680x1050 monitor... I agree though
Nice. Our team has been using Zoom for this but this looks like a much better way to do it.
Use their software and be ready to get screwed.
Still, 9% for Reddit vs ">50%" for Facebook is a pretty dramatic difference, even taking throwaway/secondary accounts into consideration.

There must be a quite large fraction of their MAUs who are just random visitors (to meme posts etc) who don't return.
You can, but you need to explicitly state in your data policy that this is what the data is used for and you can never use this data for any other purpose.
I think it depends on the developers style of how they reason. I use recursion a lot when dealing with loose data, to clean it up. Recursion is one of my go to's for deduplicating list.
Huh. On three separate jobs (small tasks, few hours to couple of days) I was told, after asking some questions, "stop bugging me and just write the damn thing".

I would probably not ask any questions on any new task of that sort and just randomly pick something. To be honest, that might not even be intrinsically bad - the client can always change their mind even if I write exactly what they wanted, so "write something and show it to me" is probably a good idea.
1979 Playboy Interview: Wendy/Walter Carlos [pdf]
That's hard to scale up.

Making them learn go is basically training for then to be better engineers though, so that's kinda better
2020: Curious Cases of Corporations in OpenStreetMap
She was absolutely fired, her boss even admitted as much (paraphrasing, "we accept your resignation but can't agree to your timeline, termination is effective immediately"). TBH, given the behaviour (public email saying "stop working on what mgmt asks you to, it doesn't really matter!" and email to manager saying "do X,Y or I'll quit!") - the way this was handled is not discriminatory, it's what would happen to 99% of the employees. She was a star employee and thought it can't happen to her, but apparently she overstepped some boundaries.
I don't have stats, but when I tried to do this it was made quite clear that I needed to submit 2 weeks early because nobody who reviews can drop their day work to do a priority review for anything less than a superpaper. Most of the people doing paper reviews (just like in academia) are busy and doing them in their "spare time" (evenings, weekends).
AMD's recent agreement with China and the resulting monies allowed AMD to really move ahead. We have to keep that in mind.
I used to love using Reddit after Digg's disastrous redesign many years ago, but it really has devolved in a number of key ways:

1. Site design. I can't help but think that the site redesign lends itself towards dark patterns, echo chambers, and the kind of "hot take" reactionary culture that makes most of social media so unhealthy. As a user, I am mad that Reddit uses so many annoying nudges to get me to use their mobile app instead of the browser. I am wary of "old.reddit.com" being killed. I am frustrated by the site being slower.

2. Censorship. Reddit used to be a bastion of free speech. The late Aaron Swartz was a staunch defender of it. I think users should be allowed to discuss whatever they want and view Reddit's role as a "dumb" forum hosting layer. If people don't like some content for any reason, they are free to block those posters, or leave those particular subs, but they shouldn't impose their censorship on others. Unfortunately, today Reddit heavily censors content across the board, particularly when it goes against San Francisco-centric progressive political culture. And ultimately, they even omitted Aaron Swartz from their "founders" page (https://reclaimthenet.org/aaron-swartz-reddit-founder/), which is disgusting but also sad. After all, pg noted that as a result of the early Reddit-Infogami merger, Aaron is legally a founder of the combined company (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219).

3. Weaponization. It is very hard to escape Reddit's prevailing leftist political culture. Even if you leave r/news and r/politics, you will find politics injected into every other subreddit, including ones that have nothing to do with politics (like r/pics). This is in part because it has been targeted by activists as a way to get their word out and a location on which to squash opposing thought by any means necessary (banning subreddits, banning users, vote brigading, astroturfing, etc). Reddit users don't value civil discourse as much as vote wars to win for their side, which is a key way in which it is different from Hacker News. It's also telling that 92 of the top 500 subreddits are controlled by just 4 people (https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/fko21a/9...).

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I really hope one of the many Reddit competitors (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...) grows into a platform of its own. I have my eye on Ruqqus (http://www.ruqqus.com/) and Saidit (https://saidit.net/). I'm also looking at Parler (https://parler.com) as a Twitter alternative and MeWe (https://mewe.com/) as a Facebook alternative. Unfortunately with network effects being what they are, the big issue is that these alternatives may attract mostly those who are victims of censorship from Reddit, leading to two separate echo chambers - one for liberals and one for conservatives. It's better than one echo chamber with a "tyranny of the majority" but I'd rather we just get back to the old open Internet days where free speech reigns supreme.
Law Enforcement Buying Commercially-Available Geolocation Data Unconstitutional
Off-topic - where did "uplift" come from? This is a new word in the last 6 months or a year.
Windows 95 FTW!
Pornhub should handle takedowns more efficiently, but getting rid of a download button on a website is pointless... at the end of the day, if it’s on your screen, it’s your data

I’m not sure what they can do pre upload. I think moderation is not really realistic or even possible in many cases
The fact of the matter is the Apple ASIC team is better than Qualcomms and even if the 888 was at the same 5mn node the M1 would be faster. I find it very frustrating how people always seem to say "well, Apple only is better because of ... and wait until ..."

Apple has been kicking Qualcomms butt for a number of years now and up until now building ASIC was not primary part of their company. Now that they have moved the Mac platform over to their own chips I believe you can expect to gap to widen.

I hope, truly that this becomes a awake up call for Intel and Qualcomm.
> This is why we have tests, linting, code review.

None of which is related to using a dumbed-down language.

> 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.

There's plenty of research around software reliability and on the sources of bugs across different languages.

Research shows that verbose languages e.g. Java don't have lower bug rates or better maintainability than expressive languages like Python.

Dumbing down a language, reducing expressiveness and introducing boilerplate does not help. If anything, it removes the attention of the developers from the core aspects of an application.
I used Netscape 0.99 on a Mac. It was on a BMUG CD from 1994 that I would get a lot of freeware/shareware. Used it download SPRY Mosaic, which Microsoft licensed to create IE on Win95 soon after (I had already seen Mosaic running on CDE on HP/UX at my mom's scanning electron lab. she was getting a physics ph.d). Then I got a Mac clone from Metroworks. It had a pretty innovative C++ engine for its' time (PowerPlant), but I ended up booting into mkLinux (a mach-based linux) just in time for linux 2.0.0, discovering kde, then spending a while trying to emulate hacking at khtml/konqueror just to reverse engineer IE behavior "quirks" (5+ was a disaster) just to get websites to behave. Eventually both Apple and Chromium adopted khtml (webkit) instead of Gecko, before Firefox itself revived via Netscape and Mozilla (after it escaped the AOL/Time Warner fiasco). The funny thing is I use Firefox, chrome (on my android), and safari (on my Mac) much more than I use linux anymore. I'm pretty luckily to not have been just slightly too young (I'm mid 30s) to go after the original .com boom.

I enjoy Rust the days. Modern C++ certainly ain't bad, but nostdlib Rust is also the first serious threat to full spectrum C in a long time.
I've started a business, we were recently acquired for a nine figure sum, and I think PG is increasingly out of touch. My best guess is that he's been rich too long, but I feel the bitterness and have been quite successful in my tech career starting companies.
Lucky you. English classes are normally a load of hot garbage. Concise writing would earn an F.

That stuff you learned is still not college material. It's remedial. OK, yes, there are remedial classes taught at most colleges, sadly enough. It's not justification to mandate that normal students take English classes in college.
Private communication, sorry. Source considered 95% reliable.
Censorship and the Future of the Internet
No they don’t guarantee any funds whatsoever, nor do they provide insurance against fraudulent charges.
Just read the book lmao
seems like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235843 was right. Of course his comment got flagged and no one believed him (except me I suppose)
Inconvenient truth. Nobody likes a president who started zero wars
I think the inflection point was when tech, the valley and the internet itself became mainstream, circa 2000. It came along with millenium hype.

Even then only maybe 1/3 of Americans had consistent Internet access, but everyone was talking about it. 'The Matrix' films remember are about hackers.

Then the metastasizing with mobile, which really took root post 2010 when even poor people around the globe became connected.

I think AI, in the long run, won't be the thing we look at, it will be the internet itself.

In 500 years, I wonder if even Television or Radio will be remembered as 'a thing' - they were foundational and transformational, but only for a few decades until the internet took over.

The mishmash we have now, may resemble whatever it is we have in 1000 years. Protocols, sources, viewing tech will all change, but I think that it will actually kind of feel similar. It won't have the orthodoxy of 'TV Channels' with 'set program timings' etc..
This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move
Just get a Dell.

System 76 is more of a "lifestyle" brand that targets Linux users. They're one of many resellers that just rebadge Clevo laptops and market to different segments.

Nothing against Clevo, mind you, but there's no reason you should limit your shopping to them versus the more established brands if they don't meet your requirements.