skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd always imagined Berkeley would be the ideal place — that it would basically be Cambridge with good weather. But when I finally tried living there a couple years ago, it turned out not to be. The message Berkeley sends is: you should live better. Life in Berkeley is very civilized. It's probably the place in America where someone from Northern Europe would feel most at home. But it's not humming with ambition.

With VCs and touting a move to Miami, Austin & other cities as tech spreads out, I wonder what message those cities are sending to attract ambitious people.

Or have we sufficiently gotten past the point of tech being in a physical location vs being on zoom, slack & twitter.
It's not below cost if the goods don't have a resale value otherwise. Should they be destroyed so profits can be made by some other company selling clothes to the same population?
I wonder if catalyst converters would work for treating this problem: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00642
I would say that vaccines work to prepare the immune system to fight a specific threat, but that doesn't mean the virus or the disease disappears. It just mean that the infection's impact is mitigated on the individual and, with time, on the population.
Enigma cipher machine comes to Gottorf
Don't hire a project manager.
You are not helping your case by calling out people based on where they work instead of what they say. Refulgentis is raising factual points.
I recall a study that indicated the perceived disparity in wealth has a greater effect on how poverty is experienced than the absolute condition, therefore (the study argued) somebody living in poverty in a very wealthy society is likely to be more miserable than if they were living in a society where the majority were also in poverty. I'm not saying this applies to your example, I just thought it was an interesting factor to consider.
Thanks for the link. I'm a sucker for GNOME's disk usage visualizer, so it's nice to have something similar on Windows.
I made this table: https://imgur.com/PZqKWk2

It shows the point melolife made, that the percent excess (excess deaths as percent of expected) can be high, but the expected number is fairly low, so the total number of deaths is still relatively small.

The data is from November 9, so not up to date.
Or, with the crazy amount of applicants they get, it’s very hard to come up with an alternative process e.g. pair programming for a day like what some small companies can afford to. They have to be able to do interviews efficiently.

Interview is hard. A while ago there was a post by Jane Street that explicitly emphasized this point. They also require algorithms questions even though programmers there write a lot of OCaml. I guess if you were in the position of the interviewer it would also be hard for you to come up with alternatives that are much better for all sides involved.
None of that transfers money from rich countries to poor countries.
This article makes far reaching societal claims with essentially no evidence. The evidence presented is in the form of "feelings" of various writers concerned of their own decline in literaryfocus.

An unvoiced assumption that people were historically more literate pervades the entire article. As a former lit. major I used to buy into this kind of thing. But I now think this belief is the product of profound selection bias. Literature and history libraries are full of the very best diaries and letters of the very best diary and letter writers because those are enjoyable to read and being more detailed are more useful. History is not written by the victors but by the literate.

People of letters that write this kind of article are obviously inclined towards letters and therefore inclined to sample history through literate means and therefore greatly overestimate the literacy of the past.

But let us pair anecdote to anecdote. There is a podcast network called "The New Books Network". It examines weekly the release of new academic works. It began as "New Books in History" covering one new history book each week. Now it features dozens of podcasts each covering a new book every week. Engage these podcasts for six months and at the end, tell where your biases lie. You will probably suddenly believe we live in the most literate age of all.
Did no one see Marc Benioff from Oracle listed as the original point of contact for the consortium of sponsors? :)) (and some others that went on to become industry stalwarts).
Sure, but where is your data and business logic going to live? If the answer is "just write it in JS" then it's no longer a question of "just use React" but "let's replace our entire stack with Javascript".
Yes, non major subs are ok, also it's shifting toward annoying too. 2020 is not helping.

My new social network is called the woods.
These would probably get more attention if submitted to the issue tracker: https://github.com/cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines/issues
I cannot confirm this, but I have been told Dickies last at least as long as duluth.
Right, the voltage is huge compared to household electronics, however the amperage is tiny...
For every loser there’s a winner. I fail to see how developers could ‘lower’ players’ winrates without also improving others’ winrates.
Huh? I think Knockout.js was awesome for its time! To me, Vue.js feels like Knockout’s spiritual successor. What did you find frustrating about Knockout?
This is good news. I work for 6 months with StimulusJS 1 and I'm very happy to use it. I use it mainly in a rails app combined with Turbolinks.

My original thought was to go for an SPA with a rails API backend. I tried out both React & Vue extensively but got stuck in a while. Since implementing Rails and plain 'vanilla' JS it went better. But with StimulusJS 1+ it went simply great.

Allready upgraded to 2.0 and it feels even more structured with the new features, like values and improved targets.
Thank You! The desire for ephemeral real-time discussion is what really drove the idea... As for the name (lol), at the time I was trying to think of something that represented what it was about, and came across the word "squawk". That name is pretty common but I liked the play on it "sqwok" because it's 5 characters, easy to spell & remember. I decided to roll with it, but have a backup just in case!
Subreddits are definitely how it manifests, but the problem is with the design itself.

Upvotes and downvotes with effectively no restrictions (unlike, for example, HN, which has a variety of restrictions in place) plus the fact that every subreddit is a weird little dictatorship/oligarchy where moderators are given the tools to unilaterally direct conversation / silence dissidents / etc was always gonna be a recipe for disaster (in retrospect).

Certain subreddits being small and focused enough to avoid this (for now) doesn't make Reddit not a cesspool.
I had something like that and doing a few minutes a day of magic eye / 3d stereograms sessions helped me a lot. That consisted of learninng how to see them then learning to hold the image up in 3D (feels like starring behind the image) then rotating the eyes around while holding the stereogram in focus (looking at all parts of the image not just center). This helped strenghten my eye muscles and tension/headaches went away.
Webviews are the answer there.

As I keep saying don't complain about Web == ChromeOS, when you push Electron everywhere.
I like to read books. I do not like to read long-form articles.

Why?

Because the vast majority of long-form articles are written by people who are lacking a quality editor. They are virtually always a superfluous, stream-of-consciousness verbal vomit that beats the reader over the head with information that is tangentially related to the purpose of the article, and they are usually 4-5x as long as they really need to be to get their point across.

This article is no exception.
I don't know if it would affect Pepsi's or McDonald's sales, but it would likely affect somebody's career at their marketing agency (not in a good way).
Not if you use Gatsby or NextJS and get server side rendering out of the box
It is still quite common on Reddit for users to inject politics into absolutely everything, regardless of the subject. It really is difficult to get away from sometimes.
Hi chucktorres, thank you. Yes, you’re right, the technology absolutely can be used to record podcasts and I have this use case on my radar.
Doctor strikes can be pretty orderly and be organised without jeopardising urgent care. Eg here's a recent one in Norway (you'll need to use translation): https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2020/10/norska-la...

You have to remember that in a well working labour market strikes are a last resort, and 99% of the time having a strike as a tool helps the labour side wield their fair share of collective bargaining vs the dominant position of the employer organisation.
RPI4 support is in current (the future NetBSD 10), not in the last official realease.
I knew a Japanese woman who didn't know green potatoes are poisonous. She made a salad and spit it out after first bite as it was completely inedible. I wonder how many japanese don't know fugu is poisonous.
Depends on your age. If you are in college, taking an introductory course or two on ethics and metaphysics could be useful. If that's not possible or realistic, Nicomachean Ethics, A Critique of Pure Reason, and Utilitarianism were the most useful classic philosophy texts I have read, and should be available on the internet and in most large public libraries. Be warned however that all can be quite daunting, companion books could be useful if you do not have a professor or TA to provide context.
Julia – A fresh approach to numerical computing
I have been banned several times, and I am not in the habit of calling people names. At most I may call some argument "stupid".

Mostly when it comes to criticizing socialism or feminism, it doesn't last long.

I just tried to look up one of the old accounts where dang banned me and we even had an email discussion about it. But as the account is banned, I can not look up the comments I wrote anymore.

Edit: I think I remember, often the argument is that "politics are not welcome on HN". But there are political topics on HN all the time (women in tech, worker unions at Amazon, and so on and so on). I never bring them up, but when they emerge, I sometimes join the discussion. That's when I get banned for "talking politics", even though I only comment on other people's (socialist) politics. So it is not usually about "civility", it is pretense for censoring unwanted opinions.
A PDP-11/20 could address (without extensions) 32 16-byte kilowords, or 64 kilobytes, of RAM. Most machines shipped with twelve kilowords, or 24 kilobytes, of RAM.

Tell me again how free the creators of Unix should've been with it.
If you liked the old version, I don't think the new one will disappoint you! Please reach out to us (https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C013B7MQHJQ) and say what you think.
Despite what both sides claim, IMHO papers like this are primarily PR, ideology, and politics, rather than science and technology.

This is akin to a speech writer working for a politician, writing a piece that disagrees with the party platform, and refusing to fix it when asked.
Testing asymptotic behaviour is quite simple. It can be done empirically.

Yes, you might make a formal proof of asymptotic behaviour and the property that the iterator returns a set, given a certain approximate model of the system, of course. However, it doesn’t just become simple or practical given the existence of a suitable type system alone.

Also I am not sure of the usefulness of tests of the asymptotic behaviour of an implementation of a data structure over tests over the applicable data and system. Is there a demand for this? What I mean is separate from the proof that a theoretical hash set had X complexity in its operations. That is clearly interesting.

Unit testing might be for the poor man, but how much money will the man doing the formal proof have left at the end of it?
What company I work for did: start a desktop app on a VPS and make it accessible over a web based remote desktop. The app was supposed to run 24/7, so it was additional plus for the customer, because now they could have a computer running outside their house.
Sure, but how hard is it to prove it in a court of law?
The moderators here keep the signal to noise ratio higher than almost anywhere else on the internet. I've learned a number of things here, and I try to add value to the comments, though I don't always succeed. Read as many of the articles as you can, even if they don't seem interesting... the titles never convey the whole story, and the good ones are sometimes things I'd automatically skip if it wasn't for the discussion.

[Edit] I've been here since February of 2019
Knockout still is awesome. Very low friction to knock stuff out.
The motivations of moneyed interests are obvious. But the contempt the working and middle classes have for the poor is something I'll never understand.

I've often been obliged to pay for something I've seen others acquire freely and I say good for them. I wouldn't exchange places with them for a moment. It seems the pettiest of all things to begrudge someone whose life is a disater, even in the rare cases when it is of their own making.
Carbon emissions arguments tend to ignore the value of what's being done as well. BERT and other transformers were meaningful experiments that were valuable in furthering a major research direction and enabling more effective consumer and business applications. In that sense, it's like any other company doing R&D - of course energy will be used and of course there will be some inefficiencies.

I think it's quite misleading to compare the energy usage of an industry-wide research effort to individual consumption. The graphs look bad - "wow, 626,000 lbs! that's 284 metric tons of CO2! a plane flight is way less!" - but there's a fundamental difference between "progress on a problem being worked on by thousands of highly-paid researchers" and "I bought a car".

Meanwhile, the worst power plants are generating on the order of 10+ million tons of CO2 every year. There are at least a dozen of these in the US alone. Car factories are emitting hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 (Tesla is somewhere around 150,000 tons a year, apparently, and it's designed to be efficient). Perhaps activism around CO2 emissions in ML training might be better focused on improving the efficiency of those things instead, seeing as a 1% improvement would outweigh the entirety of the NLP model training industry. It's certainly good to keep in mind the energy costs of training in case things balloon out of control, but right now the costs relative to the results seem small and not worth highlighting as some forgotten sin.
Great Books and Classics: “Your Gateway to the Great Books Online”
What about all the traffic accidents which didn’t happen due to shutdown?
Their point is, we (western countries as a whole) have the following options:

- Buy clothes made using child labour, the children and their families get a bit of additional income.
- Don't buy clothes made using child labour, the children and their families don't get a bit of additional income.

Most likely, these children are working because without this income, it's difficult for them to meet their needs for survival. Given that, the choosing option 2 will clearly leave this children and their families worse off. I'm not sure how that's a controversial statement, it's simply describing the situation as it is. Denying harsh realities doesn't make things better for those children.

Now, the ideal situation is just a direct wealth transfer from rich countries to poor countries, and I would be in favor of that. But people in rich countries value the lives of people in their countries many times more than those in poor countries, so I doubt this will happen anytime soon.
My mistake, a Critique of Practical Reason. Pure Reason handles metaphysics and not ethics. There is also Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, which is similar to Practical Reason but written earlier in Kant's career
I think in places in San Francisco, it might not just be "inequality", but also homeless people flocking to places with spare money and mild climate. Why else would you choose to be homeless in one of the most expensive places on earth?
Thanks for sharing! I can relate I am also on a same boat and realized now leetcode is the way out then serving non FAANG org which I thought will serve me well for my loyalty and hard work I gave so far.
The death data that the CDC has received and processed by yesterday, December 4, have a total of 2,893,571 deaths for weeks 1 through 48 (ending November 28). This number is incomplete because of a lag in reporting. The CDC estimates that there are at least 73,000 more deaths in weeks 1 through 48 that haven't yet been received and processed.

(Note that this data includes the last 3 days of 2019.)

But even with the incomplete count, we have already surpassed 2018 and 2019.

It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but it looks we're on track to have 3.2 million to 3.3 million deaths this year. We won't have a firm grasp on the numbers until March.
Private prisons held only 8.2% of inmates in 2017, with many states having zero use at all. Looking at the map, it doesn't appear there is much of a divide between red and blue states in terms of likelihood to use private prisons, or the percentage of prisoners held in them.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
True.

So take a look what this guy found out:
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=240767
Just virtualize it or even emulate x86 on ARM. You can even emulate an ISA bus over GPIO.
First and second industrial revolutions made people rush to the cities and created a world where people are « factory workers », with fewer bounds to their origin land and to their family. In parallel, traditional values were criticized by modernity to the point of dismantling them.

What we have now in the Western world is not families, it is millions of single independent autonomous actors. They have close friends, but loose families. They have teenage crisis where they try to gain independence from their family. They have work relationships. When they fall, they can’t come back home, they have no place called home. They may say « I’m from Minnesota » but their grandfather was from Belgium. Even in France or Germany, people are unrooted, and a good 15% of them are total migrants, as in, people who fled/left their home country, often in a state of war. Some would raise the flag of a Muslim country and fly there every year. And yet, they are more French than foreign.

This may be a difference with India. We’ve thrown tradition to the bin while inventing modernity, but what we’ve really done is cut through all the ties between people, made them move cities and countries, made them leave their home land with carrots that had grown from the ground for centuries into worker factories where all they owned was a bed (on rental) and a place in the factory, we told them family was a contractual relationship, and shred their sense of belonging to a place. « So why would you help your next of kin? He doesn’t come from here. »
Possibly because you have bugs eating your clothes and they can't eat the plastic stuff.
I find Angular much more "boring" than react because it feels much closer to classical HTML/CSS/JS. React basically asks me to mix all of these, which can be distracting
yes, basically it's activism disguised as research
People eat a lot of things not for their particular flavour or texture but because they are expensive or rare. For example is caviar really that nice to deserve its price? At some places in soviet union caviar was cheaper than sugar and people used to trade it for lemons (because citrus was rarer). Scarcity makes things attractive.

Fugu is one of those. Requires a highly skilled cook to prepare it and is only available at very few restaurants.
That seems to beg the question of whether Indians, or generally people in food cultures with high consumption of cinnamon and turmeric, exhibit these effects. Then again it’s also the kind of question where answering it would require controlling for an impossible set of other variables.
Yes. I wish they would provide the raw data though.
This matches my experience in junior cricket.

At early ages, up to 12 ish, those with older siblings in the sport are a year or two ahead of those that don’t.

At 13 and up it starts to even out, as individual commitment and physical gifts play more of a role.

In the past, this has meant the wrong people are placed on the development programs and a lot of talent being lost, but it’s changing now.

It’s all about retention until well into teenage years
Eurostat has more recent numbers ...
I feel exactly the same. After they butchered m.reddit this seems like a viable alternative for mobile, but is just missing the ability to enlarge images/video without opening the post for me. Happy to open comments etc in a new tab ofc
Feels to me there are a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions about FAANG floating around in this thread, which I guess is not exactly surprising given the type of post this is (criticism of the "broken" interview process). It almost feels like some people find excuses to not even try, or have some sort of sour grape mentality/avert their eyes from the issue, if they feel themselves unlikely to pass the interview, even though they haven't spent the time required to master the algorithms questions at all. (Of course, there might also be people who simply find it quite hard to find such time, as mentioned in the article, which is understandable.)

My understanding is that those companies themselves also freely acknowledge that interviewing is hard. Due to the sheer volume of applicants, fast algorithms questions is the most reasonable compromise they can find at the moment. If you were in the position of the interviewer, it would also be hard for you to come up with an alternative that works for all sides involved. So instead of complaining about this reality, one needs to face up to the challenge.

It is actually a paradox: You seem to be unfree and doing something pointless when you were grinding interview questions. But after you've made it, it would suddenly be very easy for you to have a lot of freedom and security in your life with all the capital you have accumulated. In a sense it's like how college entrance exams work. It's unfortunate but again, if no better practical solution could be found at the moment, one just has to face the reality and do it. It could even be fun. Talking about "ideals" wouldn't get you anywhere in the real world.

Regarding work-life balance, perks and life quality, just as the comments who replied to you pointed out, working for big tech is most likely one of the best options you can have out there, compared to many smaller-scale companies.

The one valid thing I think you may get by not working for FAANG is complete freedom in shaping what you're working on. However this is hard anywhere unless you're the founder/executive of the company yourself. If that's what you're after and you have the safety to pursue it, sure. However, in terms of working as a common employee, there are very few possible reasons why a place could be better than big tech.
Do you think Github.com UI is complex? They are using a very similar approach to Stimulusjs: https://github.github.io/catalyst/

And it's working great?
Immutable C#
The Danish climate minister closing down the oil industry for good
My favourites are sites that load the layout, the ads, the analytics, then the fonts and only then the actual text of the page. If the font doesn’t load, the text doesn’t load — and if you have JavaScript turned off just a blank layout with ad-sized blocks waiting for something to happen.
Why are physicists reluctant to give up the idea of experimenter freedom, as the article says? Is there anything more to it than not wanting to deny free will?