skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also because their speech seems to be muffled by the mask.

I'm in the same boat but I know that I have a hearing loss and have known since I was young. Their speech isn't really muffled. You were relying on reading their lips and didn't know it. I did some speech therapy when I was young to learn how to lip read and one of the things I was shown was how someone looking down, covering their face, or mumbling affected my ability to hear. I was taught to ask others to not mumble or cover their mouth. Not much of an option to ask people to not cover their mouth at the moment.

Closed captions help for tv/movies. Hearings aides help if you can stand to wear them. Usually I talk louder myself to encourage people to speak up. When I can't hear someone I don't hesitate to tell them I can't hear them and that they need to speak louder and more clearly.

I'm not terribly concerned about masks affecting my ability to hear others. I just ask them to speak up and politely point out that I am hearing impaired. It is more difficult to understand people but I find that it is mostly low talkers/mumblers who I would have struggled to hear mask or no mask.
Give the warehouse workers a raise, cut the salaries of the managers and techs making six figures. Problem solved.
Consider the the classic koan:

10 PRINT "Retardo_88"
20 GOTO 10

To fully grok this, the concepts you need are: the idea that you can instruct a computer to do things, the notion of source code as a list of such instructions which will normally be executed one at a time, in order, and - crucially - that the instructions can reference other instructions and that this is the fundamental leap that makes computers interesting. In other words, Turing Machines 101. It's a perfect demonstration.

Now consider the simplest equivalent program in Python:

while(true):
print("Retardo_88")

In addition to all of the insights mentioned above, you need the concept of higher order control flow statements, the concept of nested execution, the concept of boolean literals, the concept of a function call... there are so many questions that are hard to answer. Why do I need parentheses? Why do I need the colon? What's the deal with the indent? What gives with the weird grammar of "while true"? Etc...

It gets worse the moment you want to do anything nontrivial and have to wrestle with objects, methods, and dot-syntax. BASIC sends the message that computers are simple, easy to grok things that follow simple, logical rules; Python sends the message that they are a bottomless well of dizzying complexity.
If someone is using an ultimatum, they don't request an in-person discussion.

The narratives from the participants on the actual communication differ on key points relevant to evaluating whether it was really an ultimatum.
Others would say she's funding groups to protect girls and women against abuse.
Car sales are back up to pre pandemic levels! But yeah I’ll bet there’s lots of folks who are not bringing their cars in for service as much with less commute.
Geez, talk about a misleading headline (from WSJ), it's almost click-baity before you read the sub-headline.

It's the kind of title where some people (ok, I) jump to the conclusion that "OMG those climate-hating old-fart car salesmen!".

A better headline would be "...Rather Than Invest to Sell Electric Cars"
U.S. spy chief: China has done human testing to make super soldiers
* 1-based indexing is superior to 0-based indexing.

1-based indexing is a special case of 0-based indexing.

* If you use spaces to indent code, or in any way rely on a fixed width font to "line things up", you have a fundamental misunderstanding.

Fundamental misunderstanding of what? Not having shit PRs on Github?

* Relatedly, the 80 column "rule" is as stupid in code as it would be in prose. Use your aesthetic sense.

Yeah okay true

* Vim and Emacs both have terrible user interfaces, and are an inferior experience to even a normal text editor let alone a decent IDE. Users have Stockholm Syndrome.

Also true

* For beginners, BASIC is great and Python is terrible.

The language for a beginner is irrelevant, the only metric that matters is: Are you enjoying your coding experience? Keeping students coding is all that matters the language is irrelevant.

* There are many languages with a 'mystique', like Lisp and APL. The correlation between 'mystique' and practical utility is inverse.

This is almost a tautology, of course mystique will lead to less practical utility because their is simply less interest, less tooling, and less understanding about how to use the tool.

* Source code should liberally use Unicode symbols.

Someone has never looked at Agda source code before and it shows.

* Sigils to indicate variable type are actually pretty great, especially if enforced by the compiler. (See above regarding BASIC)

Gross.
Even just the direction and focus revealed by Reddit's constant pressuring toward the new design and behaviour, along with the failure to address long-standing architectural flaws in the site which render it useless for substantive discussion drove me off years ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/8rq08y/i_wont_...

Yes, I (very occasionally) post. But it's absolutely in the spirit of "this is a horrible experience and I would prefer any viable alternative". Other options, even if (or perhaps because they are) much smaller, are emerging and preferable.
What does it say? Isn't the lower service cost a feather in Tesla's cap when they come up? Who loses those dollars when GM sells an electric Cadillac?
Is Woz the founder/CEO of this project, or is he an advisor with an equity/profit share stake?

The article is suspiciously light on details of his day to day role. It also overlooks the dozens of other businesses and projects he’s been involved in since Apple.
Reddit could then revoke the API keys easily.
It’s easier than trying to remember it all. I have a habit of doing this at work, and it benefits not only me
but the next person who needs information. It helps justify promotions and raises too.

When you can do this openly it helps build a public body of work that can earn you better jobs.
I think you're coming at the ultimatum from some sort of strange power dynamic perspective, where an employee who successfully gets their ultimatum approved somehow disenfranchises their manager of their authority, enabling future employees to…what? Vie for the managerial position? This has a "crush dissent" kind of vibe.

In every employment contract there is a balance of things and employee is willing to do and an employer is willing to provide in exchange. If my boss said that they wouldn't pay me anymore I would rightfully respond with an "ultimatum" of "pay me or I quit". That's the ultimatum they respond to every day by paying me; they look at the balance of things I offer, consider what I provide to the company to be adequate, and then give me the money I ask for. The same is true for any ultimatum: you come to the table with one final negotiation; the negotiation of "do you value me? Then you must provide me this". It's an entirely transactional exchange.

Now, ultimatums are general to be discouraged not because they undermine some sort of authority, but because they are a sign that negotiations have broken down on both sides. As a manager, your goal should be to try to reach a compromise far before that point–not only does to hurt your relationship if you don't, even when the ultimatum is "successful" from the point of the employee, but by letting a conflict reach an ultimatum point you're exposing yourself to significant risk and often poor deals. The way to handle an ultimatum is to forestall "pay me x or I quit" with "I'll pay you almost x if you show good performance for the next three months". If you are at the point where the argument is "I'm going to quit" then yes, you may have to carry through with the termination if you think what they provide is less valuable than what they want from you, but you should really be looking at what you did to get to that point instead.
I got my last job by putting my resume up on Linkedin. A recruiter contacted me for a company I would not have thought to apply to, I interviewed and was hired.

Prior to that I got interviews via Linkedin.

For small companies I look at https://angel.co . I have gotten interviews from there.

I got a job a few years ago from my local Craigslist.

If you go to Google and type jobs, it opens up their thing to look for jobs.

I got a consulting job from this (HN) website's who is hiring who is looking threads once.

I switched my IT specialty a few years ago and was just happy to be getting paid a few years ago. As I have been getting more experience, I have been looking at https://levels.fyi and have been looking at not only companies and cities, but even what positions are getting paid. I will probably move to a larger city for my next job.
I've also been playing with Alpine, but on the also-newly-christened "TALL stack" [1] of Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel, and LiveWire. It's also worth a look.

[1] https://tallstack.dev
Absolutely, but that screening is reasonable. The same screening at run of the mill companies isn't.
“Nobody cares, because of who is affected”

My respect to the author for this careful and courageous article. Writing about the problems affecting working class white men in today's climate might warrant censure in some circles.

To the matter at hand, one of my concerns is that the Sackler family will enjoy long, peaceful lives. I hope justice intervenes.
You're not wrong. But like it or not, HN is the newspaper of our time. For many of us, anyway. So stuff like this tends to percolate in unexpected ways. And as a hiring manager, you get no feedback when people decide not to apply to your company, so it's probably better not to kill your hiring momentum.

If it seems absurd that anyone would turn down a job at DeepMind, well... Let's just say, in my experience, prestigious institutions tend to come with a pile of downsides that everyone puts up with (because prestige) but no one really talks about (because no reason). If you care about shipping results quickly -- some researchers do (or at least I do) -- then the idea of joining a big company is already worrisome. Like you're a professional rower, happily rowing along and navigating wherever you want to go, then you're asked to join a galley rower: https://youtu.be/TyzQ-bVaqPU?t=294

There's no substitute for Google-scale work. (Working on TPUs would be a dream, IMO; where else could you possibly build those?) But if you join Google as a researcher, it sounds like your ideas have to (a) pass through their internal academic review, (b) pass through a journal's review, and then finally your idea can be published to the wider scientific community for comment. (b) was painful but possibly worthwhile, with arxiv serving as a bucket to catch everything else. Why roll your own internal review process? And why is Google trying to micromanage what researchers are allowed to publish?

I know we're probably missing a lot of the story. But on the other hand, Jeff has now given an official side of that story, so it's not like they didn't have a chance to set expectations.
> Chrome 86 also introduces the File System Access API [2] which is the icing on the cake - you can get read/write access to actual local files and folders, bypassing any issues about IndexedDB limits or persistence.

How likely is this to get deprecated like the file system API, web SQL API and Chrome apps? I'm excited about this too but support is still poor https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api.
The VW dealer I bought my e-golf from has been harassing me to do my yearly oil change. And each time I have to tell them that no, my car doesn't need an oil change. They still insist on a yearly "service".

I'm sure these dealerships will invent things that need to be serviced yearly.
Who agrees that, after the first few million copies?

Under the original US Constitution, Harry Potter would be public domain by now.
> People who created enormous value in the past were rich but not filthy rich

Rockefeller's net worth was about 2% of US GDP. IIRC, that's still a record.
You're probably right that you can't advance... at that company. There are other companies that are less stupid. Sounds like the first step of career advancement is to find one, even if it's only a "lateral" move in strict dollar terms.
> I don't think Zuckerberg, or Bezos are necessarily bad people

Some of Amazon's warehouse employees have to pee in bottles to save time. You dont think that is bad and Bezos should do something to stop that?
Taxings loans against the stock would do it, I think?

You can't use the stock based wealth without asking it, unless you take out a loan with the stock as collateral.
I don't agree. I think a module operator is common enough that it should be known, and even if they don't know it, they should be able to quickly make a module function. (Something like a while loop that decreases value a with value b while a>b and returns a)
You're starting to sound like you're writing in good faith.

I'm not proposing a critique of her work. What I've found on arXiv reads like standard fare for its genre. Hotelling famously joined an early seminar on linear programming with Dantzig only to interject "... but the world is nonlinear!" That's not what I'm out to do -- not with this particular researcher, nor with its proxies on twitter and HN.

The scenario I'm looking at is one where the polarities are not left versus right or woke versus straight, but Humanities versus STEM. If people are to reject her kind of work -- and I'll be glad if they do, even if I'm not really willing to press them in that rejection with a proper "critique" -- then they could walk away burned by theory and postmodernism and all such crap. I'm proposing an entirely different path, or a space of different paths even.
Computation expressions seem like one of F#'s unique features. I assume there are corollaries in other languages - but damn do they make code readable.
This, it goes way beyond gold vs bitcoin: vi vs emacs, linux vs windows vs macOS... I could go on and on, but the point is most of the time those options are not mutually exclusive, just use both (when and where it makes sense), enjoy both and shut up.
> As a manager I would only do this if I really wanted to fire the person already. For employees I care about I would give them an out.

One of the more difficult lessons I learned as a manager: Once a team member starts giving ultimatums in order to get their way or override decisions, it's not in your best interests to give in for the sake of keeping that employee. The obvious exception is if you realize you were actually wrong from the start, but reversing decisions for the sake of caving to someone's demands is a problem.

If someone is so ready to quit that they'll flaunt it to the company, it's doubtful that reversing a single decision is going to suddenly make them happy again with their employer. Worse yet, it sends a message that threatening to quit is the way to get what you want from the company. Once you validate the strategy, you will get a lot more of it.

Unfortunately, if someone already has one foot out the door and has been complaining openly (even on Twitter, in this case) about their employer, it's best for everyone to go their separate ways. From there, focus on identifying and fixing any underlying problems to minimize the chance of this happening again in the future.
Well regulations will ensure dealerships are around for a long long time to come. In most states it is illegal for the major companies (Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, etc) to sell direct to the public, once they start a dealer network that is how it has to be for all time. Tesla got around that because they were a new company with no dealer network, even then in some states laws were "updated" to prohibit direct sales.
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Precisely same here most noticeable on screens and in morning. My wife passed me her glasses and my screen became sharper than ever. My fear is using them too much might then mess up my non glasses vision.
The protein folding problem (as tested by the CASP competition, and "won" by DeepMind here) does not include proteins that require chaperones. It covers spontaneous reversible folders like ribonuclease A.
Her description, quoted from a Wired article which she has re-tweeted (which I interpret as an endorsement) is as follows:

"Tuesday Gebru emailed back offering a deal: If she received a full explanation of what happened, and the research team met with management to agree on a process for fair handling of future research, she would remove her name from the paper. If not, she would arrange to depart the company at a later date, leaving her free to publish the paper without the company’s affiliation."

I read that as an explicit ultimatum.

https://www.wired.com/story/prominent-ai-ethics-researcher-s...
Storage Patterns for Kubernetes by Red Hat [pdf]
Apple Researching a Matte Black Finish for MacBooks
...you can take pride that your company delivered 1.5% of the federal income taxes paid by all of corporate America.

IME (including writing the actual SQL queries against a corporate billing system that calculated ideal writeoff amounts every year), corporations evade so many taxes that this amounts to an empty boast. 1.5% of bupkis is bupkis. Supporting the state through income taxes is inherently foolish, and moreover we do it in the most foolish way one could imagine.
I think electric is inevitable at this point but I also have my doubts that Cadillac is the brand to bring it to us.

I've got a hybrid and I'm not sure I can ever go back. The mileage is amazing but so is sitting in your car with the AC or heat running while the engine is off. It was also amazing when I left an interior light on while I was camping and ran my 12v battery dead; press a button to recharge.

I do pause at the thought of an all electric because I want to be able to do the long road trips we have in the U.S. I'm willing, however, to spend 30 minutes at stops every few hundred miles, when there are enough of them (which is very nearly now). Range is getting close to what I would need. Say, 300 miles per charge with an 80% charge on a fast charger in 30m. Looks like Tesla already beats that, at least on paper.
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And I'm sure that her lawsuit will allege bias, and will include a demand for exactly that information so that she can prove racial discrimination against her.

Which means that Google is likely to have to produce all of the documents that they didn't want to produce.
I rarely have a game of Dota2 where the spread of skill in my team is the reason I've lost. Indeed, I can't think of a time.

I've lost to smurfs occasionally. I've lost because people have tilted and abandoned or chain fed. I've lost because internet has died. I have even lost despite playing at my best and having a good game...

Mostly, 8-9 times out of 10, I've lost because I did not have enough impact on the game. I did not do enough to win, and to help my team win.

But yeah. Wide spreads in matchmaking really only happen with very extreme skill levels, on rare game modes / timezones, and where explicitly playing as a party (and thus forcing it)
Dealerships are left out in the cold without service dollars.
I don't think we even need data on this. One or two day prior is unthinkable, just per common sense. Although data points would be valuable and appreciated but we don't really need data to understand the one or two day is just not enough time for anyone or anything.

It's not like there are a bunch of dedicated reviewers, it's always other researchers who review. I don't think some of the most valued papers like MapReduce or BigTable would be reviewed in just a day or two. It's just not a reasonable amount of time in any condition in terms of reviewing research papers.
IE 3 does support VisualBasic as another script language. Later IE versions simply supports any scripting language that is provided by the underlying platform (including javascript). People tend to regard the whole IE4/Windows 98/"Desktop enhancement package" thing as Microsoft being anticompetitve and trying to kill Netscape, but the whole thing has solid technical background. Well, the whole "PWA" concept existed at the time except it wasn't called that.
At the very least, it would be nice if all the companies that want to use this standard could get together and design a certification that they all accept. If we could cut the length of interviews down by removing the leetcode portion it would save countless hours of both candidate and interviewer time.
I've mostly stopped using reddit because the quality has taken a nosedive. I love it when you could go there and see interesting things around the internet. It reminds me a bit like how HN is now, just more broad.

Recently though its like every other damn post is about politics, its so tiring.

I've mostly stopped using it after seeing back to back threads about how you're basically immoral and evil for pursuing a career in tech or if you want to create a startup or receive a six figure salary... just a bunch of nonsense like that.

I don't think that these "discussions" should be shut down but I'm just not interested in seeing what seems like propaganda mixed in with "funny stuff"
Along this line of thinking (constant improvement), I made a big effort to excise the word "bug" in favor of "defect" in my speaking patterns. The word "bugs" implies that the issue got in from the outside, crawled into the works. It might even connote that it's a natural thing, that it has some sort of agency of its own. A "bug" is nobody's fault, unless someone's job was to keep the window closed and they failed at that job.

The word "defect" is much more accurate. They were always there. That didn't just show up one day. They are an inherent artifact of a failure somewhere in the specification/design/development/testing process. Now, we might be generous and forgiving folk and not visit punishment on the person(s) who failed in that process, but that doesn't change the fact that it was a person who made the defect.
not sure I understand the base 64 encoding:

a bigint generated with this: 2457081803026990508

base64 encoded: MjQ1NzA4MTgwMzAyNjk5MDUwOA==

why?
The numerous errors in the writing don’t help things much, either.
I'm a big fan of unicomp keyboards, heavy steel buckling spring keyboards still made in kentucky. They make one with 24 function keys I suppose you could map.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB40B5A

Then there are the point of sale keyboards, this one has 60 keys you insert your own paper labels.

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/361528/CHERRY-SPOS-Sm...
Pfizer to cut 2020 Covid-19 vaccine distribution in half
Nah, it's an option for starting againm.in video games you get to win in the initial difficulty, but then you can start again in plus mode
Tips to stay focused and finish your hobby project
> if I failed to explain it well, I would not be the first.

This, at least, is definitely true. If anything, the fact that you don't posit magically violating pretty much every conservation law in the history of physics (Copenhagen interpretation/collapse postulate) or magically duplicating the entire universe (Many worlds interpretation), arguably puts you ahead of most actual quantum physicists (albeit, one hopes, more on the explanation front than the understanding one), although my estimation of that relative to the latter might just be a artifact having a easier time imputing metaphorical status to "illusion" than to "world". (Copenhagen gets no such excuse, though, so you're still ahead of a plurality of actual quantum physicists.)