skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People aren’t dumb because they got the stupid gene (barring deformity that does real brain damage). They’re dumb because they were taught to be.

The are large social circles that being smart is a bad trait. There are social circles where there is little opportunity to learn as well. There’s little differentiation between baby brains and epigenetic traits aren’t set in stone by parentage, though upbringing will have a strong effect throughout life.

You don’t inherit intelligence, you get taught to throw it away or not based largely on environmental factors, including how your parents raise you.
The effective date of a resignation is when the employee is officially no longer employed. Not when they're put on gardening leave. Google doesn't pay people past the effective date normally.
How can you prove that?
That's the textbook example of ad hominem attack, masquerading as critique of the paper.
> [Research shows that] Only 58% of organizations fully understand the value of Project Management

> Why do only 58% of companies value project management?

Well, that seems to be taking the research totally out of context in the first paragraph.

And then just rambles on about having great people, and having them really well trained in project management. Wow, who would have thought being good at project management and making people better at project management was the solution to getting better at project management!?

"Is scope creep the problem? No, thats just a symptom of people again, and training. Did I mention I have a book?"

Maybe I'm just cynical here, but there doesn't seem like too much insight here.
Additionally, according to TFA, it's not Google who don't want the article published. "Bender asked us not to publish the paper itself because the authors didn’t want such an early draft circulating online". Though they were happy to present it at a conference just one day later.
Let’s phrase that feedback loop a bit more clearly. When a person finds a way to deploy resources more efficiently, to meet other people’s needs better and with improved efficiency, society has feedback looks that divert more resources to that persons control so they can do so at increased scale.

Isn’t that what we want?

Just a week ago or so on Reddit someone posted imagining how much good Elon could do with his Billions. I replied that yes, maybe he could devote those resources to push forward electrification of transport to mitigate global warming, invest heavily is solar power technology and devote resources to trying to create a future for humanity in space.

Well, of course, that’s exactly what he’s doing. All those billions aren’t stacked in a mountain of dollar notes in his basement, it’s embodied in the jobs, infrastructure, technology and products of his companies. This basic, fundamental ignorance of even the simplest economic concepts is incredibly common. I see it all the time, here as well.
I think it does a good job listing project ideas / features / roadmap and is a pleasant step away from the bland corporate brands. Love the esthetic. You just can't satisfy everyone.
My personal opinion on React is that it may be overkill on simpler projects, but there are mitigations (like SSR) that make it easier to swallow, and in this case it is fine (as it allowed faster prototyping and building). The real problem is that major websites have used frameworks for relatively static pages (news sites are bad at this) but didn't think of the possible side effects (like slower client-side rendering and subjectively "sluggish" website.)
There’s a lot of homelessness in Budapest, just to pick a place not so far from Romania. And it’s visible enough that I’m sure you think about it if you’re a low-wage worker without a strong network of family or friends.

While it’s not as crazy as in SF or LA, the problem is quite visible throughout the city, as are the homeless people themselves.
> What about all the traffic accidents which didn’t happen due to shutdown?

That represents only a few hundred lives, it seems. Deaths per vehicle mile traveled are actually up.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34240145/2019-2020-traffi...
I concur. IMO her works are more of opinion pieces than science.
-But those loans do not cover tuition (which is basically free), but your living expenses while studying, which you would have incurred anyway.
There is a hypothesis that excess iron is a risk factor for heart attack, and that periodic blood loss clears it out. This could be why pre-menopausal women have lower rates of heart attack than men and post-menopausal women, even after adjusting for age and other factors.
If you read the linked material, an ex-Googler calls that a lie based on his experience working as a reviewer of scientific papers there.
While I understand what are you trying to say (the manuscript in question exhibits low empiricism), I don't think you fully understand different kinds of research that exist (you don't have to agree with it, but more helpful would be to take it appropriately according to how serious the study is).

Please take a look at (Wieringa, R., Maiden, N., Mead, N., & Rolland, C. (2005). Requirements engineering paper classification and evaluation criteria: A proposal and a discussion. Requirements Engineering, 11(1), 102–107) available here: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~feldt/advice/wieringa_2006_re_pa... Specifically read the section 3 (which is on p. 4). There you will find that research in software engineering can be broadly grouped into the following categories: Evaluation research, Proposal of solution, Validation research, Philosophical papers, Opinion papers, Personal experience papers.

While I agree that the usual way to deal with the criticism of the work is to redo the work with better evaluation (and thus, more strongly supported arguments), I think that in any ethics research you'd need more than just publications that fall under Evaluation research (which is what you are likely referring to as "true AI research").
It seems to me that issue is simpler than people are making it to be.

"Consciousness"/"Observer" etc are too high level concepts to matter there.

I don't need to choose the experiment directly, I can make a complicated arrangement that then picks the experiment to be executed. (Let's say, I make a random number based on the current wind speed and I make a mechanical apparatus that throws a die and choose the experiment based on that). Try changing that experimental freedom.
I would be interesting in seeing the source as a learning project. I find this intriguing, as I would have no idea where to start.

As a first question, what motivated you to make this? Second question, are we talking by ship, train or truck? Or all three?
Not even hate speech, it's a false, irrelevant and stupid and that's it, but get this straight: this is nothing compared to the contents of the Quran.

Do you think that the Quran which has gone unreformed for centuries abides by your progressist standards ? What a joke. http://reformingislam.org/quran-verses-inciting-terrorism/

> 2:193 Fight them until there is no more disbelieving of Islam and until all worship is for Allah alone.

> 4:47 Jews and Christians, believe in Islam before we destroy your faces and twist them toward their backs and curse you.

Now that's actual hate speech right there in the Quran, but that's perfectly fine "for the sake of diversity" right ?

If you were to censor "muslims are terrorists"... then you would have to censor the Quran itself, which says so many worse things about women, queers, and disbelievers including those of your family. Censoring the Quran would be islamophobic, right ?

> 9:23 Do not take your fathers or your brothers as allies if they have preferred not to believe in Islam.

That's criminalizing freedom of thought, going against the core principles of Universal Human Rights Declaration.

Anyway, Quran verses are cited during prayers, and not just the ones that abide by your Kufr standards, FYI.

Samuel Paty, a story where "muslims against islamophobia" feed islamic terrorists: drawings of the prophet ARE islamophobic according to them for sure. And don't worry about Taqiya BTW.

Sorry for the victims of islamophobia, but it's nothing compared to what victims of islamic violence have been through, so, guess who I'm crying for.

You want to censor hate speech, this could be respectable if you were to apply it to both sides, and not "just the islamophobic side".

We left our islamic countries for your civilized countries to be free, we have worked hard to integrate and become worthy citizen because we value your culture above theirs, don't betray us now!
I'm not an enthusiastic debugger.

The problem with bugs is that while 99% are easy to spot with a printf or two, 1% of the bugs can be very hard to find.

While coding, I will occasionally place an assertion at a place where a problem could be detected much earlier that it will be noticed otherwise. As an example, a bad index might be accessing memory in a location outside of the space allocated by a data structure. If this might happen due to a bug in the code, the program can run for some time without the illegal memory access being noticed. Errors like this may elude other tests and can produce unpredictable and inconsistent behavior. These are the spots I really like assertions that can stop the program (and open the debugger for investigation).

Early in my career I remember working with another developer for weeks to debug someone else's program. It was an assembly language program running on a process control computer doing real time control of a complex machine on an assembly line within a clean-room manufacturing area. It was physically impossible to slow down or break-point or single-step the program because it was running a complex machine with perhaps a dozen asynchronous physical activities going on. Furthermore, the machine had no I/O devices meant for human interaction attached to it. This required extreme measures to figure out. We had to write a program on another, different architecture computer that could use a direct memory access interface to observe the memory of the program being debugged.
How's it in Netherlands in case of long term sickness? In Czech Republic we have the time off accrued based on worked hours. If you are out sick 2 weeks, you don't earn holiday time for these days. So instead of they yearly 25 days off you'll only have 24.

But parental leave is considered as work, so if you come back after your parental leave, you have your full amount.
I am grateful to have read this. As a result of some “extracurricular” activities that I have pursued all my life, and by dint of having grown up in Africa, I have seen (and continue to see, to this day) things that make me feel profoundly uncomfortable, and nervous about my personal security and comfort.

I’m quite grateful for that.

And I miss Roddy McDowell.
Wouldn't that make it a very good signal for "conspicuous consumption" purposes?

"I don't need to charge money at all for the software I produce" definitely seems like a Veblen-worthy signal to me, since it implies that the statement-maker is already rich.
This is just the starting mvp...I will make it a platform once more users sign up..but I wanted to give users a good value proposition in the beginning ...so i gave them a minimalist portfolio page. I also added a job board with over 10,000 jobs curated from various resources..i am open to any suggestion..

The value is a single source of truth...if you were to add a page on your blog you would have to take care not to change the link in the future...this is not the case here.

Plus this is not only for developers.
Honestly, I think people focus on the new PHP developers and the part time hobby developers and think only about that group when it comes to PHP.

I think we as a whole need to understand that once you get to doing PHP professional for several years the skill level and the requirements are roughly the same for most programming languages.

The company I work for is part of a large multinational company. The parent company decided to merge two of their children companies together since they operate in the same market. Sadly the two companies provide two different things in the same market and very few things overlap. When they did the merger and then COVID struck they decided they needed to get rid of developers, they took the approach that seems to be that the PHP developers were the weaker developers. So they got rid of the majority of them leaving only the ones they legally couldn't get rid of. The result, they now need to rewrite a system with only the Java and Kotlin devs who lack the fundmental business understanding of the system they need to rewrite. They also are stuck with a group of developers whose code is of a lower qualtity, that fear deploying anything at anytime on a Friday, that lack the understanding of how to build distributed systems while operating a distributed systems, who wrote systems that the day they went into production were scheduled to be rewriten because they simply weren't up to scratch with the requirements, and with a system that is labelled as scalable but can't scale as well as the system written in PHP it's meant to replace .

Trying to evaluate the needs, skills, and undestanding of developers based on what language they're currently writing in is not the wisest of moves. Evaluating a system base on the language it's written in is equally unwise.

Overall, I think PHP can compete with many languages and beat many languages in the web development area. In the areas such as data processing, concurrency, and system processes it's generally lacking due to the fact it's main selling point is building websites.
I think the problem with this approach is when you start to utilise large (normally mono) repos the earlier stages can take significant time.

Then you're in a condumdrum of if you make the loading more generic or have an input lag to get to "writing objects".
I don't know, given the Isle of Man is in the middle of it, maybe it should be The Manx Sea? If we don't want anyone to own it, maybe call it The Sea of Sodor?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodor_(fictional_island)
It's hard to find the right words for this, but I would sincerely reevaluate your perspective.

A surprising number of people thrift / buy used clothes. Between thrift stores and consignment shops, more people shop there than Department stores (30% vs 21%).

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/thrift-store-day.htm...

It's currently popular among younger people as a push against "fast fashion". People want clothes that are unique and affordable, and their only options are thrift stores or color blocks from Uniqlo.

This is the "kind of person" who buys used clothes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihjDIczdCA
I hear what you're saying and I appreciate your answer to the question I asked. But I still can't see it that way.

I worked in PHP5 for many years. The "survivability" thing didn't make anything cheaper, quicker, or more practical. It just made it harder to find bugs, and slower to develop new code that could pass tests (since getting your tests to pass is the process of eliminating bugs).

Achieving correctness is not hard in most languages. It's possible in PHP, but more difficult than most. I'd say the same for readability, given PHP's wide array of naming conventions.

So if we're crossing off cheap, quick, practical, correct, and readable, what do we have left? I suppose if nothing matters, then programming language choice doesn't either. But I think what we have left is "using PHP". The reason people use PHP is because using PHP matters to them. It's just what they want to do. Look at the post we're commenting on, where nearly the entire argument is "I use it because I've always used it".

It's fine if people want to use it. What gets me is when a manager wants to use PHP and I explain what a poor decision that would be, and in return I get sent a blog post like this one which makes a bunch of strawman arguments without actually addressing the real issues with the language. Your attempt to address them is among the best I've seen, but I'm still not buying it.

With regard to survivability vs. correctness, I'm glad the language is going the other direction now. It looks like they added a bunch of errors to PHP8. I am holding out hope that as every major decision in the language gets reversed, eventually something unrecognizable and much better will emerge!
> People eat a lot of things not for their particular flavour or texture but because they are expensive or rare

I guess that is the poster's point, that and helping people with more common sense avoid wasting their money.
> I just realized that both happened mere blocks of my residence at the time.

So you didn't notice they happened blocks away from you when they happened?
In the United States, liberal and leftist are distinct terms.

Even someone like Ben Shapiro recognizes a difference between liberals and leftists (https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/966081078166421504).

Silicon Valley types would hardly be described as leftists. Numerous studies have been done on the attitudes of Silicon Valley founders and execs (https://www.vox.com/2015/9/29/9411117/silicon-valley-politic...). The distinctions are dramatic.

We see that on average, tech founders are less likely to support vs. even Democrats generally (not just progressives):

* Banning the Keystone XL pipeline (60% vs 78%)

* The individual healthcare mandate (59% vs 70%)

* Labor unions being good (29% vs 73%)

This is to say, the average Silicon Valley type, particularly the C-suite exec or founder, tends not to be on the left wing of the Democratic party.

During the 2020 Democratic primary, even the Silicon Valley billionaires who are openly Democratic-leaning donated to candidates who were not to the left of the field (i.e. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders) (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/13/2020-democratic-presidential...):

* Eric Schmidt -> Cory Booker and Joe Biden

* Reed Hastings -> Pete Buttigieg

* Marc Benioff -> Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Jay Inslee

* Reid Hoffman -> Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar

* Jack Dorsey -> Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard

* Ben Silbermann -> Pete Buttigieg

I'm engaging with you in good faith, and because I was intrigued that in a previous comment you mentioned that you live in Spain (though who's to say you're not a US ex-pat). But calling US tech companies "leftist" is a stretch at best.
I think you are taking 'stop talking' to mean censor all debate. That's clearly not the primary meaning in the context.

But maybe you think that we still need to debate whether or not we need to hire more women?

And even if you argue that we do NOT need to take action now to bring more gender equality into tech - who is stopping you from making that argument?

Judging by all the comments on the HN threads it seems there are plenty of voices expressing opinions.

I assume that this chorus is mostly men - 86% perhaps?
Perhaps some non-binary classification could be of use. You could imagine one or two additional categories of acceptance/rejection, something like plausible and implausible. Journals could publish articles falling into these classifications making sure that it is abundantly clear that they have not been fully approved/ disapproved.

Having such options should allow for promotion/demotion of ideas as they garner more/less support.

The concept is similar to that of working papers and preprints, in the belief that getting more eyes (both expert and amateur) on a paper is better for truth discovery than if only a few experts evaluate.
Paper medium is not that different — I can estimate size by sight, I can skim through pages, check pictures. It is different in publishing, books are often good enough to buy.

But yes, scrollbar helps to "finish" article even if it is not worth it. Disable in Chrome:

html::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none }

https://github.com/sergeykish/hide-scrollbars
> I'd say no more than half a standard monitor wide is the character limit.

So if "monitor wide" is 80 characters, like a DEC VT-100 terminal, or WYSE-50 or whatever, then we have a 40 column rule.
Oh yes sorry. I haven’t noticed it, don’t know what url I copied in my clipboard.
Discussion 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25278128
You can look through my history and realise I've been nothing but critical at Google for their privacy and product lifecycle issues. Not sure I ever weighed in on their anti-union topics but would have been against them there too.

The point is, I'm not a Google shill.

Still, on this case, on a factual level, the only real dispute is whether this exchange:

"Do X or I quit"
"Ok, your final paycheck is in the mail and IT will be in touch to organise equipment returns, effective now"

Is "accepting a resignation" or "firing". Neither side is disputing that this is how it went down.

On an ethical level, again, I'm no fan of Google but Timnit Cebru's previous public actions don't paint her in a good light while Jeff Dean's doesn't have any notable enough to sway my opinion one way or another on his ethical trustworthiness.

So based on that, I (and many others) do end up siding with Google. is that a pro-Google push? is someone co-ordinating this? If they are, they haven't contacted me. Don't mistake the fact that Google is often unpopular here with the idea that no Google action can be supported here without interference
The fact of the matter is that in the majority of cases, a college degree increases earning potential dramatically enough that loans are definitely worth it.

Now, one could argue that if people collectively stopped attending university at current rates then the system would adjust such that people collectively benefit. But people don't act collectively. People make decisions based on personal outcomes, and if spending 40 grand on college increases their lifetime earning potential by 100 grand (not even factoring in the differences in opportunities), then people will take the loans.
Her job was AI ethics.
I really like the interactive 3d elements, but I had problems scrolling down and going back (swipe from left) on iOS.
Thanks for the elaboration, your description of vim and emacs as paleolithic editors made me smile.

I was introduced to vim a long time ago at a previous company, and so I went that route rather than emacs. I’m moderately good at vim now, but VSCode is just much easier to use.
> Should CI create a merged branch behind-the-scenes and run tests on that before allowing the branch to be merged?

Yes. Anything else is bound to run into the issue described in the article.

I'm honestly surprised that anybody would operate a system that does not do this. Master has to be where all tests are green.