skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you recommend?

And how do you recommend pursuing this skilled career when you don’t even have enough money for food, clothes and shelter?

I mean that’s pretty much a working definition of poverty and I’m really curious how easy you think it is to do when you’re hungry, dirty and tired.
I believe the threshold for the top 1% is around $10 million in net worth excluding primary residence.

Being able to buy whatever you want at the super market is probably a top 25% of the US perspective if not more.
I call this the 'printf' school of debugging.

It works a lot of the time (but not always, not great for debugging locks on stdout, for example). If you only have time to learn one debugging technique, this is the one to learn.
Because at least for big moonshot ideas, it's much easier for one billionaire to bankroll some crazy idea everyone else thinks is a waste of money.

And even if you could gather the funding, you now have to keep a few dozen investors happy versus just pursuing your idea however you want.

And sure the money doesn't disappear, but would you really expect an Amazon warehouse worker who now makes $70k instead of $35k to be investing in highly risky ventures? I mean, they wouldn't even qualify to invest.
What is 'better'?

What is 'the world'?

What 'is'?
My impression was that James Damore was fired when his memo alleged that men were essentially a target of discrimination, while here this researcher it seems has been fired in a way that seems to be an act of discrimination.

I don’t think there’s a contradiction in the reaction, personally.
Much of the west, especially the five Pacific states, have to set seismically safe construction standards. Wood frame buildings have flexibility.
Companies are given a life under the premise they provide a social good. They get a charter from the government. They are what's called a legal fiction. Government should demand AI ethics instead of letting the companies self regulate. (after all, most AI is developed with gov funds)
I think he actually owns real estate companies that do in fact exploit people. It's also interesting to find out that wage theft, the underpayment or nonpayment of wages is actually a huge problem and is pretty much the definition of exploitation (not being paid for work done). Many regular public companies engage in it regularly.
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I was also very cautious when given opioids after my wisdom teeth extraction. As it turned out they gave me painful, uncontrollable hiccups that persisted for days and days. The experience was extremely unpleasant, but also a bit of a relief, as I knew there was no chance I'd keep taking those pills post-recovery. I learned later that opioid-induced hiccups are rare, but not totally unheard of:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10202603/
Because it's spoken like someone who has never dealt with human resources inside a company. The people making more money have more options - they'll just leave Amazon.

Each role has it's own supply and demand. You can arbitrarily start paying less for a role and not expect there to be a negative impact.
Once a guy told me that MS-DOS would be alive in 2000, I laughed at him. It was 1994 or so. Worked in DOS-based systems (running on Windows machines, at least) until 2005, had to find a job cross-country, and tell "no" firmly a number of times, to finally get rid of them and force the clients to move on.

Clipper/xBase systems that do their job is one niche of MS-DOS apps that refuse to die. Another niche I know of, is gambling machines (one-armed bandits), for some reason people kept using DOS (at least they moved to FreeDOS by early 2000s).
wow tbh i never really considered that to be an option in today's world. you just carry cash with you everywhere?
What if they aren't doing work to combat the problems? As a citizen I want to know.
Ask HN: How long have you been on HN and have you learned a lot
I'm new to...everything, i only started working "coding" wise half a year ago. I haven't been to school for this but im always curious on how to learn more than just online lectures. Have you learned a lot from HN?
I like React a lot and I sometimes use it for my own projects (e.g. I just finished https://techadequiz.com/)

However, I don't think React does "add some Javascript behavior to my Rails views (or backend framework equivalent)" very well (which is what I think Stimulus is trying to do). I mean you have solid support for React in the Rails ecosystem, but you turn your HTML-rendering responsibilities over to React Javascript functions.
I don't know if that is consistent. The first time I ever had vicodin (which isn't really that strong a drug in the grand scheme of things, I guess), I felt good. Not just no pain, but more relaxed, carefree, happy than I can remember ever feeling naturally.

My immediate reaction was to say out loud to my girlfriend "Umm, not taking any more of this, because oh my god this is way too good." Oddly enough, since then (it's been 20 years now, I've had vicodin a few times) it doesn't ever have the same effect. Just that once. Now it's just pain relief. Which is a relief.
More than a handful of the high speed super chargers need some pretty serious electrical infrastructure so there's still a pretty important niche for something like a gas station for people taking longer trips where the charging time means you need somewhere to kill time while you charge.
It would be nice to be able to expand/view posts without actually opening them.
And FED continuing to print excess money is one of the reasons believed to speed up the process to the "much larger problems".
It also was brigading people and doing a lot of things that were against reddit's policies. The subreddit moderators were stickying posts that supported white supremacy and were not actively policing users who threatened violence. At what point should they act against the community?
Absolutely any action could be framed as exploiting the lack of regulation against it, from getting milk at the grocery store to shipping electronic waste to third world countries for sketchy disposal. So that's not such an effective philosophical razor.
> not popular enough to devolve into no-effort meme spam. Or possibly terrible moderation ruins the sub completely.

Pick one. Strong moderation keeps the small subs great, but the mods of those same small subs get hated for their heavy-handed moderation.

Nobody reads the rules.
What politically uncomfortable regularities are those? Please name the specific uncomfortable true facts about reality that you think these models are capturing.
I did it over 4 weeks. I have two kids, so I spent about 1-2 hours per day. I usually did some reading or a couple leetcode problems in the morning before starting work, and a couple in the evening. Honestly, once you do about 20-30 problems, they start to feel the same. I found that if I treated each problem like an interview and slowly walked through a solution (versus just diving into code and mashing Compile over and over until I get it), the problem ends up being easier.
Not sure about that ferrari. Crying while someone else is driving you is much more comfortable.
DeepMind will always be a loss center. That's what research groups are.

I don't know how UK R&D tax works, but most countries allow companies to write off some profits against R&D. Apart from the fact Google wants to do research, having a large center based in the UK probably helps their UK (and formerly EU?) tax position.
Would that be Old Reddit Redirect?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
Am I the only one who wished they showed cumulative deaths over the course of the year?
> honestly, —long-flags are rarely useful in practice. Unless you have no man page to figure out what the single letter options do

I agree for the general case: typing commands in a terminal. But I often use long flags in scripts to improve readability.
Exactly, which is why the conflation of the two is so silly. There's a very tiny portion of humanity who actually _want_ others to starve, so competing solutions to the problem can easily show up in different views of the world.

Many people have a very simple-minded view of both politics and the world in general, which leads them to a low-resolution model that lumps things into two massive buckets and assume that everyone else takes their set of beliefs wholesale from one of the buckets.
Absolutely. I work at Stripe now. In fact, I wish I only interviewed at Stripe (hindsight is 20/20), because I would have done zero leetcode prep. It is well known that Stripe interviews are much more practical than FAANG interviews. The leetcode prep was definitely necessary for some of the FAANG interviews I did.
When I hear "Money doesn't buy happiness" my internal response is always

"but poverty can ensure misery"
Interesting writing and perspective, though something about it leaves me feeling a bit uneasy. I think it's the amount of mind reading that the author projects on everyone. The author writes as if she understands other people better than they understand themselves. Everyone gets taken down a notch with some mind reading from the author, such as the forum member who had "mommy issues" to the conclusion that the primary reason MetaFilter users disliked her was that she "scared the hell out of them" and the assumption that others read her as upper class because she wore a t-shirt and sweatpants.

The mind reading extends all the way to the reader, with a veiled suggestion that the author's own mental models are superior to the reader's "broken" mental models:

> I encourage you to see this as a heavy dose of reality concerning where your mental models are broken. The only cure for what ails you is to start getting over your delusions and start adjusting your mental models to come up with a more accurate understanding of reality.

There are some interesting points in this writing, along with some thought-provoking perspectives on the nature of homelessness in America.
Are these numbers the energy to train a model? The whole point of these new NLP models is transfer learning, meaning you train the big model once and fine-tune it for each use case with a lot less training data.

5 cars worth of carbon emissions is not a lot given that it is a fixed cost. Very few are retraining BERT from scratch.

EDIT:

The other two points are also disingenuous.

* "[AI models] will also fail to capture the language and the norms of countries and peoples that have less access to the internet and thus a smaller linguistic footprint online. "

NLP in "low resource" languages is a major area of research, especially because that's where the "next billion users" are for Big Tech. Facebook especially is financially motivated to solve machine translation to/from such languages. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/recent-advances-in-low-resource...

* "Not as much effort goes into working on AI models that might achieve understanding, or that achieve good results with smaller, more carefully curated datasets (and thus also use less energy)."

This is also a major area of research. Achieving understanding falls under the purview of AGI, which itself carries ethical and safety concerns. There are certainly research groups working toward this. And reducing parameter sizes of big networks like GPT-3 is the next big race. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24704952
Emacs was a godsend for my 16 year old self.

It's an immensely self-documenting and self-explanatory system, and vastly different in that regard than anything else.

(Though once you go down the rabbit hole you eventually start to realize that elisp is a crappy way to program and the whole thing has a big-ball-of-mud architecture... Oh well.)

Point is, your preconceptions, from the heights of your experience, of what "newbies" find intuitive are likely very wrong.
I don’t know that I trust this quote, but I also wouldn’t trust people complicit in these actions to disprove it either...
This isn't right.

You can conduct cheap-and-easy experiments to verify the results, as opposed to imaging which doesn't always work anyway.
T_D was destroyed by their own mods. They knew exactly what the site policies were were and intentionally ignored them.

I mean, those people won't follow a policy of wearing masks to save their own grandparents. Any site policy infringes on "mUh FReEdOmS".

They chose to be banned so that they could cry censorship.
That’s not what it says, though. It says her paper was approved, she submitted, and then a reviewer had a complaint. He seems to be deliberately vague here to make it seem as if she was acting without permission, but as I read it she had a vid reason to submit. This lines up with other people in the thread saying submitting hours before the deadline was risky, but common.
I doubt that that's a key factor. There's a lot of luck on initial refractive error, etc.

I don't need reading glasses. One reason is I have one eye with a slightly near refractive error and one with a slightly far refractive error. They're also both pretty close to nominal, so losing a bit of range on focusing doesn't hurt as much as if I'd been biased one way or another.

I do notice that I prefer slightly larger text than before. I bet if I tried reading glasses that I'd find that they lend some benefit.
Instantaneous on FF, old samsung S7
$1.4b raised and almost $1b paid in bonus, cap of $5b. How does this loser deserve any of this compensation? He didn't start the company, and doesn't make the secret sauce. Almost guaranteed he won't create any worthwhile social value with the money, so what's the point?
>and no javascript.

Here is the source code: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit. Maybe I am mistaken, but there seems to be a lot of JavaScript running this website.
Perhaps a bit more that the homeless pose complex considerations. Are they someone who had bad luck or someone who actively destroyed everything around themselves? If you help them will you waste your energy and in the end hurt them or will it actual assist? Will they be angry with you or even attack because it would be so easy for you to help a lot but you don't?

Self judgement over not immediately helping, self limitations in our faces (many of us are closer to homelessness than stability), guilt over not donating more, sadness over our judgments of the homeless, fear over becoming homeless, discomfort with smells or ideas of correlated behaviors, pity, incomplete information... the list of sincere challenges goes on and on.

I've got a sister who I love but deeply deserved to be homeless after hurting and spreading ruin on everyone around herself for decades. Anything you did to help she would use to hurt herself and others more. Most down and out people are not her. For those who had a bad circumstance, a leg up has additive economic benefit and benefits us all. Most safety net services are about being ready to support those who are ready to do exactly what you suggest. Many of the rest are there to help them survive to getting to that place.

Your final statement seems so zero sum. Our society exists because we find ways to make each other's efforts more productive and effective than they otherwise would be. We're all better off if being better off is scaled. There are defectors but also controls in place.
> That's another assumption, I'm concerned about both.

Not an assumption at all. From your response to my other comment: "You can burn the money in a furnace for all I care, as long as the ratio between the richest and poorest goes down substantially." I'm really trying, and I can't find any other way to interpret that than your primary, if not only concern, is just making rich people poorer.

> You still haven't answered the question of what is going to be harmed by reducing the wealth of every billionaire by 73%.

You still haven't explained exactly how you would make this happen. Forced stock sales? Government mandated price caps on stocks? What? Is Bezos supposed to write a check for $130B? You realize it's not sitting in cash in a bank account, right?

But more importantly, you are the one proposing a radical change to the status quo. The onus is on you to prove, not only that the change is not harmful (not at all apparent from historical evidence) but that it will provide some benefit that will outweigh the cost to implement it. I mean a benefit besides "It makes me feel bad when people are richer than me, and I'll get to enjoy some schadenfreude if they get knocked down a peg".

> We tried the New Deal, fought a Europe-destroying war, followed by more Keynesian policy, and it resulted in prosperity (including the areas rebuilt under the Marshall Plan). I'm just some guy, but I'm going to go with my gut and say we should do the thing that worked, over the economic ideology that has failed the average American every time it has been trotted out.

What you are proposing is not the New Deal, nor the Marshall Plan, nor any economic policy that has been tried in the US before. The New Deal did not involve confiscating 73% of the wealth of billionaires (or the inflation-adjusted equivalent). It did not involve taxing unrealized gains on stocks. The US has never had a wealth tax before. Most countries that have had one ended up repealing it because it's expensive to enforce compared to the amount of revenue it brings in and wealthy people, unsurprisingly, are quite capable of moving to another country that doesn't have a wealth tax.
I used to go there in the 80s so that would have been considered “extra authentic”.

Yes, kids are dumb.
Freelance programming doesn't require any more capital than owning a computer. Anyone can start by contributing to open source projects.
https://c19vitamind.com/
That analysis is not inherently dependent on the labour theory of value. You can frame it that way, but value need not come into it at all. Business owners are capital owners; they have power which arises from the fact that they own a business. They can offer jobs, which everyone needs, but no individual employee is necessary to them. It's a buyer's market, and as a result, the business owner has a lot more power to set wages. This leads to the bulk of the money flowing up to the business owner.

What we wind up with is a system where business owners have substantially more money than workers, purely as a product of the fact that they can use their power to make this happen. If someone uses their power to divert money into their own pockets away from people who need it more than they do, they're exploiting others.

It's not the fact that the organization Amazon exists to coordinate labour that we have a problem with. It does increase efficiency. It's the fact that Jeff Bezos has total control over it & uses that power to massively benefit himself at the expense of all his other employees, who have a much greater need for the money.

If George Washington had argued that, by virtue of having been the one to found the country, he was entitled to rule it as a dictator, we would take issue with that. While he may be a competent leader, he must still be accountable to the public, lest he use his power to benefit himself at the cost of the public well-being. Hence, democracy. It's strange to me that people are so unwilling to apply the same analysis to corporate hierarchy.
long, and lots.
"low wage" is meaningless. Parents need to be able make a living wage so that they don't have to send their young kids to the factory instead of school.
> you’re working 50 hours per week just to make rent and eat

The parent I replied to says you're 16. You're not working 50 hours etc.
Yh, everything you’ve stated is incorrect. We all live in a society, homeless people included.

If everyone has to truly fend for themselves, why should anyone follow the rules? Who’s to stop people from taking whatever they want? And before you state that policing will force them to, who will force the police?

So to answer the question you never asked, yes homeless deserve help just for existing, not for their sake but for our. So that their bodies don’t become vectors for disease, so that their kids don’t end up the next generation of criminals and so that we can go to shops without being afraid.
I swear Mozilla misses out on a ton of opportunities to make money and fund MDN / Firefox properly. They need to stop making free services, and charge money for services that will fund the open source projects in their foundation, that or finally donate it to a real org that will actually maintain the projects in question.
My house is over 100yrs old. It's made of wood. Wood can be very durable. It's easier, faster, cheaper than cement. They can even lift these wood houses and move them from one location to another.
> The top 1% earned an average of $515,371 while the annual income for the average taxpayer was $41,740.

> The minimum net worth of the top 1% was roughly $10.4 million, according to Forbes. The top 10%, on the other hand, has a net worth of about $1.2 million.

[https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1212/average-net...]
You can look at a person and tell that they are bald. You can look at a person and tell that they are not bald. But you can't say exactly when they go from not bald to bald.

Since we can't know how many people are employed as developers, we must guess. But we can reasonably guess that if only 4.25% of the world's population lives in the US, it can't possibly have all the best developers, or even the majority of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_SU_Ikab5g
> I can easily imagine somebody who was otherwise a good, experienced, effective developer never having come across the modulus operator

I can't.
I would prefer my knives have sharp points on them, despite the fact that they can be used to stab. I do not want general purpose tools "mitigated" because some people could use them to harm other people.

I want my tools to be sharp, pointy, and effective.

Blunt your own tools, but don't tell me what I can do with mine, please.
Papers differ. A short, straightforward, low-impact paper on a non-controversial topic could probably be reviewed in a glance or even rubberstamped. A long, complex, high-impact paper on a controversial topic (or worse, a paper with a fundamental conflict of interest) might take a long time and definitely can't be rubberstamped. The paper at question seems to fall under the latter category? It's like skipping a stop sign; 99 times you do it in your neighborhood with no one around and there are no consequences whatsoever, but that one time you do it in downtown with a cop parked right around the corner and you get a ticket.
"In the UK, 100 miles is a long distance. In the US, 100 years is a long time."
What country blocks Reddit?
> Being "good with money" [...] fixes nothing if there is no money to work with

To expand upon that accurate point: Having little to no money can hone your money skills to a razor's edge, because staying on that edge is how you eat.
A tour of directories as system-Wide databases
> I thought to myself, “This sounds like DoreenMichele.”

That is hilarious. Mine was “I wonder what DoreenMichele has to say about this?”