skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Them not wanting to handle their own problems is not a reason for the State to subsidize solutions for them.
KDE Roadmap for 2021
> I ordered delivery burgers once, from a restaurant close by, and learned my lesson that burgers are best enjoyed immediately and not 10 minutes later.

Weird. It takes me notably longer than that to eat a burger in a restaurant, and I never notice any quality problems over that period of time.
I think if you want to make a prediction you should think about the odds you'll take for a bet against that prediction. This way you also assigning it a likelihood, even if only a low bar (a bet you'd always take).

For example, I'll happily bet some amount of money at 1:1 odds against some of the predictions here.
A good time to remember this interview:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinku...

> I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away.

It's not specific to FarmVille, and I do agree that FarmVille deserves a place in history by turning player self-expression into a massively mainstream game feature.
I suspect if this were Google there would be similar skepticism about an anonymous unverified story that offers a threat at the end. There is too much bullshit out there on every topic, and it’s usually much more believable if you attach your name and reputation to a story (which is why it’s good to “believe women”, while still verifying).

Apple is a big target with a decades of history in online advocacy debates. It’s not hard to criticize Apple on HN, every Apple thread has significant critiques. There are often defenders too, however, which is also fine.
It also adds the question what ASML has to gain from handing over their technical advantage to some local gov effort.

I mean they can get paid but there’s a ton of other companies not starting from scratch they can also make billions off of so I don’t see why some geographic thing is some huge advantage for EU.

They already operate in a highly lucrative global market with companies who don’t need to figure anything out.

If anything this should be expansion capital or efforts to build more factories locally. Not trying to do it themselves.

But hey what do I know. I don’t have multiple countries with lagging tech interests in mind with lots of money to burn.
Sorry, I should've used the word 'throwaway' instead of anonymity. The account was created to post this singular link, without any context to the author. That's the problematic piece, not that their identity isn't evident.
> Is it really expensive though?
Yes.

> Adult hobbies are expensive.
Depends on what you value.

> $2,000 spent across 4 years which gave me thousands of hours of enjoyment really isn't that expensive.
You spent the money, so you saw the value in it. I'd say it was a complete waste. For you, it's clearly not.

Value is relative, that's my point.
TBH, big ideas should not be in a paper, unless you can really prove it. I've read too many papers with grand new theories that hinged on an experiment testing the tiniest of tiny facets. All of these have been forgotten now, even by their creators.

Once you have enough experience, know the field inside out, and have gotten a bit of a name, you can write a book or edit a special edition of a journal in which you may set out your ideas.
That has some good (team can still hang out) but cuts out any true remote options out. ie. you’re still forced to live in the metro area. It’s what we do for our core tech team in one of our locations and it’s pretty good.
Yep, it's all fluff. They were supposed to reveal more information on the matter in a conference back in October. But we still only have a "technical" paper with nice looking graphs and an unnamed boogie-man.
COPD damage to lungs due to open fire exposure is a real thing. No one should have to learn this the hard way for themselves.
Low Tech Magazine is pretty much bullshit from cover to cover and these articles are great examples of the genre. Read the first one with a critical eye. It doesn't make any sense. It's just a deceptive argument constructed to make performative primitivism seem competitive with modern technology, which it isn't. An electric induction cooker is superior to any kind of fire, in all aspects and ways, by large margins in every direction.
The check is what the candidate says, isn't it? If the candidate lies, you will know the day you hire them
Ask HN: What are your goals for 2021?
Mine:

- Have a kid

- Finally write my UE4 book
If this story realistically describes what happened, I would expect Apple HR can identify who wrote it (Muslim with a student OPT visa, specific request to do no previous work experience, reported issues with the export license, and a case like this)

If there were tens of similar cases, we would have heard of more.
SpiNNaker[0] is a species of that, with multi-dimensional connections in a toroidal surface configuration. It's ARM-based, largely because the chief developer/project head is Steve Furber. Along with interviews concerning the BBC Micro and ARM, Computerphile did a video with Furber concerning SPiNNaker[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiNNaker
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e06C-yUwlc
> We have an excellent idea of what the Anglo Saxon language would have sounded like, in part because it has close living relatives.

The phonology is well reconstructed; that is not the issue.

The issue is that it is not just a dead language, but a dead passive language which is only read, but never written, unlike, say Latin, which is both read and written — I seriously doubt that there are more than a handful of people on this planet who can claim to have true Sprachgefühl for any period of Old English, and if they have it for 800's English, it is unlikely they have it for 1000's English.

It's simply prætentious to claim that one can enjoy the æsthetics of a poem written in this language, for which one requires an intimate sense of Sprachgefühl — I can Latin myself and understand the meaning of the text, but I cannot claim to have the same sense of æsthetics I have for English, where I can decide what phrasings sound beautiful, and what sound stiff, and that's very hard to ever acquire for a dead language.

> If you want to hear it, you can listen to the first few lines here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-_GwoO4xI

Listening to the sounds is different from understanding the meaning and nuance, much of what you wrote seems to be about surface realization of sounds rather than appreciating the choice of words from an æsthetic standpoint.

That speaker also clearly sounds as what he almost certainly is: a non-native who would certainly appear to have an heavy accent and appear stiff and wooden to actual native speakers.
This dude claims to have a PhD but writes like a 12 year old. For example, just read this paragraph:

> There was no code repository for our project and the page that was listed as the project page only had script names in it but no code was linked. For example, you could see name of the scripts such as garbage.py but there was no code! ...

and honestly think about the type of person that would write like that
Human civilizations have built population centers close to sources for fresh water for millennia. Cities like Los Angeles that require moving vast amounts of fresh water long distances to be viable are a recent phenomenon - appearing only in the last century or so. So a big reason for the lack of desalination is a lack of demand. Yes, some places are experiencing a lack of water but those are the exception to the norm.

And even if a population center does need more fresh water, desalination is competing against traditional options: digging wells, building aqueducts, and expanding reservoirs. And have lots of experience - again, literally millennia of experience - implementing these pieces of infrastructure.

So in summary, desalination isn't seeing widespread adoption because it's not necessary for most places and we have much more experience with the alternatives. That said, it's great we're still improving desalination and it puts the world in a better place if water scarcity gets to the point that traditional water infrastructure is not sufficient.
Consumers clearly don't think that these platforms are doing them any harm considering how popular they are. Consumers like to be able to order from home through an app from a wide range of restaurants.

This is actually the problem restaurants are facing: How to adapt to change technology and consumers habits? A bit like traditional taxis were blown out of the water by Uber.

Restaurants don't have to offer delivery/takeaway, and indeed traditionally they don't (at least in Europe). They'll have to decide how to adapt and that may include focusing on the in premises experience instead of chasing online sales.

But, again, this bill does not solve problems, and may actually be counter-productive as already explained, and you're certainly not giving me an example to the contrary.

As a side note, and something to consider: these platforms are very good for the taxman as they make tax evasion all but impossible (and I suspect that has a financial impact on more restaurants that they wish to admit).
The greed is on the part of the company. If they are getting the same amount of work, then they should pay everyone the same regardless of where they live.
Don't you have to choose one or the other tho lol
That looks good in a conversation but under scrutiny, unless you know someone in a company mentioned, all you get is an opinion or you need to do a deep economic check of the company in question, which is nothing more than a statistic at best.
There are many articles and comments on HN critical of Apple. Read the vitriol over the 30% App Store cut, accusing them of being a minority and yet simultaneously monopoly producer of smartphones, the MBPro keyboard fiasco (which was absolutely shitty on Apple’s part), the glued-in batteries, the touchbar, the removal of ports, soldered-in RAM, etc. I don’t particularly think Apple gets a pass here. This article is garnering skeptics in part by being a James Joyce-ian barely coherent account of slights that read as a mix of real and imagined.
Eisenhower Matrix
or just patch the check out?

I'm surprised someone hasn't done that already?
Kind of like how sales and marketing people search for and find new customers and applications for an existing product or service.
I have no idea. I believe they will start realizing that click-based advertisement is an increasingly unsustainable and flawed revenue model and will look for a ways to start a significant portion of revenue from another source. Assuming that:

1) They don't have time to build it.
2) Since, they will need to buy it, it should be a business that already generates significant revenue, thus the biggest acquisition price tag
3) The longer they stick to click-based ad revenue the lower their chances to diversify and the higher the chance that someone else comes forward with a new revenue model that will irreversibly undermine Google's.
Yes, and you aren’t required to host other people’s free speech in your home, property or business.
> is lying... a company pretending to be another company or a representative of another company... when they are not.

This law affects much more than that.
There were lightweight Emacs clones, to be honest. And joe/jed.
Dennis Ritchie: Reflections on Software Research (1984)
Finding one-way latency on my ISP
Indeed, the originals are prone to corrosion. The replacement pins are gold-plated.
You mean like "fraudulent misrepresentation"?
This is an indoor measurement in your house or an outside street measurement?
OpenFAAS seems to me a true serverless platform to run functions. Automator is much more intended as a small scripting tool to quickly mash up API's in your platform. For example to autoscale based on the number of messages in a queue. I don't know OpenFAAS well enough to say how it compares.
> [...] but joy is very optional in research. Joy is emotional and it clobbers logical insight.

I'm pretty sure OP meant "joy" as in "motivation/enjoyment of one's work", not as in "hedonistic pleasure".
The tough part about FANGs is that being so large, the quality of your manager is basically the sole determining factor of your experience there and yeah you’ll see a few bad apples, no pun intended.

I’ve personally landed crap managers at 2 of the FANGs, both the worst managers I’ve had in my career by a long shot. I’ve also seen fantastic managers at one, and uh, mediocre at best but well intentioned at the other.
Hehe. You’re not wrong.

Just remember that HN is all about tribalism. The show is more important than the substance. You’ll need to fall in love with performance art if you want your points to be known. And language, for that matter.

I don’t think that’s a bad thing, personally. People are allowed to hate google but not apple, and vice versa.

But! You’re also dead wrong. The story is substantive enough that we’re both reading it. Most of the top comments are echoing the story. And we’re all having a nice round of “managers suck.”
Or what made Bell labs so special?
Well, I hope all of the naysayers are wrong. I’m looking forward to what more competition will bring to this space.
It should also be noted that Icelandic has underwent spelling reforms to make the spelling more etymological.

It used to be spelled such that it better reflected the modern pronunciation, they at various points actually went back to spell based on older pronunciation, simply to make the language seem more archaic.

“ég” in Icelandic is pronounced “jeg”, and that is how it was spelled in the 1920's; they went back to “ég” simply to make it appear closer to Old Norse.
That was a delightful little read, thanks!
The style of academic papers is intended to encourage objectivity I think. All the same I would agree it can indeed obfuscate at times and a more informal style could be both more enjoyable and easier to read.
Or in Europe etc, join a/the union.

The union least has lawyers experienced in this kind of trouble, and they are cheap/free to use for members.
LeetCode could be a good source for code for this.

Pick some interesting problems from there, and without asking the candidate to actually code a solution, discuss the problems with the candidate. Ask for ideas on how to approach the problem, and suggest some yourself if at any time they appear to be getting stuck.

After they, possibly with guidance from you, have reached an approach that if correctly implemented would solve the problem, including meeting time and space requirements, discuss what issues might arise in actually implementing it, such as edge cases that might require special handling. This would be a good place to talk about how they would go about testing an implementation.

Finally, go to the discussion on LeetCode for that problem. There you will find various solutions posted by others. What I have found looking at those is that a lot of them don't meet the time/space requirements, or miss edge cases, or sometimes are just wrong. Go over a few of these with the candidate and have them criticize them for you.
> Why is there so much aversion to proving one's abilities?

Some people complain that the questions and exercises being asked are silly.

And most people are bitter about a rejection and want to vent.
You could browse the web perfectly back in the day, and Nethack ran like a charm, too :).
Automator contains a kubernetes client (plugin) so you can easily automate tasks on Kubernetes. But the power comes from bundles a lot of different API plugins so you can mash up APIs. For example, silencing monitoring for certain events based on an internal API.
Read the article. It says it was funded by DuPont.
There is a tendency to give Apple a pass among the big companies. They sell actual products instead of you, the user('s data). Their logistical chain does not rely upon a system of (often fellow American) warehouse workers who are pushed to the breaking point. [The developing world workforce that actually assembles their products- that's another story, but bogus hoaxes like Mike Daisey's only add confusion and make their supply chain working conditions seem more innocuous than critics claim.] They don't actively contribute to the disruptions and dysfunctions in our society that social networking have brought us. Somehow just by being less apparently bad, people assume that means they're more automatically good. But that's a fallacy; the badness can exist elsewhere, and given a culture of secrecy and silence, can be readily hidden.
Not just insane people, but also people who in real life you would immediately dismiss as losers.
I'm sorry you had to go through this. The world can be a vicious place
I thought it gets broken down after one use? A related question: How does the mrna move itself back into the copy machinery?
"Think about the year we just had. Whatever else you might say about it, it wasn't boring. "

Well, from a global perspective maybe not. But subjective there were lots of freaking times this year that were just boring, because I wanted to go traveling and on festivals and just see something else and not be locked down (even though in my area the lockdown was quite light)
> I suspect many don't and many underestimate the effect inflation has on their savings.

Most people don’t have significant cash savings. I forget the percentage, but a ridiculously high fraction of the USA population can’t put together $1,000 for an emergency.

> Bitcoin is 10 years old

Early days then. The Euro is only 22 years old, and decimalisation of GBP [0] happened about 50 years ago. Both still have people shaking their canes and dreaming of the Before Times.

Also: the 5,600,000-fold deflation of BTC in that time makes it almost, but not quite, as impressively unstable as hyperinflation, just in the other direction — it’s not a good thing for the economy when everyone holds onto their money instead of spending it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day
Amazon raised $10b in the bond markets, including $1b of debt yielding just 0.4%
> To everyone else who has to contend with tight pools of talent that are often fielding multiple offers

This is a very vocal small minority of all engineers. Companies have just grown accustomed to being able to have a huge false negative rate in their interviews.

As the remote culture gets propagated through the industry, I’ve so far seen mainly good outcomes. Pretty much every team I’ve worked on in the last 7 or so years has had some remote component. I think the most difficult one is the stereotypical Fortune 500 company where only some employees work from home and the middle manager shakes their head while watching their empty desks.
Walking down a middle-class street in the UK on a cold, calm day, the smell of smoke from the various wood burners is quite apparent. Amazing these are allowed when the controls on other particulate emitters, e.g. diesel cars, are (rightly) so strict.
I got an offer from Apple. The hiring manager told me "You worked at a startup before, you'll have no problem working overtime". I didn't end up taking the offer.
Most teams aren't ideal, and a lot of times, you have to resort to just telling people what to do in order to get the ball rolling. It's like Maslow's hierarchy, but applied to teams. You first have to have a functioning team that completes it's basic needs (tasks) before you can move on to higher-order objectives such as "growth", "moral", strategic objectives, building confidence, training, etc. I think the important point is that the team/leadership of that team need to move past that basic point and grow in other needs.
What's their social? would be a good follow-up too.

I'm not sure you understand that Apple could bury this person's career and numerous companies only need one phone call to let this person go. Please understand that you're creating an attack vector that is too great for this person to reveal.
I can assure you : lots of people found last year extremely boring ( not me ).
I believe this is close to the truth. Moving one step further upstream, the emphasis on high ROI stems from an overall lack of availability of funding. Since there isn't enough money to go around, it becomes necessary to choose some more selective metric to pare down the pool of grant applicants.
Some people enjoy causing mental distress in others, from the report they were not busy with work, so they wanted some other games to keep them busy. Similarly people enjoy hurting others and pain, e.g. sadomasochism
In what way is apple customer friendly? Definitely not in the fixing broken devices way. The hostility is across the board.
a "young adult writer" of her physiognomy and smug disposition.

What the fuck does this mean?
being intellectually drowned in meaningless entertainment is the fate of the prols in 1984.

> There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs
You can always tell the PM or designer to crawl back where they came from and give you some space. it's not an option with children.
I still remember Peppa Pig playing on a full blast while I'm trying to bulkify some parts of the code.
The trump card of video game addiction is accessibility (in a sense online gambling and game addiction are functionally the same)

It's not easy to relinquish access to a computer and phone these days
what does IS&T stands for?
Check out Taxamo. They're actually based in Ireland. Vatlayer was useful but Europe only whereas Taxamo is global
> Think about the year we just had. Whatever else you might say about it, it wasn't boring.

Being restrained to the house, watching the same news over and over again, not being able to see friends, no evenings out, parties, restaurant visits, &c. and you call this "not boring"?
Probably, the hidden costs of running in cloud can be tricky...
I'd like to make at least $100 this year.

In 2020 I made $0 and just NEETed.
The submitted URL was https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/12/31/fired-app-reviewer-sues-a..., which points to several other articles. Of those, Volokh seems to have the most information, so we've changed the link above to that. If there's a better URL, we can change it again.
Around where I live, the listed restaurants seem to be mostly chain fast food restaurants. The local pizza place I order from doesn't seem to be listed nor are most of the other local take-out restaurants I would recognize the names of from driving by. I've looked because one of my credit cards gave me a free DoorDash subscription and there's literally nothing I'm interested in.
Maybe after twenty to fourty years this will happen. So far, this hasn't happened in this field.
InspiRobot: Generate inspirational quotes for pointless enrichment
They'd already fired the previous person and an intern. At some point it stops looking like the worker's fault and starts being very clear the problem is the manager. In fact sometimes the way toxic managers like this are removed is when a decent manager notices that sort of trend.
You can’t fire an employee at any time in California without good reason. You need to build a case against the employee, that’s why they were put on a PIP.

Either way the manager is insane in this story so I’m not sure what their motivation is.
Not sure if it applies to other fields, but as I observe in CS, many professors start tackling more interesting & risky projects after getting their tenure. Even though their students/postdocs still value paper count a lot, they care more about producing ground breaking works.
The impact of false-positive Covid-19 results in a low-prevalence area [PDF]