skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See the above reply where I gave an example with both representations.

Agreed, the machine representation is independent of the machine itself, it's the same mathematical object. So what I was talking about was how to represent using only a relation which describes the possible next states given the current one. This is the most common definition of a state machine, and for me, it's a cleaner representation since you avoid referring to each edge in the state graph explicitly.
As explained, it’s not empiricism because it misstates/ignores empirical data which would call into question the conclusion.
Just buy it and strip the DRM from it. Philosophical arguments aside, the publisher/author got their money, you get a book you own which is what you wanted. Assuming you aren't then hosting it somewhere where everyone can download it for free nobody is harmed and there is no reason not to do this.
Every once in awhile, sure, no biggie, definitely funny. But it's also already hard to keep meetings on topic and an efficient use of everyone's time. Anything that makes that harder is not ideal.
In this post someone mentioned brotab which does exactly that.
They still are pretty pitiful across Europe even after that, compared to Canada and Australia as well as the US.

In the UK the problem seems to be the company owner/manager class see software people roughly the same as any other office worker, rather than as skilled producers of products. As a result they pay peanuts, and then are surprised when they get less than stellar results. Not sure what the reason might be elsewhere, but across the rest of the continent the pay seems even worse.
This thread is about a california company being sued in a california court.

So it is absolutely relevant to bring up california law regarding this specific case.
I seem to be unable to muster the energy and focus needed to learn anything new. (40s)

“Over the hill” feels very real
I also did something kinda similar at a conference years ago. The Microsoft stand were proudly demoing a new security feature of the latest Windows (Vista?). Their demo basically boiled down to: no one reads the security warning dialog boxes when opening an application, so we added another dialog box.

I pointed out the obvious flaw in this (won’t they just not read the second dialog either?). They looked a little peeved and said they’d take my comment back to Redmond.

I still feel a bit bad about that, they we ok people and it wasn’t their fault.
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I'm disappointed that there has been no crackdown on deceptive advertising by the apps, which seems to be the root cause of the problem.
It turns out Paul Graham's experience is his own and not necessarily indicative of a larger trend or phenomenon.
> Nobody notices

This is a common problem. It doesn't work to do great work and expect others to notice. You've got to promote yourself and your work. Nobody is going to do it for you.
surely Apple could easily recover this information if they wanted to?
And we're talking about whole country which already censors and blocks internet traffic so the telemetry being sent to the US wouldn't be a real problem anyway except for saving internal bandwidth / firewall capacity.
Only if you don’t count several major technology families (.NET, Swift etc)
As I installed Qmmp, which can use winamp skins, I already spent like 2 hours going through the ones that came with it and decide for one.

No way I am repeating that for ELEVEN GB of skins!

Still, awesome collection.
>My (flippant) reaction to a friend that brought the comment to my attention was unhelpful; "Step 1 day 1, quit." So he has challenged me to write eight helpful blog posts during the remainder of my Garden Leave.

One way to do it would be to do impedance matching: maximizing usefulness by bringing Python to the universe the person who asked the question lives in: Excel, Word, PDF, email.

This means "Automate the Boring Stuff"[0] to ease into programming with something specific to do that is relevant and useful right off the bat for manipulating files, spreadsheets, PDF documents, etc.

Openpyxl[1] for playing more with Excel files, and basically searching "Excel Python" on the internet for more use cases.

Python-docx[2] for playing with Word documents, extracting content from tables, etc.

PdfPlumber[3] for playing with PDFs. Sometimes you have data in .pptx files, and you can use LibreOffice to convert all of them to PDFs because you hate the pptx format:

libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf *.pptx

Also, if you both are using notebooks, take a look at what we're building at https://iko.ai. I posted about it a bit earlier[4]. It has no-setup real-time Jupyter notebooks, and all the jazz. Focuses on solving machine learning problems since we built it for ourselves to slash projects' time.

- [0]: https://nostarch.com/automatestuff2

- [1]: https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

- [2]: https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- [3]: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber

- [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25608098
This has been my experience to the T. Hindsight may provide some reinforcement one way or another, but if we had to do this all over again, I likely would not change much about our quarantine behavior patterns. Our crew just does not want to be a statistic (even if our demographic is of lower risk). Hang in there!
Yep I'd hate this no-video culture. Having said that, in bigger meetings, I usually turn it off.
I've seen someone (either here or Reddit, forgot which) have their build script spin up a bunch of Windows VMs in a bunch of regions and cloud providers, just to open their app and say "yes" to SmartScreen so that their binaries are trusted when they ship
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> For instance, there was one person, 2 decades ago, flying out of france, who hid a bomb in his shoes so today we are all still taking off our shoes, all of us, each time, on every flight. Splendid.

I'm still disappointed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempted bombing didn't lead to a similar policy.

> it's like we've taken the structure of folksy tales like "one child did that and they poked their eye out" and are all like "ok, let's make official policy around this"

Growing up, my mom was repeatedly told not to play with a button on a string because, "some kid put his eye out". Being a kid my mom always thought that was just a stupid story. She played withing a button on a string, and didn't know anyone that happened to. Decades later, as an adult she was telling the story about this weird and admonition to a distant cousin (2nd?) of hers, and her cousin got real quiet, and simply stated, "That was my brother," and then told the story about how it happened, and that he did lose sight in one of his eyes he struck it with a button tied to a string.
Tish tosh! This is such an easy problem to solve! Just imprison people for WrongThought. Or deplatform them - thats the same but you don't look like you're in the SS when you do it.

Better yet - just pre-emptively imprison or deplatform people on their first day of legal adulthood, its really the only safe thing to do. No iPhone, Twitter account or Patagonia vest for you until you pass filtering.
the ReMarkable has been life changing for me: https://remarkable.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiArbv_BRA8EiwAYGs23Ku05s...
My first order estimate is multiply by 3 and add 10%
People don't just expect government failure, they demand it, and elect leaders to actively sabotage effective public health measures.
Ditto.
I'll kill myself when I'm done with life, if I ever will get to that stage, no matter the age.
If I can prolong a healthy life, I'll do that.

I've seen too many old relatives tired of living or living in pain.

I don't see the point of making a big deal out of it, thinking that human life has some intrinsic value is like thinking the universe revolves around earth or that we're the chosen ones instead of some very advanced monkeys.
I cured my asthma with Iodine and Magesium.

Iodine also seems to help type II according to some doctors.

Progress is slow, and I agree that most anti-aging results are over hyped.
published comic creator here. I would not recommend using the linked article as an accurate measurement of the "western" comics industry at all. If anything, Diamond is only about 4% of the total distro industry, which means you're getting an extremely skewed view of the statistics.

This article was from 2019 but is far more accurate to the comics industry as a whole imo > https://www.comicsbeat.com/bookscan-2019-analysis/
I know we frequently disagree about Apple, but I imagine we see eye to eye about more things than not.

I also agree that Apple and other companies may have waded into this water without realizing the changing tide. We might have been too hopeful of a good outcome, or simply didn't think long term enough. A lot of folks pictured a more liberal China, as you mention.

It's a tricky situation.
Why can Google aggregate websites without author permissions?

Data protection laws already exist.

I'm not arguing it's good or bad. I'm just saying that since the laws won't be applied retroactively it equates to creating a huge barrier for new startups entering the field. Instead of promoting competition, existing leaders will be able to put ever more pricing pressure on restaurants.
>How on earth does this post have this many upvotes?

A silent majority? There may be more people than you think who generally agree with the author's thesis and this strikes you as perplexing because you hold a different view.
I propose an alternative and somewhat more generally applicable depiction.

1. I have chosen my employment with the goal of only doing things which would benefit myself.

2. This does (or does not) benefit me

3. I will (or will not) do it.

You could call this the Mitch Mcconnell Syllogism.

See, while on the surface it might seem like idiots simply doing things at random, behind it all is a greed based motivation, which is probably related to public opinion or reelection, but in the end it's all the result of a desire to survive in their current position as a means to exploit it for further personal gain, so my proposal is a superset of the afformentioned.
> This is obviously nonsense. ... Why would that be any different in code that deals with concurrency??

I know you're speaking more broadly about abstraction as well as concurrency, but I share the GP's instincts on this. Because of the limitations (or rather the lack of limitations) in languages like C++ or Java its very easy write code that undoes any useful work a concurrency abstraction might provide.

These abstractions are still useful! But they still require above average knowledge of their internals compared to say data-structures.

With concurrency, things just don't compose that well without a ton of implicit best practices. The most trivial example is using a FooServiceClient from multiple threads and that ends up secretly holding long-lived locks internally essentially serializing your whole server. It happens accidentally all the time.
With respect, speak for yourself. :) I fully plan on having a last enjoying a bottle of something tequila and then promptly hanging myself off an tree in a nice quiet grove somewhere before then.

Gotten everything I set out to do done in this life, so at this point I'm still around by the time 40 rolls around, then something has gone really awry.
Cyclone was one of Rust’s inspirations as well
One group advocating for 1 set of laws and protections that protect human rights should not stop you from attempting to protect other similar human rights.

Your response to a group trying to protect certain rights that are related but not exactly the same as another set of rights, should not be you trying to fight against attempts to protect those rights.

Instead, what you should be doing is fight in favor of more protections for these rights, instead of fighting to have less protections.

More protections for humans rights are better. You should advocate for people to go even further than they are currently doing now, instead of concluding that you don't want these human rights to exist at all.
You’re correct on point 1, but point 2 is overly pessimistic.

The fact that the economy grows every year is proof alone that companies on the whole are generating value and not just exploiting people. The economy is not a zero sum game.

The truth is, all companies, no matter how cool their branding is, are just a collection of mostly average people. The larger the company, the more average the workforce will be. This is a statistical fact.

Inside any large organization, most of your job (no matter how technical) will be coordinating among groups of people, not creating X deliverable by yourself.

This inevitably results in the classic drama, tension, fights, camaraderie and occasional abuse you will find when you bring any group of humans together.

The X% of abusive situations that arise when you bring human animals together does not equal proof of widespread exploitation among the worlds highest paid employees. Slavery this is not.

It just means your experience in any big company will essentially be a probability game. At FAANG, you have a 95% chance of getting reasonably wealthy within 5 years, with a X% (lower) chance of abuse/toxic overwork and X% chance of dying in a traffic accident on your morning commute. The problem is nobody wants to acknowledge the potential downsides.

If you aren’t okay with this, there is of course the startup and indie hacker route.
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So Microsoft still has full access to telemetry, they just have to generate the reports inside their China divisions?
Could you give more details, please?
"General health" absolutely does not make you immune. And even if it reduces the severity of symptoms, if being healthy enabled you to get out more it would be worse for spreading the virus.
After the "Ghost Road" story on HN a few days ago [1], out of boredom and curiosity, I did a little browsing around online maps in Russia and noticed there really aren't any major roads at all connecting northern/eastern Siberia to the rest of Russia--unless Google Maps and Openstreetmap are woefully incomplete, which is possible. It seems so alien to my pampered US sensibilities, all spoiled by our glorious interstate highway system and regional State highways. How can the vast majority of a country's small towns and land area be not even remotely accessible by so much as a dirt road?? I get that few people live there, but the ones that do, how do they go anywhere else in Russia?

In the US, most of the country is at most 5-6 miles from some kind of road. Maybe there are spots in Yellowstone that are 20 miles from a road, but thats orders of magnitude less remote than what Maps depicts about Siberia!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25574180
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Other fields have separate teams or overtime; salary-exempt isn't something an individual person can realistically negotiate against a company (imo).
As someone who's been to prison and school, lots of comments here sound pretty tone deaf. Prison in the USA is really bad. Yes school is authoritarian, but most popular entertainment on prisons downplays how bad it really gets. Watch some interviews of people who have actually been to prison. Murder and rape is common (I saw it happen), you will get your possessions stolen under the threat of murder/rape, you'll probably spend 10-30% of your time in solitary confinement for reasons outside your control (torture according to human rights groups: I've been there, I'd prefer nonpermanent torture), you have to learn violence and get into fights with people who might be carrying a knife or else get taken advantage of indefinitely, ... It's bad. And psychologically, you have no freedom whatsoever: no you cannot poop or drink water whenever you want to. You can only poop when your cellie isn't around (1-2h/day). You will be abused by prison staff (false accusations, physical abuse, food deprivation, ..)

The whole thing is an abomination. It serves no useful purpose to society to subject most criminals to prison: it doesn't serve as a deterrent (based on talking to ~50 prisoners about this), it only radicalizes them further against "the system", making it easier for them to break further laws.

Why don't we have more outrage against this outdated institution created out of 1600 era values?

The amount of human suffering it creates... It's astounding. Most prisoners would probably rather a super old school punishment like chopping off their arm over the prison sentence they get. And it would be more effective.
This one is a bit harder (naturally). A recent/typical case was a CTO type candidate, they participated part-time in some meetings, had some exposure to the team, talking through issues with other CxO. During this time candidate is also shopping around too. It's basically buying consulting while you decide to hire. It does not generally take 3mo - but you'll add a probationary period that gives you maybe 12mo room.
Infiniti’s lane assist doesn’t ping pong nearly as much as others. Newer cars have lane centering now which keeps you in the middle of the lane. Some manufacturers have done the Tesla thing and mapped out public roads like GM SuperCruise

Also don’t let the car ping pong, if it loses the lane marking then the car will keep on lane changing with impunity
It's a common pattern that people start donating to illness research as soon as they have enough money.

While there are taxes implications, once more immediate needs are met, saving yourself from death in the future becomes something worth investing into.

Not everyone is that selfish or conscious about their selfishness, but I would expect this to manifest as a trend - which seems to match reality
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No one else is even trying
I’m thinking Microsoft’s SQ2 or other Qualcomm chips might end up in a laptop first (Surface Pro X doesn’t count as a proper laptop), then desktop soon after. (Complete speculation though)
This is great feedback! I definitely think it's a harder sell for someone who already has a system that works for them.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond. Happy new year!
It’s supposed to work both ways - I work 60 hours this week with the implicit understanding that I work 20 next week. Sure, I don’t get OT pay, but I can abide by that as long as it all balances out to 2000 hours at the end of the year.

That said, the abuse of the exemption system is arguably a pandemic in the US.
I have a very simple philosophy `no pay no work`. It is about having self respect.
feel sad , i had been to such toxic work environment , i quit the job in 6 months and moved back to previous company
If it's build on the VIA intellectual property, VIA bought Cyrix and have access to some of the licensing around x86. It will be interesting to see if they try to push these in the US and if they're legally allowed to. (They probably are).
> Japan took over most of the Pacific I'm the time it took for the FDA to schedule the meeting to approve the vaccine

The operation was completed in that time but many of the plans were created years earlier and much of the preparation (like ships/planes/manpower) was done decades earlier.
"Would we cut down trees if they screamed? We might, if they screamed all the time and wouldn't shut up."
-- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy
Left leaning free speech advocates do exist; I just assume that they aren’t very loud ;)
No you can sue them in pretty much all cases if they put their hands on your kid.
Disclaimer: my views range liberal-far left on most (but not all) issues, but I’m posting this for levity, not to malign any particular political view. I’ll include some where I’m the butt to show good faith.

Liberal variant:

0. Nothing is being done.

... Original

Libertarian/conservative variant:

0. Too many things have been done.

... Original

Marxist variant:

1. Original.

2. Class is the only thing.

3. Class is the only thing.

Anarchist (left) variant:

1. Smash the state.

Social democrat in a social democracy variant:

1. Original.

2. Seizing the means of production is too extreme.

3. We must do nothing.

Social democrat not in a social democracy variant:

1. Original.

2. Seizing the means of production is too extreme.

... Liberal variant
I'm not going to assume anything because it may have just been what you told the children, but if you actually sent notes to the nurse without talking to a kid beforehand, you're definitely overstepping.

It's perfectly normal for bowel movements to be on a schedule. If a student it leaving your class multiple time per week then have a discussion to see what's going on, you might learn something about their life that paints them in a new light. Or, maybe discuss the possibility of going before class starts if possible.

I think people are downvoting your original comment because referring a student directly to the nurse is a strange thing to threaten upfront.
> The solution, I’d say, is not to put toddlers in charge of the government! As should be obvious by now—indeed, as should’ve been obvious back in 2016—that solution has some exceedingly severe downsides. The solution, rather, is to work for a world where experts are unafraid to speak bluntly, so that it never falls to a mental toddler to say what the experts can’t say without jeopardizing their careers.

Well, yes. But what if the public want to be run by an angry toddler because he confirms their prejudice? What if they've spent years listening to Angry Toddler Radio filling their heads with those prejudices?
Market forces will have the opposite effect: leaders in delivery will monopolize further and have even more pricing power, taking ever larger share from restaurants.

Instead we could have had lots of delivery companies competing on price.

Apple may want to control the purchasing experience by only selling their products at Apple Stores. Should I not be able to pay someone for the service of going to the store and buying an iPhone? Is food really that different? This issue already exists in e-commerce: as a buyer do I complain to the delivery service such as UPS or the seller?
For a PhD level position, she should have had a good idea of what she would be working on. The fact that her manager skipped her on-boarding meeting should have been a BIG red flag right at the beginning. I cannot imagine a corporate culture where that would be acceptable or even permitted.
I'm really afraid of Linux getting left behind in the dust. It will be interesting to see if we will get RISC-V devices that can stay competitive with Apple's proprietary ARM based chips.