skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks useful for international talent flow. Let's say sex work, the obvious and currently large usage on Instagram. You seem to have the structure for packages and assortments, offers/performances, rates. You have location to estimate flight time + stay. You also appear to have some sort of escrow.

So you'd go from discovery, to choosing desired deliverables on a check-list for the most common, and through chat for the peculiar.

How would you add proof of work or confirmation of services rendered/outputs/deliverables?

In the future... I could hire talent in general. Let's say I need a plumber or an interior designer who's familiar with Haussmannian buildings, but not in Paris.
Sure, the actual administration is a shit show, but from the top level, those people are getting the allocation because they are health care workers, not because they are vulnerable elderly or some other reason.
Jobs was a fucking asshole and should have died in prison along with the rest of the criminals.
Who is dumb enough to think people get drugs by installing an app called Amphetamine, monitors user software installs anally AND also lets users install their own software locally in the first place?

Most corporate PCs are windows. On a fraction of the macs users are allowed to install their own software, on a tiny fraction of those amphetamine is installed, on a tiny fraction of a fraction of those maybe someone exists who has a problem with HR.

I'm not sure the last subset actually exists in the real world nor that we ought to support censorship to help imaginary people deal with imaginary morons.
just remember it all started with stuff like gcc afaik.
Firstly it’s a big company but it’s not that big. Obviously that’s a lot of money but eg in 2006, there were over 200 companies worth more than $30B[1]

Secondly in 2004, the company mostly only did search on the internet, advertising on search terms, and adwords, whereas nowadays google do all sorts of things all over different industries.

The google of today is much larger in terms of employees, market cap, and size than it was in 2004.

[1] http://media.ft.com/cms/adb61f66-f7bf-11da-9481-0000779e2340...
Your school sounds like the sort of place that would select for well behaved children whose parents had the ability and wherewithal to select a progressive school. I don't think policies like that work in schools filled to the brim with students who absolutely do not care about school in the slightest.
Thanks for the tip, will check it.
I do something similar with laptop stickers; it’s hard to place a sticker horizontally or vertically centered with no “tilt” so I’ll intentionally put it off center with some tilt.
We can’t know for sure but I bet many people didn’t hoard or didn’t even bother to buy any in the beginning because of this announcement. At big scale (e.g. USA) this means millions of saved masks.

And I agree with your last point of course.
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Vision document here that outlines objectives in detail.

https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/blob/trunk/VISION.md
I think he was done before it ramped up.
I’m sure this means Gatsby won’t be taught in high schools anymore because that’s a ton of money for publishers to lose out on if schools can just print out 50 copies for pennies.

I’m not even mad either. No high schooler can possibly relate to that book in any meaningful way. Good forbid an English teacher picks a book palatable to high schoolers.
Yeah. Give me more years to waste, please.
For the most part, they're okay, if you don't have super high expectations for the soup portion of it.

Some Chinese places near me have started selling the dumplings they make frozen as well.
3. After any major organizational change, such as a merger, any promises made by the diminished chain command are not enforceable. What you won't see is that some of those promises are encouraged by the new chain of command in order to maintain calm.

Eventually the one making the promises will either not be around or find that they don't have the resources to fulfill the promise. They may quit when they figure this out, if they haven't already been let go once they've established their status as scapegoat.

If something matters to you, make sure you get the new bosses to announce it in front of people. Be aware that you should have already thought at least briefly about the wording of your resignation letter prior to doing this.
It's more like 5% of people don't build as many or as effective of antibodies to the vaccine spike protein, and then when infected are petri dishes providing selective pressure for variants to mutate that escape these antibodies and become dominant within their bodies (and, in turn, are more readily transmitted to vaccinated people around them).

Some of the 5% may just be unlucky people who got bigger doses of the virus/higher initial infectious dose, but the same logic applies.

It may be more than 5%, even; the vaccine likely does more to prevent symptomatic illness than infection.

It's hard to estimate what the probability of this happening is. It's certainly more likely when there's more illness circulating around-- e.g. if 1 million people with the vaccine become infected it's worse than if it's 10,000.
What's your threshold for "exorbitant"? If you add an extra dollar to the price, that's enough to get a lot of expansion of manufacturing. Beyond that, I would say that long-term purchasing contracts, or government funding to pay for new machinery, are both much better options to boost capacity than huge price hikes.
This may be a little unpopular to say on HN, but isn't this also the syllogism of choice offered by employers to most of the global population?

You have a handful of employers to choose from.You pick one of them (because the only choice is to pick an employer, or - at best - live a life at the degrading mercy of the welfare state). Therefore you freely chose that employer and are solely responsible for your livelihood.
I disagree on the effectiveness of market solutions for fighting a year-long military campaign. No, it's not a single "assassinate bin Laden" mission, but it maps pretty well to a war where you have both tactical goals to achieve with logistical challenges AND overarching strategic goals.

The market SUCKS at strategic goals. It's basically the opposite: you're giving up on strategic goals because you're in a situation where you don't think central planning can be as effective as competition. But military history shows us that central planning can be very effective for this sort of campaign, complete with elaborate supply chains and logistical accomplishments.
'If you're good at something, never do it for free'
> At big scale (e.g. USA) this means millions of saved masks.

At what cost? How many people have died because mask wearing was discouraged during the early part of the pandemic? We will probably never know, but I would not be surprised if that advice caused a lot of deaths by allowing the virus to spread more easily.
When you are an institution like the CDC you need to be trusted to be effective. So, yes, the most expedient solution to the mask problem is to lie, but it's not worth the long term damage to credibility when they are inevitably caught in that lie.
> Surgical masks weren't in "not proven" territory at any point.

Sure they were. At some points we weren't even sure if n95 masks did much.
If you had patent, you could go after FB and have some out of court settlement.
> everyone was merged into another team working on something similar with new management. Meet the new boss same as the old boss

I worked for Apple before Jobs died. He'd frequently have several teams working on the exact same thing, in secret, and then pick the team that met his goals the best. Sometimes the "losers" would be merged into the "winning" team, but never treated well by the winners.
Don't say this too laud or else Apple will sue all developers who don't write apps for the app store, as they're clearly stealing Apples revenues. /s
I thought you could read The Great Gatsby on Project Gutenberg for a while now? Or am I thinking of another Fitzgerald novel
The fact that income inequality goes up every year says you're wrong about point 2.
You guys are so deluded. But I understand, it makes life easy.
See if you can get involved in a community outreach program or similar.

A friend was in a therapy theater program that operated at San Quentin. They helped the prisoners write and act in theater pieces. At the end of the program, one of the prisoners, a lifer, told her that it had given his life meaning for the first time since sentencing. He'd been in for something like 15 years. I can't imagine how it would feel to find out you made such a difference for someone.

The US prison system is a terrible thing. That our society derives jokes about the atrocities within really shows the depravity of its citizenry.
Do they not teach Shakespeare or early 20th century American poets either?
Oh, I was not aware of this, definitely need to fix this, thanks!
Hospitals don't use fleece.

Saying that the material has an enormous impact on effectiveness doesn't invalidate anything. I mean, that's why N95 masks are so complicated and different from surgical masks, because material matters so much.
But Linux has been working perfectly on ARM for many years (decades at this point?).

We just need general purpose computing to stay alive (and it's not actually being killed with the M1 yet).

RISC-V doesn't make much of a difference here. You can still build highly locked-down proprietary systems using it.
"People Team," in the grand tradition of, "Soylent Green is made of people!"
Once again, the adage "don't let perfection be the enemy of good" applies.
A great tool for understanding source code is Source Trail. Supports parsing of C/C++, Python and Java currently. I love tools that help understand a large code base.
Because many commenters on this thread are angered by claims of free market superiority over government plan.
But that's what I find so dumb about this post - so what if the original JavaScript came out in 1995, as the current version is so vastly different (and improved) and used for such wildly different things than the original that it's barely the same language. I mean, heck, I was out of JS dev for just a couple years in the early 2010s and when I originally got back into it I could barely understand JS code: ES2015 added a ton of syntax changes, I was totally new to the Node/NPM ecosystem and the whole JS web app toolchain (babel, webpack, etc.)
But what do propose to do with the graying out feature? Discard it? or make it like the flagging feature, which doesn't have an opposite action?

I think it's useful for it to have an opposite action, but then that would mean we have votes for sorting and separate votes for graying out. That seems needlessly complicated, which is what I meant.
I can't envision a way you can be making this argument in good faith while actively discarding that the review is next to the restaurant's name and not the delivery service's delivery of that restaurant's food.
It sounds like exactly the opposite, where the market created or allowed a situation where the majority of people get something they don't want at all.

It's ridiculous to even try to say that a home owner will not weigh 50 different factors, and have to tolerate 10 things they do NOT want because they come packaged with 40 other things they either want or absolutely need.

Why does anyone even try to pretend like they don't recognize this unless they are themselves one of the few people actually benefitting from one of these consumer-hostile deals?
TSMC itself involved huge amounts of government spending and support.
Look, I’m with you (although nothing can be “centered around” anything). But most schools are not organized that way, and there’s only so much one teacher can do to buck the system. As it was, I got fired from that particular job after two years, and it wasn’t because I was too strict, certainly.
> They lied to the public about how ineffective masks are to make sure there is enough stock for healthcare workers.

Except they didn't. What they said that the odds of you getting infected were not substantially changed by you wearing a mask in general, but they were substantially changed for people in high risk situations, like healthcare workers.

That became less and less true as more and more people became infected, so the basal chances of you getting exposed, and therefore the impact of wearing a mask, changed.
The only empirical study I know of is the Dannish one:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

I thought that the effect would be like 80-90% or something. But given what was established practice in january last year I should not be too suprised with the results ...
The bigger problem seems to do with updates.

Frequently updated software, while being more secure, will be more affected by this issue.

Therefore, this approach by Microsoft is making everyone using popular but often updated software, less safe by design.
This seems like an appropriate moment to remember Cow Clicker[1], and reflect on it's lesson:

"The player is initially given a pasture with nine slots and a single plain cow, which the player may click once every six hours. Each time the cow is clicked, a point also known as a "click" is awarded; if the player adds friends' cows to their pasture, they also receive clicks added to their scores when the player clicks their own cow. As in other Facebook games, players are encouraged to post announcements to their news feed whenever they click their cow. A virtual currency known as "Mooney" can be bought with Facebook Credits; it can be used to purchase special "premium" cow designs, and the ability to skip the six-hour time limit that must be waited before the cow can be clicked again."

"Unexpectedly to Bogost, Cow Clicker became a viral phenomenon[...]Although continually disturbed by its popularity, Bogost also used Cow Clicker to parody other recent gaming and social networking trends;"

"'bovine gods' eventually revealed that 'Cowpocalypse' would occur on July 21, 2011 (exactly one year since the original release of the game). From then on, every click made by players would deduct thirty seconds from a countdown clock leading to the Cowpocalypse. However, players could extend the countdown clock by paying to supplicate with Facebook Credits: paying 10 credits would extend the countdown by a single hour, while 4,000 would extend the countdown by an entire month. After $700 worth of extensions, the countdown clock expired on the evening of September 7, 2011. At this point, the game remained playable, but all the cows were replaced by blank spaces and said to have been raptured. Bogost intended the Cowpocalypse event to signal the "end" of the game to players; when addressing a complaint by a fan who felt the game was no longer fun after the cow rapture, Bogost responded that "it wasn't very fun before."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
> What's your threshold for "exorbitant"?

I don't have one, or actually care about specific numbers. There is some magic price where I'll start learning how to make masks but I doubt we're going to see that reached in my lifetime.

> If you add an extra dollar to the price, that's enough to get a lot of expansion of manufacturing.

In 18-24 months, sure. We're 12 months in so far though. If they need the money now it is a different story. The higher the price, the more immediate and desperate actions become justified to increase supply. That is one of the core parts of market economics. Let the price rise to some silly amount and people will move heaven and earth to increase supply.

To get extraordinary things done an extraordinary amount of money will be needed. That can come from extraordinary prices. Or it can not happen and shortages can persist longer than required.
> the people who listen to him and take his every word as some sort of ultimate truth.

They don't really exist. At least not in any significant number. This is just a straw man to attack Joe Rogan.
>As a result I had to “drink from the water hose” constantly.

I've only ever heard that phrase as 'drinking from the fire hose', I didn't know that even a water/garden hose was considered too much.

I think I need to find a better ... career (?)
Devil's advocate here but I sort of agree. I think that all of the hard problems with computers will continue to be hard problems until some groundbreaking new computing is discovered (quantum?). All of these technologies are mere transformations with the same hard problems with computing still present underneath.

A lot of these are also fads that will pass. Are there any problems today that were unsolvable in 1980 given enough time?

Wow, smaller transistors, more clock cycles, big whoop. We have more now but it's not fundamentally different is it?

>If an engineer in 1996 fell into a coma and woke up today, they'd be greeted with an entirely different world.

I'd also be disappointed. Oh we are on DDR4, Windows 10, multiple cores, cpp 20? Ok. So we basically just extended the trendline 25 years. Boring.
This is not very difficult. The design constraints of each are fairly unique. A few good heuristics:

- Windows: Few or many? Are they only on the top floor? Are they small? (Prisons don't have lots of windows.)

- Bars on windows? (Dead giveaway for a prison.)

- Lots of security cameras? (Not the best indicator, but it weights in favor of prison.)

- Fences around parking lots? (Criminals might want to break into cars.)

- Is the name on the building large, inviting, and stylish? (School.)

I think the message being sent is more interesting than the "game".
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Yeah there are better solutions but they’re not the easiest nor the fastest. Lying ticked those boxes and so they did it that way in many places.

Politics is IMHO all or a majority about deception unfortunately and once you accept this these actions just make more sense and you stop playing their silly game. I decided to move to a smaller and more healthy democracy because I knew degeneration of politics back in my (somewhat big) country was only going to get much worse and in some cases that can mean literal death to me and I could do nothing to change it. Well, all this is way too off-topic so let’s leave it for another time as it’s an interesting one :)
I think my post was unclear since you are not the first user interpreting it in this way.

I'm not saying companies should port their software to new operating systems and software stacks (presumably forever). The user would be responsible for providing whatever operating systems and software stack the program was built to work on.

What I'm saying is that it that companies should provide some way for users to continue using the product they bought, on the same software stack they were already using, when the company decides to shut it down. Anything better than the current situation where the online servers just go down and nothing is offered as an alternative would be much better. One pretty good way (but not the only one) they could do this is by releasing their server-side software, as it is. They don't need to open source it, they don't need to port it, and the user would be responsible for providing whatever underlying software stack it was designed to work on.
This is a really cool visualisation!

Took me a while to work it out though. I think it would be good to connect the children of a person to the parent's line (i.e. a short vertical line from the birth circle to the parent's line), and to highlight the direct decendents/ancestors of each person when their own line is highlighted (so it's easy to see the relationships).
Perhaps, but the policies we do have in the US pretty clearly do not work either. Beyond that I think treating children in a humanist fashion is an ethical obligation we hold as adults, but this perspective is apparently quite radical.
By reflection emails you mean where you summarize what was said and try to get the other person to confirm them?

I think those only work if you disregard any statements that don't get confirmed, and/or you twist the statements into action items that you don't prioritize until they confirm them.
Does the chance of seeing a vaccine-defeating mutation increase after injecting parts of the population with a less-effective vaccine (compared to the baseline scenario of no vaccinations at all)? What mechanism is responsible for that?

The answer is only obvious to me if both the original virus variant and the mutation compete for some kind of shared resource. But that shouldn't be the case here, right?
Rather than personal attacks you should take the time to actually respond to their comment if you feel so strongly against it.
I was thinking that, or they changed it in the past 4 or so years.
>I’m an ML researcher, but did my grad work in systems.

>- Jupyter notebooks, for teaching machine learning. I use these for teaching. - OpenCL and other libraries for running scientific simulations on GPUs, gpflow for training on GPUs - Keras and PyTorch (libraries for simple training of deep learning models). More than half of machine learning research exists on top of these libraries

Would you share your usual workflow and the problems you face in that space with these tools?
FYI, it goes both ways. An exempt employee chooses their own hours. If the company tries to dock them for working less they'd immediately become non-exempt.
So done with school
LOL, you nailed it, thank you very much
> It's more like 5% of people don't build as many or as effective of antibodies to the vaccine spike protein, and then are petri dishes providing selective pressure for viruses that escape these antibodies.

This seems very circular to me. If they don't build very effective antibodies, they shouldn't be putting much selective pressure on the virus, because if they did, they'd be more effective in the first place.

I suppose it depends on how exactly "effective" plays out here, as well as how easy it is for the virus to mutate significantly but stay as contagious as it is, but if we get unlucky it seems like just a question of time for it to get bad. Given Jan-Mar 2019, I have little faith that the US would ever be in a position to fully eradicate even a small remaining bit, and it would instead fester and mutate in this scenario until exploding again.

Maybe multiple vaccines mitigates this a bit...
Don't get me started on this... graduate student descent [1] is such a big problem in the field...

[1] https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/876303574900264960?s=20
> "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk! http://bit.ly/37Ay6Cm"

^ US Surgeon General official tweet which was then deleted. Source, Google cached version, google "US Surgeon General tweet masks".
> If something matters to you, make sure you get the new bosses to announce it in front of people.

In writing.
The benefit was to save masks so health workers would get them (at least most of them) and the goal was more or less met. Cost? Probably too high. Alternatives?

Again I don’t defend these actions, I’m just trying to reason why they decided to go that way and not the most instintive one “let’s be fully transparent” (at least for HN anyway).
Americans who live in low-crime areas are somewhat insulated from criminal justice "reform" that sets criminals free and increases crime rates.
This why the stereotypical sociopath go-getter/politican/evil-business man claim credit for everything, all the time, and blames everyone else for any failure.
I don't see how this would change anything - its a function of social dynamics, not how afraid managers are of their reports
>> I think too many teachers assume students are all malicious gremlins trying

It only takes a few to ruin it for everybody.
Honestly: more research $'s from government instead of industry. Industry wants conservative investments that reliably pay off.