skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this whole freak out is just dumb.

It’s just a name. It needs an identifiable name be it Master, main, develop, hell you could call it beavis and it would mean the same thing.

Or don’t.

It just don’t matter.
> Of course it’s amazing that a pile of rocks can outperform the world’s best companies as an investment vehicle

I guess it depends on your definition of amazing.

If you assume -- and I'm not saying this is true -- that the value of "the world's best companies" trends at 8%/year with a +/-15% "variance", while the value of "a pile of rocks" trends at 0%/year with a +/-15% "variance", you would totally expect to see long periods where they yield comparable returns.

Personally, I don't find that particularly amazing, but to each their own!
For others who may have been confused, like me, in order of GPU power:

(Least) P100 < V100 < A100 (Most)
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Good point. I think this is a case of cargo cult programming--it makes good sense in situations where you can't just sign up but as he shows it's meaningless in situations where you can. The standard was laid down before the world became full of sites where you can simply create an account for free.
Not the Great Salt Lake valley - too many people for the available food supply. That's not going to go well.

My own answer is Delta/Montrose, Colorado. It has water, good farmland, nearby mountains (timber) and coal fields. You could even do some hydro power from the river. It's somewhat defensible - an attacker would have to cross a fair amount of inhospitable terrain to get there, unless they came from the south, and the San Juans would not be that difficult to defend.

The one issue would be oil - there's oilfields around Aztec, New Mexico, but that's kind of a long way in a collapsed society.
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What affirmative action is supposed to do is to ensure that your race isn't a determining factor in not getting hired for a job that you are qualified for.

No, that's wrong. If that were the goal, it would simply be made illegal to ask about race (or race-proxy) on college application forms.

Affirmative action is meant to artifically boost the number of college graduates from a selected set of underrepresented backgrounds. If it weren't the goal, this blind recruitment trial wouldn't have been immediately canceled: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
It's funny you put it this way. I have the same philosophy and am agnostic. Here's how I'd express it.

Causality is a concept that exists within a universe, because it's bound to time, which also a concept that exists within a universe. The physical law of causality (which can be expressed as both "events of the present are fully defined by system states at previous times" and the time-reversed equivalent, that the past states are fully defined by the future) are only coherent concepts within the framework of specific physical laws that govern this universe. Not every set of possible physical laws gives rise to causality, or even time.

In Conway's Game of Life, the future state of the board is also fully determined by the past, although there is no time reversal symmetry.

Judea Pearl's causality is similarly bound to applying within the context of a timeline and universal law.

Again in Conway's Game of Life, you can implement Turing machines and run simulations of any scenario. Hypothetically you could have artificial life in such a simulation, which might conduct experiments to learn the physical laws of the cellular automaton that governs their world.

But those laws, their perception of cause and effect, only exist within the context of that simulation, and within their simulated timeline. Their "time" is a state variable of the simulation.

No experiment conducted by creatures within the Game of Life could determine why their simulation is running in the first place, or why its initial conditions were chosen the way they were. The computer running their simulation is outside the laws of their universe. To ask "what was the value of Conway.simTimeIndex before the Game was started?" doesn't make sense. The laws that govern the commencement of Games cannot be perceived from inside the Game.

On our own level, the notion of cause and effect is a concept that is coherent within our universe and its concept of time. To ask whether our universe had a cause, or was preceded by something, doesn't make sense. It might or it might not have; that depends on the laws that govern the commencement of Universes, which we cannot measure from observations inside of our universe. If there is any law of meta-causality or time, on the level of reality at which universes are created, we will not identify it via measurements conducted within this universe.
Soft agree. Going around people isn't always as borderline-sociopathic as people in this thread make it out to be. For example, the given solution for handling the process-obsessed is surprisingly non-toxic: encourage them to favor incremental change to give them the time to learn and grow their strats enough to come up with something that's tailored to the team.
More like the highest quality, but probably price sensitive which means 'somewhere in between.' I've thought about taking a test image to Costco to see how it comes out on metal, but figured that there might be higher quality options. Thanks for your examples, looking to see what others post.
I think this is an over-attribution of this cost. Even if you release the same app for nothing, and that cost went away, your overwhelming cost would still be your time, and the value of that time. $8.33/mo isn't even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

What it does do is pay for all the app store infrastructure, IDE development, etc etc, so your choice to release something for nothing doesn't externalise those costs on others.
That I'm definitely not convinced of. With current levels of technology, poverty in a global setting has more to due with infrastructure and unrest than it does actual shortages. I suspect that we could pack on even more people with the industrialization of the third world, vastly increasing productivity.

More importantly, there's absolutely no reason to think that technology will somehow stop pushing the carrying capacity further. More people will yield more innovation, yielding more growth, yielding more people. If there's an endpoint to that, I doubt we'll see it any time soon. Yes, I too see how insane it is to think that sometime relatively soon global GDP will double twice in a year. But twice in a decade would be just as crazy 500 years ago.
The retail box came with a replica of Henry Jones’s grail diary. That was mind blowing for a ten-year-old who had just seen the movie. All in all still one of my fondest gaming memories.
But does baby milk mother without her consent? How can you milk cow without its consent how does cow consent to it. Seems not a fair comparison.
Almost every single one of these problems can be solved by talking to the groups involved.

How do you talk to people about actual issues in a way that'll get them to be honest/realistic with you? Create safety. Make sure it's clear that nothing they do/say will hurt them or you, or come back to do so later.

What I don't see here, what I don't see anywhere, is how to deal with a legitimate bad actor. I wish more of these kinds of things would talk about how destructive a person with intent to do damage can be, and how to effectively handle someone like that when you can't simply get rid of them.
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Thank you. That's a great example.

It gave me 2 new directions:

(1) Are there people helping others learn critical thinking? How do they do it?

(2) What does it take to have "user-friendly, tool-assisted critical thinking"? ("formal methods" [1], perhaps?)

I will dig around those 2 directions and see if anything interesting turns up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods
To your point though, it’s not just that some people are annoyed but that some people become aware of the absurdity of it all and attribute that to even more measured, less absurd critiques/initiatives and disassociate from even healthy aspects of a debate. Seeing the excesses drives a desire to disassociate.
Could also be that appraisers are being conservative (their "customers" are the banks, after all, not the buyers) in their estimates and haven't caught up with the higher bidding?

But isn't "recent sale prices of comparable properties" about market expectations though? Like isn't the implication of an appraisal that if you were forced to sell the house you could get the appraised amount for it?
> "It's actually my main criticism of the Left nowadays: we are shit at politics!"

a good point in the making until this line, where you aligned yourself with a shallow identity. fuck left and right. stop trying to find a team to mindlessly root for. yes, it's hard, and yes, it means more mindshare devoted to evaluating what you think rather than who you want others to think you are in subservience to ideological hegemony. politics is shit because not enough of us do this, but rather settle on a tribe and leave our brains behind in the process.

the left isn't right, it's a coalition for power, which is for delivering advantage to some people at the exclusion of others. power doesn't value or uphold right and wrong, so you're premise is profoundly misguided here.
I _think_ it started becoming commonplace around the early days of X11, although to be fair # and $ are neighbors on pretty much any keyboard layout.
Wow, sounds really useful! Will check it out
I don't think implying that QA engineers being biased in favor of having unnecessary automated tests is the same thing as saying that QA engineers have a goal of writing tests. It's just the nature of the beast. My point is jobs inherently favor artifacts or actions which (perhaps ceremoniously) justify their existence, and often resist attempts to remove such things since they've integrated those things as core to their job function (even if their motives and goals are in fact not to create those artifacts.)
Apparently copyright infringement is also tantamount to raping and pillaging on the high seas (piracy).
Amen! I've found that 9 times out of 10 successful people follow the same advice and believe the same things as unsuccessful people (at least they SAY they do). So it's really useful to look at people who failed yet followed the same advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Dude, I am probably as hardcore as electrical engineers come (define your metric, I will (probably) beat it :-) )... I learnt about magamps from your post today. Thanks
> Many labourers (both skilled and unskilled) see it as a slight for someone who is brought up here and have lived here their entire life to display a flag other than the Union Flag of the St. Georges Cross. I've seen a lot of guys in working man's pubs get quite angry and this sort of resentment is always hand waived away as "racism" when that isn't the problem at all.

No that's absolutely racism.

> The British reputation in Spain is complete dirt because of the disrespectful party goers and expats. It is due to them not assimilating or even bothering to respect the local culture and language.

This is also their racism.

A special place is reserved for those people who post comments on the Daily Mail complaining about how many immigrants there in England are when they're a British immigrant to Spain.
Even if there are state-wide building codes there usually are not building inspectors in lots of rural areas--too expensive for the local governments. So the only problem is if someone complains to the local governing council. This might happen in rural areas with rich residents--but not poor ones.
Again, since you don't know the answer to this, and since I don't know, why don't we just avoid going down a path that we DO know creates pain and misery.
I think there's a kernel of usefulness here, as long as you keep in mind that the labels don't inhere in the person, but rather refer to behavior and are relative to their current role. Developers love to systematize so it's easy to forget that people don't really fall into neatly labelled categories like this.

A "downtrodden" QA person could become uptrodden on a different team. Having a "patent author" PM is probably a good thing if you're working on life-critical software. Even an "incompetent" developer can learn to become better, or might be better suited to some other project. I'm decent at embedded development but if you put me on a deep learning task I'd be incompetent initially.
> Don't the same companies make enterprise routers and consumer routers?

Kinda but not really (the consumer routers are usually made by subsidiaries, e.g. linksys -> Cisco)

> Don't they presumably employ the same engineers to write software across them?

For the most part no, but much more importantly the margins are much worse on consumer gear. Race-to-the-bottom pricing means race-to-the-bottom quality and race-to-the-bottom patch cycles (the last one is probably the most important). Add in that there is a deliberate effort to not make low-margin consumer gear not cannibalize high-margin business/enterprise gear.

A noted exception to this is NetGate, whose pfSense hardware runs the same OS with the same engineering up and down the stack. Probably not the best idea for a normal consumer to buy, though.
I don't think you understand the human condition (or how to think outside your own life) if you think that infertility doesn't count as suffering.
The word "forever" should be illegal to use for marketing purposes.
> There's nothing special about software development.

There's also "nothing special" about writing. Somehow, though, we don't see millions of Hemingways pop up each year.

Writing code is a form of art. There is a science behind it, but the same is true for many other art forms. It's true that everybody can be an artist. Not everybody can be a good artist, though. It's equally true for writers, painters, and coders.
Given that the mRNA in the vaccine encodes for just a single protein of a given virus, it seems totally impossible to get an entire virus out of an error. :)

A prion (misfolded protein that causes other proteins to misfold) is more likely, but even then prions need to misfold in specific ways that encourage their replication as well. In all likelihood the error is just going to prevent the ribosome from finishing transcription and we'll have just a fragment of whatever protein the RNA initially encoded for.
How many places are you going to restart this same well trod argument?

I wouldn’t say anything except this is twice you’ve brought this up out of the blue under one thread that I’ve seen and this isn’t even talking about the Apple ecosystem.
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Java backend = Spring Boot. It dominates the market.
> Why is this post being penalized? Too many black folks commenting and up voting? (/s)

That's a nasty swipe, "/s" or no "/s". Your question is answered twice in HN's FAQ: once at the top and once again ("Why is A ranked below B even though A has more points and is newer?") for people who don't realize that it was already answered at the top. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Matter of fact, this thread has been carefully unpenalized by moderators who work tirelessly to support substantive, thoughtful discussion on HN. (Edit: that seems to have been a mistake—not about the thread, a lot of which was reasonably good and some of which was remarkably good, albeit on a tired topic. But it seems to have been a mistake about the article—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507622.)
The ethics of that approach are as questionable as clone soldiers or slaves. Life is difficult enough when you are born into this world but at least you usually have one or two parents to care for you along with the company of the rest of human civilization. Being born on an empty world with only an AI or worse a dumb machine as your parent with only your equally orphaned siblings as companions would make fate seem cruel indeed.
I like to think that's part of the appeal of Crash Davis and just the lifestyle of a minor league baseball team in Bull Durham.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Durham
I'm unsure if "protection against accidents" is that relevant for deciding to have a root terminal open or not. Even if the clipboard contained some destructive "delete everything" command plus an newline character, all the files I actually care about is in my home directory and can easily be wiped by my regular non-root user.
Hi folks! I am Aditya (author of the article!)

Just got forwarded this by a friend to realise that it's trending here! :D

AMA if you want. Online for next hour.
I just want to say that this sounds like a really interesting product. Have you all considered making questions "publishable" in a way to public SO?

Plenty of times where a smaller company has a ton of internal knowledge that really needs to be on a public SO as they are common questions. It would be incredible to say, we'll let internal users ask questions here and then populate a public set of tags based on that for new/emerging products.
Sure here it is[0]. This one is for parsing Kindle clippings but it's quite similar (except no sorting of all words, I was usually using some service for mobi to txt switch before feeding script). I should probably clean it up and switch implementation to english (but don't use it anymore).

[0] https://github.com/Machiaweliczny/KindleClippingsTranslator/...
I completely ignored the links at the top! :(

You must transform to images+text, like in the the wiki gallery. (Assume nobody reads the docs.)
See my other comment - subsidize it directly, if you can make it work with subscription models; I don't care. It's just that from what I've seen so far, this is harder to do with subscription models and so often not done at all.

As for why you should do this: the opportunities created this way are good for everyone in the long term. See: all the companies started and being led by people from developing nations, in developed ones.
> you don't have "Romanian Europeans" living in France

Thanks to EU freedom of movement, that is absolutely what you do have.
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"Penguin Computing" - now there is a name I haven't heard in a really, really long time.

I was an early customer of them and knew some people that worked there back in the day... I didnt know they were still around.

These containers look interesting, however, one thing that is a factor that anyone who buys one of these is securing them properly - not just from physical access, but from projectiles etc. A liquid cooled "datacenter" that can be shot at from the side and taken out would suck.

These things need cameras 360 and the ability to alert based on any motion near them.
The author is clearly a developer, as there are some positive stereotypes in that category, but no positive stereotypes in any other category.

I'm guessing their perspective on the related roles is either only through the lens of a developer, or through no lens at all, just squinting from afar.
My first PC XT clone had Hercules and CGA on an orange monitor.

4 shades of a single colour isn't so bad.

Really wish I hadn't sold it now as I did a lot on that machine. Even ran Windows 2.0 passably.

I really, really wanted something capable of playing Wolfenstein though so it had to go. :(
Holocaust has its own impact. Swastika is pretty much a taboo in west, despite it being an ancient symbol and has major significance in Hinduism and Buddhism.
There is a good song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmEt1sL7GU , "Ours and theirs", by Alexey Ivaschenko and Georgiy Vasiliev, which lists a bunch of differences - which, of course, exist even between pretty close cultures - and, characteristically for authors, concludes with "there are many things which you can't divide on ours and theirs".

It's like talking about ideological divide between USSR and USA - even back in late 1980s it was proclaimed loudly, but nobody came out defending USSR in late 1991. Gay relationships are nothing new in Russia, and official condemnation doesn't mean it runs deeply against cultural grain.

Don't forget - Russian people and Russian government are strongly opposing entities. On the other hand, Russian expats in USA have comparatively little problem adjusting to American culture. Standards are indeed very similar - more so than, for example, in comparison with some Asian or Middle East cultires.
> If that means hiring remote developers in the Philippines then that’s what they will want

I'm not sure the first stages of a startup is the right time to start handholding offshored devs. You typically want talented folks with you because change will happen fast. No time to draft new requirements and make sure via lengthy meetings that the offshored devs really understands them.
What are waking fantasies? Can you describe that a little more?
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> struggling to survive demographic are the ones giving devices to their children.

You will be surprised. It is common for India to own a smartphone but not a toilet. IT is also common for the entire family to use the same smartphone and as the working dad returns home the kid jumps on his phone to play his/her favourite game.
I suppose the question was about the Q&A plugin for Confluence, not the Wiki product itself (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions)
Guessing: Bachelor of Science (degree) in Computer Science, 4 years of experience...

The other 2, no idea.

As a counterpoint, I have a BSCS, and closer to 35 YOE, and I have never, nor will ever in my lifetime see $800K/year. To date, not even a quarter that.
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