skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that that is exceedingly rare - it is a statistics game. For the commenters too. You read and write all your life. You don't spend 100% on every comment, even the most committed commenter soon settles into an equilibrium of effort vs. perceived/expected rewards (how many people are you likely to reach that would truly benefit).

For example, you see somebody posting what you know is a big misconception. You spend time and effort educating and clearing it up. Even if you succeed, you soon run out of patience - you reached a hundred people, 5 of whom cared and will remember. However, there are a few hundred million left in the world who still have that misconception, and there still are way more daily conversations and blog posts where the misconception is spread. You on the other hand spent half an hour education a handful of people. How long until you ignore comments you know are wrong and just shrug and go on with your life?

Answering a specific one-time question by pointing to some resource or project is easy enough in comparison. I did not mean to imply that all comments are always useless. I did not think it would be necessary to point that out. See, that's another problem, somebody always comes up with an interpretation of what you write that will make you spend even more time to clarify because you never thought that interpretation would happen.
> My God, they have the secrets of for loops, S-expressions, they know about vim---and yet they aren't running Pfizer? Why not?

Because programming is too much fun.
Employees manning cash registers often also have other tasks they can do instead of operating the register for you - for instance fast food workers also make the food, and clothes workers stand there looking fashionable and tell you how good you look.

These are often things we'd all rather they be doing, in fact. Which is why McDonald's is still popular in Australia when the national minimum wage is ~20USD/hour and they have automated ordering stations.
//I really need the money and security plus having faang in my resume opens doors, i have seen it in my current organisation where they hired ex faang tech leads and they are considered the best of the best by everyone. These are the only reasons I am willing to put up with this.//

Basically you want Ex-FAANG stamp on your profile. Have you thought through this? Can you try five why questions and get to the bottom of your REAL desire in life? There is youtube Technical Lead where guy cries I am Ex-Facebook, Ex-Google and Ex-Husband etc. Lot of Exs. My point is moon has two sides. One is bright and another is you know. By the way you need start working on writing to clear your mind and bring more critical thinking of your own. Do not follow popular opinion. Even take this comment not on face value. I know how you feel. I struggle same kind of stuff - just mine is related to girls. Any way good luck there.
Co-founder has nothing to do with CEO. Clearly Wozniak was the technical co-founder, not the business co-founder. I have never seen any hint of him being anything but terrible at business.
Edit: firstly you are attaching to a tangent of my post. The point of my post above yours still stands uncontested.

Secondly: Feel free to dig out your sources. It would not be the first time I changed or nuanced my position on a topic were I thought my mind was set in stone.

Here's what needs to be proved for your claim to stand - as currently written:

- Israel (officially by government or military leadership)

- actively (as in: ordered it to happen)

- sends (plural, recent)

- invade Palestinian homes, burn centuries old olive tree fields, block access to water

- bonus points for this: (while conveniently promoting retarded water purification trinkets).

Prove it and I'll add it to my list somewhere near white phosphorus (because I'm fully aware Israelis mostly aren't saints).
You just need to render your font on the CPU once, and upload mipmaps to the GPU (either signed distance fields, or just sharpened textures, that works absolutely fine too).

I think all this GPU font rendering stuff is a bit of a red herring. Are any popular apps or games actually making heavy use of it?
There's a couple of fallacies going on here.

One is confusing between groups and individuals. An individual (e.g. the OP) can have planted several saplings and can thus point fingers (id one holds with these silly heuristics about who is allowed to point out bad things).

The other is that the state of saplings in the USA is irrelevant to whether or not old forests should be burnt down in Brazil.
Whether you can turn them off depends on your operating system. Most of them allow you to turn them off. What are you using? And if it really bothers you, why don't you switch?
differentiable rasterization pipeline

That's really damn cool.
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> The key point GP is highlight is that productivity has basically decoupled from salaries since the 1970's, i.e. we are all collectively producing more value whilst collectively getting payed less in proportion to the value generated.

This thread is about Spain (which certainly has a lot of economic problems along with the rest of the EU), but wasn't that research mainly about the US?

My impression is some but not all of the cause is because "productivity" numbers are very confused because of how much exponentially more efficient computers have gotten. If you measure in 1970s computers, someone building a PC in 2020 has a million times more productivity.
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I mean i think its clear what you're saying, the evidence you provide just doesn't support your conclusion all that well compared to the other possibilities.
Because most of the people who actually understand GDPR are the people who have to implement it, business owners. Threre a lot of business and website owners, which might make them the majority of general public in this case. Plus, as a politician you rarely want to upset an entire category od voters, especially a wealthy one.
I know I am forgetting something. Oh wait- the build. brb lol
> Brazil burns down forest mainly because of the United State’s desire for think like soy beans to feed cows.

In the UK at least, we seem to have palm oil in everything, and Indonesia and that part of the world are busily hacking down forests and killing orangutans in the process.

What's the sudden need for palm oil? We hardly used it in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid.
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Nuclear is hobbled by ridiculous amounts of over-regulation.

Reduce the regs and you could build a new plant in six months for half a billion dollars. Likely while still conforming to a reasonable $60k/QALY.
OK sure, I guess they do belong.
Shouldn't we just shame billionaires a lot and millionaires a little then? On top of calling for revenue neutral carbon taxation that will hit them the most and benefit the common people?
You're projecting post WW1 politics on pre axis Germany.

France hated Germany because of the loss of Alsace Lorraine, and the wreckage of 1871.
No. Mathematics is an elaborate game with surprising ability to model universe.
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Why, because everyone is scared of each other?
If you make the definition of fulltime worker 30 hours a week instead of 40 hours a week, it certainly does make more people fulltime employed, but it also seems like cheating.

In the US underemployment was blamed on laziness, lack of training, etc etc for years but the actual cause is the Fed setting interest rates too high, and when they stopped we got more employment than ever (as of Jan 2020). If you simply make employers compete more to hire people, they will do a good job training them, making them more productive, ignoring minor criminal records and so on.
Even today, most EEs at e.g. CPU companies have jobs which are more CS than EE.
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That's unrealistic if your target is android phones.

You can wax poetic about the idea of an independent app store all you want, it doesn't change the facts on the ground in the current moment.
> That's because using non-binary mode is bad

Text mode is perfectly good, it’s what users want in a good 90% of cases. Possibly more.
I guess all business/project/hobby websites should shut down then? Your website won't get very far at all when most people rely on google's search results, browser, and email service.
I'd be up for that. I am concerned about how that works in practice.

Leaving aside technical issues (can you really push power from Spain to Latvia? Is it really true that total renewable power in Europe can always power the whole continent?), this is an economic project larger than the Euro or the vaccine roll-out. There will be weekly issues of power redistribution - who gets it when there's a shortage? Whose job is it to maintain trans-border infrastructure? Some countries, through resourcefulness or good fortune, will have more spare power, and thus powering, hmm, less powerful countries, leading to the usual "{country-X} power for people from {country-X}". What about electricity costs? Is there a flat rate in Europe? Etc.

I'm not sure how to actually make that work in practice.
> hey aren't running Pfizer? Why not?

Because there is no c-suite.stackexchange.com for them to cut-and-paste their corporate directives from.
totally support this. should've been done years ago
What I find most upsetting about this is that it seems the real goal is to defend the monopoly of big pharmaceutical companies and it has nothing to do with protecting the public. Cannabis is a great enemy of some corporations that are heavily pushing their opiate based drugs and they corrupt law makers and law enforcement to protect their markets at the expense of public who pays for it. This is obscene and erodes trust in any public services.
Automation does not reduce jobs. It is impossible to run out of jobs, because 1. demand is infinite 2. jobs are based on "comparative advantage", and people have comparative advantage with automation because they're the same species as their customers.

Also, this isn't even happening. It's mostly an artifact because productivity of e.g. computer manufacturing looks super efficient if you measure each 2020 computer as containing a million 1970s computers.

> Wages will continue to decline with an oversupply of labor.

This is called the "lump of labor" fallacy. Increasing the number of people increases both supply and demand, and therefore improves the economy, and therefore may raise wages.

(Economists don't simply use supply and demand for the labor market anyway, they consider things like monopsony and search models.)
There's still a tremendous amount of information available via RSS. I pay for Feedly so that I can annotate and save interesting articles.

Of course, this is not a way to search for things.
That's also Heinz's own recommendation.

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This. In my country, almost all of software engineers are advised to become CTO not CEO if they want to become founders.
You likely could eventually. All current projections point that way.

Poland already has a significant advantage with respect to intermittency being connected to an EU wide grid and being able to import/export power easily across a well oiled market. Hawaii may have sun but it can't do that.

The intransigence of the country itself (it loves its coal) is probably the biggest impediment, not Geography. If Germany can do it (and they can and do) so can Poland.
If only they could contribute 0.01% of their market cap towards Ruby the language itself would be nice.
While none of them should conduct software engineering tasks and better leave that work to professionals, it certainly is good to understand how the process works, and how to value the struggles of plugging things together to create something out of nothing.

That being said, many companies have hierarchies of clueless managers between the CEO and the engineering team. Having someone at the helm who understands the good-fast-cheap triangle [1] in tech driven companies is from my point of view a good thing.

This doesn't imply that every software engineer can be a CEO. It requires a lot of other (soft) skills to do this job.

[1] https://www.explanimate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/go...
I still have a VHDL version lying around from my old student project. :)
This is the other side of the Play-store problem. The other side is the tax.

Play store employee can ban your app = destroy your business at any time. The reason can be 'new policy', 'misunderstanding' or something more problematic, such as influence from your competitor to the employee.

A 'power to destroy business', should not be a click away from some random employee.
You do not even need to use AWS. use Minio as S3 compatible system and Nifi to convert files to parquet once they land in Minio... No dependency on AWS.
+1 for Algo.

I run this on an inexpensive AWS Lightsail instance. Trivial to move it between regions also.
> I'm not familiar with Starlink's technology but that could include geofencing the terminals (if they have GPS)

Starlink already has geofencing. The terminals stop working if you take them more than a certain distance away from the registered address (I forget exactly how far that is, let's just say 50 km).

The terminals don't need GPS to do this [0]. The satellites know where they are, and hence they know roughly where the terminal they are talking to is. No need for GPS to be involved. The satellites can't get an exact location to the metre, but rough geofencing only requires an approximate location. (Starlink satellites can't function as GPS satellites because their onboard clocks are not precise enough for that; however, they still can be used to get an indication of terminal location, just not with the accuracy GPS provides.)

I assume they will offer services with a different geofencing configuration – they are talking about offering mobile services for boats, aircraft, etc, so that won't work if it is geofenced to the customer's registered address. However, even that service they will likely geofence to prevent service in countries where they lack regulatory approval.

There is the likelihood of some "bleed-over" if you are near an international border between a country with approved service and a country without it, and Starlink can't tell which side of the border you are on. I expect SpaceX will say that they are only required to make best efforts to prevent unauthorised service.

I expect they'll offer US government and military customers a service with geofencing totally disabled. (And likely also the governments and militaries of US allies, provided the US government is okay with that.)

[0] Edit: Thanks to replies for pointing out the Starlink terminals do actually contain a GPS receiver and so can use that for geofencing as well. My point was you don't need GPS to geofence a satellite constellation since the satellites know where they are. Although of course GPS can make geofencing more accurate. One at least theoretical drawback of GPS, is a tampered terminal could lie about its GPS location; methods relying on the location of the satellite in orbit can't be overcome by tampering with the terminal. I expect they actually consider both factors.
> For the record, I think of democracy as a strictly positive thing even when it seems like democratic societies have erred.

Thats a surprising thing to think without justification. To hold up a mirror, imagine if someone said the same thing about china's communism:

> For the record, I think of China's communist system as a strictly positive thing even when it seems like the CCP has erred.

There was a great quote by Bill Clinton - "The problem with ideology is that it gives you the answer before you've asked the question."
Since the first Android market guidelines? There's always been standards.
Is that supposed to be the King of Technology or the King of Techno Music?
In my understanding you still need an IPFS node running (and then browser connects to it via a websocket) https://talk.fission.codes/t/local-ipfs-connectivity/1535

So IPFS handles the actual 'local first' aspect in the sense that once your data is cached, you can access it, and once you regain connectivity, it syncs again
The same is true for Facebook. My website and ad accounts were banned one day without a reason. They said it did not meet community standards. There has been no recourse since 2 years.
On the question of MDs, here (in Europe, YMMV) we have doctors who have either have their own practice, and therefore work as little or as much as they want, or are part of hospital staff which is under its own separate legal regimen for work time (with more work hours than the average person, usually). In either case, I think they are not likely to be affected directly by changes to the "typical" work week.
I just find it ironic that a few comments are being down voted on an article about censorship.
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It seems to me that Google once had wonderful regular expression searches. That all got blown up when they introduced "Google+", thereby destroying REs.
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The ribbon gets a lot of grief, but I think it is a step forward from conventional menus in discoverability. The secret is having multiple types and sizes of controls. If you have 3 top level menu items with 4 option each, a user can very quickly scan for what they're trying to do. If you have 6 or 8 top level categories and 10-30 items under each, it's a totally different story.

With menus, you have to use sub and even sub-sub menus for organization, and the user has to mouse over or use the keyboard to see the sub-options. Every sub(-sub) menu looks the same, maybe with a tiny icon to help find it. With the ribbon, every top level category naturally has major sub-groupings (horizontally), within which more important / commonly-used items can use larger icons, split buttons can be used to show a default action with related actions in a drop-down, and option-groups can be presented as a dropdown or expanded to show them all at once (think "view layout" in a file explorer).

I have to admit I had a negative reaction to the ribbon initially, but especially with the thoughtful integration into Windows Explorer it's really grown on me since. I'm not sure it's appropriate to replace every use of a conventional menu bar but I think it's the best fit in a lot of places.
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I am hoping that they will also explore another angle. I read about the ruling in Italy where Lenovo was forced to refund money for pre-installed Windows that customers didn't want but they had no option to buy a laptop without it.
Now, it is not possible to buy an iPhone without iOS or MacBook without the macOS. I think regulators should look into that as it should be possible to buy M1 laptop without macOS installed and it should be open for installing other operating systems like Linux. Apple should also be forced to release any documentation necessary to enable full compatibility with Linux and other operating systems.
Perhaps refer to SpaceX rather than Elon?
My take: software is a form of literacy.

In a world of literacy, you are a fool to hire an illiterate person as a CEO. So we start to see the shakeout.

Look, in early Medieval Europe, Charlemagne could only write his name, and was functionlly illiterate for much of his life. But every Holy Roman Emperor afterwards was a as literate as you or I.

We are at that hand over stage now - every CEO in the previous generation could get away with being Charlegmane.
Not any more
Almost none of them could get a job as a software engineer at their own company, if they had to, because they would be completely unqualified.

There are 10 CEO level people mentioned.

Woz could certainly get a job at Apple. He's clearly brilliant and capable.

Larry & Sergey could definitely get jobs at Google. They were PhD CS students at Stanford (how on Earth is that "unqualified" to you?).

Zuckerberg could get a job at Facebook. He obviously wrote a lot of Facebook's early code.

Gates & Allen allegedly didn't do much actual coding themselves but they certainly understood it. I imagine Jobs, Bezos and Jack Ma also understood coding even if they didn't do any themselves. I don't know anything about Ma Huateng.

I doubt any of them could drop in to a high level coding role and be productive, but they could all do intern or junior level stuff. Code isn't that hard that you need to be a special snowflake to do it.
I don't agree this is immature, he definitely has a point that Google should consider giving even a day's leeway in cases like this. That being said, I may be in the minority here, but I wouldn't expect a button that's labeled "report user" to report the content of the message, only the user profile for things like an abusive name, fake profile etc.
The C# is clearly not optimized, if the goal is to win micro-benchmarks.

- foreach has hidden allocations

- there are better data structures than Dictionary

- GetValueOrDefault has higher cost than a plain if
Some people might call them the enemy, some say they should just leave them be, but they are someone's ancestors (or related), and those people should know what happened to them. My uncle died in WW2 and no one knows where (potentially in the ocean near Tunisia); reading his last letter to his parents, I would certainly want to know where he is buried. He still has a living sister as well. Just because someone was a soldier does not make them some anonymous drone.
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The point XorNot made (and I agree) is that "it is switched on by default". And then you need to go to 5 different settings to switch them off (OS update, App update, iCloud login, iCloud sync of Backup-StockApps-Messages-etc).

The "welcome" should not be "all your data are belong to us". It should be "Hi, iCloud-Y/N, AutoUpdateOS-Y/N, Backup Message-Y/N, Backup Notes-Y/N, etc.).

I get it that for MANY reasons Apple wants everyone to run the latest OS/Apps versions, but.... did they ASK me?

Exiting their ecosystem is painful. Apple/Google rely on this. There are plenty of discussions on 'how to exit' and alternatives, but this is HN. The average HN-er is not exactly the same as the average smartphone user.
A change to GMT all year round would be most welcome here in the U.K.
Text processing, without a single mention of Perl. How times have changed.
No I mean is the approach of doing this on the GPU actually novel
Significantly, but not recently. Quite a few years ago it started to change to accomodate more sentence based searches, and giving it a traditional set of keywords only ever returned like the main page of one of the things you mentioned, even if you explicitly tell it to search for all of the terms, etc.
AFAIK, when collapsed the ribbon interface should take up no more vertical space than a conventional menu. This is mostly a user education issue -- I think if they shipped products where the ribbon was collapsed by default, people wouldn't get used to using it as quickly, but they also don't loudly call out the fact that it's collapsible, and maybe they should.