skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recycling some replies. More context on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26182988:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 (understanding codebases, etc.)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103 (making the most out of meetings, leveraging your presence)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841 (product development)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222 (giving a damn)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223 (If I disappear, what will happen)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611 (about consulting and clients, but you can abstract that as "stakeholders", and understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has.)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518 (on taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable).

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365 (product, architecture, and impact on the team)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716 (onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623 (being efficient learning from video, hacks. Subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632 (communication with the team, and subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886 (template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team. Notes are in GitHub/GitLab so the team can access them, especially if they haven't attended).

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646 (communication, alignment)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439 (useful things for the team and product that add leverage)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660 (more meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971 (management involvement as a spectrum)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120 (researching topics)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502 (keeping up with a firehose of information)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017 (fractal communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539 (remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align)
This is laughable. The real problem is that the euro is dysfunctional and simply cannot work as it is right now.
Microsoft to Ease Workers Back to the Office Starting Next Week
My thoughts about editors in (early) 2021
Where did you get that idea? This is not a meme, it's repeats of widely available data and news reports. As of the 17th March nearly half of all delivered vaccines had not been used:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/millions-oxford-astrazeneca-unused...

Germany alone was sitting on over 1 million. The article has a graph showing the backlog in each country. I am very skeptical they have managed to clear this in only 6 days given that around half the European population now incorrectly believes this vaccine is dangerous or useless.
I'd heard of bottom quark before. Never beauty.

Does top quark have its antecedent too?
I can read German. Thanks for an intriguing suggestion, will do!
I've seen this study shared around anti-vaxer groups trying to claim that asymptomatic spread is unlikely. But this study does not prove that at all. They screened 10 million people with no symptoms, and found 300 asymptomatic cases. Then they re-screened 1200 contacts of those cases and didn't find any more cases that they missed. This doesn't prove that asymptomatic spread is unlikely. It proves that the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 when they did the screening was very low, and that 100% of the cases they found were asymptomatic. I'd be careful to draw conclusions from just one Chinese study, but if anything, this study suggests the opposite of what you're claiming.
I'm amused that you consider political organisations or businesses any less likely to be corrupt.
I wouldn't say reflection is being underused.

It's just that the reflection is a powerful tool AND a necessary evil.

https://blog.golang.org/laws-of-reflection

"Once you understand these laws reflection in Go becomes much easier to use, although it remains subtle. It's a powerful tool that should be used with care and avoided unless strictly necessary."
Linkedin, mostly.
I had a look and I couldn't immediately see any papers, seems fresh out of the university press departments

https://www.ukri.org/news/result-from-lhcb-experiment-challe...

Where the universities involved are

Bristol
University of Cambridge
Imperial College London.
I'm not a fan of voting machines. Paper and pencil work well in lots of other democracies. But that aside, Dominion suffered real harm to their share value. I think this application of a defence leaves a problem behind. She wasn't the candidate, she was a legal officer speaking to motions before the court. If not about dominion directly, didn't she file claims asserting they were parties to electoral fraud? and if the statements were not meant to be believed, what is the status of her case filed in court? Isn't she guilty of wasting the courts time?
> If you think offices are going away, you're betting against decades of history where people work together in meatspace

Historian here. If you're going to argue the past, then working together in close quarters at scale has only become a societal norm since the Industrial Revolution. Throughout most of (European) history, working from home was the norm.

This shifted when in the 19th century when industrialization moved the workplace for millions from small scale, artisanal home labor towards factories, workshops and crowded urban centers.

The impact on individuals and society was profound. This was also the time where factory workers found themselves facing extremely long workdays, non-existent worker rights, low wages and so on. That's what sparked social and emancipatory movements, and worker parties in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Throughout the 20th century, the workforce in the Northern hemisphere became increasingly more emancipated and educated. Post-war economic boom (1945-1975) and social-economic reforms - especially in Europe - created the momentum that turned a blue collar workforce into a white collar workforce.

Even so, in the late 20th century, many of the extant notions of how work ought to be organized were still firmly rooted in frameworks that first emerged during the Industrial Revolution.

Ever since the emergence of digital technology in the 1960s, visions of modernity and future living have always included the ability to work remotely or from home, rendering the centralized workplace obsolete. It's only now, 50 years later, that commoditization of digital technology has actually turned this into an option for millions of workers.

The problem isn't technology though, it's - still - the tenuous and complex relationship between workers and their employers that harks back towards demanding 40, 60, 80 hours in a centralized workplace where maximization of productivity is put front and center.

Now, in all of this, it should be clear that I'm not advocating for people to wholesale move towards working from home. Nor that people should go back to bare level subsistence living through local farming / artisanal production. That's not how this works.

In that regard, you're absolutely right to state there's "no one way" to organize work.

However, generalizing the notion that "people can't do their work virtually and need to see each other" is false as well as it doesn't take into account the historic backdrop that explains how modern society ended up organizing itself in a way that created centralized workplaces as a necessary requirement.

The fact of the matter is that the technology finally gives people a choice over the locality of their work. Artificially restricting that freedom for everyone because "That's how it has gone on for decades" or "some people in some industries can't work from home" are rather poor arguments in that regard.
I would differenciate between the two. A content creator makes first and foremost content and advertises second to fund that endevour. While influencers have often no clear line or almost exclusively make ads.

Imho: Influencer are cringeworthy, they deserve the title.
> I.e. the policy does account for past actions, and these are not encoded in any way.

Alright. They should be then.

I misunderstood your objection and I would express a part of it as "the game state is not fully encoded." As an example, my encoding of Splendor gamestates includes which card is secretly in an opponent's hand if the opponent reserved it when it was face-up, and I regard this as "part of the game state," and it seems like the fine article's encoding lacks such information.

On the other hand, this discussion has made me realize my Splendor game state encoding is also lossy compared to the information needed for actual play by experts. If an expert player has 2 red chips, then reserves a face-down rank 3 holding, then takes 2 green chips the next turn, that's very different from if they started with the green chips and began collecting red chips after seeing their secret high-point-value card. My encoding does not account for this and I am struggling to think of how to fix it.
Facebook's privacy standards are not a very high bar.
I wish I hadn't put my PII into the filenames of the files I was backing up.

myname_myaddress.txt
4445-3333-2222-1213-0121-354.my.credit.number
NW53342211A.my.national.insurance.number
facebook_password_is_letmein.txt
filename_are_now_storage.exe
I_vote_for_trump.doc
Now this is public I bet there's hundreds of facebook team members sifting through all of that log data to find this PII and manually transcribe it into my facebook account.
Yes, "Truth quark". Because they don't exist naturally it lead my physics prof to say "There is no truth in the universe".

Also, Some physicists call the fourth, fifth, and sixth derivative of position, "snap, crackle, and pop" respectively. Physicists are a fun lot aren't they?
> they are halfway to discord's levels in terms of tech and 1% the way in user base.

We're comparing 20 unpaid volunteers (IRC, Mumble), a dozen employees of a small business (Teamspeak) to a several million dollar large VC funded team able to run at a loss (Matrix) and a couple billion dollar large VC funded team able to give away stuff they don't even have (Discord).

You can't compete with free beer. Especially not as a bunch of unpaid volunteers.

In the end, the VC money will dry up and these companies will end, as they'll either have to increase prices, reduce services or sell out their users.
> duck-taping GPT-3 to a mountain of past battlefield data and specs and having it run war games for a while

This is a great way for optimising towards winning past conflicts. It is a terrible way to adapt to new developments.

A very good example would be the mass employment of "cheap" drones in the recent Armenia / Azerbaijan conflict.
The official name of the LHCb experiment is the "Large Hadron Collider beauty" experiment, as named by the scientists themselves. So "beauty quark" is more correct in this context.

https://home.cern/science/experiments/lhcb

Moreover, the paper that describes the result that this article is discussing has "beauty quark" in the name: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11769
I live in a relatively rural area that historically has only been serviced by DSL from the local telephone company. When I first moved out here I was surprised that broadband available, but there’s been zero investment in infrastructure or capacity since then.

Starlink from SpaceX was just made available through a partnership with a state agency and it’s obvious that DSLs days are numbered. RDOF is also stretching the reach of cable and fiber broadband to areas previously only serviced by the telephone company.

The thing that occurred to me however is that many people don’t maintain dial tone at home, and once DSL alternatives are available I’m curious what the telephone companies going to do with all of this infrastructure and zero customers. As far as I know somebody’s on the hook to make telecom available to every home, does RDOF move that responsibility to the organization receiving the funding for Internet?
Thx, but I successfully used find before and know how to google it. That was my point, googling it is much simpler and straightforward than the manpage if you forgot the syntax.
Which Is the Best Apple Watch Band Material?
What you're describing sounds a lot like https://trove.to/

(disclaimer: I'm the author of this project)

For example, here's a "trove" on my favorite recommended everyday software: https://trove.to/wes/trove/software-that-actually-improves-m...

Curious to hear if this is what you had in mind!
All of the mentioned actors are egotistical sociopaths in your example, as the EU is not talking about equitable access, only access for its own citizens.

If you care about equitable access you should be praising the UK, and in particular Oxford, for making its vaccine available at cost, and for having dedicated supply chains already established for poorer nations.

There's still plenty to criticise, but the current framing demonstrates the egocentrism of all of the actors.
Why use a VM? Couldn't he just use a VPN and a different browser?
"The rationale makes no sense" cannot be used to disprove something with lots of unknowns. Of course having a theory that match current understanding would be helpful.
I recently got an OnlyKey.

It plugs in as an HID so that passwords appear to have been typed in, not PW managed.

Useful little thing, it seems too good to be true.
You really have tabs on all the innumerable factors involved in a scenario where someone goes to a party and later becomes infected - and pinpoint the reason ?
First amendment protection is granted to all Americans.

In this case, Dominion Voting Systems is a political entity, and having control of nearly 40% of America's voting power, it must absolutely be defensible to highly criticize this corporation or we are no longer a free or democratic nation at all. Lawyers, of course have every right to speak out and call out potential fraudulent or error-prone, or socially hackable voting systems just as any other American.

From NYT v Sullivan:

"To the contention that the First Amendment did not protect libelous publications, the Court replied that constitutional scrutiny could not be foreclosed by the “label” attached to something. “Like . . . the various other formulae for the repression of expression that have been challenged in this Court, libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment.”1259 “The general proposition,” the Court continued, “that freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment has long been settled by our decisions . . . . [W]e consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”1260 Because the advertisement was “an expression of grievance and protest on one of the major public issues of our time, [it] would seem clearly to qualify for the constitutional protection . . . [unless] it forfeits that protection by the falsity of some of its factual statements and by its alleged defamation of respondent.”1261

Erroneous statement is protected, the Court asserted, there being no exception “for any test of truth.” Error is inevitable in any free debate and to place liability upon that score, and especially to place on the speaker the burden of proving truth, would introduce self-censorship and stifle the free expression which the First Amendment protects.1262 Nor would injury to official reputation afford a warrant for repressing otherwise free speech. Public officials are subject to public scrutiny and “[c]riticism of their official conduct does not lose its constitutional protection merely because it is effective criticism and hence diminishes their official reputation.”1263

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/d...
> I don't think this is easy, but it's not as impossible as you make it out to be.

How fast are you going to come up with sorting one or two lists if you don’t already know this is an option?

If I ever run into a situation where I need to do it in real life, it takes me all of two seconds to find, so the only thing being tested is if I’ve ever done that before (and still remember).
Can someone explain to me what the motivation was for this whole thing? Did she want her 1 minute of fame?

Seems like a really stupid series of actions that is going to destroy her life and bankrupt her. Wtf was she thinking?

I genuinely want to understand.
> Despite the pandemic and everything else going on, there was no market crisis last year. Quite the opposite in fact. It was basically impossible to lose money, no matter what you invested in.

coughs in Wirecard, anything related to tourism, and Melvin Capital / Citadel

Jokes about fraud empires and short squeezes aside - the fact that the stock markets have prospered despite many millions of people losing whatever tiny remaining savings they had, their homes, their freedom, their jobs, their health and in way too many cases their lives is disturbing in itself. A market that decoupled from reality is dangerous.

> In an era where you can buy pretty much any security for free with a few clicks, their standard 2% of assets/20% of profits annual fee structure is absurd.

There is no such things as "buying securities for free". As a retail investor you're still paying something: your data, to offer hedge funds a way to front run your orders and to make them profits.
Some companies, that struggle to get candidates, seem to use the probation period as a way of being able to hire people without properly testing skills first.
i find vscode does so much now syntax highlighting doesn't even work. and there's no way to sync your settings across machines.

i'm using vim more and more these days.
Where's the failure exactly? I use teams to manage a very large and globally distributed consulting team.

I'm not seeing anyone raise issues from within my organisations other than the engineering side of the business preferring slack.
People have way undervalued vaccines. The EU was haggling to get AZ down from like $5 to $2 when the cost of having someone off work for another couple of months is more $5000.
Very true. It is the years and years of crap needed for backwards compatibility. They really should make a separate Windows without backwards compatibility.
This article seems to agree that 3 sigma simply means "1 in 1000 possibility the result is a coincidence". I'm not sure what difference removing the word "statistical" makes here or why the BBC explanation is wrong.
The point is that Firefox 2 became too bloated for its time and it never felt like it got debloated after that even things progressed.

I remember these days clearly because Firefox 1 was very fast and it displaced Mozilla (what was later called "Mozilla Suite") as the main browser for the Mozilla Foundation exactly because of that performance benefit. However Firefox 2 not only ended up becoming much slower but Mozilla Suite actually became faster and ended up being faster than Firefox despite providing not only a browser, but also a mail client, news client, WYSIWYG editor, IRC client, etc - ie an integrated "internet client".

At the time i liked Mozilla more than Firefox so i was bitter about it and how it was eventually abandoned by Mozilla Foundation (it became Seamonkey, sure, but that is another story).
And "b is for beauty" https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/en/Physics/Beauty-en.html
you'll never get me back into the office. ever.
Lol, you win ;)

That sounds terrifying.
Tried to post the original piece's title. Appears HN removes the "Your" from the title upon posting?
Particularly in Korea.
"Facebook has confirmed that all data inadvertently sent has been deleted"

"We have added protections to prevent this error occurring again"

Those sentences do - not - appear.
Disposable hired flunky makes absurd "I was joking" claim to counter previously absurd "I am not joking" claim.

Nothing about this person installs confidence in their professional abilities. A blatant attempt to 'big lie' themselves out of defamation. Or do others see it differently?
C++ compile speeds can be easily improved when using binary libraries, incremental compilation, incremental linking, and hopefully modules will help as well.

Energize C++ and VA C++ v4.0 showed the way of a Smalltalk like experience for C++, the tools just need to catch up with the past.

VC++ and C++ Builder are on the good path for it.
Small startup doing FAANG style interviews is like a small startup adopting microservices for their 3-developer team. More red flags than a Soviet May Day parade.
Palo Alto and still no fiber. Shitty comcast goes down every day.
I believe this is the relevant arxiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11769

And here is a post by some of the main authors describing their findings: https://theconversation.com/evidence-of-brand-new-physics-at...
The only Thing I don't like about discord is that it's not e2ee, so I guess with regards to talking in huge groups or video chatting it has a performance advantage in that sense.
> there doesn't seem to be any talk of using "AI" (ie Neural Net stuff) for planning and strategy

AlphaStar: excuse me??

People write that these games have predefined rules, as opposed to real-life scenarios.

Such people have probably never actually played Starcraft or any other similar games. Sure, the rules of how much damage each unit does, etc. - are fixed. (Actually not even they are fixed throughout the months, and a good player needs to be able to adapt to changes). But what the actual games end up being rarely depends on these rules directly.

What happens instead is a meta-game that is created between you and your opponent where you have to read their strategy and come up with creative ways to deal with it.

In fact in real life the situation is similar: the laws of physics are also always the same, the stats of airplanes are also the same for most of a given year, how much damage can it do, which angles of attack it can support, its speed etc. But it's the combination of these rules in real life situation that makes for the real meta-game.

AlphaStar is absolutely an example of an AI that deals with this exact problem.

PS. Sometimes I see how in the future when we create human-capable AI, these people will still say "but it's just statistics, it's not real intelligence, it's just advanced SVMs". Who cares about what the underlying primitives are? 2+2 does not equal 4 in complex systems like this, it's the emergent endogenous effects that produce all the bang. I don't care if it's all 1s and 0s, or some other small statistical primitive that you could reduce everything to: what's importan is the high-level computation and what it can achieve.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
I am fascinated by the depth of this article. I hope that the same person(s) who had the passion and drive to do this research and to write this article one day will develop a passion to solve one of mankinds greater problems, such as renewable energy, protein folding or cancer. The detail and thoughtfulness of their work is incredible.
Then perhaps (SV startup?) companies should start thinking about creating profitable businesses in the first place instead of living on borrowed money?