skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author writes, far down in the article after extensively criticizing Feynman, “None of this is to paint Feynman as a villain”. I feel this is disingenuous. Surely the author understands that what most readers will take away from articles like this is “historical figure X who had a great reputation for decades, actually did terrible things [and so maybe he shouldn’t have that great reputation].”

IMO, the only way that a nuanced portrayal of such historical figures could be given, is to write a more general biographical overview of the person and include the negative aspects in there among all the other facets. Not writing an article that focuses specifically on the negative aspects, that does have the effect of, firstly, character assassination, and secondly, shaming people today who continue to admire the figure for his/her overall achievements (because "how could you possibly admire someone who did unacceptable behaviour X to group Y?").
This link also indicates:

>Carrying regularly requires a "justified reason" or a "legitimate purpose"

That was kind of the point OP was making right? Only certain uses of knives are prohibited.
As Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts to Be Taken Down
DP is basically brute-force but you can reuse some of the subproblems.

Another approach is trying to find a "starting point" and solving subproblems. Imagine an array of problems and starting at the left.
Facilitating emergence is a really great idea. It's already occurring all around us. There must be ways to amplify it and start it from scratch.
Fukushima was built in 1968 and Chernobyl was built in 1972. We learned a lot from these incidents, and I think those lessons are valuable for building reactors of all sizes 50 years later.

I do think we should be quicker to decommission and maintain existing reactors. Fukushima was painfully predictable, but the people who should have fixed several issues and/or closed the plant were also in charge of making it profitable. That seems bad.
"Nearly all" is definitely inaccurate. The sites you've linked to are collections of third-party recruiter ads which should be avoided by anyone who isn't completely desperate for a job.
What’s the standard for harm? I think that’s the part that isn’t clear to me. What if an advertisement diminishes my self-esteem to some degree?
Wow Germany is much more expensive then. And i am looking at prices near my mid-sized town, not berlin or munich or anything. Would love to get a house for that price. In that price range i would be looking at a flat for 2 people, not a house.
Logically they're the same, they're isomorphic. It's just about ergonomics, readability, etc.
If I buy a movie on a DVD, should I be allowed to sell it when I'm done with it? If so, what's the difference between that and selling a digital copy when I'm done with it from the copyright owner's perspective?
That sounds like antivaxx fear mongering to me TBH.
This isn't about publicizing salaries of existing employees, it's about publicizing salary ranges in job postings. How does one "play favorites" with a generic job posting?
I’m not sure that’s true. Anyone who has had any attrition knows the cost of turnover.
This was the case for me as well, up until my current employer. At my current employer, I have been consistently getting 30-40% raises each year (mostly in the form of RSUs). I am not sure if this is because the market has changed, or if this is specific to my current employer (probably a bit of both).
I do the same. I won't take a call from recruiters until they tell me the company name and salary range. Both are like pulling teeth with some of the shitty recruiters out there! I'm pretty happy with my good mission, fairly cushy, well paid role, so it'd take a significant pay bump for me to consider leaving, and we're wasting both of our (but mostly my) time if the role won't give me the salary I'd want.
Even if there is no government and no infrastructure, you can still walk. We have had men walk on the moon!
> No, the point was submitting from a known and respectable entity

They weren't, though - their own paper explicitly says they used newly created Gmail addresses for the patches...

"We submit the three patches using a random Gmail account to the Linux community and seek their feedback—whether the patches look good to them."
> Have any of Tesla’s competitors (other than the Ford ~~model t~~ mustang) even shipped yet?

VW's brands (VW/Audi/Porsche) are shipping and leading the market in Europe. Deliveries in the US are ramping up as well.
The market cap at the time was under $50 billion and Tesla was bleeding money, a structured bankruptcy seemed like a real possibility at the time (before the FSD fraud raise).
>NEW DELHI — With a devastating second wave of Covid-19 sweeping across India and lifesaving supplemental oxygen in short supply, India’s government on Sunday said it ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to take down dozens of social media posts critical of its handling of the pandemic.

>The order was aimed at roughly 100 posts that included critiques from opposition politicians and calls for Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to resign. The government said that the posts could incite panic, used images out of context, and could hinder its response to the pandemic.

>The companies complied with the requests for now, in part by making the posts invisible to those using the sites inside India. In the past, the companies have reposted some content after determining that it didn’t break the law.
> Possibly so, but what relevance does this have?

Instead of re-inventing proverbial wheels over and over, we could have done much more if we chose to improve the tools we had at that time.

> We still can do all this with open protocols if we want to.

Yet, we don't. Instead allow web to be centralized and fragmented. At the same time we're trying to decentralize it.

> When I read comments like yours, I read them as a repudiation of pop-culture.

I don't know where you're coming from (I'm not a native English speaker, I can't completely understand what you're trying to do), but I all I can say that, I do not support wasting that much computational power by not-optimizing and/or inventing inferior things and marketing them as superior.

I arrived to this point by hands-on experience. Giving a little more thought to something you develop or just planning a little ahead goes a very very long way in terms of efficiency an performance.

> I don’t see the point in that.

You may not, and I won't judge you for that. However, I see a more capable future with less effort down the road.
Basically the Acela corridor only works because Boston, New York, and Washington DC actually have working subway systems, so when you get dumped off at the train station, you can get somewhere within the city without paying a bajillion dollars in taxis or Ubers.

People also like to point at the German train system, which is very good, but mostly people have the experience of coming into Berlin on it, and again, Berlin has one of the best public transit systems in the world.
Swift Evolution: Actors proposal is accepted with modification
The minority and underrepresented perspective is really important here.

But it takes a while to learn how to evaluate your skills against a particular company's needs, market at large and learn to negotiate. I know few people who were 'brought up [...] to stir the pot'. Talking to people, putting yourself out there, doing research and then finding a workable deal is not something that just comes as a given. But yes, privilege exists.

Having said that, in a competitive market a salary range simply makes a potential employer more trustworthy, and avoids wasting time for both parties.
> don't limit state and local governments ability to collect revenue.

The cap on SALT deductions does no such thing. All it does is cap how much state and local taxes someone can deduct from their federal taxes. State and local governments are still getting their tax revenues. 90% of tax payers were completely unaffected by this change, the remaining 10%, who make up the highest income brackets, paid more federal taxes as they could only deduct $10K of their state and local taxes from their federal taxes.

> increase their taxes

Capping deductions increases their taxes.
This is 100% true, but it's also one of the more difficult things in life to understand. It's one thing to know that other people have other experiences and needs, but it's another to really constantly feel that.

I'd like to see more assumption of positive intent on here, but it's definitely a hard task. I hope I didn't offend the original author here. I tried to ensure that I explained without chastising.
> remote positions that could be performed in Colorado.

This will be interesting. So if a company doesn't explicitly exclude Colorado from their remote job description this applies to them.
Well lets be honest, while we are subject to the forces of nature, this particular time we mostly became a victim of the forces of the Texas devil may care mentality.
Using twitter and the mainstream media are the new scientific sources.
It's not managers. The board sets a budget, the budget gets subdivided, and by the time low-level managers have an opportunity to chime in, an Overton window has been established and I have the power to give a 0-9% raise.

Upper management doesn't have the visibility or the introspection to know one single individual contributor is truly worth 30% more to their business.

I coach my reports to sell themselves. Tell the directors how they individually are adding value to the company. They are completely allowed to speak with higher ups, and usually they're more than willing to take 15 minutes and listen to ICs on virtually any topic they wish to speak about. Then, the directors will remember you when it comes time to making pay decisions. Most engineers are modest, but nobody gets penalized for communicating and highlighting the great work they do.
here's the wafer agreement that i found between TSMC and Altera. there's probably more to this. i think auto maker's chip suppliers didn't sign the wafer agreement with fabs.

" 5.12 ADJUSTMENT IN CAPACITY RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. Unless otherwise
agreed in writing by the Parties, any adjustment in the Buyers' Percentage
Interests which results in a change in their Adjusted Percentage Interests (as
defined in Subsection 1.1.3), shall not become effective for purposes of the
Buyers' Basic Purchase Shares until the thirteenth (13th) week after the date
upon which the adjustment in Percentage Interests occurs pursuant to the LLC
Agreement, and unless agreed otherwise by TSMC and each Buyer under a Purchase
Order, no such adjustment in Percentage Interests, when so effective, shall
operate to cancel, amend or otherwise affect any Purchase Orders accepted by
TSMC prior to the date that such adjustment in Percentage Interests is so
effective."

https://corporate.findlaw.com/contracts/operations/purchase-...
The issue with this comparison is that in scenarios pilots or ship captains use autopilot, collision is extremely improbable compared to that of a car.
Points of view: Color blindness (2011)
"–Up to 20 tons of payload capacity on re-entry
•1,693,500 lbs returned to earth*"

I always find myself laughing when propaganda material like this mixes units for the benefit of sounding more impressive. Capacity of 20 tons, yet they switch to pounds to get a larger number. 1,693,500lbs is only 846.75 tons, which just doesn't sound nearly as impressive.
Most job offers I see have a maximum salary listed and most of the time is not clear what that depends. I’ve even once had it that it is the maximum for the role and that you need to “grow” into it....
I didn't quite understand your point about being straight white male.
Perhaps it's different in the EU but here in SF that is seen as systemic discrimination. But if it is different in the EU, then I won't judge.
Seems like not much of a fix if your code depends on it. In Scheme such behavior would break standard compliance (and lots of programs). And since presumably you'd use this attribute precisely when your code depended on it, disabling it may not be feasible.

Fortunately the patterns generated by such code are no more difficult to debug than simple loops in other languages, so the lack of "history" of your computation seems no more concerning with tail calls than it is with loops (or at least that's how I always looked at it). And people don't seem to be avoiding loops in programming merely for the reason of loops not keeping track of their history for debugging purposes.
Absolutely. I spent forever reverse engineering the format to write a Python parser (https://github.com/microsoft/xcodeproj). It covers the projects I need it to (one in particular is very complex, probably in the top 100 most complex ones out there - I'm sure you can figure out which from my profile). However, there are plenty of areas I had to guess. And this is just for reading, no writing support has been added at this point.
Find the full proposal here: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...
>Contributed by Zack Stieber (Epoch Times)
I'd just point out that this is largely a cultural phenomenon. In some countries it is normal to post everyone's salary (similarly, student grades are posted on the wall after exams).

A lack of transparency really only aids the employer (after all, the employer knows what everyone makes, and with salary comparison services they know exactly how competitive their salaries are).
Can’t wait for him to be officiated as a national hero some time after the statue of limitations for all the things he exposed have passed

Edit: instant downvotes for uncomfortable truths, hello glowies
Article author here. I agree that would be a very englightening benchmark. Protobuf can dump to JSON, so it shouldn't be too much work to dump my benchmark data to JSON and benchmark the parsing with simdjson. Maybe I'll see if I can get this done while this article is still on the front page. :)
Hainan is an island and while a tunnel is planned, the current solution is to ship the rail cars across in a ferry, which creates a bottleneck and makes the line not that fast overall. But it's still pretty convenient, especially if you consider that for most people the alternative wouldn't be a plane but a car, which has the same difficulty crossing the strait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong%E2%80%93Hainan_railw...
Ruby is a dead language and even people attending the conferences know that. That's why people there are playing silly games instead. Most of them probably show up just to see their friends.

There's a huge contingent of Rubyists in denial about the death of Ruby, but all signs point towards it going the way of Perl.

On Tiobe and Github language surveys Ruby has had the biggest and longest drop in popularity of any language they track for years now.
This seems like a generally good thing but also unlikely to become the norm without significant effort. Capitalism, as we practice it currently in America, frequently hinges on exploiting asymmetries of information, so anything that reduces that is generally going against the tide. No one really likes "perfect information" when they are benefitting from the imperfect type.
Try defining that, because you can't. If I go into the store and buy something I didn't go in there for, was I manipulated by seeing it on the shelf? Are promo videos on an online game store "psychological manipulation" because they can make you buy a game you didn't need?
It surprising to me how much of society is adversarial. Game theory is fun but goes boring quickly.
Also it was rather astonishing when Soviets did an autonomous flight of Buran, perhaps the only time it flew.

https://youtu.be/QH0Lo97Hjjc
Agreed. I've been expecting Apple to replace this format with a much more diffable one for years. I doubt that will happen now with the new support for Swift packages and the xed command.
You moved the goal post to encompass elective surgeries and other things.

The argument was: Did the hospitals overflow from Covid?

And they did not overflow anywhere in the world.
Well, it wouldn't fall under this specific proposed law.

I'm not going to guarantee that it wouldn't fall against something else.
Also works good on sites that are not responsive.
What a load of crap - "Feynman is a sexist whose behaviour did undeniable harm". Harm to whom? The women that I assume found that "undeniably harmful behaviour" pleasant enough to willingly sleep with him?

If the author wants to make a statement about personal experience of sexism or harassment in the modern science-workplace - that's fine. Don't shoehorn Feynman into it just to drive clicks and pretend to get offended on behalf of someone else just because of their delicate sensibilities.
It would be helpful if sites could label joke articles given they can be archived and accessed any time
Probably there is no semiconductor shortage. You can still order promptly many advanced electronics that use similar parts quickly, GPUs notwithstanding.

Something happened to the people in China who take 10-100 electronic parts manufactured there and turn them into 1, to deliver to assembly in the auto’s destination for the purposes of tariffs (by reducing the count of imported parts from 100 to 1). Because of the weird mechanics of manufacturing origin, which definitely affects how cars and networking equipment have to be made, this is my hypothesis for why we’re only hearing about these issues from a very narrow set of industries and not others.

In terms of what could have happened my bet is it’s going to be pretty horrible.
Tesla's own chip is fab with Samsung for 14nm and 5nm. Tesla still buy chip from supplier like NXP.
It might be that the Florida law allows for the more self defence. But the linked article is speaking of attacking and driving “into” a crowd. Into means that you are not part of it.

So all I’m saying is that I find the article confusing.
As a North Carolinian, I'm incredibly psyched about this map. Not only because it finally includes an Asheville connection, but because connecting the piedmont cities with high speed rail could be a game changer for job mobilitiy and affordable home ownership in the region. Many people don't realize how dense the population of the NC piedmont is, because it's not localized around one big city. But if you follow that line between Charlotte and Raleigh, you'll actually find about 6.5million people over 11.2k sq miles, which is comparable to Atlanta's 6.5 million over 10.5k sq miles![1]

Right now, the best jobs in the state are divided between Charlotte-area, and Triangle area (Raleigh and Durham). House prices are going up like crazy in those areas, meanwhile the more affordable cities that are outside the range of a comfortable commute to those cities (High Point -> Triangle), (Winston -> Charlotte) can't quite compete with the network effects around banking, healthcare, and tech that are driving the growth in the big areas. Those cities wouldn't actually be a terrible a commute away from Charlotte or The Triangle (45min-1hour in ideal conditions), but traffic during peak hours and constant road construction along those routes would make it miserable.

If there was fast, reliable train service, I could definitely see commuters giving those areas a closer look. Especially since so many jobs these days seem to be less stringent about office time (ie, only go into the office 2x a week).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Crescent
Who also used to be the knackermen back in the day, hence they became knows as the 'knackers'.
Experience isn’t the only variable in determining compensation.

Some companies will simply pay people whatever it takes to convince them to join the company, which results in compensation that’s all over the place.

Some companies have surprisingly uniform compensation, some to the extreme that all developers are paid the same compensation in lock-step. This is usually an attempt to make things fair, but it creates a lot of animosity when people feel they deserve more than their coworkers.

And some times, it really does make sense to hire less experienced people into high-paying roles of their career trajectory looks promising. Hiring isn’t just about selecting for the height of experience on a bar chart. It’s also about looking at the slope. Less experienced employees who are growing very fast are best hired at high salaries, otherwise they’re just going to leave in a year when they grow even more. Conversely, if they fail to grow into the role they might need to be let go to make room for someone more appropriate for the position.

One of the tricky things about teams sharing compensation is that there is almost never a specific ordering of salaries that everyone on the team would agree is appropriate. It’s one of those situations where 80% of people on a team might see themselves as being in the top 20%.

As always, it helps to collect competing offers elsewhere. It helps even more to be prepared to take those offers if they pay more and higher salary is your highest priority.
We (tech people) are replaceable, just that replacing us takes a lot of time, effort and money.

I know it feels like nitpicking, but I never felt that any of the developers were actually hard to replace: it takes some money, time spent on recruiting, interviewing, then training, but in the end, the new people catch up in a matter of months and the resources needed to invest in a replacement can be relatively easily estimated.

I usually don't see that with very good business and product people. When they left the company, the team became demotivated, the lack of company and product vision caused frustration, the company couldn't find a replacement at all, caused turnover. In my experience, good business people leaving is the early sign of the company going south.

The causation can go in both directions, though: 1. product and business people are the first to see if a product/business model isn't working out, so they leave. 2 they leave, then they can't be replaced, replacement is only half as good, people quit because of lack of vision, things go even worse, more people quit, company has to shut down.
How is it possible that you don't know what disgust is?
Aren’t protobufs supposed to be faster than JSON?

I mean congrats but it doesn’t seem that impressive given JSON has been parsing at that speed for years.
You're definitely right that I got Tesla's described goal wrong.

That said, I don't think self-driving system has come close to "better than human" yet, so my point still stands.

Some may do better in limited circumstances, but nothing even comes close to handling the range of weather and weird roadway conditions that humans can.
Anyone aware of an alternative with PG instead of Mongo?
AI system that searches for most addictive setting of various levers in supposedly free-to-play game, in order to raise the amounts of in-game purchases made by end users.
I still use Heroku for almost all my personal projects. I stopped for a while, but they now allow you to dockerize your projects and push them to their registry. They also allow you to have multiple apps with access to shared resources. Those two changes have made it much more flexible than it was back in the early days.

You never realize how much configuration of AWS is like pulling teeth until you stop.
“Play favorites” is probably a poor choice of phrases. I meant that OP can tell if they are being treated unfairly.
Damn, I'm from ex-USSR but even we never had this kind of stuff (Russia did, however).

Bribes, intimidation and murder happened quite often (and still does), but it's hidden, few dare to do it out in the open, in broad daylight and/or with rifles/explosives.

Silver lining of the police being the biggest gang, heh.
A university for the privileged embracing toxic libertarianism? Color me shocked.
I play a brown noise video on Youtube to mask sounds and get an hour more of sleep. Thankfully no ads so far.