skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True.

And the newspaper's quite refreshingly and frankly open about that fact:

And now we beg to submit the following detail of the plans which we have thoroughly organised to carry into effect these objects of our ardent desires, in the following PROSPECTUS of a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called THE ECONOMIST, which will contain— First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country....

<https://www.economist.com/unknown/1843/08/05/prospectus>

(I'm not claiming support or opposition of the viewpoint. Only that the Economist has a view and explicitly promotes it, quite openly.)
This is an egregious over simplification of religious belief. I think most religious people are absolutely not 100% sure. That's why faith is such a big topic, and why philosophers and theologians have written about faith, the existence of god, whether it can be proven, etc. for centuries.

Besides, aren't all your actions based on beliefs that are are less than 100% certain? I don't know that the line of code I'm writing is going to compile, or that the company I'm working for isn't going to go under tomorrow, or that the relationships I'm investing time into are going to last forever, but I'm certain enough that I proceed with them. Believing in God isn't so different.
Maybe the takeaway is that organizations may (fairly, imho) try to limit the toxicity when people initiate he said/she said accusations in public without having all the facts.
It wasn't what you said, but how you said it:

> I would like you to email me your contact information so that I never end up working anywhere near you. My email is in my profile.

I agreeing with the point you are making in that comment. However, I would happily flag any comment that makes disagreements unnecessarily personal in such a manner. It is the type of non-productive discourse that drags the whole conversation down.
I concur with the parent comment. A lot of these groups show such a deep religious fervour to their "ideology", that any slight disagreement to them on any topic is not allowed. They will hound you out, suppress your opinion if you don't subscribe to the groupthink.

Twitter is a pain to use because of this behaviour, I wouldn't want the culture in my workplace to be like it.
To be clear, I think it's way more important for Walmart to nail online shopping than vice versa, but clearly Amazon feels having a physical presence is important.
Clausewitz, Nonlinearity and the Unpredictability of War (1992)
This is an exchange and banking problem. Someone somewhere is allowing these terrorists to cash out. Find the bank (or country hosting it), cut them off from SWIFT, and apply sanctions until they stop funding terrorism.

Cryptocurrency, like the Internet, is merely the medium.
Russia wants to project power by standing by its neighbor but finds that doing so isn’t making a meaningful difference
As an outsider, I see no real reason to believe that this guy is not just as deserving of a vaccine as anybody else. It's hard to express how judgmental this post is.

Imagine you're browsing HackerNews and you see that there's a controversy. So, you instantly associate one side with "the plight of underprivileged Oakland residents" and the other side with "Greedy bourgeoisie colonizer." Because it's completely obvious who is in the wrong, you proceed to type this comment.
I agree. I'd say the vast majority of any mentoring I've gotten hasn't been technical. It's been more along the lines of "this how to manage your work in Jira." Or softer skills like learning how to prioritize tasks given the org goals.

But covid hit when I was maybe 6 months into my tech career, and I honestly don't feel like it had any negative impact. All of these things were transmitted just as effectively in a zoom call as they were in person.
It’s great to see they are brutally honest with themselves, I didn’t expect anything else.

Walmart’s problem is with urban and close urban centers. Their image in these areas is in the dumpster. I don’t know how they can improve it either. The one thing that could help is to throw their color palette out and pick a vibrant one. Their stores look really dull.
Pretty silly take. APIs supplement RPA, they don’t “disrupt” it. Additionally, most B2B companies outside of tech-land have 0 interest in creating APIs. Are you going to wait for the API that never comes, or do RPA?

Also the whole “chrome has no API” is wrong. Ever heard of selenium or puppeteer?
Most of those environmentalists, strong though their convictions may be, wouldn't give up almond milk lattes, organic fusion sushi, constant social media, fast reliable internet, and all the other trappings of cosmopolitan hipster life, at least not for more than a few days.
That rat is a mensch.
Maybe the banks should upgrade to trustless systems then? On the otherhand they just should face that they trusted the wrong parties and go bankrupt otherwise the incentive system gets rigged (thats where we ended up nowadays)
The divide by zero in this case is handled by a virtual CPU implemented in the hypervisor, not the actual physical CPU on the server.
>You are literally comparing things with ( in 1 post): China, covid, dictatorship, serial killers, censorship, educational creationism, biology in schools, ...

Those are called examples. Examples in service of helping to illustrate a point that is still on topic.

You on the other hand wanted to talk about things that were never remarked upon or even true. I never said anything about how dang should stop moderating anything. You brought that up out of nowhere. Hence. Off topic.

>As I said before: chill.
>Ps. Still useless content :)

Then stop replying. Stop being rude. There's no point if it's useless for you.
They could have been Sears, but they haven't made it far enough. They're doing enough to survive, but they're acting reactively, not proactively, to a changing environment. They will never come close to exceeding Amazon's level of innovation, for better or for worse. I think pointing to Jet detracts from their progress, given the Jet acquisition was a complete flop. They're fighting with everything they've got. But not even Walmart can truly compete. It's unclear if its talent, a leadership issue, the company's brand, or what exactly is holding Walmart back. I suppose that's good for Walmart: a lot of the elements look right to position them well. They just haven't figured it out 100%.
> You can neuter it with JTAG

At the risk of having a non-functional processor and probably sub optimal reliability.

The statement on Wikipedia is accurate. Whether you trust the information or not is neither here nor there. Several sources back up the assertion. Further down, it adds that even Google itself tried to get rid of ME and couldn't.
I agree, most people seem to be getting into a field, that they really like seeing themselves in. Either due to fame, money, passion, social pressure, status, role model, sticking to it..

Instead they should be getting into a field they enjoy working in. That is physically sitting down, do the work and enjoy putting in the hours.

That's the only "productivity hack" you need.
Why would that be the case? Can you elaborate?
I don't think it's cumbersome. After doing stuff long enough you get to the point when you realize you can't know everything, you are not perfect, and more importantly, NO ONE IS.
I am extroverted and I never want to go back to an office again.

Yes some people need the office to socialize, but I personally have probably a few too many hobbies and probably an oversized Dunbar number. I really don't need office culture "perks" playtime.

I strongly feel that hobbies and community are the answer, not onsite white collar office work, lol.
Uniquely talentless when it comes to existing in space

Brilliant turn of phrase!
Windows 11 is coming – Here’s everything we know
> I wonder how much the $5 billion sunk cost from the new(ish) office has to do with this,

On whatever day of the week one cares to look, Apple’s market value crosses 2 trillion dollars. As of January this year, Apple has nearly 200 billion cash on hand. [0] I won’t even bother to cite how long it takes Apple to earn 5 billion in profit, but I’m guessing much less than the 15 months since lockdown began in Mar 2020.

In other words, 5 billion sunk cost is probably not the reason Apple brass continues to be conservative about WFH with respect to their corporate peers.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/apple-q1-cash-hoard-heres-ho...
It’s not hopeless though? If they can devise ways to test for this fourth dimension then even if they find nothing it’s at least one more thing we know isn’t dark matter.
xeyes too
Regular caffeine consumption affects (temporarily) brain structure
What malicious stuff did it do?
How are credit cards not the most terrible thing ever? Some random number with an expiry date and an additional number is the key to your wealth (subject to a lot of terms and conditions)? I would rather go with a cryptography based solution, where all the terms and conditions are open source code, all day
Not everyone is going to agree on the best available knowledge because not everyone has the same goals.
A fair definition would be: a job is bullshit if when someone stops "doing it" there is minimal or positive effect on the economic output.

And here is an article arguing that jobs are legitimate as long as people "feel useful". Well, this is precisely the problem. They fill offices with workers because it feels good to have subordinates. Responsibility is part of the career reward system, and people derive their identities from jobs and careers.

(I see Graeber used a different definition ...)
I kinda feel like this is something DARPA and the NSF should really be working on. Like, why can't we have an OS and programming environment where it's straightforward to prove basic end-to-end security properties before runtime, like "this data has a `sensitive` type, and thus cannot be written to any potentially-persistent I/O facility?". I'd love it if that was something that my command shell could statically verify for me before running a job, for example.
As a Mormon[1], this is interesting. Not because I disagree, necessarily, I certainly see the similarity between Wokeness and religion. But I think an anthropologist would see a difference. At the heart of the experience of being a Mormon (and presumably other religions, though I'm most familiar with this one) is belief in a Prophet (capital P) and a collection of scripture. If you ask any Mormon who the Prophet is, they'll tell you, and they'll all give the same answer. So, who is the prophet of Woke, and what are the scriptures?

1 Culturally, at least, if not really religiously. I'm about as much of a Mormon as Larry David is a Jew.

EDIT: the article linked does partially answer my question:

> There is what we could think of as a triple-Testament tome, consisting of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist. A box set of the three would take its place on coffeetables and mantlepieces nationwide.
Tons of people DO speak out against it. I'm gay and I never read r/LGBT because it's such a shit-show of radical conformity. r/ainbow was started basically as a revolt against r/LGBT mods, and there are other places like r/gaybros and r/gaymers.

r/LGBT basically got taken over by shitty mods, all they really have going for them at this point is their easily searchable name.
Its very much like religion, and also involves unwavering adherence to dogma that must be blindly accepted and is heresy to question.
Depends what you mean by meritocracy.

I'm okay with spending resources in an inefficient way if it helps the poor. I'm less okay with bringing back hereditary aristocracy. I'm very much not okay with Harrison Bergeron.
0. it will be boring & irrelevant

1. you all have to suffer two weeks fake manufactured hype about shit tons of extra padding & rounded corners before release
Hm, is there a theory of pricing ease-of-transfer ? Of course, it would have to depend on the preferences and whatnot, but still, seems like something that there should be some good theory of, but I haven’t heard of one.

Side note: Aren’t there tokens that sort of have a kind of stored gas? Like, you can cash it in to get a refund of some of the gas cost of the transaction?
> They will never come close to exceeding Amazon's level of innovation, for better or for worse

Amazon stopped innovating as a store 5-10 years ago. Nothing has meaningfully changed for the better and things have gotten worse on the front of fake reviews and counterfeit products.

Amazon spent its innovation on AWS, which is not even the same industry Walmart is operating in.
Sadly xroach appears to be missing from debian. A quick search indicates the source is encumbered somehow. Xeyes is still there though
Me or the parent?
You mean employee uniforms?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27293266

Again about what to do when missing or conflicted metadata is available. :)
Wow it is really amazing how gold, the biggest scam of all times, is still finding people to scam nowadays. Or is there some value to limited goods?
Love the project. nostalgia++
>It's very odd to me. I've seen people directly telling leadership that we are overworked, that schedules are impossible, that we need to work on group morale, etc - and it very obviously meant nothing to the leaders. You could almost see the words washing over them and leaving nothing behind and indeed, nothing ever came from complaints or feedback like that (so far as I could tell). And yet, if a NYT reporter writes a single article, instant and dramatic reaction.

This shouldn't really surprise you. Mass media are essentially the arbiters of morality. Whether what they publish is factually true or not, the perception will change accordingly. Your "leaders" and co-workers don't have that kind of power.
the file is obviously wrong
Can anyone with subject matter expertise please explain whether or not this will have any practical effect on the Belarussian regime?
Have you looked into decentralised alternatives like aave? I tried using blockfi, nexo and celcius. All three made withdrawing such a hassle. Repeat identity verification, mandatory 24 hour waiting period etc. I got fed up and turned to aave.
It makes Putin a happy panda, Russia's buffer zone has now been set in concrete.
I dont like that simply quoting the top comment on the website gains you downvotes.
I thought it would be the opposite?
> But a religious person is wired in a way were they are unable to admit this fact.

This religious person can. I am not 100% on anything via reason, I just don’t think reason is the only way of knowing. I can’t be certain that my dad loves me via reason but I know he loves me via human faith because I know my father, I don’t simply know about him. Authentic Christian faith in God is similar to that.

Thankfully not all non-religious people are wired to make such sophomoric sweeping generalizations as you.
I personally haven’t seen a Walmart greeter smile since they had smiley stickers.
My Ideal Engineering Organization
None of which sadly make it into routine vet practice.

I’m keeping rats of over 5 years now, and even the treatment options at one of the most experienced rat vets in the area feel just above medieval.

There are basically 5 medications that are tried (NSAIDs, antibiotics, bronchiodialators and diuretics, cortisol) based on the presumed diagnosis, and easily located tumors can be operated on (depending on the skill of the vet).

Our vet aptly described the state of the art in veterinary care for rats as knowing the LD50 dose of all medications for rats, but there being nearly no literature or experience on therapeutic doses. Through trial and error vets have developed therapeutic protocols for rats over the last decades, but the speed it’s been going at is slow and availability of medicine in the right dosages scarce (rats are tiny after all). Just now we’re going through treatment of a respiratory issue where the medicine of choice is no longer being produced, and our main option after the vet uses up her remaining 2 vials is to start experimenting with dosing for a yet unknown in rats (aside from LD50) replacement medicine.

For what it’s worth, the rats in this article are gambian pouched rats which have life expectancies of around 5-7 years, vs. 1.5 - 2.5 years for domestic fancy rats.
They can play the kick drum without any noticeable accompanying "dunnn" sound, which is enough to tell that their distortion must be extraordinarily low. In fact the people who said they "yes, they make sound" may dislike them for their dryness.
Occams razor has nothing to do with that, as your phone screen has better image quality than the best TV screens a few decades ago.
And that is my last reply, do it yourself if you care about measurements, you'd probably say I faked them anyway.
these are good questions but assuming the progenitors of systems need to have fully accurate crystal balls & think hard & then engineer perfect systems is pathetic.

we have to assume most systems are bad & insufficient from the start & no matter how much we improve & fix them that the core system be behind the curve. it's a moral societal necessity to build open protocols to let evolution & change happen in non-authoritarian forms. limited software is unethical.

this article preaching that you just need to think real hard & make sure you never make mistakes can stuff it.
My first thought whenever I hear how much effort and time is spent on all this drama, especially in large companies, is "how do these people have any time to do actual work?"

Part of me honestly considered getting a job at some Woke Megacorp because I figured I'd have at least a couple extra hours to myself everyday where other folks were involved in internal forum wars.
Glassdoor grossly underreports the range of tech salaries to the point of being useless.

Something tells me only people who feel insecure about their pay report it to Glassdoor...

Point being, Glassdoor data is so incomplete that I don’t think you can meaningfully compare even two companies on it. Especially if they have different comp structures.
This. I do the same and this works best for me.
Is this eliminated class of bugs just generally the ones that aren't caught by tests but could be caught by static type annotations, or was there a discussion of the kinds of bugs that had some convincing details?
Also if you go back and read the software engineering conferences proceedings from 1968 and 1969, David Parnas' classic 1970s papers, and other instances of this foundational material, you realise that except that we have faster computers, higher-level languages, and version control, software engineering really hasn't changed since then.

We're still struggling with team organisation, verifying features with users before building them, choosing proper abstractions, testing for reliability and understanding, resource management, documentation, modeling the domain clearly, prototyping the right way, and so on.

All the actually difficult things today are just the same as they were 40--50 years ago.

While on the surface things look like they move quickly, what makes one a good software engineer is the same as it's always been.

Good software engineering is not about today's favourite technology. It's about building things that work and which people actually need. That is a hard-earned skill and you don't get it by chasing shiny things.
But zero-sum work is real. This includes much of advertising.
My only experience with mescaline came from an extract of San Pedro cacti(or was it Bolivian Torch?). 12 wonderful hours of open eye visuals with very little body effects, nausea, or thought disturbances. I ate pepperoni pizza, something I'd never attempt on LSD. 10/10 and the Cadillac of psychedelics, without question.

But unlike psilocybin, which leaves me mostly energized, or LSD which leaves me a little crazy brained and raw, the cactus left me feeling burned out and slightly... Dumb. It's a feeling that took months to fade away, if ever. I still worry I lost some capacity and I'm worried to try it again. Was it the mescaline, or some other alkaloid still present in my crude extract? I suppose I'll never know, but I'm curious if anyone else ever felt this.
That is only true when using a web browser or some other software you cannot easily control. I wrote a script to read Twitter without Javascript, without a web browser. Text-only, as it should be (280 chars of text)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056734
G7: Rich nations confident on reaching tech tax deal
> There’s also two type checker implementations.

Four: Mypy, Pyre, Pyright and Pytype.
I think the most valuable thing that makes bitcoin efficient for transactions is its cheap verifiability in comparison to gold where there is a long history of counterfeiting. Additionally Bitcoin is easier to transfer (in most cases) and harder to confiscate
What the hell is "water concentrate"?
Federal judge rules California's ban on assault weapons unconstitutional
A number of examples come to mind, but the most prominent is the Red Scare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
One of the pycon type talks was about type checking json. TypedDict or pydantic can both be used to deal with that fairly well now. For a complex json sure the type might be long but write it once and used the typeddict name after that. It feels similar to needing to write protobut def/thrift def. Some of the json I even work with is given a spec with protobuf and loaded that way which gives you type support. protobuf can generate python type stubs with mypy-protobuf. One practical annoyance is many libraries that use protobuf generated code don't currently include type stubs with them. I currently just make the stubs myself, but that is something most people would probably get stuck on and just needs more libraries to update the build scripts to include them in wheels.

XML could have a similar approach although I'm not sure if anyone has done it already.

Second talk (30 minute mark) of this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9rwCvGdhc
> When I hire people, I generally look for people who don’t accept the status quo as inherently right and try to solve problems.

There are limits to this aren’t there? I too am a fan of contrarianism, but at some point — depending entirely on the context and the role of the employee — self-indulgent contrarianism becomes counterproductive.
It could be worse:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2012/04/startup_weekend_...
I'm a native English speaker, and I see nothing wrong with "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". It's a movie title, for Pete's sake.

I assume you are saying it should have been "Honey, I Shrank the Kids". Please correct me if I misunderstood you.

Yes, I know the technically correct usage of "shrank" and "shrunk". But let's take off our grammarian hats for a moment and say each one out loud a few times.

"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" rolls off the tongue, while "Honey, I Shrank the Kids" just seems... odd to me. You may disagree.

If you actually shrank your kids, and you were in a panic and rushed to tell your honey about it, would you be concerned about correct grammar, or just getting the message across?

One might even argue that the incorrect use of "shrunk" helps convey this sense of panic.

Movie titles are not required to follow "correct" English grammar, any more than newspaper headlines. They should be memorable and fun to say when you tell your friends about a movie you enjoyed.

p.s. I've never been sure who Pete is, but I hear he has a very fine bottle of sake. If we ask him real nice, maybe he will let us try a sip!
Quite poetic! Can thou elaborate?