skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the sound of that.

Heck, everything should be like that.

Throw away political parties and celebrity popularity contests as leadership selection too.

Pick a professional from any of various fields at random to serve as a public administrator in each office for a year as a civic duty. No more ambitious careerist popularity-seekers, no celebrities taking office for their self-interests, no more rich people buying politicians, no more PACs, and no more pointless elections to choose between crappy corporate candidates.
> I can develop an architecture that is way beyond anything he can do, but it’s worthless, if he can’t write stuff that uses it.

A line from another article posted to HN today I remembered is:

"An API without a reference implementation and command-line client is called a gray box."

I totally agree with that. If your API/SDK has an easy way for me to copy/paste some code or command line examples to "play" with it, I'm about 1000% more likely to take it seriously.
This is the reason everyone is getting so many fraudulent calls and text messages right now. Criminals only need a hundredths of a percent success rate to make it worth their time.

Turns out, as humans are about to die, in order to reduce cognitive load, they become more trusting and are vastly more susceptible to fraud.
These kiosks miss very basic use cases. There's no equivalent to the verbal "can I have a (free) cup of water with the meal" on a McDonald's kiosk UI. You can purchase bottled water, however.
I think I understand the point you’re trying to make, but I don’t understand this formulation: “you can’t be an immigrant”. It sounds like you are, by definition, an immigrant. I wonder if this statement would more accurately capture the truth: “I realised that my experience is not aligned with some dominant popular narratives of immigrant life”. Or even: “generalisations of the immigrant experience are fraught”.

If people are telling you that you can’t “complain or comment” on your experience.. I’d suggest questioning what kind of people you are calling your friends.
Democracies do tend to have rules preventing military action at home, yes. And they also tend to sign on to things like human rights treaties, that say arbitrarily killing people (even foreigners breaking the law) is not ok.
It's part of a legal document. Beliefs about it are another matter.
As a direct response to the original post, it mentions 20% returns and doesn't seem to treat that as an outlier. That would indicate some serious inflation somewhere.
Nopes, they also earn $99 / year - https://developer.apple.com/support/purchase-activation/ ...
There is another variable in what it takes to be paid enough - conditions. Minimium wage for a convenience store clerk job while in college where you can openly study may be enough money from the nice side benefits and fits into your schedule.

A $25/hr job working in a sewage plant which certainly does not isolate the smell, unpredictable shifts, calls for unclogging human waste with an obnoxious arrogant, micromanaging asshole boss with rage issues? Not enough money.
You asked which would one select. I choose the right to exist with my rights intact. Personally, I feel that the alternative isn't life or an existence worth living.
Well, that was 40 years ago. And also, you don't launch Exocet missiles against commercial ships...
It's a little dated now, but all your friends who were constitutional scholars last month are epidemiologists this month.

I agree that it seems to be a new phenomenon and i think it's partly social media but also our tendency to be always online. We see so many headlines and hot takes that it feels like actual knowledge.
> we don’t have many long term measurements, so we make (educated-ish) guesses

Out of curiosity, what are some examples of these measurements/guesses you are referring to?
Ask questions. Like, How does this work in that scenario? What if it fails on high traffic? If their idea is flawed they themselves will understand it. Then we can propose our approach. Encourage them to ask questions. This will help to find gaps in our approach. Who knows, sometimes we were wrong in the first place.

Edit: typo.
It's just as illegal (and immoral) to execute people before arresting them as after.
US unemployment isn’t particularly high though. It’s higher than 2019, but 2019 is literally a low bar in terms of unemployment. Even after the pandemic, which isn’t completely over, the unemployment rate is much lower than it was in 2009.
It has, but it quite clearly recognizes it as genocide currently.

"So, let me be crystal clear: the first genocide of the 20th century is no different. What happened in the Ottoman Empire to the Armenians beginning in 1915 was genocide. The genocide began with the ruling government arresting and executing several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, Armenian families were removed from their homes and sent on death marches. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre and starvation.

What happened to the Armenian people was unequivocally genocide.

We believe that remembering and educating about any genocide – Armenian, the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda, and others is a necessary tool to prevent future tragedies."

https://www.adl.org/blog/adl-on-the-armenian-genocide

"In 2007, Abraham Foxman came under criticism for his stance on the Armenian genocide. ADL had previously described it as a "massacre" and an "atrocity", but not as a "genocide".[134] Foxman had earlier opposed calls for the US Government to recognise it as a "genocide".[135]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#Armenia...
This happens to every question into which people are so emotionally invested that even discussing any modifications or alternatives seriously is painful for them.

That is, when it's a part of one's identity, like religion, or [list other protected classes here].

Maybe in 2009 people around pg were not emotionally invested in JavaScript so much. Like,they were more professional, or maybe just still preferred Lisp and didn't care about JS much.

In any way, the whole thread here just illustrates the pg's point, which only grew stronger since 2009.
System -> Languages & input -> Autofill service

Not sure if MIUI was organised differently.
No one is happy with the American Healthcare System unless you have America's exclusive socialized Healthcare, Tricare. You're also calculating it off of part time hours.
> Why this may be the case is something I’m not sure of.

Simple: Facebook
> One hears markedly less from the A.C.L.U. about free speech nowadays. Its annual reports from 2016 to 2019 highlight its role as a leader in the resistance against President Donald J. Trump. But the words “First Amendment” or “free speech” cannot be found.

I find it incredibly ignorant that this article (or anyone here for that matter) fails to mention the name George Soros. The dude literally did a hostile takeover of the ACLU a few years back in the form of overly-generous donations[1].

The ACLU isn't "facing an identity crisis", it's been strategically taken over to push a divide-and-conquer strategy within America. Notice how everything they do nowadays is focused around heated "us vs them" topics? This isn't a mistake, or a natural byproduct...it's 100% by design. Not really sure what the end-goal is, but the ACLU's current agenda (and most of George Soros funded organizations) is clearly to get everyone in America to hate each other.

[1] https://nonprofitquarterly.org/50-million-soros-grant-to-fun...
Happens for people leaving the USA (and other countries) too. They're not immigrants, they're ex-pats!
It seems like theorem provers are where all the action should be, but oddly isn’t
FAANGs/multinationals have offices in Europe. Even more rarely they have them in Asia/Oceania.

Outside that, the happy developers I know are self employed as consultants or own app businesses.

There’s also video game studios around the world in many places other software companies don’t exist. I think this is a very interesting trend but not sure if it pays well.
Why Build Toys?
Changing a variable and resuming execution isn't the hard part. The hard part is what happens when the resumed execution wants to, e.g., read from a socket. That socket doesn't exist in the replay. What would you do?
The fundamental problem, as you've described in 1) and reiterated in your conclusion lays bare a, mostly unspoken, fundamental societal injustice that's common to many countries.

It really feels like protectionism for the status quo. Which is totally understandable and predictable in the context of basic human behaviour and motivations; the king of the hill will not make it easy for anyone to displace them.

What I find interesting, as opposed to surprising as such, is the myriad ways in which politicians explain these situations away in simultaneously calling the slap-on-the-wrist a big deterrent to such behaviour in future, and playing this slap-on-the-wrist as if it's somehow in the interests of the voting population.
>Am I being naive?

Yes.

>Unfortunately, new revelations suggest that the Biden Justice Department not only allowed these disturbing intrusions to continue — it intensified the government‘s attack on First Amendment rights before finally backing down in the face of reporting about its conduct.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/06/fred-ryan...
No, it's a very real difference. Do I think this is an important part of who I am, or a random happenstance? If I were attracted to different people, would that make me a different person, in an important way?

Realising/deciding that it wasn't actually important to me what sexuality people perceived me as eliminated a lot of stress and conflict, personally.
By choosing to "exist with your rights intact" you're choosing both, so you haven't answered the question. Which would you prefer if you could only have one: Life, or Freedom of Speech?

Could you explain to me how you'd exercise freedom of speech, while dead?
Yeah. I kind of alluded to that in another part of the comment tree. In fact, I have bought food from the McDonalds in the main Copenhagen train station.
> This is because conceptual association is not statistical association. In such texts the conceptual association is "standing for", "opposing", "suffering from", "in need of". Not "likely to occur with".

The better GPT gets, the wronger you will probably be. Why a machine wouldn't be able to abstract conceptual associations from a statistical framework?
No the disagreement doesn’t make it inherently make it low value, and I personally don’t downvote purely for disagreement, but for disagreement with argument methods wether I agree with the positions or not.
Second this. Burnout isn't about the amount of work you're doing, it's about being in an extractive/exploitative relationship with the work.
> A PhD is generally an economic disaster.

At the same time, there are a number of perks that come with getting a Ph.D. that are hard to get without one. For instance in my job as a lecturer, which requires a Ph.D. for the position:

- I only work 9 months out of the year, and I'm paid a salary most people don't earn over 12.

- I get 9 weeks paid vacation each year (5 weeks between fall and spring semester, 2 weeks at the end of spring semester, 1 week in the fall semester, 1 week in the spring semester).

- I only work 4 days a week during regular semesters. Of those 4 days I work maybe 4-5 hours a day.

- I can choose to work over the summer semester if I want more money, or I can just take off for 3 months.

- I don't really have a boss. The department chair is essentially just another faculty member who fills the role for a while. If I wanted to I could even step up and do it for a couple of years. But other than getting my classes assigned to me, I'm completely autonomous. There's no one monitoring when I come to campus or when I leave. As long as I show up to class, no one cares.

- I have the option to go for tenure which gives me unparalleled job security.

- I get an assistant to whom I can offload the more boring parts of my job (grading).

- I get full tuition for myself if I or any of my dependents want to take classes. This more than makes up that $250k if I want to put my kids through school at my institution.

- I can spend 20% of my time contracting for extra income. I've found people pay a premium for the Ph.D. after your signature for things like expert testimony, credential evaluation, and tutoring (rich people who want their kid to get into a top college will pay $300 per hour for a tutor with a Ph.D.).

- I have access to a campus community including the libraries, fabrication labs, gyms, pools, cafeterias. You might find these at large tech companies, but you typically won't also find a theatre, sporting events, and concerts right outside your office.

- I don't have to work in a high cost of living tech hub. My job is in-demand basically everywhere in the world. If I want to move for a year I can be a visiting professor somewhere else for a while and come back.

I don't know of any other job that's really comparable, and a Ph.D. is a hard prereq. More than worth the early economic hit in my opinion.
Et Tu, Brute?: Review of Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder
As you said, this is from 2007. It is useful to see the impact of volume on price. See below the remark about a 2" E Ink display costing 2 grand.

"At this stage, some of the products based on E Ink’s technology are little more than expensive gimmicks, such as Seiko’s limited-edition e-paper watch (priced at over $2,000)."

Compare that with today and a 6" Kindle display costing under $100. A 20x reduction in cost.

It reinforces his next point about the complex relationship between price and volume. If I had to guess what moved the needle on price of E Ink displays, I'd have to say it was Jeff Bezos for being willing to put down a commitment to buying a large amount of panels which then allowed the manufacturer to scale up their production lines in order to reach that level of cost reduction.

"
Q: What are the current obstacles facing mass adoption of e-paper technology?

A: The main obstacle is price. Our research shows that the cost of an e-paper-based reader has to fall to under $100 before a significant percentage of the population will buy one. Even then, they will only buy if suitable content is available at a reasonable cost. The second obstacle is availability of content.
"
Or distrust factual claims by people on Reddit until/unless you track things back to primary sources that you can review. Same goes for traditional news.
I don't see how that's any different than what GP was talking about
That is a ridiculous comparison.

A business going under is very ethically different from people starving and being homeless.

As a result, the people who own and operate businesses have a choice to decline business in a manner that people in poverty don't.

That lack of choice prevents markets from functioning property. You seem to be advocatibg removing that choice.
You likely have lots of colleagues that never completed a CS degree.
It is very clear that people are collecting unemployment until it runs out. Sure, this implies an unstable situation and a job will eventually need to be found, but what could possibly be the rush? Summer is here, its beautiful out, if you're making full paycheck on unemployment then WHY would you possibly want to jump into a low end job?

Wages will temporarily increase, but once things return to normal and we no longer subsidize unemployment as we presently are, I would assume the glut of job supply will go down. This will likely spur further investment in automation or other ways to reduce business reliance on labor, especially at very large scale.
> By far the best way to get a raise is to find another job you like, get the offer, then give your boss the chance to match.

Don't do this--especially if you like your boss.

Invoking "job offer match" machinery is a royal pain in the ass for your boss. If there's a solid chance you'll turn it down anyway, you've just pissed off your boss for no good reason. Just give notice.

It's better to simply leave on good terms saying "It's just a really good opportunity" which blocks match offers but leaves open the door to come back in a couple of years for a much higher salary.

And, if they can't take that, well, then you probably don't want to be working there anyway.
According to the BLS current population survey (CPS), the unemployment rate for Texas fell 0.2 percentage points in April 2021 to 6.7%. The state unemployment rate was 0.6 percentage points higher than the national rate for the month.

According to the BLS current population survey (CPS), the unemployment rate for Kentucky fell 0.3 percentage points in April 2021 to 4.7%. The state unemployment rate was 1.4 percentage points lower than the national rate for the month.

So much for your anecdote. Unemployment in Texas is way higher than in Kentucky.
They might have terrible UX but the human cashier has even worse UX, especially if you want to customize your order, or want to know what customization are available.
I’m confused by this thread because a PM is not a manager. Their job is more like a cheerleader, where they don’t have any power and you don’t have to listen to them (unless your actual manager delegates to them).

For some of them this does turn into just asking why you’re not done yet.
In the same vein of deadly water features that look innocuous, I think the Strid in England is up there:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bolton-strid
Part of the issue is that some of the public facing high risk jobs, like line cook, are hard to fill because the people who filled them are fucking dead. Of Covid.
>The NRA supports the rights of all individuals to own gubs.

Except for the Black Panthers.

https://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...
I think the lack of solid guarantees for optimizations is enough to downgrade it a little past "perfectly fine"
> The mechanism by which the cells are copied does involve DNA, but it and the proteins involved are an implementation detail.

Well, yes, anything inside the cell is, when modeled as an object, an implementation detail. External behavior is all that matters.

What always strikes me funny about prototypal inheritance is that it seems like a special case of composition, one that just happens to do all the necessary delegation for you.

In the case of the cell, I can model mitosis by having the two cells name their parent as the prototype, or I can define in the code that they're composed of the same stuff and delegate method calls the same way. The end result is the same, but composition is more flexible.

In JavaScript, prototypes have less boilerplate, but it's possible to have a language that eliminates most of the boilerplate for delegation as well (see Kotlin's delegation feature [0])

What do I gain by using a prototype instead of composition with delegation?

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/delegation.html
Gross of other people to tell you who you are. I hope you swiftly told them to F off.
The article mentions Brier score is just mean squared error, so it's connected to binomial through that (e.g. where correct prediction is 1, incorrect is 0, it is the mean of the binomial).
Without specialization you sometimes end up reinventing the wheel, poorly. Like, a page of Python code instead of 5 lines of SQL.
> In older, harsher, times, this was done by literally murdering people,

In past times, nonviolent forms of 'cancelling' that would seem familiar to us today were also employed. It was/is called 'shunning.' Our modern term is just a euphemism for that.
I wonder how much it would've helped if the site was not python. The same thing can be replicated with just nginx something like this:

location /remote_addr {
default_type text/plain;
return 200 "$remote_addr\n";
}

It's possible to add rate limit there too to control some of the abuse, of course you could even go further and develop native program that's optimized just for this use case (as well as being a simple HTTP server).
Yes, it does. Socialism does not accept the premise of private ownership of the "means of production", but most private property isn't in that set.
send it to 23 and me
Both or none. Death.

Are you being pedantic to win an internet debate or really trying to understand other perspectives?

Edit: The thing you keep missing though is that one cannot choose. I have the right by default. I can choose not to exercise my rights, but by living I have the right to speech.
"Wants prosecution" seems like a much more accurate headline. "Tempts" makes it seem like the US is considering it, and that they haven't for the four years since the release shows they're unlikely to.
The cost of doing accessibility is the cost of doing accessibility testing. If you're not actually testing your accessibility work, using a button instead of a div is pissing in the wind.
I guess I would ask a hypothetical-pg to define his idea of a "fruitful" discussion. I'll trust that he (and other VCs) would share my belief in the collective-objectivity of subjective human realities and aren't just having discussions on how to make as much money as possible :)
> “I didn’t think it was okay for my boss to take our young female employees home if they got drunk at our office party”

Since this is usually openly against the rules in nearly any company, of doesn't even take identifying with anything, it just takes following instructions.

Also, while you keep your identity small, reducing it to zero might not be the wisest approach.
Hey there just wanted to say : not everyone in America thinks like this. there is this strange brand of modern racism where people reduce everything down to a race issue even when it is not. Ergo immigrant = not white. Same type of people that will claim that a given communities lack of resources is because it is a black community, ignoring that the community is poor and that there is a white community not 20 miles away with the exact same problems.

Ironically, this seems to come from highly educated individuals whom I suspect have never 1) been to a third world country, off the resort 2) lived in a financially struggling household 3) worked an honest day of manual labor ever.

Kibda got off in a rant there, but just wanted to say, fuck anyone who says "you can pass" when you say your an immigrant. If you want to call them out in language their indoctrinated brains can understand, say "are you denying my lived-experience?"

I suspect if you make your way closer to the midwest you will meet less of these people, and more people who treat you like just another person and couldn't give a fuck how you identify.

Cheers
If we're a business then looking good and mostly working ok probably sells better than working good and mostly looking ok.
This has been written: https://justsimply.dev
What’s the back story with that channel? Is he an independent maker or is there a production company behind him?

Not knocking him or the channel, I enjoy watching his videos and the recent collaboration with Lock Picking Lawyer was great.

Just wondering how it’s structured because it was so well produced from the first video.

It’s rare to see a maker create such polished videos from day 1. If he’s truly independent, he deserves even more credit for his talent.
That is really interesting, thanks!