skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. I've worked with many machines that can chop or rip off limbs and I can't think of a single instance in which the operator even had access to the manual. "Push these two buttons and this foot pedal to make it go. Don't wear loose clothing." If it was more complicated than a few button-presses to use and that risky, it would either be operated by a team or it wouldn't be used.

The only single-operator machine I can think of which has an interface even 1/10th as complex as git is an automobile. The number of fatal accidents that could be remedied by reading the manual is vanishingly small.
Not all demand needs to be filled. I have a demand for a $10/hr senior software engineer who would do my job for me while I chilled on the couch, it doesn't mean that we have a shortage of engineers or that we need to be intervening to increase the supply.
> They would never do something as dumb when it comes to NATO or the US. There is zero reason to.

"American bombers also flew directly towards Soviet airspace, peeling off at the last moment, sometimes several times per week. These near-penetrations were designed to test Soviet radar vulnerability as well as demonstrate US capabilities in a nuclear war." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#Psychological_o...
In the corporate world, this is also a great way to hold vendors accountable.

Story: Company Red hires company Blue to take over the company blog as part of a marketing initiative. Their point of contact was the marketing team at company Red, and I'm sure they thought, "We've nabbed a big customer, this is going to be great."

However, the switch from the internal blog to the external blog goes through the operations team at company Red. The operations team tells company Blue, "Here is the plan for rolling back to the internal blog at the touch of a button."

Company Blue was suddenly much more responsive to questions from company Red.
That's just invisible hand of the market at work. Why should a company spend more than it has to? Isn't this what the oh-so-sacred capitalism is all about?
Thanks! Can you clarify what type of taxonomy you're asking about?
Honest question. Have you ever actually read the memo?

If you have, please tell me what passage makes you think that it says that women are worse engineers than men. Because as far as I can tell, there are none.

The topic at hand is controversial enough WITHOUT making up stuff about what was said.
It sounds as though "just mean" is an obvious impeachment in your view, and if your position is that we shouldn't write and publish mean things, then...well, that's fair.

I'll agree it's mean. But in many ways I think the piece teaches worthwhile lessons by being very specific, which may also be excessively personal. For example, the novel idea of the author occupying a reality that "is not just un- but anti-real" doesn't land without the preceding litany of cliches. That sets up the next couple pages, which asks how we should read this sort of unreliable narrator, and proposes the explanation that maybe she's just that stupid. You objected to this—the "frontal lobe activity" bit—but so did DFW, rejecting that explanation and calling it "literally incredible" then proving it with examples.

I don't think that arc makes much sense in the abstract. And the specificity is even more necessary in the next move, from page 148 to 151, making the larger point about the depth and potential that existed in her specific story. And that, of course, gives us a grounding to consider the broader questions: DFW acknowledges that "neither Austin nor her book is unique" and turns to the central question: why the fact that athletes are "stunningly inarticulate" is "always so bitterly disappointing," which is about the genre.

The conclusion—the last four paragraphs of the piece—isn't just dusting over the meanness. The possibilities discussed on the last page are real ones and also deeply troubling to intelligent people, DFW included, who derive a lot of self-worth from their "interior struggle."
> taproot, which recently locked in, reduces the space needed to represent complex contracts.

Complex contracts? Are you joking? What kind of complex contracts do you think can be done on BTC? Their scripting language and capabilities has been neutered just like their blocksize. Good luck writing a useful contract on BTC.
Regulat you-version bible app user here: I really like your app as it is not bothering me everytime I accidentally select a verse (instead of scrolling) when using the you-version. The changes of the top and bottom bar could be less distracting in my opinion, though…

I however still miss a german Bible version (Elberfelder or Luther) - or it was not clear how to find the other languages versions.

Just one other idea: I regularly need to do live translations and like the history if a side by side view is optionally viewable that would be great. Thanks
dumb terminal happened, it's called the browser. Most folks live in their browsers and get on by fine with tablets, phones and chromebooks
I suspect many of your co-workers feel the same way, and 40% capacity will be the upper limit for a much longer time than management has in mind.
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I do, and I would also like a job working for a US company that pays better than the UK. Email address is in my profile.
Not in flight, but you can ask to come in after. Depending on airline you get to seat the captain chair (Air NZ pilot suggested themselves, Air India pilot had a mortified face when I asked).

But yeah you won’t get a real experience… i always wondered why they don’t put front windows in double decker first class cabin.
Most private schools are still required to follow a state mandated curriculum in many areas, and are still hiring from the same pool of indoctrinated teachers. You could make a propaganda light private school, but that would need to be your explicit goal.

Sure, children will encounter a diverse range of ideas. Schooling dominates in time spent with, and it is the one most likely to reward or punish a child for regurgitating an ideology.
Agreed, some large fraction of those 10M unemployed Americans should learn how to code at some level (could be a CNC machine, could be Excel, ..., could be Python) to get to employable.
No, shortage in this context is actually a colloquialism, it is not what an economist means when they refer to a shortage.

In this case, business owners are using this as a short hand for "the market equilibrium price for this labor is too high!" The only people imposing price ceilings here are the managers themselves for their individual firm.

My argument is that this is a bad colloquialism, and a political one.
Honestly I love nocode but only for my own stuff. I wouldn't even want to try mixing nocode and GDPR. It's probably easier to just code the thing haha
I have no idea about their politics or reliability, but this seems to be one of the source articles: https://southfront.org/the-end-of-global-internet-u-s-seized...

They say that the affected sites include:

PressTV (Iran)
PalToday (Palestine)
Al-Masirah TV (Yemen)
Al-Alam TV (Iran)
Nabaa TV
KafMedia (Iraq)
LuaLua TV
That's maybe a bit unfair, but yes, they could have run it by an editor proficient in English:

> In summary further research required to get a good quality data regarding saffron mechanism of action, effectiveness, and safety. [...] While results of increased mental wellness coupled with good short-term basic safety profile recommend saffron may be an exceedingly efficient alternative approach for the treating depression. It is at present unidentified that the positive results of saffron obtained during preliminary trials will proceeds in long-term health benefits until well-controlled and longer-term research are achieved.
Sure, but when the government is the one that expressly puts these rules in place, the government needs to take responsibility for the impact of them.
Not a business ~ we’re in Edtech but we produce apps, micro apps really, mostly served up embedded in Microsoft Teams for such tasks as desk and room bookings for example, created Using Microsoft PowerApps. We also use their AI builder tool embedded in model driven apps to read and extract data from invoices and push it into the finance system.
An amplifier of the mind. (:
It did make people better, more informed even if wrongly
I wouldn't be.

I simply can't sit and focus working for 8 hours a day. Especially if its hard. I'm not a robot.

If I thought you were sitting there just to watch me to try and force me to work more, I'd leave.

I think for me doing dev, 4 hours is about the max before the quality of work drops off significantly.
It’s a craft within a craft. Resource constraints can be empowering. Also, in the heyday of those retro machines, I was a kid wishing I could program them, and now I’m an old guy who can.
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Yes, I overplayed the quantifier there.
They might just mean to a general, American audience.
> So they can’t raise wages without also raising prices.

How much would they have to raise prices? A few pennies on a bag of rice or flour, or a carton of eggs?

If prices went up 1% on every single item in the store as a result of bumping up salaries, although it won't go completely unnoticed, I'm guessing the majority of buyers would not change anything significant about what they purchase.
Not for instrument flight it's not. You can view charts on it. You cannot use it as your primary instrument (except in an emergency).

That said... in practice it's a FAR better experience than crappy built-in avionics.
Iterator invalidation is different from this. Iterator invalidation, as the name suggests, only applies to iterators. The problem OP was having had to do with dangling references.

Some containers guarantee references won't dangle on mutation such as unordered_map. An unordered_map may invalidate iterators if objects are added or removed, but will never result in dangling references (unless the object is removed). That is, it is safe to have a pointer to an object owned by an unordered_map and continue using that pointer even after an iterator to that same object is invalidated.
I, for one, very much appreciate the comedy of this post.
I didn't say I liked it, just made an observation.
The root cause is the same
Ask HN: Which US college has the best program for non-degree seeking adults?
I just turned 30 this year and am yearning to go back to college. I'm working full time so I'm looking to go to school part time.

I already have a bachelor degree and don't need another one. But I've repeatedly found that I'm interested in topics such as philosophy, film, finance, mathematics, biology, and many other topics traditionally taught at universities. At this point of my career, I'm just looking to learn; signaling is not important

There are a ton of free content online, and I know I can work through text books. However, in my experience online content suffer from two issues. One is lack of roadmap - hard to tackle unknown unknown. Two is lack of community and interactivity - when I get stuck on a problem, it's hard to get help; there is also no quizzes, homework, and tests that facilitate learning.

I know there are many, many talented engineers and product folks working on these problems. I get it - I just prefer to go back to college where there is a quality baseline.

Please let me know if you know of any US university that:
1. Good school - preferably state school
2. In person classes
3. Has programs that cater to working professionals
Is there any version of C++ in which this interleaving is permitted?
This is why I delete all my old tweets, posts and comments on all sites with a passing link to my actual profile.

Nothing good has ever become of people's old tweets popping up years later. Ever.

I think HN has the longest history of my comments, just because it's not possible to delete or anonymize comments without creating a bunch of throwaway accounts.
How do we classify messaging campaigns the government puts out that aren't particularly manipulative or harmful? For instance, are posters telling people to wear mosquito repellent and to drain pools of standing water be considered propaganda? My understanding is that they would. But it fails the manipulative test. I don't know if we have a good word in the vernacular for the kinds of messaging I'm talking about. Public Service Announcement?
Vision models need the pixel ordering to match the one they have been trained on, in order to work.

They won't generalize after training to transformations of the data that they haven't been trained on, even simple ones such as rotations, whereas humans will.

So I would argue that vision model do use the "underlying structure", and even that one of their problems is that they make use of some of the "underlying structures" that are not actually important, such as image luminosity, rotations etc. I think people usually augments the data with these transformations beforehand during preprocessing to enforce invariance.
> why do the big companies complain so much about being regulated if they will benefit so much from it? Is it all just masterful reverse psychology on their part?

I do think so. The big ones drive the legislation via lobbyists and freeze out the little ones who can't staff a compliance department.
It's not about safety, it's about efficiency. It's usually an unintended copy. For example, if your function `foo` returns a `const std::string&` the code `auto x = foo()` creates a copy.
Yes that much is clear, but DDG has a privacy bent to their engine too. It just seems like working with DDG to remove that fault would be beneficial to both parties.

If I recall, DDG chose to use Bing to remove Google from the equation but also prevent the need to reinvent the wheel.

Brave for all their technological progress and talk about improving the web, often seem to promote only themselves with their advancements. They aren’t required to share anything however. The parroting of bangs is just a bit hostile is all.
Does the exact content really matter that much though? There was a letter, it was rude, they had a lot of fun writing it…
"pay the market rate"

Is FAANG salary really market rate ? That's the question.
I strongly agree with this. Not to mention parameter interpretability and, in the case of Bayesian models, uncertainty estimates and convergence diagnostics. Such things are very important when making decision under uncertainty. Kaggle competitions and empirical benchmarks are very biased samples of model performance in real life.

I feel these two things often influence too much the course of Machine Learning research and communities, and this is not good. Most ML researchers and pratictioners are barely aware of the latest advances in parametric modelling, which is a shame. Multilevel models allow you to model response variables with explicit dependent structures. This is done through random (sometimes hierarchical) effects constrained by variance parameters. These parameters regularize the effects themselves and converge really well when fitting factors with high cardinality.

Also, multilevel models are very interesting when it comes to the bias-variance tradeoff. Having more levels in a distribution of random effects actually DECREASES [1] overfitting, which is fascinating.

[1] https://m-clark.github.io/posts/2019-05-14-shrinkage-in-mixe...
Yep, there was article that recently came up on Hacker News about maintaining some slack in your work schedule so that you can always be responsive when an issue comes up. I'm having trouble finding it because searching for "Slack" on Hacker News turns up a whole other range of things...

I feel like I am in a similar boat to OP. Often feeling like my regular work doesn't take up a full week and not trying to fill up every bit of that 40 hours. I also spend a lot of my time "poking around" and not doing my own work. Seeing what others are working on, learning random things that may or may not be applicable to my job. But performance reviews come around with words like "very responsive!" and "always knows what's going on in the program and can jump in to any project"
Depends on company, but most of those with RSUs generally give you every year refresher grants, each with another 4 year vesting schedule, so long as they are happy with your performance. Thus, if your initial grant was G0 shares, and refreshers each year are G_i, at each year you'd vest G0/4, (G0+G1)/4, (G0+G1+G2)/4, (G0+G1+G2+G3)/4, (G1+G2+G3+G4)/4, (G2+G3+G4+G5)/4, ... shares.

Note the so called "cliff" after year 4, it's your cue to look for a new job. Especially if your initial grant was relatively large compared to refreshers as is often the case, but stock did not perform too well to compensate for it.

Size of refresher grants depends on your level, review and stock performance - company usually has some target $ amounts in mind for them.
> directly adjacent to Russia democratic countries

I wonder how necessary the "directly adjacent" criteria is. Couldn't he sail from Russia to Iceland, for example? Perhaps if he was wanted by Interpol he would find it hard to travel through the territorial waters of European nations (assuming their coast guards would intercept a vessel carrying him).

In practice, though, I assume that Putin's government has made it very clear to him that his safety relies on him remaining a useful propaganda piece for the regime, so he wouldn't even get as far as Russian waters.
That's a fair take.
S3 configuration strikes again! How long will it take for this to stop happening, you’d think this would be part of IT 101 by now.
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> Of course UBI will create new money

Not at all. In a lot of countries it's not possible to arbitrarily create money out of nowhere.

Most proposed UBI implementation replace the existing welfare and a plethora of financial aids, programs and tax reliefs, leaving the overall tax rates roughly similar to the existing one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
I don't want to necessarily pick on the right here, but the most in-your-face example is all the so-called 'rationality' in the media. This is a conscious effort to promote the 'reactionary tribalism' or however you want to phrase it.

You should try to consider what unnoticed propaganda has led you to (apparently) separate "wokeness," as a concept, from just "being polite" or "treating people with respect".

It is closely related to the similar discussions had over "political correctness".
And yet i seem to run into them again and again in this industry. And FAANG has hiring pipelines designed to grab these people.

Also i kind of doubt the schools that FANG hires straight of have student populations that have the same definition of shoestring budget as a normal person.
which one of those helped landlords with mortgage payments?
Outlaw owning property that one doesn't live in means that anyone who can't afford to buy is homeless, because renting is illegal. That's not a sensible solution. You say "us renters would be able to buy" but you're probably not someone who's living paycheck to paycheck. Those people can't afford to buy even if real estate prices drop dramatically.
It is not just a normal natural catastrophe since the government had an eviction moratorium. If there was an earthquake that destroyed your rental you could rebuild and then rent it out to paying people.
> I think my last raise, after inflation and income tax changes were taken into account, ended up being something like a 0.1% increase.

My last raise was actually a decrease when compared with inflation. I took on the responsibilities of a dev that left and a lead that didn't lead.

I asked for a raise and they gave me what they said, "Was the best we could do."

I left and got a 40% raise somewhere else, and started a mass exodus once others knew how much I got offered.

I'm pretty sure that company now outsources all development aside from a couple people who stayed to start their career. They were already beginning to outsource development jobs, and we could all see the glass ceiling that was installed on top of our heads, despite being told it didn't exist.
Yes.

The scariest thing about Trump is not that he lied like crazy. It is that he really had an audience, and that audience is reasonably close to half the country. If you're a progressive, it is worth spending some time thinking about how to reach out to and get support from that half of the country. Because attempting to govern without them is a guaranteed disaster.
Are you saying that unless every company can pay FAANG level salary, they are not paying well enough ? For example, lets say a tech company in Boise Idaho can pay 120K salary for a senior dev while FAANG pays 200-220K for similar role but you work in California. Should that company in Idaho struggle to find devs ?
That's a real thing, though. In fact, some legislatures are so concerned that they've started passing laws prohibiting propaganda. Example is the recent HB3979 bill:

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/id/2339637
There are serious advantages to indoor farming in addition to the ability to stack vertically. Pest control, cross pollination, water loss prevention, and runoff management are a few of the big ones. You can keep pests at a standstill without killing natural species of bees and butterflies. You can prevent runoff from contaminating water sources as well.

Yields are significantly higher when you use indoor farming as well. Energy efficiency is nearly the same thanks to the use of high intensity LEDs tuned to photosynthesis. Water usage is MUCH lower as well. Some aquaponic methods are remarkably water efficient allowing the growth of water intense plants like lettuce and cabbage.

However those advantages don't outpace the current economic reality of vast tracts of cheap agricultural land and a global economy with massive economies of scale. The only niche for it right now is valuable fruits and vegetables that don't transport well or grow poorly. Stuff like microgreens, Ginseng, and Saffron. (Also, of course, Marijuana)
People who died with Indian Covid variant in UK were fully vaccinated
I’d probably use Wicket unless the FE had to be latest flavor JavaScript framework.
Yes, more-or-less, but that how it is designed to work. The most reliable way to get a transaction into a block is to send it directly to a miner or set of miners. Apps on BSV do this today via MAPI REST endpoints, similar to how this test was configured. Non-mining nodes will see the transactions later, but they won't do the same verification that mining nodes require because they are not part of consensus. BSV generally sees the eventual network configuration as a small-world network for the mining core, and a mandala network for the apps and services surrounding it, rather than as a mesh network which most blockchain systems strive to be.
An Elixir adoption success story
> so, if I understand the argument - because regulatory capture is a thing we should allow standardization capture and the big companies should just do what they want because they will anyway?

My contention is that lack of regulation does not equal chaos.

Does it really matter if I buy raw milk? It does to the FDA, but can we just be adults and trust tne nose?
I think it's basically the same problem as unique_ptr? This is the best explanation I've seen: https://herbsutter.com/gotw/_102/
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Leaders, you need to share organization success stories more frequently