skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As per the intro on your user info page, how do you prefer one get in touch with you to have a chat? Curious about what your business does and how you got started
does this apply to Washington as well? I've wanted to get my friend who's been working at Amazon for years to do some game jammin' with me sometime, but he says company policy is that HR needs to sign off on literally any code he writes outside of work
> The underlying model is beautiful, but the UI is atrocious.

I definitely agree. The UI is terrible. But it is learnable.

I would recommend using a GUI initially so you can learn what the operations are and do without having to figure out that it's not `git remote list` it's `git remote -v`; it's not `git clean` it's `git checkout . && git clean -fdx` and a million other paper cuts.
Entry level tech support for certificates like "Solutions architect" where you also learn eg. Oauth seems to be a pretty bold statement to me.
In my world native = using platform apis to deliver experience. That means gui, networking, background processes, graphics, etc.
That's actually a great suggestion
That's a rough job, but I guess not everyone could be blacksmiths etc.
It's more expensive than getting a patent, which you can do yourself.

Courts have procedures, and it many juris dictions, they require you to be represented by an attorney. While I'm not an attorney, I've been the the process enough to know a few of the steps:

1) demand letter(s) and responses

2) negotiations, w/o a mediator

3) drafting and filing of the complaint

4) motions w/ responses

5) negotiations w/ a mediator

6) interrogatories

7) discovery

8) depositions

9) pre-trial hearings / more motions

10) presiding judge led mediation (sometimes the judge wants to give it a shot)

11) trial

The entire process can take years - especially when one party is on a tight budget (dragging it out can be strategic).

So, there are quite a lot of steps and in the US, very few statuettes allow for legal fee recovery, so it might not be available.
For anyone looking to fine-train transformers with less work, there is the FARM project (https://github.com/deepset-ai/FARM) which has some more or less ready-to-go configurations (classification, question answering, NER, and a couple of others). It's really almost "plug in a csv and run".

By the way, a pet peeve is sentiment detection. It's a useful method, but please be aware that it does not measure "sentiment" in a way that one would normally think, and that what it measures varies strongly across methods (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19312458.2020.18...).
People are not homogenous, and that includes both managers and employees. I’ve been working remote for the majority of 2.5 years now and I’m okay with it but it’s not great. Some coworkers absolutely lost empathy when they stopped seeing other people in person and I’m sure managing them is a struggle and the transition there has been awkward to say the least. Some are seemingly more productive but it’s not clear to be something which is sustainable/reliable because it’s not clear if they are more productive per hour worked or just working more hours because they didn’t have anything better to do.

In short, I can’t exactly blame managers wanting to return to prior conditions to reduce the level of uncertainty, especially if the last year has been a mixed bag. I do think most people I know want to return to a hybrid model but there was already a significant part-time WFH culture before the pandemic (1-2 days a week). moving to WFH 2-4 days a week is probably where it will end up.
Yeah. People with a spare room can spend thousands of dollars decking out a studio just so. But a lot of that money is pretty much wasted if they have glitchy Internet and there's not much they can do about other than renting a private office that has good Internet (which is probably an OK option for mid-tier famous people if they live near a city or other area with good network infrastructure).
Just use (feature-)branches.

You can commit every single character if you in the mood. At the end, when your new feature is complete, you just squash all commits in this branch to one single commit ("add feature xyz") and merge/rebase it to your main dev branch.

Now it is really easy to identify the actual code behind a new feature.
Well the "clean Wehrmacht" was a convenient post-war myth in Western Germany when the Bundeswehr was created, but I think in the last 20..30 years that myth has been thoroughly debunked.
I think the implication is that video output is usually available on these devices.
> Just in time is obviously about not having undue spare capacity,

Also about making spare capacity undue. The lazy solution to unreliable delivery is inventory. The efficient solution is working with the supplier to make delivery more reliable.
If you've been working at the same company for a while, ask your HR department if they have a policy around a leave of absence or a sabbatical! You can take a few months off to build a prototype of your idea, test it out with some users, and then decide whether to return to your day job or continue with your startup idea full time.

This will be much less risky than quitting your high-paying job and going all-in on a startup idea. Many startups fail for a variety of reasons, besides just poor execution.

Whatever you plan to do, make sure you have a backup plan.
> You are also getting paid (hopefully - if you aren't, then you're really screwed). It's not a lot, but enough to live on as a single person.

Depends on where you're located. At Stanford, for example, I'm not sure I would consider the PhD stipend "enough to live on as a single person." (It varies by department but humanities are invariably lower.) So much so that "getting a significant other in tech" is a common joke.
another lawyer here, happy to talk nick@neonlaw.com. I do not have bandwidth to take your case, but I will do my best to provide any information I have that may be helpful.
On top of that, setting a shared google doc on how to deal with it would be helpful for future folks.
Not sure if this is too far down in your inbox, but I will write nonetheless...

> This is one of those cases where it's helpful, in fact indispensable, to remember that there is exactly one thing we're optimizing for on HN, namely intellectual curiosity...

Dang, respectfully, is it not true that "we are optimizing for" is a function of not only moderation, but the inherent (lack of) capabilities of rather feature sparse threaded internet discussions with upvotes/downvotes/flagging?

There's no doubt, "it is what it is", but perspectives upon reality that are limited to only how reality currently is overlooks how reality could be, such as if moderation here was not so good (a portion you seem to see clearly, as ample evidence exists elsewhere) or if the features of a forum were strategically expanded (a portion you may not see so clearly, since afaik there's not really anything much more sophisticated out there).

As you say in another comments:

> To repeat, lest anyone misunderstand: my remarks are limited to HN, which is the space I've observed enough to speak about. I'm not saying HN is an exception, and I'm not saying it isn't an exception; I don't know.

> Edit: two more points. First, I think there's a perspective bias here. We all assume that we're the smart one capable of making judgments about what the dumber ones might think, but literally everyone sees themselves that way. That shows not only that we can't all be right about that, but—more interestingly—that this entire line of thinking is invalid. It's a hard-wired unreliable narrator.

As you clearly know, human judgment (even that of intelligent people) is highly unreliable, and this unreliability is typically invisible to the individual. I believe that features could be added to forum software that could improve upon this situation, over and above the manual moderator moderation and downvote mechanisms that are currently our only defences.

> Second and last, if HN readers aren't smart enough to make up their own minds, then this place is fucked, so we might as well make a Pascal's wager.

Or, we could transform the fabric of reality, which is to some arguably significant degree composed of the forum software that facilitates communication between nodes (human minds) within this system.

Of course, I am not insisting that you do this, I am only offering it as an idea for your consideration.
You would assume people earning these kind of wages are highly educated and would have learn financial literacy via their parents and/or school. We had whole classes about this at high/secondary school
git config --global pull.rebase true

You probably also want:

git config --global rebase.autostash true
The Thief engine and Dromed Editor were interesting - you essentially carved out the level, and sometimes it wouldn't get the lighting maps right - which were very costly to generate.

I had a lot of fun making Thief levels though.
I have a ridiculous sounding but very important to me reason for my preference to work at home: bowel movements.

I worked with a small team in a small office. Everybody is typically at their desk in silence with the occasional manager or sales person on the phone. At predictable intervals throughout the day, someone will get up and be gone extra long.

You know, and everybody else knows, they've gone for a number 2.

Occasionally a manager will say "where's X" and someone will respond they stepped out. Nobody cares, and yes I'm being neurotic, but it is still slightly embarrassing that everybody _knows_.

Again, nothing is devastating here, it's just... awkward.

The fact that I can have my morning coffee and then when the urge comes, march off to my porcelain throne without anyone knowing better, answer Slack messages from my phone, etc. is one of the great joys of no longer being in an office for me.
If I had a humanities degree, I would know what diametral meant.
I disagree. In math, I had a survivable wage from TA/RA gigs during my whole graduate career, and I escaped the experience with less than a year's (grad school) income in loans taken out in my undergrad. Saw the writing on the wall, networked a bunch, and found a good job and now I'm making more than my supervisor ever will. Could I do the work without what I learned in my PhD program? Maybe I could have stopped after a Masters... but then I'd have missed the networking opportunities and (given the options available after my Masters) I'd have settled for a job with much lower satisfaction.

On the other hand, I feel like I've defined myself in a narrow specialization, so I might miss opportunities because they don't fit that.

But definitely don't get a PhD if your plan is to become a professor. Unless nepotism will go in your favor.
I can second tig, it really helps me parse the repo.
I see one big giant crack --- their entire business model is built around data collection and privacy invasion.

The fastest way to convince me not to use a product is to put the name "Google" on it.
There's a lot of vested interest in making people go back to the office. First, in large corporations, there's an entire army of middle managers that essentially do nothing but political machinations, micro-managing, and are the very definition of "market inefficiency." This has been accepted as a necessary evil of mega-corps but remote work threatens this delicate balance.

Second, there's also a lot of external pressure that pushes the office building as a bastion of productivity. From commercial real estate landlords to agents to contractors: many livelihoods are reliant on the exorbitant inefficiencies of office real estate. I remember when I was working for Edmunds.com, our new offices were better than Google's (the company spared no expense on the suspended rotating Corvettes[1] and free delivered lunches). But just a few years later (I had quit a year prior), over 100 employees were laid off[2], including several friends. Their jobs may have been secure had it not been for the $XX million dollar "new office" project that mostly served as an Instagram photo op.

In short, I think the argument in posts like this is oversimplified. It's not just "are people more productive from home?" -- the research has already been done on this, and we've all just been unwitting Guinea pigs for over a year now. The answer is a resounding "yes!" -- but that's hardly the only consideration.

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/edmunds-coms-new-headquarte...

[2] https://www.dailynews.com/2020/01/27/edmunds-com-to-lay-off-...
Since you are debating whether to let go 100% of your salary for your startup, you can also think about how much % you are willing to invest in your startup for getting outside help (yes, even for coding). This route is often completely ignored by founders but if you get freelancers/contractors from the right geography, you might end up speeding up your project more than if you spent 100% time on it.

Many new founders don't think of this route because they usually have a individual contributor role in their full-time job and don't appreciate the productivity scalability in managing others.
Do you have the option to go on a leave of absence?
I have friends who have done this to work on their own ideas or go traveling for an undetermined amount of time.
no, my goal was to use google to revolutionize science. It's not my problem that Sundar cares more about showing ads to the next billion users and getting good press for DeepMind "solving protein folding" when they did nothing of the sort. I cared about long-term scientific research advances that would be shared with the world to reduce overall health expenditures.

At the time I joined it seemed like it would be pretty easy given that Larry Page greenlit Google Health (a terrible idea).
Ghosting means to avoid or stop responding to someone. So he's implying that lawyers may just not even respond since such a small company isn't worth their time, or possibly even just take their money and then "ghost" them after that.
The intersection of tech and history is known as 'digital humanities'. It's been in a recession for social/funding reasons the past few years, but it'll come back eventually.
The Hard Quadrant
> Jeff defend Megan Kacholia's firing of Timnit (yes, I read the paper) and call it a resignation.

From what has been put outside, don't you think Timnit's mail to employees as a manager was out of line for someone in her role.

Even to me who doesn't have intimate knowledge of the whole thing, that didn't look appropriate.
> There is something that make me think something is fishy in that approach : why are more and more places switch to unlimited PTO if it’s that costly to give folks time off

"Why do people get more time off now than ever before in human history (which they do)?"

There are now more forces than ever, that work against unlimited exploitation of human labor. For example, human beings in most countries have enforceable rights and they want time off, and the market that has to compete for those people. Humans are shitty machines. If you piss them off, they do shitty work. If you treat them poorly they leave. (In reality, "treating them poorly" translates to "treating them slightly less good then someone else") Since having someone quit working for you is pretty fucking expensive (assuming, of course, that they are actually being productive), you better make sure they do want to continue working for you and so you make it worth their while.

Another important example would be worker protection laws, that simply dictate certain amenities.

"Why is everyone doing unlimited PTO, specifically?"

Less clear on that one. Part of it is certainly it being a trend. If other people do it and employees want it, then you might have to go along, again, to not get pushed out of the market.

But since it clearly does not ever actually mean "unlimited PTO" (you'd be out of a job pretty quickly if you tried), an interesting followup question might be what the fuck it actually means and who benefits? Maybe employees are a little confused about how much time off to take and take less than before? Or maybe they feel pressured to underbid each other? Maybe it's also just that the flexibility it adds to the job leads to more loyal employers, which is pretty nifty in a market starved for workers.
We call them patent trolls because they follow the rules of the game but behave unethically.

I have seen US companies convince employees to move to another state. Real reason was dismissal laws were more convenient for the company. After a 3 to 4 months
they closed their offices. So all within the rules of the game, but unethical. Or the "hire to fire" practices.
Within the rules of the game also...
I think a lot of the responses to the straw man's questions are reasonable and thoughtful. But I think this sentiment:

>I don't want to change the way I work, I just want people to join me in the office. My kids are driving me crazy. Is it weird to say I'm lonely; I miss my office friends.

Deserves more respect. There are lot of types of people out there, and it seems like at least some of them are energized by being surrounded by smart people doing interesting work. For whatever reason, for some folks, exchanging Slack messages with those same smart people isn't similarly energizing compared to overhearing and jumping into interesting in-person conversations, etc. Maybe the tech giants need to be very accommodating to remote work in order to maintain their massive workforces, but I think a lot of typical companies could just say "we prefer being in-office" and find sufficient local folks to make that happen. That won't be for everyone. But there might be a sizeable enough cohort that performs better in the office that it'll be a good option for some companies.
I agree completely with this. I have an Applied Physics Ph.D. and have a similar experience. I think that if you are getting a Ph.D. for a reason other than enjoying the learning and the education, then it doesn't make too much sense. However, if you have a great pleasure in the pursuit of the field and the research in it, then it makes sense to get a Ph.D.

We don't give enough credit these days to education being its own reward.
As a lowly end user not intending to widely redistribute the content, I decline this absurd level of responsibility, and the doctrine of fair use would tend to agree.

And as long as websites tend to modify, delete, move, or otherwise play games with urls and content, I will see value in saving a permanent copy. That I should be able to do that is frankly how the internet was intended to function; if that's not desirable for the content, then perhaps it should not be published on the internet at all.
> Most people don't know how the Internet works and yet it's widely used.

Yeah. I've met many developers who have no idea what a cookie even is, people who have never read a single IETF RFC.
It's easy to win an argument against a straw man.
Maybe change the scope you assess, and dive if you see problem. Or find a way to create smaller team, and delegate to the team lead the appreciation? Those are my usual ways of assessing teams when they grow too big.

Don’t forget also that the bigger the team, the harder it is to manage, so splitting is always a good options!
CSAPP is an incredible book that goes into the lower-level details of computer systems. There are lectures available online as well. teachyourselfcs.com is a good compilation and guide to resources like these.
> The poor job prospects for history PhDs in particular and humanities PhDs in general for literally years. I know I've read about history tenure prospects 10+ years ago.

In 1996, I was talking to a history professor about going to grad school. I was probably going to go to grad school in economics, but I wanted to make sure I checked out all my options, so I was also looking at some humanities fields. His answer was simply to not give any consideration to grad school in the humanities. It was very difficult to get a job, and if you did you probably wouldn't want to live there, and if you got lucky on the first two, you'd be broke your whole life.

I've seen humanities PhD's claim the job market died with the Great Recession. No, the job market for humanities has been terrible for decades. Maybe it's gone from terrible to something even worse, but it's been a bad idea to go to grad school in the humanities for decades.
Well, for a start if you’re just finishing your history undergrad you’ve probably already heard “no jobs lol” many times and it hasn’t dissuaded you.

Second, as you’re in college 100% of the PhDs you know have won the jobs lottery. You don’t know any that haven’t. Easy to get a biased impression.

And if you really respect professors and you’ve grown up as a high achiever academically, it sounds like a giant complement when a professor says you’re phd material.
Sorry, I'm trying to get work done, not memorize an obscure set of incantations like some kind of D&D wizard. If the repo gets messed up, I delete it and reclone.
Not sure of your age but I'm acquaintances with an individual that was in a similar situation when he was 22. Met in-person and dressed as scrappy as possbile, like a broke college student that doesn't care about their appearance. Ended up settling for $1,000 and exiting with a sale to Ford
"You can choose your friends independently of your work"

I have met the majority of my friends at work. Once you pass your 20s, your exposure to strangers diminishes greatly. And many of us do not have kids.
I have worked at a few places that oppose remote work, middle management and leadership at these places have some common traits:

- They are control freaks. They feel the need to control their employees beyond their body of work, they want to control their lives. Useless "team bonding events" and intrusive behaviour are to be expected.

- They are very bad at minding their own business. These people often have a mix of extroversion, lack of self awareness, and a frivolous personality. They will interrupt developers and other knowledge workers and they couldn't care less about the thousands of €/$ that they waste, missed deadlines, etc. Ironically these are the people whose strong point is supposed to be their soft skills.
So you consider it a feature of fiat that it is impossible for a saver to maintain their purchasing power over time unless they risk their capital on volatile assets such as stocks or real estate?

Why is is a good thing that widows, orphans, those living in poverty or on a fixed income have no way to save without having to Risk their principal?

The only ones who benefit from inflationary fiat currencies are those closest to the new spending - via the Cantillon effect - namely bankers, politicians and their friends in the military industrial complex.
So much this. Most about building a tech startup isn't about engineering at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134322

If you still depend on a job for paying the bills (which means that you don't currently have access to lots of capital), then selling your product BEFORE you have built it is the only option I would personally consider going forward. And if those prospects are just entries on a waiting list. Our product was proven in a cheap 250€ ad test and requested by agencies before we all quit our jobs.

Missing product market fit is the top 1,2 and 3 reason for failing to build a startup.
I'll often launch lazygit just to use its undo feature since that's easier than navigating the reflog. Happy to see a standalone utility.