skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried going that way. Authoring HTML by hand is miserable, it totally breaks up your flow of writing. Then to make matters worse, reading HTML raw text vs reading in an editor is a painful experience as well.

I feel like if you wanted to write notes in HTML, you would need to do it from within some WYSIWYG editor environment that felt like plain text most of the time but easily let you drop into metadata, links, tables, etc.
And I think a strong argument can be made that if Bill Gates had taken a little time to look at the big picture in his early days, Microsoft might have had a more positive effect on the world, rather than become a company that valued crushing opponents over technical quality or real innovation. Imagine the quality of Linux with 10% of the money of Microsoft.
Could you give information to support that? I am looking for comparisons that could affect my choice.
Neeva is trying to do better than Bing. Also, Neeva does not do ads.
Great writeup, Stas!
It's not a pay cut if you get a raise for .. some other reason.

I've just never seen 'inflation pay raise' as a policy.
Where/how?

I feel like this is easier said than done.
I was going to ask if you said "docs" as in "doxxing" [0] but then a quick Wikipedia search got me to the etymology [1] of "doxxing" which comes from "docs" as in "documents"! TIL

[0] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/doxx
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing#Etymology
And yet, our inflation is only 5.3% since 2019 (2.6% yoy)

If we go back two years (because 2020 was certainly an abnormal year) and take a look at the trends, things don't seem so bad.
What about rights to the code that is created this way?
Bitcoin Revolution Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Yeah, that is why they are still around and own Bell Labs now, UNIX's birthplace.
Intel Delays New Chip in First Setback for CEO Gelsinger’s Turnaround Effort
When it comes to predicting future inflation, TIPS [1] is the thing to look at [2] - they are inflation-indexed bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, and should track closely to what the market believes the average inflation will be over the next 5/7/10/20/30 years. They are accurate, because beating the efficient market hypothesis is really hard; anybody who has a better idea of how inflation will change could speculate on them to make money until the price moved to the better prediction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_securit...
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE
I would be up for that, if said society did not leave us destitute as a result
Statistically, you'll make more money if you switch jobs every 2 years and right now there's huge demand for talent, so it's probably a good idea to switch.
Facebook's newsletter to harvest all its normal data and “additional info”
Will this help the moodle ecosystem?
Corruption? Probably but not as much as project (mis)management.

Send a couple of those guys to Japan and have them watch roads being repaved at 11 miles per day on a same stretch.

Maybe they can learn a few thing or two.
"Seriously Copilot, cover all these files with tests."
There's no simple answer. It really depends on severity of symptoms, length of the disease course, and immune system response. Some patients never produce detectible levels of antibodies, in others they may persist for years.

Patients who receive a negative antibody test after a suspected COVID-19 case might want to get a T cell test since that is another way to confirm previous infection.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
Same analyst said the same thing in 2016... Since then Core CPI is up ~10% or roughly 2% per year for the time period. Let's stop listening to these cranks?

CPI: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=F50W

His "Inflation is coming" article from 2016:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank-of-america-tells-stoc...
kNN needs to hold on to a complete copy of the dataset itself unlike a neural net where it's all mangled.
> I mean you say this, but you and most likely the majority of programmers rely on dozens of repositories, packages and libraries with likely zero deep understanding of it (and at the very least haven't read the source code of ) so I don't really understand the difference here.

I spend a probably half my coding time testing and digging into those libraries because I don't understand them and because they cause performance issues because nobody on the team understands them sufficiently to make their "high level design and abstract reasoning" accurate.

One problem with the current world of programming tools is that there's no good way to know which libraries are suitable for use when correctness and performance and reliability really matters, and which are only really meant for less rigorous projects.
Condo official warned damage had ‘gotten significantly worse’ in recent years
> You as a developer will be earning less in relation to the value you create.

Doesn't matter as long as I create 5x value and earn 2x for it. I still am earning double within the same time and effort.
An Incentive Mechanism for Trading Personal Data in Data Markets
"...With the proliferation of the digital data economy, digital data is considered as the crude oil in the twenty-first century, and its value is increasing. Keeping pace with this trend, the model of data market trading between data providers and data consumers, is starting to emerge as a process to obtain high-quality personal information in exchange for some compensation. However, the risk of privacy violations caused by personal data analysis hinders data providers' participation in the data market. Differential privacy, a de-facto standard for privacy protection, can solve this problem, but, on the other hand, it deteriorates the data utility. In this paper, we introduce a pricing mechanism that takes into account the trade-off between privacy and accuracy. We propose a method to induce the data provider to accurately report her privacy price and, we optimize it in order to maximize the data consumer's profit within budget constraints..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14187.pdf
As I mentioned in my earlier post, this is literally the opposite of my experience. The restaurants where I was made to order by QR code always cost more than the restaurants where I was not. In China, I suspect this is because QR code places tend to be national chains which have some kind of brand name recognition, so people pay more to prove their status.

On top of the increased cost, the food tends to be lower quality, not higher quality, presumably because the ingredients are mass produced and reheated by cooks who don't have any personal reputation at stake if they prepare something poorly. This is exactly what chain restaurants in the west are like, and they tend to be a much worse dining experience than either mom and pop or boutique outfits.
Ah that is true. In that case the danger would be in the tracking and storage of fuel elements. Assuming re-fueling is required infrequently enough that a regulator organization could keep tabs on them. Although in that case the danger would be the tracking and safe storage of the fuel elements.
Microsoft could make the uptake of their ARM64 hardware much more likely by offering all their software products on it for free for a few years until it gains some traction. I quite like my 1st gen SPX, but it's certainly got some limitations. Windows 11 preview works pretty well on it so far, FWIW.
You seem hung up on some other argument that I'm not making, perhaps related to spirituality or quack medicine. My argument is about epistemology and ontology, within the scope of physicalism. It's a real and ongoing debate within the philosophy of science.
Of course the manufacturers would love for there to be a need for a booster for every man, woman, and child on Earth!
Here's the problem - we use the Consumer Price Index to measure inflation, of which "housing" is only 33% - much of which is actually rent, which is quite a bit more inelastic than home prices. If someone buys an 8 unit condo building in 1980 and rents out each unit for a 20% profit, 20 years later they're still making a 20% annualized profit and maybe rent hasn't increased.

Asset inflation is inflation. That "real" inflation, also known as the consumer price index, hasn't been going up is a factor of both automation/economies of scale and an extremely bifurcated economy in which low end workers are making pennies, toilet paper is cheap, but a house in an area with a working economy costs triple what it did 10 years ago.

Here's the case shiller national home pricing index:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA

Compare that to any inflation chart. Its not supposed to be the same, but I posit the "housing" part of the CSI is almost completely inelastic and only reflects what people pay in rent/mortgage, not the cost of entry. Housing prices can go up by 20% a year for 5 years and there's still no "inflation".
Yep, there are modern engines that will do that. I was using the example of an older engine, because they are generally much more fixable (which was OP's original point).
> I've just never seen 'inflation pay raise' as a policy.

They are pretty common.
1a) Fair use can be commercial. And copilot is not commercial so the point is moot.

1b) This is false. This is not literally taking snippets it has found and suggesting it to the user. That would be an intelligent search algorithm. This is writing novel code automatically based on what it has learned.

2) Definitely creative. It's creating novel code. At least it's creative if you consider a human programming to be a creative endeavor as well.

3) If it's reproducing input code it's just a search algorithm. This doesn't seem to be the case.

4) Most GPLed code doesn't cost any money. As such the market for it is non-existent. Besides copilot does not displace the original even if there were a market for it. As far as I know there is not anything even close to comparable in the world right now.

So from my reading it violates none of the guidelines.
Ultimately the choice will come down to creating a system in which the unfortunate are protected at a cost of also subsidizing the irresponsible, or sacrificing the unfortunate for the sake of punishing the irresponsible.

None of us want to be taken advantage of, but I weigh protecting the most vulnerable and unfortunate, of whom there are many, more heavily.
It is, but it's still possible and generally easier now than times in the past.
Lack of socialized healthcare? The USA has at least 3 times as many people on government healthcare than the entire population of Canada (Medicare, Medicaid, the VA). The USA has the second- third-largest government-run healthcare system in the world.

As a person who lived 20 years in Canada and 14 in the USA, I'll take the USA every day of the week--and for the past year I've paid for my own health insurance directly.

Canada's healthcare system is run by bureaucrats who prioritize many items ahead of citizen health.

Here's one example: A family member is a police officer. While I was visiting home, in Ontario, he was hit with some insane shoulder-related pain. This is one tough guy and he was reduced to tears--some kind of nerve damage or something.

The hospital in Canada told him he needed an MRI. And that it would take between 4 and 6 months til there was an available slot. They gave him a prescription for strong opiates to manage the pain during his wait.

I drove him over the border to Buffalo, shelled out $500, and he had his MRI in less than half an hour. The drive was longer than the wait in the radiology clinic.

There are tradeoffs in every situation. I think Canada's healthcare system is better in one exact way: Nobody's bankrupted of their financial wealth due to healthcare. But many many many Canucks are bankrupted of their actual health, their time, their human wealth, due to healthcare.
Nothing. If the BoA analyst makes lots of bad calls, he loses his job and has to find something else to do.

This is not related to anything else that BoA does.
Innovation is outcome of culture of the institution (company, society, country, civilisations, .. ) and inclusivity in people.
Have we misunderstood the future of the automobile?
I can see that. It's still a far cry from a website with interstitials and auto-playing video, but perhaps I'm setting the bar too low by comparing to like CNN.
What the heck’s an Intellivision Amico? Console’s leaky dev portal offers hints
> I use Google Fi which gives has agreements with providers in almost every country, I had data as soon as I walked off the plane in China

That sounds really nice...and a bit surprising considering nothing else Google works in China without a VPN.

So...does it also work as a normal phone with a Chinese number so you can logon to wifi at Starbucks in China?
Right.. if you use March 2020 instead of May 2020, Core CPI has increased 40% less than OP just claimed.. (2.5% vs. 3.8%)
After years of struggle and failed attempts at fixing the problem, you evaluate evidence and notice it fits the "I have ADHD" hypothesis more than it fits the alternate explanations.

Happens more often with the Inattentive subtype of ADHD than with Hyperactive, because the former is much harder to spot, especially in adults, plus everyone around you is eager to offer you value judgements as diagnoses (suggesting you're lazy, undisciplined, don't have an actual problem), and/or prescribe you the common "go away" nonsolutions like better diet and exercise (I call them "go away" because it's just sending someone on a wild goose chase in order to have them stop bothering you).

ADHD is severely underdiagnosed in adults, and getting from undiagnosed to diagnosed stage is often just a matter of going to a psychiatrist - after first overcoming stigma, stereotype, and ADHD-induced problems. Easy peasy. Not.
Fair enough. I don’t necessarily agree with you, but I’m not you…
You could have used async/await and fetch along with a polyfill if you are concerned about compatibility with older browsers. ;-)
Windows Hello face recognition spoofed with photographs
The most impactful activities I pursued during my PhD had absolutely no bearing on my research itself.

Here's one example: I created a robotics blog where I wrote about some of the new, interesting developments in the field that piqued my interest. It ballooned into one of the top 3 robotics websites on the web. I felt guilty about it for a long time... until I realized that the blog had a bigger impact & reach than any of my research -- I was known in the community; articles were cited on Wikipedia and in Congressional testimonies; and it established my credibility.

There are at least a half-dozen similar examples -- including just pursuing random intellectual curiosities. What really helped me come to terms with this is "Structured Procrastination":

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

As long as you're doing & not just consuming, you will probably find value.
Uber to staff: work where you like, half the time
> but I like to some earnest feedback about the use of the passive voice in this article. After reading and re-reading the previous sentences (including their context), I still did not know who denied their requests, who informed them that the antisemitism ought not to be discussed.

There might be more explicit details in the lawsuit, but from context I think the who is some authority in:

> When CAPS [Stanford University’s Counseling and Psychological Services] initiated a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program, White Fragility was the chosen book, and personnel were segregated into “affinity groups,” each of which met separately.

Though that authority could probably range from the leader of CAPS, to some diversity and inclusion bureaucrat, to some outside consultant they hired and empowered (e.g. https://www.ykhong.com/).
Just go looking for a different job at all the top companies in your area. Some of them will offer you a job, and when negotiating pay, ask for 20% more than what you're making now. Simple as that.
> I now believe in my lifetime it will be possible for an AI to win almost all coding competitions!

Then we shall be reaching singularity.
This is a frequent anti-vaxx talking point that well predates COVID-19. In most outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations, most of the cases will be in the vaccinated. We see this for measles and pertussis all the time. The rate will be much lower though.
I got a nice speech about how the pandemic was hard on everyone and I should be happy with my 1.3% 'meritorious' raise.

=D
search is now so prevalent and necessary, and likewise browser engines n OS's. These things should be 100% funded by a common fund contributed to by all governments with a steering committee. Like a UN but for technology.
DNA databases: New method cuts indexing from weeks to hours, searches to minutes
Do they actually pick an inflation indicator and go by that?
The first thing that comes to mind is the recent article on the front page about the docker footgun/default that allowed a hacker to wipe a website's database.
I dunno. Maybe. How about the practice of removing a test that fails? Literally, test fails, remove it, problem solved. Ship it. Sure there are build warnings, but CI isn't complaining, so..? Is that a valid use case? If your team member did that, you'd be cool-and-the-gang, easy-like-sunday-morning, shaming-is-the-real-shame?
> I think debating inflation predictions for both the employer and employee could be an endless / counter productive and exhausting thing.

Yes, and OP seems to be on the verge of a new approach - find a new job.

I’d also assume that inflation doesn’t hit the country evenly, and sectors, regions and individuals all experience it differently. The OP could be considerably better placed or worse off than the mean.
I'd add that the economy is in a fantastically different place than it was 40 years ago, which is the last time inflation was a serious issue in this country.
For my part, I actually wonder if there's also a certain gatekeeping element that also fuels the popularity of frameworks like React?

Turning things into JavaScript-heavy single-page applications has, I would assume, an effect of shutting out people who are good at HTML+CSS, but less so at JavaScript. I don't know how likely a profile that is nowadays because I'm buried deep deep deep in backend-type work, but it used to be fairly common to have front-end people like that who were stronger on design than programming.

Is this a form of unwitting rent-seeking behavior? Has the profession created an artificial supply-and-demand problem by convincing the managers of the world that they need expensive single-page applications built by Software Engineers™, when a (less expensive, I'm assuming) Wordpress site developed by a web designer would have sufficed?

For context on where I'm coming from: I've mostly been a back-end developer for a couple decades. I've known HTML and CSS since the '90s, of course, I'm just now starting to learn Web development in earnest, mostly as a hobby. I'm finding React's learning curve to be just incredibly steep. For the stuff I've been doing, I've had a much easier time getting acceptable (to me) results out of a more oldschool-flavored tech stack, with server-side templating and a moderate sprinkle of vanilla JS. No, it's not fancy, but I'm not looking to flex; I'm just looking to whack together a website that looks nice.
BioID Face Liveness Detection in Biometrics
I would bet more would be able to find a drug dealer than you'd think, which is all you need to access any of the drugs you can think of. The more general point is that its not the legality that is stopping most kids from becoming addicted to heroin. The primary thing is that most kids don't want to do heroin. Making it legal (and highly regulated) isn't going to change that.

You can't stop something as pervasive as drugs no matter how many people you incarcerate or kill attempting to do so. Prohibition has a real cost and it isn't low, time will tell but I am unsure why the current pohibition and its related drug cartels are viewed any differently than Al Capone and alcohol prohibiation. We can legalize it, tax it, regulate it, and further educate people to make good choices. We can eliminate drug cartels and remove funding from vast criminal networks across the US all in one go. We can train people to be nurses and mental health workers instead of cops and DEA agents. And we can probably _save_ money in the process.
Exactly. There are people who just cannot imagine there is genuine good management out there. Habits formed by previous bad experiences perhaps.
Yes. My larger and more organized customers usually have Slack. Email is still the main communications tool for the majority of my customers, along with phone calls. You generally have to use whatever tools the customer uses.
I use it all the time for bookmarklets and userscripts when I want to customize a page that I can't modify directly. Vendor site showing too many out of stock items? querySelectorAll('div.out-of-stock') and wipe them all out. Filter options not good enough? querySelectorAll('div.price').forEach( /* delete products between x and y prices */ ).
The framework that I have for myself, is to figure out which letter from MAPS [1] is missing from the work, and then figure out how to fill it. I’ve found that if I have all 4, then it’s much easier to work hard without asking myself “why” every day.

[1] Usually known as CAR, but I find MAPS more helpful:

Mastery: Do you enjoy geeking out about the subject matter? When others correct you, or show you a better way to do something, are you annoyed or delighted? If annoyed, this may be something you should be delegating if you can.

Autonomy: Do you feel sufficiently powerful enough to accomplish the tasks you deem necessary for your goals, and in the way you want to accomplish them?

Purpose: Is this goal helpful to anyone? Is anyone counting on you to accomplish this?

Social Interaction: Do you enjoy spending time with the people you’re working with?
I like that he is thinking in a bold way and hope it leads to something productive, but it seems like nearly all of this physics will be unverifiable and will remain theoretical. He's talking about physics at time scales and conditions that are not found naturally earth and that require a tremendous amount of energy to produce.
Ya, I get that. Red Robin has screens/computers/payment kiosks at each table to avoid that problem. They won't use QR codes at sit down restaurants in the states for payments because of tipping, however. Psychologically, you are more likely to tip more if the waiter is directly involved in the billing.
How is 2%-4% inflation "elevated"? If anything, this is a return to normalcy.
This has nothing to do with what I said. You are reacting to anti-vaccine views other people have that are not expressed in my comment. I said that _if_ Covid-19 infection confers equal levels of protection to vaccination then it is irresponsible to try and coerce people who have been infected to get vaccinations they don't need. I have said nothing about anything else. If you have issues with what those people have said you should take it up with them
You have no clue what you are talking about and have spouted multiple falsehoods in your comment, especially in regards to phase 3 trials not being completed (they are) and that they are not conducting follow ups for an extended period of time (again, they are).

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-vaccines-idU...

They have filed for full authorization for a reason. These vaccines have enough data backing their safety for full approval.
Remember earlier this year a fund manager said they expected inflation over 5%, and probably 8-10%...I can tell you that view was regarded as total and utter insanity at the time. But you looked at fiscal, you looked at monetary...and how could anything else happen?

What was truly odd was people saying that 50% of GDP of stimulus would have no price effect. The frog in the water not noticing the rising heat.