skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right — why isn't it cool to distinguish, and rank, various adjacent conspiracy theory likelihoods anymore?
This is a man who's never going to move.
There isn't that much enforcement of open source license violations anyway. I bet there are lots of places where open source code gets taken, copyright/license headers stripped off and the code used in something proprietary as well as the bog-standard "not releasing code for modified versions of Linux" violation.
Well before the pandemic, I was talking to a recruiter about a position where I feel I would've been perfect, and had a great time doing some very interesting work with a pretty fun team (very distributed).

I wouldn't budge on not relocating, and so the idea kind of fizzled out. People with a remote-first mindset were more rare a few years ago. Today, you're going to miss out on a lot of ideal job candidates (and lose good talent) if you can't open up to not forcing employees to congregate around managers in-person all the time.
That's fair; upon thinking about it, basically every appliance I have (oven, microwave, etc) has some kind of computer in it, but they have no network access and I will probably have all of them for several decades.
As a fellow FAANG, I completely agree
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Definitely, I read it in a day it was so enthralling.
The experience with mail in voting and RCV in NYC is a textbook example of “in theory theory and practice are the same, but in practice they’re different.” RCV is undoubtedly a superior voting model to FPTP. And making it easier to vote is good too. But does it feel as decisive and reliable to your average non-college graduate as a FPTP election where results come down the same day?

The most important consideration for elections, of course, is not theoretical optimality, but whether they are perceived as fair and secure.
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Whether or not it's "moral" to apply to the job, this whole argument shows the problem with listing minimum requirements like that: in this very thread, you've got people saying "I'm not going to bother," so you've shrunk your candidate pool.

Is "doesn't want to waste our time when we tell them not to waste our time" really an important attribute for you to reject candidates on? Or would more accurate "minimum" requirements be better?
People love to cherry pick parts which have "no impact on humanity" but the truth is that all the effects combined already do have impacts.

Of course 1mm rise in sea level doesn't matter but what about warmer ocean creating different currents, which in turns affects storms and hurricanes, marine life, ocean acidification, mass insects/animal migrations &c.

If climate change was just about 1mm of water and 1c more it wouldn't be an issue, the problem is that Earth is an infinitely complex system full of inter dependant parts we barely understand and we might very be breaking important sub systems without even realizing it.

> its probably more useful to look at the La Nina, El Nino cycles and what they are doing right now.

Indeed, and I guess you haven't done it, looks like climate change plays a (negative) role in that too:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-making-el-nin...

https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2685/...
> us folks who don't use smartphones

Good to know you. I'm working on a plan to get rid of it myself in the near future, Is there any community for non-smartphone but technically inclined?
That quote is an example of self censorship by the author who doesn’t want to be hit with a lawsuit from the fraud Craig Wright.
You can't just generalize like this. There is no standard price, as it is highly dependent on your geographic location.

Before COVID I just built a fully custom house in the OKC area for $142/sq. ft. including all my upgrades (base was $135 including land in a subdivision). Prices have definitely gone up due to lumber and are now in the $155-165/sq. ft. range base including land.
Hopefully those are less public facing systems.
I think you're making a mistake a lot of Erlang/BEAM/etc. (let me call it just Erlang after this) advocates make, which is to conflate Erlang's solutions to problems with the only solutions to problems. Almost no software is written in a language that has the ability to actively kill running threads externally. This is not a catastrophic problem that causes the rest of us to routinely break down in tears; it is a thing that occasionally causes bugs, merely one on a long list of such things. On the scale of problems I have, this isn't even in my top 50. When systems are written with that understanding, it's only a minor roadbump. So the fact that I don't have Erlang's exact solution to that problem isn't even remotely worth me switching (back) to Erlang for.

Is it a problem? Yes, absolutely. Is it a problem worth spending extremely valuable language design budget on? Heck no, and the fact that Erlang does is a negative to me, because what they gave up to get that capability is way more important to me.

Does my solution exactly match Erlang? No. Of course not. But it gets me 90% of what I care about for 10% of the effort, and in the meantime I get the other things that directly impact my job on a minute-by-minute basis, like an even halfway decent type system (it's not like Go's is some sort of masterpiece here, but it's much better than BEAM's), which Erlang sacrificed as part of its original plan. I understand why they have the type system they have, and what they got out of it, and I'd rather have a decent static type system and solve those problems another way, which happens to be the conclusion pretty much everyone else has come to as well. Again, genius thinking in the 1990s, way ahead of everyone else, don't let my current assessment of Erlang diminish the fact I deeply respect what it did in its time... but not a solution I have much interest in in 2021.
Cliff, reading `The Cuckoo's Egg` in the 90's when I was in my early teens was a watershed moment in my life. Set me up upon a path of discovery and fascination with technology of all kinds. Countless thanks!
> Maybe the reason it feels impossible to stem the tide of link rot is that it's takes tremendous energy to constantly increase the entropy of a system.

I suppose you meant "decrease"
Not all of them are rich, unless you count the value of their 80-years old home. They may have a high net worth but be cash-strapped.
Great advice if you have to read local weather reports regularly. The root comment was asking that writers include Celsius units in an article for a broad audience, which is also fair criticism.
For most saas out there, once all the requirements are that well understood the product is already 70% built.
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Why are those the only two options? Is taxing wealthy people impossible?
It appears as though they are not hiring teachers. Not sure why they're eager to find students but not looking for talent to teach those students.
A big part of the rather documentation and process-heavy development model at FAANGs and other large corporations is to ensure that other people can take over a project if any individual leaves. Much as people will hate this analogy, "cattle, not pets" is a concept managers and HR knew long before the software industry stumbled on it. The people at FAANGs are highly-talented but, even at that level, only a handful are truly irreplaceable (and those people were so valued that they were allowed to work from anywhere they wanted even before the pandemic).
Lots of good advice around. My Personal story might have a few takeaways for you.
Started as a sw developer in India, moved to US progressed as technical expert on the product. Moved back to India and became Manager. In 3 years as a manager realized how much I liked coding. I am at best an average developer, but the satisfaction I got after fixing a small defect was priceless. By this time I've had 15 years of "experience" in industry. I did my masters and now working as a full stack developer. Couldn't be happier.

Take a month off your job. Find out what you really like. You can read through all the replies let them brew, but the final answer will come from within. Trust your gut and take the risk.

May the force be with you !!!
> feel free to submit them not only will you get a founding badge but if you're the first person to create it you'll be known as the source of them in the future.

That sounds wrong. As in "I could upload quotes from Gang Of Four books and claim I am the source" wrong.
Going rate for someone in India that is as good as me is about 60% of my pay. So if they are making 1/3 as much as me they are not as good as me (though not 1/3)
The policy for applying for wWFH at the FAANG I work at involves seniority and VP approval.
What's the relevance here for how to distinguish between great and small minds?
In Europe ATMs that I saw used to run Windows NT.
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There are some interesting ideas in that, but it feels odd to be arguing for deforestation. Which doesn't mean it's wrong. Just contrary to the usual teachings.
It takes time. Some people have a jumpstart, it is true, but there are ways for us who didn't, to build a network of trust.

Be good at what you do, genuinely help people, without expecting or calculating whether it'll be beneficial to you, stay close with those who help you, and who you helped.

Eventually, you'll find your way into a good cluster. Some start in the middle of it, we started in the periphery. Accrue good faith and trust and it will only keep growing. It's non linear. Something something preferential attachment.
I get it, the pandemic changed the game. I would personally not work for a company that doesn't give you the option of WFH but the FAANG companies are in a different ballgame. Millions of people would give their left toe to work at a company like Apple. Me included.

Who cares about WFH when you get to live in California and work with some of the brightest minds? Only privileged person wouldn't value that.
I am increasingly worried about the valuable content on YouTube. There are so many old live concerts, useful how-to videos and other cultural treasures amidst all the junk. I suspect that one day, they will make their ads unblockable by embedding them in the video files. I sure hope that some people are downloading the valuable stuff and stashing it away to load onto YouTube's successor.

<and please skip the tired argument that I should just pay a subscription fee to avoid their ad crap - we are already paying them with our data. My data is worth far more to me than the value they provide for it. Plus - I won't give money to a company who forced this Faustian bargain on me.>
Neat! this is basically the app I'm building. A 3D world where you can place files and web browsers on structures you construct. Although it's less about memorization and more for organization ("I put that on the wall past the pink elephant"). And because I'm a nerd, everything gets saved as JSON so it's easy to hack around.

spatial memory is an underappreciated mechanism of our brains, and was one of the founding concepts of MacOS (that you could spatially remember where files are)
The city is the local government.
tbh, r/workspaces seems like an uglier version of the generic things you mention.
And look at the rate of sea level change since the last ice age:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...
It’s funny, if they earn 2% per year that’s $640M.

With 12k undergrads at $60k, that’s $720M.

Seems like they should just stop charging tuition altogether.
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I had a similar personal experience. I was hired by the technical team at a very big company(after 6 interviews; 3 face-to-face and 3 remote), but the HR was not sure. All my experience before that was working for smaller companies. The argument the HR made was that I will not survive in the big company as most of my experience was with smaller companies. The HR was right. In a year I just could not stand the inefficiency and waste of talent at the company. I moved to another division within the same company. The same story repeated. I left the company after 2 years. Interestingly I was not the only one. This was a major problem at the company. But the company is so big that it does not even care if people leave as there are a lot of engineers knocking at the door every single day to get in!
It is a tad ironic that Apple recently finished their immaculate, state-of-the-art campus and now everyone would rather just work from home.
You say this like China wouldn’t suffer. Their economy will come to a screeching halt when they have no one to export their goods to. The CCP would lose whatever faith their citizens have left in them.
It often makes me wonder why weather reports dont mention the wet bulb temperatures, is it that these measurements are not usually available from monitoring stations?
"Polio vaccine rolled out to 1M kids as a test" is seen as a good thing yet fails to state the downside:
* Tuskegee experiment
* LSD experiments on military
* Many other hidden experiments and abuses

But you know, that wouldn't affect him so let's go do it.

I just find his pov so self serving it's very hard to read.
> Why do we as an industry put up with this? Lawyers Don't, Doctors Don't.

It's a class difference. Fussell places the typical doctor or lawyer in the Upper Middle. Most developers are, in their relationships with their employers and their employment (not in terms of income!), Mid-Prole, High-Prole, or solidly Middle, under a Fussellian classification. Elevating us to Upper-Middle would put us on par with much of upper management, and where most middle managers want to be but are not and are constantly irritated that they are not, in terms of freedom and respect.

No surprise that corporations (managers, in particular) resist this inversion of class-liberty compared with the corporate hierarchy, especially since they (managers) set the rules and the tone. It's bad enough we might make more money than they do. And besides, most developers haven't been socialized, in childhood, in school, or in their early career (so, the periods of life when class education occurs) into the Upper-Middle. We don't really expect better, would probably feel uncomfortable or like beggars requesting better, and (truly) may even feel uncomfortable or lost with the resulting freedom.

Put another way: who do doctors in a hospital answer to? Who do lawyers answer to, in a law firm? Classically, doctors and lawyers, right? Notice how upset doctors are about professional management infiltrating hospitals? That's them resisting dropping down in social class.
I mean, the basic rule of thumb I learned for C was that 20 is room temperature, above 30 is hot, below 0 is freezing

Same deal with F, 70 is room temperature, above 90 is hot and below 30 is freezing

That alone has been enough to help me switch back and forth between the two systems easily enough. Or at least I'm not shocked when 14 C is kinda chilly or when 95 F is damn hot

Granted, if you need to be more precise than that, then that comes down to having a calculator handy, but for common use this has been enough for me

Edit: In hindsight, this might just mean that as a F native, C is much easier to learn than the other way around
1. The NYC Election board is run by friends and family of politicians. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect...

This is what happens when you hire based on "connections" instead of competence.

2. These are just preliminary results to give a general idea of where the election is going and help debug the initial process.
The article does not scroll on an older Chrome... the internet is indeed rotten.
"Companies arent democracies" but they behave exactly like them in this case.

If everyone refused to work from office tomorrow, that tim cook guy would bend in an instant. And they should refuse.
I imagine writing software that IDs people so a drone can drop a bomb on their head would make one feel terrible.

Or those automated gun turrets?
So, your explanation basically confirms that right now your dashboard shows fake results. You call these results “autogenerated profile link at [data broker site] for [name at city, state].” Instead of a link which “you can click through to view your profile” as advertised on your site, many of those links lead to 404 or some random page on a data broker site because your system has found nothing. In case of a bogus name, 100% of those links are fake. I call them fake because they are what they are - imitations of “found” results.
Just to clarify, a “bogus name” test is a quick way to check if a privacy service does a real search on data broker sites or just imitates that it found something. For a bogus name I’d expect to see 0 profiles found as a result of a scan. That would be logical and ethical.
To sum up, you invite people to register at your service and give away their PII. Then, these people get fake results in exchange for their PII and are invited to sign up and pay. Then, a user expresses her concern to the founders and they say that it is ok for a privacy service to act like this.
At least Optery is useless and a waste of time, at worst this service is unethical. With this type of reaction from founders, I’d think twice before sending them any personal data or having anything to do with them at all.
> If anything, this is an example of the FBI demonstrating, perhaps, insufficient willingness to pursue investigation into a politically allied nation

When you regularly use other nations to do your bidding, what the hell is the difference?
> Carmack does not have a Master’s Degree, as listed in the minimum requirements. Other than that, he seems to greatly exceed every other requirement.

Carmack doesn't have 8+ years of experience in Machine Learning, he's only been working on AI full time for about 3 years.

Carmack doesn't have substantial experience with "mobile graphics pipelines" or "graphics hardware and drivers on mobile platforms" - as Oculus, Quake and Doom were all PC-only.

Carmack isn't a "Proven cross-functional partner, working across functions to drive solutions" because those are nonsense words that mean nothing.
When I had my little ISP in the early 90s, Cliff's book was given to every new customer for the first few years.
> information about topics of interest that you can edit

Which is literally just data.

> a forum through you can interact with other people

Which is just a means of exchanging data.

What is missing in both cases is any transportation of people or material across the border.
> Developers choose the tools that makes them productive and that are enjoyable

That true, but that points more towards Svelte taking over.
Can't blame them. They spent loads on their new office?
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Then we would be living in an alternate dystopian reality.

Has privilege just come to be a catch-all to explain any difference in outcomes? I mean you mention Buffet first, kinda ruins the point you are making here.

As a software engineer, I fail to see what is so impossible about any of the people's origin stories. With a little programming knowledge, a somewhat novel idea, and a laptop anyone could become the next Zuck. They aren't royalty, no special blood requirement anymore.
Many behaviors which are healthy and beneficial at human-level scale can easily become unhealthy and unethical at industrial automation scale. There's little universal harm in cutting down a tree for fire during the winter; there is significant harm in clear-cutting a forest to do the same for a thousand people.
Where I work, those who want to continue to WFH can and those who want to go back to the office can; living 10 minutes away, I'm happy to go there two-three days a week and be physically in the same space as the colleagues who also want to be there (mostly those who live close by and also want to go to the office); also I appreciate the coffee machine, HVAC and opportunity for lunch and coffee breaks with the colleagues. While those who live 1h+ from the office or prefer to WFH can continue that way. Of course upper management isn't clear on if it will continue to function this way (I certainly hope so for my colleagues who are happy to avoid their commute).
Democracies vote to oppress minorities all the time. Democracy is not the solution.
I really don't believe that is the best alternative. If $1000 is really enough to get enough laptops for whatever number of participants there, then you're better off using half or less of that to upgrade with SSDs and RAM. Elitebooks are HP's business class laptops, so they have great amount of ports and upgradability alongside with being built like tanks. Very repairable as well. What proper laptops do you think you'll be able to get with only $1000? At best they would be chromebooks or flimsy consumer grade laptops. Or did you mean $1000 per laptop for each participant? That seems like a poor use of resources tbh. I don't think there's a need to use that much money on beginners learning to code. Not all of them will even stay and finish the course anyway. In fact, it'd probably be a real nice experience to order the ram and ssds and then instruct them how to upgrade the laptops themselves.

Just my opinion though, it's not up to me so I have no skin in the game so take it for what it is.
It’s a bad look when a technology company isn’t confident enough in their own technology, tools and processes to allow and encourage their employees to have more flexibility in their lives, and restrict the majority of them to live in one of the highest cost of living areas in the country. Especially for reasons that have very little actual (read: non-anecdotal and scientifically valid) evidence of being an actual benefit.

It’s a real shame. I’ve been a big fan of Apple’s products for awhile now. I did my PhD work on a 2014 MacBook Pro, and I switched from Android to iPhone around the same time, and I’ve been very happy with both. That laptop in particular has lasted me longer than any other computer I’ve used. I’d love to apply for a job there, to spend some time seeing how the sausage is made, so to speak. But I have family obligations that make it very hard for me to move.

Obviously it’s the executives’ choice, but I definitely feel like they’re really cutting down on their potential candidate pool for very little potential upside. Especially considering they tend to pay less than the other big players.
Well to me those are fundamental questions that need to be addressed one way or the other. Are systems like GPT-x basically plagiarising (doesn't matter the nature of the output, be it prose, code, or audio-visual) or are the results so transformative in nature that they can be considered to be "original work"?

In other words, are these systems to be treated like students that learned to perform the task they do from a collection of source material, or are they to be viewed as sophisticated databases that "just" perform context-sensitive retrieval?

These are interesting and important questions and I'm glad someone is publicly asking them and that many of us at least think about them.
How would china look with no money coming in for six months? China is incapable of standing on their own. Propped up by IT theft and copycat companies funded by the CCP. Dry up the money and it’ll be the USSR pt 2 in China.