skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Do you support X” questions don’t mean anything without the “what will you pay?” question.

European countries tax middle class people to subsidize the 25-30% of relatively privileged people who get a university degree. That’s actually quite regressive. The Anglo (US, UK, and AUS) system of government loans with income-based repayment is superior.
This is Apple, anyone who resigns and leaves because they can’t work from home will be rapidly filled by someone who’s always wanted to work at Apple, and will gladly work from home.
What? The "Cyber Ninjas" aren't doing it for you?
> I'm afraid nobody has perfect information. People in mainland China read anything with filters and are aware of what's really going on, so I don't think it should be that different elsewhere.

That's a false equivalency, like saying 'people in Pyonyang aren't perfectly free, nor are people in New York, so it's basically the same.' It's not at all the same.
>Please, in California, that “old elderly couple” pays no property taxes

That's why they want them out. To replace them with someone who pays big $$$$. What's so hard to get about this?

They don't want them moving their caregiver into an ADU. They don't want them renting their ADU to supplement a fixed income. They want them gone. Since they can't tax them out they just prevent them from making money on their land value (via zoning) and let the COL do the rest.

>and can spend their life blocking housing for new middle class families (and they do, all the time).

The elderly sometimes do this but they are mostly scapegoats. The primary culprits are the 30-something on up through middle aged crowd who still need to work and need property values to remain high long enough that they can cash out of the ponzi scheme and retire to elsewhere.
> A more involved restrain means no bracing, which means more forces on the neck.

Did you miss the GPs bit about facing the seats backwards? Then the whole backrest becomes your restraint. (I mean, most airplane crashes are forwards, right -- they don't get rear-ended all that often?)
> The crypto community is largely divided over Wright’s claims that he invented Bitcoin.

Anything but. Bar a few, the entire space asserts that Craig Wright is a fraud.
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I agree with this line of reasoning. Owners of real estate, either directly or indirectly via owning interests in a company with real estate will have an incentive for everyone to return to office. Middle management may also have an incentive to return to office, lest they be found redundant.

Otherwise, I am sure most people by and large would enjoy would enjoy not wasting their life transiting back and forth to work.
Come on, there is a huge gap between 1) writing a single function (potentially incorrectly) with a known prototype/interface and a description and 2) designing interfaces, datatypes and APIs themselves.
That mini warehouse with his home-hacked remote control forklift is amazing. I want to be friends with this man.
> This is almost surely wrong for most developers, or else rewrites wouldn't fail to deliver within the estimated time so often. Rewrites per definition already has a perfect specification in the old code, just write something working the same way using a new architecture. But that is still really hard to deliver apparently.

This is precisely why rewrites fail!

I've never seen a rewrite where the devs had a perfect understanding of what the old code was doing. They understand the happy path, probably. Not the millions of edge cases through the years.

They only learn the requirements after knocking out the easy stuff and then getting into the gritty bits of bringing over all the edge cases that didn't fit their new mental model easily.
If the employees don't like it, they're free to take their talent somewhere else.
Daring Fireball's John Gruber had a rather scathing take on this a few weeks ago...

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-wo...
So in Canada, while the public system is 'single payer' - private healthcare and coverage isn't illegal. The public system is structured so that it cannot subsidize private care. Turns out, nobody wants private care so it just doesn't exist. I mean, why would they? You get sick, you go to the hospital, you get better and you leave. Bankruptcy not required.
And it’s modular so there’s probably the option to add on in the future for a lower cost. Adding a second story for example.

I agree with the iPod analogy.
I guess you have to balance the harm caused by the "lower velocity of money" as a result of wealthy investing a portion of their earnings vs decreasing the incentives that allow one to become wealthy in the first place thus reducing wealth generation to flatten the inequality. Hasn't this been tried in almost every socialist country in South America?
For sure.

Although worth keeping in mind that organising enough to agree on a demand is part of how unions are formed. Also sending a unified demand is part of how unions negotiate.
>A freak heat wave and a freak blizzard both show that climate is changing, and not for the best.

Freak events don't show anything, that's why they are freak events.
No there isn't. The period in the 1920's to 1940's had more heat extremes.
See USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.
Kanban lends itself well to this.

Breaking down work into similarly sized tickets/units can, over time, be used to predict delivery/capacity (which one can use Cycle time to calibrate)

Even neater with enough data it becomes possible to use Monte Carlo simulations to give you confidence intervals on how much can you do or how long you will take to do X amount of work.

https://kanbanize.com/kanban-resources/kanban-analytics/mont...

I find this approach a lot less time consuming, more predicable and reliable.
Not sure how much it would matter but the main difference I see is that if I upload my own code to GitHub I have the ability to give away the IP, but if I upload Avengers End Game to YouTube I don't have the right to give that away.
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> 9/11 truthers believe that the World Trade Center was taken down by missiles and controlled demolition

Speaking for an entire group, almost always going to fail.
I really like that you've thought about these - and 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.

It's not really about better or worse, what I've found is different people have different backgrounds and what principles they find useful is based on several things, which may be immuntable - such as strongly held values.

You're never going to make me not care about aesthetics for example, as that is intrinsic to me and that will affect the principles I like and ultimately the people that I work best with.

An analogy I like to think about is that people with very different principles are like two people holding a rope and pulling away from each other - you aren't going to get anywhere fast.

Whereas people with similish principles, will generally go in the right direction. Sure, they'll get tangled up from time to time and you won't always want to get in exactly the same way. But there's a collaborative nature to it and you'll both improve.
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Exactly. As a software engineer (now for 30 years), I've always considered myself a techno-whore. I sell technical-skills for money, and I'm fine with that. I'm very good at it, my stuff has been in several keynotes where the company wants to show stuff off..

I'm not especially invested in my employer, other than the stock price going up for all those lovely RSU's, but that hasn't stopped me working hard for one company for the last 16 years. The thing is though, that I work to live, not live to work.

I don't get a free lunch, but TANSTAAFL is as true now as it ever was; more important to me is that WFH (for me) is a major benefit, and this past year has shown it is (a) possible, (b) functional, and (c) oh so desirable.

So, for the first time in 16 years I'm seriously considering jumping ship. There's a chance I'll be promoted in October/November (one of those keynote things again) which comes with a healthy up-tick in bonus/salary so I'll probably stick around for that, but thereafter ? Close inspection of the market will ensue.
Timber prices have quadrupled last few months.

There is an economy of scale and efficiency in building large prefab pieces of a house on a factory, as opposed to the ad-hoc local conditions. Machines can do a lot on a factory which they cannot do on a traditional construction site, and human labor is not cheap in the U.S., especially if you want licensed contractors to build a house according to the code.

Also, these homes don't look the cheapest edifices you can produce. A part of their value proposition is deployment speed. IDK if it's an important differentiator for that market segment.

I also suppose that such homes can be rolled back nearly as efficiently as they are deployed, several times, so they can serve as mobile homes for disaster relief, construction in remote parts, etc.
Questions like this go much deeper and illustrate issues that need to be addressed before the technology becomes standard and widely adopted.

It's not about progress or supressing it, it's a fundamental question about whether it is OK for huge companies to profit from the work of others without as much as giving credit, and if using AI this way represents an instance of doing so.

The latter aspect goes beyond productivity or licensing - the OP asserts that AI isn't equivalent to a student who learned from examples how to perform a task, but rather replicates (recalls) or reproduces the works of others (e.g. the training material).

It's a question that goes beyond this particular application: what about GAN-based generators? Do they merely reproduce slight variations of the training material? If so, wouldn't the authors of the training material have some kind of intellectual property rights to the generated works?

This doesn't just concern code snippets, it's a general question about AI, crediting creators, and circumventing licensing and intellectual property rights.
Yeah, I kind of hate all these articles spouting off ground temp.

The ground temp at furnace creek, NV, which the world record air temp is held (53C), is 94C. It's not really fair to conflate the two ideas.
Sure, on a geological timescale, it's possible for very hot planets to cool down.

However, geologicial timescales might as well be infinite compared to human timescales.

https://xkcd.com/1732 is a good visualization of this.
Additionally, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, fake requirements can be used as a reason to arbitrarily reject otherwise good candidates (for example to provide cover for rejection over being a minority). So it's not unreasonable to suspect that minorities have learned to ignore those listings as they just waste time.
The longer time goes on, the more rare records should become. But record highs are becoming more common
It's a legal/regulatory term so I guess the coldness is to be expected: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accessory-dwelling-unit...

Guess it comes down to your target audience. If you're market primarily consists of landlords looking to make rental income, ADU seems to fit the bill.
None of these require a framework.
I'm always confused when I see people talking about automated luxury communism. Whoever owns the "means of production" isn't going to obtain or develop them for free. Without some omnipotent benevolent world government to build it out for all, I just don't see it happening. It's a beautiful end goal for society, but I've never seen a remotely plausible set of intermediate steps to get there
>Tools like email, instant messenger, and online calendars made secretaries much more productive which increased demand for the skills. Wait...

There are more "secretaries" than ever, and they get to do far more productive things than delivering phone messages.
> Why should I pay you more than some other remote worker in India, who'll work for a third of your pay?

Because someone as good as me in India makes a lot more than a third of my pay. They do make a lot less them me, but not that much less.

Because someone in India isn't in the same timezone as me. Call me at your local 2pm and I'm wide awake. Call someone in India then and you get them out of bed. Of course some reading this will discover that India is a better timezone than mine. I work with great people in Australia, India, and Mexico - it isn't possible to have a meeting with all at the same time because the timezones don't overlap right.
These really aren’t definitions of democracy

Constitutions provide inclusiveness, constitutions are not unique to any system of governance, and can be the basis for any form of governance

Collaboration with the people willing to abide by the system isn’t unique to any system of governance, and is required by all systems

Democracy is just rule by majority
There's an Apple TV+ original show called Mythic Quest[1] about a video game company and they did a really great episode about game development and mental health. The show is mostly a comedy and written by some of the people from Always Sunny.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_Quest
This. People who leave Apple don't work there anymore but will have a tinge or regret. Ex-Apple folk are viewed as a blessing (must be smart) or a drag (overpaid) when reentering the job market.
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I doubt a lot of people would commute between Milwaukee and Madison when the Amtrak Hiawatha is 1.5 hours from Milwaukee to Chicago, within walking distance to Google Chicago.
This is for the new ranked choice voting, which will be NYC's election system going forward. And it's for the democratic primary for NYC mayor.
Because individual source files might have license headers that override the root license file in the repository.
This is one of the points of the article.

Conflation of adjacent theories is an easy route to defeating them in court of public opinion.

"fake 9/11" isn't even close....
suffering enables certain bonding -- art students are often massively, embarrassingly entitled

source: I was an art student
One thing I haven’t understood with Aphantasia is this. Do people actually see stuff when they imagine things? Some test I’ve seen ask to imagine some object and close your eyes then ask if you see a black wall. Is it actually possible to see anything else?
I’m worried about my job. What do I do to prepare?
The Taylorist principles of management don't apply to knowledge work in my experience.

The simple principles above do apply in my experience, presumably there is some difference in practice.

Maybe everyone thinks they have it figured out but some people demonstrably do, because they deliver software on time which meets requirements. I agree with delivering software early and often, and that is a solid basis for delivering reliable estimates and promises you can keep.

Where estimates fail IME it's down to lack of accountability and communication among stakeholders, which leads to constantly shifting and unclear priorities and requirements.
In London, they used shipping container homes to house homeless people on unused local government-owned land. Pretty much instantly stories were in the media about how the conditions were "inhuman" (bizarrely, from people who had chosen to illegally immigrate to the UK from France, and complained that they had a nice house in Sudan or wherever).

So I think the reality of these schemes is often...difficult because they are a non-ideal solution to a non-ideal problem (and unf, the alternative in the UK is sheltered housing with huge levels of crime, B&B which cost taxpayers £150-200/day, or council housing that is worth £500k-1m...again, there are no real solutions here).

EDIT: btw, I should add...I have actually lived in a shipping container, I went to a boarding school and part of the school was being re-developed so a small number of proportion of the group had to spend a term in converted containers...no issue. It was totally fine. These kind of housing solutions are used pretty extensively in mining/oil and gas, and they are quite comfortable.
> There is an economy of scale and efficiency in building large prefab pieces of a house on a factory, as opposed to the ad-hoc local conditions.

This is only true if you are building 1 home. If you are building 25 or 100 homes, on-site construction is the way to go.
I did it on company time. The thing is, he wouldn't even look at it. He was so afraid of making a decision that any process change wasn't going to happen.

Unsurprisingly, the person who didn't want to change anything eventually ended up leaving.

Things are very weird in small companies.
>I myself attended university for a single year before deeming it completely not worth the time and money

almost the same with me. i was already living by myself went i started to go to college. where i live, college is not a "full time job" -- i had to work all day long then attend classes at night. it was basically exhausting.

i decided to quit college and instead focus on my career -- which was absolutely the right idea. i learned more by doing than by going to college.
Two comments:

1. Is it seriously that difficult to just count votes? Why does this keep happening.

2. How can a decision even be made with so many absentee votes? Surely those could change who's eliminated and thus, the entire election.
With computers and dev tools, trying to get the current PI complete.
> why Javascript for the backend?...[I'd] probably head over to e.g. Python once databases et al start getting involved

I could ask the same thing: why Python for the back-end?

Both languages have similar feature-sets and are roughly equally suitable to this task. Given that, a person should use whichever they're most comfortable with. Lots of people are comfortable with JavaScript these days, ergo there's lots of activity in the JavaScript SSG space.
When HR creates fake requirements the goal is exactly to be able to weed out anyone they don't like. If someone is not from the "right" group they'll just let them know that they don't meet the "minimum requirements".
It may be necessary but not sufficient, that's somewhere to start at least.
Ironically, deleting stuff on the web is technically REDUCING its entropy.
It's a wind phenomenon of a particular kind specific to that region. That's weird. It's weird to have a swing of 20-50 degrees within a single day. It's regular in those specific regions, but it's weird on whole. If you don't like the word weird, you can use the word strange or unique. Weird is more fun. I like fun.
This is false. USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.
They forgot to disable "Test Mode" from the previous election in Nov 2020
77mm×66.8mm comes out to 5144mm², so 60mm² sounds positively minuscule. Where's the mistake?
the dude that does all the electrical stuff at my apartment does not have a license at all.

but he does have almost 30y of experience. i would take the experience of the license.
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Not quite -- in Bitcoin (and other hard money, proof of work coins) we use energy to mine, and that ensures that bitcoin is hard to produce. We must consider the 'stock to flow' model of emission. Proof of Stake coins are made up out of thin air and are actually worthless.
It makes sense when you consider that a lot of employees never had a home office or budgeted space for it when they got their living space. It can also be stressful if you have family home all day too.
Nice! I have not started up my System76 laptop in a little while, but I will play with this later today.

I am sort-of locked into Apple's little walled garden because I am mostly retired, and my iPad Pro, iPhone, and Apple Watch comprise most of my device use, and macOS integrates nicely with all three.

That said, System76 and Pop_OS are great, and I value the experience and freedom of my System76 laptop. I strongly recommend them.
That is not even the right question.

Why are developers so myopic around big tech? Of course they can. Facebook can use your private photos. It's in their terms and services. Cloud providers have more generous terms.

The response has always been they won't do that because they have a reputation to manage. The further they grow the further they control the narrative so the less this matters.

Wait until you find out they sell your data or use your data to sell products.

Why in 2021 are we giving Microsoft all of our code? It seems like the 90s, 2000s never happened and we all trust microsoft. They have a free editor and a free operating system that sends packets of activity the user does back to microsoft but that's okay.. we want to help improve their products? We trust them.
The VAST majority of the comments here are missing John's point entirely.

This is about credentialism, not experience. John definitely meets the listed minimum requirements in terms of experience, but he was too busy inventing an entire industry to go get a Master's degree, or any degree, for that matter.
Like what I said when speaking of Alien Life [0] it all comes down to chemistry and biology and the evolution when talking about naturally occurring intelligence.

When speaking about AI as far as I understand it should be human like in order to be called artificial intelligence. If it mimics human intelligence and solves trivial problems then it is nothing than calculator with primitive intelligence that I mentioned before.

The thing you are talking is evolution, you acquire model of the world during millions of years of the evolution step by step but today computer scientists are trying to hardcode
human like intelligence into computers which is extremely hard taking in consideration how long it took for humans to become highly intelligent. I think better approach would be to write evolutionary algorithms which perhaps can yield human like intelligence.

There is some secret ingredient in human evolution which made us the most intelligent specie on Earth no specie is even remotely close to be as intelligent as we are. I think nobody really knows what that secret ingredient is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27574320
Apple is probably paying closer to $20k per wafer, including test and packaging. There have been leaks on pricing in the industry, leading edge process is expensive. Even at 50M chips. TSMC is in a position to command a price that pays to build the next gen fab, and there are other customers.

Masks are also a significant expense. N5 is an EUV intensive process with $10..20M per set. They probably run through a new mask set every 50,000 wafers or so, and likely need 2 mask sets to get beyond 10,000 (two days) so they can swap them out for inspection and cleaning. So their mask costs for the 100,000 wafers they need are somewhere above $50M.

It is interesting to compare with a project like Graviton2 on N7, which is more like $12k per wafer including test and packaging and likely 120 chips yielded at 4cm2 each. They probably need 2M chips per generation, and as their design is not nearly as aggressive as the A14, with far fewer different functional blocks and mostly off the shelf IP, they may have done it with as little as $200M of R&D. So they can get a G2 for as low as $200, maybe as much as $300. That makes each core $5 or less. About a third the price of the DRAM they need per core.