skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's also ultimately not something to be anthropomorphized, but rather a faceless machine that makes often bad decisions that I don't have any real influence over."

Best comment in the article.

I feel that this is a very recurrent problem on HN in particular and on the internet in general: people anthropomorphizing companies and assigning them human-like intents ("Google is evil", "Exxon is reckless").

We all forget that:

a) companies are nothing but a bunch of people doing things together within some sort of hierarchical structure.

b) the emergent behavior of said group has got precious little to do with the parts that compose it and certainly can't be assigned things like desire, morals, feelings, ethos.

c) as much as we'd *love* to believe b) above or even try to actually implement it (the whole "company culture" kool-aid), the truth is *no one* can get an org as large as Google to do anything, even its CEO. Once the thing is large enough, it basically becomes autonomous.

Large corps are large doomsday machines with basically no one at the wheel.
Is the number of coronavirus cases still the best measure of the pandemic?
America is many states, laws like this are state-level, so there are 50 different laws in this regard and my guess is that most states don’t have a law covering this scenario due to it’s rarity.
The core features are pretty much universal and used in a lot of apps (chats, forums, git repositories, project management). Custom flavors maybe not rendered correctly at times but this doesn't make documents unreadable
TCP Fast Open? Not so fast
It's much better than Windows 10 in this regard. And it looks like in this video [1] there are some adaptive features when you use a touch interface.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/check-out-windows-11-surface-...
I wonder how many flaps you could possibly check on your Tesla during your commute (i'm being sarcastic).

Also, I could imagine that an airplane is, from a totally theoretical and simplicistic point of view, much easier to manage for a computer, even for simply having a lot of space to maneuver, and knowing constantly what other airplanes are doing.

But driving a car? How can a computer possibily handle a scenario where edge-cases make for a good 85% of each travel, unless you drive in the desert?
> but I still don't own a home even after 7 years working (and some of that for FAANG).

Even at the inflated SV salary values, very few colleagues I know went to buy a house there. Buying usually means leaving the valley.

> quality of life is just lower (less car ownership, much smaller homes without swimming pools or air conditioning, tiny kitchens without garbage disposal, American fridge-freezers or dishwashers, etc.)

I don't see why half of those necessarily mean "lower quality of life"

A car in the US is a necessity. Same for the fridge-freezer where you keep your big perishable purchases (whereas in European cities you can just walk to the grocery store?). And of course, none of these are exclusive to the US

I totally agree with the air-conditioners, though it seems to be changing. Swimming pools are a money pit and to be fair only in few countries it's worth having one at your house.
"us humans will consume the Earth's non-renewable energy and mineral resources almost completely within the next 50-100 years, severely reducing our discretionary income for costly activities such as space travel."

I know this is an old article. Perhaps written in the hype of peak-oil days or something like that.
The conversation is about cloud though. Local backups are nice but that means connecting the phone daily to my turned-on computer instead of just plugging it into the wall every night.
You couldn't say computer scientist
The director, Paul Verhoeven, has been very interested in World War 2 and has in fact made multiple movies set in WW2. The satiric elements in Starship Troopers and its parallels to Nazi Germany (and especially the propaganda elements) were definitely intentional.
> Great until something goes terrible wrong

Or when you have four team members, but one is on vacation and another called in sick today.
That might be true, but that is not the user's expectation and marketing at Tesla knows this isn't the user's expectation.
You made me curious: what is the quickest way to get a ticket in NZ?
a.k.a. "For God's sake, think of the children!!!1!"
We don't know how many projects would never have been written at all without GPL as a license option. Making it difficult to determine whether it's a net negative or not.
There are lots of ways to combine GPL and proprietary code without having to release the proprietary source.

And how do you feel about LGPL? Many companies seem to be terrified of it for no reason.
This is almost certainly not a problem at every FANG company. I’m at Amazon now and heads down in interviews. I work with a few different teams on both mobile apps and services. I don’t particularly care for specialization and I know as a company we’re looking for engineers across the board. If you can code, you’ll be smart enough to ramp up on whatever stack a team is working on.
> Right, but that's just boilerplate you'll find on any such agreement.

Do you have any examples for OSS? Because i do not believe that to be true.
> Why is it unacceptable?

Because, very often, we ARE users of our own software, so, we don't want the licensee of the code to forbid the licensor of the code his right to modify his own code on his own device.
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire was very likely caused by a combination of factors. The article makes a reasonable case that lead poisoning could be one of them.
The closest I can think of is that some states do not give out licensing for midwifes/home birth assistance, so if you want to have a home birth with a professional present in those states that's difficult.
Backups are so personal, complex, and niche that I doubt we’ll ever see Apple opening that up to third parties. Ever. It just won’t happen. Normal people don’t care about backups and Apple makes money through iCloud backups.
and its snappier than an Android device can get :))
The funny thing is that on their page markdown has better syntax highlighting than their own markup language
Drive real fast.
more cases = more variants so from an epidemiological standpoint it's still an important measure.
> This is, by the way, the reason why so many museum expositions are boring, it will always happen when the things inside are not “alive” and cannot be demonstrated in real use.

Would be great if retro tech museums kept everything in working/demonstrable conditions. That'd be a mission!
So the bucket is open to the world to write
There are plenty of ways to collect said information, it isn't a couple of log files that are going to save anyone.

Try to live in a society where everyone, including your closest family members, might collect such information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE
Lumia with windows phone was the best phone/OS I ever used. I wish they came back one day.
I don't own a car because I inhabit a walkable, dense city instead of enormous urban sprawl, not because I'm destitute.
it varies from state to state in the US
I suspect most IT companies have large turnover. Folks working at a gig for more than 5+ years is likely the exception not the norm.
> American fridge-freezers

Do Europeans not have fridge-freezers? Or do you mean the really large double door fridges?
Old, as in ~2019~ 2013.
It mentions four, not five mars rovers.

So its from before 30. Juli 2020.
It might have been writing during the fourth mission, so from 2004-2018 any date might be valid. But i would guess it is very new.

Update:
Appeared on HN in 2013.
In many countries passing on the right at highspeed it illegal. If traffic on the left lane was coming to a stop then it is irresponsible for the cars on the left to pass at 65mph.
Related to quality of life, I'll take cycling to work in a Nordic country over an American life with two cars and a huge dishwasher.
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I remember hearing that the canals pilots are under the responsibility of the ships captain (how convenient) and so anything they do or don’t do is still the captains fault. And apparently Suez pilots are super lazy and don’t do much. « It’s a catch 22 son, the best there is »
Yes there are plenty of photos apps but they’re no Apple Photos and they can’t upload in the background unless you open them regularly. Unfortunately they’re not as convenient. Chances are that they’re one-way syncs too, like Google Photos.
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I started to but none of it described how my mind works and I lost interest. I got to the speed reading part before I stopped. I do speed read (because of dyslexia), but none of the preceding described me to any iota and I felt that it was most definitely target and written for neurotypical individuals.
You call it a feature, I call it debt.

What you don't understand; always hurts in the end.

Also there is no perfect, those guarantees are lies.
No it isn't. But what are the options? Undiagnosed ADHD ruled out education which ruled out degrees which rules out most jobs, especially FAANG

Any place where smart people congregate have gatekeepers. Makes sense from their perspective, nobody wants to deal with other peoples problems, but we can't all just fall into early Googles haha

Anywhere desperate enough to hire based on skill doesn't have the capacity for fun projects
Found this whilst engaging in my hobby of speculative domain name prospecting. Can anyone shed light on what it's doing?
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Compiled vs. interpreted programming languages (Intro)
All of these issues have existed since GPT-2, maybe earlier. I remember the AI dungeon guys narrowly avoided a lawsuit from training on copyrighted novels. I find it amusing that the tech community was very pro GPT, but anti-copilot. Now that it affects them personally. Especially ironic because this place is usually very skeptical of copyright matters.

All AIs are trained on copyrighted data scraped from the internet. What you guys want effectively amounts to making most AI illegal. At least outside of big tech companies with large private datasets. Is that the world you prefer to live in?
Where do all these templates come from, did you buy them? Scrape them? Design them yourself?
Thanks for looking that up. I donated.
You are probably misreading it as referring to a standard medical expense while it probably refers to some advanced treatment that is only available in private healthcare, anywhere in the world.
What are you trying to get out of the blame? I do sometimes git tag --contains to find the overall feature that the blame-output commit was part of, but most of the time the most useful thing is just to see the diff for that commit or frankly even just the list of files it touches.
Id engines —as well as many other projects— were dual licensed, GPL or Proprietary. If you wanted to make a game with one, it either had to be GPL too, or you paid for a traditional licence.

This got Id paid and let modders and the open source gaming community go wild. What's the downside?

Carmack's argument about perception, but his view is really about having had more people use his software.

I think he's wrong. Brave thing for any SWE to claim but Id wouldn't have open sourced a second engine if the first was freely taken by a dozen companies and sold in competition with for game sales, giving no source improvements back.

And no, GPL advocates say it protects users of downstream projects. Software freedom is a huge topic, but the user is the focus.

The arrangement Id had protected them too. Carmack's take is just odd.
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I would expect quite the opposite.

A. Mercury is small.

B. Sun is close, and huge objects like sun tend to clear their neighbourhood of small rocks. (There are comets coming your way, though.)

C. Even if something hits Mercury, there are no oceans, so zero risk of a tsunami wreaking havoc 1000 km from the original point of impact. This is one of the disadvantages of having a liquid ocean on our surface.

That said, asteroids are not the main problem. The radiation on the surface of Mercury would be a challenge. Humans wouldn't be able to work outside during Mercury day at all, unless we can construct much better protective suits. Even getting there would be a challenge, you would get a lot of exposure during the flight.

But Mercury is rich in minerals, so perhaps we can find something of value in mineable concentration there. And building a space elevator on Mercury should be possible with current materials.

So in my case, the jury is out.
Yes, especially if the code not being GPL means the bad actor can create a product which then makes your code useless, or worse, evil (via a monopoly, bundled telemetry, or otherwise)
The location matters in both, tbh. California's average is much higher than anywhere else it seems. And I can guess where the highest salaries are in the state. Texas seems to have the second highest average.

But yeah, the average is higher than the highest paid positions in Europe, except maybe the top of the top senior ones.
But those cases are very different too (I’m not trying to defend what they did). Talking to a startup then copying their product is douchy but not illegal. Using Amazon.com sales data is like looking at the public “top products in electronics” and selling your own version of the top sellers - I imagine all large retailers do something similar when deciding what products to make own versions of.

Hacking computers, networks, or services of your competitors, even when running in you data center is just bad business.
the homes are smaller but the build quality is better :)
Still, how preventing said corp from using this software help you, or anyone else?
> If that's not possible, then Copilot should not exist

Github and Microsoft should have trained it on their own code because they could make it public domain. Using other peoples code with various licences and many different requirements is just going to be a complete shitshow.
>for example,
Did anything eventually happen with Ocropus?
Just write "you (plural)" next time to make yourself easily understood.
Not the OP but here in the UK there's a separate category of fridge-freezers called "American Fridge Freezers" which are typically the huge ones you describe.
Everybody I know has a fridge-freezer, but not many of those are "American Fridge Freezers".
Can you provide a link on the "forced" part ? Maybe they realized that is fucking OK to respect the license , they would not like it if someone fucks with their proprietary code either.
There is no community transmission of this strain. It was detected in hotel quarantine,
FYI, Kim Stanley Robinson's book '2312'[1] has a large chunk of the story set on Mercury - with a novel concept for the colony. (Small story spoilers in the link below)

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel)
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Then this museum could be to your liking: https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/

Based in the Netherlands, they keep all devices in working condition and you can actually use them. Some on request.
I would prefer a sauna to a swimming pool any day. :)
It's not that black or white though, more than 60% of the World population has been infected with Toxoplasmosis, yet you don't see people running towards lions at every corner.

The path how the parasite infects rodents, then cats, then humans is very complex and not at all consistent, most articles on the Internet dumb it down way too much.

This Youtuber has an awesome explanation on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlHNhrMw-A

Also, his channel is translated from Hungarian, it's an awesome channel btw.
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And the flipside is: don't abuse escape hatches.
Copyright holder can do anything he wants with his code, so yes, John can rerererererelease his own code under different license. However, you cannot do that, even if the copyright holder told you something. He may change his mind tomorrow, or in a year, so you will have no legal ground for this act of piracy then.
If you think that collecting anything from your users that would put you in violation of COPPA should a child decide to use a local application against local data on a local computer is appropriate in any way, you probably ought to think again. There is no justifiable need, period.
> Most Stories are the Same. Kurt Vonnegut once said that there are only six types of story.

There are countless writers who have said that there are only X types of stories. Sometimes there are 3, 6, 12, or 50. They all claim that their categorization is the one that captures every story ever told, and they all manage to fit any story into one of their categories (it really helps that they're vague and people are willing to stretch and shoehorn things).

All stories are the same in the way all songs or poetry are the same. They have a structure (well, a bunch of different structures) that audiences tend to enjoy, and that artists follow because it helps them to have a more structured process (or sometimes they break/ignore the rules, or just don't know them, and create awesome works of art anyway). But that doesn't make every story "the same" just like using the rules of perspective, construction, and anatomy doesn't make every painting the same.
It's been a bit of a disappointment for me to discover that AsciiDoc's grammar is so complex that they didn't even describe it in a spec. Their spec is a collection of tests.

This must be contributing a lot to the adoption difficulty (at least for resource-limited open-source projects). There's a good chance you will not find an AsciiDoc parser library for your favourite programming language.
> because I can’t figure out how that could happen and not be trivial to fix.

Oh, there are many ways this could be non-trivial to fix. For example, at Google, there is a section of review that employees don’t see. It’s visible only to managers and committees. So there could be something negative in this section. Now HR looks at remote work arrangement, to this review section and says “we can’t allow remote work with such feedback”. Employee non-the-wiser is befuddled about sudden change of heart while bureaucracy is working as intended.

Or maybe they figured out that he moved but didn’t report it in time. Now, they can sweep it under the rag, or raise issue of tax and benefit fraud and “start investigation”.

And so on.
Cool, effort to get Windows RT on mobile has begun long before this. Had a Lumia 640XL that ran Windows 8 RT with GPU acceleration.
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Aye - on my current (Java) project, my general rule of thumb is if I'm suppressing a compiler/IDE warning or codestyle rule, I comment as to why.

E.g., am I suppressing raw-types warning because I couldn't be arsed getting the type signatures right? Or because some library we're using only accepts a `List<Future>` when every other usage of `Future` in the method is a `Future<T>`, so you need to use a raw `List` at some point?

I try to suppress as few warnings as possible, so only suppress warnings that are due to third party limitations like the above, or because I think that the warning is, in this instance, not helpful if obeyed.

But once again, I'll always comment to explain this _why_
Imho he did not be became better at "painting" but he made better designs for paintings. He trained one important aspect of the whole piece of art, the design. The aspect of applying paint was not trained, so that probably has not improved.
You don't seem to be aware of package managers and centralized updates? Every utility should not have its own.

Even on consumer desktops these kinds of updates are simply not critical.
The exact same thing just happened to me recently after a 10+ year break. Ranking systems seem to have shifted a little since I last played, but I feel like I'm playing easily 3-5 kyu better than I used to at my previous peak.

I think this is a different process, though. My sense is that increased wisdom transfers very well to improvement in go. What is making me better is a better ability to prioritise, make judgments and tradeoffs, and manage risk, learned from the real world. This is nice but orthogonal to the techniques for improvement on a single skill.

During the period I first started playing, I did a little exercise where I looked at the advice people give on how to get stronger. What I found was that while you'll hear all kinds of stuff thrown around, when you look specifically at what the very strongest players (go professionals) say, you get a super consistent answer: (1) do as much tsumego as you can stomach, and (2) play as many teaching games as you can with the strongest players you can find.

This directly translates to drill and scrimmage!
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It is really hard to do though. Google tried to do it, but when you reward middle managers for innovation you get a lot of half baked projects soon to be shut down, like current Google. Or if you reward them for stability as Google is increasingly doing then innovation stops almost completely.
This is great. Well done!
I think it was a satirical comment.
I feel like a web clone of it hits some of your goals: https://webwormhole.io/
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By Michael Pollan, and is good reading. Personally, I'm going to arm up to defend my right to caffeinate but he's not necessarily wrong about the proble.
Don't get it (was it a joke?)
Answering your question: To become a better computer scientist.
You can go freelance, set up company in Lithuania and pay <20% effective tax rate over 100,000€+ yearly income.

Still not as good as Google salaries, but better lifestyle for sure.
I don't know how driving in the US works, but here in Germany a turn signal doesn't give you any rights to change lanes if there is oncoming traffic, no matter how long it's been on. The driver changing lanes is most likely at least partially at fault here.