skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It pops up the first two times you go to a domain or a URL that has mentions, so it should stop bothering you after a little bit of usage. I do hear you though, several people brought this up. The problem with making it a button is that people forget to click it (me included), and most of the interesting connections go unnoticed this way. If you have ideas how to make this better, please tell me!
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I'm not going to give bigcorps a pass, but the thing with specs is that it is hard to criticize it until the spec is, you know, published in many cases, especially if you aren't in the committee.
Last year, while many of these healthcare workers put themselves at risk to deal with the pandemic, others got especially generous unemployment benefits.

Nice way to say "Thank you"
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I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but the virus will never go away. You can't seriously expect asymptomatic people to continue wearing masks indefinitely.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-19-will-just-end-up...
Yes, I will add that, great point!
This blog is fantastic! Literally every entry is me. Feeling seen.
> you cannot argue in good faith with someone who does not.

But the solution shouldn't be to shut down the discussion by banning the other side, because then you just have two sides who fight dirty.

One side refuses to see reason and understand arguments, the other uses shaming, coercion, and censorship in place of the arguments. If the truth is on your side, you shouldn't resort to that.
3rd most globally competitive economy in the world.

Sure, yeah. no innovation at all at Sandoz, Nestle, Novartis and Roche, and ~200 other companies in life sciences and another 300 in precision manufacturing.

Zero.
It’s the employee’s responsibility to engage STD and LTD. Everything in this article the author was complaining about was either his responsibility or due to poor choices he made.
Russian authorities arrest cybersecurity giant Group-IB's CEO on treason charges
I think the other thing is that the US can hire people for very cheap (like 2$/hour) with the idea that maybe the actual customers can contribute to the worker's salary to make it up. Often you need to get another job to reach a living wage. It's a great way to enslave people and get good unemployment numbers.
Question the incentive structures we have set up which make it possible to get a 10x return on investment in a recruiting startup, but make getting a 10x return on an artificial kidney investment difficult.
But also harder to get away with protests.
The conventional wisdom would be to never mention a job search until you have an offer in hand and you are ready to hand in your resignation letter. If you do mention it, you will be perceived as having half a foot out the door and if your job search falls through (as many do) then you have just telegraphed the fact that you're highly disengaged.

But you don't need to actually mention the job search. If you can put your finger on what's wrong with your current role and you have at least a little trust with your line manager, then you can just say "I'm not happy about XYZ in my role, I want to improve it, have you got any ideas?". And be prepared to bring it up several times.

I don't think anyone is expected to tell their employer they are job hunting.
Brutal given the reliability stuff they were boasting on R2 just today.

Or, wonder if related to an announcement and push tonight for it. Better unpublish that Birthday Week post! In all seriousness wish engineers well and best of luck resolving.
That's quite possible. Americans also lose a lot of money unnecessarily to utilities (the cellphone bills are ridiculous) and keeping-up-with-the-joneses expenses like a starbucks a day. I think it's pretty hard to distinguish those costs as we can see similar or higher standards of living elsewhere - but I do think the out of pocket expenses hurt a lot (and they hurt even more when you stop drawing an income - retiring in the states is a huge gamble).
his employees

as if they're property and not vendors
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Daiso, a Japanese "100¥ shop", also has items for 200¥ and 300¥. People didn't stop buying there.
I'm open to having my mind changed, but it takes rigorous testing and peer review. I'm not going to have my mind changed by some talking head on the TV or some dude in sunglasses recording a video from his truck.

If I got COVID, I'm not going to demand Ivermectin just because Joe Rogan told me to.

But you're dodging the issue at hand. COVID has killed nearly 700,000 Americans and over 4.5M people worldwide. Vaccines slow the spread of COVID and are safe. This is all verifiable information. Claims that the vaccine is ineffective or has deadly side-effects are disinformation. Not because I disagree, but because extensive study and peer review points to those claims being false.

When you disagree with scientific studies that have undergone extensive peer review, it's not disagreement. You're just wrong.
Going back to the original point, public[0] discussion is vital for calling out other public discussion that's incorrect. We don't live in a world where the only people talking about covid are immunologists. Bodies like the WHO are subject to political considerations, the media approach covid from the angle of their existing biases, and that introduces a lot of potential for them to be totally wrong - as we saw in the original examples I gave.

[0] For a given value of "public" that only includes people who know what statistical significance is, read research papers, and don't confidently tell people to take antimalarials and dewormers on the basis of single studies with a low sample size.
I don't claim to be an expert, but I guess that a dramatically better sound bite is "Investment fuels growth"

I think it's reasonable (say for conservatives) to favor capital gains taxes that favor long-term investment, which I believe is the form of investment which most fuels economic growth. While we're at it, let's favor investment in intangible assets and in sustainable technology
It still baffles my mind that Xerox is not a multi-trillion dollar company today.
Laws are a moral construct. Enforcing morality as it's encoded in law is part of policing. This is definitely a case to blame the law and lawmakers, not the officer.
I am not impressed by Google's response here. I am not so sure that this recruiter deserved termination. They were hired to find personnel. I haven't seen this "do not call" policy, but it seems unnecessarily restrictive to not allow people to put out feelers and instead require them to sit and wait for candidates to come to them. There is more that is not known in this story, it's possible Google recruiting had a manager that was putting pressure on them to find perfect candidates or else and they were feeling desperate.

Bad managers exist in every company, Google would not be an exception to this and rules go out the window when executive gets involved, as happened here.

It really is ludicrous when you read it.

Google fired someone they hired to find people, for trying to find people just because it would please the CEO at another company that Eric was on the board of directors of.

Conflict of interest.
> What is the benefit of being functional?

For React, the idea is building the UI as a function of the state. The benefit is to make the code easier to understand, debug, test, etc. I don't think I have to discuss with your the benefits of pure functions.

> If there is a benefit to FP that isn't easily achievable using other styles, then does React achieve that benefit by doing FP style?

I think it does, partially. Though it isn't going as far as something like Elm.

> Or is React leaning on the cachet of FP for marketing purposes?

I would almost say the opposite, React succeeded at first because it didn't push too much the functional stuff. Elm went farther, and doesn't have the market share of React, because insisting too much on FP, especially at that time, would only scare away developers. If you start to go the FP path, at some point you realize that using JavaScript can't work, and you have to switch to something new. People have experience and huge codebases, so they don't want to switch. You can see the same with TypeScript. TypeScript succeeded because it embraced JavaScript, especially its flaws. That means that as standalone language, TypeScript isn't as good as it could be. But as an incremental improvement in the JavaScript ecosystem, it's good, very good.

To see what happens when you use FP for marketing purpose, you can take a look at ReScript, the current reincarnation of ReasonML.
Yes, what you presented are WTFs. But the biggest WTF is that in every language, NaN == NaN yields false.
> I suspect that some Devs new to JS didn't like the various definitions of "this", and Hooks was supposed to help them out.

No, stale closures caused by hooks are more confusing than what "this" has ever been, especially since this-related problems are mitigated with fat arrows and class property assignment. No, as far as I understand, the driving force behind the hooks was the vision of the coming concurrent mode, for which class components posed some difficult problems somehow.
This is a fine mentality when you're running a lemonade stand, but gets complicated when you're talking about a person's livelihood in a country where something like 60% of people are living paycheck to paycheck. If ONLY we lives in a society that valued itself over the profits of a few individuals.
The conspiracy was estimated to have cheated workers out of 2-3+ billions of dollars of wages.

The settlement was less than half a billion.

Eric Schmidt enjoyed a long and prosperous career at Google for many years afterward.
Isn't Microsoft also objecting to making this a W3C standard?
Seems to coincide with Bandwidth's outage: https://status.bandwidth.com/incidents/d8vft1kpxdmk
I would like to hear what their AI did with completing partials of the other 9 symphonies. It would tell us a lot about how accurate is their model.
It's nothing to do with livelihood and everything to do with the liquidity of the labor market.

If a person can get another job immediately, you aren't harming them by declining to continue to be a customer. In fact, you employing them is no power over them at all (unless you were overpaying them relative to their market value).
Hi there author of the article here, I did a lot of testing when I wrote the article, and even made a tool for dithering.

https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/

It completely depends on what kind of dithering you do — ordered dithering with a small color palette will give you a much smaller file size than a full color jpeg.

WebP and AVIF also support lossless compression and can be used for even smaller file sizes using dithering.
Woops, responded to the wrong post. Cheers!
This article[0]? Sorry, but that's not an authoritative source, it's literally just some random guy talking on the internet :)

No offense, but your argument is kinda self-defeating if you are trying to claim that two out of the three purported benefits aren't even applicable (and I'd argue that even that first so called benefit doesn't have a great story in JS either).

Saying that verifiability is somehow intrinsically related to purity is IMHO making an overly broad generalization. You're starting from the premise that unit testing a pure function is easy, but that doesn't really generalize in any direction. Array.prototype.splice is not pure and yet it's trivially easy to test. Reasoning about the crashing potential of JS tail recursion is not easy even with purity guarantees. Large functional point-free compositions in JS have impenetrable stack traces. Valgrind et al exist so clearly it's possible to reason extensively about messy stateful things.

Different paradigms aren't oil-and-water and they don't have a monopoly on any given benefit, it's perfectly possible to mix and match features of various paradigms to achieve expressiveness, idiomaticness, predictability, etc.

[0] https://mckoder.medium.com/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed1...
Despite being a medical doctor, this disappoints me a great deal.

This sort of authoritarian non-discussion is exactly what's caused vaccine resistance to become an "activist movement" in the first place.

Some tinfoil-hat part of me wonders if that's actually the plan...
> A ~50% price/performance boost isn't negligible, but it's also not very compelling.

My take is that a 50% discount in price/performance and a 20% discount in price per execution unit that's only a toggle flip away is something that everyone loves and is eager to jump onboard.

The only exception is when your workload stubbornly stays within free tier limits, which in that case you have no compelling reason to do the work.
While of course it is just one of many (alongside e.g. “just use a public key”(or hash of one or something. I don’t know the details), and “just use a github username”, when looking at the example resolver, and trying to read the docs, my impression was that a fair proportion of the examples given were blockchain related?

So, that could be part of the reason for the misconception.

I was first introduced to it by the, bold post on the Protocol Labs (the people behind IPFS) blog, about ION as a particular type of DID (sorry, “type of” is probably not quite the right terminology, but I’m not sure what the preferred terminology is) which appears to use the Bitcoin chain (but in a way that involves only very few transactions and very little on-chain data).

Personally I found the FAQ page for DIDs to be a little,

well, it isn’t particularly focused on assisting the reader in evaluating “should I care about this”?

I guess in some ways it seemed a third of the from being a normal FAQ and being a specification, or, not a specification but a, documentation of policy and plans etc.
> Actually, deaths from underlying health conditions are all up in addition to COVID deaths, try again.

What does say about your WW2 mortality claim then?

Okay, so looking at the first study linked in the post article [1]:

Scroll down to the first table.

Not Fully Vaccinated: 569,142 cases, 6,132 deaths. Mortality in this group: 0.010774113

Fully Vaccinated: 46,312 cases, 616 deaths. Mortality in this group: 0.013301088

Look at those mortality rates closely, the Fully Vaccinated group is actually higher.

The next section has a different total number of cases, unexplained in the table itself, but let's take a look at the most vulnerable population in that table, 65 and over.

Vaccinated mortality: 0.049678391
Unvaccinated mortality: 0.073150825

Now, that's a difference of 0.023472434 in mortality. I don't know what kind of math it takes to make 2.3% look like 11x better outcome, but I'm sure it's not math based in reality. That's about a 30% relative reduction in rate, and that's using highly specious numbers IMO, especially considering the CDC put out guidance to NOT TRACK 'breakthrough' cases unless the patient is hospitalized. Since this table includes a 'hospitalizations' column, one has to wonder how these vaccinated cases even got tracked in the first place.

Mind you, this is if you believe the CDC and their data in the first place, which I don't.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
My friend's father got pancreatic cancer. His chemotherapy was delayed because the hospital was full of covid patients. Now he's dead. People who get mad about being harangued to take the vaccine are failing to see the whole picture.
> The reality of the situation is almost nobody actually wants to maintain anything unless they are paid to do so

But the whole thread is about contributions from companies, where the employers are paid to do the companys biddinf. And while individuals might be apprehensive about doing maintenance, I see less reason for companies to want to avoid maintenance.
They hide tons of opex as "marketing".
I think you're reading things into what I wrote.

W.r.t. value, the only point I was making is that there is no fact/value dichotomy. It doesn't follow that I am therefore arguing that one cannot make value judgements. On the contrary, if no fact/value dichotomy exists and value is a matter of fact, then it follows that we can indeed make value judgements on par with factual claims.

But what I was addressing in an earlier post was the suggestion that there is a fact/value dichotomy and the notion that problems occur in science when value mingles with fact. I rejected this claim by arguing that there is no such dichotomy and by implication that the diagnosis is incorrect. Questions about corruption are fine as far as they go, but they are not relevant to this thread because they do not address the question of fact/value dichotomy and they presume value judgement.
It's really depends on your relationship with your manager. 99% of the time, it's a bad idea to say you're interviewing. If your manager is someone you trust, and they genuinely have your interests in mind, you can talk to them and they can use their influence to try to solve whatever problem is making you think about leaving.

If you're not confident that's the case (and unfortunately it's rare), it's too risky to make it known you're interviewing. It is often better to discuss whatever is making you unhappy, but without saying that you are considering leaving because of it.
> We challenged the audience to determine where Beethoven’s phrases ended and where the A.I. extrapolation began. They couldn’t.

I'd say that's a pretty weak test. The AI could have repeated the previous phrases for 20 times, and the audience won't be able to tell where exactly to draw the line, but they'll realize that something is wrong.

It's an interesting feat. But it's nowhere near "How Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony".
That's a good point, having raced motocross myself I'd agree.
In this type of case, the lack of succession planning is the root cause. The problem with succession planning is that management think that it applies to them, even though their skillset is more transferable and their roles are much more malleable, whereas it really needs to apply more to the specialists.
I was visiting a friend in Switzerland a few years ago, and her bag got stolen right off the back of her chair while we were in a restaurant. (The guy was quick and sneaky; by the time I ran out to the street, he was gone.)

The restaurant manager called the police, and over the next 15 minutes we learned that the thief went on to try to rob the wrong person at another restaurant a couple blocks away. The intended victim held the guy down until the police arrived. The restaurant manager led us over to the other restaurant.

The police managed to recover nearly everything that was stolen, by going through the guy's pockets, and also doing a search in a nearby alleyway, where he had dumped my friend's bag and some of the less-concealable items he'd stolen from people. One thing (can't remember what) was still missing from my friend's bag, and the police took down information about it and told her who to contact to follow up in case it was found.

It was easily the best experience I've ever had with police anywhere (I live in the US but travel fairly frequently). I wish all police could be like that. (Granted, this was just a single experience with two specific officers; who knows if the rest in their precinct or even country are on average that good. But it was definitely encouraging.)

I recount this to suggest that in places with police that don't suck, maybe this sort of thing could actually be a decent anti-theft feature. But agreed that police in the US don't care. I was once mugged and had $3000 worth of stuff stolen from me (laptop and two phones), and the police clearly filed my report to /dev/null. Another friend of mine had her iPad stolen once, and she ended up tracking it down on her own (not the safest thing she's done) because the police told here there was "nothing they could do" even though she showed them the tracking information.
Yeah, that is likely why terrestrial FSO seems to be mostly dead these days as far as I can tell. Even back then there used to be a backup RF link in case of fog - why not have a proper RF link instead, especially if its going to be much better due to all the money dumped into RF technology in comparison to free space optics.
To be completely clear, if you just need a python script to basically Sync a few AWS services together, this is great. That’s how I use Lamdas now.

My main concern if I’m using something like Numpy, and I pull my dependencies locally on my 64-bit Machine I have no idea what’s going to work once I push it up to AWS ARM.
> Reality, in being geometrical,

Prove it.
And I suppose with these displays there's no reason why you couldnt stand either.

Hang out the washing and read your emails.
Is it possible to actually have a proprietary instruction set?

Can't I design a new uarch that implements the ISA and is compatible like Cyrix and AMD did back in the day?
Sure, but if you really want to, you can communicate and coordinate. I know it might sound old and all, but before the mobile phones and pagers, people managed to communicate and coordinate. Admittedly it is not as easy, but it is possible.

It might actually be a good thing to try, and to step back without a mobile phone and unclutter our current model of communication and coordination. It would likely involve more commitments (e.g. "we said that we would meet at that space and time") and less distraction.
It's useful to think of GPUs as CPUs with low core frequency but incredibly wide SIMD instructions. They are very good at doing the exact same instructions in parallel (apply this formula to 4 million pixels), they are fairly bad at anything that includes branches or loops (doesn't fit the SIMD model), or random memory access (only so much memory bandwidth to go around between all the cores).

That makes GPUs generally good at arithmetic tasks, but horrible at control or logic tasks since those usually involve lots of branching.
Planck length and the speed of light define the limits.

It's also a resolution of Xeno's Paradox.
We covered the necessary info to understand mRNA vaccines in my high school level biology classes.
I don't buy this all-or-nothing argument. People in the US have tried to ban books, heavy metal music, video games etc. And the idea that we've ONLY survived those attempts because we allow people to fly/wear swastikas is ridiculous on its face.
> I genuinely don't get it.

At least you admit it.

> You are more than able to start your own company and let whatever you want on that site.

"If you don't like YouTube, build your own" is a really shitty take. It's very obvious the role that YouTube has right now and why massive censorship is a problem.
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Lets not generalize, shall we? Police here in The Netherlands take care of stolen bikes. Its just a low success rate which skews our perception.
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> “So you’re better off expending your efforts on the option that disrupts the radicalization pipeline”

But the pipeline is not a single thing. It’s a mutating and evolving entity. If you remove the content from one place, it shows up in another, but now it has more credibility because it’s been “removed for truth”.

Unless there is a plan to block these people from the internet entirely, disrupting the pipeline ends up being gasoline on a fire.