skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mistakes happen. What am I supposed to deduce from the fact that Amazon engineers didn't remove those URLs from the suggestion data? That Amazon engineers can't differentiate search from URL either?

This seems like a very quick conclusion from the author. You don't know how many people have typed `https://www.amazon.co.uk`. Obviously typing the `https://www.a` would only show those possible completions, but how many times has it been entered really?

Not that I think most users are particularly computer literate, this just seems like a very weird anecdote to use as basis for a "ah! see???" blog post.
To be clear, the company is not workable in it's current form. I think they're right to shut down and rethink things.

I think the core concept of figuring out a way to get skin in the game for referrals makes sense though. I also don't think the people behind the company should be derided for trying this. And I think it's not racist.
It likely an animated hoax. With 16 cores you can render a 4x4 task manager display; nevermind a 64x64 display
>I hope your admonitions to the call center drone who picked up your call were emotionally satisfying to you, because that's as far as they went.

I've supported a call center. We had specific escalation routes where problems could be sent to higher levels. The most obvious is the "I want to talk to your manager" escalation, but the agents, managers, and QC agents could push buttons that flagged additional review.

My advice for getting attention: don't be rude (EVERYONE is rude, this won't get any one's attention), be CLEAR about the problem AND solution, evoke emotion in the listener (remember, the listener is a QC person who reviews the call days later)

Try something like: I'm on vacation and my daughter was REALLY looking to see a musical. Do you have kids? Mine LOVE Beauty and the Beast - she has her backpack and t shirt, she is adorable. Every time we try to buy a ticket, it gets rejected. I think I forgot to notify you that I'm traveling. I'm so sorry - it just slipped my mind!
At the end of the day we need some dummy to be hanged at the town square. So we can all lie to ourselves justice was served and everything works as should.

There are entire generations of people inside that company that should at least sit their asses in court.
"having money/networks of people with money would give people an advantage in the world" is the status quo! I've worked in tech hiring for years and have seen and tried all kinds of ideas to fix that problem. With the status quo as bad as it is, we should be more willing to give radical ideas a shot; clearly the conventional ideas are not working. Is this idea a bit crazy? Sure! Do I think its odds of succeeding are well under 50%? Yup! But is it ok to kill these ideas before they even have a chance to prove themselves? No; in fact I would argue on net it's incredibly harmful, and that the people who claim to care the most about fixing this problem are causing harm by killing fledgling ideas that could plausibly help.

To your 1): I think it's at least plausible that this would become common; many crazier-sounding ideas have succeeded. There's a big disconnect between talent identification/development industries and hirers, and something like this could help to bridge that gap.

To your 2): Trust me, I have done all of that. It helps, but it is far from a panacea. That is the conventional shit that has resulted in the tech industry barely making a dent in its diversity numbers for well over a decade now. There are so many people for whom I would have so much rather just invested money in them getting a job immediately than spend yet another hour walking through their latest interview experience and explaining why something innocuous they said or did was probably incorrectly treated as a red flag by their interviewer.
Uhm, so what's your point?
Can someone define "intimate relationship" so that we know what we are arguing about?

I have an intimate relationship with kaolinite, silica, bentonite, and feldspar. I could go on and on.
It's a long wait to get paid by the load.

Which apparently isn't anything new (2015): https://archive.kpcc.org/news/2015/06/02/52126/for-truck-dri...

Like in the article, did the guy say the appointments were going unfilled after they raised the pay a bunch and made it easy for the driver, or did he just say they were going unfilled?
> I’m pro-vax, anti-authoritarianism.

This is a bizarre (and uniquely contemporaneous and American) notion of "authoritarianism." We really are a country of new and strange ideas!
The biggest problem with using the English word "God" is it is loaded with assumptions, beliefs, and huge variability from one person to another.

Just uttering the word "God" to someone will create an entirely different mental image for that person than for you (despite similarities or differences of life experience and belief).

Thus, any discussion about God starts from the beginning with a huge gulf between the parties involved.

You can see it right here in this thread and the way people are responding to the use of the word God.
Please explain Israel or Singapore
Rachel isn’t any better than the restauranteur displaying a “no blacks” sign. It’s not cool to block entire countries from your blog just because.
The way I think about it, YC funds founders very early with their current idea and traction as their resume. Founders pivoting and iterating through several ideas during and after the batch is very common. So just because something is a YC company doesn't mean its actually a good idea that was "greenlit".
I think this comment points out that this may not be accurate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873133
Technology isn't gifted to us by the God Prometheus descending from Mount Olympus. It is always a product of social and political systems; long chains of teams trying to dance together. Every shiny marvel you interact with has countless human institutions, passions and pains hidden behind it. Ultimately it's people all the way down.

Fetishizing an imagined perfection is ultimately of benefit to no one.

And to answer your question, Fukushima Daiichi did not respond with perfect grace and aplomb as an uninterrupted unflappable marvel of technological perfection effortlessly absorbing the tectonic sways
But that's done voluntarily and not forced by the state?

>[...] (FRAND) terms, denote a voluntary licensing commitment that standards organizations often request from the owner of an intellectual property right (usually a patent) that is, or may become, essential to practice a technical standard.
"By the end of this century we'll have the technology to make carbon capture"

We have this technology already. It's called "trees". Whether we choose to use it is a different matter.

Environmental sustainability - like most hard problems in the world today - is not so much a technological challenge as a political one. I do believe technological progress in the future is a certainty, and will bring many good things with it, but it will not do the hard work of encouraging humans to do the right thing. That is something we have to do for ourselves.

That's the bad news. The good news is that this work is something we can do immediately, right now, without waiting for the hope of our utopian Star Trek future to become reality.
Check out how things are in Israel or UK.
if companies and govt hadn't broken our trust so often wrt privacy, snooping, data-hunger, their might not have been so many controversies... I think the struggle is good if it stops or slows down these things.
Having more people around you doesn't make you meet more people, quite the opposite in fact. I have lived in a 10-million metropolitan city for 5 years and literally made 0 true friends. All mega-cities are packed with people with no deep social life.

On the other hand, if you live in a 1000-person village with only 10 people in your age range, you are much more likely to try bonding with them.
I never mentioned fault.
> My sway config has `output eDP-1 scale 1.25`. I started out with 1.5 liked it but eventually felt text still a little too large. At 1.25 I am finding I need to bump font size up with some sites. I've not seen tearing or any other graphical artifacts in any applications.

The last time I enabled fractional scaling in Sway, I quit using Sway and Wayland in frustration and moved back to i3. Firefox, and many other applications, just don't behave appropriately when scaling (integer or fractional) is enabled. There are also bugs open on the Sway github issue tracker for this so it's not like this issue is restricted to just me.

So it's best to have a laptop which needs either 100% scaling or 200% scaling, nothing in between.
It does point some heat at the named person, and maybe drags their name through the mud.
I mean, didnt working at it 2000+ hours a year beat the creativity and joy out of it?
> Many regions of Africa have geologic evidence of shifting multiple times from being desert, to being forest, grassland, savannah, rainforest, and back.

About six thousand years ago, the Sahara itself was largely rainy grasslands.
>Scores are one thing, using it is another.

Indeed but I ran it on my Thinkpad and it was a sluggish mess.
You're off by a factor of 4,000 or so.

Hacker News is really filling in the COVID misinformation
niche since some other sites have started acting a little bit more responsibly.
The climate disaster is here
Looking at New Zealand, there are a few drivers to lower pay:

1. A business will pay the least they can to hire someone, so salary really depends on the excess availability of potential employees - if there is an excess of developers then wages remain low. The business owners sensibly wish to keep the excess profits (why share?).

2. Businesses have a figure for what a standard developer is worth, and that figure is disconnected from the value of that person to the business. I have repeatedly seen businesses lose extremely profitable employees because the business decision makers wouldn’t pay someone enough more than a “normal” salary for their position.

3. There are a lot of NZ software businesses that are simply not that profitable and they don’t generate the excess profits necessary to pay high wages. Not that many companies earn enough to pay SV wages.

4. I suspect that a lot of super-talented people move to SV, and the wages there are skewed by the excess talent (excess talent is not so common elsewhere?). I have personally seen some extremely talented developers leave my town for overseas for higher wages, because the talented have the best opportunity to do so.
Upvoting doesn't mean agreeing with the study. It means it's fun to talk about, discuss and exchange opinions about the topic.
4.5 million after taking all precautions and overloading medical systems of countries. Think how large that number would have been if we had gone our lives normally. Would have made the 1918 pandemic look like a picnic.
My pleasure - it's an interesting question!
What 'right to exit'?

I guess you are probably free to walk into an ocean regardless of vaccination status, I'm not sure what other situation post implementation of the international passport system would reasonably be described by a 'right to exit'.
This. There's a reason the number 0 was only invented a couple of times. Human minds don't do well with the idea of nothing. It's not that there was nothing here - it's that there was no here.
Back when IBM was cutting edge!
You're conflating introducing a new system for how companies hire with direct social interactions. How companies hire is fraught with bias so we should be attentive to not amplifying it. Your example is an obvious false equivalency.
Unless he flips on management there’s not much for the government to go on. And then you’re asking a jury to believe the words of someone already alleged to be dishonest.
And that's how we got the VAG emissions scandal. Instead of trusting computer outputs, we could have done tried and true dyno tests and the entire thing would have been avoided.
> your religious beliefs are not merely an extension of some misguided personal belief

Is there a difference? I ask this as an ardant Hindu who practices lots of woo woo
The code will be somewhat faster (I don’t care to predict how much) from removing the variable-width character encoding in favour of bytewise access. Yes, pure ASCII stuff has some fast paths in string access, but they’re still decidedly slower than the fixed-width encoding that is [u8]. Using strings also gives the incorrect impression that it can cope with non-ASCII.

The code will be easier to follow if you use bytes throughout, because currently it’s a mixture of bytewise and charwise operations, so that you need to think a little about whether you’re dealing with char or u8 in each place (and half of them are even mislabelled); and there are suitable alternative ASCII methods for every place that uses charwise methods (e.g. char.is_digit(10) → u8.is_ascii_digit()) so that no extra burden is added. In the end the only place slightly complicated by it is printing the solutions, but more code will have been decomplicated—hotter path code, too—so that it’s easily worth it.

I don’t know where the code you’re citing came from, it’s newer than what’s on the master branch but in its changes includes some pretty bad stuff like DIGITS, using &str for something that is always a single-character ASCII digit, accessed by already having had the digit as a u8 and turning it back into a string prematurely. Admittedly the optimiser is going to fix a fair bit of that badness, but not all.
None that I have been able to come up with. Two or more party consent audio recording laws only serve to provide people with power more protection.
I mean sure but the track record of American Tech Companies speaks for itself.

Wanna know what the truly passionate programmer does? Ship things that make money.

If they don’t they are a hobbyist not a professional because it isn’t a profession for them.
How many of your employers have the cash flow that FAANG companies have. The idea that non-FAANG companies should be able to match FAANG salaries regardless of what non-FAANG companies have to spend on staff seems a rather distorted concept. As the article mentions, FAANG could actually be paying their employees much more. They can afford it, easily.
I've essentially written off getting VR at this point due to Facebook being the big game in town. Nothing else really looks enticing and I will not give Facebook a cent of my money.
Meh, even in a socialized/single-payer/public/whatever system, someone at some point has to pay for it. Whether that's you right now, or the taxpayers collectively over time. More sickness means more money spent on trying to heal and care for sick people.
I am not saying that the US being a federation is the underlying reason for our lack of a national ID card used for voting. It's just part of the context that makes changing the situation difficult.

The reason is the combination of:

1. The power to run elections was delegated to the states

2. States don't want to give up that power

3. The only way to change that would be for the states to vote to give up those powers

Yes, as you point out, not all federations are this way. Many others are missing #1 or #3 above. I pointed out that the US was a federation simply for legal context. As of course, local governments don't really have much power against the central government in a unitary state.
Samsung stores are quite common in Asia.
The CEO Martin Winterkorn is German and Germany doesn't extradite their citizens outside the EU so nothing will happen there. According to Wikipedia, he was also charged in Germany but looks like he will walk free from most charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Winterkorn#United_State...
With eggs it's pretty much: eat them if you like eggs :shrug:

With the Sun... you're already exposing yourself to a giant irradiating ball of fire, but also our bodies are evolved to require some exposure to produce vitD. How much exposure should you get? Nobody really knows. Should you wear sunscreen, or just moderate exposure? Which sunscreen? What good choices are there? It's all a mess.
On my managed Chromebook, I can install Chrome Extensions, but all but approved extensions work on intranet pages.
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How do you know your liver isn't conscious?
1. Carrier Subsidy Model.

2. 4G / 5G as well as other Patent arrangement.

3. All of that along with higher operation cost means their current selling price are not sustainable in the US market without some adjustment.
> What else do they need to do to gain some kind of trust?

Stop doing shady shit. The whole .NET Foundation kerfuffle from last week... Or concerns about how Copilot trains its data...

I like some of the open source work they do. It's nice that they opensourced LSP and built VSCode. I like some of the language research they do (their contributions to Haskell, Pony and F* more or less originated there, plus their mainstream languages) but can't shake the feeling that they only embraced open-source to get developers back on their side after losing out on mobile and much of the initial cloud rush.

Anyhow, I use some of their stuff, but I only trust the licenses, not the company. Not huge on having them lock me into a platform.
If you plant eucalyptus then you don't even need to desalinate.
The article also says that Chiang's strategy against the Japanese was also "nothing doing."

Seems like civil war is a great time to invade a country...
> Cominarty is fully approved (its true that some products under EUA can also be used.)

Only you can't get it anywhere and BioNTech is considered legally distinct, so there's no available FDA approved vaccine at this time. Try calling Pfizer.
Chappell's not getting any funnier or smarter at his age and expecting him to understand sex, gender, and the differences between them would be like expecting Trump to understand government.
The difference between that and atheism is using a capital G.
Apple's gross margin was always pretty high even if their fixed costs made them highly unprofitable. I'll grant that the Apple Store concept was a hail mary but they weren't a company losing money on every computer and hoping to make it up in volume as Dell and Gateway ended up being at the time. They had the cashflows to make the concept work.
How were they supposed to do that? They'd have had to either review the source code and somehow notice that it had too much control authority over the horizontal stabilizer, or run the flight control system in a simulator that reproduced the failure conditions found in the field. These seem _possible_ but not exactly easy. It'd have been much easier for the Boeing engineers who designed the thing so badly to have had bosses who said "wait...what? No you can't do it like that".
You got any sources? I get the feeling we got some stuff in common, so would you mind laying some wisdom down with regard to soy curls or other economic meat substitutes?
Wow, you've just made my life better.
Does IBM still make any mechanical tools like this? I’m curious if there are any ancient lines of business still carrying on under the radar.
> If you have no residence, maybe that's a broader state or federal ID but you can't vote in local elections.

That would be sad, because local governments are the ones that pass ordinances criminalizing homelessness (e.g. sleeping and urinating outside). I think it would be unconscionable to prevent people from having a voice in their governance based on their landownership status, but I guess we can hardly call such an idea out of line with America’s founding values.
Well Donda just disappeared from a lot of people's libraries:

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/10/05/donda-not-on-apple-mus...

I know I had to manually replace tracks in my playlists because of this.
Wow! TIL! I always use 'verbal' when I actually mean 'oral'.
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I feel like Crystal isn't as popular as it should be.
I did part of last years Advent of code in it, and it was very easy to convert Ruby solutions to working Crystal solutions that were as fast as the the Go solutions my buddy had submitted.

It's a really impressive language, I hope it doesn't fizzle out.
Honestly, I prefer to work with people who are in it long term for the money. Much more rational, much more pragmatic, much less bike shedding and holy wars, much higher degree of professionalism.

“How do we ship things that make us rich” vs “how do I scratch this nerd itch/play with new shiny thing/assert my passion purity”
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The goal is to onboard the insurance companies as a powerful lobby against the petrochemical one.

It's one of the most decried industry (the insurance one) but one of the nicest thing about it is that it almost always have its interests aligned with those of its customers (in group) and thus can act as one of the most powerful stabilizing force in society.
Plummer is flat out wrong that his port enabled our game to ship with Windows -- we built it for Windows (and for Microsoft) from the start. He didn't enter the picture until we were already shipping with the popular Microsoft Plus Pack (which put us on about 25% of all Windows machines). Honestly, I'd never heard of Plummer until a few years ago when a journalist asked about him.

Plummer's only role, near as I can tell, was to get it working on later Windows operating systems that were 32 bit (or certain 32 bit variants), which likely extended the shipping life of the game (so, not Windows 95 or Windows 98, but the others that followed). Microsoft actually had the option in our original deal to ship with the OS when Win 95 launched and chose the Plus Pack instead.

Kevin
Something like 40+% of America seems perfectly content to vote for steaming piles of racist garbage.

The average makeup of software companies (white, male) overlaps heavily with that 40% demographic (and yes, does not overlap in other demographics).

I think it's a safe assumption that software companies are in a similar ballpark.

Yes yes. Being ok voting for explicit, horrific, racist people for purportedly different and important goals does not make you an actual racist. Not in your book, anyway. I'm at least as tired ignoring this statement as you are trying to believe it.

Apologies. You here read in the general sense, not the parent post
Someone should start an employment scheme where employers and employees both sign up to a broad pool eg "javascript developers" and then employees are assigned to employers arbitrarily but everybody gets hired once before anyone is hired twice and so on. Employers can opt to trade someone back to the pool as can employees after a minimum hire period say a month. Employees that are good enough will stick and the others will get experience and training and will hopefully improve, and will get paid something at least. Employers get immediate employees without having to bother with interviews. If the pool is swamped with unqualified people then the service could implement some minimal qualification process such as a multiple choice test for entry into the employee pool.
Culture is not that hard to change when there is money involved. The difference in SV is that there is so much venture capital willing to create new companies. Given that amount of capital, there will always be someone willing to do it.
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>Am I missing anything ignoring closed source Windows and MacOS?

I went back to Windows with WSL. My employer relies heavily on Outlook and especially the Outlook calendar. The equivalent in Thunderbird does not work well at all with missed invites/missed reminders/missed meetings.

WSL with Ubuntu is amazing for dev work!