skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of proficiency do you mean, exactly? To me, the concept sounds too nebulous for a machine to analyse, as it needs precise instructions/criteria.
> Holding a magnifying glass up to the object looked exactly like it would with a physical chameleon.

Holy shit
But you mean people who don't work and you see it in their output. What if someone works 5 hours per day but produces as much output as other team members? I understood that this is more OP's case.
> If my ideas aren’t my own and anyone can copy it, I wouldn’t want to put efforts into something others will clone.

And yet, the FOSS movement persists.
I once watched an interview with yanis varoufakis. He was interwied by two "traders" and they asked him in which currency he would invest.

He tells them:

"Noone should invest in currency unless they have a lot of money."
"Everyone who invests in currency with little money is a fool. A dangerous fool."

I think that is true for crypto also, unless you are one of the early adopters who is able to see the technical benefit before it is (was) publicly known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDGGFodQxc8

minute 34
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> * got too eager in seeking to create new lines of business and pushed * far too early to maturity, and now we're just beginning to see it's faults, many which can't be fixed without major changes that will likely make them pretty much useless

Welcome to tech.
Because it is religious dogma at this point, and not based on facts.
"There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home"

Which operating systems can the monitoring be installed on?

I understand the principle of wanting to ensure that if you pay someone to do 9-5, they actually do it, but in practice, "nicer" employers get more from their employees by not being complete muppets. There is of course always one or two employees that spoil it for the rest, but intrusive monitoring is only one obnoxious way of detecting under performers.

Also, this sort of monitoring just reminds me of horrible stuff like Blizzard's "Warden", and Sony's root kit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...).
Nice idea, but the default natural language query generated a query that didn't run. Perhaps turn down the temperature or tune other parameters. This could be better if you fine-tune it such that anyone could bring their own dataset, with GPT3 just making it available recently. My favorite recent app for no code sql query is trevor.io that has allowed me to build a dashboard so easily. I only knew basic sql query and didn't have to tamper with the actual SQL code; it was all interactive and the results is always in the correct format. Comparing to the GPT3 approach, I would say I prefer trevor over using natural language for the precision. The appeal of using GPT3 exists only if it gets high enough accuracy, imo.
A "dataframe" is a "table"
> simply don't care about the rest of the world.

If you want definition of vile person/family look for some videos on YT on Sackler's family and their 'business' practices.
Take a look at the essay that Tante posted a link to here: https://twitter.com/tante/status/1471638343150714890
I believe that those regulated domains are generally much more expensive in all those countries, no?
This is amazing. I just gave a quick glance and love your style.

I just wish you would have provided ipynb instead of md. It would be so much fun to just modify and run as I am learning. Thank you!
Midnight Commander "mcedit" comes close to the aesthetics (blue background, grey dialogs with shadows, etc.) but is not a perfect copy.

A perfect clone of the MS-DOS editor for UNIX/Linux does not exist. Maybe this is the new toy project for the "written in Rust" crowd.
Was just playing with Amplify
Studio and have no clue who it's targetting and who will be happy and for what use cases.
Not to forget any local legislations. Like secrecy of correspondence which would make it illegal for them to read stuff like emails that aren't shared with them.
I'm sure Rust also has a way to disable bounds/overflow checks for speed. Do benchmarks utilise it?
> europeans these days are the real power players in the oss world

Eh, it depends. A lot of the work is definitely carried out by Europeans (particularly around KDE and Linux kernel), but when it comes to actually setting priorities, it's the likes of IBM, RedHat, Canonical, and Google, who draw the real roadmaps - and those are basically all US-based businesses.

You can observe that in the privileged position GNOME continues to enjoy, when KDE is historically much more relevant in Europe.
It already came and half went.

Yup, and the worse part? Nothing changed. Trump didn't didn't do a single fucking thing of material value to ameliorate the positions of those who voted for him, or the middle class for that matter. And yet he's almost sure to win again in 2024.

I think in an astonishingly short amount of time, people in the West forgot what revolution is.
For example: https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/android/methodology/
I'm 32 and at 10 years old I loved watching Windows 98 defrag. <ramble> I also loved Flashget downloading files 10 threads at a time. 10 mb resumable download in 5 hours was amazing for me. A few years later I was ricing Linux with a dangerous tool that prepends binaries with its shared objects dependencies so that every program launch is a contiguous read. Ubuntu then added it as post-trigger to its package manager. There was a hellish period between when Ubuntu removed that trigger and I finally got an SSD (Indian markets still get HDDs).
Because people need money to pay bills. And it's a sad fact that companies who do shady shit tend to have more money. Simply because they outcompete companies who don't, all else being equal.

Tugging against this evolutionary pressure is really hard, not only for individuals but also on the society level.

"Just quit LOL!" is a commendable act of grassroots activism, but not everyone is able (or willing) to afford such luxury.
I love it. The optimistic model forces me to be hyper aware of all my banking activities and know when fraud happens retroactively. All the Indian regulations mean I effectively don't have to worry as much unless something serious happens. CC stolen? I don't care they won't have the pin or the secure pin used for online transactions so it's useless and I can just close the card on the banking website. Mobile phone stolen? They won't have the pin to do UPI transactions so they can sell my phone but not have access to any of my banking activities. It's a total Erin. This new regulation helps prevent my card info from getting leaked by all these cheap sites with intern developers
Yes, in post-soviet countries it's pretty common to bribe large number of people from elderly and poor population with food or alcohol. It's literally trucks with food or vodka and name of the party/politian that head to the semi-forgotten villages, where some decent amount of electorate lives. Needless to say those people had grown up in Soviet Union and have zero trust in elections or democracy, so they happy to vote for whoever bribes them more.
My properties ensure that I won't face quotas that would be a barrier for emplyoment (well maybe my gender, I'm male), so, I'm just curious, so what if there's one position to fill, the male candidate scores 60%, and the female one scores 58% (using my hypothetical ranking system which actually works and is fair, etc, etc), so just slightly lower. Would your company pick the female candidate in this case?

I guess answering this question "the wrong way" would get a lot of butthurt people showing up to this thread, so feel free to not answer.
> immigration rather than race.

Two sides of the same coin.

A large section of people are left out of benefits of improving economy. Lions share of the gains go to the Uber rich people. And politicians play immigration card to whip up their voter base.

More or less exact phenomenon played out in Bombay, India. Except that the immigrants were Indians from other states (Gujarat, Tamilnadu etc). But when the political party did come to power they did absolutely nothing to improve their voter base’s life. Bombay continues to be a shit hole, worse so, that it was and the city floods every monsoon like a clockwork.
What is far more interesting is people seeing through the bullshit. Large parts of our lives have been bureaucratized and oozes with an arrogant and paternalistic ideology that tells us how much we’re worth as if it was a law of nature.

Workers find solidarity, meaning and community among peers and realize that we have real power and can have a say in our lives.

I expect this to grow and I hope it creates a counterbalance to centralized power structures that are quite frankly often severely detached from reality.
The obsession with equality (of outcome) is a blight upon our world.
>solve a real problem that someone has

Such as..
Long ago AWS reached the point where feature prioritization was discussed in terms of millions of $$ in revenue. When you have CTOs at Fortune 500 companies waving 10s of millions of dollars in front of your face to build a feature, it's much much easier to prioritize building that over one that is requested by smaller developers with uncertain revenue impact.

> The only conclusion is: bad tooling isn't affecting their sales.

I actually think bad tooling does affect their sales and long-term growth, but that they're blind to it because they can't easily measure it, and they have an obsession with data-driven decision making.

I suspect this is also exacerbated by hiring problems due to their reputation as an employer, forcing them to make tradeoffs that sacrifice dev UX more often than they'd like.
I am an engineer that involves in hiring (technical interviews, assignment reading (we have a home assignment for candidates)) and I have a couple experiences in which I felt like my decision was overruled.

One was a female applicant. I was reading her assignment and felt like it was subpar and my decision was a thumbs down. Later we went forward with the application to the technical interviews because it was a female and we "really needed to hire one" (to be clear, I didn't even know it was a female until my decision is overruled. We don't receive CVs or names while reviewing home assignments)

The other was a minority from a different country. My decision was thumbs down because the applicant basically lied in his CV about his past experience. HR overruled that by saying something like "...in his culture it is hard for people to admit their weaknesses..." and to top it off "we don't have anyone in our company from country X!" and he got hired.

So yea, positive reinforcement means you are not really looking for qualification and most things can be ignored to fill some quotas. And you won't be getting that bonus when someone else refers a minority that gets hired.
This reads to me as it's okay to discriminate as long as it's for the "right group".

I honestly feel a bit sick about all this. Maybe it's the only way, but it doesn't feel like it is from my perspective.
> Macros cannot change Nim's syntax because there is no need for it — the syntax is flexible enough.

Erm, what? How about letting the user decide that?
> But if there's a possibility, however small, of it getting stuck in a small loop, very rarely?

We already went around this particular "small loop" so I'm guessing you aren't learning anything from repeating it. That would be a lousy design for a PRNG, so, nobody does that.
> Pretty sure they single-handedly created the opioid crisis.

Created and perpetuated knowingly, ignored memos describing how oxy is harvested for black market for years.

They also created marketing pills to doctors schemes.
Even their console has really basic bits of weirdness and friction. Like if you want to view the logs from a fargate container running in ECS (possibly one of the most boring things you can do on AWS):
* For some reason, the log viewer within the ECS console has worse filtering capabilities than the Cloudwatch one
* Attempting to view logs for an instance which crashed more than a few minutes ago is very risky - sometimes the last ones are either missing completely or very hard to find in the UI (Cloudwatch will have them though!)
* They tried removing it in their ECS console revamp briefly
There are no easy technical solutions to social/political issues. They'll simply make the software detect that it's running in a VM and ban that use. Then you'll work a few hours cheating the software, make your VM look extra realistic. Then the software will get upgraded and your contract gets a clause where you'll pay a fine if they catch you using a VM.

Then managers will get the idea they might get complete control over an employee's life, scan their network, track what websites they visit, keep tabs on their social media. If they don't have social media where they should be posting how amazing their company is, they're fired.

Many of these things are already happening. We have to fight it, unless you want to spend 90% of your time finding technical solutions to avoid it.
If one gender really did provide more 'value once hired', would it be reasonable for the AI to favour them?
> If you freelance via upwork this is a normal thing

I don't. My clients usually find me via reputation or via open source projects I work on.
Any SciFi where faster than light travel is possible?!?

Is this a serious question? Almost all of them.

(Faster than light travel also means time travel is possible, but most SciFi doesn't link the two coherently)

Many mess with gravity as well.
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In my native language every verb has a masculine or feminine ending depending on the subject's gender.

I'm also sure a woman has a far better chance of being hired into tech than a man with the same qualifications.
Let's not forget securities. Today most people live in some state of constant existential dread, because they know, if they somehow lose the flat, they can't afford a new contract; they can't plan long term, as their job isn't safe (although, that point is in interesting turmoil right now, /r/antiwork and all); they can't work towards a pension plan; ...

The promise of salvation past generations had with their working lifestyle doesn't hold truth anymore. I think that's why we see more "new religions" popping up right now, like conspiracy narratives, new nationalism, "white man identities" (the group without a distinct identity in the past; their self-efficacy experiences seem to be in decline, too), the MLM-fantasy of self-employment/all-in hacks/dire fight for "untapped markets" (podcasts, porn, stock market ...).

Late stage capitalism.
This looks like it came from some place you got off a wrong turn on the internet

Like those fake Pixar movies
>> maybe the cost/average income ratio was lower

There’s no maybe about it. In the 70s, average house sale price was 4x the average salary. Today it’s 8x.

How many lattes would you need to have skipped to have bought two homes at the time you bought your first? How many holidays would you have needed to skip to pay two mortgages while you were paying one?

That is the scenario - well except todays generation would only have one house at the end of the day, not two.
> This is not a case of “not enough resources'', this is a case of the project not getting the internal priority to invest in improvement.

This is only partly true. Fun fact: Amazon is so big and the churn so high, that hiring talent has become the bottleneck.

So yes, parts of Amazon have prioritised new/more features over improving existing ones, and some are drowning in a sea of legacy. But also parts simply don't have the number of experienced engineers they need to deliver all their goals.

Disclaimer: I work for Amazon.
This is not all that - this is a push to move people to digital wallets such as PayTM (more crony capitalism)

The fix for the problems you highlight is a audit and stringent rule of law.
It's not the only way. They want you to think it is. Don't let them break you.
Thus funneling more wealth to the already wealthy. That's the point. The average is okay but the distribution of wealth is messed up.
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No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (2003)
This isn't something to claim without elaborating.

You're saying your company won't hire white males without extenuating circumstances?

I'd love to see the incredibly diverse teams there then... or is this a case of your company used to not hire non-whites and now they're trying to play catch up so they can beat a drum about DNI, meanwhile the culture that lead to a lack of diversity marches on internally?
I think what is described in the article would be illegal here in Norway. Quite possibly illegal in the office too, not just the home.
> Removes counterparty risk.

Bitcoin does not remove counter-party risk. The counter-party is there, and it's risky:

* miners (can ditch Bitcoin; can censor your transactions)

* Bitcoin software (wallets; miners) (can have bugs which get your coins stolen)

* Bitcoin protocol (can have bugs which get your coins stolen)

* internet infrastructure (can censor Bitcoin)
My thoughts on this from a while back - https://kashifrazzaqui.medium.com/will-the-real-micro-servic...
Sortition (random selection of politicians from the pool) is the answer.
https://www.ted.com/talks/brett_hennig_what_if_we_replaced_p...
Where I live it is very, very common to see job offers that only take disabled people because the company gets $$$ from the government (this is, from everybody of us, including those ostracised by those policies) when they hire a disabled person.
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It's bit sad that there are no examples of processed CVs, especially those where gender was masked by removing some words. I wonder how the NLP models did their job and I am feeling there is NLP looking for tanks using clouds instead (see https://www.gwern.net/Tanks).
And still the and miles ahaead of "user experience" than their competitor (they are pretty much unworkable for developers, it's insane how bad that ux is).
a quick observation here: you are comparing ONE of YOU against THE COMBINATION of THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS on the internet. Are you not capable of learning any of those topics in depth if you had the time and resources? No, I think you are certainly capable.
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Last time I tried nimlsp was in June-ish, using neovim.
It was an okay experience, but things broke down quickly when using macros and I got red squigglies everywhere because things rely on a certain setting. Compared to the VSCode experience, it's really lacking though.

It's certainly been getting better and the focus is also on tooling, so I'm hopeful!
Incidentally: after working from home since the start of the pandemics, I feel the need to actually monitor myself as I often lose track of my working hours and I have a suspicion that I work longer hours than previously. Related to that, less amount of movement/exercise. My plan is to monitor the situation with simple Raspberry Pi zero based project - add a current sensor (to sense if my main display is on/off) and a distance sensor (to see if my standing desk is up/down), store the data in local time series database and present in local Grafana (no way I am going to put this outside my home network) with the possibility of alerting via PagerDuty.
The "Data Processing Addendum" is a legal document that's meant to ensure a legal basis to get GDPR-covered data out of the EU (in my opinion it's a load of bullshit because it's fundamentally incompatible with the Patriot Act, but that's off-topic and beside the point, as far as you or me are concerned it's lawyer-approved). It's a common document that's meant to replace the Privacy Shield (that has been ruled not GDPR compliant a while ago).

The Data Processing Addendum isn't a loophole to collect data that they don't have a legal basis to collect.
>they spend a decade insisting that they right and everyone else was wrong

This just isn't how it happened. The Go team never said that they were opposed to generics. Their stance was (i) that it was not a top priority and (ii) that it was difficult problem and they'd take the time to implement generics correctly.

The idea that this is about one group of people finally proving that they're 'right' is a distortion based on viewing events though the lens of snarky comments on the internet.
Sometimes it doesn't end as well...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
> vaccine reporting of harm is about 1%

What on earth is that piece of random rumourmongering based on?

I felt horrible for ~24 hours after my second Pfizer shot. If that counts as hard then sure, 1% is believable. If it is actually harmful side effects than that is total nonsense. 1% is a huge, huge number of people.
the AI is just a product of it's inputs, how it's used, and whether it violates discrimination laws, are totally up to the users.
Are you sure you need to have that Drata agent on all the time?

AFAIK it only checks a few items. We had to install it, too for SOC2 compliance. I installed it, let it send in a report (because I'm on Linux, I manually had to make a few screenshots as proof), then uninstalled it.

I'm happy to do the above process next time they complain, if ever.
The question is which country must back this up? US? Germany? All countries in the World?

To some context: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/10/p...
Yes, I know that.

But does one need to share one's phone number to barely send or receive money?
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At my previous company, Monday was filled with meetings with 40-60min of spare time in between.

I mostly did small bug fixes or read articles because there was no way to do anything productive. I need the mental space to properly plan and execute.
> Many technotopians thought the Internet would be the great liberator, toppling the gatekeepers and elites. Disintermediation! That certainly happened.

> But what happened was gatekeepers killed off the old guard, feasted on their corpses. The larger trend was a massive consolidation, an unprecedented power grab, and ridiculous transfer of wealth.

So, yes and no: Disintermediation happened, but the erstwhile disintermediators turned out to be / became the new gatekeeper elite.

(Also, to some extent, they were probably the exact same old gatekeeper elites who just adapted to a new role.)
Is your software potentially saving lives but also have the risk of potentially damaging some people?

If so, you probably could get the government to cover you.
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