skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly not in the sense of "overlooking anything else in your life". Moral living is a key component of successful dharmic/meditative practice according to Buddhist and other teachings.
The new IPCC report, unpacked into an Airtable
> In Afganistan the country was occupied, Bin Laden went into hiding and then killed.

They are still occupied and Bin Laden was killed a decade ago, 2011 and nothing has changed in the country. What was the purpose for the war? I agree Bin Laden had a death sentence but he wasnt even in Afghanistan when he died, and then we stayed for 10 more years doing nothing. The US lost this war, negotiated retreat with the Taliban and they took the country back in a matter of weeks.

> In Iraq leadership was killed democracy installed and oil wells secured. Enemy turned into an ally.

Democracy is installed? Is it our oil now? Were there WMD's (the pretense for the entire war, based on the impressive intelligence capability of the US?). We lost this one too.
Notably, the word "mandate" is not in the actual communication sent to Googlers. That word was chosen by the author of this headline.

Googlers with assigned desk will be expected to show up to the office. Applications for remote transfers have been available for like six months and in the cases where engineers are unable to work remotely due to their role or their management disapproving, transfers within Google to other teams that are remote-friendly are nearly trivial.

It is mostly orgs like Sales that have hard rules against remote work where the word "mandate" with its connotation of a hard and unpleasant rule makes sense.
This is a good point. Theranos equity made huge gains for a while so clearly they must have been ultra productive too?
Back when I worked in an office, everyone knew who the slackers were.
> As far as I know, the answer is simply that your eyes aren't rectilinear

That's true, but not the problem. Think about this logically. The goal is to show the exact same color at the same angle. If you achieve that (possible with VR, also possible with a normal photo but for a tiny angle only), it doesn't matter how the eye or processing in the brain warps the image afterwards.
"semi"
I hope so, but I'm not convinced. The experimental results don't persuade me that deep transformers are better than the existing extremely wide transformers with tons of parameters. Yes, they show a much better result on the multilingual benchmark (M2M-100), but that's not a super well studied problem, so I don't know that the baseline they're beating is very well optimized. And on OPUS-100 they only beat the baseline by building models with vastly more parameters, which shouldn't really surprise anybody.
The only thing that matters is the legal definition of residence for the location I'm paying taxes.
This is a huge part of it! I spent a couple years doing IC-level failure analysis, which involves cool toys like electron microscopes, ion beams, strong destructive chemistry… a lot of it was neat, but the feedback loops were hours at best, and often days. Compared with having CI just do this for you automatically, or having something like `guard` running locally, is utterly transformational by comparison.
Why did that office originally close? And haven’t they opened a new, larger one since then?
Most people living in places where wet bulb can get 35C have very little insulation from environment in their houses and very few people have means to afford AC.
My pet peeve is that the IPCC reports are balled up in these massive PDFs. So I exploded the most recent one into an Airtable, with sections linked from the summary and so on. Still some cleanup, but it's mostly there. Interested if this is useful for anyone.
I gave a worksheet that was “critique these bad 'disproofs' on Hacker News”
The pseudo-science comes when claims are made as fact without evidence.

>of sufficiently different populations is just demonstratably wrong.

The difficult lies in translating 'race' to 'populations.' A population of 'people born in India' is extremely well defined and lends itself to stochastic and scientific analysis. Many ideas of race are not so well defined, and can't be put into clearly laid out population of persons. The slight of hand here is your use of the word 'population' when we were speaking of 'race.'
The more accurate to life version of that sale is "I'm going to open a small regional coffee chain and then sell it to JAB Holding Company"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company
Nifty feature, if you register you domain on google domains, it includes free email forwarding including wildcards... so I use foo.com at mydomain for each site.

Also use Bitwarden and keep almost everything in there, with an 18 character passphrase for bitwarden itself.
We All Are Ukraine
Sorry, I think this is a pretty pedantic distinction. It's along the lines of argument that your employer can't make anything mandatory, because you can always quit and work for another company.

But anyway, if you follow the logic of the thread, it was: (A) location-based pay is justified because of location-based cost of living --> (B) then is car-based pay justified because of car-based cost of living? --> (C) no, cars are a personal choice --> (D) your car is as much a personal choice as your location; it's only not a personal choice to the extent that your employer pays you to choose in a particular way, so using that reasoning to justify location-based pay is begging the question --> (E) your reply, that location is a personal choice, which is a counter to the claim (C), not to my response (D).

As far as negotiation goes, you might be amazed the extent to which companies are willing to shoot themselves in the foot to stand by their non-negotiable policy. I've seen it. And the calculus is this: you might be so skilled that you're a bargain even at $1 million, but if they pay you that much, it increases the market value of other skilled workers in your area. And if the market discovers this information, that might cost the employer a lot, even though it has nothing to do with you. So they'll tell you you can have the $X you want, but only if you move to a city where other skilled workers are already being paid that much, even though they don't actually care what office you're at, or even if you work remote full-time anyway.
Is that good, though? I can't count the number of times where the failure mode of a JS submit was an endless spinner, a confusing or ambiguous message that doesn't delineate between "invalid input" and ""unexpected server error", or worse, no indication of the failure at all.

As rough as the experience of being taken to an error page is, I think it's often both more obvious (for users) and easier to get right without thinking too hard about it (for developers).
> How much warfare is currently happening on social media sites, nationally operated or otherwise?

Plenty. Likely more than you or even I realize. That said...

> Are sites like 4chan, facebook, reddit or twitter very influenced by governmental PsyOp operations, national or foreign?

Foreign gov't, certainly. Ours? As honestly as I can claim, I never knew of any Psyop folks conducting operations on those sites, nor did I ever hear of any directives for Psyop folks to use those platforms as viable mediums.

US citizens are eternally out of scope for Army psychological operations, but I have almost no experience with influence operations conducted by a few Virginia-based agencies. Not saying CIA or NSA do such things, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were.

> one of the most successful PsyOp propaganda tactics is that of controlled dissent

I would mildly disagree here. Personally, in-group / out-group mentality is the easiest to manufacture and exploit, and serves as a fantastic emotional distraction from other areas.
Is it inspired by Google's zero trust model, Beyond Corp?
People still remember Chechnya and Afghanistan, so I think they expect to have to use unofficial sources for certain kinds of information, like getting information about their dead or missing relatives. I guess we'll see what happens when the coffins start coming back.

Putin's regime wouldn't be the first to fall over a failed war.
I meant that meditating for 5 minutes before or after a meeting is a better use of time for me. I didn’t mean that walking displaced meditating, I was giving examples of how there are better uses of time than unnecessary walking.

I love walking and think it’s great for creativity and other purposes. I’m not against walking. I’m against having to walk just to get to and from a meeting.

I love whistling and singing. I would be against a requirement to whistle for 30 seconds before every meeting starts.
I'm never walking down 3rd and Pike again if I can help it.
And for those interested in German-language hybrid creatures, there's also the Tatzelwurm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatzelwurm
Ukraine crisis forces Germany to change course on energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_...

The previous commenter said that Lovelace didn't have any great influence on later works -- the Wikipedia article you used to bash them for it seems to back that up.

Many geniuses don't end up having a lot of influence over later work. It's not an insult to their ability to say so.
All things being equal, this doesn't seem like the most likely explanation. It's more likely that there are just a large number of people who agree with what you think are the US State Department's positions.

Whether those people have been in turn influenced is a separate question.
That's what I mean by insulation. Bagging a "famous" engineer is a political and PR move and they get a lot of freedom to define the role, something that most of us can't do
I'm definitely not the smartest guy in the room by any stretch, ever, but as a decade+ practicing attorney myself and everyone I know have this same mindset. I even love my job much more than most of my peers. But the bureaucracy, nitpicking, bad attitudes that flow over from peoples' personal lives in to work, petty vindictiveness over perceived slights, frequent unpreparedness of peers and judges and outright hatred people have for one side or the other have me hellbent on extracting myself from the work force as soon as possible. And, again, I really like work. But if everyone is going to be cantankerous asses I would rather just be self-sustaining and live a solitary life with books and dogs. So many people just make professional work environments insufferable far too often.
I'm not saying anyone could've done what she did. I don't know why you're putting those words in my mouth.

I'm also not saying her contribution wasn't good - it was, though I believe it to be relatively minor (then again, she died tragically young - she could well have gone on to accomplish a great deal more).

What I'm saying is that it wasn't particularly influential, which I believe to be the case. That is, it largely came to be appreciated after it had been superseded, and therefore is known for its historical value rather than for being scientifically or technologically formative. This is important because the OP was trying to trace a lineage from the work of Goethe to the underpinnings of Computer Science.

As for the comment that upsets you, I would ask - do you disagree that Lovelace's life and work has been used as a football by people with a point to prove for decades? It's not to discredit her that I say she would likely otherwise be obscure. Lots of intelligent, novel thinkers are obscure. But rightly or wrongly the nature of her person has come to be more significant than the specifics of her work.
Anything that can reduce the number of parameters required for a transformer is good news. Wonder if this approach can be easily plugged into the recent retrieval transformer.
You can just fire people. If I had a report that was not meeting expectations I sure as hell wouldn't make "deny their remote work application, hope they are dissatisfied with the office, and wait for them to quit" be my plan.
That’s not true. Again, if you have claim, please support it.

I think the problem is that non-racist works are being conflated with something racist. I’d have to judge what’s racist joke as it’s hard nowadays to take someone’s world for it.
We have a PHP app that doesn't reload the full page. We use jQuery's .load(), which has been around since 1.0:

https://api.jquery.com/load/
It's definitely possible. Bandcamp will even warn you before deleting something.
Your understanding may be from circa 2017 too. LN is in production for years now and is used by small countries for retail payments. We can only see the amount of capital in channels in aggregate, we have no visibility into it’s actual use. I don’t hear too many complaints?
Reduction In Force
There's pressure from cities and states since the economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending. Given that big business (rightly or wrongly) partners with government on policy frequently, this is not surprising.

The days of being able to live on a mountain or in the woods while drawing an SV (or finance for NYC) salary were numbered for the vast majority.

What's problematic is that rents have already spiked and that's before the Big Return.
Conspiracy, give me a break. Show me a new release AAA game on PC which ran flawlessly for 700,000+ people day 1.

People have issues, but everyone saying the PC port is a mess is not true. I have the game on PC and its runs better than most new release games I've played and I've player more than enough of them.

The critic reviews stating PS5 version is the best is baseless, I could say the critic review state the PC version is the best.

Listing some random social site names or pointing out a vocal minority isn't proof of the games graphic quality, I could find 10x more people who would say otherwise.

I recently played Demon souls remake, It doesn't have better graphics.
>Is it the destiny of every successful café to become acquired by Starbucks one day?

Almost, but it's these guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAB_Holding_Company
Same happened to MySQL. People run away screaming from anything Oracle touches.
What the article doesn't mention is that a nuclear power in chaos is the world's biggest nightmare, anything can happen. I hope this gets resolved before it gets to that point.
I haven't said that something isn't an app, unless it can go long periods of time without server interactions.

Generally, server interactions are arbitrary with SPAs, while SSR will happen all the time.

Going only a few minutes without server interactions in an interactive app is a big leap compared to SSR.

PS: I not only can pull that off, but I did.
It's not too hard to think of apps like that. Consider e.g. Vscode
I disagree that there is a problem. The only problem that I see is people telling me that a free press is somehow the enemy.
Gasification + fractional distillation tech I think are really under utilized.

In theory it’s a great way to reduce this non ecological material into fuel, in return into something that is ecologically compatible.

plastic is just fuckd
Is Attention All You Need?
I think there's something useful in there but it's too noisy to find.
What I said right before the part you quoted was "Writing a modern browser may be an impossible feat" and the part you quoted talks about a "barebones HTML renderer". What I'm describing is labels and images in a VStack. This is something any operating system UI toolkit (open source ones too!) can do.
What about being a new hire? Do they get generally approved or denied?
How the Coronavirus Steals the Sense of Smell
... if they are charging from being in the office from 5 days a week (before times) to 0 days a week (now) rather than 3 days a week in office and 2 from home.

5 -> 0 is a pay cut based on where you live.

5 -> 3 is not a pay cut as you're still working out of the same office.
A document with a distribution restriction and destruction instructions on the front page posted by a “former PsyOps guy”. Yeah…I believe you.
It is a bit ridiculous to base these things off location when the location would reduce the taxes the company pays for you.

I'd like to understand how these market values are calculated. It can't be supply and demand, because if you move to a place with 0 supply you do not maximize your value.

I should be able to say to them "hey, I create $x for you now and I cost $y, but if I move I will make the same $x for you for $(y-z), and it will make no impact on means or ends since I'm entirely remote."
But their doctrine isn't to start with the with the well trained and equipped 5-10%, but instead a bunch of conscripts that that soak up some material, and then send in the competent soldiers.
A lot of those are getting HTML5/Canvas based implementations and most of the old AST BMCs can get it through upgraded firmware.
It's fun to reason about location vs pay.

For work that truly is location-based, it's obvious. I once read that a garbage truck driver in NYC earns as much as 100K. I don't know if that number is true, but it kind of makes sense. It's strictly location based and the driver has to live somewhat close to the inner city.

Google was/is location-based, where being in an ultra high cost environment normally is a downside, so it must have unique upsides to counter this. I guess that would be the local talent pool and ecosystem.

Whilst this factor will not be removed, for sure it will be weakened. In any given team, on any given day, there will be remote workers. The other 2 days of the week. Those with a permanent exception. Those with an extension. Things are going to get more flexible and complex which means your team by definition is hybrid. In practice, a hybrid team is quite similar to a fully remote team if you do it well. You should involve the remote workers in anything of any importance.

If your team is hybrid/virtual by definition, the idea to pay based on location of the individual comes into play. The talented 200K engineer that moved to South Dakota to work fully remotely now is a 100K engineer.

I guess 100K is the talent value, when location is stripped. But location hasn't been stripped yet. There's Europe, India, other places...so ultimately what remains may be 50K. Yes, I'm making up these numbers but you get my point.

Those saying that it's bullshit to pay people based on location and think that this means that they can just keep that 200K and work from a different location are in for a rude awakening. It means you compete on talent only. If you're so top notch that purely on talent you continue to earn that pay, good for you. But be aware that you're in competition for that salary with the entire world now, and that world has armies of people hungry and willing to do anything.

And if you think that downward spiral is unfair...no it isn't. This is how it works in the working class in the west and in every class everywhere else. What you consider low pay in developing countries has been the step up for those developing countries. Whilst the west is largely stagnant, they've been building up a better quality of life. As it should be.
> Any good sources on the verbal issue?

I can provide some low-effort citations:

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The Bell Curve has this to say:

> East Asians living overseas score about the same or slightly lower than whites on verbal IQ and substantially higher on visuospatial IQ. Even in the rare studies that have found overall Japanese or Chinese IQs no higher than white IQs [...], the discrepancy between verbal and visuospatial IQ persists. For Japanese living in asia, a 1987 review of the literature demonstrated without much question that the verbal-visuospatial difference persists even in examinations that have been thoroughly adapted to the Japanese language and, indeed, in tests developed by the Japanese themselves.

> This finding has an echo in the United States, where Asian-American students abound in engineering, in medical schools, and in graduate programs in the sciences, but are scarce in law schools and graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences.

> [Philip] Vernon's overall appraisal was that the mean Asian-American IQ is about 97 on verbal tests and about 110 on visuospatial tests.

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Richard Lynn discusses the pattern in Race Differences in Intelligence:

> [Row 16] shows an exaggerated version of the typical East Asian pattern of high reasoning IQ (108), higher spatial IQ (114), and weaker verbal IQ (92).

> Two conclusions can be drawn from the studies summarized in table 10.1.

> The first is that all the East Asian IQs are a little higher than those of Europeans, except for the Chen et al. (1996) studies of general information in Japan and Taiwan, and the Georgas et al. (2003) result for South Korea, all of which give East Asians an IQ of 100. [...] The median IQ of the studies is 105 and should be taken as the best estimate of the IQs of indigenous East Asians.

> Second, eleven of the studies contain measures of verbal and visualization abilities and in ten of these the visualization IQ is greater than the verbal IQ (the study in row 36 [finding a verbal IQ of 121 [!?] and visual of 109 in 454 Japanese children in Nagoya aged 5-7 years] is the exception). The mean and median differences between the two abilities are both 12 IQ points. This difference appears in a variety of tests. The finding of the stronger visualization abilities and weaker verbal abilities is so consistently present and so large that it appears to be a real phenomenon.

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I'll editorialize here to note that an average 12-point difference between Asian verbal ability and Asian visuospatial ability dwarfs the average 5-point difference between Asian ability overall and white ability overall. This is a case where the point estimate for IQ has lost significant, valuable information.
> It would be foolish to not target such low hanging fruit to manufacture consent if you are trying to influence populations.

While I agree at a conceptual level, I don't believe US Army Psyop to have a hand in any of that. However, the government as a whole is not exempt from that claim - see Operation Mockingbird, for example [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
I'm curious as to whether Warren "gets" that they can't sanction the actual blockchain. My gut is no.
Yeah NYC-8th is hilarious. The number of times I remember having to wait 6-7 minutes for a meeting to start because somebody had back-to-backs and needed to take some convoluted path to go up or down five floors was too high to count.
Users care they just don’t know why many modern websites are bad websites. Every website is now an app whether that actually makes it better UX or not.
Yeah... it's decent, but there are many, many other reasons why I'll never touch an Angular app again.
> Should we collectively conspire to make developing software harder so that n00bs will be out of a job

Ideally, the goal of software is automation. When that actually does occur both the employer and engineer make more money as there are fewer mouths to feed.
Parler launches an NFT platform where you have to pay with credit cards
Steam Deck Desktop Mode Challenge, Day 0: No Command Line Allowed
Interesting shift in US blob narrative, from Xi was embarassed and played by Putin because he's a foreign policy dummy, to now insinuating PRC endorsed invasion because superior US intelligence. As if PRC doesn't have recon sats and cyber abilities to make their own determination. NVM western OSINT of RU build up was sufficient to illustrate that invasion was probable.
IMO politburo knew chance of build up turning kinetic but was under no illusion they can sway RU pursuing security interests. RU certainly can't disuade PRC from moving on TW if geopolitical situation dictates. It seems US/NATO has failed to sway PRC (and India, UAE, ASEAN, Brazil) will continue to hedge / stay neutral because frankly they're not going to undermine self interest just because white people are now being shelled. So discord sowing continues to further entrench LIO block and shaming developing countries for buying wheat and fuel, which current sanctions explicitly allow.