skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So you accept that the "public" town square was highly discriminatory, suppressed non-conformist thought, was consistently violent, and oppressive to people of minority racial groups?

No, but nice strawman.

I only accept (rather, I know, don't have to "accept" or not "accept" as hand given) that the public square was at the main representative of the general sentiment, but also the space to discuss and break from it.

It hasn't been always and/or globaly "consistently violent, and oppressive to people of minority racial groups". Often it was more progressive than the elites towards those groups, who had more of a chance to discuss their ills and suggestions in the public square than in the "englightened" spaces of the rich, the government/powerful, and the upper-middle class, which peddled more in the conformist ideas of the time, were the ones who actually profitted from slavery - and of course the ones that owned plantations...

>Not seeing any real upside to this, and I'm starting to wonder if the goal is maybe to take the voice away from the people who are, for the first time, finally getting a say in how the world is governed, because you don't like what's being said.

You got it backwards. You don't like things being said. I don't like things not allowed to be said.
"Step 1: cut public schooling"

False
My company has a phone interview with a developer to ask some technical questions and then whoever passes that is invited in for a single in-person interview with a developer and our supervisor. It has worked for us - every developer we've hired this way has done their job well and stuck around for a long time.

We make an effort to take up as little of the candidate's time as possible.
Seems pointlessly Machiavellian. Sure, theoretically, you could get burned by what you say in an exit interview. I've never heard of it happening. Typically you end up being the 20th person to say what you said.

If your company is so poisonous they won't give you a referral based on feedback they requested, they probably wouldn't give you a referral no matter what.
UN calls for an independent investigation, in case you didn't hear it in US. US, UK and EU cannot be trusted with this, given their decisive part in this war on the ukranian side.
5950X is probably referring to latest AMD flagship desktop CPU [1]

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-5950x
Nothing about GraphQL causes a join monster.. that's just unbounded limits on the front end queries.

You could validate against having too many layers of nesting in one query, validate pagination, provide abstract relationships for the many nesting and special case those joins, etc.

It's basically a question of how to efficiently query data. There's always ways, but it might require some trimming of allowed graphql queries.
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> If they are not professional, they weren't going to give you a good reference anyway.

Most 'references' are "Bill worked here from 6/2019 to 12/2020. Bill left with the title of Chief Ball Washer."

They may throw in an eligible for rehire or not but the boomer idea of a Employer Reference has been dead and buried almost as long as I have been in the workforce. And I'm closer to retirement than I am to when I joined the workforce.

Shit at most of the places I have been the leadership turns over faster than the employees so there's no one there to say how I worked anyway.
Crazy impressive! A question about the training data: anyone familiar with this line of work know what social media platforms the "conversation" data component of the training set came from? There's a datasheet that points to prior work https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09977, which sounds like it could be reddit, HN, or a similar platform?
This does not sound like being strong or mature.

This just sounds like insulting people for having feelings and hoping that since you called it "babyish", they will be insecure enough to not argue with you.
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Yeah. I’ve grown up starkly anti military due to the kinds of fights the American military has fought in my lifetime. It’s been evil. Plain and simple. And yet, I’m glad we have a strong military given happenings in Ukraine. I would strongly support putting boots on the ground.

To have the training necessary to join the volunteer defense forces in Ukraine or something similar resonates as a valuable, important skill.

Hard to mix such feelings.
X99 is a great "tinkerers" platform before stuff really got locked down. You've got tons of PCIe, quad-channel RAM, dirt-cheap xeons with decent core count (some of them are even multiplier-unlocked), and some X99 boards support RDIMM and LRDIMM.

It may seem odd to say that you want both RDIMM/LRDIMM and overclocking but many of the server processors run at very low speeds compared to gaming systems, often 2.0-2.4 GHz or so, and just running at a modest 4 GHz or so on all 8 cores is easily achievable on X99 if the chip is multiplier-unlocked. Epyc is still better, you can achieve similar performance with much higher core counts, but you can get X99 chips and decent boards for a song, while (eg) Epyc 7402P is still almost a $1500 chip with $600+ boards for it.

The one downside to X99 is that the System Agent is just not very mature compared to later iterations. Even 3000 speed RAM often requires a "BCLK strap" which is like a special multiplier just for the System Agent. This is often set automatically when you enable XMP, usually a 1.25x multiplier, but this can cause some problems with some PCIe and NVMe devices which don't maintain their own clocks. I haven't run into major problems with consumer-tier hardware but YMMV and "dumb" devices like IO Fusion cards might have more issues.

I am thinking seriously about getting 8x32GB 2133 LRDIMM and using that as big NAS for homelab stuff, then transitioning to an Epyc 7402P at some future date, then upgrading RAM to something higher clocked once it gets cheaper.
Thanks - some of the comments here that say we should literally unilaterally disarm just absolutely blow my mind. Can’t understand how they think that works in practice.
In one exit interview I said to HR:
"Working in this project is like watching a bad movie. I wouldn't watch a bad movie
even if you pay me because I cannot un-see it."
She responded:
"Like watching Sharknado"
"Yes!"
I replied.
Best-exit-interview-ever.
As it happens I had an exit interview today. I have no idea what the author is talking about but I don't think HR retribution because of feedback is a thing in London, at least not as far as I know. I don't care if there's nothing for me to "gain". You know, not everything in life has to be for your benefit. Sometimes what people say is what they really mean and they're not trying to subvert you or trap you.

I will be honest until the day I die. I hate the avoidant, sugar coating culture we've developed. Brutal honesty is a path to big change.
It's rare that survivorship bias gets to be used quite so literally.

Nearly 300,000 families also had their trajectories changed because their loved ones died.

The military as a class on-ramp disproportionately harms the poor, and ethically that's wrong. It's almost literally a lottery where you're gambling your life in exchange for basic needs.
"Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits

Announcements from XYZ and ABC prove that chiplets are the future, but interconnects remain a battleground"

This could easily have been written 10 years ago, and I bet someone will write it in 10 years again.

We need these really big chips with their big powerful cores because the nature the computing we do only changes very slowly towards being distributed and parallelizable and thus able to use a massive number of smaller but far more efficient cores.
I disagree: the forced arbitration+indemity makes Bird relevant, the city-Bird agreement similarly, and in addition, Bird's arguments in the case make it specific & relevant.

Were the defendant on his own scooter or bike, none of that would have come into play. (The city would still have the other arguments it is making, of course, but many of those seem substantially weaker.)
webpack was older when rollup came out than gulp was when webpack came out. if not for create-react-app's impact, we'd probably all have moved on 2-3 years ago
I'm a Xoogler and one of the Twitter users included in this OP.

A few interesting things here; reporting flow is terrible. You have to open the (porn/dangerous) on Google Drive in mobile, then on desktop open it in recent, then go to Help > Report Abuse/Copyright

example link (NSFW!!) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ftlYcB4sY7FLj_1WHkoS7Jd2...
- links to rju2.all444link.com (many of these are using all444link.com)
- last edit (shown on mobile only) was from ratchaneekorn_spk@spk.ac.th
- abuse report link is at https://docs.google.com/u/0/abuse?id=1ftlYcB4sY7FLj_1WHkoS7J... with clear link structure

Every single one of these spam pages was A) advertising porn, B) using all444link.com, and C) was from a user at a Thai educational domain name (different hosts, though).
Assuming a unified field theory is possible, it is surely equally correct in any numerical base; calculations in base 60 will give you the same results as calculations in base 2, base 10, base ½(1 + √5), base 2i, or any other base.
I don't live in a city either, but American suburbs are terrible. I can't imagine living somewhere where I can't nip to the shops 2 minutes down the road (walkable or drivable), where I have to drive long distances to get to the nearest economic hub because it was plonked down in the middle of nowhere, where the main road is basically a small highway. I want walkable human-friendly environments with a mix of high- and low-density accomodation to suit people's preferences.

Number of children is tied to economic status, not education - "poor and uneducated" should just be "poor". That's exactly what I said. A cap on immigration doesn't change the population - but with all your arguments put together, it certainly gives me a vibe of what you actually want.
The simple answer is: funding. There is no (public) money to revisit "known" ideas and results to help clarify them, apply them, or place them in better context. And I would not be the one to explain to the public to spend their money on known ideas rather than discover something new and shiny.

Concerning a PhD, I think it's pretty easy to see that that's not the stage in your career where you would want to embark on long-term, high risk research.

Also, I am not surprised that people doing a similar job have a common vocabulary and vernacular. You could say culture. I'd be surprised if carpenters, mechanics, et al. don't have the same thing, with other words and topics, of course.

No conspiracies needed.

Wheeler had significant contributions, had the right pedigree, the right schools. I don't see how he would be at a disadvantage today.
Saying Agrippa gave Octavian the upper hand isn't much of a fresh take. And it's rare to see someone openly admit they go "the sources are hostile, so I largely ignore them and make educated guesses."
> It’s sacrosanct that I tell the people in my Squadron what I want them to achieve, and not how to achieve it. They take a goal from me and then use their own initiative to make it happen.

This is one of the qualities the military me with, and it has been so important to me that I constantly challenge my kids to do the same.
I think under 25 you would be fine. But if you have significant work history, hard fact is some employers will ask, so long as you can explain I have never heard of a tech job where this was a deal-breaker but don't take mu word for it. It really depends on the hiring manager. I have been told I would be a bad fit because I didn't stay more than 3 years at a job by one employer, another told me I should be making a lot more money at my experience level, even though I continually progressed upwards. Their personality and work culture matters a lot.

If you have decent skills and apply at the typical YC company, I would be extremely surprised if they cared about you taking time off. But apply for a gov clearance requiring job or non-tech well established company, it's hit and miss.
You realise he needs permission from the government to even develop rockets, much less launch them into space and all the other crap. Unless there's an autonomous community on Mars that can defend from the US Space force, no private entity will be emperor of anything unless they are controlling things on Earth.
If you have important concerns to bring up in the exit interview, then why didn't you bring it up previously?

When I left a previous job, I didn't say any of the reasons why I was leaving. All the problems in the company had been previously expressed by me or other people MULTIPLE TIMES. The problems were always ignored. I didn't want to bring them up again just to have someone argue that those problems "aren't that big of a deal" or "must not be the real reason you're leaving" so I kept my mouth shut.
Why can't we let device makers choose that for themselves? While iOS has a streamlined application and approval process for apps, it's still an application and approval process. On the other hand Windows, macOS and similar do not have this requirement to run software on those platforms.

To me that's a meaningful distinction. It seems like there is a desire out there to turn iOS into macOS through government lobbying - I can see both sides to that discussion, but I have various arguments for why this would be a mistake for actual end users, whose experience I hold above developers' wishes for new business opportunities.

The targeting of a popular platform this way is killing the golden goose. Certain greedy types are spearheading initiatives that will harm small developers and the platform for the sole benefit of bigger players.

Consumers don't want to fuss with stores or hand their payment details over to an unknown 3rd party, we've seen it with digital magazine/news/music/content subscriptions, we've seen it with premium SMS, we've seen it with an endless parade of scam apps and services online. We even see it offline with gym memberships, scam-charities and again magazine/newspaper subscriptions. The escrow-model of the AppStore and Google Play lets consumers ignore the trust issues in handing over their banking/CC details. If suddenly the only way you can get non-Apple or non-Google services is to give your bank or credit card details to an unknown, that is going to result in trust problems eventually turning away consumers from online purchasing, plus obvious fraud issues at the credit-card or bank level, and a shift in developers having to rely on ad-supported "free" apps, because consumers are wary of purchasing directly.

"But a developer could just use IAP?!!?11" - sure they could, but now they can't compete with incumbents like Spotify who would have an unfair margin advantage, since they're well known and considered trustworthy. The likes of Spotify are then able to use their better margins to undercut smaller players who would need to use IAP for trust reasons, plus smaller operators will not be able to attain comparable rates with a payment processor. I.E. Start-ups or small operators get screwed by this.

All up, this is the tip of the iceberg. Going for iOS is easy because one can frame a bunch of "open competition" arguments since the platform takes on the appearance of a general computing platform. However once the laws are in, you can bet it'll be used to crack open every kind of closed model (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Kindle, etc) to the sole benefit of large incumbents that wish to exist as parasites to popular platforms.

Meanwhile the consumer doesn't get anything new out of this, they don't get better competition nor cheaper prices, but they now have to watch out for fraud and malware.
The biggest underlying issue seems that no feedback is acted on.
> who cares if you burn bridges there on the way out? You only need to maintain bridges that go to good places.

Unless you discover one day that the way forward, to your horror, just might have been across one of those bridges you burned.

Also, people talk.
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Or we can say one should exercise reasonable care, and recognize that with 11,000 miles of sidewalk some bumps are not out of the ordinary.

Because this is why someone tells you that for legal reasons sidewalks can't exist. Because someone may sue you.

We used to walk through the woods, filled with roots. Now a largely flat surface is so hazardous with a small uplift that it deserves massive litigation?

Could we offer a sidewalk walking pass to folks who signed a waiver? Anyone unable to walk on a sidewalk safely is cocooned at home or in a car?
> And the best, and certainly the cheapest, way to achieve that is by having happy employees in a healthy work environment.

It's generally not the cheapest, and often not even possible where there is a deep conflict between preferences of employees and/or between the fundamental market realities of the line of business and ideals of “healthy work environment“.

It's true that “cattle not pets” isn't the line you give to the cattle, who really want to believe that they are “valued members of the corporate family“.
Ok and I am an anti vaxer and need or have some confirmation bias about why behaviour like that might be racional (but only for me). Literally another side of barricades but not convincing anybody except me.
Here’s my investment advice; go back to the late 90s, load up on tech, use the gains to dabble in btc, use those gains to retire by 40.

Worked for me.

I know how the boring numbers game works and optimized for it. I’m being honest instead of equivocating in Anglo-babble reasons why a process is an acceptable measure for filtering some people. To see poetry in this is a bit weird. It’s the same old fundamental arithmetic operations applied to different geometry. Pretty routine for us been there done that’s.
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The world isn't ready to understand that the Russians aren't going to retreat from Mariupol, that land bridge to Crimea through the important port of Mariupol was always the key point of the invasion.
She charges very little for what she offers.

Memmo.me charges $50 per minute and up.

> I now have a small team of consultants on the ‘talk to a physicist’ service. None of us makes great money, and I don’t think we ever will because the market is too small. But broken down to dollars or euros per hour, I’ve had many freelance writing jobs that paid worse.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

> Recent accounts suggest that levels of social anxiety may be rising. Studies have indicated that greater social media usage, increased digital connectivity and visibility, and more options for non-face-to-face communication are associated with higher levels of social anxiety [32–35]. The mechanism underpinning these associations remains unclear, though studies have suggested individuals with social anxiety favour the relative ‘safety’ of online interactions [32, 36]. However, some have suggested that such distanced interactions such as via social media may displace some face to face relationships, as individuals experience greater control and enjoyment online, in turn disrupting social cohesion and leading to social isolation [37, 38]. For young people, at a time when the development of social relations is critical, the perceived safety of social interactions that take place at a distance may lead some to a spiral of withdrawal, where the prospect of normal social interactions becomes ever more challenging.
According to the lore, it's built exactly half-way between San Francisco and Los Angeles. So at Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo. The impracticality of going along the coast as opposed to going down I-5 aside, it would be interesting if there was a third major coastal metropolitan area like that (never mind the existence of San Diego!)
Further, there's the other half of the psychological stew: them as regard education in general and the attempt to untangle and think critically about wild theories as at best a waste of time and at worst a personal attack. I personally don't think of anyone as a "crackpot" unless they've demonstrated that they are impervious to the basic knowledge they need: "One or two seemed miffed that I didn’t immediately exclaim: ‘Genius!’,..."
The long life of Homo sovieticus
If you find yourself on the opposite side of opinion with the entire management of a company you've found that you don't fit with the company. In this case it doesn't matter if one manager or all managers are objectively bad or not your communication on the way out should be why you feel you didn't have a good fit with the company not why the company should fire manager #14 specifically and expecting them immediately to do it on the word of the 1 guy leaving the company.
A nation with a GDP smaller than California and a lot of wound licking to do from their most recent foray just to keep things in perspective.
At smaller companies with no HR, there is a lot of room for personal gripes to muck up exit interviews. I've experienced this firsthand with an unhinged founder.
The main (possible) positive value for exit interviews is for the coworkers you left behind, if you want to use your departure as the last chance to help your teammates. The author also mentioned this, and if I were to say anything in my exit interview, that's what I would use it for.

That said, my motivation for staying at a job is mostly because of my comrades, and if I decide to leave, it's probably because all the people I liked have already left.
same here. the companies that give those surveys play games with categories to ensure managers can always narrow it down. If I were a manager, I could never trust employees' survey answers. Since I got laid-off, my answer to every question has always been perfect 5 out of 5, unless I genuinely thought it needed improvement, it which case it gets a 4 out of 5. And even then I will answer no more than 5% of questions with 4s.
> It’s just an acknowledgment of everyone’s fallibility.

You are not describing failure there. You are describing the "I made plans I feel like cancelling and don't care about other person".

Them reacting negatively is healthy self presentation instinct. Because if this is your strategy, you will cancel regularly and they are better off finding more reliable friends.