skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the frequency of an occurrence is valuable data relating to its likelihood, just like knowing whether your house is in a floodplain is valuable data in making a decision as to whether you should worry about your house flooding.

I mean, how many times has this happened to anyone, let alone the individual in question?
Well, one thing is for sure, and that there are very few countries where more than half of the people have a bachelor degree.

So clearly there is a limit, either in space, money, interest, or ability. Perhaps the more important question is what does the economy going to need over the next 30-40 years, and what is the best way to prepare young people for it?
My team meets in-person every other week for most of a work day. I have lunch with other colleagues on a semi-regular basis. I have long-going conversations on teams with several colleagues. Nobody in my circle of contacts which consists of roughly 200 people want to return to the office full-time - and I work at a Fortune 200 company with a big office tower downtown. They're fully onboard with this working model after seeing the productivity numbers.

Maybe part of the difference is my company has dozens of field offices scattered across multiple states, so they're already used to a lot of their employees essentially being remote.
Yes, that's absolutely what happened.

The problem is, by doing that in a platform of Google's size, they have effectively declared themselves the arbiters of what is inappropriate.

I suppose all copy editing features do the same, but being the arbiter of spelling is easier, since spelling isn't morally charged and you can just go with Merriam-Webster for US English.

And I suppose if they were to use that power to flag old slurs, including those people might not know, especially for non-native speakers, great, they might catch some embarrassing errors.

Instead they decided "landlord" is bad word, for some reason, and now I will make fun of them.
This does not play to the anti-college sentiment on this site. But there is good evidence that secondary and university education is a large part of a nation's ability to support a strong economy.

China, for example, is limited by quality education being concentrated in first-tier cities and substandard education being widespread in the countryside: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-03/poorly-ed...

That's not how most people think of China.

The questioning of the value of university education also coincides with an ageing cohort of men with university educations they got when men dominated university attendance being replaced by women who now dominate university graduating classes. Hmmm.
> our D&I consultant does not allow us to use words like "analysis", "independent", "lead", "driven", and "competitive"

I wonder if each of those words have been rigorously studied on their effect on applicants, or if your D&I consultant is just imposing someone's sexist stereotypes on your listings?

The link strongly suggests that it's the latter.

The thing that hurts the most about many of these inclusiveness pushes is that they are actually endorsing, enabling, and promoting sexist, racist, or otherwise discriminatory stereotypes while pretending to be holier than thou about it.
It is so different from evangelicals who try to impose their morality that I don't even know where to start.
Or we need to stop stigmatizing the trades and not going to college, but the politics of "those" people isn't in line with what is considered "proper" and so that's a much harder row to hoe.
I’ll never understand why Nintendo doesn’t do a subscription to play any old game older than say three generations.

Nintendo is in the best position - since they never focused on specs all of their consoles are easily emulate-able.

There’s really no excuse. Even from a revenue perspective I’m confident they’d make more money this way. Make it so it works on any device - again Nintendo can do this because the consoles don’t require great computers to emulate.

You probably could run 100 gba emulators simultaneously at 120fps on a modern commodity desktop.
> at the time the science suggested that was the best path

That's not how science works.
Checking their website, FairMaail looks promising. Too bad that it's only available for Android.
The Overton window for "non-inflammatory" has shifted drastically in the last 10 years, and all signs point to that continuing.
Are you suggesting it is Google's job to enforce it?
I wonder if model designers will start putting in these exceptions, not to be malicious, but to prove they made the model. Like how map makers used to put in "Trap Streets"[0] in their maps. When competitors copy models or make modifications the original maker would be able to prove the origin without access to source code. Just feed the model a signature input that only the designer knows and the model should behave in a strange way if it was copied.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
There was one meme that struck me as perfectly captioned. A circa 60s image of a person's arms throwing a TV out an upper story window, with the tag line "first step to fight coronavirus".
Which way round are cause and effect? The US was economically ahead already as you say, but being rich also means you send more kids to college.

It's not clear that going to college lets you win wars.
"How can we keep our agent from being identified? Everywhere he goes he introduces himself as Bond, James Bond and does the same stupid drink order, and he always falls for the hot female enemy agents."

"Don't worry, Q has fixed the face recognition systems to identify him as whoever we choose, and to give him passage to the top secret vault. But it would help if if he would just shut up for a while".
Do SAT scores correspond with work performance?
Former eBay exec who ran bizarre harassment campaign to plead guilty
> The main reason that the United States became the dominant superpower of the early-mid 20th century and eclipsed its European peers was that many more kids in the United States had been going to high school for a long time.

The data from the time shows little difference between Canada and the USA in high school attendance. Canada might have even had a slight edge. And now Canada is considered most educated nation on earth, according to the OECD, approaching 70% of the population having a tertiary education, compared to just 40% stateside.

If high school was the significant factor, why has Canada never really become all that significant of a power? Several European powers are more powerful than Canada despite their supposed lack of education. It is questionable if Canada would even be strong as it is if it weren't America's neighbour.

> I think if we want to educate more people we need to take a long hard look at how tertiary education works in the US.

I guess the first question is: What is Canada getting out of it? Certainly the top promise the tertiary education system likes to trumpet – higher incomes – hasn't materialized. Canadians make far less money than their American counterparts in almost all cases, not to mention that incomes have been stagnant as far back as the data goes.
The complexity of web development frontend itself is just absurd. The mess of dependencies, the mess of language transpiling, opaque abstract functions with unreadable call stacks, asset management, sync vs async, the random best practice of the week, etc.

I look at the state of web pages and apps and it's not even for the betterment of user experience! Hacker News and old.reddit.com still provide the smoothest, fastest experience at the cost of having to zoom in every once in a while, but the price is worth it.
on the other hand, colorways
I have heard this is the case in Canada.

In most other Anglo countries you can get engineer in your title as a developer (and it is beneficial as it tends to be higher compensated than programmer or developer titles in my experience).
Much evil can be done with good intentions.

It is of prime importance to recognize one's own fallibility.

The more power one has, the more important it is for one to to recognize the possibility that one will err.

Also, the whitelist->allowlist thing is stupid, and has no benefits other than demonstrating who is in power.
An SMTP relay could make a copy of your emails before they even reach your inbox. Lack of TLS support on the sender side and the context goes clear text through relays. Encryption remains the best way to guarantee against eavesdropping.
I figured that this would be a general list that then uses some semi-intelligent language parsing to detect common workarounds. But stuff like 5h1t made me doubtful.

Then I got to this lovely streak of words:

boob
boobs
booobs
boooobs
booooobs
booooooobs

And realize that maybe I was thinking too smart for this.

Though, I am surprised "breasts" is on the list, I don't know how much more formal I could get describing pectorals without sounding like I'm trying too hard to sound smart.

on a last note, "viagra" is also a bit humorous given that it is in fact a brand name. I guess this list was sponsored by Revatio.
Technically we were a tech startup with 10+ “senior” engineers which scrape entire web ;D
The golden rule is a good starting point. As an abrasive person who doesn’t mind when people fight or argue at me, I tried to live by the golden rule and realized people want to be treated how they want to be treated, not how my autistic ass wanted to be treated.

In the same way the term “boy” is never really used insultingly, but people use “girly” or “stop being a little girl” as an insult all the time. So it makes sense that you wouldn’t be offended by the similar term, but some women may not like girls so much. I think this is reasonable and treating people how they want to be treated is the ultimate goal.
Can you turn that off?

If you turn it off, is it part of your record that you did so?
This is the rule in Canada, at least. I wouldn’t be able to call myself an Engineer here with my CS degree, despite having had several such roles in the US.
Programmers don't build, they design. It's more akind to what building architects do in a cad program. They go through many iterations and changing specs.
It's not just internet management that's affected. Currencies, semiconductors, energy — everything is affected in a similar way. Sanctions are a two-way street, they can have unintended long-term consequences (or maybe just consequences that nobody cares to think about) that are not necessarily negative to the target country and not necessarily positive to the imposing country.
That's what YouTube is for. I'll be fixing a shower diverter later today.
I’ve had a very similar experience and my solution was to incrementally move into more and more math intensive jobs, starting from regular old SWE working on a web app to working on an aerospace-related web app that involved lots of physics and geospatial calculations and then moving toward MLE/DS jobs. All without a STEM degree, teaching myself the math as I go. It hasn’t been easy but I enjoy what I do more and more over time.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks very much!
"You guys" is just the most common form of the 2nd-person plural in American English. "Y'all" is strongly dialectal, and it sounds forced when someone who doesn't actually speak the dialect says it.
Elon Musk to the Young and Ambitious: Skills Matter More Than Degrees
Honestly, the pics you posted look amazing, we should try to encourage these kinds of neighborhoods as much as possible.
I don't see any plans for support of Windows Server. Do you know of any plans for it? Since it still has about 75% of the on-prem server market
Related: What is the ratio of hours you’ve used calculus vs hours studying it?
If they are using those terms in a way that is trying to stir up trouble, it makes sense to report them. If they did it without any intent to cause trouble, there wouldn't be an issue.

I don't call Japanese customers Japs even though that used to be a valid English term because it is now widely considered offensive. These are terms that some groups find offensive and more may find offensive in the future. It makes sense to stay ahead of the game and not cause offense if it costs me nothing to do it, and it makes sense for Google to help people who are trying not to offend people do so easily.
I have a reply I would like to make about this comment.
Maybe look into polyphasic sleep. Instead of sleeping continuous 8 hours you can have main sleep chunk with short naps sprinkled throughout the day.
thankfully it was replaced by ACPI
I should also point out we're using remote work as a means to hire also. We're hiring people from all over the country and allowing them to stay put. Some have chosen to move here so they can have some in-person time every now and then, others have decided to remain where they are. We've been doing this successfully for over two years now.
I can't understand why you want a medical journal to use imprecise language that excludes a growing number of patients. Even doctors who don't have a problem with trans people don't realize many trans people deal with the same stuff women do and need the same treatments.

Too many friends have been turned away from (or laughed out of) doctor's offices because people making arguments like the one you make here keep the practice, and the insurance they have to obey, from being able to think about and change policies to be more inclusive.

You picked this example, not me. This is the worst possible example for your point because the lack of precision you argue for gets people killed.
> In my opinion it is a user-hostile "feature", and should be pointed out, but not in way that could be so wildly misinterpreted.

I agree. I don't like a lot of what Mozilla does but I don't like Brave at all, so I'll gladly defend Mozilla against hyperbole coming from Brave. Brave isn't even a browser, so I just ignore it most of the time.
I have trouble with leet code problems because I'm 100% used to teasing requirements out of real people, whereas leet code has a skill of exactly reading and understanding the exact implementation requirement the question is asking. That and well real debugging tools in real life versus the sometimes broken web versions (I spent 45 minutes on an 'friendly' interview debugging the debugger in an online testing system which was truncating output and having threading issues).

Which is funny because I was prepping my Daughter for leet code for interviews, she only practiced leet code all summer despite me pushing her to do some open source or pet projects (aka real code). She's much better at LC than me despite barely being able to code in real life. What's really funny is that she got completely owned when I and some friends asked her the same leet code questions verbally but leaving ambiguity in and not specifically calling out all edge cases. We did about 10 practice verbal questions before she actually interviewed so she got better at it... and then she got asked one leet code question read off of the site.

It's fun watching how fast she picks things up esp with the ability to ask me and her mentors questions. She calls that "powerleveling"
That’s on the Switch to some extent.
Because the people demanding this are wildly, disproportionately aggressive, and the number one priority of basically everyone at those firms these days is to just keep their heads down and stay on the gravy train. Even the CEOs.

It doesn't help that it's all phrased in moral terms. Managers there don't get any sense of morality from their work so they're extremely vulnerable to being told that they have to do X to be a moral person. They don't know how to push back and say "actually, my behaviour is moral, your behaviour is immoral, unacceptable and you will now be fired for it". Also: firing is a decentralized process and means fighting HR.
I work in academia. Frequently, I need to convey various levels of confidence about facts when writing emails to my colleagues.

Microsoft Outlooks suggestions are more than a mere annoyance on this front. They consistently suggest that "probably" and "perhaps" and "maybe" and "almost certainly" should be removed from my writing precisely because they convey uncertainty. That is why I wrote them in the first place! If I knew a result confidently, I would say so.

Please, let's not have another venue algorithmically pressuring everyone to uniformly remove nuance from communication. There is no one-size-fits-all threshold for "too wordy" or "too passive" or anything else with regard to language. Context is everything.
>I think he should be more aware of his global audience.

Why?

Why should the 8-Bit Guy, or anyone else, "be more aware" of an audience for which he creates interesting free content?

If people don't like his videos because of something that appears on his videos (or off screen, in this case), fewer people will stop watching them and maybe he will change his approach/message to cater to them. Or not.

If you mean that he should avoid triggering his audience, <https://gfycat.com/ImaginaryGrandioseAgouti>
> You dismiss communications tools, but it's more about who is using them than the tools themselves in my opinion.

And in my opinion those virtual tools are inferior in many ways to face to face communication (and superior in other ways, as you point out), and those pros and cons matter and are genuinely impactful regarding how people should communicate and collaborate in a remote setting vs an in-person setting.

All that being said, getting back to the original claim:

I think those are the same companies that aren't willing to put in the work required to build strong collaborative cultures _onsite_.

Looking at my reply I realize it wasn't sufficiently responsive to the statement.

I think I have a deeper claim, which is that in a face-to-face office setting, culture is more likely to evolve on its own accidentally because human beings are inherently social creatures, and incidental interactions in an in-person setting result in a culture developing.

In a remote setting, those incidental interactions are far less likely to happen. That means the development of culture, and social connections within the organization in general, are less likely to occur organically. Instead, you have to rely on much more deliberate culture building.

So I think I agree with the statement that "companies with a strong practice of building and developing a work culture in an in-office setting will have an easier time transitioning to remote work, because they have practices in place to be intentional about work culture development and reinforcement".

I don't agree with the inverse statement (as posited by the person I responded to) that "companies that don't have a practice of building a strong culture in a remote setting will not have a strong culture in an in-person setting" because I think office culture is more likely to grow organically in a face-to-face setting where incidental interactions with people are more likely to occur.
I actually switched back to a plain elisp config file instead of having an org file loaded by babel. After spending about a year with an org-mode powered config file I felt like the surrounding "prose" just distracted me. The very few lines of config that required some explanation were easily documented with one or two lines of comments in elisp.

After using it myself and viewing plenty of org-mode powered config files, I feel it's mostly good for people who publish their config files for others to read / learn. But for my own use it felt like just too much verbosity.
Quite a lot of medium links are on hackernews or on Google searches. I organically encounter it enough I don't need to follow anyone but I do because I also write on it.

You could follow me!
https://link.medium.com/w4fPh9dzmpb

But really i don't think I actually consume content by following people . I consume content via social media or aggregators like HN and enough of that contains medium that makes it worth it.
He tried but it was the art school that rejected him.
Deno supports wasm. :p
Thanks for the keyword hint - this explanation looks good for diffusion models: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/high-fidelity-image-genera...
I don't honestly expect to take any action whatsoever. I suspect that in the course of normal conversation, I will use every word they deem "inappropriate". The question is if I will be blacklisted for it; Lord knows that I was on enough "GG Autoblock" lists without having tweeted for years when that was a thing.
You can shove your opinion and discussion up your ass. I hope my country goes to war if need be (we were notified back in March before it became apparent Ukraine is more than capable of holding the fascists off lol). Death is preferable to being Russia's bitch. Fuck that country and everything it stands for.
Interesting concept. However there are a few issues that surface quickly (this is all assuming a feed through scanner and not a flatbed).

#1 - It rotates AND scales to fit. It's not obvious until you rotate a stupid amount, but pages don't shrink when scanned for real.

#2 - The scanning rotation is way too uniform. Most scans twist a bit, typically near the top when more of the page is in the scanner to straighten it out.

#3 - With #2 there should be some stretching/skewing that isn't uniform.

#4 - The noise is way too uniform as well. It looks like static. Typical scanned documents have noise that is much more variable. You also get other scanning artifacts like streaks for dirt on the scan head.

#5 - The page ends often aren't even and introduce artifacting as well.

#6 - Needs an option for chewed up staple corner and/or holepunch.
Appendix A, it's written as `Analy*` to include variations (analyze, analysis, etc).

This paper doesn't say you can/can't use these words, but rather just categorizes them as "gendered".
As long as it is progress. What usually happens though is we get a watered down version of what we had before, but since it is cheaper and far more profitable the big companies exploit it to maximum effect. So in reality we lose a lot.

I'm hopeful but skeptical at the same time.
Let me know when you're back at your desk so we can chat about it.
I have too many streaming services ("cancel Netflix" is on my todo, plus Amazon Prime) and HBO and Hulu both crush Netflix. They're the two no-brainer general-purpose streaming services (Disney+ might compete for one of those slots, though, if you have kids—in which case you could end up with both your top-two mustn't-cancel streaming services being owned by Disney).
RIP Zerohedge.

What possibly happened to ZH, and what you're discussing, has a good operational walkthrough here - https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/Gh...
Of course it's not possible to determine the source with absolute certainty, but most of the violations had been recorded east of the demarcation line, for instance in this report:

https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-20-21%20Daily%20Report_EN...

The UN has reported that 81.4% of civilian casualties occurred in territory controlled by the Donbas republics:

https://ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-...

Is the reasonable conclusion that these deaths resulted from training and outgoing explosions?
Employers want an underclass that they can exploit, and degree holders expect more than subsistence wages and dead-end jobs, creating a problem for companies that want cheap labor.
homogeneous teams made up of people who think the same way, have similar backgrounds etc are more likely to have blind spots. Having a diverse set of viewpoints involved in decision making means you are less likely to overlook some corner case that is obvious to some people but not others.