skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People say this all the time about Google and it simply doesn't reflect the reality I've seen working here.

Yes, there are cafes and they serve dinner. There is a gym and a game room and other perks. And you know what? At dinner time, there's only a handful of people eating and the rest of the office is a ghost town.

I'm sure that some people do end up with their life revolving around Google. That's probably particularly true for people who got hired right out of college and moved for work. But most people I know seem to have very balanced work and personal lives.

I think people love the idea of a narrative that everything that appears nice about working at Google is actually secretly sinister and is making Googlers miserable but, like, maybe it's just a good job, you know? Maybe they offer all the perks because competition for software engineers is high and it helps attract talent.

Obviously, there's many valid criticisms of Google, as there are with most companies their size. But it's not a supervillain fortress full of trapped minions or something. It's just a huge corporation that found ways to make a lot of money per employee thanks to the magic of software and data. In industries where the marginal cost is zero and competition is still high, this is what you should expect to see.
I contacted the author of The Long Way Home a few years ago. He said the movie rights had been sold. The author’s email address no longer works.
Remind me - what fraction of Democrats think that Al Gore beat W?
I don't want to use any dongles or anything. Maybe some day browsers will interface with fprintd, I have a fingerprint reader already which I trust.
When you lose free speech, there won't be any debate about losing the rest of your rights. You won't hear about any rights violations. You won't be able to talk when your rights are violated.

Without free speech, you have no rights.
There was famously one dude who did it for a while:

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-tru...

It's the kind of socially awkward but technically allowed "lifehack" kind of thing you can imagine a stereotypical Googler coming up with.
Grant Thornton is an accounting firm, not a law firm. And signing that way is customary for a legal or accounting opinion.
They were right originally when then went usb-c only. You could output hdmi on any port or do anything else with the port. We had gotten to the point where most offices had a usb-c adapter on the end of every loose hdmi cable so it wasn't an issue.
Well is it effective? There are a lot of problems that exist right now that could be meaningfully worked on with any amount of money at all.

Not that all organizations need to work on immediate practical problems. But I think all organizations that are named things like "effective altruism" should.

And do they work against any of the actual current problems with applied "AI?" Or is it all just singularitarianist eschatology still?
Interesting indeed.
Why Silicon Valley is obsessed with ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (2020)
The ratio of hands on ICs to sales/managerial "mouths to feed" is going to be under pressure.
Running the same tests using micro-services would be more expensive.
It was real (I personally knew one person who did it), though I guess the pandemic must have stopped it.
I must just be somebody who likes things that are "really bad" because I'm "out of touch." One neat thing I learned ages ago is when you run across a blowhard troll, you top them, go one better. Rile them up and beat them at their own game.

Why defend somebody who's quite literally asking for it? Doesn't make sense.
I'd love a suggestion or three - my old ipod nano is dying and I would find sifting through the junk/good on alixpress or other sites almost impossible without recommendations.

I also prefer it not to have internet, notifications, etc, so that sounds perfect.
It’s not “funny”. But to borrow your phrasing, it’s almost as though gun access, gun control, gun violence (and threats of violence), gun rights advocacy, and gun-related law enforcement were and continue to be racist, along with quite a lot of the rest of US policy and society. If you read (or even read about) the book you are lazily mischaracterizing you would see that the racism of gun control is discussed there at length.

There is indeed a consistent principle there – white supremacy (and more generally, rich straight white male supremacy). All of the rest – “public safety”, “free markets”, “job creation”, “economic growth”, “liberty”, “equality”, “patriotism”, “justice”, “respect for the law”, “meritocracy”, “republicanism”, “accountability”, “fiscal responsibility”, “originalism”, “family values”, “Christianity”, “truth”, etc. – are secondary, swappable, and dispensable smokescreens. At a glance these post-facto “principled” justifications seem contradictory and hypocritical, but that’s only for listeners who take any of them at face value.

Those who quick-change their claimed fundamental philosophical principles whenever convenient routinely turn around and (to use your term) smear anyone opposed to them.
This website is ran by Google and mostly serves to promote their proprietary web technologies[1], and to sell web devs on some of their bigger and often times more questionable changes.

They already made some vague announcement about FIDO recently, so this is obviously part of the same campaign. A campaign cannot exist without a target/goal, meaning Google is up to something!

1 (edit): Which I'm totally fine with, but they could certainly be slightly more transparent about it
Its just familiarity.

Given equal experience with reading json data and lisp data you'd almost certainly prefer the much shorter (but lossless) lisp data.
The issue is that when you don't feel like you're achieving things at work, it's stressful.

At the end of a day when you worked on some task for a solid 8 hours, it's easy to unwind - work is done, work was accomplished, you know what you're doing the next day.

At the end of a day when you spent the whole day trying to find out what you should be doing, didn't find anything and will resume that the next day...you can't unwind. Were you doing the right thing? Maybe there was someone else you should've contacted? What if you don't find it tomorrow? Is the organization broken? Should you try to fix it? (No) - there's a lot that you can't help but think about it.
The subtlety is that its not about projects not being delivered on time, its about them never being delivered (either cancelled or scoped down until no one has to actually do anything).

In an environment like this the incentive is to become a bottleneck for a lot of projects (so you get at least some that get delivered) and then a) do nothing on most to outwait the inevitable cancellation b) do the minimum possible work on the remainder, but make it seem as complex as possible.

Even with low hours of work this becomes a very stressful environment as if you are trying to get something done, you have to be constantly convincing people you are depending on that the project is worthy of category b). While doing the exact thing to the people depending on you. Turnover makes this hard also as a small percentage of coworkers are very valuable to you (you can trust them to prioritize your project).

From my experience this stress stretches into your out of work time, making the WLB worse even with a reasonable amount of "in office" hours.
R's a programming language. Gretl is a GUI program that was originally created for teaching econometrics. (You may not be aware that Gretl has been around for many years, so it's a legit question.)
Bias up front: I work at Google.

Something I try to do whenever I read articles like this: Whenever you see the name of the giant corporation that the author worked at, replace it with "my team". Google has over 100,000 employees, so there's no real "here's what it's like to work at Google". At that scale, there is too much variance for any simple neat summary (though there are certainly trends and commonalities).

I've met people who worked at Amazon who described it as a hellscape of misery and others who felt it was incredibly rewarding. There's been times when I worked at EA when I loved my job and times when I hated it.

A single data point is useful, but it's only a single data point. I'm glad the author found a better job that fits what they're looking for. That's all any of us really want in our careers.
I posted how to do it without ssh using docker-tramp elsewhere in thread FYI.
AT&T Launches First-Ever Nationwide Location-Based Routing
By neglected, they mean that, instead of dealing with real ethics of AI in practice and the future, they want others to instead entertain their fantasies about scary overlord general AI as if it's just around the corner and coming to get them. They're upset that people aren't as spooked about science fiction as they are.
Thing is, what i'm telling is the norm in most of the world, including many very democratic and prosperous countries with a strong middle class and whole set of civil liberties leftists in America would love to have. Yes sometimes there's border treaties between rich countries that make borders between them entirely transparent, but the outside borders with the poor world are strictly guarded, and people get checked in the streets, detained, deported and frequently shot, in all of EU, and both left-wing and right-wing political forces - including those that support full set of gay rights, abortions, socialised everything, green goals, and so on - are OK with that. I can't see why it should be any different in America.
I'm sure pushing costs and externalizing risks onto contractors makes sense, for Amazon and no one else. Gig jobs have always been unpleasant or less pay than minimum wage jobs in my experience.
It seems we are pretty well settled on the fact that on a good laptop, all usb C ports should be capable of all features. And then on a hub, you can expect the usb-c port to be charging pass through and nothing more. All other ports on the hub work as you would expect.

I wouldn't ever expect to see a hub where the usb-c ports pass on the full thunderbolt capabilities.
> Historically conservatives have been more strategic at preserving their political power

Only if your recollection of history starts in 1994. When Biden was elected to the Senate, Democrats had almost 10 percentage points greater representation in the House than their share of the House popular vote, a feat the GOP has never matched: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Popular_vote_vs_actual_...

And look at how many Republican Supreme Court appointees went wobbly. The majority that upheld abortion rights in Casey in 1992 consisted of five Republican appointees, with the lone Democrat voting with Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas.

In terms of strategy, the GOP was a complete tire fire until the Gingrich Congress of the 1990s.
Except they don't defend it. If they did they would be advocating against standing armies. If it's believed to be a collective right to promote the common defense then the scale of the US Military is a major affront to that. But realistically we are so far removed from what the founders envisioned we we should do a total redraft.
57k in 1980 dollars is the same as 200k in 2022 dollars. Also median american wages have gone down over time when inflation adjusted.

I think this is the end to the 450-500k IC offer
That's what I did, and that's not how it works. The Bürgschaftsbank guarantees the loan in case the founder fails to repay. I'm going through that right now.
I think the author should invest in learning the keyboard shortcuts and search more often. They’re great and allow me to move around slack with ease. Also reminders for things you don’t want to think about at the moment work well too

The noise issue seems tool agnostic to me, if you converse with noisy people who are sporadic with posting and put important messages in threads/channels with less visibility then you’d have issues no matter what tool you use. Does anyone ever read a company wide email longer than 1 paragraph anyway? At least with slack you can search it
The HKEY_CURRENT_USER key is just an alias within the same DB, it points to some key under HKEY_USERS. I don't think this counts as another instance of the DB, despite stored in separate files.

ESENT databases are independent: a database used by Windows search doesn't share anything with the DB used by windows update or Zune music.
If you haven't used Cloud TPUs in a while, I'd encourage you to try them now with TPU VMs and the latest versions of JAX, PyTorch / XLA, or TensorFlow. We've gotten a lot of positive feedback from customers and TRC users, so we think the overall experience has improved a lot, though there's always more we want to do.

People especially seem to find Cloud TPUs easy to use in comparison to alternatives when they are scaling up ML training workloads. Once you have a model running on a single TPU core, it is relatively straightforward from a systems perspective to scale it out to thousands of cores. You still need to work through the ML challenges of scaling, but that is more tractable when you aren't simultaneously struggling with systems-level issues.

In particular, you don't need to master a sequence of different networking technologies as you scale up, and the TPU interconnect is so much faster at scale than other technologies (10X last time I checked) that you don't have to work as hard to avoid network bottlenecks. Support for model parallelism on Cloud TPUs is improving across the ML frameworks, too.

To be clear, training ML models at scales that we currently consider large is still very challenging on any platform - for example, the logbooks that Meta recently published are fascinating:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec...

We aim for Cloud TPUs to simplify the process of training models at these scales and far beyond:
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-pa...
Don't you love English. The langauge where polar opposites "sucks" and "blows" can mean in the right context exactly the same thing.
> 20,000 km (earth's circumference)

it's over 40,000 km
The concept of using dongles while walking around seems like it wouldn't be without inconvenience. What is your setup like and does it disconnect sometimes while walking?
This doesn't seem accurate at all. There are cheap usb-c hubs which only pass down the usb3 capabilities. The expense comes down when you want to be driving 4k monitors, 1gbit ethernet, and charging your laptop through the same hub and cable which requires both extremely high speed data exchange combined with heavy duty power transfer and management.
It would be nice if the American public would do better than toggle between a political duopoly.

But that would mean the exceptionalism of their system failed. Figurative belief is sacrosanct even to non-religious minds. There’s clearly an innate desire in the species to end the existential dread. Unfortunately the inability to allow for figurative death is increasing the probability it will be literal death of the species.
I would also add:

Institute of Justice - https://www.ij.org

The Cato Institute - https://www.cato.org
Same thing happened with Netflix. IMO recommendations were much better when you could rate with 5-stars
Not sure, about the only items, my Lenovo soundbar is actually not a Lenovo one, it's printed on it, but they didn't assemble it, but a lot of producrs do this.
As a follow up - If Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Ukraine are related to the 2nd Amendment necessary rebellion theory, then the implication is that the insurgent weapons in those wars are covered by the 2A.

Very interesting.

A personal right to fully automatic weapons, SAMs, tanks, anti-tank, etc.

Yeah, I don't think so.

Militia is used 6 times in the Constitution and collected amendments. I tend to think that it means the same thing in the 2A as in the 5 places.
One of the most interesting Feynman lectures is on lightning and electricity in the atmosphere:

> "The current in a lightning stroke is about 10,000 amperes at its peak, and it carries down about 20 coulombs."

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html
The RFC doesn't mention an important drawback of base58, which is that the computational cost of encoding or decoding it is quadratic in the length of the input -- unlike base64, which is linear-time.

I assume the performance is acceptable when you're dealing with very small API tokens, but it would be totally unsuitable as a replacement for base64 in the context of, say, email attachments. Even using it for something like a PKI certificate would probably be asking for trouble.
Forget multiplication, you probably need a Ph.D in Latin to perform counting of Roman Numerals up to 10,000 [1].

Indian/Arabic numeral (including 0) is such a revelation to the modern world.

Fun facts, the word cypher originated from the Arabic word sifir (literally means zero), because most of the European populations at the Middle Ages time cannot comprehend the concept zero as a number.

[1]https://www.cuemath.com/numbers/roman-numerals-1-to-10000/
No, Cloud TPUs support JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow, and the new TPU VM architecture provides enough low-level access that users could add support for additional frameworks themselves if they are willing to put in substantial effort.
Do you know of any alternatives that are similar but not so focused on SaaS?
In all cases, you're wholly liable to whomever holds the private keys to the wallet that holds the tokens.
Having time provides a natural level of satisfaction. All of this discussion, but it feels like a natural “both” is the best way of describing the why behind this post.
So if (and I do mean "if") you're calling recent Republiccan statements and policy as simply being against "illegal immigration", that's a level of revisionism right up there with the Civil War being about "states rights". For example:

- "Tucker Pushes Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Yet Again, ADL Renews Call for Fox to Fire Him" [1]

- "Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as 'shithole' countries" [2]. He then went on to say we should have more immigration from Norway, which is probably the whitest country on Earth. Coincidence?

- "Mollie Tibbetts' killing fuels Republican immigration attacks ahead of midterms" [3]

- "President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio" [4]

- "The parents of 545 children separated at the border still haven’t been found" [5]

- "Here’s what you need to know about Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that quickly sends migrants to Mexico" [6] (a policy that should've ended on the first day of Biden's presidency but--fun fact--Biden has excluded more asylum seekers under Title 42 than Trump did)

If Republicans actually cared about these people they'd end policies that destabilize countries and create refugee crises like the completely unwarranted sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba.

For the record, when it comes to foreign policy, the Democrats and Republicans are exactly the same.

[1]: https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-pushes-racist-g...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-...

[3]: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/mollie-tibbetts-...

[4]: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/25/545282459/president-trump-par...

[5]: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/21/donald-trump-immigra...

[6]: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/29/immigration-title-42...
I just read the most interesting article about Lee Trevino from searching 'golf swing'. It was published in 1974.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/15/archives/how-to-help-golf...
Solid-state cells will cut EV charging time and increase volumetric density
> He has evidence of excessive risk taking (Tiger Global's returns), and an incentive structure

How are Tiger Global’s incentives different from any other VC? Even the majority of hedge funds have a 2+20 structure with similar incentives.
Ask HN: Introductory reading on philosophy of mathematics/formal logic?
Hey all,

I'm an undergraduate studying mathematics and computer science, and I've recently taken an interest in formal logic and the philosophy of mathematics. Previous courses have exposed me to beautiful ideas like Russell's paradox, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondance.

I'm currently slogging through the final chapters of Hofstader's Gödel, Escher, Bach. What are some good next choices if I am interestred in diving deeper into the philosophy of mathematics?

Thanks!
Or does it require superintendents? SKINNNNEERRRR!!!!!!!
Cantillon Effect for IC's.
It is a great concept, it makes sense from any reasonable viewpoint, yet for some reason I loath the registry with a passion, not exactly sure why, but I think it comes down to the question.

Why do we need an additional tree to store configuration?
I've kept all my old records, hard drives full of mp3s, and even cassette tapes knowing that this era was coming.

Twitter trends and YouTube as well is full of music on rails, polished pop stars that are working to spin their unremarkable music into an acting career, and it generates underwhelming results for music.

It's the very reason why device makers are getting rid of headphone jacks, and why storage is kept low, even on new on phones, and other devices. Soon we'll only have streaming as a choice, we won't be able to maintain a music collection any more for various reasons like HD/SSD failure, and mysteriously, making deeper choices will be more expensive, even though the artists don't get paid until they give in to the commercial song playlist machine.

There is literally volumes of the absolute best music being made on YouTube, but it never sees the light of day... I have to regularly go through hurdles to find it in places where artists themselves share it, and it's depressing to see them with only 50 views in many cases, completely ignored by algos.

I say this as someone who has run an underground music label for years now, the job of being a successfully creative and different artist is becoming impossible fast, and as a result, the process of finding music based on real talent is fading with it.

Hang onto your vinyl and hope your legacy devices don't get worn out, or enjoy non stop billboard top 10 on an infinite loop (Or Metallica's unforgiven again... on the radio... on infinite loop... after those 10 liberty mutual commercials). :/
Happy to have my flawed thinking corrected - can you share the examples?

I likely am thinking of a narrow set of "regular businesses" - what came to mind were corner shops, hairdresses, bars or restaurants etc. Even in those cases there are obviously large successful busniesses that do have competitive advantages - but I suspect they mostly get erroded away by competition rather than the business being able to sustain them, and high margins. I would love some counter examples though!
I don't think you can go -2x by pressing some wrong button on they keyboard.

Its more like they've been making mistakes over years which seem to have culminated in one event this quarter.
Do we need a sunscreen? I've lived in the tropics most of my life and only hearing about sunscreens from Europeans and Americans. Is it due to the white skin or something? I don't understand.
> If you believe this, does the 2A give people individual rights to own tanks, missiles, nukes, chemical weapons?

Yawn.

But I suppose you want an answer, so how about this: infantry weapons that a regular citizen can reasonably afford and practice with (i.e. shoot on a regular basis).

So military-style automatic rifles, machine guns, etc.