skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this. I don't really want to stop though, because I think it's important to enjoy what you do and to have a fun workplace.

However, it's not always appropriate to derail meetings. Some meetings are more informal, and that's ok. Most of the time, keep the jokes limited to the introductions/farewells.

One thing that helps me in teams meetings is instead of speaking the joke I pick someone who's camera is on and type it to them. My goal is to get people to burst out laughing on camera.

It also helps to have a teams chat with only your friends in it so that you can share the humour with them and not a wider audience.

Also, make sure your jokes aren't hurtful. Typically I joke about the situation or the software or something, but don't really say anything that can be seen as negative about someone, not even customers.

Oh, whatever you do, don't type jokes into the chat when it's an all hands and there's 800 people in the meeting, especially not jokes about profitability or whatever. trust me on this one.
There is one author that somewhat had an influence in my interest in Music, and that was Murakami. It's crazy how he goes from such poppy music references from The Beatles in Norwegian Wood, to jazz pieces that have influenced him in others in novels such as South of the Border. Really motivated me to open up my music tastes past the punk rock and noughties rock of my teenage life.
Really cool! I went to try the translate feature but each time I left-click to open the nav menu (macOs) it deselects the text? I know it says right-click but for me it's left-click to open the menu.
Someone call gpt 3
The marginal cost of a cup of coffee is basically nil but I don’t expect a free cup every day from Starbucks.
oh no! what will we do with GPUs instead now? I guess we'll have to resort to making it render things and playing games.
960 pro was released in October 2016, even if we assume you purchased it the same month it was released, and you have been running it 24/7 non-stop, that's 50,591 hours counting from October 1st to this hour. I can assume the number is way below 1/3 of that even for people that use it 8 hours a day.
The US is third in global mining activity, behind China and Austria.
> This is going to turn our country backwards. We're the richest country in the world. We should be training our citizens to be PhDs and exporting innovation and culture.

I’m Swedish and this is the ideology Sweden is based on. But I’ve come to see it as backwards, even immoral.

There’s a dream on the left side of the political spectrum that everyone is borne a blank slate that society can fill with whatever it wants. By this logic a rich country can fill their blank slates with wonderfully productive and innovative PhDs, because all it takes is economic resources invested in education.

But that’s simply not true. Highly challenging, creative, innovative thinking doesn’t work that way. Take Srinivasa Ramanujan as an example. With no formal education at all he wrote himself into the history books of mathematics. He’s an extreme example. But consider e.g. the distribution of scores on the Putnam: top scores are around 125, and most years the median is zero(!). Those with a zero score do not in general lack education.

I have one brother that has a mild intellectual handicap and one that has a PhD in medicine. The former makes sandwiches for the kids in a local school and works in a stable. The latter makes equipment for medical research. They are both perfectly happy with their stations in life. But taken to the extreme this ideology means that if they were borne in different countries then their positions may very well be switched. Nobody benefits from this. It would make them both miserable, the sandwiches worse and (probably :P) the medical research equipment less useful.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” In this case I think that means every country on earth is going to have some brilliant innovators, and some skilled craftsmen. They’ll need both to stay rich.
This is going to depend so much on the culture of your team, it is hard to give advice. Maybe ask other members of your team, and your team leader for feedback to see if it is a problem.

Being cultural, it might be that the team 'likes' this and sees it as a good thing, or they might think it is an annoying distraction.

If you have to joke less, I don't have specific advise for that. It depends if it is hard for you to stop, like an impulsion, or something easy. If it is easy you could just not joke unless it is the start of the meeting when you are waiting for people to arrive, or a specific "social" meeting just for the purposes of getting together.

Also retrospectives are more laid back than say a critical bug meeting, so it all depends on the specific meeting.

Like others have said, if you have to be serious and you are just not, then you might have a miserable time. But I am sure you can find a team/company where you can be yourself. It sounds like you are worried, but it is not clear that the team you are in see it as a problem until you ask.
Isn't this to be expected with any similarly weighted network?

Guess who private sector loves to promote to executive positions like VP and SVP? Harvard and ivy grads. Even in engineering, where it's supposed to be more of a meritocracy, you can see this at every bigco.

Human idiosyncrasies lead to branding pedigree consistently being selected over pure skill and / or superior experience in favor of an abstract perception.
Where did I say that? I remember saying in the digital age those connections are easier to make. Once they know the individual, they have vast digital resources to make the connections. Digital evidence can lead to physical or bystander evidence. I don't see any refutation. Even if my point was somehow invalid, that doesn't make your point correct. That would be a fallacy.
Good point, probably not, I don't know if you could get the wear resistance with aluminum but probably steel.
And prior to that, education used to be a lot more expensive, and was only for the rich.

Your claim is not just cause-and-effect, it's historical fact too.
lmaooo, thank you XD
“Religion is to control people” is such a played out and lazy POV.
Delaware may actually be relatively quick to rule on this. It’s a pretty straightforward breach of contract case, and one side has a much, much stronger position than the other.

Where it’ll get really interesting is if the court orders specific performance (as I expect them to do, if the case makes it to a verdict). Sure, EM has a legal obligation to comply and buy the company, but what if he just….. declines? He obviously doesn’t feel like rules or the legal system apply to him (sometimes for better, but increasingly consistently for worse) but I’m not sure that I see the Delaware chancery court sending men with guns to his front door to seize $44 billion.
It's a valid equivalence.

The paper could equally describe an plausible evolutionary mechanism by which the male sex evolves to be tiny in comparison to females who consume them after snu-snu.

While this has zero bearing on the reality of human evolution it has an example in nature in the spider kingdom.
For a person that isn’t from a wealthy background already, it’s hard to justify the path of academia when a more lucrative path has much more potential to be life changing for them and their family.
> he was unceremoniously demoted for cause and his pay halved

This is the proposed motivation for the event, alternative to German sabotage. But what does it mean? It looks like key words are missing front the article.

Damstedt had an hernia for 30 years before the incident. There is no mention of any disciplinary action.
Cults don't need a single leader. Hellenic cults were lead by the ritual with practitioners themselves leading the rites, not unlike masonic tradition or fraternity rituals today.
China has learned from US policies and has instead opted for more insidious and less "noisy" approaches like hard to repay soft-loans, mass buying of agricultural lands, starting vice businesses like casinos etc which also result in societal changes once the businesses started by Chinese start bringing a sizable influx of Chinese to work in them. See northwest Laos for a direct example (this is not an armchair comment - I have relations there and have seen the changes firsthand over the decade during numerous visits).
I think the break even point for the upgrade is actually $3k/year, not $2k/year?

The standard Gold Star Membership costs $60/year, and the Gold Star Executive Membership costs $120/year [0]. This is an additional $60/year (ignoring sales tax, etc.).

In order to break even, you need to earn at least $60 using the 2% cash back from the Executive Membership in order to cover the upgrade. This works out to ($60/year) / 0.02 = $3k/year.

[0] https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8...
If you broaden the historical context the result has been an advanced economy with computers and high speed communication. It's going to be this kind of anti-intellectual, pseudo-populist rhetoric that ends up killing innovation in the United States.

We're rich enough (for now) to import innovation; we don't need an educated populace. We have a robust military that makes us untouchable geopolitcally.

Do you see how dangerous this kind of bullshit is? Do you see what happens when enough of the people in your country don't value things like degrees and institutions of higher learning? The Athenians fell because of their hubris; not because they valued poetry and art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/thucydides.html
That's not totally accurate, is it? The US LoC has made administrative exemptions [1] to things like the 'circumvention' teeth of the DMCA for the sake of archive/curation of historical works. While not a total reclamation of the copyright or a mandate for companies to support preservation, it's also not a complete denial of some games' abandonwarw status.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23...
"undo the rules based order that has someone kept the world somewhat sane since WWII."

Only an American/NATO nation citizen can believe this utter nonsense. The only rules being followed were the ones the USA laid out with its military fist, crushing of the opposition and sponsored coups - all in their favour.

Now that they finally have a serious competitor, the US is getting antsy. I am frankly speaking utterly glad for China's ascent. It will keep the USA in check (somewhat).
Except this isn’t true. A larger fraction of the population than ever before are getting a college education: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai.... More Americans get a college degree than in most other developed countries.

What you’re seeing is an entirely different effect, which is that academic hiring focuses intensely on pedigree. Professors are drawn from the ranks of a handful of elite schools: Harvard, Yale, etc. Graduates of those schools are much more likely to be elites. For example, the vast majority of law school professors went to Harvard or Yale.
I'm sorry to hear about the passing of the project's founder. You have my condolences.

Two off-the-cuff pieces of feedback:

1) The PDF link is broken.

2) You can achieve a Light/Dark theme toggle using pure CSS, using a combination of prefers-color-scheme[1] and/or a combinator selector (~) and checkbox. This could do away with the JS entirely.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
Every answer you will get in this thread is wrong because once something becomes well known enough to be tracked, it stops being a “naive indicator”

The warden buffet underwear thing being a prime example. Every Walmart merchandiser now knows that “rule of thumb” and prices underwear against that “common knowledge”
> high-end contemporary Swiss watches are priced like small cars.

Richard Mille watches are priced like Ferraris lol...
Also a lot of lifetime academics are generally insufferable. Hugely important vision of themselves, lack of knowledge of reality, and are totally useless if they had to do a job outside of their hyper-specialized area.

I see a lot of value in hard-science / math research. Don’t see a lot of value in yet another 80 page treatise on Proust that only 8 people will ever read.

Hopefully everything gets priced so high that the vast amounts of money wasted on universities will be greatly reduced.
Interesting. Although US graduate students are only 53% white [1] (while the US is 57.8% white [2]) and women account for 53% of doctoral degrees [3], all 5 of the people in the generic stock photos in the article are white males, despite making up only an estimated 25% of graduates. A striking deviation from the photographic trend if one e.g. google image searches for "phd graduate".

[1] https://www.equityinhighered.org/indicators/enrollment-in-gr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

[3] https://www.statista.com/chart/15685/doctoral-degrees-awarde...
This is like a news article/research paper version of a cost savings calculator on a pricing page.

You could save 90% on storage costs if you switch from AWS to XCloudProvider

This makes me want to dig into the research data and build an interactive cost savings calculator with a slider. It would also probably be a great marketing page for Drugs.com
On a similar note, how hard is it to bring a grammar checker offline. Today most folks rely on grammarly or similar services which are basically keyloggers.

Is there an open source initiative aimed at bringing grammar checking to the edge?
Wikipedia has a neat graph comparing the efficiency of different types of solar cells including perovskite, which shows how fast it's increasing compared to silicon/multi-junction.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Be...
> I wish people would flex their donations to effective charities instead and find simpler luxuries.

Why? Are watchmakers not people who deserve to have an income? Do they not then spend their income on goods and services that help the economy?
Or the Sonos Arc SL that doesn’t have a microphone at all.
I have a Lenovo laptop I bought 2 years ago.

I tried installing Ubuntu on it and it was a nightmare. I am pretty sure Lenovo made this laptop so any OS other than Windows will not work well.

I had Ubuntu on dual boot for about 4 months. And I had to fuck with the BIOS at least a dozen times a week because something or other would stop working. Never happened to me on any other laptop I have owned.

Windows is a nightmare for me as a web developer. Ubuntu seems much easier to me and more intuitive somehow. Maybe I'll get an M1 Macbook or build a PC finally... :)
As usual there will probably be no consequences for them over this but people should be jailed because of this.
Haven't read the piece yet, but I definitely will - for a long time I would like to understand why people are so enamored with Costco. I recently joined because they have some good food that is hard or more expensive to find elsewhere, but that's about it. To me it's just a store. Outside of the US/Canada I've never seen people evangelize a store so much.
Same. The best decision I could have made was skipping 4+ years of adult daycare. When my peers were getting out of college I was already in senior positions and 6 years of experience on my resume.
In some areas where it can be costly to import goods, like Hawaii, Costco tends to be one of few reliable stores to find products at relatively reduced prices. With this type of reputation, it's understandable why their following is loyal and enthusiastic.
Optimal solution would be that valve demands for game approval that the single player component of the game runs even if servers are down.

They already demand for example that bans for cheating only affect the multiplayer part of the game.
Thermonuclear war is child's play next to global warming.
> Do we have less corruption because of enforcement of anti-corruption laws? Or do we have those laws and an expectation that they're enforced because of some other factors?

Neither answer is complete. Laws and enforcement can only go so far. It is not feasible to police every single interaction between people.

My amateur hypothesis would be a combination of a wealth of resources, growth outlook, shared struggles, traditions and cultural outlooks that provide utility and propagate downstream, etc. Probably impossible to intentionally recreate. And of course, very possible to lose.

If everyone in society decides they want to screw each other, then no amount of laws will help. Unfortunately, in many societies, the game is very adversarial with dire consequences, and you have to play that way.

On the other hand, a society where people are mostly out to engage in good faith transactions can greatly benefit from reduced friction, enabling more transactions and each actor wasting less energy in preventing themselves from being screwed.
IIRC the Discworld Glooper[1] was water-based.

[1] https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper
My first thought is that perhaps they chop the head off, butcher the animal, and all body parts containing meat would be removed and end up deposited somewhere else. The heads, presumably having no useful meat, get dumped near the abattoir.
Have two summers in a row where the vast population of birds and mammals die due to heatstroke and we'll see how ridiculous that is.
do you have a thing that you really like spending money (or lots of time) on?

if you do, imagine that, but for a car.

some people (myself included) hate driving old cars and don't mind the monthly cost of paying for a car loan.
People will "give away" their data when there are no laws to stop "tech" company intermediaries^1 from collecting it.

Google, Facebook and others collect heaps of data. TikTok is hardly a special case.

1. Like Google and Facebook, TikTok does not author the "content" to which they provide access that serves as the "bait". They sit in between the author and the consumer and collect. The lesson I see here is that intermediaries need to be regulated.
Ancient DNA at the Edge of the World: Neolithic Lineages in Bronze Age Orkney
Not remotely true in my experience. I can't tell you how many times I've dug into the commit history to find where a change happened, then wanted to know the full context, and been glad I could just pull up the years-old ticket directly and see a detailed description of intent and requirements, discussions in the comments, mock-ups, etc etc
unless you don't care about cars, driving the beater sucks.
Yeah, if we want an open SSD the path would be for a hyperscaler to strong-arm a controller vendor like Microsemi or Marvell into opening up their SDK. This worked with various Broadcom ASICs so it's not impossible.
Uber varies dramatically in different locales.

In my area, they aren’t very available and don’t like to pick up in many areas, and hate driving to the airport or train station. Previously, the airport and train station authority held cabs to high standards there and they were responsive and clean.

In places like Boston I’ve been straight up stranded in the airport when Ubers just won’t show - don’t know why.
I believe parent comment is trying to convey that more societal good could be done through more effective donations compared to donating thousands to a watchmaker or watchmaking corporation.

Are they using the surplus to better society or only to enrich themselves?
These studies are lagging behind reality by about a quarter century. Academia was obviously starting to become dominated by financial elites as early as 30 years ago.

The non-lagging metric is: how many high-performing students, from non-elite backgrounds, are refusing to pursue academic vocations?

This number has been decreasing steadily since the late 80's, and this has been very well documented in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Which papers did the CDC rep cite in her speech?
I am familiar with kites though it was more in the context of fish traps. I had seen some ancient examples in other places out on the west coast of the US and had read of their use by Native Americans in rivers and bays to catch fish sustainably.

While rafting out in the western US a few years back I built one on the river from memory using driftwood poles, rocks carefully positioned, etc to funnel fish into the shallow water. I didn't catch anything but, like fishing with any form of fishing pole, that really wasn't the point.

I'm not an archaeologist though I have followed discoveries for years and it all interests me. I love history. I do get annoyed when something new is discovered and the same narratives are applied to make it appear that the people were somehow less sophisticated than ourselves. They made do with the things at hand and had a better grasp of local resources and how to use them sustainably than we will. Or maybe they didn't and we keep repeating the same mistakes they made to the point where it is a genetic defect among humans by now.

Thanks for adding to the discussion.
Haha. Because math research is so widely read
and by defining their opinion on the past rather than the current geopolitical environment, they would be prone to fall prey to china and russian influence.

If they've got to be under the thumb of some foreign power, they ought to choose the US over china or russia. At least in a democracy, there's ways to change the public opinion.
If only!

https://www.cogipas.com/complete-list-of-text-only-news-site...

p.s. it sounds like you may be naturally suited for the raw-data side of things anyway...you could write your own news, even automatically if you wanted
That all?
Should we also drive shitty cars and live in small houses?
You’re confusing two different things: monopsony power versus competitive pricing.

Monopsony power is when the market dominance of a buyer allows it to drive prices below the efficient level. But monopsony prices aren’t necessarily efficient prices. Wal-Mart’s pricing power, for example, has well demonstrated negative impacts on the upstream supply chain.

A competitive market, with numerous buyers and sellers, by contrast, will have higher prices than a market with a monopsony buyer. But at least in theory those prices will be efficient.
Does it sound amazing? The 5 trades this school claims to serve are carpentry, plumbing, masonry, electical, and HVAC. Of 8 listed faculty, just 1 claims expertise in any of these trades --- carpentry. That instructor operates an inn in Ohio and blogs about politics. The school doesn't offer trade certifications at all, but rather a degree in Catholic studies.

By comparison, Triton College, my nearest community college, offers certifications in 3 of the 5 trades on this list. City Colleges of Chicago offer all 5. For each trade, their certification is recognized, and each trade program has a listed catalog of required and optional courses, with faculty.

Triton costs $11k (~$5k after aid). This "Catholic" college (it is unaffiliated with the church) costs $15k --- and doesn't issue a certification in 1 or 2 years (I don't think it offers one at all; you get a "Catholic studies" degree, which I doubt many plumbing companies are looking for).

This doesn't sound like an amazing deal to me. It sounds like something else.
I wrote a chess program in one bit. Only took a few seconds to write. The interpreter, on the other hand...
Exactly. No Saudi prince would
give $250k to some dude name Al with and his 10 car fleet.
My working class zip code public schooling presented a narrative that academics make low wages. Later I realize the wages of STEM PhDs in industry. I known this does not generalize among discipline but I regret not taking an academic path.