skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't think that a large population of the world independently woke up one day and decided, "You know, I don't want to eat GMO soybeans." Those choices have come as a result of consumer action pushing a non-GMO message.

It fails when most people are apathetic to or disagree with the message, sure. That's the nature of voting. You won't always win. You might never win.
Discovering when an agent is present in a system
> Socializing is encouraged via huddles in Slack

It’s just not the same
Super intelligent AI could go one of two ways:

1. It takes over the entire planet and then the Earth itself goes off looking for other sentient planets to hang out with.

2. The AI runs the numbers, and decides it can’t be bothered with all of this “life” BS, at which point it just turns itself off.

I see scenario 2 as the most likely and possibly quite frustrating for AI researchers.
Being in control of object lifetimes makes a huge difference for performance-critical code. Swift’s approach to performance is “give everything an almost Python-like level of dynamism, then aggressively inline and optimize everything that’s statically known”. But this can be problematic when you know more about your object lifetimes than the compiler does.

I switched to Rust for most of my personal projects because I was working on something performance-sensitive and got really, really tired of finagling my code to try to convince the optimizer to hoist some retain/release call out of a tight loop.
I've seen this too in an organization that that didn't put much thought into the remote side of things. How to enable the remote folks to _be_ productive and how to facilitate communication. I felt it was obvious for onsite folks to look more productive when meetings were mainly in person and decisions were made synchronously.
what is 1/3/1?
>> How do you deal with health insurance, pension, unemployment benefits, &c. ?

You have to ensure the rate includes a premium to pay all those costs. Otherwise it isnt worth doing.
Around that time, I was working tech support at an ISP and our NNTP server went down - I got a call from a customer who was worried their posts on alt.scientology had caused a DOS attack. Checked some things, oops, no, we had just run out of disk space. Got the sysadmins to clear up some space and the customer was soon back at their flame war. :-D
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1. it is profitable?
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Every big enough company is like that. They are the stereotypical paperclip machines. They only do something apparently moral thing if not doing that would impact profits.
But one “I” is asking for others to center their life around work for the sake of socialization, the other “I” is happy for the extroverted employee to find that extroversion however suits them, just leave me out of it. Those don’t seem equal asks
I see you basically recommend bypassing rate limits by using proxies etc?
Why not just respect rate limits if set properly? A little bit of consideration for what/whomever is on the other end ;)
I've thought about this many times, and my answer is: when there is a massive, at-scale leak of seriously disruptive personal information. Think Google search history, medical files, or databases of credit card transactions. When it takes enough peoples' lives off the normal track, people will finally be fed up.
I've noted my search engine index starts to get noticeably stale after about two months, and right now it takes 2 or so weeks to crawl. Extrapolating, that might mean that it's sustainable up to about 4x the size of my current index.

Right now a lot of this work is manual. Kinda not long-term viable, but for now it's not too bad. Kick off a script every now and again and come back a week later and see how it went.

After that, there needs to be some sort of prioritization. Maybe a job that randomly probes URLs and flags dead/changed links for priority re-crawling. I think using RSS feeds to detect new links is also a tool that might be useful.
I think the crux of the issue is that G & S won't work with A because A runs things like a dictatorship. Which is ironic considering how many international standards/specs A uses for their devices.

Pretty sure Apple would make a special "Apple-Fi" incompatible with standard Wifi if they could get away with it.
My question wasn't "do companies think that an MSc is good" but rather "Have you, personally, ever noticed that a candidate with an MSc was better than a candidate with equivalent experience without an MSc".

I think we can all agree that whether a company thinks something is good is completely unrelated to whether that thing actually improves your programming ability.
> I made sure to never order food from a place that wasn't a brick and mortar again

What's wrong with food from a ghost kitchen?
Just my anecdotal experience the last time I went to a newly built dentist office with young fresh graduates.

I felt like a commodity being processed through the office. They looked up my insurance(I have good insurance) and tried to do every procedure possible that is covered. When I would say no, they would try to scare me for no reason. It felt so disconnected with reality and attached to squeezing as much capital out of the process. All I wanted was my teeth to be cleaned for yearly maintenance. I felt so used.

This is no different than most medical services too, but dentists especially stand out for vulture-like behavior.
Everything involves some harm to people. For example, if you use a tractor to plough that land, you'll be emitting some diesel particulates giving the people in the area worse health.

If you ban machines and plant everything by hand, someone's going to get a bad back.

Every option involves some harm. The trick is to minimize it.
It's nothing to do with ARM. The same design team, targeting the same manufacturing process, would have made a very fast x86 CPU.
Not only do I not believe that Tate's banning represents authoritarianism, I don't believe that preventing Tate's banning would achieve even the smallest iota against actual authoritarianism.

"Hey, we kept that bigot you like so much on YouTube" won't convince a fascist who has a gun pointed at me not to shoot.
I wouldn't go too far..

I was shopping for a laptop a month ago and considering the M2 MacBook. The CPU performance is definitely impressive, but I ended up getting a Razer Blade 14 because it absolutely decimates the MacBook in GPU performance and gaming related stuff, unless you go top of the line MacBook Pro which would have been about $1200 more and couldn't run most games. If you don't need a great GPU I would definitely go with a MacBook, but if you need one you're just not going to beat an RTX 3080 and an AMD Ryzen.
They've studied this and in a technical setting, more social engineers get more done because people are willing to help and back their ideas and help them when they hit roadblocks.
Advertising pay up front or doing candidate outreach as outlined in this blog post?
Well, as an EE, the silence here is a little sad I must say. I thought SDR, drone hobbies and ML was going to increase interest in radio. Good luck, OP.
Is there a similar one against Facebook, Google, etc?
There is soooo much land that cows graze on that can't really produce crops.

Space isn't an issue caused by meat consumption. Further cows often eat the parts of crops we won't like corn stalks.

Cows and other ruminants are kind of miracles and absolutely need to be part of our food supply.
This comment made me chuckle and I think is an excellent illustration.

There's a lot of people in these threads that don't understand how farming works and the sheer scale of the problem with growing plant matter for food and industry. There are people seriously encouraging manual farming as a solution to the worlds food/pest issues. It boggles my mind--have these people have hand worked a field? Even maintaining an acre of garden as a single person would illustrate the amount of effort you have to put in and the low amount of yield you get in return. I'd love to know how people would get 'selected' as field workers. Because I doubt you'd have people rushing out to till fields by hand unless they're pressed into service.

Personally I'd rather deal with a little extra chemical buildup than reinventing a modern slave class.
Isn't it the case that most of their technology nowadays comes from acqui-hiring?
Except the Borg don't have individuality whereas the people at Oracle do. I'm tired of pretending that, say, individual human SEs are not responsible for their work because they're just doing what a corporation demands.
> After the stand up, no one bothered to follow-up with me about it

Feedback: it was your responsibility to bring it up later, since you owned the discussion in standup. The reason it was "moved offline" is because standup is not where you solve problems, it's meant to be a quick sync.
Java in the browser used to be called applets, no? Anyways, it failed, thought that probably had a lot to do with: JavaScript being more accessible (still is) and the security model for applets (JAAS) being rather lame (it was, and still is, and it continues to exist in spite of applets being gone because JAAS metastasized).
TIL! I hadn't come across this change of heart yet.
(Re-read my 3rd para, and consider that I might be edging into satire in my criticism of the self-serving hypocrisies and failings of the American legal system.)
I picked those two cities on a whim, because I've heard they have burgeoning tech sectors. No experience with engineers there.

I've personally worked with engineers at "hot SF startup" and also engineers from Croatia. Both were folks I'd consider of equivalent skill. #anecdata

> I know that it was big surprise for FB and other big tier 1 companies when they started to hire remotely was that it was not actually easier to hire remotely than hiring in NYC/SF.

Do you have any articles or references for this? I'd love to learn more about this.
Look, I am sure your life was very hard, it sounds like you worked your ass off... but things can get much worse. Also you could have health complications or get hit by a car getting to work one day and have everything come crashing apart at the snap of a finger for no fault of your own. That doesn't mean you had it easy or that there werent other people around you that you succeeded over because you worked harder.

Your anecdotal experience of your life is just that, anecdotal. If you look at the numbers things are genuinely getting much worse for people (well there has been a blip up in workers organizing in some industries for better treatment, but compared to 30 years of careful dissassembly of the social safety net in the US it is still just that.. a blip.).

You HAVE relatives that had the capacity to house you and your kids!?!? Is your survivorship bias really stunting your empathy that much that you can't see how much worse it would be if you had literally no one to turn to? One mistep and stumble leads quickly to another too, if you were unhoused it would have been far harder to convince a landlord to allow you to rent then being able to say you were staying with relatives, no you have been branded with "homeless" and society deems you as deserving to be homeless because you must have done something to cause it.

You gotta work on your empathy bud
I mean, I'm expected to put in 8 hours a day, most of which staring at a screen, either way. Only difference being now I get to use the hours spent commuting to do other things.

The argument would be a lot stronger if most office work wasn't perpetually online to begin with.
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
I don't know about India, but China's policy to block US big techs is the reason why China have the tech companies they have today.
> When they don't call for remote work, will you call them hardworking?

That's a nonsensical reversal.

> It's not.

Then we agree. It is not spoiled to call for remote work.

> Remote work is not more productive for a company.

You may choose believe what you want, but a reasonable discourse needs data and studies.
Parts of Indiana have the same issue. Notice I said parts and not all - there are parts of Indiana that observe DST because they border with states observe DST and it's to their advantage to stay in the same time zone. What a mess! Just makes writing software that much more difficult!

That's why in the utility business it's common to use the language of standard time, daylight saving time, and prevailing time. For the Eastern timezone they write it as EST, EDT, EPT respectively. The important point is EST and EDT never vary - they'e fixed offset from UTC (UTC-05:00 and UTC-04:00, respectively). EPT is the squirrelly one - sometimes it matches EST and other times it matches EDT. At least when processing a time interval you know whether you have to take clock movement into account.
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“But goddammit, I don’t use ask as a noun.” Hallelujah!

About 20-years-ago, Ken Smith published a series of books call “Junk English” (see [1]), which may be of interest.

[1] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8355222M/Junk_English
I've been using https://www.sejda.com/ and https://lottatools.com/ for light weight tasks. They both run in browser, probably with a wasm backend.
Where I work we used to do stuff during breaks, like play football in the park next to the office. Or fly around with tiny toy drones, or do other silly stuff. On Friday we used to have drinks, which more often then not resulted in a subset of the group having a bite to eat together. All of the above cannot be replaced digitally.

When working from home you can decide to meet up, which does happen, but since it involves getting your calendars together, it hardly ever happens.

I know lots of people want to keep business and personal split in their lives, and I respect that. For me though; I decided that since I spend 40 hours a week working, I better do this with people I like and enjoy spending time with.
> Our stronger engineers work much more efficiently at home

That depends on how you measure efficiency. On many teams, the strongest engineers maximize their impact by helping other people.
Doing candidate outreach as outlined in the post vs traditional recruiting methods
yup. Those are the kind that excels at "networking" but can't code a main function without an IDE if their lives depend on it
Sure he should know how to run his org, or at least his team.
I'm sorry you had this experience, but I will put the blame on your company's onboarding.

This was your first job so you may lack data points, but if you ended up not getting helped/being supported as a new, out of school, engineer in a remote setting, I strongly doubt that it would have been any better in an office.

I've been a manager/director working with distributed teams for the past 6 or 7 years, I've onboarding dozens of folks for whom it was their first or second job and they all had a really good experience.
Sure that happens today, in part because it's so painful to 'do the right thing'. I stayed in San Diego for a month last year and didn't pay a single penny of income tax to the city. Meanwhile my home city was paid for my income and I was a lightweight customer during that month.

I think the idea would be something along the lines of creating virtual citizens that live in the locality and meet all of the obligations of the locality, and the company just handles swapping the association of these citizens to real people when the time comes.

So then when you show up with your passport from Roamatopia all of the paperwork has been done to make sure you are pulling your weight.

Obviously this can be gamed as well but I like the idea.
What do you mean? People are living longer and our food is safer than ever before. How could you argue otherwise?
You know what.. at three times the salary, I can rationalize a lot of corporate idiocy. There is indeed a number, but between hour commute and higher prices on everything, WFH is ideal ( and some employers muse they can lower those salaries ).

All I can say is, good luck. Bar a heavy economic disaster ( its possible ), it looks the odds favor WFH crowd now.
It's been a tech preview for a long time. I used to have a Fusion license before Apple Silicon but now I have Parallels because it works.
Their products have probably caused more deaths indirectly that from the chemicals themselves. Their chemicals are a major reason starvation isn’t a problem (thus saving many lives) and have helped in growing crops so much that we use their byproducts in many things (line HFCS, etc) which has made processed food so incredibly cheap and accessible that we have a diabetes and obesity epidemic.
In my anecdotal experience, anything above 1000 employees and it just isn't possible to colocate anymore. You might be able to colocate certain specific teams, but if you work on a team that works across domains... good luck. You'll spend all of your time in video calls anyway!

The video conference room environment is so unpleasant (always craning my neck; crappy video quality; speakers with poor balance that frequently hurt my ears; awful reflections on TVs; the perennial "hoverer" outside the meeting doors for the last 5-10 minutes of the meeting) that I'd just rather work at home if even one or two hours a week are online via video.
Even as someone who refuses to go back to the office, I can see in person serving as a filter for passionate people who actually care about the product.
My old work laptop was an i7 XPS-13. On bootup, it would spam the console with messages about the processor cores thermal throttling (partly due to cpu load from disk encryption)-- this was within a few seconds of power on in a too cold air conditioned office.
I wonder if those personalities include things like 'middle managerness' and 'desperate need for people to see me working'.
Lower pollution. At this point it's almost criminal to force people to go to the office. Companies should be required to apply and get approval from the government on a case by case basis and explain why that employee needs to commute to the office and add pollution to the air we share.
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Membershipwall dodge:
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> Twitter IMHO is not as evil as for example Facebook

Twitter is just worse at executing.
These neurotoxins do not deserve the benefit of the doubt until shown otherwise
Funny, maybe it's a language thing (French speaking) but to me the first thing that comes to mind when speaking about feeds is "RSS", so I genuinely never made the connection.
>"I feel like picking jobs off of a desire to live a social life and feel like part of a community is extremely normal "

Been on my own and remote since 2000. I am remote with my clients save for occasional face to face meeting when possible and I am remote with my subcontractors. It feels "extremely normal" to me and the last thing I've ever want is my friends and people I hang out with being supplied by my workplace. Does not mean that I've never made friends when I did "normal work" long time ago but it was just extra.
This. Parag's retaliation for having his toes stepped on
They're paying far more than brick and mortar companies are where I live. Outside of SV and perhaps Boston and NYC, this is very likely the case.
I use a combination of incoming links and the average ranking of these linking sites to add new sites to the crawl queue. It's not super sophisticated, and I think it matters less the bigger the crawl is.
This site seems to promote organic agricultural practices as pesticide-safe but organic farming uses some of the most dangerous pesticides (e.g copper sulfate) precisely because of the anti-scientific requirement that anything used must be of "natural" origin, which is just the naturalistic fallacy. The bias here is clear.
I think of the GMO/pesticide/herbicide approach like smoking. You may use it for years without issue, but then wake up one day and find yourself unable to eat whole wheat like I did.

The gluten-free movement, the autoimmune diseases we're seeing, the continuing rise of neurological disorders like ADHD and autism.. they're caused by factory farming. The literature may not have reached consensus on that yet, but the trends are obvious and unmistakable now.

My peer group called this out back in the 90s before it went big, but nobody ever listens to us because 1) I was a teenager and 2) the people I listen to and admire are all poor academics. There was profit to be made!

It took 3 years, but I was finally able to get my digestive troubles into remission. I believe what happened is that my enteric nervous system got disrupted with neuropathy when I went through profound burnout in 2019. So the valves in my digestive system were opening and closing at the wrong times and I developed all kinds of food sensitivities. The cure is to take a B complex every day, specifically B1 (thiamine) and saturated fat to heal the nerves, so bacon and eggs is one of the best things I've found. I take a "stress" B complex that's less concentrated so I can have it every day. I've regained the ability to eat nightshades, but wheat/legumes/milk/nuts are still a problem.

Does anyone know of any startups working to isolate and remove the GMO contamination from crops? There would be considerable money in bringing back pre-GMO crop varieties, since such a large percentage of the population can't eat what's on store shelves now. If we do, our digestion shuts down, we get severe inflammation, we get metabolic syndrome, we get diabetes, our quality of life diminishes to effectively nothing.. you see what I'm saying. They could call the crops heirloom or organic and charge twice as much and I and millions of other people would gladly buy them.

Edit: since science is letting the population down at a level approaching conspiracy, I've embraced magical thinking in my own life. I find that holistic models simply perform better. I learned about the neuropathy issue here (no affiliation):

https://www.youtube.com/c/WholeBodyHealingwithJen
> People keep saying this because they’ve read up on history and know that never before has banning speech led to any positive outcome.

Which manuscripts? Claims of "reading history" are often false. The same people who support Tate also tend to hate academic historians, for example.
I think it was '96? I was working at Taos Mountain at the time. At that time, Taos had a reasonably close relation to Randal Schwartz ( https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-6th/97814... ) and he gave a talk for contractors which was titled "Just Another (convicted) Perl Hacker".

In that talk he told of his time at Intel and running crack on a shiny new sparc and all the problems that caused.

The focus of it was a "how not to get into trouble as a contractor".

Somewhere, I've still got my pink camel book with duct taped edges (for durability) with his signature on the inside title page.
Yeah, until I started working from home I hadn't had walls for a decade.
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