skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years back I phoned a retired tech who was one of the last few people left who knew how a piece of machinery worked. He had a deep booming voice (A somewhat higher pitched Sam Elliott) and throughout the conversation continually boomed "yeah" in reply to almost everything I said. This mans name was not Japanese but that conversation stuck in my head. I will say this, he was a good listener and immediatly knew the answer to most of my questions.

Half of this conversation was on speaker phone and was overheard by a few coworkers who got a kick out the stream of yeah's booming in reply. For the next few weeks my coworkers and I would repeat this during conversations where we would comically interject a deep "yeah" in an attempt to frustrate the person speaking. So I can see how it can be annoying to someone not familiar with the practice and the lack thereof frustrating to someone expecting attention.
Not Hollywood, but professional Youtuber's and journalists edit their videos on planes. MKBHD comes to mind.
I love this but… what the hell am I reading?

Also they really missed an opportunity to reference “Gbps” (goat bites per second).
> That’s my gripe, man - when you login to a site with your Ethereum wallet instead of the Github login button, why? Because it’s easier? As if.

I do this on sites that support it. Spinning up a burner wallet for a site is easier than spinning up a burner gmail or temporary account.
Wasted potential due to slavery/poverty/racism is a travesty, I agree with that 100%. Thankfully this is a much smaller concern than a century ago.

A bigger problem in the present day, however, is the wasted potential from polices that come from the denial of difference.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210612203955/https://www.washi...
I meant that the qualms he was enumerating could simply be restated this way, and my only addition here is that these societal/cultural things all are essentially imaginary (and depend on anthropomorphism and metaphor), unlike something like evolution. Apologies for my phrasing.
I don't see how we're one step closer to qualia.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing the main point of the paper and I'll read it again tomorrow.

If I and some other people would follow a certain algorithm, the one in the paper, but refined and perfected for a thousand years... Calculating with pen and paper the progression of states from a suitable initial state... Would an illusion of experience/qualia appear somewhere just from our calculations? Would it feel like something to be the state represented in the numbers?

Anyway, thanks for the discussion.
Currently in Germany there’s a wave of lawyers letters making the rounds. They claim a website violates the privacy of some dummy client when they accessed the website and their IP was transmitted to Google’s servers to download Google Fonts from the cloud.
I’ve been putting in some extra hours this week to help scared clients localize their Google Fonts.
The wave started after an half-assed sentence from a court in Munich back in January decided that Google Fonts server seeing a user’s IP number is a punishable privacy violation.
Not work, but a good purpose is long-lived general computing device.

An iPad pro purchased today, put in a case/screen protector, and (optionally) covered with AppleCare should give you 7 years of use.

It's really nice to have one for working while traveling, just in case an emergency comes up. If you just work on a git branch workflow like nextjs/vercel, you could make github.dev work as editor. It'd be super annoying to actually have to use it, but beats carrying around a laptop sometimes.
I mean... I feel like this has been done to death. Way back when Holmes was at Stanford she proposed stuff similar to what she was doing to Phyllis Gardner (a respected professor at Stanford) and Gardner's response was basically "what you're proposing is not phsyically possible." The second half of Ken's statement is the real meat of this: he was skeptical, but John produced the goods. And that's the crux of it.

It's one thing to say "Hey, this self-driving car thing seems a bit far-fetched." It's quite a different thing to get the engineers working on it to admit that the facts are untrue. (Not saying that's the case, just a likely example).
so the models that fail this one test never get published and the models that succeed get published. And all you have done is to publish a model that predicts that particular history, in other words data fitting.
I wish companies would be run in a way that removes insane leveling completely.

In my current company there are 7 or 8 levels (depending how you look at it) for ICs. Why?

IME it has led to so much “talk” and bloat, and useless meetings led by people trying to prove something who go on and on about things that make no sense. No execution, only flattery and BS.

IMO, the only levels you need should be Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Software Architect. The architects should be rare, and there should be a healthy mix of seniors and juniors focused on building and supporting products internal and customer facing.

Why do we have several layers of managers? Out of a dozen managers only two have been good. They’re also the first ones fired. It just seems stupid, even if it’s purposefully done that way (that’s even dumber to consider). Have lean teams with a lead, and a manager who manages several teams, and a director for each product offering who reports to a CTO or something. VP, SVP, EVP. Why?

I’m on a team where people waste so much time and yet I see those same people get promoted, while I’m told I’m disengaged because I don’t turn on my camera in bullshit meetings (to plan future meetings or ramble). On the other hand, my team consistently delivers on time or sooner, while those teams take forever.

It’s sad, really.
“Ongoing global disaster”

Life is good and only getting better :- Not sure where this “global disaster”, but then again I’m not a Doomer.
These people are just grandstanding. There is nothing preventing them from accidentally overpaying taxes to the tune of millions or even billions.

Or they could just send money to the Treasury to help pay the national debt which is an even more elegant solution.

The bank account and instructions are visible for all at TreasuryDirect.com
One of the major advantages of Apple is how they can get all their users to update OS in a timely fashion, whereas Android users tend to lag behind
You think it's weird that people expect random website owners with limited resources not to be held to the same accessibility standards as multi-billion dollar manufactures?

Why?
It’s an answer in that I reacted to the event you were slyly trying to imply. The Ukrainians arrested the local leader of crimea and forced them to rewrite their laws to follow the Ukrainian constitution. When Russia took that region and Ukraine did nothing but yell, Russia had a much more solid argument in terms of it always being Russian land and wanting it returned.

They lost that veil of plausibility when they decided to go for the rest of Ukraine in their attempted blitz of Kyiv
Works against rational people that trusts you.
There has been some movement to handle CSS layout in JavaScript (running in a service worker, so that it cannot have state, but otherwise fully in sync with the layout), as part of the “Houdini” effort: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-layout-api-1/

(Disclosure: I work on the style team in Chromium)
Fluorine on an aromatic ring is not labile: other examples of substances with fluorinated aromatic rings are fluoxetine(prozac), citalopram (celexa) and paroxetine (paxil), which are antidepressants many people are taking daily without fluorine-related toxicity
When everyone is invested into society, we have incentives to defend the status quo, thus making our society stable. In the next generation or two we'll get to see what happens when half of the men of the nation don't own anything of substance and have no meaningful connections to society.
Seriously? Look at the parent your commenting on ... I'm saying that your critique hit the wrong comment. You may not know it, but you commented on her indirectly. Maybe get to know the topic a bit more before commenting without knowing a thing. You're calling bs on parent, but parent is right, you dismiss it because you have no clue what you're talking about.
>> Yea in retrospect this is easy to say and it is trivial to join the dots

And it likely is happening again, someone who is being heralded now will be exposed and we'll go through this important exercise again. My money is on Musk's number coming up.
When did I say you can’t criticise the failings and nature of something? I stated that your assertion was wrong, and asked questions that need answering by "defund the police" people. You never explicitly stated you want to dedund the police, but this is the argument those people make for it's removal. I read an article in the magazine of a major newspaper that said to remove prison and the police entirely, and this was before Floyd. I never said you support this position, and I never gave you any instruction. I asked you relevant questions and examined your statement.

You didn't respond to any of it
As you can see happened to parent ...
An iPad Pro has been my primary work machine for 4 years. For video calls, and Office-like use cases it’s great. I’ve tried some lower power tablets - not iPads - and latency became unbearable.

If you can successfully fulfill your work within a Microsoft Office like suite - try an iPad for 3months - you might be pleasantly surprised. By comparison I’ve found a normal laptop is probably too much and too heavy - also doesn’t have a persistent cellular connection to work outside of WiFi
Well, it's much easier to write a brand new language and class libraries. Everything is self contained, there are no dumb users involved, no undocumented external functions, most of the library functions can be ported from existing languages etc.
I clicked on the older post, and then the first couple of comments... and one of them has commented within the last few months.

Not sure what the exact turnover rate is, but it seems pretty normal that there would be some turnover over 15 years.
I've done this before. The problem is a lot of elements will change to a different (standard?) appearance when you add styles like that, so you'd need to recreate the original look if you wanted to just change the color. Also, each browser has different psuedoelements so you have to support firefox and webkit separately, which is made worse by the fact that webkit doesn't support targeting multiple elements with your psuedoelement selector, ex. you can't do this:

input[type="range"]::-moz-range-thumb,
input[type="range"]::-webkit-slider-thumb {
background-color: red;
}

It'll work in Firefox, but Chrome (and probably Safari) will ignore it. Instead you need to do this:

input[type="range"]::-moz-range-thumb {
background-color: red;
}
input[type="range"]::-webkit-slider-thumb {
background-color: red;
}
This is the same Pfizer that recently admitted under oath that they never actually tested the vaccine against transmissibility.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/pfizer...
https://archive.ph/Qrg25
Although I wouldn't be surprised if one side is more likely to have dual-band GNSS receivers...
it also doesn’t help that the article doesn’t illustrate what any of the accessibility laws actually require
> The physicalist simply says that the processes that Mary induces in her brain by constructing a red LED (or doing surgery on her optic nerve, or just imagining what seeing red would be like), even if they are not "knowledge", are still physical processes

This isn't relevant. Nobody is really disputing that physical processes cause qualia. You don't see the redness of an apple until the apple actually enters your visual field. Cause=physical event, result=qualia. Even dualists agree with this.

Therefore the Knowledge Argument is not about whether any physical process is causally linked to qualia, it's specifically about whether qualia can be deduced only from factual knowledge, because under physicalism, all facts are physical facts.

If physicalism is true, then all facts are third-party objective physical facts. Therefore quale are physical facts. If given an understanding of all physical facts, then Mary should be able to deduce her quale. If she cannot deduce her quale (or it seems very implausible), then either some mistake has been made or physicalism is false. Where is the mistake?

You cannot answer this question by saying her knowledge gives her the ability to trigger the usual physical process to cause qualia, because the question is about the deduction. The only outcomes of this thought experiment are one of: 1. denying that physicalism is true, or 2. denying that quale are facts, 3. accepting that Mary would be able to deduce her quale, 4. concluding that the thought experiment contains some inherent contradiction.
I have been trying out https://hurl.dev and so far been really liking it. Plain text format, everything runs very quickly locally, it can capture data from previous requests to run workflows and serve as a testing tool.
This treaty they are leaving sounds awful, it’s whole purpose is to let oil companies sue countries for doing things that hamper their profits
Do you see how many qualifiers you added to this? What if it significantly touches on their resources as a firm? What if the company is “global” but revenue is primarily domestic?

It’s always easy to carve these lines in the sand ex post facto. Good legislation lays out a set on consistent principles and enforcements, ex ante.
> you're all drawing a distinction that I don't see?

The distinction you are not seeing is between actual harm and a pretext for lawyers to sue.

Actual harm to the environment and real business profits result from manufacturers producing and selling proprietary charing devices (I bought at least 3 and disposed of at least 2 Apple magsafe2 chargers, while having perfectly working generic chargers around my home).

An indie developer hosting a free website is neither causing permanent and irreversible damage to the environment nor is he making any money as a result of his websites not being accessibility compliant.
Hm, I don't agree and see no real arguments here, sorry. I'll move on then, but thank you for the comment! I really hope you find the working environment you thrive in.
“Principle of "reasonable accommodation"
The Convention defines "reasonable accommodation" as "necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others” [0]

Suing every hole in the wall out of business is hardly in line with reasonable accommodation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_Pe...
Nio and streams API show that even those were not evident from the beginning of java.
For all the howling about Apple it’s nice to see that these are “Used with permission”.
Aside: I was in Vancouver last year and I was amazed at all the high rises. It seemed to blow Seattle out of the water. Seattle and Bellevue have high rises but every other suburb is just flat. Whereas every burn of Vancouver seems to have towers.
There is a solution here, and Rammstein is one Band that uses it: Don't sell via Ticketmaster and sell personalized tickets only that are not allowed to be resold.
Take a look at Bone Structure houses. They do exactly what you describe and do it really well!
Do you think the height of the Mississippi changes once every 10,000 years? This happens every few years.

In 2019 there was the longest flood in Mississippi river history literally 3 years ago.

https://www.weather.gov/lix/ms_flood_history

Now a three years later it's at one of lowest in history.

It shouldn't make the news but it's easy to alarm influenceable people.
An interesting point about C++ in recent years (since 2011 and perhaps earlier) is that it no longer emphasizes class abstractions that much. These days the feel like just another tool in your kit. Also, the declarative specs support has expanded with C++20 concepts.
We should also have citations for all positions, for example that disability access does not reduce access, such as in the case of UC Berkeley removing 20,000 free video courses. Making things more expensive is also a kind of loss of access; but we must have empiricism to know the weight of this argument and not merely that there may be some legitimacy behind it.
Discussed yesterday:

Elon Musk reportedly wants to lay off 75% of Twitter’s staff

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281645

(58 points, 57 comments)
React was created by Facebook/Instagram, for FB/IG. Startups with tiny teams (or a team of one!) should hesitate to reach for ANYTHING promoted by large corporations. Even Lit, a web component library I really, really like, should _not_ be a default solution. Vanilla web components—especially ones that are easily progressively-enhanced from server-driven HTML—can be a better solution sometimes.
I have long since left collaboration with team at Cary, NC. But all I can say there was a great deal of interest in 3D sequence improvement by interpolation with known k-space patterns like in the GRASE or PROPELLR sequence for e.g. They also learned a good deal from working with NYU's fastMRI
Writing Spreadsheet Macros with Python
How good is the AI and how was it made?
Big Data Storage and Transfer Formats
Why doesn’t she just donate all of it and not make a media frenzy out of it?

These people remind me of social media influencers who feed a homeless person and put it on Instagram. Like, are you doing it for the media or because you think it’s right?

I think we all know the answer to that.
> I'm not saying it's the same as the non-tax-deductible rent paid by renters,

With the standard deduction being as high as it is, most people don’t pay enough in interest to itemize to take advantage of the mortgage interest deduction.

While no politician would dare touch the mortgage interest deduction, most progressive economists think that it is hand out to the rich and we should get rid of it.

While the Trump era tax cuts and increasing the standard deduction didn’t get rid of the mortgage deduction, it was one thing that was right about the law.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/how-did-the-trump-tax-bill-affe...
People get the government they deserve; if they do not participate in the process. You can organize people around a common mission, but its hard to convince people of future harm, when they haven't yet been burned. The "help" is merely theoretical. Now that these companies are actually harming people - it will be easier, but the damage has already been done.
Thanks for recommendations. It's been a while since I've read the Carlton book, do you remember offhand any major errors?
See also:

A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script.

makeself.io
https://github.com/megastep/makeself
I think I see at least three versions. At least to me the o looks different in the print and (3). The line coming in comes in at a tangent or kind of dead ends.
Engine Sim: Procedurally Generating Audio Using a Real-Time Fluid Simulation
AngeTheGreat's Engine Simulator: Procedurally Generating Audio Using a Real-time Fluid Simulation (Technical Breakdown)
Hacker news commenters are not legislators, it is therefore entirely reasonable for commenters to draw those lines however they see fit for the purposes of discussion.

Further, it is drawing lines on the basis of number of employees/operating revenue/etc (the use of the word “global” in this case is clearly a colloquial reference to a very large firm along these metrics), is already a very common and well understood basis for drawing such lines, so such and insinuation on your part that this is some ex post facto finger pointing is without serious grounding.
The problem is that neither in 2000, nor in 2008, have we had the amount of meaningless crypto/blockchain/web3 out of thin air tens of thousands of jobs created, in all places of over night born companies.
Turbo's actually really great for static sites—you can speed up page transitions and even handle some "reactive" elements using Frames and HTML fragments. Pretty awesome stuff. No Rails required.
I think we're going to see the return of the oral exam (i.e. You show up to the prof's office and they ask you questions on the spot.). Perhaps not for massive low level courses, but likely for advanced courses.

They're going to be the bane of the timid, but they do provide ample motivation to study and require elaborate measures to cheat on.
$40 exact change in $20 bills will be faster than scanning barcodes.
From my dim recollections of a long-ago history book - back around that time, rural New England was a pretty dire "agricultural rust belt" - because none of the climate, geography, or typical size of farms there could compete with "newer" farms in parts of the country further west. And railroads were bringing the cheaper products of those farms east, to directly compete with New England's small, old, rocky farms.
I'm thinking that the only viable solution to the log jam in construction is to have a structural engineering AI help people build homes and guide construction and renovation.

If the AI says it's safe, the local inspectors will have to agree.

I'm so sick of the way things are done currently.
I love some of the crazy stuff[1] that happened inside Theranos in response to Carreyrou's reporting.

> Theranos employees once reportedly chanted, “Fuck you, Carreyrou,” at an all-hands meeting in October of 2015.

> At a company party, Theranos employees played a video game modeled after Atari's Space Invaders: The gun was the miniLab, the bullets the nanotainers and the invader being shot at: Yours Truly!

I know it's fashionable to hate the press, but when it escalates to this level of vitriol it smells of "The lady doth protest too much".

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/4/13/17234844/theranos-sp...
I don't even see a reason for a recession yet. We are forcing this slump on ourselves for no reason. If some aspect of the economy is fundamentally rotten then of course a recession is imminent. However, there is nothing like that now. Very low unemployment, a genuine reason for inflation (supply chain issues), low supply coupled with a very sudden need for more space causing housing price jumps. The only issue is excess cash in the market because of government stimulus. That could have contributed to the excess jump in stock market which also led to the home price increases. However this doesn't mean we should be in a recession.

Ok, now the interest rates are going up to counter the inflation. I am not convinced it will dent anything other than home and car prices. In this scenario, is a full blown recession actually going to happen if so why?
Since 500 terminals a month are being destroyed in Ukraine, per Elon, it seems clear they are targeting them.
The IC leveling at Apple is similar to what you have described. ICT 3/4/5 roughly maps to what you have. The problem with this is that while it's relatively easy to go from a 3 to a 4 after a few years, it's a huge jump from 4 to 5, and then after that you've basically peaked for life. If you just care about building great things, it can work, but for many people, feeling like there's growth and not stagnation is a problem. It also creates a problem for managers having to temper those expectations.

Limiting IC layers doesn't remove all the other politics.
Tasks exclusive to them, but not the tasks of a manager. A manager manages. As OP stated, the position with the title of "manager" now has the tasks of a babysitter.
There's not an enormous philosophical gulf between Musk and Jack Dorsey. If Musk doesn't destroy Twitter pretty quickly, he'll probably just get bored and mostly leave it alone.