skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I managed a remote team and man is it harder than in person.

One common remote work thought is “you get more heads down time”

I’ve found almost the opposite. You have to be way more regular about engagement with each person. I would do 20 min meetings with every team member, every week. Team lunches over zoom twice a week, daily standup (1 min per person, plus breakout rooms for further discussions), Friday afternoon optional game days, etc. I always just hung out on a video conference, all day; similar to when people game.

In an office I can walk around the block with you and chat. In a remote setting I have to schedule some time and keep you engaged. It’s a long distance relationship, takes more time, and effort… much harder to sustain
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It says iOS not macOS and now I’m getting downvoted for reading. Brilliant. MacOS is fully certified allowing for all that sweet government contract money.
Networks effects mean if you just quit Twitter before anyone else, Elon wins. Think of it as the prisoner's dilemma in game theory, but the grid has about 400 million rows and columns.
What is the name of the Meta custom 16 bit format?
Sounds like you’re perfectly qualified to start a union!
For the home cook, its usually a better strategy to spend money up front on quality, but ignore specialized tools, than try to cheap out. Alton Brown's advice about unitaskers is terrible, except for the first time you start cooking at home and don't know what you need.

Someone could spend days looking for the specific slow cooker you found and maybe your onions from it are good. The idea of saving 50 dollars by buying an unglazed piece of quarry from Lowe's for 5 bucks instead of a proper pizza stone is a popular myth. Anyone who has actually tried it, has probably wasted hours on the internet looking for it and when the idea came out was most likely wasting tons of gas going to multiple Lowe's.

Maybe you got lucky and your 5 dollar slow cooker really makes good caramelized onions. But my experience trying recipes over the years, there are a few good sources of free recipes from a few places on the internet, and nearly everyone, without a team of testers backing them, is at best mediocre and usually sucks. Published recipes in a proper cookbook tend to be of higher quality, but its not always a guarantee. You get lucky every once in a while and find a hidden gem, but its almost never worth the effort to try non-established recipes as a beginner cook that can't read a recipe and immediately find red flags.

I guess this is just a long winded way of saying that maybe your cheaply made onions are good, but after being a home cook for so long I think it is more likely the caramelized onions in my Le Creuset are going to be better. I don't think you're lying for clicks like many recipe blogs out there, but you might just not realize what you could be eating.
Are hate speech censorship apologists really the worst? I consider myself someone who believes hate speech should be censored. I’m pretty sure there are much worse things.
If you ask US Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who has been following this war vary closely, he puts Ukrainian deaths at over 315K with about 5 to 7 dead Ukrainians per every Russian. Russia can not lose this war and will throw everything at this fight which they see as an existential threat.
This post made me think of Martin Lukes https://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/martin-lukes
On a similar note I’ve long thought that larger heavier vehicles should pay more for insurance, as a sort of “danger tax” to cover the greater damage they tend to cause in collisions.
Cryptography means precisely nothing if you can't trust the cryptographer.
Check out https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods. It's dead now, but the number of popular posts removed for arbitrary reasons is insane. According to the graph on the front page, something went wrong in mid-2017, because that's when the number of post removals suddenly accelerated.
Wouldn't using length, or better still, area be a better proxy for land usage? What about area/seats? Weight might be a good proxy except electric vehicles tend to be comparatively heavier than their ICE counterparts.
Tbf, putting a link to your sponsor costs you nothing and it's standard practice.
and yet other apps find some way to exist on app stores.
AFAIK Amazon sells DRM-free MP3s. Apple too.
can you elaborate on the chinchilla law / dataset problem a bit? (perhaps by editing your previous comment?)

what datasets are available to the community, how big are these, are they needed to be updated from time to time, where are these stored, what are the usual cost ranges involved, ...? :o

thank you!
There's a Tropico game, I think it's Tropico 4, that is very realistic in that you don't need to literally make roads and asphalt all the things, and roads don't need to be car-centered; you just make buildings and people will walk, and you add a road network to make things more efficient, but it isn't required

Also curved roads and buildings don't need to be right besides the road, etc.

Sim City 4 is more like a suburbia simulator imo
I was at Windows Phone (WP7/8 days) when “RCS was just a couple of years away”. Good thing I didn’t hold my breath - it didn’t seem to me then that there was any path to success and I was on my first job as a 20 year old.

Google hasn’t managed anything with RCS other than deploy it for their own messaging app that talks to their own infrastructure. The fact that the app uses RCS is an implementation detail - could just as well be carrier pigeons. Doesn’t matter because it isn’t cross-carrier interoperable.

The carriers all moved from Circuit Switched SMS signaling to SMS over IMS (LTE onwards) for interoperable SMS. IMS is the layer under RCS (created originally for cable set top boxes - go figure).

This is basically SMS over IP which means your device is doing all the legacy stuff like 7bit ASCII encoding to pack messages into 160 characters etc. These requirements won’t go away because, the moment a carrier tries to do cross-carrier interop there is a whole sea of legacy translations that would have to be managed by the message originating carrier. This would require real-time figuring out the capabilities of a receiving carrier based on phone number homing. It’s a massive undertaking that’s $$$.

On top of this The carriers all fought including E2EE in the spec to avoid picking a fight with the government. So anything Google implemented is DOA.

RCS has failed.
You're honestly out of touch with the software market. I earn around $110k a year after seven years of working and I'm nowhere near being able to afford a house. The fact that you think everyone is a FAANG engineer is part of the problem; the majority of us are not earning those top end salaries and the fact that you think we can buy a home after 5 years in Seattle is a massive joke.
Penalizes families - say you have 3 kids, a dog and grand parents to move around you will need a larger vehicle. So many of these schemes to punish car ownership and use are invented by cyclists and people who don't need a car and don't think anyone else should have one either.

Also penalizes tradesmen who have trucks and vans.
I don't know what you expect me to measure about two different visions of non-existent utopia.

Are you suggesting capitalism is not supposed to give control to the capitalist? Or that socialism is not supposed to give control to the workers?
I thought my assessment was pretty uncontroversial. The point about which system yields "more" democracy is a pretty simple inference from there.

Or do you mean my last statement that democracy prevents corruption more than dictatorship? What do you propose we measure to verify or reject my hypothesis?
No amount of data can prove it.
But there's a pretty clear argument in favor of democracy: you can't stop corruption in a dictatorship if the dictator is corrupt; you can stop corruption in a democracy so long as the majority are not corrupt. A dictatorship can have close to 0 corruption or close to 100% corruption, it all depends on the dictator.
yeah... but jurisdiction. i'm publishing a new law, in my own jurisdiction: the following usernames are prohibited:

dgellow

...so what now?
Indeed. I'm not sure why tech workers have this viewpoint that every other corporate function adds little to nothing to the bottom line.

"Build it and they will come" is not how it works. There is a reason why very successful sales people often make more money than tech workers.
Reddit is simply not that important.
I agree with you. I was clearly referencing how books that claim the holocaust didn’t happen (or was misrepresented) are illegal in huge swaths of the western world.

I’m not endorsing those viewpoints, merely showing how huge numbers of westerners actually are ok with book bans as long as it’s the right topic.
Sounds like your friend was sort of the Charles Babbage of Large Language Models.
> My old '96 geo metro (four door) was is 1,984 lbs

I drove one of those, and there's no way they were typical American car in any way in any era, so I don't think it's a valid starting point for plotting a valid trend line. They were weird things. Mine had a 3-cylindar 55hp engine, and I'd joke there were lawnmowers that were more powerful.
Plenty of functions are critical to the business - sales, marketing, finance, business development, etc.
If these middle managers who want "stacks of people to organise and watch over" had any real power, they would have flexed their muscles to prevent layoffs in the first place. When it comes time to trim the fat, executive management isn't going to take any backtalk from mere middle managers trying to build empires.
> Are you cheating if you use a spell checker, a thesaurus, or one of those word rephrasing recommendations in M$ Word?

A spell checker does not formulate the word, a thesaurus does not choose which word to use, nor does a word processor predictively generate phrasing.
it seems there were too many words in this article. Would love a summary
Age of Empires 2, Sim City 3000, Diablo2 and Red Alert 2. Released in the span of 3 years. What an incredible era. Can’t shake off the feeling that 3D took away as much as it gave gaming. Also can’t believe it’s just my age-based selection bias.
Yeah it’s crazy. Add in time zones and it’s no contest.
It's fine to use small snippets, but it specifically has to be for commentary, satire, derivative works, etc. The term you're looking for is 'fair use'
There isn't any gain in the stock value. That's the point. The theory doesn't work out in practice.

It's a stubborn belief in 'efficient markets'.
If you're one of a dozen engineers in the world who can do what you do, then sure, you can get a similar piece of the pie as NBA players.

But most tech workers aren't like that. They are relatively easily replaceable in comparison.
If you love SimCity 3k/4 music, it is made by Jerry Martin and saxophonist Marc Russo.

A few great links for you:
http://jerrymartinmusic.com/music_demo.php
On this demo page website, you can find some original jazz samples not included in SC3k even though they are quite amazing

http://boombamboom.com/
Some website Jerry Martin opened a few years ago where you can download high-quality music from the games he worked on (Sims, Sim City etc)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1467440/SimCasino_Soundtr...
Sim Casino is a way more recent game, and Jerry Martin / Marc Russo came back together to write the OST! It has a lot of feels from SC3k/SC4 music, so you might want to look into it.

You can also find one of their interviews here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1158420/view/4689895...

As you can see I am quite the fan... :-)
I still occasion play 3k!
> Sunk cost fallacy. The developer has a product to sell regardless of how much effort was spent getting there; they own it and only need to sell it or even license it.

How is "the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it" relevant?

When a developer spends time on code that no one ever pays money for, whoever is employing that developer has lost money, probably a lot of it.

When a salesperson sits at home unemployed, it costs the company who will eventually employ them nothing.

How in the world are you trying to claim a sunken cost fallacy in this case? Did you respond to the wrong post? I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here.
Sounds like helicopter management
Surely not around most European countries.

Not that I would exchange all the remaining benefits for money though.
Meh. You could offset this. Tradesmen could get a tax credit and families as well.
I'm not an expert on child and snuff porn apps.

I just know of examples like Tumblr which were banned for lax moderation.
I learned Linear Algebra from the 2nd Edition of Strang 30 years ago. I just started re-learning it with the 6th Edition. He has been refining the presentation over the years and keeping it current with applications (now there are machine learning chapters). It would be so easy to fall into a rut teaching this subject year after year, but he has kept it fresh through his obvious joy in teaching. I’m very grateful we have Prof. Strang’s lectures to watch! (No offense to our professor at CMU back in the day, btw, he was great.)
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Well, maybe the people with the huge family should pay more because there are more people?
While it’s true the vast majority are not buying minivans, the vast majority of US citizens also live outside of cities. Thus making minivans and other, similar cars uneconomical outside of large family units.

Additionally, if the majority of Americans are buying “comically large cars”, then most are equally protected and fewer are at risk. And in my lower income neck of the woods large cars are hardly the status quo. Maybe in cities, where people make more on average and live above their means people can get large SUVs and such, but around here the biggest we got is trucks and that’s typically for work, so not overly common on the roads outside of work hours.
Love the visualizations. It would be great to have `realloc` covered too but I'm not sure how much that varies by system, potentially making it too complicated for this sort of post.
I strongly recommend Insight Meditation center and specifically Gil’s introduction to meditation series, which he has reprised many many times and each one is a gem of new insight. He also leads daily meditations on YouTube starting with the pandemic and they plus the corresponding dharma lesson before and after are absolutely the best resource I’ve ever encountered. He imparts his wisdom in a remarkably clear and direct way, without lecturing or referring to canon, but instead constructing a easily understood framework that’s intuitively accessible. He layers the lessons daily throughout a week, and every week more or less stands independent, yet the more you follow the deeper the interconnections of his lessons go. He has clearly devoted a considerable amount of thought and time and energy to formulating his style of teaching and it’s clear by reviewing old audio dharma (extending back to 1995) his lifetime arc as a teacher.
> It’s not like they won’t leave if they manage to get remote job elsewhere.

Even without RTO, people will still leave for other jobs if the grass is greener on the other side. If anything, WFH makes it easier for someone to go job hunting and do interviews.

If the environment is your downside to RTO - you’re reaching.

The loss in productivity when someone does 2 hours in traffic a day is probably a more compelling argument. Companies also have to stock their pantry, hire more office management, renew their office space leases.
Hate it. Lego isn't Lego anymore. Buy one, build many, isn't their leading selling pin anymore.

I hate to have Lego, that can just be used for that one model. So we have pacman now. 2600 peaces. super! What else can this be used to built?

Jack brown Trousers his house? Nope. A car? Nope. A Plane? Nope.

Clearly strong no buy from me
Would be nice if they’d do the same for civ 6 - it’s burning hot on my MacBook (not sure it would solve the issue but worth a try)
the death itself
In a world that is being brought closer and closer each day to climate disaster by the exponentially increasing exploitation of resources to satisfy the exponentially increasing needs of an exponentially increasing population… maybe we should be ever so slightly discouraging large family sizes instead of the current policy of subsidizing them?
Now you impose sanctions in your jurisdiction to violators and nobody cares because you're not the EU and your sanctions have no weight.
Well, I don't know, is your country part of different international organizations? You know the one that allows your country to exist.
I mean, San Francisco ain't such a bad place to be. It's not like saying 'we're moving back to the middle of North Dakota where I started my business'.

(Yes, I know all the recent stuff about SF, but as they describe in the post (and as has been my experience in other demonized places), it's not really relevant.)
Incorrect. Cities: Skylines is the best of all time.

But SimCity 4 at its time is still quite good.
I don't buy that etymology, even in the expanded context. It seems like a dutch pronunciation of titter/teeter, and an amalgamation of a few words that became really popular and "cool".

I might dig out my norse etymology dictionary and a magnifying glass and try to trace it back further.

-- From Etymonline:

Teeter:

1843, "to seesaw," alteration of Middle English titter "move unsteadily," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse titra "to shake, shiver, totter, tremble," from Proto-Germanic *ti-tra- (source also of German zittern "to tremble"). Meaning "move unsteadily, be on the edge of imbalance" is from 1844.

[...]Noun teeter-totter "see-saw" is attested from 1871 (earlier simply teeter, 1855, and titter-totter in same sense is from *1520s*). Totter (n.) "board swing" is recorded from late 14c.;
I enjoyed the first couple Sim Cities but at the time I really loved those city building games like Caesar and Pharaoh, so satisfying watching the houses level up and immigrants pour in
And still my coworkers who 20 years ago were burned by some MySQL minor issue will laugh at the mere suggestion that we could probably use MySQL.

People still think it's a toy to this day and they've struggled to shake that perception.
> If a job can be done at home then it can be done from anywhere in the world.

Sure, agreed, but ... if a forced-into-the-office job doesn't actually require a warm body in the office (i.e, the jobs that are under discussion), then that in-office role can be done from anywhere in the world as well.

IOW, sure, if you work from home you are proving to the employer that your job can be outsourced easily, but working from the office doesn't provide any evidence that your job cannot be outsourced.
You will take a paycut on average, although usually it's borne by a few taking 100% cuts.
So I see people scoffing at the way the English Wikipedia is run, and people referring incorrectly to "What Wikipedia does" when the Wikipedias are just one aspect of the WMF's activities. So do you really know what the WMF does?

The encyclopedias, and MediaWiki software, are the flagship projects, and they come in hundreds of languages (I'm watching what happens on the Nahuatl project right now).
There are also many Wiktionaries, where words are defined in any language you can name.
There is Wikidata, which interfaces in a machine-readable way with every other Wikipedia.
There is Commons, which is one of the world's largest repositories of freely-licensed media. This is the first place I search if I am looking for a PD or CC-licensed image. That's what it's there for, in addition to serving media for all the other projects.
There is Wikisource, a large repository of freely-licensed text. See above.
There is Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, Wikinews...

The WMF does not simply run web servers, they run a cloud platform. WMF is a player in Big Data, and the WMF Cloud supports developers of bots, tools, database queries, scripts, and all sorts of widgets that interface with at least one project.
Software development. I've already mentioned that MediaWiki is an open-source, in-house platform, and it's constantly under active development. Anyone may create an account and submit an issue in the Phabricator bug database.

Outreach. Wikipedias coordinate with college instructors who are teaching how to edit Wikipedia as part of a class. There is a standardized and recognizable process for this now.
WMF holds conferences worldwide, to get people interested in editing, learn how to do it, and keep them engaged.

All projects have separate sets of administrators and unique policies and guidelines. If all you know is English Wikipedia by reputation, you've barely scratched the surface.
>At the same time you can agree the library having a few books where the protagonist has two mom's or two dad's isn't reducing the literacy rate of the school, right?

I'm arguing that the literacy rate in the average school is currently so low in the United States that many students are unable to read at all. I'm arguing that anyone who is more concerned with the number of gender diverse library books than the number of students who are unable to read and write is part of the problem.
> You would need a completely different architecture to accomodate a 20M+ database.

The article shows that nothing notable happens at 20M, so what limits are you talking about?

One more level of depth on the B+ tree is very easy to deal with.
> It is up to you to figure out how you want your experience to be.

No, it's up to the subreddit moderators. They are the hidden hand that shapes the conversation.

Many of the popular subreddits have been taken over by groups of full-time moderators who are pushing various agendas. Their actions can't even be seen. We can only see the posts they've chosen to allow in their subreddits.
Hype: The Enemy of Early Stage Returns
How did one edit text messages that were already sent?
> Unionization of computer scientists will not happen. Unionization requires low IQ and low ability to separate bullshit or teasing from reality, and software engineers are too clever to be gullible to unions.

I think you're proving the case for unions, not (as you appear to think) arguing against them.
Can biochar be made in a carbon-negative way? The heating process has to release some carbon, no?
Your understanding of alignment is somewhat out of date. Training a model to produce human-valued responses and training a model not to decide to destroy all the humans are not separate problems. RLHF may actually be an excellent solution to many of the problems you care about for today's LLMs, even though it is done for a practical reason (we want LLMs that will answer our questions with useful answers) instead of an existential risk reason.
Or just as an alternative to using fuel taxes to fund infrastructure.

For a long time “amount of fuel consumed” was roughly aligned with “amount of wear you cause to roads”. But that relationship is breaking down and we need to find something new (at least in the US, not sure how roads are funded elsewhere).
Neat, then the trolls who already ruin many discussions would instead ruin whole subreddits. Just so people wouldn't get their feelings hurt when their ridiculous conspiracy theories get deleted.