skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You better make sure your plan won't backfire and won't lead to a large number of those highly educated youths staying in the US afterwards and contributing to the US economy.

And that's after you, as an adversarial nation, had already spent tons of resources on growing and educating those kids to the quality level high enough to be accepted into those top US colleges, as well as (presumably) paid for the tuition (which for international students can easily become x4 of in-state tuition and x2 of out-of-state).

Heavily investing into a highly efficient brain-drain program might not be as smart of an idea as you believe it is, if you are funding the side of it that drains those brains away from you.
What does this mean? What sort of "assets?" Why doesn't the site give you a preview of what you'll see when you sign up?
Could always burn the lithium to heat a boiler and turn the tires.
They were clearly told what can be done (like: https://www.suerf.org/docx/f_8ec57b4b3e0f08f05b4793beef0bcd6...) and what cannot be done (like: https://taler.net/papers/euro-bearer-online-2021.pdf) but for politics the technological reality doesn't matter so much, as the decision makers don't care to actually understand the technology.
I used D for a while several years ago. The language was always a huge mess. The compiler and standard library were riddled with bugs. D was the only language I ever used where it could actually be a compiler bug. D was a mess of features that didn't play well together; things were added with little thought or care given to they'll fit with existing language features. I speak in past-tense because I haven't paid close attention to D's development in several years, but it seems like every time D pops up in some news feed, it's never good. Seeing posts like this, it seems like things haven't improved much. I've seen a few posts like this over the years complaining about minor releases introducing breaking changes.

I understand building a language and compiler is hard. However, D is over 20 years old at this point. It's had plenty of time to mature despite being a small community project. There are much younger languages which are far more stable. Minor releases should not be introducing so many breaking changes, breaking backwards compatibility. D is actually a pretty nice language, has a lot of great features, but I would never recommend it to anybody.
How much did you expect from an article with “ghost” in the title?
I recall a mid air collision that occurred that way once. I forget the exact crash name, but IIRC a civilian aircraft was trying to spot for damage on another aircraft and they got too close.

Not that people shouldn’t help but you gotta be careful with maneuvers you don’t typically make, even if trying to be helpful / are a pilot.
>A word of caution to all

to never rely on anything offered for free

> and I've lost some important emails

No backups => not important data.
But as the article points out, Vickrey-style auctions are vulnerable to collusion. Presumably in an area where there's already lots of corruption you're going to see plenty of this.
It will likely be used for that but it’s something that can’t easily be proved. Even first and last names can give away race. SC didn’t make admissions anonymous.
You want Active Desktop?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
OrangeC: A C/C++ compiler and toolchain for windows
Let’s hope someone doesn’t put the backup/replica in different region, the one big instance gonna be tough to restore!
TLDR; A fluffy conversation nominally about AI with ample I’m-not-like-the-others disclaimers by both parties spends more time Monday-morning-quarterbacking COVID policy and otherwise generally back-patting than saying anything meaningful about AI.
Despite the headline, those poll results are still more positive than you would expect from US Politics.
The correct way to explain this concept of course is to note that in every story with a moral, the winners are designated as the good guys.
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They have a domain for that: https://www.bwork.com/
Facebook's ad platform famously uses the Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction [0]. In theory it rewards advertisers for bidding for ads using their true valuation, or rather, the lifetime value of a customer.

In practice, it's a lot more convoluted, but the basic principle is fascinating.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80...
Similar submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524740
A lot of the anti-china stuff is coming from the top, the CHIPS act is a great example. I think taking down Amazon and maybe busting them up ala AT&T would be a feather in Biden's cap with the liberals and the right thing to do. Then they need to go after Google and Facebook.
Blockchain is just a solution in search of a problem. It's the cryptocurrency stuff where it gets shady.
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Where is the non commercial filter??
Legacies aren't just about money. They are the "connections" that make elite universities beneficial to undergrads.
We have always been in a trade war, we just never fought back.
He has openly professed his belief in "strong opinions, weakly held."
Probably didn't want everyone standing up in the aisle messing with the overheads all at once.
Ladybird browser update (June 2023) [video]
Yeah. I'm a freelance journalist and this is one of the worst journalism takes I've seen in a while. Paying bills is already hard enough as it is and I, like many others in this industry, don't even have health insurance: why in the fuck would any of us invest in a startup?
America doesn’t have any implicit caste system, racism or “wounds”? A huge percentage of the population would disagree with you.

People still fly the confederate flag.
> It's pretty easy to accidentally convince yourself of things when you get a big payday by doing so.

Is it easy to turn a blind eye, when factory workers in your own company were dying, or is what we're describing called at best criminal, and at worst psychotic?

They were literally just dumping these chemicals down the river. They were fined a small fraction of their profits (of billions) and told pretty please to not do it again. This is obvious corruption on so many levels.
We are not back in the trade war. We always IN the trade war. Look up how many things are banned in China while their companies like Tencent/Tiktok/ Aliexpress/Temu just do whatever they want here.

The question has and will always been, so what are you gonna do about it?
Whether to a sufficient degree or not, SCOTUS agrees with you on this point and exercises a strong reluctance to second-guess past generations of itself, especially on statutory (as opposed to constitutional) matters, since it is theoretically easy for Congress to amend its own statutes if ever Congress should disagree with how the Court has interpreted them.

Indeed, just today, SCOTUS also released a unanimous opinion protecting a person's religious rights against his employer [1]. Sotomayor and Jackson left an addendum pointing out that this man had asked them to overrule a 50-year precedent in interpreting a law, and they explicitly chose not to do so (though they ruled in his favor in a different, narrower way) precisely for the reason I mentioned about Congress having the opportunity to correct the matter if they so choose.

The "liberal" justices usually get the most flack for "legislating from the bench" (although arguments can be made that the "conservative" ones do it too). But here we have the most liberal justice on the Court saying "The Court's respect for Congress's decision not to intervene promotes the separation of powers by requiring interested parties to resort to the legislative rather than the judicial process to achieve their policy goals."

If I could air a very broad-brush opinion, complaints people have about SCOTUS being a partisan institution these days are best levied against Congress (and litigants) for how they treat the Court, not against the Court for its own behavior. When people express low confidence in the Court, I'm always eager to see them aim their low confidence at Congress instead of (not in addition to) the Court.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-174_k536.pdf
If you are getting a lot of questions that are solved by reading the docs, you need to fix your docs.

Maybe using a conversational agent is an appropriate tool for that, but please don't let it remove the human element of support.

We've all been on the wrong side of automated "help". Don't contribute to the problem.
One funny thing about MA is how happily he broadcasts his white supremacist tendencies on Twitter (by following lots of creepy ones). Makes me hope he won't be in charge of changing my world.

EDIT: e.g. @FistedFoucault, @empathyhaver, @0x49fa98, see also: https://theoutline.com/post/6708/marc-andreessen-twitter-fav...
They are, and it's reflected in the compensation. I know a developer that Meta offered ~$6 mil Total Compensation, he turned it down for $10 mil from Google.

It also exists in a much more banal state lower down the ladder. I have friends who landed in the low end of the developer market. They literally cannot do most of the work I do. They don't understand DB isolation levels, they don't have the skills to design systems around eventual consistency, they are not familiar with basic distributed system problems like clock drift, etc. I'm not even an infrastructure engineer, this is just stuff I and my coworkers need to get through our days to ship product code.

Could my friends do this stuff? If they applied themselves, sure! But they're not going to. It's also not enough to learn on the job. We occasionally hire someone who doesn't actually have the skillset and they usually flounder.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/

[1] shows that artificial sweeteners lead to higher insulin resistance. It is so because they provoke insulin level increase due to their sweet taste.

Caffeine is a tricky one.

If you can drink 6 cups of espresso a day, you have 50% less chance developing dementia. But, how can you drink 6 cups of coffee per day if you do not have good health? It can be that the "small positive effects of caffeine" are due to caffeine consumers have a little better health overall and these with worse health have to consume less caffeine.

For an anecdote, I once went completely off caffeine for a month and haven't noticed a thing after first three days, when I was unusually sleepy. Even training results followed the same progression.
There was lots of whitespace from the ad placeholders having unique names though.
I'll say it again: in the TJ case, there was significant evidence that the motivation for abandoning the old system was racial balancing.

You can read about in the ruling here:

https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Coalitio...

I suggest you read pages 11 and 12 for context, but I'd like to specifically draw your attention to the first full sentence on page 14:

"Here, no dispute of material fact exists regarding any of the Arlington Heights factors, nor as to the ultimate question that the Board acted with discriminatory intent."

For specific evidence of that discriminatory intent, start at page 17.

For more evidence, see pages 53-56 in the appeal dissent: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23821588/tjca4opn0523...
I've seen teams today have just as large an FTE team dedicated to infrastructure as my employee 10 years ago to manage a set of cloud services that cost wayyyy more than the colo hardware we had doing basically the same amount of traffic. So people cost hasn't always gone down as infra cost has gone up. "Shitty internal heroku" has some advantages once you have engineers that have been at the company more than 3 months: there's just not nearly as much surface area to understand + you have the source code right there if you really have to get int here. Let's leave judgements out of this - you can just as easily build a fragile tower of cloud services and abstractions to "feel smart" as you can reinventing serving an application (reinventing is a strong word anyway... it's just a different set of off the shelf tools usually). And in many cases "managed" services manage the easy part (standing up the hardware and installing the service) and don't manage the hard part (configuring the hundreds of knobs to optimize your particular use case) particularly well.

I'm not close enough to the metal for those services/infra teams, though, to be able to completely tell if the FTE hours spent on all that cloud stuff are necessary. That is - can you throw stuff into the cloud and set-it-and-forget-it and not deal with ongoing cloud/infra/config maintenance? But one of the main things those teams seemed to often focus on was spend - if you leave it unattended is the cost just going to eat you up? But then there's a big irony.
Why are you not a fan of SAFEs ? Thanks.
TCP default is more than 30 seconds. The internet itself has about a 99.9% uptime. If one company showed every 30 second blip on their outage page all their competitors would have that screenshot on the first page of their pitch deck even if they also had the same issue. 2-5 minutes is reasonable for a public service to announce an outage.
They appear to have a domain for finding jobs at B Corps: https://www.bwork.com/
> It's gonna take more than ~60 years of Jim Crow-free America to make things right.

Agreed, but as the parent comment said, what's the end-goal? What are the metric(s) whereby we can say "things are now right", or even, "things are approaching the direction of right-ness"?
The silly part of this is that the industries he compares software to - music, television, movies - have all been skeletonized and reduced to minimal and repeatable products. Simply looking out the door should be enough to convince you that if you want to bring back the magic, asking to be treated like a television writer isn't the way.

Right now the biggest thing bringing down developer wages is the threat of being replaced with an LLM. That's not going to work out in the long run - giving developers productivity increasing tools isn't going to lessen their value. However, it's the most plausible wage suppression hustle for quite some time.

Until the limits of LLM generation get tested and felt, the downward pressure on wages is going to continue. Maybe when the first wave of LLM driven startups feel the pain of maintaining code that doesn't have an author, or maybe high profile malicious training data attacks will do it. Even afterwards, the effects of the wage curve being bent downward for a couple years are still going to be there.
I wonder if this would work in the US for housing/real estate?
>For some reason I always had this picture of war being people constantly hiding in bunkers, looting and stealing in a sort of apocalyptic doomsday prepper way, whoever remains working in tank factories around the clock, that sort of thing.

For cities actively under siege, that's exactly how it is though. Read about St. Petersburg or the battle of Vukovar.
The reason why we don't have rockstar engineers is because the markets been filled with talentless hacks who can't code their way out of a paper bag without a jira epic breaking it down for them.

I had the pleasure of pair programming with ye olde rockstar for two weeks and we added more value in those two weeks to the company than the rest of the team did in a year.

I'm the cto I should know.
How exactly does present-day affirmative action recompense the victims of racist policies from half a century ago?

Are their children materially worse off statistically? Yes, and that should be remedied, by the same methods that everyone who's materially worse off should be uplifted. What racism exists now against their children should be remedied. But victimhood is concrete and not something that's passed on from generation to generation.
I'd say that too if I was Microsoft, but that doesn't make it true.
Mobile phones, WiFi etc a have been under the same classification by WHO since 2011. The industry didn’t take it too seriously, and probably this one doesn’t mean anything either.

https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E....
I know of quite a few teams that have lost extremely good engineers and managers because of mandatory RTO that no one except micromanagers and those who use work as a surrogate social life want.

I really don't understand the people who defend mandatory RTO acting like the alternative is mandatory WFH. The people who don't want pointless commutes and RTO aren't saying no one can work from the office. The only people forcing their choices on others are the mandatory RTO people.
No, gas taxes were always seen as part of conservation measures as well, especially since the 1970s. I see this claim all the time that gas taxes are purely a use tax, and that hasn’t been true for about half a century or longer, and just about everyone knows this, so I consider that kind of claim to be dishonest.

And yes, it’s less efficient than a carbon tax, but fundamentally you cannot deny the net effect of getting rid of the conservation aspect of gas taxes BEFORE passing a compensating carbon tax would have the effect of basically eliminating a carbon tax.

In other words, let’s talk about adding compensatory EV fees AFTER passing a carbon tax. Sounds fair and certainly better for climate.
Tl;dr

the absolute risk difference was small and the confidence interval was consistent with a null finding.
Do advertisers even control their bid in the auction? In my experience, not fully.
'Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty' is another name for cia.
A few of the conspiracy nutters that I know firmly beleive that "Big Aspartame" is responsible for suppressing information about its dire negative effects.

But when you consider:

- how many doctors and scientists are personally/professionally motivated to research this

- how many gov't organizations are concerned about this

- how many industry competitors would benefit from discovering this

- how many lawyers would get rich from exploiting this

...then I somewhat doubt that one group could suppress all of this, globally, for 40+ years. At this point, aspartame is probably one of the most researched food additives out there.
I struggled with this a lot too. I came to the conclusion that an offshore developer who as good as a good onshore developer costs about the same, just due to supply and demand, so it's a wash. If a company can't find or retain talent, hiring a not great developer offshore is cheaper than hiring a not great developer onshore. It's an "I give up" strategy; you can build the same mediocre, buggy crap cheaper offshore. Plus, off shore sales people are very good and promise the world. Many traditional executives are gullible when it comes to technology, but they're pretty good at turd polishing, so that's also part of it too. I also think OpEx vs CapEx accounting has a lot to do with it as well.
If you can't measure it, it might as well be 2x or "just better".

If you can't prove your superior productivity, you are not going to get paid for it. Which is going to incentivize you to optimize for your company's promotion rubric instead, if you don't get fed up first. This leads to the lamented "promotion-driven design".

Or you can ditch the middle man and take your talents straight to the market, through consulting or incorporation.
Right here, in this very thread, are comments suggesting that there is no credible evidence that aspartame is a carcinogen.
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Prime shipping has degraded to me to the point that 20% and rising of the orders are late, and that’s with a recent warehouse in the same city.
"SC didn’t make admissions anonymous."

I know, but making at least an effort to be as impartial as possible still seems like a good idea.

Reducing the opportunities where the potential for accusations of racial discrimination would probably make the system seem a little more just...

Just my thoughts...
Forgot about that centurylink BGP infinite loop route bug they had where it took down their whole system nationwide. A lot of monitoring services showed red even though it was one ISP that was done.
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20 years in industry. Typical Offshore people have almost always been a waste of time and just slowed down getting anything useful done.

Now, I’ve also hired internationally from all over world and that has usually been fine.
This is a problem across many job functions. It's always faster for "just the pros" to bang out a project or deliverable but it's usually in the company's interest to also be training more pros.

Every more junior person on a project is going to be less efficient than a senior person but they need to level up and go through the apprenticeship phases to become a senior person.

Very small companies or teams can tactically choose to pay more and only hire top talent but most places will need to develop internal talent due to budget, recruiting, or bus factor (business resiliency) constraints.
I got logged out of our slack today, which I'm the primary owner of, and I was also wondering this.

I've also never been fired, so, it isn't always linked to trauma from past firings.
Historically, many slaves were not permitted or able to reproduce, this is one thing that distinguishes the slave trade in the United States. Trying to make amends for those slaves whose line ended with them is probably impossible.

On the other hand, a great many people today all around the world, and of many skin colours are descended from slaves. I am mostly familiar with this history in Europe and Africa, though I have no doubt it went on to a greater and lesser extent elsewhere. Supposing that the average reader here, who does not consider themselves to be "minority", is a "white" American, how confident are you that your ancestors do not include many slaves? Slavery in Europe still exists, but in the traditional sense with open buying and selling and large-scale enslavement it was openly and widely practiced in England and Germany and Poland and wherever you trace your ancestry no more than a thousand years ago.

You may consider it inappropriate to put a time limit on suffering, but in practice it's implicitly done all the time. The US is exceptional in having so many people who bear clear marks of historically nearby enslavement. Other parts of the world have been more successful in forgetting.

If I proposed to some Ivy League admissions panel that the descendants of biblical Jews should be favoured over those of Egyptians on account of enslavement would anyone listen?
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Microsoft incompetence + DDoS ?
Picture curves on the surface of the earth. They seem flat locally, but if you go a mile north, a mile east, a mile south, and a mile west, you don't end up _exactly_ where you start. (In the northern hemisphere you end up a little east of where you start; in the southern, a little west.)

Same thing in general relativity: the metric tensor measures the failure of closed loops on each axis to not close perfectly, the way they would in Euclidean space.

Basically even as a small creature on earth you can 'figure out' about the curvature by carefully measuring small-ish loops. The same is true for spacetime, but the loops' deformities are even smaller.
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I'm not sure what exact action you're suggesting I should have taken. If you're objecting to my tone, well it's too late for that. I've spent a lot of my life hearing developers glibly dismiss the importance, complexity, and difficulty of most non-coding jobs. I'm not interested in holding a neverending stream of hands while developers embark on their journey to discover that other people's contributions and expertise are consequential. Sometimes people who don't know what they're taking about just need to hear the right answer.
I wish I use awk all the time but everytime I use it the knowledge I gain doesn't stick. Could be due to its arcane syntax which is just too hard for me to remember.