skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. And this is why an industry-wide respected, non-profit, credentialing mechanism increasingly makes more sense to me. There are a hundred pitfalls to implementing it and some we may never fully overcome, I'm aware, but I think they're worth grappling with to get this very technical and increasingly high-stakes line of work onto a more solid career footing with its big brothers in the engineering disciplines.
I especially encourage those people with the absolute worst most harmful ideas to speak often and loudly and publicly, so that everyone has a chance to hear their ideas and think about them and come to understand for themselves how bad they are.

But history is replete with examples of people not doing that, and instead going ahead and implementing the really terrible idea. The Holocaust. The Killing Fields. The Rwandan genocide.

Neo Nazis, please, have a rally and explain to everyone in your own words that you latch onto pathetic ideas of racial superiority for lack of any accomplishments of your own to be proud of.

Some neo-nazis in the UK yesterday attempted to perform a 'citizen's arrest on the mayor of London', complaining about his being a Muslim and saying rude things about Donald Trump. Eventually the police showed up, declined to assist, and they were laughed out of the room.

It wasn't realized until later that they'd brought along a mobile gallows and parked it outside. I'll give you three guesses as to what they planned to do with it had they been successful in laying hands upon him.

Do you find it hard to refute somebody's argument? Do you not trust people to sort out good ideas from bad themselves? The solution to bad speech is more speech.

No, not really, and I'm not so sure about that. We don't live in a society of angels and educating everyone to think in enlightened terms is a slow and uncertain process. I don't like any sort of state coercion and would prefer to see prison abolished too, but I do not fool myself that crime would cease to exist if I could force that outcome. Consider Graham's law from economics, which holds that bad money drives out good; a small number of bad actors can undermine the reliability of the economy for all participants.
I like how they give two what looks like entirely separate excuses.
Humans are one of the slowest developing mammals, so this sounds expected.
Similar situation to the freetype/harfbuzz all-but-Microsoft/Apple (open source) monoculture.

I'm interested to understand more about how some categories of software libraries don't foster multiple strong open source alternatives, while others do.
FYI :) see https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-whitepaper... for information on the DoD/NIST protocols used to destroy the drives.
That's definitely a solution for easing your member's burden. And that kind of integration is surprisingly citizen-focused for any local government red tape.

Though I do wonder what the impact is on potential new hosts when they're in the "maybe I will, I maybe I won't" phase. It strikes me as more of a PR problem: convince potential hosts in SF that Airbnb makes compliance painless—fees aside—so they can get to the point where they're willing to pony up and try it for themselves in light of the new rules' publicity.
Flag articles you don't want here.

This is how unexplained flagging (there are no categories to explain why a reader is flagging) becomes a problem. People then flag articles that they simply disagree with, as opposed to using flags only to signal inappropriateness (spam, language, duplication, self-promotion, etc.).

For example, Craigslist used to have different flags for different reasons, e.g. Prohibited by policey, Spam, Illegal Content, Wrong Category, Sex for Money, etc. Now it's a unary, generic flag only.
The original “Skia” was the development name for QuickDraw GX[1]. (I don’t know why the Wikipedia page doesn’t say that any more.) Cary Clark, who now works at said “elusive Google engineering office”, was the mastermind behind that Skia. TrueType was a sibling project; we (QuickDraw GX team) collaborated closely with them.

Mike’s AlphaMask (sold to OpenWave) didn’t share code with the original Skia but was kind of a Skia 2, with more flexible and clearer architecture than the original. This Skia—which, again, doesn’t share code with either of its predecessors—is a kind of version 3, with a tribute name back to that original Skia.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw_GX
I can't speak for other states. But I do know there is an incredibly large number of people raised in Michigan that would move back in a heartbeat if the opportunity was there.

In fact Detroit has an annual event where they invite back successful people who were born in the city and try to woo them to return or to invest in the city.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20170914/news/639081/de...
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Yes, but good law schools aren't squandering the value of their most cherished currency on them - the reputation of their course credits in the world of academia.
I don’t think that’s dumb, and the answer is... sort of. The easiest way to make it work would be to have the device somehow help to heat and cool you internally, which would save you energy. You might be able to use the power to produce ATP or some other metabolic necessity, and deliver it where needed.

The problem is that you’d need a respectable amount of radioactive material in you, waaaaay more than you’d need for a pacemaker. It would probably make more sense just to keep some glucose syrup and a hand warmer around.
It's due to the way multicast packets are transmitted on Wifi...

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-mcbride-mboned-wifi-mcast-pr...
I don't know if you've read this https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why.html#why-oca... :)
WebRender is not even enabled by default in Nightly yet. It’ll still be a while before it’s ready for production—definitely not Firefox 59. I don’t know of any schedule, but I haven’t been following it much either.

But yes, the Quantum Render project is all about making WebRender Firefox’s primary graphics backend.
CES is a dying trade show, its not worth much of anything of relevance these days.
I don't think it even matters whether it is public speech or not.

The constitution guarantees free speech only insofar it is not limited by "provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honour".

And http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg... sets forth some pretty serious limitations.

Nowhere is it mentioned whether any of this happens in private or in public.
Sorry, Siri, Alexa's got you beat
> self storage is plenty useful

With self-storage rising to over $300 per month, it's more cost effective to take the stuff to the dump and buy it again if it is ever needed.
Definitely agree. I didn’t know about the supply/production issue, though. Thanks for that.

My answer was of course a pure hypothetical, focusing on the pragmatism in a world where the safety issues were non-existent, presuming demand would drive supply.
Glarminy has a detailed review of blue light filters, https://glarminy.com/2016/05/06/blue-filter-light-sensitivit...
If only you had a robot to move those things you leave on the floor.
You are really cooking if it takes you 10 seconds. You are microwaving. That is not cooking.
One set of of anecdata from the suny end of the spectrum:
I have been staring at computer screens since 1982. For the first several years those screens were mainly crappy small televisions attached to Orics and C64s. I was lucky to have really good eyesight in '82, and I am lucky to have it still, although these days, nearing sixty, I do need glasses for reading screens and paper. I can still manage without, but that ends in headache within just a few minutes.

I buy those cheap standard supermarket glasses, currently at strength +2. They get me nicely through 8 to 10 hours af screen in a day. Whenever I go off the deep end, and spend more hours than that for several days running, I do tend to get reddish, itchy eyes.

As others in the thread have reported, the arrival of flat screens was a blessing. CRTs would generally tire me out quite a bit sooner. But I don't seem to have suffered long term adverse effect from them.
No, you can actually induce greater caloric expenditure by lowering the ambient temperature (within reason), if I’m not misremembering.

This is, after all, the distinguishing characteristic of mammals. Reptiles have no shortage of muscle mass (just look at aligators or crocs!) but still can’t raise their body temperature to compensate for cooler weather or environments.
A sound principle, and very much in line with my own experience.
It could be an increase in cancer diagnosis rather than new occurrences, i.e. as a result of more aggressive care.
Speculation shouldn't drive up the price of rent. If anything, it should drive rents down because more units will be built to satisfy speculators which will then be contributed to the pool of available rental housing.

We saw this during the housing bubble: rents were detached from the price of housing and stayed low.

The problem here is that short term rental brings more revenue than long term rental. Before Airbnb you had to be a hotel to offer short term rental, so most landlords stayed out of that business and stuck to long term rental even though there's less revenue per unit.

But with Airbnb you can take your units out of the long term rental pool and put them in the short term rental pool, and because regulation has been slow to catch up, you don't have to take on the regulatory burden of being a hotel to do so.

Fewer units in the long term rental pool obviously, then, causes rents to go up.

Given that Airbnb makes units more valuable (by converting them to short-term rental and increasing the expected cashflow), they would of course then be more attractive to investors and that is perhaps part of the increase in housing prices in Vancouver. But even in that case the causality is increased rental cashflow driving up prices, rather than vice versa.
Expense. Amazon is cheap. It’s one of their virtues.
By that time, my system is usually responding to simple keypresses with latencies >1min... :|
> The Ripple guy's wealth isn't made of paper, it's an electronic ledger.

It's a colloquialism. A lot of Zuckerberg's wealth is "paper" wealth as well.

I think there are two things here that make people dismiss crypto wealth so easily.

1) The first is perhaps a little unfair, but in some ways justified: crypto wealth isn't actually founded on anything. Say what you want about Facebook, but even the most cynical of folks have to admit that it's built on a ton of economic activity, and we can predict at least some amount of stability in Facebook's share price going forward for some amount of time. With Ripple, it's anybody's guess. Ripple guy's net worth in terms of dollars could double, or halve, or sink to near-nothing in a matter of days or weeks, and none of those outcomes would be particularly surprising.

2) The other thing is liquidity. Zuck certainly can't dump all his shares of FB and expect the price not to tank. But a decent chunk of his net worth isn't tied up in FB anymore, and he can likely liquidate a lot of that fairly quickly. The Ripple guy presumably is an otherwise "normal" person who has 99.999999% of his net worth tied up in Ripple. Liquidating even a relatively small fraction of that would crash the price of Ripple, so in real terms, the Ripple guy doesn't have access to that money. Also, all (or nearly all) of Zuck's wealth exists in mature financial markets with clear rules and regulations and predictable expectations. The Ripple guy's net worth exists in something that is basically the opposite of that.

As an aside, I'm not the parent poster, but I think dismissing it as "paper wealth" isn't really getting across what he probably actually means. Even if Zuck's wealth was all "paper wealth" as well (in that hypothetically let's say nearly all his net worth was tied up in shares of FB, and that liquidity there was difficult), I'd still give more credence to Zuck's wealth due to #1.
Okay, allowing for that, nothing this class teaches does the job of allowing you to assess someone as a great software engineer either.

In fact, if you want to hire a great software engineer, you can't do that reliably with any of these interview techniques. If your interview can be studied for, you aren't going to fight great software engineers. At best, you can find someone who will do the job.

A mediocre software engineer.
I see my comment was downvoted. Yet, today's news, just a day later, shows that the comment was absolutely correct. The person has been reassigned.
I would be the first person to say, as a vegetarian, that forcing everyone in prison to be a vegetarian would be wrong. But that's not the idea that I was responding to: the idea I was responding to is the notion that vegetarians are starving.

By all means, take a vitamin if you need one.
That's fair, I'm ignoring LinkedIn. Seriously, I'm ignoring a crapload of messages from that service.
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Rents dropping significantly across the Seattle area after new construction
I use to have my Chromecast plugged into my TV so people could stream videos and photos easily to share with people during gatherings. We use Roku for streaming. Then we took it on vacation and forgot to plug it back in. I realized the reason our WiFi was so awful in that room when I eventually plugged it back in and everyone started complaining.

Now it is only ever used for vacation.
On one hand, (mostly) new residents complain about lack of housing, on the other, an "innovative" company disincentivizes keeping that housing available for an increasing population.
Then we're not really saving labor — we're just saving MY labor.
Wash-dry-fold services are some of the best dollars I spend. For about $1/pound, I drop my stuff off before work, pick it up at the end of the day, and it's all taken care of.
Well TRULY life transforming tech doesn't happen all that often. Oh sure the tech companies are going to say that 2018 TVs and smartphones are so disruptive from last year...
There are any number of reasons why drugs don't work on humans when they do work on other animals. It could be gut bacteria, but it could just be that the animal has some other physiological trait that causes the drug to be more or less effective.

In this case, they weren't testing a drug, they were testing the deadliness of the bacteria. It doesn't matter _how_ toxic the bacteria is to humans relative to mice, it only matters that the bacteria is more deadly (or less deadly) to the mice when the sugar is present.
It's been implemented to some degree by Cliff Stoll for his klein bottle business. Or rather, he started a warehouse in his crawlspace. Same difference...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
I'd be willing to take either side of a debate for "is there a shortage of people who, when given tight specifications for a piece of software (write a function that takes X as input and provides Y as output) that enumerates all of the corner conditions can produce a program in a language that they are familiar with."

At the same time, the "person who can work with the business user on the software, think about the architecture of it, identify the design necessary, come up with the estimate that actually matches the time frame that it will be done in with a reasonable error... and produce software that takes X as input and provides Y as output while being aware of where the edge conditions may exist and ask for clarification on how it should work"... I believe there is a distinct lack of that portion of labor.

Furthermore, there is also a lack of people who are able to move from the first labor pool to the second, and a lack of mentors who have the time and ability to help that group move to the second.

I don't think its incredibly difficult to hire an entry level person as long as one sets the bar low enough and has people within the origination who are capable of providing the design. On the other hand, it is very difficult to find the people who can give the necessary instruction to the entry level people to allow them to become productive within their ability.

As an aside, I also find that within the entry level group... there are a sizable portion that have the attitude of "I learned language X and that was hard enough, I'm going to stick with it and not learn anything else." That X can be found for all languages and none have the monopoly on it. However, it is disconcerting for me to see those individuals... I started out as a C programmer, and then Perl (full stack web - some JavaScript in there) and then Java (enterprise), and then Java stand alone (swing application)... and while I'm still a Java programmer, I can see other languages looming on the horizon. Java will become the COBOL, and while there are still COBOL programmers out there, its not something that one wants to get stuck in for another two or three decades waiting for that last app server to be turned off before they can retire.
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"Rent-seeking" is referring to something different than literally seeking rent money. It's basically when people lobby the government to get special favors for themselves, even though it negatively impacts almost everyone else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

It's not a very descriptive term and I see why people get confused by it.
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Corporate drones that are paid $50-$100k more than me total comp their first year, yes.
I know universities are sometimes accused of "teaching for the test" anyway, but, well, wowsers
See also: A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE) OR What do they call that in this world?[0]

[0]: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
This folding robot was at least more impressive in person.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16865506/laundroid-laundr...
> Dishes and laundry are a total non-issue.

I agree that washing dishes immediately after use reduces the effort to almost nothing. I try to do so as much as possible. Laundry is not as precise.

I can’t immediately run today’s clothes through my washer and dryer alone without wasting resources. I also need to remove my laundry from the dryer soon after it finishes if I want to avoid wrinkled clothes. For these reasons, I only do laundry in large loads and I have to schedule around the task. This is even more of an issue for people who do not have laundry machines in their homes.
our most probable future :D

but the prices of clothes & dishes needs to keep going down to be feasible... and ideally easy to recycle
Because of the value that the platform offers the world.
Not all jobs require this preparation-style. If you don't like it - shop around and find companies with different styles that match your preference. Interviews are equally important to the interviewee as the interviewer.
The "fold them and put them away" apparently was at CES - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/seven-dreams-robot-laundroid...
Those numbers aren't that bad, actually. A cell phone's peak power draw isn't much more than 5W, so you'd need 10g / efficiency. At 10% efficiency, that's 100g, which is 5 cm^3 for plutonium. A cell phone battery is about 3 times that size, assuming 3000 mAh and an energy density of 600 Wh/L. Of course you'd have to build in a heat engine, but perhaps even a peltier would work given the generous efficiency allowance.
In theory you are right but I think the problem is that a lot of property bought by investors stays empty so the rental supply goes down.
? In the act of preparation you learn (hopefully) how to abstractly solve problems. So I’m confused as to your point?
It is. This will improve but it's a lower priority than scaling.
I used to do that. It works great while you're single, could work with a like minded partner, but is very challenging for the first couple years of having kids :)
And renting out is a lot more work than keeping something empty.
Without wanting to impose my method or reasoning here, I run my dev machine without swap, and I'd rather have the same for the cluster machines I access.

This is for academic use only. I know how much RAM my machine has, and if I oom, it usually isn't because I tried to squeeze in just a tiny bit too much data, but rather because I made some stupid mistake and keep allocating small chunks of memory very rapidly.
On a system with even a moderate amount of swap, this makes everything grind to a halt, and it is usually much faster to just reboot the machine and deal with the problems later in the unlikely event that rebooting actually causes problems.
It does say they predicted it, so this is "scientists find result everyone expected".

> Dr. Reiss said the timing of the emergence of self-recognition is significant, because in human children the ability has been tied to other milestones of physical and social development. Since dolphins develop earlier than humans in those areas, the researchers predicted that dolphins should show self-awareness earlier.
You believe correctly.
Until the WHOLE SYSTEM runs out of water.
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>Wikipedia says the technique was abandoned because of worries that the capsule wouldn't be absolutely certain to survive a cremation. (Cremation temperatures go up to around 1000°C; titanium melts at 1668°C.)

You'd think they could switch to tungsten if that was the issue?
I am not in need of speed, since I am learning. I am also learning Zig instead of Rust, and wondered if re-writing Wasp in Zig would be worthwhile?

I left ATS with hopes it would become 'smoother' syntax-wise in the future. I started programming low-level with Basic, C and Asm, went high-level, and now I am back to bit-banging and low-level. I thought Zig and Wasp Lisp would make a tight set of tools for this purpose without being baited to high-end PLs again!
Is there any other industry where it's common practice to give job seekers homework during an interview?

Or to have job seekers complete an online test proving their skills?

https://www.indeed.com/forum/gen/Job-Interviews/Has-anyone-h...
> Therefore, 20% from approximately zero (say 1000 USD) is still zero.

Only if you consider the market as a whole, but how is that useful? I'm actually pretty thrilled to be able to collect $200/yr based on doing nothing but putting up $1000 to start. I'm even more happy when I look at the volatility of cryptocurrencies, and also the fact that crypto isn't actually backing much in the way of economic activity; it's just doing some minor-league capital reallocation and burning several countries' worth of electricity.

Not saying I didn't mine a bit back in 2011 or so (and subsequently lost the wallet, doh) or that I'm not interested at all, but calling crypto an "investment" is laughable at best. It's a pure speculative play, only marginally better than a lottery.
Somehow I remember it was supposed to be Firefox 59, not sure where I saw it now. Of course it can slip if it's not ready.
The other problem with renting out a place which will eventually be taken over by a (new, impatient) owner is that you face a low-level risk that the current tenants welch on the lease and refuse to leave. For better or worse, there are large legal hurdles to evicting people, and the fight can drag out for months or even years.
Nope, that would be one of those leaps you can't make, loosely akin to the schoolyard game of -

Donut consumption linked to economic development...
Development of satellite infrastructure linked to economic development...
Does this mean that Dunkin Donuts has more satellites in orbit?