skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this meant to be an introduction? I'm not sure who comes out of a crash course assuming they're an expert.
How did 'a senior executive' become the CEO? Obviously absurd and clearly not what I wrote.

It's not about 'overriding' the committee, it's about having a champion on the inside.

You seem to believe there's no human element to this process. It's all number crunching -- like they're picking stocks with a good P/E ratio.

But the higher up you go the more your people skills are valued and none of that will show up in data. Guarantee you nebulous categories like 'personality' and 'fit' are bandied about frequently in these discussions.

If promotions were strictly numerical as you seem to believe then they'd be more meritocratic, but I believe the OP's point was he felt the process was unfair.
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I agree they need to break this down better before making that absolute claim...
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Sure, they should have checked but I don't see the implication. If you take steps to prove ownership of a domain and then request a certificate for it with a key you do not control, that's on you.
It probably could apply to some that I locally deal with. But you're correct in saying that it's not practical for companies that don't have local branches.
That's what the author was looking for.
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Launch HN: Temper (YC W18) – Get more sleep by blocking games at night
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This shows that you need a lot more than a fancy web site to convince you that a CA is professional.

It’s kind of crazy how little we know about these important institutions. Credit reporting agencies are another example of complete incompetence in a presumed-sensible organization.

Especially once money changes hands, there ought to be a lot more terms in the contract to specify good behavior. You need backup when you discover something is run by 6-year-olds.
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Yeah, he's doing calligraphy (either Spencerian script or Copperplate, maybe?) for coding, which is absolutely not a good hand for it. I mean, I personally take notes in cursive, but they're typically prosaic (e.g. "Fix the VPN", "Ask Steve about those CSS changes", etc).
Heavily downvoted but still for me worth asking and getting educated by HNers.

Too bad over the years HN became a place where no simple questions are allowed. What a shame :(
> "you can't use AI/ML unless you have a PhD/5 years research experience"

This is not true since a few years ago. But the fact that you can use it doesn't mean you understand what is happening and why it works in development but not in production. Everybody can copy a jupyter notebook and train a TensorFlow model in ImageNet. Now go to a new domain with very few information like 3D models and create a new network to be trained in that dataset. How many people that can train ImageNet can do the latter? Even inside deep learning experts in image classification fail in reinforcement learning domains and need a couple of years to be completely productive.
Uber support still has dark patterns within it - this organization is trying to win by optimizing at all costs. I don't trust them, and worse, based on passed verified behaviour of Uber's - I feel somewhat hesitant even speaking badly of Uber in case of retaliation. We need strong whistler-blower laws with substantial pre-defined payouts to disincentive this kind of behaviour in every organization and at every level.
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I express how excited I am for async rendering.

In my experience React has had 2 major paint points. async anything, and styling. And this fixes the former, and I'd argue that the latter isn't necessarily their job to fix.

Also, to have done this in a way that keeps a LOT of backwards compatibility is amazing.
Trademark lawyers took the day off?
My mom never used to let us order pizza delivery because she didn’t want a pizza delivery guy to know who we were and where we lived. Remember going out to the pizza shop in 5 degree F weather with my dad.
No, there's no plans to rewrite the React core in C, Rust, Reason, WASM, or anything else right now.

Lin Clark, who works for Mozilla, gave a talk on "What WebAssembly Means for React" last year ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GHJ4cbxsVQ ). In a recent Twitter thread, she said that some more useful WASM pieces are in the works, but still not likely to be a big improvement or worth the effort to rewrite React ( https://twitter.com/linclark/status/967860936550879232 ).
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Back in college I used to take all my notes in cursive, mostly to help me pay attention in class (the busywork of trying to make my handwriting as nice as possible helped me keep focus).

The earlier programming courses involve a lot of paper programming, because the finals involved writing programs on paper. So I ended up writing a lot of programs in cursive, and it looked something like this (except much uglier). Although I found it a fun exercise, I don't know how much (if at all) it helped me develop my understanding of programming
How about be upfront and let the user make an educated decision based on performance or longevity rather than a legal one from just the sole manufacturer?

Where did I agree to updates that slow down the phone? Some hpones even try to sell you it'll work for 2-3 versions then backtrack and say nevermind buy a new one.

No one has integrity because no one builds anything of value for a while. It's inherited and they skip out because they saw it work out in the past.

They could put effort to clean up and optimize but they move on once it's literally not profitable
Just read part of the article but, why does attendance really matter for graduation.

"Those students had walked across the graduation stage despite missing too many classes or improperly taking makeup classes."
I'm completely over working full time salaried jobs. I'm probably working my last full time job for awhile unless a company pays me way above market wages. I'm contract only.

I get benefits through my wife's job so what's the point?

Why shouldn't I get paid for every hour I work?
As someone who was a big RTS fan back in the 90s, the level of enthusiasm for AoE seems kind of odd to me. I always thought of it as an also-ran. I remember it coming out kind of late, only a little before Blizzard released StarCraft and basically killed the genre.

It did have a fairly unique setting among RTSes at least. So I could see the niche among historical enthusiasts who also wanted to play RTS. That wasn't me though.
Here [1] is a good article on the "random pick 2" idea in case anyone is interested. The paper is definitely worth reading too.

It's definitely one of my favorite techniques that I keep in my "toolbox". Really simple, but not (at least to me) intuitive.

[1] https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html
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Although I'm normally skeptical of AI/ML courses, that section on feature engineering do's-and-do-nots is new and surprisingly under-discussed. It's very useful even outside of AI/ML.
The antenna on the satellite itself is highly directional, which is enough to get you a good enough link budget to Earth for many applications with a relatively omni antenna on the ground. See e.g. XM radio, Iridium.
> The obsolete gatekeeping by the AI/ML elites who say "you can't use AI/ML unless you have a PhD/5 years research experience" is one of the things I really hate about the industry.

So what are they hoping to achieve with this course? I'm genuinely asking because part of me wants to take the course, but another part of me feels like what's the point if, even through many additional courses to build up a skill set, Google wouldn't hire you as an ML engineer unless you basically start your career back to a junior engineer but in machine learning at another company.
Definition #2: a person or group that spreads or promotes an idea, view, etc.

I will admit it probably wasn't obvious that's what I was aiming for -- to clarify -- I mentioned depression support groups and family that suffer from depression in my first sentence. I now spend time trying to support others who are struggling with mental health (my family included) with what I study -- articles, books, journals, publishings, and whatever lectures I have time to watch on youtube.
The 416-planet solar system is the equivalent of the large explosion that ends most Mythbusters episodes.

The interesting part of the article is the explanation of the different ways that the number of planets in the habitable zone of a star can be greater than one, and how it's possible that most stars have more than one habitable planet each. This has direct consequences for the Drake Equation and the likelihood of contemporary alien life in the galaxy.
We tell this to "both sides" all the time, as you can check by looking at the comment history. If there was another egregious comment in the thread that we didn't chide, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We can't come close to reading all the comments.

Edit: nukeop's comment was a bad one because shallow and snide, so I'd say it was correctly downvoted. But I wouldn't say it rose to the same level of off-topicness and guidelines violation as your comments in this thread did. We're really trying to avoid generic ideological tangents here.
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I like to say (and it's not original) that security and convenience are two endpoints of one continuum.

You can't get more of one without moving away from the other.

There are a few rare near-freebies, but they always have a gotcha. And you'd better understand what they are before taking advantage of them.
If it's once a quarter, the cost of a flight + hotel is minimal. An extra $1k a trip (and that's cross country in the US + expensive hotel), for four trips a year, is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of a developer (especially if they're living in a cheaper area). Driving distance shouldn't be a factor if it's that infrequent; I'd happily pay $4k if I could save even more on salary costs, or if it meant the difference between hiring someone who nails the interview and looks like a great addition, and waiting another month as we keep interviewing.
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> To be clear, Peterson's commentary is not original. M. Scott Peck, the Buddha, and literally 100s of other philosophers and psychologists have shared similar insights. Remarkably, those thinkers managed to share this insight without offending half the population in order to drive book sales and line their pockets.

What point are you trying to make with this snide remark?

That sources should be disregarded if their ideas “offend” 50% of the population (a claim for which you provided no evidence)?

That sources should be disregarded if they made money from book sales? This would mean disregarding almost all sources.

That a commentary is "unoriginal" if someone in the past has "shared similar insights"? This is pure nonsense.
/me fantasizes about non-permanent long-term depression...
They both have competitive Linux drivers which has even less market share. Given how little kernel-specific is even in the driver I don't see any reason to believe Nvidia or AMD wouldn't happily provide their latest and greatest driver. Especially since they are competing for that bid for whose GPU Apple blesses for that generation of Mac hardware.
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I agree with your point about minimum transportation as a right. I'd support that ballot. But I don't think it's fair to blame capitalism in an environment where there's only a handful of entrenched players. When I was helping care for my grandfather there were only four services in our area that could take him to doctor appointments if we couldn't and they were all generally expensive unless we used the volunteer service which was free but extremely unreliable because of the sheer number of people they were trying to service.

Obviously my experience is anecdotal, so I'd be interested to see if similar patterns are true elsewhere. But when there are so few companies competing with each other it seems a lot more likely that there's some sort of regulatory burden or capture in play rather than simple greed. Capitalism might explain why a service with few competitors is expensive but it doesn't explain why there are so few competitors to begin with.
U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold