skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Certification isn't a necessity in the face of accepting uncertainty

Sure, but since real people that are actually hiring are quite Keen to limit uncertsinty, that's not particularly germane to the real context in which colleges or students operate. If it were, non-certifying MOOCs and certifying college courses would have more similar costs.

> Once we accept the lack of certainty around hiring people,

Most hiring parties accept a lot of uncertainty around hiring people, and that is reflected in pay which is discounted for that risk.

Both hiring parties and quality employees (who can thus command higher pay) want to reduce that uncertainty, not increase it.

> and academia will no longer be incentivized to continue gatekeeping via certification and will get back to focusing on education.

Higher education started out much like trade guilds for scholars; there is precious little “education without gatekeeping” for it to return to (and it well predates the industrial age.)

Outside of universities, education without certification never went away. There are plenty of places to get that.
Nope, just that when people who are not poor live in small houses they live quite well, hardly shocking.
I'd call this pulling a Dennett: trivializing complexity to something that cannot or just doesn't have to be explained. Being unable to conceive consciousness at this moment doesn't mean there's nothing to conceive of: even if we never get to the final satisfactory answer, there is undoubtedly much more room left for useful concepts we don't have yet, around or inside this idea
Well, for one, I like what I do. And thus far I've been able to manage it by making some changes, over time. Basically all of these I learned about from other HN threads:

* first, switching between using L and R hands for mouse

* eventually, purchased a new mouse: Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 Right - neutralizes your wrist on mouse hand

* software that forces you to take breaks instead of just sitting and typing for hours straight. Workrave is what I use (http://www.workrave.org/) - freeware and lightweight. I take 12 second micro-breaks every 4.5 minutes and a 4 minute break ever 25. Get up, stretch around, wiggle your arms. Staring at a far away corner of the room helps w/ eye strain too

* for plane rides - small, wireless trackball has worked wonders. I can't use a laptop touchpad worth a damn
Do you all ever stop and think

"Hey, maybe even knowing this much means the government knows more?"

No. You just come in with the: "This doesn't seem right. Isn't the NSA basically on college 101 level?"

Dude, they did it. Dutch intel even pwn3d their networks and video cameras.
Uber's culture is bad for anything really...
Do you not realize what the NSA is?
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I say "the middle class was better off only a few decades ago".

You show me a graph that ends two decades ago. About poverty.
The water is condensing on a peltier heat pump.

What makes you so confident that they are using a Peltier? Here's their description of the operation of the device:

During adsorption, air is circulated around the MOF layer and water from air is adsorbed. Passive radiative cooling lowers the MOF layer temperature below the ambient by dissipating thermal radiation to the clear cold sky to increase the effective RH for adsorption. During water production, the OTTI aerogel is stacked on top of the MOF layer to suppress convective heat loss from the solar absorber. The desorbed vapour is condensed on a condenser and the heat of condensation is rejected to the ambient by a heat pipe heat sink.

And here's the more complete description of the condenser:

The condenser of the device was fabricated with a copper plate (4 cm by 4 cm and 0.6 cm thick) attached to a commercial air-cooled heat sink (NH-L9x65, Noctua) to efficiently dissipate the heat from condensation to the ambient.

Are you still sure it's condensing on a Peltier cooler? The paper never mentions "Peltier". If the "condenser" is actually an electrically driven Peltier, this would seem like a fraudulently bad description, justifying retraction of the paper. Is it possible that you are wrong?

Still, I agree that you might be right about the physical limitations of scaling. You seem knowledgeable about the field, and I'd be interested to hear your impression after you read the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7.

(I am genuinely interested in hearing your opinion about what they are doing, but would strongly suggest less overconfidence and more humility when offering bombastic pronouncements on papers you haven't read.)
If you are so fortunate to only have to work a 9to5, there is no excuse to waste these years.

How many musicians do you know that play in clubs? Most are working two restaurant jobs, renting a room, and scraping money together to buy strings, just for the chance to entertain a crowd for little or no pay.

It's all perspective, really.
> Can we talk about how to move towards a society with less gun violence?

Yes - by implementing proven policies and removing ineffectual ones.

> You seem to only be willing to head that direction if you get something else you want in return.

Because we don't trust anti-gun people.

> expanding access to and availability of guns.

^ and this is why we don't trust anti-gun people.

Like I said above gun free zones have been shown to be ineffectual.

Yet you don't want to remove this ineffectual policy and try a different approach. You just want stricter and stricter gun control.

> I'm willing to give up a lot of things I care about to move that way.

Are you?

So if the evidence supports arming teachers and reducing the number of places that qualify as gun free zones will you support these changes?
This is a largely valid point, but it has traditionally been much easier to see the fruits of your labor (often literally, as most people produced food, but if not, then in a small shop, a small manufacture of some kind, a small legal office...). Today we toil for owners we never meet, executives we would barely recognize if we pass them in the hall, customers we never see. We get the stressors, and never see the point.
> if you count hybrids

With the imminent 48volt revolution in ICE cars, any vehicle can be a hybrid with next to no engineering at all.

The leap from electrified to electric is huge, so comparing the two is kinda silly.
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What you say is fairly hypothetical, since the way genetics works at a fundamental level prevents this possibility.

You are also oversimplifying by not distinguishing local and global success. Locally, this gene will be successful. Globally, some mutations will be beneficial, and the children with those mutations will be more successful.

The gene may become "dominant" (and then gain the beneficial mutations through sexual reproduction), but it will not achieve a monopoly and not remove the existence of evolution.

It is somewhat comparable to why some people are left-handed[0].

However, what you allude to is basically the necessity of evolution of forms of "error correction" against mutations for complicated organisms. Sex plays a large part in that as well[1]. And interestingly, DNA repair, another involved mechanism, may actually help evolvability[2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLYcYCm2FM

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/missing-mutations-suggest-a-r...

[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/beating-the-odds-for-lucky-mu...
Citation needed.

My understanding of primitive agrarian societies are that they have hard work, hard lives, poor diet, and a population that is generally at the edge of starvation. (In good times, population grows. In bad times...) You might want to read Guns, Germs and Steel as an example of a reference backing this view up. Or read through random snippets of history like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931... and get a sense for the very real struggles that people faced.
I introduced my gf to Krita. While she generally has to use photoshop to work with others, but she loves Krita generally.
Part of this is we don't have a social safety net, like universal health insurance.

>you fall and slip in a supermarket? Lawsuit!

You fall and slip in a supermarket, due to a careless employee and now you owe hundred of thousands in medical bills. Some executive somewhere realized it was easier to extract that cash from a corporation than putting some person deep in debt.

Secondly, I believe America's relationship with race/sex/age discrimination goes a lot deeper than most countries, despite the fact we are younger.
So then, if Russian Intelligence is responsible for helping to expose a significant criminal conspiracy in the US, maybe the news media will stop with all of the nouveau cold war bullshit and instead just thank them?
Unfortunately, the number of people "outraged" by Facebook's behavior / policies / etc., is rather small.

Additionally, the percentage of people who would pay a monthly fee is likely small and/or Facebook thinks they can make more money, over a long term, under its current business model.
I'm not convinced about rollable or foldable displays. My phones screen is reachable with one hand, any bigger and I have to use two hands. So I use my tablet. If I need to get work done I use a PC or laptop.

I don't see the point of a display that folds. The display would be worse than any I currently own. It would be more prone to breakage due to the nature of what you're asking it to do.

I think it's one of those technologies that sounds neat, but in reality is not that useful (like 3D tvs)
> The effect of unionization had the opposite effect in Germany, Denmark, etc. It caused a huge shift to contract work.

There's been a big shift to contract work in the US too, where unions are relatively very weak.
> but the driver of the car behind you is at fault

That will be small consolation if you cause harm to others' persons or property when trying to avoid an animal such as a deer. That is the practical upshot.

If you hit a deer, insurance will pay you under comprehensive coverage and your rates will not go up. On the other hand, if, because of your attempt to save the deer's life, you hit a guardrail and smash your car, and get hurt in the process, you'll be lucky to collect anything.

The main point I tried to make above is this: I am speculating that the car's "AI" thought the person walking a bicycle fit the profile of an animal which interacted with a ruleset that embodies this principle in a simplistic way because the code for these stupid self-driving cars is being written by people with little to no experience driving in less than ideal conditions.

Also, Tesla S cannot see a stopped firetruck: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
What I find unlikely is that it was possible for the officer to log into the account from anything but a computer connected to a secured network. The computers that could be connected directly should never have the constructed persona's credentials.

These are not amateurs. They should know better.
- Expecting engineers to always write perfect code is insane. Mistakes happen.

- If bad code makes it into production, that is a systemic failure not an individual one (Why didn't the bug get caught in code review, QA, etc.)

- No one is going to want to work on a project where a single failure can taint their career.

- What if I use a 3rd party lib and that is where the bug is. Who is at fault then? What if the code isn't buggy, but I'm using it in an unexpected way because of a miscommunication? If I am only allowed use code that I (or someone certified has written) development is going to move at a snails pace.

- What if I consult with an engineer who doesn't have a certification on a design decision and the failure is there, who is at fault?

- What if the best engineer on the project makes a mistake and ends up banned? Does he/she leave the project and take all their tribal knowledge with them, or are they still allowed to consult? If they can consult, what stops them from developing by proxy by telling other engineers what to write?

Not to be a dick, but this is an awful idea that would basically kill the self driving car.
I was expecting some real hightech spycraft and intrigue. Nope, the dude forgot turn on his VPN. Even well-funded state actors can be dumbasses.
https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/cloud-resources/
You should study ML a bit more, to see just how wrong you are about it
I want to agree with you but other countries suffer from similar issues. Why is it different in the US?
Let the work find you. One method is to turn on the "notify recruiters you are open" on LinkedIn (a toggle under Jobs) and write a note saying you want contract work. The setting is about a year old, and it notifies recruiters that are searching for candidates that you are open to listening.

You can also set filters for location, contract vs perm, size of company, and set a personal note on what you are open to.
NSA is the NSA, but they could probably corroborate it with stuff like this: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/01/28/0529257/dutch-intell...
Do those come strict conditions though? For example: don’t launch the car, don’t use ludicrous mode more than X times over the lifetime of the drivetrain, etc.
I am also interested in the route you took, so I wonder if you would be open to talking about how you found your first clients?
This is great. Can the new razor syntax - that can finally have nested child content - also be used server-side, i.e for amp components? Will it be possible to build universal apps, and re-hydrate server-rendered content on the client like with react?
You might perform well in those scenarios, but a lot of people in many parts of the world do not.
Or, at least, have a network exit point at an unsuspecting family home.
IBM might be having trouble letting go of their old model. If you want their amazing hardware they’ll do everything for you. Which means on day one you have none of the expertise needed to reverse that decision.

If you come from a world where lock-in is normal then you may well build something that locks everybody out.
> I thought that it was the other way around. You need to have always ready the reasons why a candidate has been rejected and give them on request. Otherwise, they can sue you as your reasons are not clean and transparent.

"We found someone more qualified. Thank you for your interest."
I strongly agree with you. When I was an undergraduate long ago, I remember getting lectured at great length by a math professor who was angry that many of the students in his abstract algebra course had worked together on the homework. I was one of those students (who had worked together), and I was very puzzled and annoyed by the professor, since I knew that I had learned far more on that assignment than any other! As a result -- I'm a college professor (in computational math), and over the last fifteen years on EVERY homework assignment I've given, I've explicitly encouraged students to work together as long as they clearly acknowledge who they worked with (and how). I wish everybody else did the same.
Uber will relocate the engineering team to a jurisdiction without those regulations.

Just like it relocated its testing to get a more "business friendly regulatory environment".
Unwritten cold war rules have gone out of the window.

Russian agents used isotopes and nerve gas in GCHQ’s backyard. The sitting US President might have received their help to win the election. Russia just made the only major territory annexation by a superpower since WWII (iirc).

Obviously we didn’t start the fire, as Billy Joel would say, but we certainly live in interesting times.
Doesn't pretty much every registrar offer "WhoisGuard" or similar privacy products? I have it for a bunch of domains (mostly via Namecheap) for $2/year or something like that.

The few domains that I don't have it on do, indeed, receive tons of (mostly web dev / SEO) spam to the published e-mail address.
Yes, we're better off in material terms, but today's work is the most meaningless it has ever been.
>The weird thing is that we already have “foldable screens.” But all the phone makers have done with them is to give us slightly less bezel on our glass rectangles.

Also, aren't they used for curved TV screens and computer monitors?
Browsing through the source, this strikes me as very over-engineered to just hit a few APIs, parse the responses and print text to the command line.
Its more like protecting the company from a Manager going of piste and saying we don't hire xxxx for these sort of jobs.
Glad to see actual evidence, too often we see tenuous links that are touted as proof positive.

The DNC leaks were pretty bad for the campaign, but ultimately of their own doing.

Edit: downvoted I assume for not specifying technical evidence, like this garbage news story about dns traffic:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/...
Although I wonder how much of that was helped by the US post WWII to counter communism. I remember looking online for something like 'how did japan become so wealthy after WWII considered how much they lost after WWII. I got a few links like this one: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Japan-become-wealthy (points 1 and 3 of first answer, second answer is interesting as well)

And what I got form it was that in was in the US' interest to have successful capitalist countries in the area during the cold war. Because there was so much communist influence is that area of the world.
I think he's referencing the macOS dictionary.
This fear is overblown in my opinion. If people really want to sue then they will sue based on the fact that companies hire H1Bs into the position that they applied for. Then the company would have to prove not that the H1B was the better candidate but that the American was not qualified. Who decides on that qualification? Well a judge/jury based on the job description. If your resume matches those qualifications and it's truthful then you may have a case. I think that is a bigger risk than giving feedback. Giving objective feedback may actually help you since you communicated the specific lack of qualifications. However, I do think that you can implicitly derive the feedback based on the interview questions anyway.
As other have said, I initially found clients through work. And eventually, I found more through reputation, and word of mouth.

Initially, I billed at about twice my salary, to account for overhead. But I eventually realized that even that was less than half of typical consulting rates. So I gradually increased my billing rate, and redefined my old rate as that for established clients. And then I gradually ratcheted that up as well. But I did lose some old clients.
You are an actual idiot if you believe your last paragraph. The race for self driving cars is critical to any rideshare company long term, and is one Uber has invested billions into.
This is why they just have layoffs.
Scary music for such a colorful video.
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And as a developer you could get a basic v100 (or was it v120?) 1U 'server' from Sun really cheaply. Sure it was a single CPU with a PATA disk and no hotswap or redundant components, but it was a cheap SPARC you could test your stuff on.
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I don't think that would pass muster if challenged.
The camera has to be behind the screen and pointing through it
"Promotion" would likely be interpreted in the sense of commercial advertising. A law that reached advocacy of prostitution in the abstract would be clearly unconstitutional under the standard set by Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969). Only speech that proposes a specific illegal act is excluded from First Amendment protection. Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, 413 U.S. 376 (1973), and United States v. Williams, 553 U.S. 285 (2008).
I'm still building a cluster of Pi Zeros connected via a USB hub. Since I'm doing it on my spare time, it's not going fast.

The point of clusters like this is not the speed, but the fact it's a cluster, with all the bottlenecks a cluster has.

On USB it seems I'll have to route all traffic between the nodes via the cluster controller, which will also serve the shared NFS volume.
Is there no maintenance requirements on electric power trains at all?
https://ibm.biz/BdZjPy

"All POWER8 and POWER9 results in this table reflect performance with firmware and Operating System updates to
mitigate Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures issue numbers ... known as Spectre and Meltdown"
cultural predispositions are difficult to change in the short term. Human psychology, otoh, is _extremely_ difficult to change. This, of course, is why people employ these tactics.
"A source familiar with the government's investigation" is about as far from actual evidence as you can get. Especially in the past year, but certainly throughout the past half-century, "anonymous" government sources have been demonstrated to be completely wrong or intentionally lying to advance a political agenda.

Moreover, note the weasel wording. For all we know, "familiar with the government's investigation" just means "the guy who brings in the water bottles overheard some office gossip."

I would take this story with a grain of salt.
Jeez. I've noticed most of my coworkers use mice all the time. I try to stay on the keyboard as much as possible.
I think there is an argument for removing this ambiguity by making self driving cars automatically liable for all personal injury, whether the person be inside or outside the car. The only exception would be if the tester could prove intent by the other party, keeping in mind that a self-driving car will have extensive logs of its environment to use in such a defence. Supporting arguments include:

1) The physics of driving isn't random, so it could be said that there are no accidents in autonomous driving, only oversights.

2) It would set a minimum performance level by making it prohibitively expensive to have a dangerous car. Those who test responsibly would have a low enough injury rate that they could deal with the risk by taking out suitable insurance.

3) It would provide a strong incentive to make the best car possible and not to take expedient shortcuts.

4) Over time automatically liability would become irrelevant if it asymptotically forces the injury rate to zero.

5) We have an historic opportunity to create a culture that will eliminate the danger of cars. It might have an increased short-term once off cost, but a huge long term payoff in the reduction of health costs and human misery. If we miss this opportunity we will be stuck with the long term cost of an industry that will be competitively driven towards poorer performance, potentially against the will of the majority of players, by the actions of a few.
How Chinese hacking felled telecommunication giant Nortel (2014)
The reason is simple: "We've found a candidate who is a better fit" although that is, in my experience, due in no small part to the fact that we've never not been able to fill a position.

Conversely, one company I worked for did have us provide candidates thorough feedback, though that was only for those who didn't pass from a code challenge to an interview. Perhaps the hiring managers have them feedback, I'm not sure.

PS: the code challenge we gave was carefully put together so as to both be reasonably quick to complete for a skilled developer, but be vague enough in requirements to not have a single answer that could be copy-pasted from a Google search. For anyone who didn't pass, I'd typically write two to three pages, focused entirely on objective metrics, and online resources for further learning should the candidate choose to apply again in the future. We didn't use it as a binary yes / no test, but to inform the discussion we would have in the in-person interview assuming the candidate had a sufficient level of skill.
I don't know why you would think speed is the only thing that determines what is popular.
https://www.nimbix.net/ibm/