skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you're pretty arrogant.

But you do have a point that by definition 50% of developers are below average. Nearly all developers are below average in at least some part of their professional skills - but that is just normal.

For example doctors are the same, but a below average doctor is still qualified and useful. Below average developers ie (half of us) are still useful, doesn't make you an impostor.
What do you actually communicate to your users?
Good point - I hardly ever see anyone talking on their phones
> cases of GBM in England have increased from around 1,250 a year in 1995 to just under 3,000.

Not only the population of UK has increased in this time, it has also gotten older on average. Moreover is 0.002% of population getting GBM per year even significant enough to blame mobile phones (that is used by everyone)?
Don't forget robust! My Yubikey has survived on my keyring longer than I ever expected.

Also, the fact that it requires being plugged (powered) to generate a HOTP token makes it very resistant to my kids who invalidate my work's LCD-with-button keyfob all the time.
They’re blocking 1 of 4,294,967,296 addresses, so I guess they’d argue that your bill should be reduced by 0.000000232%.
"According to Cancer Research UK, it is “unlikely” that mobile phones increase the risk of brain tumours however “we do not know enough to completely rule out a risk”.

However, the organisation cautions that because phones are a relatively recent invention it may take many more years until the data is sufficient to make more robust conclusions."

This is literally pure speculation. There are many things that should be studied further to see if something more than a correlation exists. However those studies haven't been done yet. I am surprised to see such a poor and clearly clickbait on hackernews.
Try this neat trick: disable push notifications for email, Slack, HipChat and any other communications except emergency channels such as PagerDuty. This will do wonders for your productivity. I’ve faced some blowback from people who expected me to respond immediately in real time, but I’ve assuaged their concerns by explaining my focus model and the need to eliminate distractions. In my experience, my correspondents actually enjoy receiving a thoughtful reply composed in my own time rather than a snap reaction fired off just to get the sender off my lawn.
>“If I can help people suffering from herpes, isn’t it my duty to do so?”

That is a question, not a statement "Since I can help...". The problem is that he did significant harm to people trying to answer that question. The results of his experimentation are not fully realized, but the story indicates his injections caused harm in some cases and do not appear to have achieved the promise cure in any(?) of the cases.

The counterbalance question is "If my hypothesis is wrong and I harm people, isn't it my duty to do no harm?"
There are actually a lot more interesting things that you can do:

Order an SDI video circuit from VZ to one of the interconnect buildings. That's $1.5K/mo but it is delivered as a point to point single mode fiber with VZ gear being plugged in. After they install it and leave unplug VZ gear. Plug in your 10G. You just got yourself a 10G transport for $1.5K/mo.
I agree with this sentiment. In smaller startups, I feel like the bigger distraction is Slack. I've found that closing Slack for a few hours a day results in me having a more productive day.

Note: notifications are disabled on Slack, but it still causes distractions.
It seems like the key to making medical progress is realizing that not all treatments are "one size fits all" and figuring out why treatments that are safe and effective for some people are unsafe for others.

The vaccine from this story seemed to be safe and effective for some participants, but nearly killed another. How can we differentiate the people that it will help from the people that it could kill? This is a real problem in FDA approved medications. Just look at the side effects list for some of the "biologic" TNF blocking treatments for autoimmune diseases. Yet they are beneficial for most people.
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> it's uneconomic to take on staff who don't deliver enough value

This was the fear people had.

Somehow most people who were paid less that minimum wage delivered enough value.

Only a few companies needed to stop their service.
>To clarify, GBM is the only kind of cancer that increased in frequency in the data they have.

Only glioblstoma multiforme, aka the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer? Phfew, what a relief.
Is it possible to get cancer in your hand or thigh? I'm sure phones are held in hands or pockets for longer durations than they're held up to heads.
It's really important to be able to fairly criticize a company for their interviewing/hiring practices. I think it's in-context if they are a poster on Who is hiring. Some of us recognize the regulars on here. We want to figure out if they are just trolling for resumes, a recruiter that is trying to be stealthy, or if they are just plain not serious about hiring (a waste of time).

I think it's facetious to say that the Who is hiring thread should be held to a courtroom's standard. A lot of companies have a hiring process that is definitely nowhere near that, no matter how much they may believe in it. It is certainly important to tell the truth. It is also inappropriate to call out individuals by name (as has happened a few times).

I think it's also pejorative to say that there is a "genre" of people bringing hard feelings from interview. We are just people. The hiring process is very cynical these days and most of us trying to get a job are on our best behavior, and we have similar expectations from the other side.
I came here to ask about this exact same thing...

How do they address the onslaught of Slack interruptions?
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Very clean and unobtrusive UI. That's settled. But to be honest I think it's going to cater to a pretty small niche.
I come to HN for comments like this. Thanks for the info!
It's a veiled threat, just like when they told you that if you disable facial recognition you're worsening the experience of blind users, and that nefarious people will take your photos and impersonate you.
Male infertility is rising in the developed world.
I had fun solving the challenge tho :) I might post it to a gist or something ehhehe
> Not directly related to your personal anecdote, but a confident feeling of "I know better" is the easy part; actually stepping in and doing something about what you think you know better is hard. Because most of the time, while you might think you know better, stepping in and replacing the CEO for example is a career path you don't actually want to do.

The problem rather is: In some points (those where I am really knowledgeable about) I really do know better and if some of these points are on the agenda, I would love to be the CEO to handle these. But for many other points, the CEO surely does a better job than me.

Would the world be a better place if I were the CEO just when such points are decided upon (and otherwise the "old" CEO may decide)? Probably yes.

Would the world be a better place if I were the CEO full-time? Rather not.

You see the problem: You make being "being allowed to decide" (being CEO) an all-or-nothing decision. The solution in my opinion is rather to give authority to make decisions if someone knows a lot about a topic.
I really like this and have added it to my "dive into on the weekend" bucket. The catch phrase got me: "UI composition in pure HTML"... but a bit of my optimism left when I realized that the page wouldn't scroll (there's not even a scrollbar) without JavaScript. But still, it's better than a blank page (and the header had enough info to tempt me to white list it!).

This is just a get-off-my-lawn nitpick/feature request - because I think it looks really interesting, great work!
Has anyone tried one of the open source clones sich as question2answer?

http://www.question2answer.org
> So there are systems out there which differentiate between a post someone disagrees with and one that's low quality,

...which don't actually mean anything in practice because (1) disagreement effects perception of quality, so even honest voters in a system which distinguished the two will still be likely to mark a post that they disagree with as low wuality, and (2) people in practice, given the option, will mark a comment or post in the way that produces the effect they wish to happen to it, so if they want a post demoted because they disagree with it, and the forum offers marks for disagree which don't demote and some other mark which does demote, they choose the latter.
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(If true as reported that...)

Given that they knew that their formula didn't last for 12 hours, and their response to each doctor was "increase the dosage and keep the 12 hour interval" which of course means a greater risk of addiction, I'd go with unalloyed evil.
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"...the two numbers being multiplied are not the same length."

Do you mean as counted in bits? If so, prepend zeroes until they are the same length. Does this negatively affect the algorithm's results?

EDIT: When I say 'prepend' I mean on the MSB end. In typical arithmetic on paper, that'd be adding leading zeroes (prepending) onto the numbers.
> Correlation does not imply causality

XKCD 925: Cell Phones

https://xkcd.com/925/
"Centuries of privilege" is the kind of idiocy only a sheltered American suburbanite could come up with.

A century ago millions of young white men were too busy dying in trenches and being gassed to death with mustard gas in a war none of them could vote on.

Children worked on the field, in factories, and in coal mines, like their fathers were expected to.

And yes, women stayed home and took care of the kids because without electricity, plumbing, appliances, refrigeration and cheap groceries, that was actually a laborious full time job, and people were poor. Not to mention that getting through child birth and infant mortality was a blessing for both mother and child.

None of them were given opportunities simply by existing. On the other hand, providing scholarships to specific ethnicities, or creating special women-only pathways to entry, that is exactly that.

What people like Damore have tried to point out is that expecting demographics and sentiment within a field to match the general population, or else the "playing field" is not level, is an unwarranted assumption. It also puts the blame for actually society wide issues on a small group of people who had nothing to do with it.

If you want more black people in tech, start by addressing the way the US school system is stratified entirely by social class. Maybe you'll see a difference, and maybe that IQ gap will shrink. Maybe it won't, and what new "leveling" policies will you want to introduce then? Don't push out or disadvantage others out of misplaced revenge, and don't cite your American tunnel vision as justification.
Probably best to represent long numbers as strings in json; json doesn't support a lot of JS's features.
The weirdest part of HN for me is the optimism. Engineers are pessimistic because engineering is hard and physics is unforgiving. Engineers like to point out things won't work because it probably won't and engineers like to be right. Mesh networking is incredibly hard to get right to the point where I wouldn't even say anyone really has ever gotten it right at scale.
>UBI, or something equally revolutionary, I think will be needed without a major population collapse.

UBI is only feasible with major population collapse.
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From the article: "Slack lets us talk and make the same decisions we would have made in meetings anyways.". So there's still IM etc.. Easier to turn off, though, no?
> Step two after learning to keep your mouth shut: Learning that the situation is always more complex than you can see from the outside.

Rather step two that the CEO should have done: Explain these quirks of the taxation laws, so that any rational person has to come to the same logical conclusion based on the evidence.
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Maybe it's a bit different; those who developed/didn't lose protective measures in their DNA won't be affected and those that are out of luck will be excised from the gene pool. So statistically cell phones won't cause tumors, because only adaptable would survive. And for cancer it usually is a large mix of factors that starts them, so it's difficult to filter out noise and figure out compound factors from simple health stats.

BTW, exercise kills as well. There are also known cases of heavy smokers/drinkers that made it to 100.
If you don't get a job you're expected to take part in the Work Programme so no, people can't get away with doing nothing.

It's very hard to do undisclosed work because cash in hand work has been made much harder to get.

It's pretty hard to get away with doing nothing because your jobsearch is now online. You use DWP websites to record all your job searching. People may get away with it for a few weeks, but they're not going to get away with it for long.

We've heard a lot about the Hostile Environment. People think it just applies to Windrush, or maybe only to immigration. That's incorrect. It's a wide ranging policy and it fully applies to all benefits. That's why so many decisions are being overturned at first tier tribunal - the quality of decision making is piss poor and it's likely some of that is a deliberate choice.
I may have implied more precision than I meant; my thought is just that the value seems more likely to be small than very large.

Reasoning would be the things contributing to value are the utility (it's a medium of exchange) and the scarcity (there can only be a finite number of Bitcoin). But the latter has limited effect because anyone can create a new coin anytime they want to.

I could be wrong, of course. I'm not an economist.
It's to do with employment rates and avoiding financial damage to small/low margin businesses, there's a commission of some kind that tries to work out the maximum viable level.
Yea, I got tricked into doing something like that once. It is infuriating to see a new feature announced in a software product that's identical to an interview 'homework' assignment you had been given a month prior. "Wow, great solution! However, we've decided to go in a different direction..."

Whether they directly used my solution or gave that problem to several interviewees and picked the implementation they liked best I couldn't know. But I certainly felt used. There's a certain popular piece of software I refuse to use to this day because of my experience interviewing with them (fortunately, they have competition now).

Eventually you get to a point where your gut will tell you whether an 'interview project' is a toy problem or something that might actually be useful.
EDIT: Big boys was a bad choice of phrase. I meant experienced developers, doesn't matter if they're a man or a woman.

Stupid edit lock.
> You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar.

Ah that would be very helpful.

The thing is, as engineering manager and gatekeeper to my team, I would like to make those RSVP decisions for people on my team. We can solve this with organizational/communication policies, but was hoping to enforce within GC as well.
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>This means that when central banks tighten too much, some workers may be afflicted moderately by a more difficult labor market but whole segments of the less productive and more vulnerable, may be completely cutoff from having a job.

Europe has been running rock-bottom interest rates since the 2008 crash. The ECB are charging 0% on MRO lending and offering -0.4% on deposits. The BoE have just increased rates from 0.25% to 0.5% in late 2017 due to rising inflation. Both banks have spent most of the last decade flooding the markets with money through QE.

It's hard to see what more they could do.
> Speaking as a young person (22), I'm certainly not embracing cryptocurrencies and neither is anyone I know. Bitcoin is virtually useless as a currency[1] and, having no other compelling use-case whatsoever, cannot really be a store of value either. (Lightning network may change that, but that also amounts to totally replacing almost all of Bitcoin by building a hopefully less shitty system on top of it. Lightning being necessary means that Bitcoin as Satoshi envisioned it has failed utterly.)

Speaking as a merchant selling high value hardware in a world where chargebacks and check fraud make it very hard to run a profitable online sales program... we've accepted more than $10 million in bitcoin for our products and the irreversibly means we don't need any markup for our customers to account for fraud.

It also makes international payments (US to Africa, US to China, US to Europe) almost completely seamless for any counterparty accepting crypto.

For things like cloud storage, you can set up contracts that automatically enforce penalties. No courts, no lawsuits, no backing out of a deal.

The tech is real, the use cases are real, and people are using it today to do things they couldn't do without it. It's super early, but it's going to be bigger than the internet.
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Plenty are. Look at the pedestrians, or that matter at the drivers. A lot of them do use headsets.
I've found it a little easier to get going with GPG, especially on different operating systems. IIRC with PKCS you have to tell the SSH client to use a particular plugin? Whereas with GPG you just need GnuPG and have it act as the SSH agent. Plus you can forward the GnuPG socket and then anything you do on the remote server that requires GPG will pass through to the Yubikey -- I find this useful with pass and for signing Maven artifacts, just tap the Yubikey when encrypting/decrypting.
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AndOTP can also handle u2f keys like this on android. And from the fdroid store, requires as card permissions and open source to boot.

Building on this, in Centos epel, there is a package "google-authenticator" which can generate 2fa for your account. It can also be turned on via a pam policy for all accounts.

There's also LinOTP which has a web service and web administration. If you need something more than just 2fa (like 2fa+salt) then you want LinOTP. And being able to integrate it into API calls is also really handy for re-requesting security access.
> BTW, exercise kills as well. There are also known cases of heavy smokers/drinkers that made it to 100.

Outliers, not in any way related to the general trend and a bad argument in general.
Marriage != Relationship != Sex.

To me this sounds like they are more likely to commit (possibly by being more desirable specifically for marriage), which is something I find interesting and would like an explanation for.

Maybe higher overall desirability encourages their partners to try to retain them?
Also, in a country that grew by approximately 10 Million people in the same span.
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GBM tumors are super aggressive and there's no known cause. If you get diagnosed with a GBM your five year survival rate is 10%. Whatever the cause once the tumor gets started you have a months, not years before you know it.
I'm not saying it's widespread, nor necessarily that easy (I don't know) but every few weeks I'm looking at our local news online and there's a story of someone claiming jobseekers, housing benefit, disability or attendance allowances, and they're working (and paying taxes it seems, so it should have been easy to catch them).

5s Google - http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern-ireland-news/243195/other-news..., some guy claiming whilst working.

Assuming not all cases are found - and stories I've seen in the past have been of people caught after well over a year of false claims - then it seems perfectly doable for those who are dishonest (through necessity or otherwise).
Hmm, you're talking about calling into a VM language from a manual-ownership language like C++? At that point any VM language would be fine, but I'm not sure that scenario makes sense in the first place - if the outer program is in C++ that's presumably because it has some requirement avoid GC, and embedding a VM that has to do GC would undermine that.
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...because our architect forbids use of for loops. One killed his pappy.
The extreme voices are the loudest, and online arguments don't nurture nuanced perspectives. Thus, if it's a binary choice, your options are:

1. Crypo=Blockchain=Bitcoin, we're all going to be doing 100% of our transactions in BTC in 5 years, it's going to revolutionize the world more than any other invention, and how could you not see the obvious, you sheeple.

2. Everything related to BTC, blockchain, crypto is a giant over-hyped fraud, the concept isn't new, investors are stupid for throwing money at it, and no one cares about this, you neckbeards.

I would be in the "negative" camp if it was a binary choice. But there's a ton of middle ground.
I think the most important thing is that Bitcoin opened the floodgates by allowing innovation in economic systems. I'm not sure of anything else, but innovation and competition is bound to evolve into something by survival of the fittest. I find this really fascinating.
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Apple has been a leader in security, and has shown to take privacy seriously.

The "Hey Siri" wake is done completely locally, and is opt-in on top of Siri.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/11/apple-addresses-privacy-qu...

Apple also consistently makes the trade-off of privacy above user-experience; in order to offer similar features to Google photos, they train neural networks on-device.

As well as how seriously they take the biometric data from Touch ID and Face ID, I'm much more comfortable around a HomePod than Alexa.
Current scientific consensus is that it's unlikely that it does, however it's not completely ruled out. Risk of cancer from microwave radiation is considered to be thermal in nature. Unlike the background signals we are surrounded by, when making a phone call, you hold the phone to your head, meaning roughly half of the transmission energy is directed towards it. Furthermore, your brain is mostly water which absorbs microwaves well. That said, the heat generated by the absorption results in a very minimal increase in temperature, which is carried away by blood flow. Nerves are particularly sensitive to microwave burns, but this it observed at higher intensities.
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Have you ever had a naso-gastric tube fitted? It's not pleasant. Doing this in order to prolong life when the case is medically futile is cruel.

Also, it's far better that the hospital has to go to the courts to get permission to do this than the situation in the US: the doctors announce their plan and the parents then have to go to court to stop it happening.
OMG, this is priceless:

> Our community prides itself on niceness. What a code
> of conduct does is define what we mean by nice.
It's one click; it's not my normal way of working but one could make it no click, just needing connected to systems when not working on them (or monitoring) seems unwise.
Thanks! Now I have something else to play with.
When we're talking about 1-in-17,600 chances to begin with, I think outliers are relevant.
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