skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This does not apply to the majority of students going to college. Why should a tiny fraction of students be able to drag down the reputation of a college because they do not want to do the work that they signed up to do, paid tuition to be taught how to do, and signed a contract saying that they would honestly complete to the best of their abilities?

Why should colleges penalize against possible future job interview fraud? Pre-crime, anyone?

> It is a matter for colleges to worry about because they are in the business of bestowing credentials backed up by the colleges reputation for doing a good job educating their students. If too many students have a degree from a college but they do not actually know anything, then degrees in general from that college become devalued and it cheats the students who put in all the work legitimately!

Good, the sooner we bury the whole rotten, overpriced system, the sooner we can come up with a better alternative.

> Cheating is not free, it has a real cost to it as companies have to implement additional testing and applicants have to spend their time (which always has a monetary trade off) going through screening that is redundant to the credentials they already have.

Neither is spending $200k on tuition!
The discussion was about JITs vs AoT compiled native code. Unity is not using a JIT runtime for their new Burst compiler but using LLVM to do AoT native compilation and getting rid of garbage collection. If you get rid of JIT and garbage collection then yes, a subset of C# can be competitive in performance with C++ for some uses.
Unless FB seizes to have offices in the EU and stops having an HQ in the EU and also stops doing monitoring of people in the EU and also stops any regular service for people in the EU, the GDPR has teeth and people in the EU can ask facebook to send them all data they have, then ask them to delete it and revoke any future permission to process their data.

Since the GDPR covers people in the EU that means if you're in the US you can take a vacation to Italy or France or Germany and then pull that stunt on Facebook. (technically)
You are right, i thought it had a dependency on Python (checked it in the past) and interpreted it as Python.

While checking it, no idea where that came from.
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> In my opinion the whole story about only accepting "novel" and "readily applicable" results in academia isn't quite helpful. A "Publish early, publish often" strategy could produce more and better results in the long term I think.

I fail to see how publishing repeats of the same old conclusions that boil down to applying the same basic and well-known techniques to specific subsets of a trendy programming language, and in the process failing to provide anything meaningful, does anything to advance science.

In fact, what does the article add to the understanding of the problem?
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> But right now H1b is basically the only way to get hired as an immigrant.

No, it's not. (It's technically not even a way to be hired as an immigrant, and there are work-based immigrant visas as well.as other work-eligible non-immigrant visas.)

> If you made it wage-prioritized there would be basically no way to get an h1b for entry level jobs

That's not even theoretically the purpose of the H-1B, and I'm not really convinced we need to import entry level workers.

> which would really suck for new graduates.

I'm not sure “it would reduce the incentive for US colleges to train foreigners rather than Americans for entry-level jobs in high-demand, high-paying professions in America” is an argument against a policy change.
Marketplace did not yet take over local sites, but it's getting there for a lot of people. They hated having to move off facebook to some 'inconvenient site' (yes, indeed, many people find sites other than Facebook & Whatsapp very inconvenient to work with) to sell their stuff, while now it's an easy experience for them. I see it growing rapidly every day where I live (south of Spain). Considering many people are born into Facebook (the first (and often only) device they (will ever) own is a smartphone and that they use for Facebook and Whatsapp), it is very natural that many people just stay in that eco system and prefer never to leave because it's so convenient.

Dating might be seen as a bit too much though; many people (for whatever reasons they have for it) prefer to keep their dating life away from their normal interactions. It depends on how it works, but it seems unlikely it will be seperated from the normal experience which I think will be a big hurdle for many. Then again, maybe it's already known and fixed as this is the first time I read about it.
No, that's not the correct analogy, because Amazon is the building, and they know where he went to. There's no guestbook.

The actual problem is that, since the censors can't distinguish them, they might stop everyone coming in to apartment 5, and potentially to the whole building.
“Getting names of landmarks right is really hard unless you have people on the ground that are specifically looking for that, and who are supposed to update maps”

Isn’t the purpose of intelligence agencies to collect intelligence, such as landmark names and maps?
For me personally, stimulants like Adderall or Modafinil are more or less placebo. They do regulate melatonin, and can sometimes be used as to fix your sleep cycles but that's about it. They don't improve my cognition or productivity. Sure, when I'm not less sleepy I will have better focus. But I think it is much more important to address the cause of why you are unproductive in the first place.

Bad sleeping habits have a huge impact on your daily mental health. Maintain a better consistent sleep pattern and your brain will thank you for it in a long run.

Also, I find that stimulants merely improve your mood and makes work that I find tiring less tiring. But when I'm working on projects that I love to work on, I don't need any stimulants.
USCIS has already cracked down on body shops - they're now required to prove that the consultant is already working for a customer, meaning they can't spam applicants and then work the one's that make it through the lottery.
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I disagree with this: "When you blame a poor person for not getting a better job, you accept that while their job is necessary, whoever does it should be poor."

First, the low pay is a hint that too many people are trying to be employed in that type of job. The job really isn't necessary, at least in the amount that people are trying to do it.

Second, we need starter jobs for teens. I suppose you could say my son is poor, ignoring the fact that he is a dependent minor child in a household that is not poor. Adults shouldn't be taking the low-paid starter jobs that teens need as references for college and/or future employers.
Well, if that’s how you feel, why the hell are you going to school in the first place? It’s expensive as hell, you are wasting tremendous amounts of mommy and daddy’s money, as well as wasting the one and likely only time in your entire life in which you can basically work full time improving yourself for 4 years. If you’ve already given up on improving your value through knowledge, I don't know what else you think you’re bringing to the table. Anyone can lie about themselves, it’s not like that’s some unique and marketable skill (for anything worth doing at least). If you’ve got a trust fund and can just fail through life with no consequences, good for you I guess, but then you’re hardly offering meaningful advice for people who actually want to do something with their education.
Or another solution is to do away with the quota that originally caused the lottery problem to begin with, since it's now required that consultancies like Infosys prove the immigrant is working for the customer.
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What's a bit funny is that most of the work on parallizing the Rust compiler is taking out the globals (and moving everything to cached query infrastructure). I think it would improve the Rust language if anything that gets in the way of multi-threading would have to be marked unsafe
Unfortunately, I don't really think I got what you were intending to say with this message.

You basically said there 'is' a reason for inconsequential conversation, but then only proceeded to hint at it's existence outside the last paragraph, and that was described as a different idea I might want to discard.

As such I can only hope that I'll eventually figure it out as I get older. So far the only thing I'm finding out as I get older is that humans are indeed irrational, and that often you just have to deal with that.
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I know you’ve used Go, but I personally think it’s unbeatable mostly because it’s statically compiled binaries make them super portable. Compile once and you can distribute a single binary file per platform.
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They have a Github repo with some of the source code up (mostly just stuff to do with character movement and control).

https://github.com/noelfb/celeste

Apparently it's based on this framework:

https://bitbucket.org/MattThorson/monocle-engine/src/default...
I don’t see how these abstractions make the product more complex. They’re still optional.
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> That's an illusion small business owners keep putting forth.

No, it's a fact, which is why...

> It is a well established fact in economics that free movement of capital will concentrate the capital in fewer hands.

Yes, the nature of capital is such that policies which empower capital also accelerate it's concentration, whereas policies which empower labor decelerate (or even reverse) the concentration of capital.
Needs to have some editing applied to the topics.

Note that “DevOps” is the same thing as “devops“.

And it does make you wonder how long something like this will last until it gets spammed out of existence.
Lobbying is different. Democracy is for finding how to define common policy, lobbying can be (though not always is) a legitimate part of this. This is different, for example, from refusing to do business with people holding certain political opinion or actively trying to silence them.

> Google's tolerance-but-only-for-tolerable-opinions

It's not even that. It's "tolerance only for opinion which nobody out of the list of groups that are allowed to object finds objectionable". The groups of course are defined by Google HR politics. So if you are animal rights activist and group in power dislikes you - you're not tolerated and even people in Google that want to hear you can't. If this is "tolerance" then what is intolerance, I wonder?
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I am only quoting Nissim Nocholas Taleb "Opposite of reading is not not-reading, it is reading something like Newyorker".
Hmm, I can only trace PICO-8 as far back as late 2014, while 0x10c happened in 2012. However Lexaloffle likes to label it, Voxatron is hardly a fantasy console, it's a voxel game engine (with fantasy console features retrofitted in later on).
Why does "his.app" cost $499.99 for pre-registration, but "her.app" only costs $249.99? :)

Is this some built-in gender bias?
You did not read the article or alternatively, you lie about its content.
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Here's another perspective: As a Tinder user I definitely wouldn't use a Facebook dating service if my profile was open and accessable to all of my facebook friends. I value my privacy in this regard and don't want to showcase a dating profile among friends.

And it's really not Facebook's duty to decide who should be able to date.
> "4 times in this thread. That's a bit much"

Point taken, I'll be more careful in the future.

> "kind of dodgy to do without mentioning that you wrote it"

The article is completely neutral, cites reliable sources, has been reviewed by another editor[1], and abides by all Wikipedia policies. I do not personally gain anything from posting it here.

I didn't think the fact that I initially created the article was relevant to this conversation, because for all intents and purposes, it does not make a difference.[2] The article meets Wikipedia's standards, and anyone is free to edit it subject to the applicable content policies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&typ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content
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They'll just delete your user ID field for whatever you posted - so it won't be associated with you any longer, at least on their systems, but they will keep the content for analysis.
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There was this guy called Edison who once made quite a healthy business out of selling LERs. They seem to have lost some of their sheen nowadays but I suspect they'll make a come-back one day in miniaturised form, something like 'nano-LERs'.
That's not the sort of thing you can hide. One disgruntled employee would cost FB 100s millions over-night by just reporting it to someone.
> If Rust doesn't find its "killer app" I don't see it rapidly growing like Go (network services, containers) or Swift (everything Apple).

I don't believe that Go or Swift are growing because of their technical merits. Swift is essentially forced by Apple upon any developer who needs to develop applications that run on Apple products, and Go, in spite of its pedigree, can't be sold to newcomers without waving the Google brand.

> Widely displacing C is a pipe dream.

For old projects, sure. Yet, for greenfield projects then, given the choice, Rust does offer quite a lot of sought-after features that C is sorely lacking.
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The ordering for interview process seems to be wrong, or is it an unordered list?

Also, I'd like to know what "Social Economic Justice Round" is. Is it a round where you preferably hire people belonging to socially and economically backward classes, and only hire otherwise if no people from aforementioned categories are available?
Erring on the side of people who have kids is something I gladly do. I do not have kids but if occassionally I need to attend a 10am meeting, that's fair. I can go back to sleep after if I need to.
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It has been a week since I've got my Pixel 2 XL and I can't agree with you more. Both mine and wife's phone flicker when screen is locked and it is getting really annoying. Considering the price of the phone, this is not acceptable.
> Are we just going to keep creating new tlds over and over for eternity?

Yes. The "easily memorable global namespace" is a limited natural resource, there is no definitive fix and there can't be - unless you accept the totalitarian single gatekeeper scheme Cyde describes.

In an open system, you always need to deal with the Sybil attack and the only solution is proof of work, resources - money. This means domain squatters will always capture a rent, by guessing domain names that will be valuable latter on. The way to minimize that rent on the long run is to periodically reset the game by bringing new TLDs into existence, thereby devaluing the investment in older TLDs, thereby making squatting a more risky activity. The GTLD liberalization greatly diminished the price pressure on .com .org and the like.

Keep in mind the web has seen exponential increase in the last decades; the upside now is much more limited, maybe another order of magnitude until complete worldwide market saturation and web growth figures get more inline to global economic growth numbers. Once that is achieved the problem becomes much less serious.
Only if you keep them a reasonable time and the backups will gradually be purged.

You can't keep indefinite backups and comply with GDPR.

So if your 5 year old backup, which has no purpose at all, gets stolen, expect a whopping fine for being an idiot. Or your web logs get stolen and it turns out you keep them 2 years, don't expect favourable treatment as that's totally unnecessary data retention.
Where your analogy breaks is that there is an alternative, semi functioning legal system in the case of a crime committed locally in the US that the police will investigate. In the case of a US victim from a hacker based in Russia or China, there is no realistic legal option, unless you are a large corporation with a massive legal budget and political connections. It’s really the alternative between do nothing or hack back.

[edit] an alternative analogy is that a store caught a masked man robbing it and holds him and forces him to remove his mask while they call the police. Shops have no right to hold someone against their will nor to remove any piece of clothes from their customer by force, but it is acceptable in the context of being victim of a crime. Self defence is not the justification (once the robber has been neutralised he is no longer a threat).

I’d argue that hacking into the attacking server to uncover its identity while the attacker is still online is very similar to removing an attacker’s mask by force after he has been caught.
Of I was CIA, I would fund openstreemap. Wait...
A zener costs atleast 2 cents a piece when ordered in bulk. That's 2 ENTIRE CENTS LESS PROFIT!1!
Yes, but the property here is control over the legal rights of the code, not the Github account.

Having copyright over the code means being able to provide copies under a license of their choice. They still wouldn't be able to do that: relicensing the code would be illegal. They could only use it under the same license they already had.

The Github account is not IP, it's just a property of Github's system, and it belongs to them (GH), not to the copyright holder.
> their objective is to do "good things for the world"

And if some people disagree that what Google is doing are "good things", too bad for them. Also, they are so fired.

> see it as either naïveté or as a cynical ploy

I see it as intolerance and blindness to even a possibility of one's position being wrong or incomplete. If you define what you are doing as "good thing", then automatically everybody who disagrees is "bad", and what shouldn't you do to not allow bad persons to ruin a good thing?

> Seems to be working pretty well for them

Except those who get disinvited, or not hired, or fired, for taking a wrong side (which is, any side that somebody in power disagrees with) in the debate. But yeah, they are making a boatload of money, so I guess that's a "good thing" too.
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Shoes and decks are consumables - getting a sponsorship, even if it's the occasional freebie from a local shop is a huge enabler for cash-poor skaters. The benefits are there for the brands too - don't underestimate the community aspect of nich sorta like skateboarding. skaters are essentially brand advocates/ambassadors irrespective of whether they were given the kit for free!

Besides, if you snap a board or pop some bearings early in a session being able to wander over to a local store and pick a replacement is a big deal. Back in the day I'd happily have paid the bricks & mortar premium if it meant rescuing a day skating from an early trip home!
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Upside more jobs in tech... all these companies are going to want active offense teams if this passes.
Well, from experience you'll be mostly fine with 100 VDC too. 100VAC is a different story though. (AC flows better into the body while DC remains on the skin IIRC)
You are literally posting on an article where Signal's attempt to aid people speaking out against authoritarian regimes are being quelled by entities due to protecting their bottom line.
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The Facebook dating service thread references using a Facebook profile as a way to judge client trustworthiness, and limiting interactions to people with said profile. While Facebook participation is voluntary for most people right now, if it increased to the point that hiring companies could limit candidates to just Facebook users and still have a sizable pool, would they have any incentive not to?

Is there an upside to preserving a society with no social credit scorekeeping?
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I think the flat version is a more authentic representation of the 4-dimensional object. If you were a 2D creature embedded in the surface of a Klein bottle, space would seem flat in every direction... at least until you went out for a walk and found the mirror-image of your house.
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It's something privacy advocates have been asking for, for years, and Facebook have been completely ignoring them. Generally they have responded with the exact opposite of what privacy advocates would wish.
I think it's just the scientific reporting equivalent of FUD, this is news, but it doesn't fit the long term narrative they will need to keep selling scientific reporting. Hence some editor probably stuffed those last bits in there. The fact they are reporting it all is pretty decent for modern journalism.
Then they are clearly not able to use on-street vehicular camping in a residential area under the law.

That doesn't make the law equivalent to a blanket ban on vehicular camping, or even a blanket ban on such camping in residential areas.
Depends on what they consider "the right thing" I guess. If that doesn't match what you consider the right thing you may want to change your preference :)