skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Type design is a subtle thing is such a wrong statement. Type design is everything - big and small things. This is why it takes a long time to design a timeless font because the search domain is insanely massive.

Let's be honest here, Netflix Sans and Airbnb Cereal are pretty much identical except for the grotesk details.
I think what you are really saying is that you will fire people for lies bigger than a specific "threshold", which I understand and agree with.

What I'm saying is that in the social work environment everyone lies to some level and it is actually widely accepted so. I googled exactly for 5 seconds and found this article to give you a couple examples:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11652018/10-que...
https://www.cia.gov/library/video-center/video-transcripts/i...
There are still jobs for asm, C/C++ programmers where dependency on external libraries are not needed. I do understand tho, I miss those days too. My first 68k system was a sun 380.
In response to Vera, I would say "No, he doesn't owe anything".

He's an employee, plain and simple. He got paid to fulfill a service. He did that service well. He then wants to fulfill services elsewhere and decided to do so. Tasks and services were completed, what more can you really ask?

I'm in the same boat. After over a decade working at the same place, I feel its my time to go as well (after all, I want to build a business instead of just be an employee). I know that I'm probably the guy in the company's plans, but I had to look at it this way - You're always needed wherever you go if you do your job as well as you can.
Is Uber’s Woke Makeover for Real?
Question: What is freemasonry about and why did you join it? I read up on them quite a bit but I just didn't find any good examples of actual goals and activities they are pursuing. Do Masons have a hacker mentality?
Me neither. Never was a problem for me.
If you google "Logitech mouse coil whine" you will see that this has affected multiple Logitech models for many, many years. They apparently have no interest in fixing this issue.
It is all a game in which everyone pretends to be honest, but walks a fine line of acceptable lies. I'm only reacting to the "feel good" line that everyone is honest. This is not the way it works and we should not be duped to believe that.
Got it. I was looking for input on how generalizable (the ability of weights to change/adapt) when the training labeled data is 100x smaller than the initial pre-training dataset?

Also, I don't understand the need to be so defensive though and the relevance between my employer and my post?
False positive paradox: "The false positive paradox is a statistical result where false positive tests are more probable than true positive tests, occurring when the overall population has a low incidence of a condition and the incidence rate is lower than the false positive rate"

Prosecutor's fallacy: "The prosecutor's fallacy is a fallacy of statistical reasoning, typically used by the prosecution to argue for the guilt of a defendant during a criminal trial".

The false positive paradox is a result. To get to a prosecutor's fallacy or base rate fallacy from it, you have to use the result in a way that involves certain fallacious reasoning.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with using a screening test that the false positive paradox applies to, as long as you recognize its limitations. When you are looking for a needle in a haystack (which is typically when you hit the false positive paradox) it gives you a smaller haystack to search for the needle, but that can still be a big improvement over not using it as long as it has a low false negative rate.
Not catch per se, but it was used in the trial.
Not much to add, except that this article makes me sad. My family struggled with housing costs when I was a child, but as a newly arrived immigrant family to a city with a tiny minority population, the lack of social support was felt more keenly than the cost of rent.
Reminds me of Brulosophy and their exBEERiments
This to me seems like a reaction to the continued traction experienced by Sketch, InVision, et al? Now that UX and design has really extended beyond the core vision of Photoshop, this seems like a reactionary move - but perhaps a welcomed one? We're a Sketch shop here, I'd be interested on takes from people using XD today.
Why you want to avoid it? His response seems reasonable to me. When you have companies posting obvious lies like requiring 5 years in a 1 year old techonology, the whole process just becomes a lot of surreptitious winking as both sides knowingly lie to each other
Google slow news magazines, there's a few of them or weekend edition NYT/WSJ https://www.slow-journalism.com/
'Memory transplant' achieved in snails via RNA transfer
It is my ongoing mission to find completely silent phone and laptop chargers and PC monitor.

I have three monitors and a laptop and not one is inaudible. They all become inaudible when I set their brightness to 100% but this is not acceptable to me.

I was able to mostly fix my Dell U3011 by replacing power supply capacitors.

These were placed in worst possible spot, bathing in hot ascending air assuring shortened lifespan. One could wonder if it was done intentionally...
"JOE is a blending of MicroPro's venerable microcomputer word processor WordStar and Richard Stallman's famous LISP based text editor GNU-EMACS (but it does not use code from either program): most of the basic editing keys are the same as in WordStar as is the overall feel of the editor. JOE also has some of the key bindings and many of the powerful features of EMACS."

sounds like you'd enjoy emacs
The problem isn't selling things in the US or not, the problem is that they were deliberately choosing to sell to Iran and North Korea, despite trade sanctions and export restrictions.

They had been caught, they paid a fine, but then it turned out that they were deliberately planning to continue selling them, despite already being caught, charged, fined, and agreeing to stop.

The /only/ way that they could be made to stop selling restricted components from the US was clearly to prohibit them from using those components at all.

What do you propose as an alternative?
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I’m routinely annoyed by what I am reasonably sure is the sound of my MacBook Pro’s heat pipes and other warm components expanding and contracting, making creaking noises shortly after starting it up on a winter day. Then there’s the gentle gaseous hissing I would swear is the heat pipes condensing and evaporating (based on workload and laptop temperature concurrent with the noise) if I could think of a practical reason for them to be audible.
Sorry if it wasn't clear that it was a joke.

A lot of these ICOs want developers to invest their money AND build the product for free.

I agree, there are a lot of good non-blockchain solutions to this... like most ICOs
PA, checking in. My county has a website where you search the address, and get back the owners, acreage, square footage, assessed value (land and building(s)), and last sale price and date.
I also had trouble following the author's point. It appears the author is saying that since people don't change their mind as often as the author would like, then it means that reason doesn't matter. (That's probably a wrong or (unintentional) straw-man summation.)

The weird part is that the author seems to take pains to draw a distinction between reason and rhetoric, but it seems her general conclusions conflate the two. If I have a conclusion based on logic, and someone comes at me trying to convince me with rhetoric based on ethos or pathos, it's not going to be convincing to me no matter how many points it scores on the audience. But that doesn't mean logic won't change my mind.

And most conclusions along the lines the author describes are normative conclusions. If, through logical debate, it's discovered that both parties are reasoning correctly, basing their conclusions on different moral (axiomatic) values, and neither has changed their mind, that is perfectly okay and should be considered a victory for responsible dialectic. Dialectic is about finding shared understanding and unsound reasoning, not about humiliating your opponent for having different values than you.

I haven't taken a close look at Kialo but if, for all their structure, there isn't much effort spent on the logical relations between statements, then... well, it might still be helpful to a degree, but I can also see it inviting a lot casuistry.
Sorry an option is that your source company seeing you making money, and then decides to let you continue to do that rather than making that money themselves.
I'm not much of a liar. But I certainly note that employers insist on honesty while regularly being entirely dishonest themselves.

It's a two-way street.
Maybe hire one of the devs you interact with to search for duplicates? Searching for duplicates substrings isn't necessarily something that could be done off the shelf but it shouldn't be too hard for a competent dev to get you a working process
The biggest flaw: EVM allows integer overflow. This has been responsible for many hacks. (aka somehow withdraw 1 token from 0 token account, now you have LOTS token!) I can't even imagine what they were thinking...
She didn't claim the water was free of bacteria, just that it didn't grow anything on the agar plate.
This is a wonderful project. It looks very sharp and has pretty good components.

However, it's usually significantly better, cheaper and easier to build an "almost" silent system, just by using good heatsinks and very slow fans. A small amount of airflow is usually significantly better than none at all.
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
That might not be that important? It was most of a billion years between when life arose on Earth and when life figured out photosynthesis so you can get a long way with just chemosynthesis.
TLDR: Obtusely veiled apologia for moral outrage culture. (you can skip to the last paragraph).

The reasoning for this is the idea that slavery ended because it was deemed "dishonorable" through a transformation of "morals", not through "logical debate".

Further points against "debate culture":

- winning a debate is not about the "truth", but about "persuasion"

- ensuing moral relativism

- debates don't actually change minds

I disagree with the last point. People simply don't change their minds in real time and many people are too invested into their points of view. I've personally gradually changed my viewpoint away from the left in large part due to the general failure of leftists to persevere in debate. What a coincidence then, that some of the same people would question the merit of debate altogether...
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AsteroidOS, an open-source Wear OS alternative
> your time and the candidate’s time is valuable. I don’t want to waste either

> Once the current candidates have completed the process and you have a sufficient pool of qualified finalists

I'm having a hard time reconciling these two statements. Here's some rough math, to put things in perspective.

By the time a candidate has "completed the process", they've invested 12 or more unpaid hours. Let's say you've got a pool of 6-11 candidates who have successfully completed the process, and you only offer a position to one of them. Not counting the time initial applicants spent, that's 60-120 of other people's working hours you've burned in exchange for nothing. At normal contracting rates, that's $6000-12000 worth of time or more.

If companies have an average pool size of 10 candidates, and only offer the job to one person in the pool, each candidate is probably repeating this process an average of 10 times to get a job, which is a $10000 investment of their time, unpaid.

You can say that it's worth it to the candidate, since they're probably getting a six figure job out of it, but consider the fact that under privileged candidates may not be able to afford to spend that much unpaid time on a job search, and some of the most talented candidates are already working full time, and don't have that much free time to spare.

I'm not saying candidates should be paid for the interview process, but I am saying that you should carefully consider how much time you're asking a candidate to invest if they're only one person in a pool of candidates. And companies should be clear with candidates about how many other people are being considered at each stage in the process.

The math could look something like this;

First Stage (Application): 100-1000 candidates * 1 hour invested = 100h
Screening: 10 candidates * 1 hour invested = 10h
Technical Interview: 5 candidates * 1 hour invested = 5h
Take Home Project: 2 candidates * 3 hours invested = 6h
Final Selection: 1 candidate, 1 hour invested = 1h

= 122 hours of others' unpaid time used

But in reality I suspect for many companies it looks more like this;

First Stage (Application): 100-1000 candidates * 1 hour invested = 1000h
Screening: 20 candidates * 1 hour invested = 20h
Technical Interview: 15 candidates * 2 hours invested = 30h
Take Home Project: 10 candidates * 20 hours invested = 200h
Final Selection: 1 candidate * 1 hour invested = 1h

= 1251 hours of others' unpaid time used

I'm making some rough assumptions about contracting rates and salary expectations, but that's about the scale of an entire year's worth of a developer's salary in free time just to get a job. It's absurd!

TL;DR

My math is pretty rough, but companies are NOT respecting candidates time with this form of evaluation.
Anyone know of an easy way to get games purchased off GOG to use this version by default?
More importantly, an extra header may push you into needing another packet, which creates extra potential for packet loss.
I've been told that management is serving the best interests of the company, and therefore anything they do is justified. However, as a mere employee, it is wrong to apply the same logic to my own best interests.
Official Statement on EFail by the GnuPG and Gpg4Win Teams
It was stated in an internal email to employees. Whether it was intended to be leaked, or to grab headlines, isn’t clear.
I agree, it's not a good critique. I have definitely tasted wines where I felt like there was hint of chocolate in the background. It is also common for wines to have a hint of berry flavor. Grapes and yeast can make all kinds of flavor. Sure, a lot of wine descriptions are super douchey and go overboard on the descriptors. But yea, Belgian beers can taste can have esters than taste banana-like and NE IPAs can taste like orange juice, both with no fruit added.
I feel ya. The 68k days were glorious indeed. I'm sure things weren't really as good as I remember them, but man the nostalgia pull is real. I agree with the Raspberry Pi people, it's a lot harder to hack on stuff than it used to be.
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In case anyone hasn't seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznBvAGScdg
I don't know that I've ever worked at a place that would bias Mr towards a candidate one way or another unless I worked with them. Either it was a small enough place that I knew everybody and could rate them based off of personal experience, or it was a big place and I don't know if this guy was on the team that wrote Project A which held the whole team back, or the guy on project B which had us getting new clients every week because it was made so well.

Just going, "oh he wored at the same company as me so I should like him" seems like a frat/sorority mentality
Here are the slides for that presentation:

https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/995693882812915712
My point was that from a data gathering, targeting, and recommendation standpoint you can get more insights from an hour of my music than an hourlong podcast.
> ... pervasive surveillance where you (statistically) consider everyone a possible criminal is a waste of time.

But it's _oh_ so profitable and career enhancing for the people choosing to do it...

Guilty until proven innocent. Make The Prison-Industrial Complex Great Again.
> The problem with these laws is that while they're mainly targeted at large corporations - because frankly that's all regulators and politicians usually know or care about - small companies bear the brunt of complying with them right now.

This isn't much of an argument - every single law that impacts a business falls into this category. Tax law is the classic example. If you happen to own a huge company, you'll have more resources with which to comply with regulation. The tradeoff is that as your company size increases, the chances that a bad actor is doing something fucked up that your compliance team won't find about until too late increase. That's just how business works.

Nor do I find small business owners struggling to remain compliant a particularly compelling argument. I'm a Canadian small business owner and yet I've managed to educate myself about GDPR. Hell, GDPR has been around in draft state for six years and there are tons of very well written resources available. The process of learning GDPR has been quite pleasant.

And then, I add in the facts that GDPR isn't even a particularly big change and that again, these are all fundamental ways to protect your clients, I have even more trouble feeling the pain.

Specifically consider these concerns that you cited. When I copy/paste your questions into Google, add an occurrence of "GDPR" and search, I get solid answers on the first page.
In a way, it exists: visit comp.misc where a small group of devoted usenet fans discuss HN-type things, and where a fair number of HN stories have been linked and discussed. Visit misc.news.internet.discuss for non-computer tech discussion (and some fluff), and visit sci.misc for science articles and discussion. Among those three newsgroups you have the sum total of HN and Slashdot, and a nice crowd of Usenetters.
There were days when I had time to exercise for 2-3 hours straight, and I figured I would save time by trying to write some code or invent some app in my head while doing jumping jacks and other workouts. After a few hundred of them, I couldn't concentrate on anything but the counting and making sure my form was okay, and after a while even that took a lot of effort to focus on.
>the question of collateral damage is an unknown.

Sure... but collateral damage is already a problem, as humans are very poor at actually hitting targets. People who are trained to shoot in high pressure situations are only in the area of 18-30% accurate.

I suspect if your goal was 30%< accuracy during an active shooting, it's absolutely within the realm of possibility today.

>According to a 2008 RAND Corporation study evaluating the New York Police Department’s firearm training, between 1998 and 2006, the average hit rate during gunfights was just 18 percent. When suspects did not return fire, police officers hit their targets 30 percent of the time.
Yeah that's a good point. Resolution matters as well. My 27" 1440p monitor gives me more than enough height even though it's 16:9. Perhaps the same would be true of a small 1440p screen. I've never had a laptop with a higher resolution than 1080p so I wouldn't know.
> Sure, but most mobile OSes don't support a full desktop experience well

This is due to the form factor, not the capability of the devices. A high end smart phone is more than capable of producing a good desktop experience.
This is what I suspect with microorganisms as well. Macroorganisms are much more complex and they have common features that seem very arbitrary like moving via cylindrical appendages called legs, or having faces that feature 2 eyes, a nose, and a mouth. It makes me think that it's much more likely to see something wildly different between macroorganisms on Earth and elsewhere than between microorganisms. It would be cool to see other forms of movement, other forms senses, other forms of communication, other forms of anatomy, etc.

EDIT: It also makes me wonder how different an ecosystem could be. Imagine one that did not require macroorganisms eating other macroorganisms, like ones that feed on heat or wind.

EDIT 2: Maybe mating requires 3 genders, etc. There seems to be a lot of room for variation.
Employment verification is common for things like loans, so in most organizations it does not stand out. It's also common for this to be farmed out to 3rd party companies at large companies to avoid the risk of lawsuits.
The Dell XPS 13 should also be noiseless when the fan is not on, but many models also suffer from coil whine.

I find coil whine a worse background sound than the lower frequency fan hum.
This may be off topic, but I just brewed a batch that is sour and citrusy like grapefruit juice.

After searching around I found the distinctive grapefruit flavor compared to other citrus is the result of a sulfur containing terpene, mercaptan. I've been trying to figure out what may have caused it to develop in this batch, but not others brewed with the same yeast.

What source would you reccomend for trying to trace back flavors to the metabolic processes in the yeast?
I'm in NZ too, I vaugely put some stuff on my linkedin, but I don't use it and don't keep it up to date. When I recruit people, I wouldn't use linkedin at all. If I look at the people I'm linked to, who I know pretty well, the profiles almost have an inverse weighting. The averagish people I know seem to have extensive profiles with many connections, and with many bold claims of capability. The people who I think are seriously good often have seriously poor profiles ( of those that do have them ) and often only linked with whoever sent them requests. Maybe that's unique to software devs, or maybe it's unique to people I know, or maybe it's unique to my subjective opinion of other peoples capability. Either way, I really don't think too much of linkedin.
TI-89 was my gateway drug to 68k. I still have it on my desk actually, tho it's been in a box for the last 15 years.
D-wave is certainly interesting, but one of the main problems is that no one really knows what's going on. It's not really clear how or if the machine actually performs any calculations beyond what is classically possible. The recent progress is much more robust in this sense, with multiple actors currently moving forward to scale up the number of qubits.

That said, quantum technology is not only about quantum computation. What is happening now is that industry is gaining very detailed control of the production process all the way down to the atomic scale. See for example this (https://phys.org/news/2018-05-dutch-firm-asml-microchip-tech...) article, which mentions how chip manufacturer are about to gain precision that is finer than the atomic scale.
Have you ever been part of lay offs on the employer side? Any single company whose done that action has lied as they led their employees to believe that they would be working on some project for a while, while simultaneously planning to let them go. That's just a single example of a common lie in companies, and there are more like "we follow best practices", until those practices start costing money.

Every single company that more than 2 people is full of constant lies, it's just that most of them are below our collective threshold of being an egregious lie.
I think this blog is more of an editorial piece considering that fastly will insert two 'Via: 1.1 varnish' with shielding enabled plus a range of additional X- headers. :)
I have a similar system. What OS do you run on it?
correct. which makes the top comment pointless (or missing the point?)

Under-performant computers can and have been silent for a while. A phone falls into that category.

The trouble is making a good performance computer silent.

And even the case the article advertises, is pure garbage. I had the smaller ones (and the author should really have bought the black anodized one!). It works fine while underpowered. But as soon as you hit the 5h compile/rendering levels of workload, that thing cannot move heat away without airflow. period.
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