skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point of the parent comment. It wasn’t to debate relative value in a philosophical sense.

I think it was trying to say that if someone like Holmes (& board members) get rich this way (and it takes such effort to catch what they’re doing and bring actual consequences), then it in turn greatly devalues software labor.

Think of it this way: if people think this is a good strategy because it does work for various start-ups and even in this extreme case Holmes made over a billion dollars and it’s yet unclear what punishment, if any, it will be — why would start-ups care about actually building something, actually having engineers who produce things. This company made vast sums of money while not doing any of that.

It basically encourages a template for trying to print money with secretive refusal to explain the methods, and engineering hype. Which in turn makes being good at engineering worth far less to these people.

The more this looks like a viable option, the less valuable engineering skill is.
Having more historical data to draw on makes us more confident that the null hypothesis is invalid, not less. If the question is reasonable, then the answer is an immediate, equally reasonable: yes; we've done the measurements; the data is there; the trends are clear.
61% of Americans have unfavorable views of Islam. [0] Islamophobia is prevalent across the western world.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/12/09/what-americ...
Metal goes 100+ yrs. Doing the same thing (asphalt) and expecting different results = insanity.
Reminder: If CO2 levels fall below 150 ppm there will be a mass extinction of land-based plants.

It is a grave mistake to believe that CO2 as such is bad and must be removed from the atmosphere. It is an essential fertilizer for both phytoplankton and land-based plants (at current levels these plants are in effect starved for CO2, because they evolved during geological time periods with much higher CO2 levels).
I had to look it up since I didn't know enough about it, but it looks like the Clinton Foundation was set up in 1997, at the beginning of Bill's 2nd term. As for mentioning Obama's term, what I meant by that was that since Hillary was Secretary of State at the time, there's definite potential for conflict of interest. I used wikipedia for my info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation
I think my own preference would be to make a web app that doesn't need to be manually refreshed at all in normal operation, via some simple polling heuristics (and careful use of 304s on the server to minimize the total traffic).
This article is hilarious, and perhaps there's some truth in it, but it seems to me that the anthropologist David Graeber has a substantial chip on his shoulder, and to me this taints the overall credibility of his thesis (inasmuch as the article represents it). The dig at Oxford's PR department seemed egregiously random to me. (I wonder if he was rejected by Oxford at some point in his academic career.)
> Regarding that, does Nim allow one to turn off GC, mess with pointers, and twiddle bits like in C? As in, is there an optional set of C's features in there that one can use? Or improve with macros, type-safe wrappers, and so on?

Yep, and in fact I would say that Nim is a perfect "better C" language. You get things like modules, a better type system and metaprogramming. Of course you'll have to forgo a lot of the stdlib, but if you're already using C that won't be a tough pill to swallow.
There's a passage in the article that I either misunderstood, or the author is somewhat being agressive/hostile towards computer scientists and engineers:

> Its users are scientists and engineers; not computer scientists and software engineers, but the real ones.

Software engineers are in fact "real" engineers. Who do you think writes the compilers for Fortran.

Edit: Read the article twice. The author is Ukranian. Either it's a linguistic mistake, or he really has some sort of prejudice against Software Engineers, in which case I find that sad.
Why go that far? Why not grow acres of a hardy fast growing plant like hemp or seaweed, fertilized with sewage water. Harvest and dry the plant, bale it, and stack the bales underground?

Or the Midwest farmers could bale their corn waste bury it instead of burning it.

Arizona could pipe in seawater and grow seaweed by the ton.
Not all brains have an equivalent ability to recognize faces. Like, "face blindness" is a real thing.
As an immigrant from a south asian country, I was super surprised to learn that child marriages are legal in US. And children are often married to their rapists[1].

1.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/child-marr...
Hate to be that person, but -

If you can go from zero to SOTA from a web tutorial in anything less than, I don't know, a year, then the field is severely underdeveloped.

But let that be an opportunity: what it really means is that the field is quickly growing and there aren't well-established experts or leaders.
All those articles about bullshit jobs are usually dull and only look at how far from the "action" you are, giving some moral high ground to the jobs that are closer to it.

It is always the same thing repeated over. For a nurse for example:

A nurse is a real useful job.
The manager of the nurses, are semi-bullshit.
The team of consultants writing softwares to dispatch the nurses to the patients are almost completely bullshit.
The marketing people selling the software to dispatch the nurses are completely bullshit and non useful.
> We're awash in candidates, alright. Vastly unqualified candidates.

Have you ever considered that your resume screening process sucks? I see a lot of "meh" candidates, but not many who are "vastly underqualified".
People believe in Apple’s message and don’t sweat the details when it comes to this stuff. I’m personally guilty of this. I love hearing about these stories and hate hearing about extreme vulnerablities Apple has neglected. I just keep hoping Apple learns from its mistakes and changes for the better.
close at 5:01 and you'll be all set...
Amusing and whimsical. So.much.content. I enjoyed the end though. I spent about 17 minutes scrolling through, reading different parts and got to the end. It called me out for reading nearly 2k works per minute to finish in that time. haha.
While selectively leaking certain emails and withholding other might color an issue it won't make a negative into a positive. And if the leaked emails aren't genuine I have not seen any claims to that effect. So either they are real and they paint a real, possibly distorted picture or they're false but as it sits right now they are the evidence that people use to build their opinion on. If there is an email trail that establishes a different narrative Google is of course perfectly free to release that too to offer some counter weight.
It's the simplest interpretation of the data we have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project...

That article adds some pre-context to the quote above.

> "Avoid at ALL COSTS any mention or implication of AI,” she wrote [...] . “Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI — if not THE most. This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google.”
I'm not sure externally being held accountable is as important as it would seem.

Publicly stated principles such as these give a clear framework for employees to raise ethical concerns in a way that management is likely to listen to.

For example, one of my previous employers had ten "tenets of operation" that began with "Always". While starting each one with "never" would have been more accurate in practice, they were still useful. If you wanted to get management to listen to you about a potential safety or operational issue, framing the conversation in terms of "This violates tenet #X" was _extremely_ effective. It gave them a common language to use with their management about why an issue was important. Otherwise, potentially lethal safety hazards were continually blown off and the employees who brought them up were usually reprimanded.

Putting some airy-sounding principles in place and making them very public is effective because they're an excellent internal communication tool, not because of external accountability.
> to avoid bidding at the monopoly price.

Can you expand on this? What's the monopoly of?
That's harsh, is it not? If the software fulfils its stated purpose and provides value then is it not useless? If the marketing people fulfil their duty to generate inbound leads are they not useless?
So if wife needs a car during the day she drives husband to work in the morning and picks him up in the evening, that's what my husband and I do if only one of us works one day, we only have one car. I can't begin imagine owning two cars if only one of us worked! We'd have to have pretty wealthy to even consider that.
Yes, I would happily pay that for "carbon neutral" gas.
That seems like worrying about drowning when your house is on fire. Let’s put out the fire first. If the fire hoses have bad effects we can figure that out later.
The creator of the GitHub issue said the binary contains a cryptocurrency miner.
Same thing happens in my BMW wrt toggling the adaptive cruise to recognize a stopped car.
Don't read my post as some libertarian competition-cures-cancer nonsense. I'm just pointing that we can create an opportunity for a lower-cost and more effective model, in this particular case.

Regulation isn't what helps large companies reap high profits. Monopoly and friction does. Read your Peter Thiel! In a truly free market, competition drives profit margins to zero. That's just basic economics, taken to its logical conclusion, as opposed to the illogical conclusion of politicians and economists who put aesthetics over mathematics.
For me, the mainframe is a big expensive box. Vertical scaling is still a thing. Most RDBMS work best on big boxes. Some Java applications would require hundreds of GB of ram. There are use-cases for mainframes but people prefer new shiny Kube clusters.
> Are you using ifort (or another high-performance commercial compiler)?

Yes, PGI Fortran.

>I'm wondering if the slowdown is mostly about the very mature optimizing compilers available for Fortran or if it's intrinsic to Rust's language design.

I wonder about that too. Time will tell!
Its the New Yorker -- every article they write reads they like they get paid by the word.
>Some, he thought, were structurally extraneous: if all lobbyists or corporate lawyers on the planet disappeared en masse, not even their clients would miss them.

And how does he think disputes between companies or between companies and consumers should be handled?
Those articles aren't really about how ethanol is used in the US, it is mostly used as an additive for winter fuel:

https://www.epa.gov/gasoline-standards/gasoline-winter-oxyge...

So a smaller fraction of the fuel than used in Brazil, nowhere near E-85.

It replaced MTBE¹, which contaminates groundwater.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_tert-butyl_ether
Pretty rich for them to claim privacy is important when all of this technology is based on funneling your private data straight to them for storage and processing.
By that time Disney world will just be a VR app you load on your 8k VirtualStation via fiber optic link with others. Disney will long have replaced all their parks with simulation because focus groups found that while consumers preferred the real park, the amount of lost park sales was less than the gains of zero liability, shutting down the park and firing those employees who were eating into shareholder profits. The park now only exists as a museum and luxury apartment homes, with paid autonomous bus tours.
it's codementor.io
Every year during daylight savings

You mean the holiday season, when people are stressed out by family matters, eating like garbage at seasonal gatherings, shovelling the hell out of some snow drifts, scraping ice off their windshields, and fighting the weather and general sedentary living, amid cabin fever among other things?
... The rest of the world though? Maybe not caves, but tents or whatever. All the stone-built, permanent settlements you can come up with still leave enough room. I think it might as well be that stark contrast leading to domination (pun intended) rather than war between those cities that's suspect.

I was wondering about Europe specifically, so thanks for the links.
Sounds cheaper than gas here in Switzerland.
Many of the Googlers involved in the campaign against Project Maven are engineers of high caliber and those I know of are fairly activist in general. While I haven't always agreed with those I've interacted with, they're high quality people with high quality records. The sort of Googlers protesting Maven are the sort of Googlers who made Google the sort of company people loved. And they've put their careers on the line to make a statement about what is and isn't okay.

Sundar Pichai's claim to fame was getting the Google Toolbar installer (and later the Chrome one) injected into the Adobe Reader installer. [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-did-Sundar-Pichai-do-that-his-pee...
A great approach to find a good opportunity is to look at the failed business ideas of 10 years ago. The reasons they failed back then may not be valid today because of 10 years of tech progress.
Everything we thought we knew about the gig economy is wrong
From that article: “The origins of the foundation go back to 1997, when then-president Bill Clinton was focused mostly on fundraising for the future Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. He founded the William J. Clinton Foundation in 2001 following the completion of his presidency.”
I know. Still, cheaper than rewrite.
Labor is still quite high in most major metros. NorCal is $250/sqft just for labor, $350+ turnkey.
>“Duct tapers” are hired to patch or bridge major flaws that their bosses are too lazy or inept to fix systemically.

Or, fixing the issue after the fact is cheaper than a systemic fix, so duct tapers are more efficient.
Come on... this is not "Eu's copyright Proposal"... it's one proposal, from one MEP, for one commission of the Parliament...
So you want to do away with the FDA? Put BigPharma in charge and let them regulate themselves? That sounds a lot less appealing to me.
It’s a common, and I believe very fair criticism of the title “Software Engineer” that there is nowhere near the rigor and requirements that “real” engineers (structural engineers, mechanical engineers) must deal with. There’s no licensing. No proof you know what you’re doing. And sure, that’s probably because mostly software isn’t responsible for life or death situations like bridges and buildings are constantly.

But honestly, the term “Software Engineer” is a farce at best.

So maybe the author is in the camp that worries too much about meaningless titles.
In the example, the idea is that nurses don't need minute-to-minute coordination - so having people in charge is mostly pointless except for performance evaluation, and software is completely useless.
Based purely on numbers CO2 capture seems like a plausible idea. The article cites a cost of $0.22 cents per liter of fuel to capture an equivalent amount of CO2. Based on the current 93 million bbl or roughly 15 billion liters of oil consumed every day worldwide, the cost would be around 1.2 Trillion USD per year, or 1.5% of the global GDP. A lot but within the real of feasibility.

However to achieve that in practice we would need to build enough CO2 capture plants to capture the CO2 released by all human activity, and we've been building machines that release CO2 for decades. The effort to catch up is immense. The similar company Climeworks, cited in the article, has an example of such a plant here : http://www.climeworks.com/our-products/. The DAC-18 variant, which looks like the prototype that they actually built, it is a complex 3 stories high structure with 90m^2 of ground area, and according to the product page it can capture 2460 kg per day, although that is probably under ideal conditions and in practice it could be considerably less. According to a quick search we released around 36.75 Gt of CO2 last year. To capture that, we would need to build 36.75e12/365/2460 = 41 million such plants, at the bare minimum. And that would be only break even, we'd need even more to start capturing the excess CO2 already in the atmosphere. That seems unrealistic.
As a political matter, energy policy tends to make either/or choices. As you say, this is definitely not ideal.
What do you think bathtubs, showers, sinks, taps, doors and most fittings are?

There is a ton of prefabrication in construction already. There are also large libraries of shared details.

Most of the bits that are not already prefabricated are the bits that don't have simple interfaces. Either to each other or to their surrounding environment.
Steam store to sell VR porn video games
How do you differentiate between "meh" candidates and those "vastly underqualified"?
“Uber Coca” – Sigmund Freud (1884)
Bill Gates has been funding this project since its inception and one of the founders is a world expert in global warming and a Professor at Harvard so you'll have to do better than unsubstantiated innuendo here. Roll out some real facts rather just than pulled out of your ear guesses.
Is the number 250k projects (are projects repos?) in first 24 hours? I thought it was topping 100K repos imported to Gitlab at some point on Tuesday. This is from Gitlab giving those numbers themselves in a post that was linked from here.

The first hint of Microsoft and GitHub was around 6 pm EDT/11 pm UTC on Sunday.

And like others are saying. Even if that is the case, it isn’t a huge number with context of Github’s size.
I believe the commenter was criticising the concept not agreeing with it.
React is getting more and more unpredictable and confusing. Get derived state, get snapshot.. what? If you don't think users need this method, why put it out in the first place. I have been using React for 3 years, first time I am seeing this sudden shift towards weird patterns, pushed by all the new core developers
If you look at julia, it's done some amazing work at being a very high level flexible language thats also crazy fast. On the side of neural networks, theres some really exciting stuff in flux.jl: https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl

whhich provides a beautiful high level interface to a fast neural network written in pure julia. Here's an example of how simple it as at the core: http://fluxml.ai/Flux.jl/stable/models/basics.html
Yeah, it should be safe now. They re-released the binaries and set up 2FA.
Methane like all other simple and even complex organic and near organic compounds is produced through photochemistry constantly in the solar system.

Titan is full of it, Jupiter has more of it likely than all of the solar system combined, and we’ve already proven that cosmic dust and comets smell like farts.

Mars with its thin atmosphere and lack of magnetic field would be producing organic compounds constantly as high energy cosmic and solar radiation hits the surface.

If anything for Mars it seems that the source of hydrogen might be a bigger mystery but it should have enoguh water in the soil to be ionized and broken down into molecular hydrogen and oxygen allowing organic compounds to form.

The interesting part is the cyclical release during the hottest months of the year it could be biological but it could also and much much much more is just a seasonal pheonomon tied to the temperature.
Everyone seems to be missing the point completely. I am not talking about building an adultery detector. I am talking about an object lesson. I am talking about showing Congress that the systems they are building in order to profile, label, and categorize the public based upon spurious statistical models are dangerous. Congresspeople are myopic, selfish creatures. If it doesn't affect them personally, they see it solely as a matter of "is it more power for us? Then the vote is yes!"

Adultery was picked because it is a very common behavior which is nonetheless viewed very poorly by society. It's the kind of thing which historically gets politicians into trouble. Being named as an adulterer is a realistic thing for a politician to fear, as it could ruin their life - the way getting labelled a terrorist or a pedophile or similar will be a reasonable thing for a citizen to fear when systems are debuted that use the same technology to label people with a likelihood score. That is why adultery was picked. If you wanted to do by pay-for-play where would you get your training data set? Where are the people who have actually lost their office because of that? The others are the same. We have a long history of politicians getting busted for adultery, so we can have a good training dataset. And the results will be garbage and useless. That's the whole and entire point. Once you have an automated system built, it doesn't matter whether its conclusions have any merit. It will hand out judgements, no one will be able to explain what basis they actually have, but investigations will be targetted and reputations will be destroyed.

My intent isn't even to accomplish any of that reputation destruction, it is simply to show Congress the ill use such systems can and will be put to.
You should take a look at the open jobs at GitLab as they are 100% remote and have an amazing culture. I used to work there and had no previous remote experience and would say most of the company didn't either. It has since made it much easier to be considered for remote or full remote because of that experience. A warning though, when I left for another role where I had to go to an office, I greatly underestimated the re-adjustment period and am basically ruined for life for "traditional jobs". I just hate how people are judged for what time you come in and leave, instead of actual black and white contributions. Here is a link to their open roles: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
Twist's whose narrative? MS' history is written plainly for all the world to see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation
Facebook's faux pas seem to be coming thick and fast, yet it makes no dent in their apparent popularity. What sort of a beast is this that it can't be slayed by scandal after scandal?! I mean, much of the media hate it, and they jump on any chance to berate it. I personally hate it, as do a lot of other "geeky people" I know. Yet still everyone wants to use it, all the time.

It's like no one actually cares about privacy. Or what Facebook provides in exchange for privacy is somehow worth it? To me, the value proposition of Facebook simply doesn't add up... I guess much of the world strongly disagrees.
There are obvious differences between groupings based on immutable characteristics, binary status, and those where criteria is less clear. Gatekeeping as a pejorative applies only to the latter.

What you posted doesn't factor that in, and so doesn't appear to raise any substantive point on which to reflect.
Can your brain can learn to be less racist?
Interpreting callback APIs as pure, monad-returning functions
It sounds like you want an employee to take on the responsibilities of a company owner without actually making them an owner, giving them stock, or giving them proper incentives. The problem is not with the labor market, it's with your sense of entitlement to your employee's skills. Employees no longer act the way they used to because modern companies more regularly dispose of employees when it suits them.

If you want employees to act the way you want, either give them stock, pay them significantly more, or give them long term, multi-year employment contracts. If you expect to get something (employees going above and beyond) for nothing, you are entitled.