skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When Britain exits the EU

This is looking less and less certain every day, not helped by the fact that the government has absolutely no idea what it wants or how to achieve it while increasing numbers of people point out that the "no deal" option results in total chaos: food shortages within a week etc.
Thank you for this--I missed it in my read of the article! Thinking about it further, it's a careful balance between defining market supply correctly (e.g. high performing individuals who would normally be hired at Google) without the definition itself being discriminatory (e.g. high performers look like our current high performers).
Yeah definitely a very different experience. I lived in the urban city with a mostly absent single parent enjoying fine cuisine like ramen and iceberg lettuce - actually pretty good eating! Probably a bit late now, but you can often get free dental and medical treatment at universities! My parent ended up getting cancer (and getting over it) largely through these programs.
A better approach than a simple dislike button.
There's no fighting the future, regardless of whether this administration likes to bury its head in the sand.
>, the ability to ask clarifying questions and access tone of voice that you get on a voice call is valuable. [...], but IMO there are times when a voice call is more effective.

I agree that voice calls can sometimes be more effective. Some types of tech support debugging are much easier with the interaction of live phone calls.

Those weren't the type of calls my friend was making. His calls were banal questions like, "I'm looking at these cameras the Canon 10D and Nikon D70. Which do you think is better?" He could have just typed that question into an email for me to reply whenever it was convenient. Instead, I hold the phone to my ear while I'm googling "Canon 10D vs Nikon D70".

>Did you attempt to explain to him why you didn't answer the phone as opposed to trying to "train" him?

No, I never told him in blunt terms, "don't call me anymore unless it's a complex question that requires the advantages of voice communication." I was hoping that dropping a ton of hints would do it but it didn't work. In any case, I changed my number so it's no longer a problem.

>His request for you to "give him a call" moves thing for you back into the realm of the asynchronous.

Not really because what ends up happening is after I call back, his brain says, "jasode is available now" and he'll call 5 or 15 minutes later with a new question. His threshold for initiating phone calls was very low which put me back in synchronous hell.

>I wonder whether maybe you have some other issue with voice calls?

Well yes, as I mentioned earlier: it's not my preferred form of communication. I do acknowledge and respect the fact that others default to voice but that doesn't change the fact that it's incompatible with how my brain works.

There is clearly a disconnect between people who prefer different modes of communication since the gp poster (throwawaymath) seemed truly confused and therefore asked, "Why doesn't picking up a phone fit into your workflow?"
Forced equal outcome? Reasonable to call that far left
Having been a software developer since the 80s, and an ISV in developer tools for a large portion of that, here's what I'm seeing:

- Very few companies want to take a chance on software products coming from smaller ISVs. There's been a great deal of consolidation, and companies are scared to use anything that doesn't already have serious backing and market penetration. Reasons cited often include not being able to hire developers or other IT people to manage the software, or concerns about the longevity of the ISV. In contrast, back in the 80s you had products like FoxPro being created by tiny Fox Software in Perrysburg, Ohio that went on to become some of the biggest developer tools for PCs. This attitude of not wanting to use something because of some other tangential factor was simply not in play. If you could solve someone's problem well, you had a customer.

- Somebody touched on advertising in one of the comments, and this cannot be understated. There is simply no reliable way to find your audience today that doesn't involve "spray and pray" with one's (already-limited) advertising budget. Advertising used to be a great way for smaller ISVs to become known and announce to the world that they were the "real deal". You would start out in the back of a popular magazine that targeted your potential customers with a B&W 1/4 page ad, and then move up as sales increased. It's just very, very hard to get your product in front of the right people that are making the purchasing decisions, and even when you do, the first issue above still comes into play.

- There were options like shareware for ISVs that were just getting started and didn't have any money at all for advertising or promotion. Many great applications started out as shareware and went on to become commercial successes. The key difference with open source here is the expectation that you were supposed to pay for the product if you used it, as well as, obviously, a lack of source code.

Of course, all of this is a giant feedback loop that accelerates over time, and here we are with a few software companies completely dominating various spaces. It could be that this is where all industries eventually end up, but it certainly is not ideal for small business creation. The part I find the most disheartening is that I'm not even sure if this is something that is specific to the software industry, in which case we're dealing with macro issues and software developers are really lacking any tools to buck the trends or change course.
I can't think of a way to fix society that doesn't involve companies consciously hiring diverse (and qualified!) candidates.

Companies are part of society too!
Logical fallacies are mistakes in logic. The appeal to authority fallacy is when you say something of the form "X is true because authority Y says so". I don't see how supporting warrants falls into that. What statement do you think is being fallaciously supported here, and which authority is being used to support it?
The two are very different tho. One is in some sense removing a rule, one is adding it.
Systems programming, I think? Also, much less complexity in the type system than Rust, one of the main new contenders along the old gang of C and C++.
I will grant you K-12 is difficult to break into. This is advice for specifically Georgia. I am not familiar with other states.
Clever is a path through teachers. Teachers generally push joining Clever not Ed Boards or parents.
ERate is a path through district boards.
Parents don't care or understand what/how technology is being used in the classroom. They see iPad, Surface, Chromebook and generally think that most kids can access the same stuff they can on the internet. It is really locked down and usually through Lightspeed Rocket, Palo Alto, Cisco Umbrella/OpenDNS. Many push DNS through Umbrella or forcesafesearch.google.com. Make sure you accessible. Accessible also means you are categorized as "safe". "unknown" or "unsafe" will keep you out of schools.

Chrome extensions, chrome extensions, chrome extensions. I cannot stress this enough. This is the "hidden application pool" that students, teachers, and principals pull from. There is a cottage industry that does nothing but figure out extensions to create, disguise them as "informational sites/extensions" in order to give kids access to games so that they can show ads. It is a constant thorn in the side of IT.

If you have a chrome extension ...teachers will find you.

Most ERate customers make purchases on 5 year contracts or a "buy once keep forever" model...month to month is a pariah. This is due to the fact that with ERate government funds projects, software, and infrastructure can be purchased. ERate funding is viewed like the lottery.

In Georgia at least there is a state run "Tech" board (email list) where different techs exchange ideas. They make recommendations to the individual school boards. You get someone to champion you there and you will pick up several districts.

...again good luck.
>>Saying No is not the engineer's prerogative here.

Outsourcing or no outsourcing, if someone walked up to me and said no to doing something in software team setting, I will likely be finding somebody else to do the job. And yes, I will likely never ask that person for doing anything ever again.

Its not as simple as you make it to be. In this age and era, quitting is a sure sign of a loser.

>>On the other hand, several Engineers from the same country who work for product companies with the right incentives(you get paid and recognised for a good product) show the true passion and creativity.

For saying NO? Doing nothing and saying NO requires 'true passion and creativity', while doing what it takes to achieve the task doesn't?

>>I once received an email from a senior team member(from Florida) to just translate his logic from the attached Word document to COBOL and not to do anything more.

These things are called requirements documents, and yes you are supposed to code what the requirements say.

>>I quit that job a week after, and flew to the states to do my graduate studies soon after.

Please. Passport tourism among Indians is now well known. Also bad mouthing your former employers and colleagues isn't exactly how you go about justifying other reasons to move out of the country.
We have some absolutely awful leadership in this area that is trying to kneecap the future of our country

Indeed: this policy, like many others, just makes me think, "own goal."
It is interesting though that if are far from market supply parity now but they want to reach it by 2020 then between now and 2020 they need to apply really strong positive discrimination (over market supply parity) when hiring/firing.
> chugging three beers would get me more drunk than drinking three shots

The obvious question is what you're drinking - with the rise of craft beer scene, 3 beers could easily be substantially more alcohol than 3 shots. But assuming you match alcohol volume and consumption speed, absorption rates can still vary substantially.

From what I can find, it looks like beer actually would get you (and everyone) more drunk: diluting alcohol substantially speeds up absorption, and carbonating dilute alcohol probably does also.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17720590
This!

Another curious thing I have noted: While living in Japan I was binging on houjicha[0] (which has significantly less caffeine due to the roasting process) on late evenings so I would still be able to sleep. After several strong pots (we are talking litres of 1:1 water/leaf ration) I would often get into a different mind-space that is pretty close to what you are talking about. I tried to research if other catechins (like l-theanine) also disappear in the roasting process or if they could be the explanation, but weren't able to find anything to back this up.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Djicha
The original title is too long for HN, I'd synthesized on from the lede 'graph.

Title: Cambridge Analytica’s Nix said it licensed ‘millions of data points’ from Acxiom, Experian, Infogroup to target US voters

Lede: [O]ne nugget of information Nix let slip were the names of specific data aggregators he said Cambridge Analytica had bought “consumer and lifestyle” information on U.S. voters from, to link to voter registration data it also paid to acquire — apparently using that combined database to build models to target American voters in the 2016 presidential election, rather than using data improperly obtained from Facebook.
A new US-ZTE deal will keep China's smartphone giant alive
It has, MIT/ZLIB/Apache2 licensed, a library for syncing data, including a relay server if needed, and tooling to a abstract the encryption and key management, plus it is designed from ground up to handle P2P uses. Have you checked the rest of the docs and the repo? What is it missing?
I have heard so many people say "I am not sure" and i have heard so many people say "No" and i have also heard some people say No and this is how you have to get to your destination or get to your answer.

So you are 100% wrong when you say "The answer to Y/N question is always yes in India".

Which makes me doubt/ blindly ignore any of your opinion ever.
https://www.gobankingrates.com/banking/savings-account/62-pe...

> The overall results from the survey show that 62 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts, and a third of those under-savers have no savings account at all. The portion of savers with balances over $1,000 is 29.1 percent.
diversity promotion is just another system not based on merit but a system based on discrimination and "affirmative" action
Yes, I think the entire point of social security is to help people who don't have the foresight to help themselves. Since the program is dysfunctional and our representatives continuously borrow against the program, who is it really helping?
An audit only proves the claims were valid at the time the auditor was present. I see them as the health inspections at the local greasy spoon.
I was thinking more from data centers. You could probably do it with nuclear too.

This gif: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/images/2015/08/np... shows how typical nuclear reactors work. They're functionally just steam turbines, the nuclear power is just capable of heating a whole lot of water.

The waste heat, though, doesn't come in contact with the radioactive parts. That's what's happened on the bottom with the condenser.
I can confirm that this completely stops qeys from even sending a request on the page I'm testing it on.

However, any client side protection can be bypassed, especially if your adversary has write access to the code you're trying to protect.

Maybe as an additional protection, qeys should, say, 1 in 7 [0] times, send a request regardless of whether the cookie present.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
The thing is that people aren't hired based solely on skill. There is some degree of bias that needs to be addressed.
There are two ways to look at this story.

You can take it at face value and you can wring your hands over what this story apparently is trying to convey.

Or you can understand the way companies and politics and the media manipulates perception to get outcomes they want.

On the second point, let's read between the lines.

So 2.5 billion is "canceled or frozen". Okay, what percentage is canceled and what percentage is frozen? How many of these projects were actually going to happen anyway?

I have been a part of numerous attempts to manipulate public opinion by claiming that projects were canceled that never were going to happen anyway or making a big show of "freezing" things, when everybody knows the project is going to go through eventually.

In many cases "freezing" is indistinguishable from "we can't do anything right now and we are just waiting to get everything rolling".

I mean, I used to be involved with a company that made up a whole PR campaign about switching to another company for a key contract just as a negotiating tactic, when internally we knew that we weren't going anywhere. This campaign came complete with actual (truthy) quotes from real engineers at the company saying we were considering switching vendors. Of course it wasn't a lie, because we did have a five minute conversation internally about how we were thinking about switching companies, but the intention was never serious.

I am aware of a venture just several weeks ago that fed the media completely manufactured narratives, and these narratives were dutifully swallowed uncritically and subsequently disseminated as fact. In this case, the company needed justification for doing something, so it called up a "friend" and had the friend issue a press release that a certain thing was getting "canceled". We all know internally that it's bullshit and eventually this thing will happen.

So maybe everything here is really true, and may be $2.5 billion of contracts aren't going to happen. Or maybe this is the solar industry playing politics and attempting to create a narrative and pressure the administration to lift the tariffs.

So, I would ask people to re-examine their confirmation bias and/or stop being so credulous.
It's wrong to claim that qualified candidates are being rejected in favor of less qualified, but diverse, candidates.

No position in this argument supports anything like that.
If we aren't going to mark this as dupe, I'll repeat my comment from the thread yesterday: Per the article, backed by "several hundred employees" out of a 2017 Alphabet headcount of 80,110.
Yes and no, I think. Like some other commenters implied, I think it's short sighted. The outcome of working employees like that can end up being of lower quality, so the product suffers, and loses market traction.

I've been witness to this first-hand. Of course, it's only anecdotal, but just the same it's informed my opinions.

Though you're right about your last point absolutely— it's often pretty safe to assume they're (especially larger companies) operating under the pretense we're both referring to.
Laws 3, 4, 5 in the 48 laws of power.

Also when you gossip to one person about another or let that person gossip around you, you are "committing" to that person and taking sides - something else you shouldn't do.
Low-Code Development Platforms Address Soaring Application Needs
I am curious whether it's inspired by Elixir's ExUnit test macro or the idea for that sprung up independently. Greatness is 99% transpiration nonetheless.
Of course it would. :-) Thanks! 600mg still seems crazy strong but I guess everybody's different.
Perhaps people want a short term solution when the real solution needs to be in education, outreach, mediatization, etc.
Yeah just show them your license.

I dont get it more than 1 time a month, but I have noticed that stores dont use the same database. You can go from CVS to walmart to the local pharmacy if you needed to.

But if you need more than 10 days a month of psudoephedrine, I wish I never recommended it to you.
https://www.gwern.net

Gwern is an independent researcher who studies... a lot of things. He's documented some of the history of the dark web, blogs about his nootropics experience and, perhaps most notably, predicted that bitcoin might reach $10,000... in 2011.

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com

The blogs that aspire to follow in TLP's footsteps are legion.
You can put it on grazing land and let the animals keep the vegetation under control.
Sorry to sound like a broken record on this post, but Mikrotik does this. Everything can be flashed. Bootloader and OS. You can even get into a bricked unit via MAC address and their Netinstall utility, and wipe the whole thing with a clean image.
I think this may be exactly what I've been looking for. I've been wanting a "Better C" type of language, but all the existing candidates fall down on some point like - too complicated (Rust/D/C++), no manual memory management (Go), etc. I've even made some half baked attempts at writing my own language.

It seems that the design goals of this language are exactly what I'm after. Going to have to give it a try later.
This bias goes well beyond racial and gender diversity. Why are these the only types of diversity that are ever discussed.

And pls don’t misunderstand this argument, but could the same argument not be used for say diversity of skill? Like how come a company can reject me due to lack of skill?
I know this is an aside, but speaking as a physician the treatment of fever doesn't actually do much of anything [1]. The rates of certain injuries e.g. febrile seizures are the same with or without Tylenol [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1488736/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12076499/
[2] http://adc.bmj.com/content/88/7/641
Family Separation at Border Subject to Constitutional Challenge, Judge Rules
Chrome will never be IE6. Both Firefox and Chrome do constant rolling releases. There's no more "This works with Firefox 4" because in a few years we'll see versions over 100 and they'll be irrelevant. They move up, just like the web, together.

Even MS Edge is on a rolling release with IE11 just sitting back there in its corporate shit role. Safari is really the last big browser not to move to rolling releases.
What part(s) of Rust do you find too complicated, and why?
‘Catastrophic disaster’: Aircraft hack only matter of time, US agencies warn
Law is logic. Logic can be refactored. I'm betting in 5 years we'll see lawyers use AI to help them do their job, specifically to help them create logical arguments for their cases.

What I'm suggesting is computers to take the logic of law code to poke around, tracing logic around and finding the obvious logical inconsistencies. A goal would be reducing law code as well as making it more laymen readable.

Obviously a huge benefit of being judged by humans and peers is a sense of mercy. I'm not saying we should mess with that. Also, I would say that anything the computer found would be a suggestion to congress as a way to refactor law, not trusting the computer to automatically do it.
I think it is not as popular as it used to be for web development, but when I started using it around 2005 it was one of the few choices that were somewhere in between writing php/perl scripts and the very heavy weight Java, ASP,and ColdFusion solutions.

That's in my opinion the main reason why Python and Ruby on Rails got massively popular for web dev in the 2010s. Since then new and existing languages have started breaching into that spot.

What still makes Python stand out is its flexibility and the sheer amount of resources available(libraries, frameworks, books, etc.) across numerous domains. It is a good enough choice for a lot of things, although its not necessarily the best choice for anything.
That's overly simplistic. If women or minorities see women and minorities doing well at companies, they are more likely to apply to them.

If you want to break the pattern it makes sense for companies to take the initiative. Look at what Apple did at WWDC -- greatest percentage of women on stage ever. Having said that, the article has no details on what the proposals were, so it's unclear just how heavy a burden it placed on the company.
Scooters littering US city streets shout: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police'
>but it does produce large quantities of waste brine, among other things

So combination data center, desalinization plant, and pickle factory then?
$10 in Colorado. I'm pretty sure every state has their own price for it.
Land is not a significant input to the cost of any of these projects. And in the US West, there's unbelievable amounts of open space, much of it unused.

If the cost of land is going up, then it's an asset that after the 20-30 year lifetime of the project could be sold for a profit. Therefore, the "cost" of the land is just the financing cost, and the cost of capital has been very low up until now. We'll see what happens with interest rates...

If the land is productive, i.e. for grazing or farming, then the profit from solar must be compared to the profit of the agricultural activity. But there's so much unproductive land that it's doubtless that solar makes a lot of sense.

And even for agricultural activity, there's soooo much excess agricultural production of corn and soybeans, that with only very modest amounts of incentive (in the form of tax incentives), investors will put solar panels on land that had been farmed previously. You'll see it all over the countryside in Minnesota these days.

Edit: Let me back this up with some numbers. Figure 28 of this NREL PDF [1] puts land acquisition at $0.03/W - $0.04/W out of the $1.03/Wdc cost of large fixed tilt systems. Here's an OSU article [2] that puts solar leases of farm land at $1600/acre/30years, which apparently looks to be a great deal for farmers in Ohio.

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf

[2] https://u.osu.edu/extensioncd/2017/02/23/considerations-for-...