skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For finding a job at a crappy company, because those are the ones that hire bodyshops.
Check out Paul Meehl, a psychologist who was really into epistemology:

https://meehl.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/074theoryte...

http://meehl.umn.edu/unpublished-material/philosophical-psyc...
I knew a few people in this space about a year ago and I pretty much hear: "realistically, 15 years out at the earliest."

Driverless. Technology of the future. Always was. Always will be.

But seriously, how much would it take to mostly handle driving trucks on limited access highways between exurb mega-warehouses? By "mostly," I mean, be able to handle 98% of all situations, and be able to flag attention from a remote control human supervisor for the other 2%. I suspect we're pretty close.
The argument that autonomous tech will save lives is the most dangerous. This will take decades to be true.

The same companies who are pushing for that narrative, are also the first ones to blame the drivers when their tech goes wrong.

There’s so much data fudging to push for those narratives — they want the credit for lives saved, and at the same time don’t want the blame or liability for accidents caused.
>No one really likes killing your heroes but sometimes it must be done.

It's true. You've got to get your hands dirty. I'm confident I learned as much about the Dark Triad from repeatedly stabbing Delroy Paulhus as I did from merely reading his work.
In firefox you can click the site security information thing in the address bar and then select "Disable protection for now".
My firefox sets the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header and loads the https site instead, I guess that's what makes the difference between browsers.
As a non mainframe programmer I found your anecdote about windows reliability contrary to the experience I have had over the past few decades so I am not sure how accurate the rest of your post is.
Your comment would only make sense if higher education institutions didn't evaluated students throughout the whole degree. If a school ends up graduating individuals that are not capable members of society then clearly the problem is not how many freshmen enrolled in a course.
It's good that Mozilla's working on improving the embeddability of Gecko; hopefully that'll at least lead to more diversity in rendering engines for web views.
I don't even see SE as a value phone, it's just the best damn phone available from any manufacturer. I've used this body style exclusively since the 5 came out in 2012. It's the perfect form factor. I simply cannot understand the appeal of these massive phablets. A phone is a tool for calling, texting, and listening to music. Anything else is for a laptop/desktop (to me).
I have read some of DFW's work and mildly like it. (Not enough to pursue more, though.)

DFW strikes me as someone who either (a) is very intelligent and creative and always spinning off new connections and ideas; he's too excited to spend the time to make the ideas clear and simple, or (b) is trying very, very hard to look like (a). (Jonathan Franzen, mentioned in the article, strikes me as trying far too hard.) Good will makes me want to believe (a), while stories like those mentioned in the article lead me to (b). Also, I'll note that the very intelligent and creative people I know tend to spend a lot of time trying to get things clear and simple.

This article, however, is simply blog-spam. Nothing to do with being a bad friend and everything to do dropping factoids about Wallace.
> I mean clearly I have not done enough to mitigate homelessness in this country

Don't know your situation but assuming you are not on the Forbes billionaires list you probably pay higher tax rate than Bezos. In that sense you did do something to mitigate homelessness.
> However, with a good coach (not easy to find) you will progress much faster.

In what way coach is helping? Providing that your technique is correct, application leads you - so what's the coach's role?
There's a lot of discussion here on why Psychology has this problem more so than fields outside the social science realm.

I think we're all missing what is fundamentally flawed about academic psychology; and it's not their methodology.

In North America (perhaps elsewhere) you are required to have at least a Master's degree to practise Psychology and you should have a doctorate if you want any mobility with your practise.

This leads people who have no interest in academia having to find a way to convince people they've discovered something new and novel so that they can go apply what has already been discovered.

It's no surprise many of this studies can't be replicated! They were designed from the beginning to lead to a significant findings so that someone could write their dissertation, get their doctorate and get the hell out of there.

And you know what? I do not blame them in the slightest. Academia is a nightmare and it's holding a whole profession hostage.
Learn How to Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress
Surely part of the problem is that so many people love or want to live in a place that long-term, can’t get water, is subject to deveststing earthquakes, and is overpopulated in terms of what can be sustained in a sane manner over time? It seems like the last thing to do is fill the place up with more people. Even if you reject that premise, what you call “unnaturally restricted growth” is being applied to a truly massive city. What would unrestricted growth look like exactly? After all was said and done, would it still be such a desirable place to live?

I get the impression from CA property discussions (of SF especially) on this forum, that anything which drives up rents and makes it hard for the typical person on this forum to live there is de facto, wrong. It’s obvious and the received wisdom that the solution is to build build build. Are you so sure the solution for everyone who isn’t looking for a high-end techie salary (i.e. most people) isn’t for the industry to be less concentrated in one city?

Plus the whole water poured into a desert and earthquake things.

Now I realize this is all a massively unpopular viewpoint around these parts, but these parts are at their most “in a bubble” around this issue I think. It’s no shock that the people who stand to benefit most from their preferred solution are fanatically in favor of it, especially when the alternatives involve (in the short term) sacrifice, and ideologically undesired outcomes like continued regulation. The thing is, between people who spent a lifetime in a city not wanting it to turn into blocks of high-rises, and an influx chasing VC money, there really is more than the dichotomy of “the virtuous” and “the NIMBY.”

Everyone here would benefit from reading Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner.

Edit: I knew going in that this was going to be downvoted to death, but I hold out some hope that it can get some thoughtful rebuttals too. Preferably light on the glib “Natural disasters happen in many paces” canard.
Why does it have to be either/or?

I think driverless has the potential to be both - we can have a bus system that runs dynamic routes based on the users that are going to ride it and runs closer to ideally efficient vs. a fixed route that is likely inefficient.
> America could build up municipal rail and bus infrastructure to ....

I don’t think the killer market for driverless cars in America in the first place. Places like China that have all that (commuter rail, subway) but lack places for new roads and parking would benefit greatly from optimizing their limited road infrastructure. They already have people who are used to taking taxies everywhere, now make the ring roads automated only to triple their capacity.

Europe, Asia, can be benefit greatly from driverless cars because they have a different situation from America.
>There is really no excuse for them not trying to replicate each others studies this whole time

I think that this statement fails to account for the incentives for researchers: what kind of things they get success, praise, and support for doing. Despite their importance to the scientific project of any field, replicating experiments and publishing negative results are not rewarded the way that new studies with positive results are.
> A lack of typing puts an upper bound on the complexity of the code that effectively limits the line-count and relegates the language to 'glue' status.

That's an opinion, not a fact.

> IMO any mechanism that shifts that time of bug catching to development rather than operations should be preferred

That's probably true of an existing product, but that's not the only concern in product development.
>300 ppi is really tough for most people to tell a difference. Breaking that barrier is what got me to buy the Kindle Voyage.

I don't think there is a difference between a 326 ppi and a 500 ppi phone. What I care about is color depth, brightness, view angle, and whatnot.
Different teams can be different in large companies.

https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries has a bunch of good questions.
I would recommend you do both. Give a little (but only less than 1%) of what you make today, but aim to make a ton of money. Once you've made the money, give all you can. Your children don't need that much to live a life without work (10-20M).

It's more important to know how you give and whom you give it too. I'm of the opinion that given $5 to a homeless person is much more effective than giving $5 to a charity.
The bigger problem, IMHO, is the attitude that it's some kind of moral quandry if technology allows us to solve a problem without effort. For example, I've heard people really say that an obesity-preventing drug would be a bad thing because it would discourage exercise. This fetishization of hardship does a lot of harm, because in reality, the kind of progress we can make as a civilization essentially amounts to refocusing exertion on increasingly impactful things.

Other examples of this phenomenon:

Direct atmospheric carbon removal is bad. It encourages emissions!

Contraceptives are bad. They encourage sexual license! (I had to try to avoid the obvious joke here.)

Highways are bad! They encourage driving.

Word processors are bad. They discourage good penmanship!

Fertilizers and farm equipment are bad! They discourage small family farms!

GPS navigation is bad! It discourages map reading and mental direction finding!

Some of these examples look ridiculous to us now, but people really did think these things at some point. I see some opposition to autonomous vehicles falling into the same category.
>This is the country that starved millions of its own citizens (the Great Leap Forward), annexed Tibet (and now pretends Tibet never existed) and killed thousands of its own citizens in peaceful pro-democracy protests (Tiannemen Square), the last only ~30 years ago.

Well, glass houses and stones and all that. There's a country that eliminated millions of its native citizens and restricted the little left to reservations, abducted and kept in slavery millions of black citizens for nearly four centuries, stole several huge areas from its southern neighbor, has the largest prison population in the world (25% of the world's prisoners for merely 4% the people in the world), had segregation for blacks until the late 60s, dropped two nuclear bombs (on civilians), has gone at war and/or occupied several countries all around the world that have no borders with it and had done nothing to it, has toppled foreign governments, has widespread surveillance that covers the whole world, meddles with worldwide politics, secret no-due-process prisons, regularly murders people in sovereign countries, they still have the death penalty, while the rest of the western world has abandoned, and their cops routinely kill thousands of people every year (especially black). Heck, they also bombed/invaded 4 different countries just in the last 20 years.

And they're pretending to have the moral high ground, and even point fingers to other countries! And if you point those things out, they go "but whataboutism", to restrict the conversation to some other party, which they present as uniquely bad.
72 new bursts, on top of 21 already identified, in five hours of data. Total of 93 bursts in five hours, for an average of one every 3 minutes 14 seconds. That's... rather surprising.
It must be facebook
Technically, isn't that an upgrade, or at the very least a sidegrade? The SE is newer and has better specs in most areas.
> Whether Google works with the Chinese government or not will have absolutely no impact on human rights.

That assertion only makes sense if you assume that helping perpetuate human rights abuses has no impact on human rights abuses.
Yes we are sending radio light out, but it certainly has not traveled 3 billion light years. Also, our weak transmission would be nearly invisible. FRBs are interesting because they are super high-energy bursts over short time durations.
For reference, that's closer than Pluto is (normally) to the Earth.

Other sources all say "3 billion light years", which seems more accurate and believable.
Oh they’ve done away with the 6-lane artery. ALL of those roads in Los Angeles now have a dedicated, hardly used Bike Lane in each direction. More Traffic. More Pollution due to more stop and go. And little benefit to the people. I’m all for Bike Lanes where enough people will actually use them to create a benefit that outweighs the impact of losing that lane, like DTLA. Or Manhattan. But across sprawling LA, where people take on an extra commute 1.5 hrs/day to get their kids to the “good” school, the shotgun approach to deleting traffic lanes is just stupid.
They have a summary chart: https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/free-college-com...

It seems overly strict. For example, Maryland, Indiana, and Washington cover living costs and fees in addition to tuition for 4-year colleges, but they count it as not being "free college" because you can't use it to enroll half-time or as an adult.
The matter is a little more complex than this, given the EU itself is a signatory to ECHR, so indirectly via the ECJ and so forth decisions via the ECHR can affect any EU member.

Historically the ECHR has been a hugely respected Court, the shame alone of an adverse decision against a State has often been more than enough to prompt action. Most EU states have domestic legislation forcing their courts to interpret domestic statute in a manner compatible with the ECHR. Some go even further. Scotland's parliament, for example, is entirely unable to legislate in a manner incompatible with the ECHR.

In today's world, with its crumbling institutions, who knows if the 'shame' effect still means what it once did.
https://www.obspm.fr/spip.php?page=imprimer&id_article=2998
Pretension tends to be satisfied with appearances---carrying the literature around rather than actually reading it.
EM waves are spherical in nature (analogous to ripples in a pond) rather than directional. So the rotation of the earth wouldn't significantly affect the strength/reception of the signal by a distant planet. The bigger factors would be signal degradation because distance and other kinds of interference.
Over 58% of tech workers say they delayed kids because of soaring cost of living
Tibet was theirs for century though. And it, plus all the rest, are neighbours they have disputes with.

Not random countries 10000 of miles away they felt like bossing around...
You argument is basically that it is more important to figure out who to blame for deaths, than it is to get rid of those deaths in the first place.

That strikes me as weird.

Also, the people who will be paying out damages will be exactly the same as the people who are paying out for them today. The insurance companies.

The simple solution to these "ethical" issues is for everyone to have insurance, and for the insurance to pay out.

And I am sure that the insurance companies will be very happy with this arrangement, as reduced accident rates mean that they make more money.
Refusing to do business with totalitarian regimes dedicated to violate their citizen's human rights is in itself a way to leverage soft power.
A Device for Saving Earth from an Asteroid Is About to Enter Assembly Phase
Message probably says: "Get us in touch with your Plutocrats".
My experience in my multiple Montreal soujourns has been so different that I consider the Metro to be a jewel. I admit that some stations are grungier than others (once I had to duck an errant basketball at Cote-des-Neiges) but that was once out of around 100 trips. I do agree that the air conditioning is marginal.
Fstransform – Optimus Tux
You really presume a lot, you have no idea how these affected me. Both of these affected me terribly. In fact, as an Australian, it’s rather ironic you mention the 2004 Tsunami. My entire country mobilized around that event.

And I never had a “mental breakdown” after September 11. Where you got that from, I have no idea. As someone who has PTSD, I consider that to be a pretty ignorant comment.
With the default list, one is eventually asked "Which one is better?" with the options "best" and "better".

Obviously, I'd choose the exact match.
I'm of the opinion that the complexity of possible human behavior and phenomena is too great to allow for some experiments to be replicated and controlled.

There are some scientific facts about humans that you can establish because you can do a replicated, controlled experiment and there are others that you can't, for ethical (no one should allow this experiment to be done) or material reasons (this experiment is very easy to conduct assuming you have multiple copies of the planet earth).
"sanctuary city" is essentially equivalent to open borders. If you deny the ability to enforce immigration policy, then having immigration policy is just a waste of money and effort. It's like having a door but no walls around, so if you are not allowed in the door, you just go around it.

> He has however repeatedly refused to openly say he supports "open borders"

Come on. If the person does not say "open borders" for tactical reasons, it doesn't mean he doesn't support the concept, especially if he says "no creo en fronteras".

> The push to abolish ICE and for sanctuary cities is a reaction to injustice committed in the name of the law by ICE specifically.

So let's say police and courts do an injustice (that happens a lot) and you say you want now to abolish police and courts. Would it be unfair to say you object to law enforcement? If yes, then you'd have to explain how do you see law enforcement absent police and courts. Or recognize that - for whatever reasons you arrived to this position - you are now doing exactly that. Somebody who objects to enforcement of immigration laws - as a whole, not in specific cases - must either explain how it is not "open borders" - and the burden of proof is on them - or recognize that's what they are for. Even if it is tactically uncomfortable.

> All the talk about "open borders" comes from conservatives purposely exaggerating and mis-characterizing their opponents' views

Please explain how "open borders" is mischaracterizing "yo no creo en fronteras". Maybe my Spanish is worse than I thought it is - what exactly does it mean then?
Tech service companies have to rely on reputation for renewals and referrals. Focusing on quarterly profits makes managers take short-cuts that burn bridges. It might work in a commodity business where the outputs are standardized or easy to grade, but short-cutting reputations is shooting your own foot.
Just like teaching humans to drive. Yes, sure, you have to show them how to do it on the highway/BAB, driving safely at 130+ km/h, but it's really not hard (over long distances things you can't really teach make it difficult). City driving on the other hand takes time to master; here easily 80 % of the driver education is done in cities (0-50 km/h).

Practically all the edge cases, all the difficult situations and complex maneuvers are done in cities. Outside cities driving is very simple and safe (if you stick to the limits).
They've generally kept older models around, haven't they? The 7 is nearly identical to the 8 and didn't get discontinued last year.
Start and clear interval without setting a variable, clear interval anywhere
Systems in general tend to have a way that they like to be used. Erlang has all of the tools to support that model, and from my limited experience with it, works great when you respect it. I wouldn't reach for it due to my inexperience, but if I had someone like you on my team, I'd love to learn.

Java also has really great tooling.. when it is used like it wants to be. I don't have enough erlang experience to know if it is true there or not, but with Java, I've found that smart but green devs (like it sounds like Heap has) tend to reach for systems that solve a lot of their initial problems and cover up their initial ignorance, but then trade it for operational problems down the road. More experienced developers tend to build systems that are boring, explicit, take longer to get to Beta, but don't require a pager.

drob mentioned that they aren't writing flink jobs very often, which makes me think that they are probably using it for some sort of rollups / stream processing of their analytics data. If the business logic of those is complex, they'll probably have a bad time with outliers that fuck up their cardinality assumptions. If it isn't super complex, they probably didn't take the time to model their data correctly with boring java classes, and keep pushing complexity into the interactions between their actors.

Either way, they would have a lot faster and easier to maintain system if they forced themselves to pretend to be stuck with java 1.6 except where 1.8 stuff improved performance and readability (basically avoid abusing streams and reflection)
Cloud Native Application Platforms – Structured and Unstructured
Your username checks out though.
I'll have to re-read this series, as it's been a while but I remember feeling dissastified after finishing it the first time. I think the conclusion was basically: yup, programming is hard, no matter what you do you're going to wind up with a big mess!
There's a fish port as well:

https://github.com/matchai/spacefish
Better link: https://github.com/chrishtr/display-locking/blob/master/expl...

TD;DR: https://github.com/chrishtr/display-locking/blob/master/READ...
As I understand it, there's no need for a clause like "Candidate’s source code will be destroyed and Company will not profit from it unless Candidate is hired.“

Unless the work is specifically 'for hire', the interviewee controls the copyright to the source code. The company cannot use it without infringing that copyright, much less profit from it.
Its the Greenbank telescope in West Virginia. I don't think its particularly associated with SETI.

The telescope is available on a rental basis. People just schedule it to point it wherever.
I'm skeptical there is a shortage of competent people to necessitate hiring idiots because you can't hire those with potential conflicts of interest. Finding and recruiting (and in some cases possibly grooming) competent people is hard, which makes it seem like they're extremely rare if you don't have success at it, but that's a different issue.

Corruption is a huge problem with huge costs to society, however hard they are to quantify. It's like a cancer that grows exponentially and kills institutions, and the fallout is messy and difficult. So while everything you said has some sense behind it, I don't believe the cost of eliminating those potential conflicts of interest (which I see as small) approaches the value of reduced corruption (which I see as large.)
Don't the 100K-ish Teslas, in monster mode or whatever it is, get within a few tenths of a second of this? 2.3 seems to stick in my mind, for some reason. Maybe even 2.2 or 2.1 .

And that was a year or more ago.
Marriages of Mathematics and Physics: A Challenge for Biology (2017) [pdf]