skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's difficult to measure software engineering competence unless you were involved with a very high visibility project?

Most software engineers work on proprietary code that no one is allowed to examine. So you have no idea if the principal engineer you are about to hire is really good at his craft or not because you cannot examine his prior art, it being proprietary to his previous company.
Without a public statement even saying they disagree with it, which seems to go against their pro-privacy principles and goes against what they've done in other government-based privacy disagreements they've had. I wish they'd make actions against their principles more transparent lest people think it's just lip service they are paying to the masses.
This test says otherwise

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11152980
METHODS:
Data from 21 years of United States' fatal automobile accidents were gathered. The mean number of accidents on the days at the time of the shifts (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) was compared to the average of the corresponding mean number of accidents on the matching day of the weeks preceding and following the shift. This was repeated for each DST shift. The number of accidents for a particular shift was also correlated with the year of the accidents.

RESULTS:
There was a significant increase in accidents for the Monday immediately following the spring shift to DST (t=1.92, P=0.034). There was also a significant increase in number of accidents on the Sunday of the fall shift from DST (P<0.002). No significant changes were observed for the other days. A significant negative correlation with the year was found between the number of accidents on the Saturdays and Sundays but not Mondays.
Confidentiality without central gateways. The topic was, "with stripped down SSL" and evey user should be aware of, cloudflare can read and store every content of every connection made to a domain connected to cloudflare gateways even if they seem to be end-to-end-encrypted.
Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0
Duedil are offering free API keys for fetching company and director data in the UK. API docs look pretty nice and descriptive https://www.duedil.com/api/docs
As an example of "skills" abuse, one can call engineers with 3 years typescript/react/redux/noSQL senior and 10 years frontend development across what existed over the last 10 years (possibly including typescript/react/redux) are too qualified for "JS" positions one is no longer filling.

The reality is that years of experience in the general area include a lot of transferable skills to actually deliver in a landscape of new versions and languages. That landscape won't suddenly stop changing to make whoever learned only what was hot in the last 3 years a stable senior engineer, but pretending it will is a great way to cut out any older engineers.
Agreed. The title is doing disservice to the content.
I'd love to know which are the more selective job sites. I'm having trouble finding work and i haven't figured out if it's due to a horrible resume (hired a tech recruiter to do it so I assume not) or if I'm horrible at interviews.

I'm convinced that interviewing for programming jobs and being able to code are two different skills. Making it worse for myself is that I come from the military and IC so i dont have any public blogs or Github activity so i can't pretend to be a "thought leader", which I'm also pretty sure is a bullshit term.
You have to remember Apple is a global company.

And there are journalists being locked up for allegedly compromising state secrets e.g. Myanmar, Cambodia. Dissidents being rounded up and jailed. You have Russia going after former spies and anyone criticising the government.

People are literally dying every day because of a true lack of privacy.
The ars technica link beside you says otherwise. Reuters also ran the story.
> Sure, you could start your own or join an instance that doesn't do that kinda stuff, but then what's the point of federation?

That is exactly the point of federation.

Maybe jerk admins are a real problem, maybe they aren't - but they can't boot you off the network, and you'll always have options.
Thank you for pointing out that gem. Good to know!
You are greatly overestimating the cost of dealing with states that do or do not observe DST. We don’t here in AZ and it barely matters. The worst is that everyone else expects us to move around our daily stand up times twice a year so they don’t have to.
But they promise this new product (Datomic Cloud which is incompatible with traditional Datomic called on-premise) will solve all your performance issues because they have taken the work of doing all the AWS for you.
(posting anon because silicon valley is a small community, sorry take w grain of salt)

im a senior product leader at a successful saas post-IPO company that used "simon kucher" (author's employer), and specifically had the author as the lead consultant.

the work they did was "fine", but hardly earth shattering: they recommended effectively what we already knew we needed to do but leadership was too afriad to do. so the board convinced the c-levels to spend $500k+ on these consultants to effectively validate the findings.

pro tip: strong product leaders already have a really good idea what the pricing model should be. you dont have to spend a fortune to have someone unfamiliar with your business and market tell you.

[edit: technically Madhavan isnt the author but i dont really know who is]
Culinary: Edible part of a plan that is not, or does not contain seeds (i.e. not a fruit).

Biology/Botanology: does not exist. Only the definition of fruit is of interest. Thus something that a cook would call a vegetable are classified into finer categories (e.g. leaves, roots etc).
The most obvious failure for the Cell architecture was that it was horrendous to program. That was partly caused by the lack of memory coherence between the PPE (main core that ran the OS) and the SPEs (the faster cores meant for offloading computations to), but also caused by a lack of developer tools.

The main lesson I would take away from Cell is that you want to design an architecture that allows gradual performance refinement. With the Cell, it was more of a step function: good performance came from using the SPEs well, but using the SPEs well was hard. There wasn't much of an in-between.
This Dormant $720M Bitcoin Wallet Has Woken Up – But Who Owns It?
Elon Musk sued by the cave rescue diver he called 'pedo guy' and 'child rapist'
I agree with your positions above and nothing below is intended to counter that.

> Doctors, scientists, lawyers and engineers in other fields

Careful there - Doctors notoriously fail to adopt (as a group) newer lessons until they are replaced, and lawyers have a similar problems when new areas of law open up (often in tech) - those areas are just fewer because law tries to define everything in terms of existing procedures. And I'm sure science has plenty of ageism problems that are similar enough. Note that the continuing ed classes for doctors and lawyers do not prevent this.

> Software however prides itself on the young eating the old

Software has a cycle we've not learned to defeat, and I think that's the root cause. Specifically (ish): To solve a tech problem in a clear context is easy and quick, so you adopt that system. Adoption means more reliance, dependencies, complexities. Soon, a problem arrives that is not easy to solve with all the baggage you've collected...but solving it OUTSIDE of that baggage is easy. Cycle repeats.

At a large scale: Software is a bit unique in that we get to code our own tools. What I can do in an hour after 5 years on a problem is far more than I can do in an hour with nothing - that learning and those tools get encoded into a library/framework/language, which becomes the hot thing. But now it can't itself change without violating assumptions relied on by everything using it, which means the rate of adding learned knowledge to it slows, while the rate of adding to "competing" systems does not. Eventually they are just plain faster/easier/better, and they become the hot thing.

The reason this is significant is that we're still learning how to program. We're actually REALLY BAD AT IT - programs are to translate between humans and computers, and those two do not think alike. We're embedding complexity and then suffering because there is complexity.

We're learning, but that is an iterative process- eating itself, as you say. Once the field approaches the age of medicine or law, we'll be as good (or as bad) at managing change as they are, but until then we're can't really compare directly.

[Edit: their/there mixup]
The OP's strategy to fight, while clearly a valid approach, has the twin problems of survivor bias, and absolving corporations of their actions.

[IANAL] "Emergent behavior" is a pretty weak defense, because now you have to prove that you had no idea that the bad thing would happen. Getting into a trap of "You're either evil or incompetent, and we're just deciding which." is a bad place to be.
>It's shocking to me, maybe I'm naive, how quickly the changes in law get exploited to the maximum.

It shouldn’t be shocking. The people who push this sort of feel-good legislation always, always, always fail to think about how these policies can be exploited or handwave away such concerns by assuming that the number of people who would do so is vanishingly small.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap

> The welfare trap (or unemployment trap or poverty trap in British English) theory asserts that taxation and welfare systems can jointly contribute to keep people on social insurance because the withdrawal of means-tested benefits that comes with entering low-paid work causes there to be no significant increase in total income. An individual sees that the opportunity cost of returning to work is too great for too little a financial return, and this can create a perverse incentive to not work.
A MIDP JVM for the Nintendo DS
Yes, it's a few bucks cheaper, but for me Protonmail has that security focus that I worry Zoho don't have. Zoho also provide many other spaid services and that makes me worry about what they have to focus on. Exciting features vs boring security.
You need a payment method with a billing address in the country.
> But if that were the case, I'd expect that e.g. gasoline prices roughly follow the ups and downs of crude oil prices.

Why? Oil is an input for gasoline, no doubt, but it is also an input for wheat. If wheat diverges from the price of oil, nobody thinks twice. What's special about gasoline that requires that it follow the price of oil, despite being traded as a separate commodity?

There is a relationship between the price of oil and the price of gasoline, but not a direct one.
Now you are assuming, that the Universe has countable size.
Another one is traversing enums in Rust: https://docs.rs/syn/0.15/syn/enum.Expr.html#syntax-tree-enum...
If you're going to claim a complex statement is untrue, it would be constructive to identify which part, and Hazen didn't have anything to do with the hiring case. It would also help to have the facts on your side. As it turns out, Hazen didn't even provide a clear answer for the firing/layoff case. On the one hand, they decided that interference with a pension did not automatically violate ADEA. On the other, they decided that it did violate ERISA and sent the case back to the appeals court to be decided in accordance with their decision that Hazen had in fact acted illegally and willfully. So, basically, you have misread or misrepresented the case.

[1] https://www.oyez.org/cases/1992/91-1600
This is the best example of live by the sword die by the sword [0].

Pay for play is a huge issue in journalism, that he was mocking poor white guys with an interest in gaming is very dickish. Gaming is by far the largest cultural industry [1], more important than Hollywood.

I'm more worried about the billionaires buying failing old newspapers and using them to spout whatever ideology gives them the lowest taxes, but that doesn't mean I can't see why someone might care about their hobby being sold out.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/842413-gamergate

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-31-games-indu...
Distinguishing stack versus heap memory accesses and allowing processors to not have to, e.g., check stack reads against pending heap stores could certainly have performance benefits in the memory system. The Reduceron does that since Haskell doesn't have the sort of free pointers that make this infeasible in C:

https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/
Fundamentally, RSS is supposed to be a tool to deal with information overflow yet it failed.

The demand is how to get the content of what you want and when you want in the quickest and easiest way.

Social networks, Tweets, FB, RSS subscriber, flipboard etc. all attempted despite the Ad revenue must be taken care along the way, yet none has really met the demand.

Do you get news from your friends, or subscribe people, or visiting sites? To me it is as much as mundane as 20 years ago when internet started. The problem has been resolved except many have made tons of money while tackling it. The fundamental problem remains unresolved and still waiting for answers.
New Botnet Hides in Blockchain DNS Mist and Removes Cryptominer
Armies and airlines are filled with regular people, so it absolutely could work.

The resistance is cultural, not because people can't deal.

I'd love to be able to say we could schedule a call next Tuesday at 1900 and everyone knows exactly what that means without having to consult a look-up table.

Imagine coordinating between teams spread across Arizona, which doesn't do DST, New York, which does, Brazil, which does but for the southern hemisphere, and Europe, which has its own thing going on. Getting people on the same page is not trivial, each week can be a whole different set of time-zone offsets.

It'd be like switching from °F to °C which, once done, is not a problem, except of course if you have a stubbornly regressive administration like the US did in the 1980s.
I'm pretty speechless. $50/year is twenty seven point oh two (27.02) cups of startbucks small coffee a year for a family.

Do people truly think that's expensive for email hosting?! Honestly, no wonder Facebook and Google keep trampling with the so called "rights" of people successfully by peddling "free stuff" -- even those in tech paid six figure salaries think fifty dollars for essential communication for a year for multiple people is expensive.
What are the ethical ramifications of privacy and security?
Correct: about 6 hours forward every day (sometimes more, sometimes less).
Generative art is my hobby and I know about these advances in AI so I would really love a simple tool for this. Maybe an SDK or something. I only have a laptop with a shitty GPU so there's no way I can train an run my own models.

If there were a tool where I can just patch together random models that would be definitely interesting.
Remember when articles like this would be adamantly defended by the cryptocurrency faithful? Pepperidge Far- never mind. Now people just chuckle and can’t even be bothered to engage with these pump and dump schemes.
You disagreed, then confirmed that, as the comment you replied to said, your view is 'based on your experiences with your narrow network of "older" people'.

In addition, switching the VCS your company uses is possibly not what your engineering organization should focus on. I don't know enough about your company to say if switching away from ANSI C is worthwhile.
I generally agree: it's about weighing trade-offs, and calling software companies "lazy" is perhaps an oversimplification. However, I do believe the speed of light and size of atoms puts an upper limit on the degree you can keep throwing hardware at the problem. We may continue to find tricks such as quantum computing, but I suspect it will get ever tougher. There's a theoretical limit to how small you squeeze data and to how fast it can transfer.
Spain has adapted to living in the "wrong" timezone by doing many activities one hour or so later than is common in other countries, in order to match the sun's actual position.

A lot of stereotypes come from not understanding that we don't do things late, we do them at their proper time and it is the clocks that are wrong.
Yep, I mean YouTube existing within Google obviously.
It seems like GANs (from my perspective as a layperson) are the best application of neural nets to take an input and generate a very creative output. From the small set of papers I've read, it seems like we are converging upon some interesting general applications of GANs that could be turned into services. But, it sounds like you don't think that's the case, and if that's so, that explains why there are not more GaaSes. Or, maybe it is because of that acronym. :)

So, in a nutshell, it seems like the code isn't generalized enough that the output could be predictable enough to make public and useful as a service. Right? I do feel like every time I dip my toes into playing with a GAN, I do get lost in the setup, and I wish it were easier, hence my need for a service to do the art projects I want to build.
This is a SQL query.. in terms of a large organization, you should expect a large-scale performance review based firing to follow the demographics of the company. If your query has enriched for older people you have a problem. Also when you do fire people who have a longer tenure it begs the question as to why you didn't fire them earlier. I would find it very suspicious if you said they performed poorly this year vs last year and that is why they were fired as most big companies have processes to improve performance over a time period. The statistics will tell the story. IBM needs to made an example of.
You've made two good points. I would suggest the next step is to synthesize them. As with many things, moderation is important. A strategy that balances the two downsides is probably better.
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I think in the case of a JITed function in a dynamic language, whether the body is the "same" or not depends on how the interface used by the function is monomorphized - which in turn depends on the trace.
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I would rather point out that JSON::XS simply refused to fix its most important bugs, and rather blamed upstream. I simply fixed those bugs and kept maintaining it. I also added many new features, just streaming support not yet.

The name is a bit unfortunate though as Cpanel itself still refuses to use it for political reasons. There is a high-profile jerk there running an agenda for his own personal profit.
So I rather want to persuade Lehmann to give me his namespace and continue with it under the original name.
According to a quick internet search, Scotland has about 8 hours of sunlight in the winter and about 18 hours in the summer. You'd have to shift by about 4 hours to keep sunrise at the same time in both mid winter and mid summer. I'm guessing that's not what they were doing and that right around December 21st the kids are going to school in the dark no matter what, or else the sun was coming up at 3 am in the summer. Either way, a one hour shift wasn't making that big of a difference.
I'm sure they could deal and there is absolutely no reason for them to have to. Just because some techies feel that some other system is a more logical approach isn't justification for normal people to pay any attention whatsoever to their ramblings.
As for the 'noise' factor, try red-teaming your hiring processes, though for your particular situation it may not be the best. For example: with the major job sites, make a fake profile that is a 100% match, apply for your jobs, see if the fake person gets through, at what rate, etc. Do it for 90%, 80%, 70% matches too (define the % match as you see fit).

Trying to 'hack/red-team' your own system may reveal weaknesses and flaws you weren't thinking of and help the hiring process. See what penetrates, what doesn't, chat about it over lunch, etc. And yes, it does seem like taking an adversarial approach towards your very own hiring processes is insane, but here we are.
I've tried both. In California, through T-Mobile cellular, Fastmail ping times are ~150 msec. Protonmail, about 3x that.

Protonmail U2F support and web UI are not perfect, but good enough.

Those were the deciders for my needs.
> Really makes you wonder at what other interesting phenomenon are happening in plain sight we've yet to notice.

It happens all the time, and is both exciting and a little worrying (because it implies that basic effects that we should already understand, we actually seem to misunderstand quite often).

As an example of this, we didn't have a full explanation for why alkali metals seem to explode when you put them on water until YouTube when Phil Mason (thunderf00t) started working on it[1] -- the classic explanation was that it was because of the hydrogen gas released, but this didn't make sense because they would also explode under water. There was a Nature article about it[2], but the gist of it is that once the alkali metal melts and sheds its oxide surface due to the high heat of the reaction there are solviated electrons in the water that attract the metal surface and causes spikes to shoot out from the metal which then cause more spikes and then it all goes bang (because reactions can only happen on the interface -- having more surface area causes more of a reaction) once the surface tension breaks.

This also explains why thermite explodes when you put it on ice and similar effects. And the solution to stop these sorts of explosions (which are obviously a hazard for people who work with alkali metals) is to add a weak surfactant (like soap).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8
[2]: https://www.nature.com/news/sodium-s-explosive-secrets-revea...
What is legal is not equal to what is moral. If you force Amazon to pay some decent wages all across the country they would have to comply, and, as the result won't be able to shutdown the facilities in the depressed areas. Because they need the facilities to run their business, duh.
I had used Android Nexus devices starting from Nexus S up to 6P and finally switched to iPhone 8 this year.

Android has better UX and has some nice features but there are no real privacy settings, Android apps have no proper inspection before being released on the market and too frequently some 0day RCE exploits are released publicly for Android.

Privacy features were the biggest reason I switched and even though it is not as convenient to use it, I'm going to stick with it for the foreseeable future.

Oh, and the hardware build quality "feel" seems much much better than any Android phone I have held as well.
How these kind of changes were implemented before?
It's honestly not surprising that someone so divisive in the start of the post (twitter being right-wing, "Shitler", etc) would attract a lot of problems. The guy is clearly a political troll so he's going to be poison to any community he joins where he posts like that.
The post title confused me a bit. The phrasing made me think that Murakami put together this collection and then "introduced" it to the world by publishing it. Actually, Murakami "introduces" this book in the sense that they have written an introduction for it.
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> And yet, cartels and illegal price fixing occurred pretty often in history.

There's a lot of research that's gone into this. Cartels (specifically multiparty cartels organized around price fixing) have rarely been stable for extended periods of time. The exceptions are usually either

(1) Domestic cartels which are able to gain the backing of the (nation-state) government that has jurisdiction over them

(2) Cartels which are able to find a separate motivation shared by all parties to justify the collusion

The first case is obviously not applicable to what we're talking about here. The second is what I already mentioned, and it's pretty rare (and not applicable to this situation either).