skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also - if you're talking about canned tuna, the "Chunk Light" is generally made from Skipjack which is a smaller fish and will have less bio-accumulated mercury than any other tuna.
> the entire idea of Congress delegating authority to government agencies is unconstitutional.

Authority? More like responsibility, aka implementation. I happen to believe that congress born agencies should never have been created. Anything Congress creates becomes a self-sustaining, unkillable organization, because...Congress is glacial in deciding anything.

Any government born agency (regardless of branch) has authority. Which is more efficient and reliable, Congressional Agencies or Cabinet Bureaus? The threat that a Bureau can be dissolved at any time is important to their operation.
A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university
I don't think this is unintentional. His own hedge fund has bought several of Sears' most valuable brands. But even more important, Sears has sold a lot of its real estate to ESL or Seritage or whatever Lampert's holding company is. I've read suggestions that he'll make out better in the long run by reselling that valuable real estate than lifting a finger to save Sears' retail operations. I'm not quite sure I see how buying large spaces in dying shopping malls is a huge value proposition for buyers, but that's the explanation I've read for why he's seemingly knowingly running Sears into the ground. He gets valuable assets for pennies on the dollar.
HN this week:

- Don't trust global supply chains
- Apple loses trust for the MSM
- Microsoft loves FLOSS, really
- Google really is evil, really
- Global supply chains are scary, pt II
- Something about Elm
- Instagram is Facebook, duh
- MSM loses trust for everyone
- EU licks chops, globalist fines
- China buying out EU, world
Can a Cat Have an Existential Crisis? (2016)
Why rent with Spotify? Amazon still has DRM-free MP3 sales (don't pay for a Music Subscription, buy albums), and Bandcamp, CD Baby, and Magnatune are even better places to shop.
It may imply this on a long enough timescale, but as it stands it only implies more that there is a historically larger pool of capable female employees sans CS degrees than there are candidates with. Which is demonstrably true.
This would be relevant if Netflix's suggestions were any better than picking things at random. At least that's my experience.
On the other hand, they are a consulting company. Traditionally optics and credentials are more important in that field.
> Obviously there are tons of issues (breaking securities laws, sketchy companies, bubble mentality, and why actually do any work when you already have the money, among many others). But this shows that demand for small seed-stage companies is there.

It’s worth noting that absolutely nobody is confused about there being demand for highly speculative investment in small sketchy seed stage companies.

That demand has been around, literally, for hundreds of years. The entire point of this category of securities laws is to prevent people from meeting that demand, since doing so tends to have disastrous outcomes.
> They would make 10-20% extra, deliver X to Apple, then sell the extra out the back door of the factory.

Very common in outsourced manufacturing, it's called a "ghost shift" (contracted orders are made 9-5 and a "ghost shift" works later to produce extras). Presumably Apple wised up to this eventually.
What if people named David got hired 10/100 times in the past but people named Denise only got hired 6/100 times?

Hiring practices as expressed in the data get picked up by the machine and applied accordingly. As such, David is predicted to be a better hire than Denise.

This is not about "David" vs. "Denise", but how the machine learning process will aggregate and classify names. David and David-like names will come out on top while obscure names it has no idea how to deal with (0/0 historically) will probably be given no weighting at all.

Sorry "Daud!" Our algorithm says David is better.
People named jki275 that post one-sentence replies on Hackernews? ;)

What kind of work do you do? You're in the military? What's your rank / job description? That's the kind of information I'm curious about. If the answer is "I can't tell you because it'll expose personal information," well, I'm not the one that outed you lol.
> The Hololens viewport is equivalent to a 27 inch monitor held at arm's length

You must have really long arms. It's a lot worse than that. But that's why I said it's best when you augment real world objects. The focus becomes the object, it maintains the object-permanency on its own, the graphics come along for the ride.

> Then add to that you can't walk up to something to get in close for a look because the viewport is at arm's length

That is a per-application choice, though Microsoft does officially recommend a near-plane of no less than 1m. I've personally been able to make experiences that were comfortable at 0.5m, if the graphics were small, and again, anchored to some real-world object.

Yes, better devices will make better experiences. But we have the HoloLens (and Magic Leap) right now. And clients are paying now. There is work that can be done.
"The non-male engineers I've worked with have always been exceedingly competent, smart, and their differing perspectives invaluable" - that is really an (anecdotal) evidence that there is a bias indeed. If the recruiting was all unbiased than the quality of existing male and female force would be the same - if female workers are of higher quality than it means that they need to pass higher requirements.
How to make fish shine
"our latest data shows well over 1% of the top 1-million websites are still using a Symantec certificate that will be distrusted"

Is there a list somewhere? I'm curious to see which organizations missed what happened with Symantec.

Edit: Answering my own question. Found a list: https://scotthelme.co.uk/the-final-symantec-distrust-is-comi... There are a few I recognize, like solidworks.com, ferrari.com, and quite a lot of .gov. sites.
You'll also get people who (rightfully) point out that "plays nice with others" is a nice to have and not a must have. Certain people have skills so valuable they don't need to be liked (the productivity lost due to internal politics/people complaining is < the productivity gained by having them hired).

It's great when everyone can coexist perfectly. However, that might not be the best business decision. There's no such thing as "objectively best" just a list of pros and cons to any candidate, and a company's internal preferences.
The article talks about it a lot. The question wasn’t what the law said but whether you should or not, especially if you weren’t a supporter.
Can you link to some of these studies?
Thinking about names, as well as scuba diving
At a quick glance, I see mostly primitive operations on pre-allocated chunks of memory. WebAssembly might give you a slight performance improvement, but I doubt it would be drastic. V8 is pretty good at optimizing this kind of code. I’m sure the other browser vendors can do this pretty well too.
I've been recommending my clients avoid using it for minimum 6 months post "release" regardless of accessibility.

Gutenberg has been changing constantly. When it's "released" it should only be released as a final version to developers, meaning they're no longer changing it, before being released to the public.

I've known a few people who've developed Gutenberg compatible plugins, only to have it break 2 weeks later when an "update" arrived. "Update" meaning "it's been redone entirely different".

It's been noted elsewhere here - use the official "classic editor". Gutenberg offers ZERO benefits. It's simply a different way of accomplising the same tasks.
They seem to work twelve on, twelve off, with requiring that some of their personal time being used to maintain physical fitness, so does seem like a disaster waiting to happen.
Waste is the security mechanism. Since the hash results are wasted it is risky to mount an attack on the network; if the hash results were not wasted then the cost of mounting an attack would be mitigated by the value inherent in useful work produced by the algorithm. Your rebuttal actually supports this conclusion because "useful work" would become the "common denominator" cost built into securing the network thus bringing us right back to where we started (i.e. a situation where wasted work is the only useful kind for securing the network)
> There are no concentration camps, sure, ...

Are you sure? I keep hearing about these private ICE border prisons with utterly inhumane treatment of detainees.
Teens Are Making Instagram Hate Pages About Each Other
I meant “typical personal computer”; Gravis was indeed marvelous but did not enjoy any significant market share; Sound Blaster was the standard, and 16-bit did not really become common until almost 2000
No, not really. I'm not saying anything about what these things ought to have been called in a perfect world (though I think it actually fits pretty well). I'm observing that they've been called by this name for a while, so even if you can find an unambiguously better one, popularizing it may be hard.
Movies yeah, but music is totally a substitute good to me. If you aren't on Spotify, I'll listen to something else...
I'm well aware they have an agenda. It's why I'm surprised. I was expecting something on par with SNL.
A lot of us drop out mid-career. I'd argue there's more a shortage of female engineering directors, VPs, CTOs.
Sex Differences in Visual Motion Processing
and it's a beauty! no more features needed! not even markdown! it's finished!
Vladimir Agafonkin, the maintainer of this repo, has a lot of cool JS libraries like this, about efficient algorithms for a specific task with very fast implementations[0]. For example, similar to flatbush he also has a repo naimed kdbush, which is points only, but (I suppose) more optimized as a result[1].

He also is involved with libraries for Mapbox and Leaflet, so if you're doing something with the web and with maps, there's a big chance you've used some of his code directly or indirectly.

[0] https://github.com/mourner/projects

[1] https://github.com/mourner/kdbush
Stretched-a-proposal-to-absurdity-driven-refutation
Is the NBA biased against white guys?
I had one of those early 2011 Macbook Pros that had the overheating GPU problem.

That overheating problem was well known, and it took a long time for Apple to recognize the problem and issue a repair order. It was long enough that the AppleCare expired for those who got the MBP right after release, like me.

Because the problem was really bad (logic board replacements had the same issue, and the problem would recur within a couple of months) that a lot of people who had bricked MBP's disposed of them, sometimes at a heavy loss.

I was lucky I didn't throw my bricked MBP in the bin, so when the repair order finally arrived months after my MBP bricked, I was able to get it fixed. I had switched to Windows in that time, and I ended up unloading it to a friend of mine (with full disclosures of its lineage).
Whoa! Same, I guess I never clicked "Threads". Even things as simple as HN can still have more buttons/links than a lot of people will actually use.
I have a mate who used to work for the bit of QinetiQ that wasn't privatized and he mentioned that his new lap top had soldered up USB ports but also had a cd burner that still worked :-)
You're quite right. The political ad deluge has been particularly bad in New Mexico this year, probably similar in other states. The ads are incredibly nasty.
What operating system are you working on that has a shared address space between multiple unrelated processes?

Nobody that I know of works that way besides some L4 kernels and they only use it as an IPC optimization strategy.
They weren’t typically allowed to leave unless they were diplomats, but higher status people were not imprisoned. For example PG Wodehouse and his wife were allowed to stay at their home in occupied France in exchange for making some radio broadcasts.
Sadly that extends to everything. Story and emotion trump facts.
Separate it one step further -- hiring decisions are all too easy to pin as discriminatory. What if a site shows ads for a special offer on protein shakes for people with higher bicep mass since they are in the target market? Is that discriminating against women?
Why Facebook and Airbnb should be nationalized
Better discussion can typically be had on community engines than specialized forums these days, unless they are large and have a decently long history, e.g. bodybuilding.com, honda-tech.com, etc.

I'd guess most discussion in such places is probably meta. tech support, or non-tech support.
We are comparing two energy sources:
one where output depends on the weather, and can go to near 0
another where output is strictly predictable but takes time to change.

Option 2 have the problem of oversupply and undersupply. This forces either storage or fossil fuels in the picture.

Option 1, however, only deals with oversupply, which does not require expensive mitigations.

Not obvious why option 2 is preferable here
Redis: Storing time-series data in a sorted set
Underlying your examples is the implication that a preference shouldn't be considered discriminatory if the trait being selected for correlates with fitness. I agree with this position!

What I don't agree with is the assumption that, in this case, the preferred traits do correlate with fitness, since there's at least one — gender — for which this model is biased even though it has no apparent correlation.
Just like reputable shops don't sell stolen goods, reputable repair shops wouldn't use stolen parts.

I mean, yeah, they would be cheaper, but that's the case for anything stolen. Yet we don't have an epidemic of all shops in the USA selling stolen goods they got for cheap.
Isn't this just an interpretation of the law? Yes, the SEC may try to enforce their view of the law, but is it actually the correct one?

It only takes one SAFT token company to take things to court, and have a judge rule in their favour, to basically legitimise all tokens - no?

(Note: I have no clue who is right here, but just because it's the SEC doesn't mean they are automatically right. Same applies to the IRS etc)
I was really hoping for something good to read, but this is just an ad for the book "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google". Author is mentioned/quoted no less than 18 times.
Stylus (browser extension) + Hacker News Dark - https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark
Interesting discussion by Glen Weyl on rethinking data as labor, rights, auctions, and commodification from his Radical Markets book[0,1]. I wasn't aware of his or Posner's work [2] until seeing an announcement of a talk earlier today.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLOtMMylv5EQ-1iC15BmlQIZ3...

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html

[2] http://ericposner.com/
I use Stylus [1] with the Hacker News Gray style [2].

[1] https://add0n.com/stylus.html

[2] https://userstyles.org/styles/151862/hacker-news-gray
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/02/07/an-information-age-glo...

Bullshit: (1) Data (often a firehose) produced by someone who is indifferent to the truth or falsity of what is being said (my short version of of Harry Frankfurt’s definition in On Bullshit. See also, the Wikipedia summary). (2) Data that appears to contain more information than it actually does (my version, which I think is roughly equivalent). (3) Noise randomly tagged with truth-values to give it apparent legibility (4) Non-requisite variety

Gollumization: The impoverishment of a system through ephmeralization and weaponized attention.

Ephemeralization: The natural conversion of signal into bullshit through creative destruction (derived from original definition due to Buckminister Fuller).

Arbitrage: Exploiting bullshit for profit.

Weaponization: Separation of data into information and bullshit, and deliberate direction of the two signals at different systems (generally a hunting party and a cargo cult respectively), with the intention of creating serendipity in one system and zemblanity in another.
> You could go to the moon with that cash.

Not quite, but you could get low Earth orbit.

To compare, ST3, the light rail project in the Seattle area, is costing about $54 billion. That could take 1 WA State resident to the Moon and back.
I love people like this, and there are so many on this thread. They have survived for so long on communal aphorisms without ever doing any homework of their own, that they cannot comprehend anyone would ever write something positive about Microsoft without having been paid by them.

Ignoring the personal attack (the second I've received on this thread - no greater indicator of the quality of 'discourse' when it regresses to ad hominem), you almost managed to make one good point - the Linux commits are indeed mostly related to Azure and SMB.
Oh hey, I had the same issue. Except micro-services eventually lost.

Having class libraries in NuGet did work well for us (we are open source).

Next trend to die soon: TDD / "Unit tests" that mock half the app
I’m not saying that all candidates should be interviewed without ever meeting or interviewing the candidate face-to-face; rather, I was speaking specifically of the coding interview portions. In these segments, face-to-face doesn’t really matter IMO, since it’s all about the candidate’s problem-solving ability.

Yes there’s a lot of “bias hysteria” out there, as you put it, but I would dispute that advocating “author-blind meritocracy” falls into that category.

Quite the contrary: An author-blind review process would actually make any bias impossible — either for or against any particular identity group. It seems to me most people should be able to get behind that, but maybe I’m wrong.

In fact, the main opposition to author-blind meritocracy is the “post-meritocracy” movement which is slowly making its way into open-source projects codes of conduct.
1. then the answer is quite easy and you needn't have gone through these machinations. get the offer to see what you're worth, but turn them down. personally, i'd turn them down "on the spot" when you get the offer without thinking about it. don't actually laugh, but say that their offer isn't in the ballpark. don't give a counter, just thank them for their time. you never know, they might come back with significantly more.
Since I'm in a time crunch: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may...
There's also a notion of uselesness that changes, for a while you'd spend time hesitating between choices and then you'd just pick one, throw out the rest.
The continued hatred of Microsoft amazes me. If Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, and RMS all joined Microsoft and proclaimed it safe, I suspect the accusations of selling out or being drugged would be leveled within milliseconds.

I fully realize RMS would never do this; my larger point is that with a huge chunk of the population I don't think there is anything Microsoft can possibly do to convince them they aren't evil/truly friendly toward open source.
The most efficient way to deal with this asymmetry:

1. Pick a random sample of someone's claims and statements

2. Research them thoroughly, so as to figure out if they are bullshit

3. If a sufficiently large percentage of their statements are bullshit, do not bother listening to anything else they say. Not even to "give them a fair hearing", because it will occupy all your time and energy.

4. Re-calibrate every 5-10 years, in case the person/organization has changed over that period

The above algorithm is particularly useful in dealing with the steady stream of bullshit that arises out of particular media outlets and political figures.
Good lord I’ve heard before about how there was a close superpower conflict in 1973. This is very alarming, and it could still happen between the US and Russia or China.

We’re really playing with Fire if you look at the number of close calls there have been with nuclear weapons. The only sane way we can carry on guaranteeing a decent existence for mankind is to work towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

https://www.upi.com/Yom-Kippur-Israels-1973-nuclear-alert/64...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/cuban-...
Venture exchanges will have more work to do past "the protocols match" - regulators look at the security (the coin) as well as the exchange.
Seems pretty obvious to me that they were rejected earlier in the day. The rejection triggered 2 batch jobs: One to gather applicant demographics and one to notify of their status. The timing was unfortunate, but almost certainly a pure coincidence.

Cue lazy "shill" accusations in 3... 2...
Did it fail though? Or do you only see the failures?

How many natives went through that? How many ended up with children that are more or less fully assimilated into mainstream Canadian culture?
Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network
Two things strike me after reading this.

1: How much conflict has been spawned due to the UN Partition plan which created Israel? I haven't dug deep into the factors that led to this decision (I'm sure the aftermath of the Holocaust was understandably huge) but the idea that a new sovereign nation would be created catering to individuals who don't currently live in the land which consists of that new nations borders just seems absurd to me.

2: Maybe this is ageist on my part but after watching hours of Senate committee hearings this year (Zuckerburgs testimony and the Kavanaugh hearings) I would not be against a mandatory mental health check up for our highest officials which includes some sort of mechanism to remove them from office if they are determined mentally unfit to serve. I can't imagine the pressure that government officials deal with everyday but I don't think its safe to assume that the levels of bureaucracy are enough to contain an individual who is mentally unfit from making rash decisions that can affect the nation.
Comparing the groups equally seems pretty absurd when there are tiny numbers of violent leftists who are only sporadically public and have nothing resembling central organization, while violent rightists are organized and centralized enough to effectively temporarily take over a small city (see the complete lack of police enforcement with the Charlottesville march).
If the Universe Is the Ocean, We've Only Searched for Aliens in a Hot Tub
OpenProject 8.0: the new release packed with many powerful collaboration feature
Two comments:

1. The issue is certainly bigger than hiring. In the many years between birth and looking for a job, there are a lot of societal pressures that will impact what eventual careers people end up in.

2. Hiring managers are people. They are not perfect. They have biases. If someone expects an engineer to look, talk, and act a certain way, that can impact their decision making completely independent of the fact that they want to hire the best people for their company.

Bonus third point: I still see a whole lot of "We want to make sure that the hire fits on the team." This is completely natural, and comes with its own set of built-in biases.
From this article/Amazon - no. From my personal experience, yes.

After we moved to a logic-based test, we were able to hire several more women from interesting disciplines including psychology, math, and biology. The tests involved technical problems written in a general way. For example, thread scheduling was written to instead involving painters, rooms, and drying time. We were able to hire 4 women on a ~50 person team in a very short time, and it worked out pretty well.