skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is how it's written, but this person's entire career reads like a rat navigating through a maze built by superiors. Even though they say the job is among the happiest times of their life, it helps put into perspective the follower mentality some have, especially in the public sector. I'd have given the middle finger right away knowing I can find enjoyable work sans harassment. To put it crudely, I can't even sympathize with someone so willing to grab their ankles.

Instead of telling your kids to avoid working at places with a polygraph, how about instilling some confidence and make it clear to them that if they are/become really good at what they do, they have the leverage to not put up with these things (at least in non-depressed employment markets).
Yes, I missed that. I had GR in mind.
At my school (UK) we had 2 main sources - the teacher, and the textbook. Niether were primary.

Students used the internet a lot, and Encarta (lol), and were constantly getting grief from teachers for doing so.
I have a parallel, I used to be overly shy (crippled to a point); thus drinking two beers would de-inhibit (npi) me just enough to be able to sit in a party without feeling affraid etc. Some say that it's a bit alcoholism, but to me it just recalibrated a twisted system to be able to be stable and ~normal.

Best wishes for the future.
While true, even staying in the realms of straight C that function could have been improved.

typedef struct list *person_data_list;

person_data_list getPerson(const char const *name);

Yes it still does not provide all the necessary information, but it already does provide a bit more.
This says far more about the credibility of wikipedia’s editors than it says about Breitbart.
Software development as an external agency is such a broken concept that I never apply for those jobs.

The interests of both parties have serious misalignment.
Sounds like energy arbitrage using physics. I love the idea. I wonder what it will look like in a decade when its adopted more or will it go away when chemical battery storage is cheaper and renewable energy is more efficient.
Please, do not give up on philosofy. It is the mother of all sciences and has answers to fundamental questions any human being has, had or will have, like:

- What is the nature of reality?
- How does one acquire knowledge?
- How can I trust what I know?
- What is a good life to live?
- How should I act on a daily basis?
- What should I expect from others?
- How the society should be structured?
- What is the purpose of art?
An interesting fact is that, for a time, phrenology was linked to atheism : both of them stemming from a materialistic point of view.
Except for those times what is cited is a scientific journal behind a paywall. You can’t really quote those unless you pay up.

Then there’s the whole “WikiGate” (terrible name, but whatever) where Elsevier gave free accounts to Wikipedia editors[1]. That doesn’t help.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/09/wikigate-raises-ques...
> And I consider war to be unethical profiteering

Do you mean all war? Or something more limited, like conflicts involving the US over the past 20 years. Or, only for the initiators of conflict. I find that line of thinking hard to justify after the most basic application to actual historical events.

Like when Finland was defending itself against Russia, was Finland attempting unethical profiteering? What should they have done instead?
Interesting. Could you please explain why you needed that?
This pump storage facility has been running in North Wales since 1984:

http://electricmountain.co.uk/Dinorwig-Power-Station

It has three main roles on the national grid:

1. Near instant response for peak demand fluctuations (e.g. half time during major sports events).
2. Bootstrapping generator for rebooting the national grid should we ever need to.
3. Grid frequency regulation (keeping that AC at 50Hz)

There are a number of projects in progress to look at consumer side Demand Side Regulation (DSR) to provide the latter two grid services without having to carve out mountains or build massive battery farm like Tesla.
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> Half of the United States looks at the face of Donald Trump and cannot believe that it is supposed to represent them. And half of the United States seems to look at this sallow, unhealthy, and time-ravaged frame, see the panicked flailing of the tiny-fingered hands, and recognize some version of themselves: Out of their depth, failing upward and ever upward on a warm cushion of unearned privilege.

Um, what? That sort of came out of nowhere, and is then left hanging, as if every reader should obviously agree with it.
>A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business.

I think it depends. Is this an internal tool they decided to monetize? If they're dogfooding it's much less likely they'll cancel it
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When we were sailing there were times where we were hunkered down at a marina or anchorage. Most of our neighbors were white hairs and they enjoyed the independence. These boats were kitted out to go months between provisionings.

Anyway, jobs like these seem dystopian, but unless your career was already highly mobile it’s very hard to make a consisten income and be a nomad. Corporate remote jobs are extremely rare and the few that exist are being pushed towards expensive city coworking spaces.
> take them to lunch!

Heh some years ago while interviewing at the Googleplex, I was forgotten about over lunchtime. It was overall a weird interview experience, even though I ended up getting an offer. I definitely get more ruthless and efficient when I am hungry, so maybe that's why I did okay. But it was still an eye-opening experience, and not in a good way.
Did you also buy a fancy alarm clock or just use the calculator ?
Things like the Intel ME vulnerabilities and some of the fancy audio based or RF based attacks really make that assumption important. Maybe a safer assumption to make: any computer can be hacked at any time.
Personally, I like to check the ratio of median to mean household income as a crude measure of socio-economic polarization.

It's not pretty: https://i.imgur.com/58MIBxB.png

edit:

here's an alternative version for those who think letting the y-axis start at 70 is too confusing: https://i.imgur.com/zSNjZY2.png
Only during daylight savings time, otherwise it’s AEST or less commonly AEDT. Or even EST.
That rhetoric was a useful tool for winning debates and being persuasive, particularly in politics

But that cuts both ways: two skilled rhetoriticians in debate each won't permit the other to deploy a logical fallacy. Therefore they will always converge on the truth.

Rhetoric can only be weaponised when your opponent is unaware of it, and is powerless when they don't care about debate because their mind is already made up.
If that statement was actually part of the test, that poor guy had a very dangerous job. "Might as well put the new guys in there, if they get killed we don't lose someone more valuable."
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It really is mostly FUD. Wikipedia tends to be quite accurate (on somewhat popular topics, anyway) precisely BECAUSE there are multiple people reviewing articles.

I'd argue that its strength is exactly being a secondary source, instead of just alledging facts someone has already taken the time to value multiple sources. Additionally the talk page often adds extra depth.

Instead of blindly hyping against Wikipedia, it should be taught to use it well (and not depend on it too much).
What kind of task are we talking about here? A bug report opened by the QA team or the development of a new feature?

I agree that hunting bugs is very difficult to time-estimate correctly: it could be either a simple overflow bug that it only takes a dozen of lines to be fixed or it could be an architectural problem not spotted before that needs some serious evaluation before taking action.

But a development task should be predictable to estimate to some extent. An architectural analysis should reveal the parts of the system that need to be modified and it it takes more than 2 weeks, maybe the problem should be partitioned into smaller problems easier to estimate.
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There is $1.5T of outstanding buy orders for BTC right now? That seems inflated.
> What is the actual use of grabbing an element that has an ID that matches the URL hash

Well normally when you load such a page the browser will scroll down to that element. Perhaps this JavaScript wants to do something like highlight the section or extract the heading to send to some analytics?
I assume evaporation is gonna be below an inch a day in even the most hot and dry climates. Considering the total height of the water column it's negligible.
Ad Hoc - https://adhoc.team is pretty great. No whiteboard, homework based interview process, unlimited vacation, plus you get to work on things that matter to a lot of Americans like healthcare.
How long does a game of diplomacy usually last? Does someone often win?
Sci-Hub is pretty amazing for any paper that has been out for as long as most sources on Wikipedia have been, so in truth you can almost always read them in full.
Hey, hi! Sorry to hear that. I can understand what you are expressing. I'll try to comment on what you've written. Just read it and don't take anything seriously that you should follow that in your life :) If there is one thing, I wanted to say then it is, find help my friend!

> I'm wondering how long it took you to get diagnosed as bipolar 2, and who diagnosed it - GP, psych?

I think I can remember, that I've been experiencing these mood fluctuations since I was 12 years old (7th grade in school). I have never been consulted a psychiatrist or psychologist or any form of therapy till when I was 17 years old when it went quite severe, I went psychotic with anxiety and depression when I was in high school. My parents had figured out somehow and took me to a psychiatrist. So, coming to the point, I consulted him for some 2 years and he diagnosed me as bipolar 2. And I've been on and off on medications for the next 5 years then somehow I started taking the meds continuously for the last 4 years due to too much suffering. Now I'm 27, though I wouldn't say I'm too optimistic about life and people, somehow I'm moving on with day-to-day activities and finding my joy in it now and then.

I said, medications saved my life, because through that I can be able to function on day-to-day activities. People helped and some are still helping me absolutely!

> They're always interspersed with really good days, maybe too good -- heaps of planning and ideas, unbridled optimism etc. It's hard to know what's considered to be the baseline for normal mood fluctuations.

Oh, my friend! This is the hardest part for me to understand really which is the emotional threshold and where will it lead me to. I really don't know, sorry!
As you might have noticed if you had clicked on either the reddit thread or the amazon link that’s not so.

Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology was published in 1981. It’s been cited 40 times. That’s not a seminal work but it’s not marginal either. Cultural Marxism was a self-description before it was ever used as a slur.

Product Description
A thorough examination and analysis of the tensions between political sociology and the culturally oriented Marxism that emerged in the 60s and 70s is presented in this volume. In order to create a strikingly original synthesis, Weiner considers the work of theorists as diverse as Jurgen Habermas, Claus Offe, Alain Touraine, Anthony Giddens and Alvin Gouldner, many of whom fall ideologically outside the cultural Marxism movement.

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture has the following review

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Marx...

... If this collection is long and complicated, that is because Marxist theory has a long and complicated history: no simple summary or static model will suffice for a genuinely dialectical theory, one that works with the essential concepts of contradiction between the emergent and the persistent, mediation, and overdetermination. ...
a testimonial from that page:

> Scheduling interviews used to take a long time, but now it takes just a few clicks

The software must be pretty basic if that's a featured quote. What were the deciding factors for who they reach out to for these quotes? If that's one of the better answers, my respect for HR people has sunk to a new low.
Very rarely is estimation about simply the work required.

Estimation is normally off because something unexpected happens. Staging environment down, build server is broken. An external dependency takes longer than expected. On a new unfamiliar legacy code base where our previous work estimates no longer apply. Those unexpected problems vary widely in how long they take to resolve.

Yeah, if you estimate on a familiar code base, when everything goes right it's easy. But very rarely is that the case.
Show HN: Check ping easily in menu bar (macOS)
> But most of the content in the original article is still valid.

Well.. I mean sure, you can program the things this article says that way.

But my point is that once you move even slightly beyond basic color, like the alternative buffer, or e.g. input, hard-coding escapes is going to bite you.

That means that if you recommend that, you are doing a disservice to people who don't know better.

And that means that "most of the content", line-by-line wise, is valid. But the sentiment behind that, the idea that "terminfo is a fucking joke" is invalid.

I'm also disputing that all this juggling of weird strings is in any way less work than using ncurses, so why not just use curses and have it "all" work? (Except for the stuff that curses doesn't handle or is slow to incorporate - 24-bit color has "just" gotten in)
Would love to see some evidence of a mass migration to Haskell... anywhere.
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What do those four areas have in common, incredible levels of government manipulation and funding. Seriously, the areas where the government subsidizes, buries under regulation, or bleats about during election season, are all areas that suffer higher than normal costs increases.
After 15 years I still struggle to estimate how many times the client will change the requirements within an ~8 week project, let alone how long it will actually take.
Source: I've been here 4 years, pretty much always in Shenzhen.

1) If you will be using wifi/landline internet (vs. always tethering to your phone), get a paid VPN that advertises working through the GFW and make sure it works before you leave. YMMV, but I've tried SSH tunnels, shadowsocks, lantern, streisand, and probably a few other open/DIY methods. In my experience none of them work for more than a day or so before they start getting throttled or completely blocked. If you are constantly moving from one connection to another it might be different. Your results could also be different in a different area of the country.

2) Get a working foreign SIM that lists China somewhere in the contract, or buy a Hong Kong "cross-border" one (not a generic HK one, which will only work in HK)... they won't be blocked. The Hong Kong one will likely only work in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, but it's probably cheaper than setting up something based on a US SIM.

3) Don't worry about your laptop/phone unless you are a journalist or work at a target for industrial espionage (for example, FAANG)

4) Don't go out of your way to start controversy, but certain people can have interesting conversations about sensitive topics. Give it a little time and ease into it if you feel like you need to talk politics. Or if you have trouble reading people's emotions just skip it. Pretty much anybody with a graduate degree in a technology field would probably be happy to help you debug VPN issues if you're already friends with them.

And some not so much security as general survival topics:

5) "Boo yow lah jhaow" = quit putting those fucking Sichuan peppers in every single thing I order (YMMV in different areas of the country, but here in Shenzhen even cabbage isn't complete unless it's fried with a generous handful of peppers and vegetable oil). (This will be completely ignored about 50% of the time, even if your pronunciation is correct.)

6) Baidu maps is pretty helpful if you want to show a cab driver your destination. They won't be able to interpret google maps. Older cab drivers won't be able to see the small characters on your screen, but if you take a screenshot then zoom in sometimes it works. Or just choose young cab drivers.

7) Wechat. Everybody has it. Even if you never try to pay for anything with it, you can quickly "friend" someone and even if neither of you are dual language you can long-press on messages and use the in-app translation to get a lot done. Just be careful to avoid idioms and slang, use simple sentences, write out pronouns instead of dropping them, etc.
Until someone starts talking about initiatives to reduce birth rates in second and third world countries, the global warming hysteria will appear more politically motivated than anything.

Tax tax tax, but never address the root cause, which is an ever growing human population. That and the same "environmentalists" supporting the rush to import millions into higher western countries, does not add up.
If you do not divide people, then they may get together to create a tower and become gods themselves. The media has to divide, but can't come out overtly in the process. They have do it subtly. Little digs like this remind us all that the important thing that matters is literally skin deep.
sorry could you explain what pinned or fixed mean in this context. by asserted, i mean the corresponding bits being set. similar thing to when one says an interrupt line is asserted, or gpio is asserted :)
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I don't know what a linked list is or a "regular" list. The site is broken mobile. There's no screenshot of how the app looks or works.
Not just Windows they're talking software updates in general.
All labor opportunities are not equal. Driving (especially with GPS and navigation), cleaning, preparing food, moving things might be labor opportunities, but they are things that many more people can easily do with minimal training. Therefore more people end up in the labor supply for these types of positions, and therefore that type of work pays less.

The fact that someone would even be willing to accept "gig" work is because the better opportunities they might have had such as manufacturing, customer service, secretarial, travel agent, etc is automated or outsourced, and/or they need to supplement their income because it's not rising in real terms.

>The amount of human labor needed hasn’t changed in any meaningful way compared to what was needed before

I disagree with this statement because I think that is all that has changed. Before and after instacart or uber or whatever, the cost of gas, vehicles, maintenance did not change in any meaningful way. So why did people not have things delivered for them? Because the equivalent amount of human labor required to do what internet+app+GPS would have been too costly.

The nature of rich people and drivers and butlers hasn't changed, I'm sure those that can afford to have them full time prefer that than some random person on Instacart. And while transaction costs have changed, what has also changed is a demand for labor that needs to be permanently employed for 40+ years. So you have the perfect situation where labor has nowhere to turn but these apps, and these apps can reduce the cost of utilizing this temporary labor such that the upper middle class can afford to use it.
The good thing is that it doesn’t matter if you agree or not, nor if I do. The linked sources are listed above, with direct links to the engagement polls from Gallup.

Even in light of your comment, I still don’t see any evidence that my view is a negatively biased interpretation.

Your comment does read like an ad hominem though, which makes me question your participation in this comment thread. You’re not seeking data, except a throw-away comment at the end that is a bad attempt to undermine the quality of the data already linked in the Gallup polls. You’re seemingly only here to criticize subjective aspects of my reply.
Thanks, not aware of this. I used expressvpn in the past and it worked well. The only catch I noticed is that streisand is still on python 2.7, hope it can be upgraded to 3.x soon, as python3 is the default on new linux distro these days.
They would just deduct the social contribution from the earnings. Name a country where it's solved.
Well stated. The problem that the blanket ban on one source introduces is that it becomes a divisive issue. The source and faction that subscribes then believes Wikipedia has lost its objectivity (even if it is trying to maintain the truth). The faction then just starts saying Wikipedia is biased and discounts it as a credible source that speaks the truth universally. To be clear I am not saying that the non-truth should be considered in Wikipedia - I am saying that I like what the parent suggests. Wikipedia should look for a more broad application of standards for sources, as the parent suggests flagging universally around citations not meeting standard, etc.
This. I often wonder "Is it worth learning X? Will I enjoy it? Will I feel productive in it?" And reading these kinds of posts can be helpful in making that decision.
Mind referencing where Smith highlights this as a drawback of capitalism? I'd like to learn more.
Work samples are the only thing that have ever proved to be consistent indicators about a candidate. The only other thing that even comes close is pair programming with someone on the hiring team, and you can have the pair do a work sample anyway.
One of my concentrations in college was Multimedia Programming in Shockwave. I build a 3D, multiplayer version of Spy Vs. Spy with randomly generated levels.

The host would generate a 2D array of objects and locations and then transmit to the client. I felt so smart back then.

The 3D engine was pretty easy to work with. I hand-coded and hard-coded every single animation, since it was faster than learning how to animate.

I miss working with Shockwave, it provided a wonderful combination of power and accessibility. I've found Unity to be the closest in features, but don't get the same thrill from it.

Ah college.
This is a bold claim on the glossy brochure of philosophy. I don't see evidence that philosophy has answered any of those questions or has the tools it claims to answer them.

Whenever I hear arguments about the contemporary relevance of philosophy, I ask myself "could these same arguments be applied to Alchemy and Astrology?" These were precursors to modern chemistry and astronomy, and their practitioners made many significant discoveries that we still use today. However, we have updated their methods significantly so though they are still known and read about, but not actively used.

I have not seen solid reasoning and evidence to suggest that philosophy is not in a similar situation.
Carter's dam in Georgia has been operational since 1977 doing pretty much the same thing. Pretty sure the idea has been around for ages but with solar and wind power needing storage it might see more use. The one consideration is that recent environment trends have been against dam building in some areas and even to the point of removing them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carters_Dam

On a side note, the imagery in the article is very good
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I _really_ wish posts to Medium would indicate if its a story that hits agains the Preview Member stories.