skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an amazing coincidence that all the most racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and religious fundamentalists in the House and Senate happen to be from the south. The same people who supported segregation, poll taxes, and the generation that still lynched black people are still alive and voting. That wasn't ancient history, that was something my parents and grandparents remember watching on TV growing up. It beggars belief that all places in America should be equally as bigoted despite the fact not even a single generation has passed since the rest of the country had to send the national guard into the south to prevent mob justice against black children attending a white school. Strom Thurmond was still getting elected into the Bush years. Weird how the south is just like any place else now despite doing nothing to change and giving no indication that they have changed.
The kind of verbosity you describe isn't really the issue in my view. The contentious verbosity is theKindWhereVariableNamesLookLikeThis and "fluent" programming style that turns "assert(testRes == expected)" into "assertThat(testRes).isEqualTo(expected)". It's excessive and removes value most of the time.
"For example, if I were running for a relatively high office that took a lot of funds to compete, I'd openly take funds from any legal source. And that might make me more inclined to meet with those organizations over given issues. However, it would be up to me to decide what is best for my constituents in my votes/actions over specific things."

It's a feature, not a bug...applied empirically to the modern electoral mechanism.
I disagree.

On a fundamental level, there's no way to draw a line demarcating owls, and otherwise non-owls. It's a false dichotomy, founded on behavior alone, which is subject to peer influence, and other sources of behavior modification. All people lead lives distorted by circumstance, particularly when it comes to circadian rhythm. The behavioral effects of daylight savings time prove this. Casual caffeine consumption is another fact to poison the well.

Anyway, I'm routinely up until three or four in the morning. I despise getting up for a nine to five work day, but I do it. Every chance I get, to sleep in, I take it.

Many times, what's really going on, I've discovered, during periods of extended vacation or unemployment, is that I wind up in rotations that push my bed time forward by a couple of hours every day, and then I sleep for any number of hours, until my body need me to get up, and begin my routine. This pushes me all the way from a midnight bed time, around the entire clock, realigning with a midnight bed time in less than two weeks.

Technically, this is classified as a disorder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_disorde...

When I get locked into as static 9 AM, alarm induced wake pattern, this frequently expresses itself as pulling an all-nighter, just to realign with the totalitarian nature of the work week, such that I might arrive to work on time, for some bullshit, daily 10 AM scrum stand-up, or whatever. It also leaves me really fucking moody, including symptoms of seasonal affective disorder.

But you know what? I'm not crazy. I'm not sick. I'm just forced to live my life on other people's terms for economic reasons, because I wasn't born into a trust fund, and I'm not otherwise independently wealthy. So, by corollary, I cannot tolerate the idea of being taxed financially, to treat something medically, when it should not actually require medication.

Anyway, you have to account for the proper modular math, when declaring that night owls "simply do not sleep in" nor can you claim that your supposed version of a night owl never experienced fatigue, after 10 hours of undescribed daily activity, due to the psychological cost of an ego facade, or whatever.
No one in the bay area cares about fishing.
Absolutely it's not even a contest.

Even an upright will sound much better than an electric. I've bought one of the best electric pianos you can buy (Yamaha N1 which has the same action as a grand piano) and it still didn't compare.

That's not to say the electric ones are bad but there is just much more nuance you can achieve on an acoustic.
we should alter everyday language to drone on with endless hedges and caveats in an attempt to cover every combination of human traits.

I'm not sure how you get that from anything I said. I'm saying that 'lol, yanquis are fat' is not a sensible response to some random story about a person making good use of assistive technologies. It seems like a totally unnecessary distraction that comes from not-a-good place.
I thought the blonde stereotype was gender neutral?
The south is the states that lost the civil war. It goes past Mississippi.
Well, I think there could be lots of rocks but they are hard to see.
Our internal 'recruitment services' dept is all outsourced/contracted

That would make me immediately rule out working for such a company.
They aren’t underpaid. Tenured professors have the ultimate job security. They also get paid sabbaticals which is fairly rare in the real world. Adjunct professors on the other hand — those are definitely underpaid, but they’re often doing that work as a side job or they’re trying to fight their way to tenure.

A job from which you can’t be fired? That’s worth something. Stellar benefits? That’s worth something as well.
Brokers typically have social mobility, and a choice in their type of work. Their sacrifice to make ends meet is incomparable to that of someone selling their body. I'm confused how you can draw a likeness between the two. Perhaps there are moral threads to pull, but I don't think they end up going to the same place.
Why I WON'T switch to Linux for video production.. ever? (vide0)
Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but if it's not a rush you can probably do it manually. 8k is not so much, you can probably go through it with a couple minutes a day for a few weeks, or within a week if you take like 30 minutes a day.

If you're going through an email every 2 seconds it's only a little over 4 hours of work which isn't too bad. And for the most part you'll probably be skimming senders/subjects so it won't take anywhere near 2 seconds per email.
My entire point, laid bare, QED.
I will say that the best electric pianos are starting to get very impressive. I was looking for a piano two years ago and tried the latest and greatest electric piano to humor a salesman. I was astounded at the fidelity of their model. If I played a chord, then depressed another set of keys (without actually striking the "string"), and then released the chord, it would catch the resonances from that chord in the "strings" of the depressed keys just like a real piano. I played on that piano for a while and wasn't able to find any behaviors that a real piano had that the electric piano couldn't also do short of reaching in and plucking a string with my fingernail.
The documentation for applications and operating systems is notoriously uneven. The only thing to do there is to grit your teeth and work your way through it as you have done so far. Then, review what you have learned. For languages and theory, there is a wider range of books to choose from. Spend some time at the library, the bookstore, and on the web searching for something special. You are choosing the tools of your profession so take some time and choose carefully.
That's actually good your code breaks using new compilers as it means the code is bogus anyways. The alternatives to UB is either a strict spec that will be dog slow on $arch or abstract away everything and make it complex.
That's not how it works. There are no restrictions on who you can work for, even if you were a CO/COR. The restriction is on representating a firm to the government. This happens very frequently; it's seldom that a flag officer retires without multiple offers from industry.

"""
it might be assumed that a former contracting officer representative could not be hired by the same company whose contract they oversaw as a federal employee. Even though seeking such employment while still in federal service would represent a prohibited conflict of interest, seeking and being hired after federal service ends would be allowed
...
the rules would bar the employee from representing them, such as through a communication or appearance, before a federal employee regarding the specific contract he or she oversaw
"""
https://www.army.mil/article/194019/moving_to_private_sector...
Agreed. About half the candidates I take out to lunch in some way ask "is working here as stressful as the rumors say?"

I think it is worth it to the company for me to spend the 5 extra minutes of my time (since I'm going to eat lunch anyway) and $25 on lunch to defuse those concerns and sell them on the team. With the phone screen, the interviews, the feedback forms and the debrief, the company is spending a ton of time on each candidate brought on site. Loosing a candidate you make an offer to is the worst waste of time.
I'm from arkansas and I saw common attitudes that blacks were a "problem" ie racism when I was a kid. I left in my early 20s. There was just an article in the nytimes about how horrible the LRPD is and how they have acted towards black people. Not everyone is that way, but plenty of people are.
OpenVPN runs on HTTPS port, and I suppose it's hard to block without DPI. If the VPN runs on a known port like various other VPN protocols do, it should be trivial to block those connections.
As does Amazon.
What von Mises has proven logically in 1920 (and the practical experience has confirmed it later over the course of 20th century - repeatedly, dozens of times, in different countries, with different cultures) is that a centrally planned (i.e. socialist) economy ALWAYS SELF-DESTRUCTS.

It has nothing to do with computers and collection of information and planning algorithms. The issue (completely misunderstood by the author of the article discussed) is that the very fact of coercing people destroys information about their subjective utility functions which could only be gleaned by observing FREE exchange. No amount of fancy software or social engineering will fix it. Garbage in - garbage out.

Socialism is a very bad idea. No ifs and no buts about it. And, yes, Marx was a kook. His entire economic and social theory is a humongous monument to the principle of logical explosion: if you start with nonsense (labor theory of value), you end up being able to derive anything from it. (The fact that labor theory of value is nonsense is easily established by observing "value" created by someone digging a hole and filling it in - any number of times, so as to put in arbitrarily large amount of labor).
This isn't necessarily true. Many compiled languages these days have a strong specification that guarantees a lack of undefined behavior for the vast majority of code, yet remain relatively performant–think Swift, Rust, and the like.
"A Logic Named Joe" actually comes closer to the mark when it comes to predicting problems with modern networked computers and search-engine technology than do Lem's Trions, and predates Lem's story by the better part of a decade.
Coincidentally I visited Hemingway's house in Key West just today. The guide told us that he had made a habit of waking up at 6 AM, move to study room and wait for 700 words to be written or lunch - whichever comes first. He would then go out for fishing rest of the afternoon and then in the night go to nearby Sloppy Joe's bar to mingle with public which often gave him inspiring story ideas.

Personally, however, the best work I have done is after 5 PM when most people have left the office. I go out for quick snack, come back to office and go in to midnight. The chatter around in office, emails etc are too distracting for full focus.
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Have you made this claim earlier than today?
> I don't believe there is a uniform probability distribution over any interval of the reals.

Then I'll observe that you probably shouldn't be trying to comment on this topic. I didn't just assert that there is one, I pointed out to you what it was.

The probability density function f(x) = 1, defined over the interval [0,1], is uniform (all values are equal, being 1) and covers an area of 1. That's all a uniform distribution is.

It satisfies the axiom which I assume you're referring to as the "second axiom of probability" in that the definite integral of the pdf over the entire interval is 1. It satisfies the requirement you're confused about in that the probability of choosing a number that falls into either of two disjoint subintervals is equal to the sum of the probabilities of (1) choosing a number falling into the first subinterval; + (2) choosing a number falling into the second subinterval.

> Suppose such a distribution existed over [0, 1]. Then as we have shown before, the probability of choosing 0 <= x <= 1 is zero.

For fixed x, the probability of choosing x from a uniform distribution over the reals is 0. That is a special case of the probability that a value chosen from a uniform distribution over the reals will lie within an interval. The probability of drawing a value from within the interval [a,b], for any distribution, is the definite integral of the distribution's pdf from a to b. As you can see, when a = b, this value is 0, but when a ≠ b, it isn't. The probability of choosing an x such that 0 <= x <= 1 from a uniform distribution over [0,1] is 1, not 0.
Agreed. I went back and read the original discussion on HN about this blog post and one commenter phrased it as such:

You need to learn and memorise 15 facts to fully grok the Java Hello World snippet (including how to compile and run it), for Python it's only four facts.

That's a big difference in cognitive load.
At my hackerspace we charge our 18650 cells inside those green ammo boxes. Battery lockboxes are a way to stay pretty safe, even if a li-on, li-po, or lead acid battery explodes, in a steel box it can't do so much.

Obviously, doesn't help without removable batteries, which are more common on ebikes.
Java has been gradually eating all the good parts of Scala. So far, it's eaten lambdas, map / reduce / fold functions, option types, raw string literals, the concept of a built-in REPL, type inference for local variables, and default methods in interfaces (which is kind of like mixins). Pattern matching and type classes are on the menu, but not yet formally merged into Java.

So what does Scala have left? Operator overloading, which tends to lead to unclear code. "Implicit," which should give any former C++ programmer PTSD flashbacks. A compiler which is pretty slow. The ability to embed XML into code (why?). A collections library which is nightmarishly complex. (See https://yz.mit.edu/wp/true-scala-complexity/ )
Of course there are people in the Valley who own trucks, hunt and fish etc..

But it's not really a matter of 'personal experience' - because in general, those are not cool things to be in the Valley - and many people will care.

'Culture fit' is a huge point of exclusion at high tech companies.

WeWork went fully vegan for exactly this reason: they don't want those meat eating types, and the culture that comes along with it.
I think the financial part is important. Funding in academia is interesting to say the least. Especially when it comes to grant funding, which can often have interesting requirements that are impossible to have privately or as an individual.
nope. from personal experience trying, you need two endorsements.
On mobile so I'll having trouble finding a source, but studies have unfortunately found that countries with legalized prostitution generally have higher trafficking rates.
I've known gay men who moved to the south because they liked the culture, so where are we now?
HotpotQA: a dataset with 113k Wikipedia-based question-answer pairs
It would be very detrimental to the value of a high end antique according to the market.
the car will slam into either Venus or Earth

Then the map is wrong -- it never comes anywhere within the orbit of Venus
How much time have you spent in the south? You seem to know it quite well.
"... to replace the dying batch, ..."

I would speculate that longer lifespans may well have a lot to do with at least some of the shifts.
Serverless Status Page system (open source)
If you are referring to certain privileged european countries compared to others, the piper has yet to be paid… unless you think negative real interest rates on government debt will last forever with no repercussions…
/r/iamverysmart is on reddit, not HN.
It's already illegal. How would making it legal make things worse for her?
This is a myopic viewpoint. Undefined behavior is critical for code that needs to be fast. The premise of languages like C and C++ is that the airgap between the language's abstract execution and memory model and the hardware's is thin to non-existent.

*(edit accidentally submitted early)

In this case, the UB is due to the compiler's ability to reorder statements. This is such a fundamental optimization that I can't imagine you're really suggesting that a language without this optimization capability is a "problem." Rearranging instructions is critical for pretty much any superscalar processor (which all the major ones are), and I hate to imagine the hell I'd be in if I had to figure out the optimal load/store ordering myself.
>>The interviewer was one of those typical impossible to please/thinks he is smarter than everyone, long haired programmer guys.

>>The questions were impossibly difficult without prior exposure

>>I couldn't answer many of the coding questions during this interview because they were focused on specific algorithms that no amount of preparation would be enough

These questions are just becoming very common these days. There are thousands of programmers spending hours every day on online judge sites, and other associated competitive programming contests scattered over the internets. As these things increase there is growing question bank of impossible to answer interview questions. It also turns out most people who hop jobs often are the same people putting in these efforts into competitive programming contests, and these people justify their investments in time to ask these questions and to keep it as an edge over others.

The questions are just impossible to answer unless you spend hours every day on these competitive programming sites for years.

It also turns out these people move companies in an year always. If your greatest skill is interviewing, working for one company for years seems like a waste of your skills.
> Lunch break. I was given a "lunch buddy" and told this was not an interview. I am not sure whether it was taken into account or not.

Ha! At least you got a lunch. Here is my experience with AWS:

* They forgot to call for the 1st phone interview. I stood around like an idiot for 45 minutes waiting. Had to call them eventually. They apologized and rescheduled. Ok whatever, bigco, mistakes happen.

* Rescheduled phone interview goes awesome. I was excited. Was told about the Leadership Principles and to make sure learn and parrot them back during the onsite interview. Ok, a little strange. Got the "I think might be joining a cult" thought in the back of my head.

* Interview day. Show up. Turns out future manager, that is the main person I should have been talking to, wasn't even there.

* Got questions like "what was the worst thing that happened to you?". They probably wanted me to parrot the leadership principles back at them. But of course, what better question to make the person feel terrible than making them remember all the bad experiences in their life.

* Nobody asked much about my resume. I had successfully shipped products, could talk in detail about Linux kernel internals, distributed systems. But instead I was live-compiling "invert the binary tree" type problems at the whiteboard.

* Lunch comes. I am thinking, well at least I'll get to meet some of the future team members. But nobody shows up. After 30 min I started to walk around the hallways hoping someone would stop me and ask me what am I doing there. I even had a snarky reply ready to go.

* After that I did get a bit snarky and refused to parrot back the leadership principles. Was that the bar-raiser who I was talking back to? Could be. Were they the ones that failed my interview or was it the manager that never showed up that vetoed me? I'll never know.

* But that's not all. There is more. The HR person I talked to before the interview was swearing they'd get back to me within 3 days. They didn't. Three weeks later I called them back, not because I was curious about the result much, I had accepted an offer by then, I just wanted to see what the excuse would be.

Was it worth it? Absolutely. Then it seemed like a terrible waste of time then but now it's a story I really enjoy sharing. It's just so fun. It's incredible the amount of dysfunction and awfulness that resulted from interfacing with that company.
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Creativity and Work as Meditation
> If you are willing to rent a room (i.e not have a studio or 1BR apartment)

That’s fine for the first year after graduating, but then when you get married and have children what are you supposed to do then?
Metro rideship is down from its peak, overall. The system handles over 600,000 rides per day now; it handled around 750,000 per day between 2008 and 2012.

Riders commuting from downtown DC to Crystal City would be going against the prevailing flow into the city. Plenty of room on those trains in the morning.

Riders in MD would have a hard time, but a person would have to be pretty dumb to move to MD for a job in Crystal City.
Excellent concepts!
He also owns the Washington Post, which is based out of DC. It'll create a nice network effect for his companies to share smart people.
I heard that Larry said something along the lines of "Why wouldn't you want to live in (SV)? The weather is always beautiful."
Not having access to SIMD vector units IMO is a feature. Let the compiler figure out if SIMD is useful and have a language that can be expressive enough to allow a compiler to do SIMD if needed. The other 1% use case of SIMD could be a separate extension.
your loyalty and your willingness to subjugate yourself to the will of your superiors

no it does not because even among the loyal not all are guaranteed tenure, whereas cults induct anyone who pays and is loyal, with no cap.
Cloward Piven strategy
Could you please give me an estimation of how many white separatists you think exist in the US south, and maybe the US in general?
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There are a number of big companies headquartered in Atlanta:

https://saportareport.com/atlanta-region-can-brag-about-havi...

Just grabbing one at random and checking their website, you can find IT jobs at Home Depot:

https://careers.homedepot.com/job-search-results/?location=A...

That doesn't invalidate your wish. I'm just saying it is possible to find tech jobs there.

Additionally,there are some prestigious universities in Atlanta, including Georgia Tech, and there are government jobs, such as at the CDC.
I live about three miles west of Western between Hollywood and Sunset, a couple of blocks from where Hugh Grant was arrested in 1995. We still have these signs up here, I can’t turn onto my street after 11pm.

What I find interesting is that these signs are still up even though the problem they were trying to solve went away many years ago. It seems that there’s nobody that looks to undo changes like this—government rarely gives back the freedom it takes away—even if that’s simply the freedom to make a turn at night.
I half trust my computers because I installed everything myself. Well, except my Surface which I trust the least. But I have 0 trust in my phone. It's not open source and I cannot remove certain apps. So it's never been something I've trusted.

For me to get excited about a phone OS it probably just wouldn't have a store. Take out the store and users would have to install apps the old fashioned way which I think would translate into control over the device.