skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, I can talk about that. Pointing it out in the README file during the game jam would be the worst use of time available there, though, and even now I have better use of my time than adding it to all of my past ~50 projects like that.

This profile is my personal space where I can put any junk I want to. When you're a recruiter randomly looking at that profile, you won't know the context. If you want to know the context, ask about it. It's not my responsibility to provide it in my personal space.

(plus, what I do in my spare time is the last thing the recruiter should be interested in, unless I mention it to them myself)
To add to your comment, this is one of the examples I still remember from reading parts of the Histories:

"As for Libya [Africa, apparently], we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia. This discovery was first made by Necos, the Egyptian king, who on desisting from the canal which he had begun between the Nile and the Arabian gulf, sent to sea a number of ships manned by Phoenicians, with orders to make for the Pillars of Hercules [the strait of Gibraltar], and return to Egypt through them, and by the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared- I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may- that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered."

So Herodotus passes on us a piece of information he doesn't understand or believe in, but that seems to prove that the circumnavigation of Africa actually happened because the sailors, having passed the equator, kept seeing the sun on their right side at midday- since they were moving clockwise around the continent. Shivers :)
I don't know if Kubrick ever traveled through the terminal since he apparently had a serious fear of flying. It seems likely that some of the people involved with the production of 2001 would have, though. And it would have been brand new at the time.
Google is known in the valley to be notoriously bad at building products.

Does that answer your question?
Personally I'm more tempted to blame AI content curation pushing people into echo chambers than a lack of censorship.

If we want less division we should be listening more to each other not less.
I love this. Thank you :)
>It has different issues.

To clarify the "it" here, NTFS allows you to create a file named `aux.js` just fine. The thing that injects special handling of `aux.js` is the Windows object layer that sits on top of it.

CreateFileW(LR"#(\\?\C:\Users\Arnavion\Desktop\aux.js)#", GENERIC_WRITE, 0, nullptr, CREATE_NEW, 0, nullptr)

will create a file named `aux.js` just fine, since it tells the Windows layer to not normalize names, which includes disabling the special handling of files named `aux`.
- Politicians

- The Police

- The Military

- Journalists

- The people who care to carefully understand a situation before forming a stance
I think they perfectly summed up the sadness and terror of modern mainstream leftism. It'll pass
On deep, constructive online discussions about technical topics
"Social expectations vary by social class. The low education religious people you describe are a different social class from educated business and technical professionals"

Technically, I can't argue with the "religious" description, since I attended the one cousin's ordination as a Catholic priest a couple of years ago, but prior to that he was a Navy submarine nuke and an NRC inspector. His brother is an engineer with the USACE. And their father was an engineer. And I've known countless "business and technical professionals" less educated than their mother, a Latin teacher.

You may want to consider leaving your bigotry at home.
>colloquially known as a “shed” here in the UK

>They’re ok when they work but when they don’t they can burn your house to the ground or empty your entire NAS to a random IP in China.

I have never come across the term 'shed' in this context, either in urban slang or formal speak, please can you provide a valid source and/or clarify the origin of this term?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. The flaws in social
science studies have been demonstrated repeatedly. The existence of one study should barely move the probability (in either direction) of meritorcracy being legitimate.
I'm neither. I just need 6-9 hours of sleep regularly (going to bed at the same time). It takes 3 to 4 days to adjust to an other schedule (with difficulties during that period). So going out on weekends means I can't wake up early during week days.
A recruiter or sourcer? In most cases (and I am generalizing here) basically a pattern-matching robot, so the same treatment as your CV. Have words and phrases they're looking for? Great! No? Meh.

Someone besides a recruiter? Might give it a glance out of curiosity and for conversation starter material, but if they're overly concerned about what's there or how much is there - you didn't want to work for/with them anyway. Honestly, most people that have been in the industry for any time at all quickly run out of free time and motivation for this stuff, and their github profiles will be rather barren as a result (unless they work at a company that publishes open source software, of course... but that's the exception not the rule).
I like the phrasing "increasing your luck surface". But random chance just happens. You won't ever sell a software startup for a billion dollars if you don't start one... but you still probably won't sell one for a big exit, even if you do.
It's not just illegal, I believe it's a felony in my state.
I lived there so I’ve seen it. Bikes are usually locked in the neighborhoods with a lot of foreigners (Roppongi, etc), but in most of Japan they aren’t. I’ve seen hundreds of bikes parked outside work without a single lock.
I've done some work in the AI content moderation space and I have come to suspect that while computer vision is advanced enough to probably detect all of this, the neural nets are so big and deep that it costs over 10x what anyone is willing to pay to run, on such a large scale.

It's like looking for needles in a haystack, and it is expensive.

There is a cost-quality tradeoff with these neural nets as well, but if you go cheap, then your accuracy isn't useful either.

I don't know such a sweet spot exists today where it is both cost effective and useful.
I believe it was Dali
Next I will be told free will is an illusion as well.
It has a 15W CPU in it, it's not a screamer. It's not hard to have extremely long battery life in a laptop, just toss an extremely low power (15W or less) CPU in it and get the battery as close as you can to the somewhat arbitrary 100Whr limit that isn't really a limit but no one will sell a laptop you can't take in the cabin of an airplane.

What is hard however, is getting long life out of a performance laptop with a 45-60W CPU when you're capped to a 100Whr battery.
So someone who gets cancer at 18 and dies isn’t bad luck? They just needed to take better advantage of their opportunities?
The PR would be great:

“Facebook asked to block snuff film, instead decides to block entire country and continue to distribute the snuff film.”

Facebook clearly don’t want to distribute snuff films, child porn, or other objectionable material, regardless of where in the world the operate.
I don't get it. Should highly capable people not pursue a lucrative career path?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, and especially ideological flamebait, to Hacker News? It leads to acrid and predictable discussions that are off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To be honest, python libraries are wide but the documentation quality isn't always the best (I could be spoiled)
Electrode Confippet – Managing Your Node.js Configuration
Trump budget to include funds to restart Yucca Mountain process
I do look at GitHub profiles when filtering applicants.

Mostly overall activity, consistency in commit messages, and actual code and PR.
How can you remove "randomness" from luck? What is luck when you remove the random element?

No wonder you don't believe in it if you don't think luck includes any element of randomness.
Right Android is the only mobile OS where Epic and others can distribute APKs. You can't do that on iOS.
Meritocracy is a thing that distinguishes between people who had the same opportunities. There are many people who had all the same opportunities as Gates but only one of them is Gates, because the other people who had the same opportunities made different choices. There are others who might have made the same choices but didn't have the same opportunities.

Pretending that one or the other is sufficient on its own is folly. You need both. If you don't have the same opportunities then you can't be Gates no matter how hard you work, and if you don't work hard then you can't be Gates even if you had the same opportunities.

Moreover, having fewer opportunities doesn't actually change much in the "what should I do" decision tree. If you have the same opportunities as Gates and you make the right decisions then you're a billionaire instead of a millionaire. If you have fewer opportunities then instead it's the difference between having a $140K/year job or a $40K/year job, but that is still a highly relevant difference in your life.
Ask HN: What's the best tutorial for building a scalable service from scratch
With all the different cloud platforms doing most of the heavy lifting for us, I wonder what it took to build all of this functionality in-house in the pre cloud era. I was curious to learn how to build a service like that which scales to a million qps on a cloud based linux machine. Are there any tutorials that can help me get started ?
Yeah, I would have preferred a more principled reason, but what can you do.
Currently in charge of th baby.

But get power top installed. Make sure in the 4th screen in power top and make sure all settings are to "good". I made a systemd unit to do this for me know boot. I also installed tlp and have it set it's settings. Some of those cross over into what powertop does.

I set some things on the i915 driver but that will have to wait until baby watch is over.
Python has already been suggested, and refuted a dozen times in this thread.

It might be suitable for writing long, complex scripts, but for short, ad-hoc scripts its overhead (both in terms of startup speed and in terms of the boilerplate required to write full-fledged Python scripts compared to simple shell scripts) makes it really unwieldy and awkward to use.

Python still has problems displaying filenames with unprintable characters.

Arguments passed to Python from the shell are still subject to these pitfalls, etc.

See the rest of this thread for more.
This is why my own position is not settled.

Publications, preachers, performances, etc. change people’s behaviour and beliefs — if they didn’t, nobody would advertise or campaign. That change can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on your point of view.

I want the spread of harmful memes to be slowed (and, if possible, prevented), but I also ask myself “What if I’m wrong about what is harmful?” — for example, I don’t believe in the Christian god, and have seen harm done in his name, but what if he actually does exist and banning Christian memes condemns people to hell?

Or sexuality? I know people whose sexuality has been outlawed this decade in much of western Europe, as a result of campaigns by people totally convinced that their preferences are innately harmful, which side is right?

I think solving this is also an important part of safe A.I., so it would still be a very important problem for me even if I didn’t know people directly affected.
Google provides its key technology for no cost, subsidised by advertising.

Search, Chrome, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google+.

And it frequently ties these to requirements.
Which problem will be fixed first, all the systems you use will ship with printf(1) or all the systems you use will ban filenames starting with -?
Even when universities are free, they are still not without problems. In Denmark education is free and you even get paid a "wage" when attending university so you don't even have to borrow (as much) money for housing/food.

High schools and universities in Denmark get money per student that passes the exams. If you fail the student, no money for you.

So there is a clear incentive for the schools to admit as many students as possible and lower the level required for passing the exams. Schools have had their "per student" budget cut year after year.

So the level of education today is not the same as 40 years ago. For high school the signalling part has become even more important, so much we lack blue collar workers because people think that kind of education is beneath them. The following question has absolutely the same validity in Denmark as in USA:

> Would you rather have a Princeton diploma without a Princeton education, or a Princeton education without a Princeton diploma?

Some things are not worth it, even when they are free.
Exposing a Singapore Airlines Free Ticket Scam
git commit -m "adding just_ask.md"

I'm riffing on a comment chain elsewhere in the thread about candidates who provide links to empty Github profiles.

Reading the comparison to online dating just makes me think of the dating profiles out there that have a couple of photographs, but nothing beyond the line "Just ask" in the summary/description field of the profile holder.

But agree, it's an interesting and apt comparison I think.
There are situations (most of them involving symbolic links) in which using absolute paths can change the meaning of the path. The most obvious is when creating a symbolic link, for instance a relative symbolic link from "README" to "README.md" will not break when the whole directory is moved. A more worrying one is that using absolute paths everywhere is vulnerable to TOCTOU issues, while relative paths can be less vulnerable (and can be combined with newer APIs like openat to reduce these issues further).
Chrome used to half my battery life on a MacBook Pro. On a brand new machine with a full battery I could program all day in Xcode if I forgot my charger until one day it was empty halfway the day. Finally I figured out it was Chrome that killed it so fast.
So many places seem to require a github profile in their form.
Uh, Apple rejects your app if your app talks about being able to subscribe/upgrade via means other than IAP (includes desktop)
There was, but you just missed it!
Yes, because everyone who gets into one of our elite institutions gets there on merit and there is absolutely not a predatory aspect to the way the elite networks have arranged society that steals advantage from everyone else. It's just a victim mentality the cost to call out the structural inequities of society that cause so much pain and stress to the unlucky classes. Now hold still while we raise the costs of everything necessary to life while automating your job away. And don't you dare call out your betters for their bad behavior; that's toxic!
What is wrong in trying and failing ?
While they’re not quite in the same league, Seattle has some pretty incredible manhole covers too, there are 115 different designs, it would take quite a while to hunt them all down

https://seattle.curbed.com/2014/7/11/10076250/seattle-manhol...
Obviously the production should be illegal, but child porn itself is evidence of a crime. The more people who have it, the more likely the criminals will be identified by someone who recognizes them by a birthmark, freckles, a balding pattern, the watch they’re wearing, etc.

Threats are also potential evidence of a crime. If someone is angry enough to publicly threaten to kill you, and then they actually do it and plan it perfectly in such a way that they would definitely get away with it if it hadn’t been for the previous public threat where they gave their intentions away, then the fact that twitter censored their threat is what enabled them to get away with it.

Any other brilliant examples of “good” censorship?
Why do you believe Google is "really good at building useful products"? Would you buy any of them if they didn't have the Google brand (or pay for any of the free ones for that matter)?
Agreed... but we also shouldn’t make them suffer and starve.

The bad part of the ‘meritocratic’ world view is not that having people who are good at certain tasks do those tasks is a bad idea, it is that thinking those people are more ‘deserving’ of a good life is bad.

People that are good at math should be math professors, but we shouldn’t think they are morally superior to the person born dumb as a rock, nor do they deserve a better life.
Yes, I would agree that it helped but only based on the logic that a resume/cv is a document designed to advertise your accomplishments. If your accomplishments are best shown by your GitHub then include it, if it shows nothing don't! It's the same as advertising a volunteer group or something on a resume, a group with high participation and clear commitment to some purpose (if relevant to the job in question) is worth more than a random meetup group that met only once and when pressed the candidate clearly shows that it was invented for the resume. That's potentially 10 minutes or so the candidate could have talked about something else which is an actual strength.
Almost all the pixels on your screen are rendered through a GPU accelerated pathway, if they weren't even the desktop with no apps open would be rather sluggish.
What a wonderful breakdown analysis of the chain reaction one small change can have.
Since getting to college has a large affect on lifetime earnings and people of means can legally increase the odds of getting to college. Your family’s wealth has an overwhelming impact on your own success.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/economic-mobility-of-fami...

Forty-two percent of children born to parents in the bottom fifth of the income distribution remain in the bottom, while 39 percent born to parents in the top fifth remain at the top.

Children of middle-income parents have a near-equal likelihood of ending up in any other quintile, presenting equal promise and peril for those born to middle-class parents.

The “rags to riches” story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the very top.
Dodrio: Fast, bump-allocated virtual DOM library for Rust and WebAssembly
One possible positive aspect is that it allows you to think:

My current lousy situation is not the result of something internal and unchangeable, so it is worth figuring out how to change it and get into a better situation.

It's easy to take that attitude too far, but maybe keeping a little bit of it around could be helpful for some.
The problem comes in where the MCAS use should be infrequent, unless the sensor is borked.

In computing, we have a principle stated Garbage in, Garbage out. Circuits and electronics don't think. They compute. There is no error checking except that which is specifically designed and implemented into the system.

If you're getting data from a biased sensor with +/- 10 degrees AoA, a 10 degree actual AoA (well within the safe operating envelope) suddenly appears to MCAS as a 20 degree AoA (oh shit territory).

The system therefore engages doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Thus is the crux of the matter. The pilot was flying safely while his AoA sensor was telling a safety system he knew nothing about that he was flying dangerously.

The AoA system on earlier models of aircraft that the MAX was based on were a functional luxury/situational awareness aid. The flyability was not impacted by a horked sensor.

That changed once they had to add a software driven mechanism to keep the flight characteristics similar enough with the old airframe to be able to release the aircraft to 737 trained pilots, and not have to worry about retraining. Maintenance and pilot alike both needed to be aware that the AoA sensor became a safety critical component due to a failure or miscalibration jeopardizing the controllability of the airframe.

If they had gone through a full recert of this airframe, and not an expedited self-certify/grandfathering, these tragedies would have had a much smaller likelihood of occurring due to the increased scrutiny. Props on Brazil for doing their own footwork, and not blindly trusting the FAA's delegation to the manufacturer.

Personally, as a software engineer and quality assurance specialist, if I'd seen anything remotely like this come across my desk, I'd be raising hell, even if it meant yanking someone into a VP/C's office and giving them a dressing down for skimping on a cross-cutting safety critical concern, deadlines be damned.
What does it even mean for "meritocracy not to exist"? That it is impossible to have an organizational structure where decisions are made by those with the greatest abilities?
Thank you for the help. This make sense.
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What's the reason people write long stuff like this on Twitter? Literally unreadable.
> doing something intensive like... scrolling in Slack

There's something wrong if you go thru all of this and Slack consumes significant resources on your laptop.
I've been working on a Sketch to HTML/CSS generator that generates production-ready programmer-friendly code.

Here's a short demo: https://youtu.be/Yi0BjSM3v4w

It eliminates weeks and months of tedious design to code conversion and you can build sophisticated SaaS applications, content-rich pages, and e-commerce portals much faster.

It might help designers who're interested in understanding how their design translates into code because they can instantly see the underlying code for each design, play around with it, and see how it changes.
The main thing I don't want to see is a bunch of repos where you're just taking a library/framework for a spin. This isn't because these are bad in any way, but it can be hard to tell whether they represent your real coding approach or not, and therefore risk creating unconscious bias. Whereas I'm not going to hold it against you if you don't have a public profile.

Now that Github allows free private repositories, if you're planning to use your profile as part of a recruitment process, you're arguably better off only making your best work public. It doesn't have to be your best code, just something you're proud of and are happy to talk about.

This may run counter to normal thinking, but I have no way of knowing the extent to which my assessment is unconsciously coloured by seeing code that isn't representative of your ability, so I worry about the impact of that.
> What separates Gates from most other programmers of his skill level is willingness to take on risk.

Balderdash. His parents were wealthy, his father was a successful lawyer and his mother was on the board of IBM and was very well connected socially. From Wikipedia: "Gates explained his decision to leave Harvard, saying '... if things [Microsoft] hadn't worked out, I could always go back to school. I was officially on [a] leave [of absence].'" According to Gates, the decision was fairly riskless.
According to Wikipedia Romania has:

22,247 km (13,824 mi) of railroad tracks

And 807 km of motorways

In contrast the UK (similarly sized, within 2% of area) has
16000 km of railway and

3688 km of highway

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_ne...
True, it wasn't done to solve the problem of the engine placement. It solved an entirely different problem. But it does show that the changing the landing gear whilst maintaining type commonality wasn't impossible.