skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me the most sensible way to provide aid, is to hire locals to do the work. By all means have some people there to check they're doing a good job, but certainly don't replace the work the locals are doing, or you're just creating unemployment.

I too heard that African farmers have been going bankrupt due to free rice from foreign aid after Live Aid and similar projects. Better to give locals money to buy rice from local farmers for a better price, and important food if that's not enough. Or use your foreign aid money to buy food from local farmers first, supplemented with foreign food if it's not enough, and distribute that. But keeping it as part of the local economy, rather than completely replacing the local economy, seems like a much better idea.

If you want to build houses in Haiti, hire locals to build those houses.
I think one of the reasons is elegance. As in coding, you try to minimise special cases, so whenever you need to introduce a new word you go back to the roots of the language and try to derive it from what's already there. In this way the chosen word is more integrated in the language (has more connections with other existing words), its pronunciation is more predictable, and its derivation follows the same rules as the majority of the other words. Thus minimising entropy and surprise.
Glibly, metastasized leftists.

I think that’s the most natural model for a virtue-signaling economic sinkhole that can’t sustain a viable population, but is trying to spread its governance ideas anyway: it’s literally analogous to unhealthy cells using false signaling to sinkhole resources while replicating their damaged DNA — a cancer.

It’s not just SF: Seattle, NYC, and basically every major metro that subscribes to particular left-wing ideas.

For the perspective on Seattle: https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw
The danger is that it's an asphyxiant --- like most other gases. Otherwise it is inert, which is why it is used. Inhaling a small quantity such as from a dose of an inhaler would not be harmful.
Quantum 'nothingness' measured at room temperature
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Oh, it absolutely involves that. I'm just saying that grade 8 (age 12-13) for algebra is done elsewhere in the world too.
Hi, Christoph from Point Nine here.

We do NOT do what you’re suggesting here - discriminate against Indians (or any nationality). This would be horrible and stupid. Our own team comes from various countries, and so do the founders of our portfolio companies.

As for countries that we invest in, we’ve invested in lots of different places. In fact, that’s one of the things we’re known for. We haven’t invested in e.g. India or China yet but that may change over time. Point taken that we shouldn’t say ‘everywhere’ as long as we’re not ready to invest everywhere - will make sure to change the website wording ASAP.
I think the issue is that feeling underpaid is an issue that grows in importance with time as your spending power decreases and your hard work is not rewarded so that at some point it doesn't matter any more what the company offers.

If you are doing interesting work, are treated well and keep getting regular raises then it's going to be a lot harder to want to leave even if you might be underpaid according to market rates.

Granted this will only work if you are within a certain small percentage of market rate, ~10% and your financial circumstances allow it.
Not giving anything is no solution either, but we definitely need more accountability for charities. This is part of that, I guess, but we also need to know which charities are effective. I'm sure that information is around somewhere too.
For all words the equivalent of computer - "ordinateur" was invented by académie française from a sollicitation of IBM and it stuck. Everyone uses this word now.
They didn't have an IBM-compatible BIOS and used a different system bus than what came to be called ISA. They also had different and incompatible video and sound hardware, among other things.
I see. I find that odd, because kids already do basic algebra in primary school. The exercises are simply written a different way.

4 + x = 9

is considered algebra, but

4 + ___ = 9

(fill in the blank) isn't.

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to teach this same thing with symbols to kids in grade 8.
If you're a complete novice with Windows, using a Mac for the first time will be similar.

If you have years of muscle memory and shortcuts and knowledge about Windows OS, switching to Mac OS will be painful. Not least the different Cmd/Ctrl keyboard placements and shortcuts.

Also, those universal text editing/navigation shortcuts on MacOS?: they're emacs shortcuts which don't exist on Windows OS.
So you want to never hire then?
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Did this article get help to actual people on the ground in this particular relief area?

What proceeds did you earn from ads on this article? Did you donate those? Where did you donate those proceeds?

Did this article minimize overhead of relief efforts anywhere?

Are you suggesting that ARC should not have collected donations at all? Because they do not have an established presence in the relief territory and are thus unqualified to determine how best to allocate donations, they shouldn't have collected and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to help?

Here would be a better way to use this time:

+ Develop a list of actionable suggestions for improving efficiency and allocation of relief aid

+ Develop solutions for problems in resource-constrained areas

+ Establish rapport with the people who you think are actually helping

+ Develop a transparent and accountable international transaction network that operates with minimal resources (on devices powered by hand crank and solar power)

+ Develop clean energy production capacity, storage, and a resilient power grid in order to produce 3D-printed homes (with plumbing and electrical to code) where there is little timber, clean water, and plenty of sand

+ Connect people in need of basic necessities with an efficient supply chain that doesn't leave pallets of things undistributed

+ Go hand out water and MREs and try not to get sick

+ What is a reasonable MLR (Medical Loss Ratio)
For my personal site, I've left WP behind about 3 years ago. I had to go back last month, trying to build something instead of a Wix site for a school, and the experience was terrifying: after adding one of the events plugin, within 5 minutes I started getting spam registration. All plugins have ugly admin interface "extras" and are very pushy to buy them.

The WordPress of 2007, which I loved very much, has nothing to do with this monster of 2019.
To put another lens on this, if your manager goes to his boss and HR and says I can't lose Ralph, he's indispensable... Likely his boss and management will criticize him for building an org which has indispensable people in it.
I got smaller raises by negotiation, I got bigger raises by changing jobs; but the most satisfaction I got was by realizing that I perceive the whole thing as rotten and changing occupations altogether. Your own mileage may vary.
Yes, was 20% more. But he said it was about 40%.
They matched.
There's infinite variance in software applications so I expect proportional variance in how those projects are structured. The convention is to just have a single project until you need to separate. It's not that complicated.

But the point is that it has nothing to do with the language.
Why would asking for an evaluation from your superiors be dangerous? I think that was just random.
What American math curriculum? Every American state has its own curriculum and every school district has very broad autonomy, right? I’m no expert but most states don’t even have state exams at the end of high school that are exactly comparable. There are many states that have more internal variety in their education system than most European nations.

The closest the US comes to having a national curriculum is the College Board Exams.
this is a prime example of what blockchain can do
Christoph here from Point Nine.

No, we didn’t do that. I can confirm that with certainty even without having asked everyone on my team.

I’m trying to find out what was going on and will post more details ASAP.
> The ToS doesn't say there's an implicit reproduction license, though; it says there's an explicit reproduction license.

Then it's totally excluded from my claim which aims «every use that is not explicitly allowed». :)
Yeah, everyone is different. I tried experimenting with 20-30-40 minute intervals and decided 25 is the optimal for me. But it really has to be distraction free. I use brain.fm or instrumental music (no lyrics) or I just keep my headphones on so nobody bothers me.
It doesn't sound very challenging, but after five pomodoros I truly can feel it, after eight - I am mentally exhausted. Ten pomodoros mean I either cheated or something else.
Ha! It’s nearly impossible to fire someone where I work, and the contractors ride out their full contract which is often a year. It’s a shitshow
It happens on this site too... if you believe HN everyone in the UK is making £100k+, even though the average salary here is more like 40k. I’ve seen people complain because they’re ‘only’ making as much per month as most people in the country make annually.
For good measure, the commit seems to be removed from the original repo.
> after it had finished, all those garbage recommendations showed up for everyone to see, making it look like I am secretly some lunatic.

This is kind of my nightmare! Condolences.

YT, wtf.
I really don't know anything about MRI and their usage, i was mainly criticising that his arguments sounded like a lot of the arguments I've heard against other usages of ML-Algorithms.

What I meant: There's probably a medical reason why you want such a product and if a more readily available MRI saves (really significantly) more lives than the chance that it might miss some abnormalies which could lead to death, then I think we should allow it. That's what I meant with a stochastic view. If we, for example, only have a few scans per hospital available because the chance might exist that we missclassify something and lots of people get worse or delayed treatment because they are not high enough on the priority list to get access to a super-resulution MRI with a fidelity they don't really need (again, i don't know anything, just to illustrate my point), then I think something is wrong.

His argument just sounded dismissive without giving a, to my uninformed point of view, valid reason.
Last week there were the poor women in India who were making a living out of labeling data, now it’s the inmates in Finland, I wonder who will be next? Will we have to boycott the likes of Google or FB for how the label their data the same way some people used to boycott clothes made in Bangladesh?
A Rural County Owes $28M for Wrongful Convictions. It Doesn’t Want to Pay
But according to the OP following Latin increases surprise. Hence my question.

"yet, it's far more likely for the public to simply add an 'e' to the end of 'docteur"

It isn't "elegant" if the public is "far more likely" to do it a different way.
CPaaS Differentiation in 2019
that's a cool side project "ninja steam" where you randomize Google Assistant routes to cover up your tracks :D
Ammonia is toxic, hydrocarbons are flammable, and CO2 requires extremely high working pressures meaning more expensive equipment and lower efficiency. It's not surprising that before ozone depletion and global warming were known, CFCs became the refrigerant to use, since they're almost completely inert and work at low pressures.
I hate April 1st
MIT and Nasa engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing
Fantasy. You can only code so much on your own. If it's a good idea, then because of the relatively small size of your code, people (companies, OSS groups) can easily copy it.
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Let's say your work is dull, your line manager is a bully that shoots down most of your ideas and then takes credit for the ones that get implemented. All success is due to him/her all failures down to the team.

There is no career path neither towards management nor towards principal engineer/architect

The commute is 2 hours each way and there is a strict work from the office policy.

HR is known to not provide generic references but to ask your line manager to provide references

How much money would it take for you to work in such environment?

The point is that money is only part of what makes people happy, motivated and loyal.
Nothing in this comment thread seems to ask for an evaluation.

Asking “I’d like $x, is this acceptable” invites a Boolean response. Either they think it’s acceptable or not, with neither you nor your comp lead discussing why.

If you want to know “how would you evaluate my performance / accomplishments / etc”, ask that. If you want to know about a raise, start by telling your comp lead why you feel it’s justified, rather than leaving it up to them to define.
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> ability to learn, not to create a mess and not to waste time on stupid things

People do stupid things and create a mess, while they learn.
Transparent Salaries do lead to wage inflation see how CEO salaries went up after those where published.

"What That Idiot Hardcastle at International widgets is on 2 Million, I am worth more than that."

The other reason is that it might expose direct or indirect discrimination.
I've recently evaluated the accessibility of over 21 web UI frameworks [1]. The overall results were quite poor, so I'm really excited about a new accessibility-first framework.

You're concentrating on the semantics and screen reader tests (which is great), but you would fail WCAG 2.4.7 [2] for your Tabs component (tab focus is missing - there's is just an indicator for the selected tab, not the currently focused state)[3].

I'm looking forward to seeing more updates!

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-ui-frameworks/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#navigation-m...

[3] https://github.com/reach/reach-ui/issues/134
This reads to me like a culture problem. A good engineering culture should help a lot to insulate against people who just want to game the system and aren't really invested in the success of the project.

Of course, how you get there is anything but simple.
I couldn't read the article, but I wonder if the NHS will get this for free, since we "gave" them all our data in order to train the model.
I share a similar sentiment. Since about 2-3 years ago, most WordPress plugins are marketed bloatware that messes up the entire dashboard UI. And don't get me started on plugins that don't let you close their notifications unless you do "some thing".

It really is a shame, because frankly speaking - most of these plugins are utter trash anyway.
It's for exactly this reason that I think anything that makes the _technically_ optimal set of choices is actually a bad bet because the probability it is understood well enough to be used in the correct manner is low and it's possible to use it an an incorrect manner. So that's mostly what you see.
It's very simple: do NOT legislate. Stop regulating every single detail. Instead, focus on making sure that the fundamental principles (fundamental rights, trade...) are respected. Those principles will probably be the same in 30 years than they were 50 years ago, or at least very similar.

There are very basic functions that the legislative power is still missing. Still, they want to regulate on super advanced topics up to the most specific details.
This isn't necessarily true. You're worth what someone is willing to pay you. Until you actually receive a superior offer, neither you nor your employer knows that you're worth more than you're being paid.

Obviously there are employers out there who are underpaying their employees, but just because you find out you aren't being paid as much as possible for your skill set doesn't mean your employer is trying to stiff you.

That said, you should have a pretty good idea of what you're worth, and if you don't then that's on you. There is basically zero risk in going out and interviewing even if you aren't looking for a change, and it's a great way to establish the market for yourself. That market can change rapidly (at least while you're in the lower/middle of it).
But the US seems to consistently do well in maths olympiads?
Compiling most Rust programs with MUSL is fine, and available on stable. But the rust compiler itself with MUSL had some issues, and this were worked out very recently, and so it hasn’t totally ridden the trains to stable yet. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/59302
In a customer service job, I was once scolded for not doing someone else's work (in another department!) after finishing my own work early. I had been trying to go home early because I had a test the next day. I finished 15 minutes early and was on the way out the door when I was told to do someone else's work who had sat around most of the day.

I refused, and was called into the office the next day with 3 managers. By the end of the meeting, I told them that I would "work at the same, slow, plodding pace as all the rest of the workers and this situation will never happen again."

They actually accepted that as a success on their part. Amazed, I left the office and made good on my promise for the rest of the time I worked there.
Do you really think that Google doesn't have a worldwide URL blacklist?
Thanks! This is a nice approach which I will try with our next front-end-candidate.

Currently our process consists of three exercises: A small website-layout where the candidate has to fix two styling-bugs and equalize some container-heights (CSS-Part); a Palindrome-Function (JS-Part); and a discussion where we look at a webpage-layout, and go through how they would structure it HTML/Component-wise and talk about general topics that come up. But I like the colleague-like approach of your way and guess that it'll work better in our case.

Can you name an example of an app which the candidate has to extend?
You can say you maintain your principles, but you clearly aren't of you're not paying _everyone_ the same.
For starters, you've just revealed your cards: that you are talking to competitors

I see it as: guys, I could have resigned, but I love working here so much that I'd rather stay.

And also, please, when discussing your goals with the manager, mention the salary raise. What you have to do for a pay increase may be different forum what you have to do for, say, a new title. The surprise at the next review may be quite unpleasant.
actually all money transacted is transparent because the blockchain is public domain. What is used for money laundering is dollars. It's a common fallacy that there is a lot of money laundering with Bitcoin disproved by EU studies (google them).
The claim is that you can't even pay for good support.

The relative badness between paid and free is irrelevant.

Have you honestly never seen one of the stories about how badly google treats paying customers, and specifically how automated it all is? I can do the job of searching that if you need me to, but I'm not going to argue about free vs. paid because that's not the topic at hand.
Thanks for the answer, that makes a lot of sense.
Here is a great primer on entropy that you might find helpful - http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/
Indeed, the Académie actually defines orthography while the dictionaries are only references for spelling.
It’s easy. Understand how much you are worth to the company - and I do mean in dollars. This is what management understands. It’s the hard truth, but the dollars don’t lie. How much revenue do you individually generate for the company each year? (Hopefully you understand your employers financial model well enough) How much do you know about the operation, team structure, processes, technology. What is the cost of replacing you? It is measurable in dollars and this is how manamgent thinks. If you know how much you generate in revenue and what your replacement cost is, you have the information to determine your salary. Learn this, know it inside out, then request a performance review. Also important to consider how much you are willing to sacrifice to switch roles. Different team, different projects, different projects, etc. You need to know where you actually draw the line before you walk in. I’m saying this from the recruitment side.
This is probably because of higher energy efficiency:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/01/bedazzled-by-energ...
>Can I write software for it? Is there a compiler or language included, or do I need to add it to the base code before compiling?

At the moment you would need to add it to the base code before compiling. I've been working on porting GCC in increments. Last time I tried, GCC was able to build "Hello World" but somehow fell apart between assembly and linking for programs with more than a few functions. It's something I keep coming back to as it's quite draining to deal with the long build times of GNU tools for more than an evening.

>Would I be able to run it on bare metal someday (are any other drivers compatible?) or is this VM-only?

At the moment this is VM only. It could probably be made to run on bare metal relatively soon with a bit of hackery, but it's not something I've spent any time on since the VM environment is fantastic for rapid development.
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Such a readable design with good information density. If spinning GIFs were excluded, this would be an improvement over the usual design. Hosting on a laptop is gimmicky but a simple layout favouring text is actually a good idea.
Just selling to enterprises is >1 person job.
Pro Audio Work on iOS in Context
Most services will let you get 10 minutes of someone's time, and they won't even charge per incident.
The article mentions this problem near the end, and the component they built provides a solution.
"4K has been cracked" means absolutely nothing; it's a resolution. You probably mean one specific file format or distribution channel has been broken but I have no idea which from your comment.
If you need higher than micro second resolution or if you are working with astronomical timescales. These are not common cases but some people have them.
I've been pointing out to people for some time now that Apple has docs (buried, of course, because it's Apple...) that outright indicate they do things behind the scenes with NSURLSession & co to make battery/radio management better. The effect of people dodging it in cross-platform frameworks has been something I've long wondered about.
In theory you can use Google Takeout. In reality Takeout has NEVER been able to backup my YT comments, and there is no way or reporting a bug/appealing/speaking to anyone about it.
That's not necessarily racist. Yes, you can't just assume that everyone with an Indian name lives in India, but it's not that far off the mark, and I don't see how race comes into it at all.
>How do you measure intangibles like knowledge or customer service or innovation?

You figure out proxies as best you can. How do you know "customer service" or "innovation" are important, are improving, exist, or are what you think they are, without figuring out a way to measure them? This is precisely the bane of buzzwords. "We focus on innovation here!" but no one can determine what that is or if the company is any good at it.

>The tangible results of them can be measured but there are multiple variables affecting it, from politics, through skill, talent and finally luck.

There are a few comments in this thread that seem to come from the same premise: that measuring is hard because "multiple variables" come into play when you measure things. I hate to break it to you, but those factors are in play whether you are measuring things or not. The purpose of measuring is to minimize the unknowns and reduce variance. All of the variety of factors that are in play in a massive organization are precisely why you need to measure things, not a reason to cast measurement aside.