skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you don't understand the point being made or you're just being intellectually dishonest, but software jobs with benefits are almost wholly not "show up when you want and work however much you want", as in the case under discussion. The claim is that requiring an entity to provide health benefits (given that we're too dysfunctional as a country to make it the govts responsibility) is justifiable when you're signing over the bulk of your time to them, in a way that perhaps isn't true when you have the relationship that Uber drivers have to Uber: working any imaginable combination and quantity of hours and doing exactly as little work as you'd like.

I'm not saying I'm convinced by the argument, and I'm not saying any of the above is correct. But it is the point being made, and low-effort snarky garbage like your comment just generates more heat than light and doesn't move anyone closer to understanding the situation.
I recently started using Marie Kondo's method and I was thinking the same thing. Some combination of rollers and a big ducted fan/tube to blow air into the shirt beforehand. Maybe we should have a go at it. What are you doing this Saturday? ;)
I didn't appreciate the medicinal nature of Rhubarb until a few years ago. If I'd known how helpful it is, I would've started growing it a long time ago.

> This is a whole article about how it's useful for a lot of things.

I just re-skimmed the article. I didn't notice much/any discussion the medicinal properties of rhubarb, just how 'forcing' rhubarb makes it extra-sweet, and that rhubarb is used to flavor gin and cheese too.
From the very first time I saw this video, there is a moment with a very tell tale sign that it is some unexplained optical effect:

around 1m40s the object rotates simultaneously with camera rotation, twice, and at twice the angle of rotation the camera makes! now think of how if you rotate a mirror some angle alpha, then the reflected view rotates an angle of 2 alpha. So to me this is a tell tale sign of some optical effect. Do I have a complete explanation? No, but then again there is no complete specification of the observation: what is the sensor layout and optical setup like?
I'm surprised that commercial vpns don't offer an ad blocking option; from their perspective, it's not only a great feature to market, but it reduces their bandwidth costs.
With Microsoft embracing Chromium as the built-in Windows rendering engine, enabling multiple Electron apps to run on a single instance, we're moving in the direction of Electron being the standard train your app can live in on any railroad.
What? Why is it "pretty obvious"? What causes you to jump to such conclusions? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this video can be explained by other, less extraordinary explanations
> “what other industry is there where the top decision-makers have never done the basic work of the company?”

Most? Sorry for the blunt answer, but I really don't know how this can even be a question. The "I worked the assembly line and now I'm the CEO" is Hollywood fiction or outright lies in 99% of the cases.
Everyone take the day off.
The fundamental shortcoming is that there can be no understanding, and therefore no judgement, because there is no mind. See Searle's [in]famous Chinese Room Argument (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/). Or for a more concrete example from today: https://twitter.com/mit_csail/status/1121447605412741120?s=2...
I don't know what the car is and what the snake is in this analogy. Or even the leg.
Why do research when you can spend the same amount of money just buying small companies that have researched and innovated?

I'm honestly asking. It doesn't seem like there's any substantial pros to doing the research in-house for a big company like 3m. A top down directive to make use of $new_acquisition's tech every now and then seems easier than fostering a culture of innovation at all times.
No, the rest of the universe could still effect that coffee externally. A universe at thermal equilibrium would encompass everything (which naturally also means there could not be anyone or anything around to measure anything either)
honestly i just came for the title
Open Sourcing of Webcodesk – A Rapid Development Tool for React Web Applications
I'm excited to announce that I'm open sourcing stable version of Webcodesk on GitHub under the MIT License. It includes the source code for the cross-platform desktop application and the source code for the Web application framework.

Find all links related to Webcodesk here: https://github.com/webcodesk/webcodesk
I liked the example of water spilling onto the floor. I was trying to explain this point to my 7-year old the other day. As crazy as it sounds, the laws of physics don't say that the water couldn't jump off the floor and back into the bottle. The laws of physics are equations and equations are equally true if you reverse the left and right sides. In terms of the equations, that water in the bottle equals the water on the floor (along with the increase in heat energy and other effects), so there's no fundamental physical reason you can't go from one to the other. The reason why you don't ever see it is because it is astronomically less probable to happen in reverse.
When I come across an applicant with a nanodegree, it almost sends a negative signal. If anything, do the course, leave it off your resume, and if you get an interview, you might impress your interviewer with all this unexpected technical knowledge.
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, then you are a fraud." - NNT

Still something I'm trying to live up to and it's much easier said than done... likely there is a selection mechanism in these organizations where anyone with the courage to do that is recognized and passed over early, or else is removed as soon as they do this.
Seems all for not as (others have mentioned) these techniques likely won't work across the board.

I don't really know much anything about this stuff or the cameras that might be used so forgive the noobness of this question, but I've been wondering - what about jamming? Thinking along the lines of super-bright IR (UV?) LEDs flashing in random sequences (i.e. around license plates).
> Some of these facilities have thousands of employees. A few hundred firings in a year seems, at a glance, plausible.

The article mentions these numbers are for a specific warehouse, and provides the total number of employees at that warehouse (~2500).

If you're firing over 10% of your workforce annually for performance, you have fucked up expectations.
> Science isn't a bunch of fixed methods from a holy book, it's the aggregation of everything that reliably works for extracting information about observable reality.

This isn't true. The word is often used to describe that. But science is first and foremost a method. It's not the knowledge itself. It's not the techniques. There are other techniques besides scientific ones that we use to obtain information about the world. Math, for instance, isn't science. Statistical methods are not scientific methods.

Science concerns itself with obtaining empirical basis for causation. Studying the physical world does not provide insight into every problem we have. You don't try to debug your software problem by hooking up a multimeter to your CPU! We need to use alternative methodologies than scientific ones.

To lump them all under one word is wrong. Your categories are off, which makes your following statement:

> It's just that the sentence "science can't ever answer a question about reality" is a category error - it's saying "the set of ways you can answer questions about reality with can't be used to answer a question about reality". Nonsense."

... even more wrong.

Science is closer to a bunch of fixed methods from a holy book than it is to your assertion. You're using the word science to describe what epistemology calls justification. In epistemological terms, knowledge is a justified true belief. Science is a form of justification. There are other forms.

Since science is empirical, relying on the material world, then the assertion starts to carry water if and only if you can first prove physicalism. I personally am fully on board with materialism, but will rebel very hard against physicalism. Calling math a form of science feels very wrong. I'm on the fence about positivism, I need to think more about it.
Made an account just for this:

A professor I know from undergrad did research which could essentially evaluate, with some adaptation, whether or not people would work well in software engineering situations. More centered around whether team members would work well together, but relevant nonetheless: Malte Jung
You mentioned it but, the strange meta object macro processing that qt depends up on, has been something I dislike. If I remember correctly GTK or other toolkits does not do anything similar.

And qt python bindings seems to be very poorly documented, same case with Java bindings.
Are you asking cause you are thinking of building a product around this idea?
My issue with the name is that it's a bad comparison at best, and misleading at worst.

Yes, a plane autopilot only maintains bearing and altitude, but that's also all a plane needs to do. An equivalent system in a car would be utterly useless, so if you're taking Tesla's terms literally then they're telling you they've made something that's of no use to you.

If, instead, you think of an autopilot as being something that allows the pilot to take their attention off the controls to do something else then, well, Tesla's autopilot explicitly doesn't do that. So it's not the right name when taken either literally or figuratively, so little wonder people get confused.
I hate the abuse of the term AI too. It's not AI. AI doesn't exist yet. It's machine learning.
The 'Product Managers' who don't know what the product does and the 'Business Analysts' that have no idea about the marketplace and who solipsitically shuffle Jira tickets endlessly...
If I understand one of the comments here correctly, I would still need XWayland for vscode, which relies on Electron and consequently Chromium; is that not true?
UFO just means "unidentified flying object," which could include things like a balloon, a meteor, another airplane, etc.

Not sure why everyone immediately jumps to "Navy admits there are aliens!"
Scientists have found a way to decode brain signals into speech
This is a thing a lot of engineers don’t seem to get. Slick interface is the most important thing for public, no one wants to use terminal or advanced settings to actually do anything related to your product.
Well, sometimes, but sometimes it's like closing the barn door after the cattle have escaped--too late!
I'm familiar with this scenario. It took a while to find the right approach and build the confidence to challenge a room of people with this mindset. It is definitely possible to stand up to this mentality and succeed in a workplace, but it is a constant challenge.

After a long time fighting these battles I realised I had gained a lot of skills in dealing with narcissists and sociopaths in the mission to simply be good at what I do, to the point where doing so was a large portion of my "job". This was taking a lot out of me personally, it detracted from advancing my desired skill set, I did not enjoy the type of person I was becoming, I hated going into meetings where I knew so and so would be there, despite knowing I could win over the room. Over time the general anxiety and fatigue bled into my personal life and outlook to the point where I basically had a mental breakdown (though I was pretty good at hiding it).

The best thing I did was to get the hell out of there and learn how to identify companies like this ASAP, preferably during the interview itself. Better to have something else lined up first, but I have endured long months of no income rather than place myself in such a toxic environment again and am all the happier for it, my marriage and relationship with my kids improved immeasurably once I took my hand out of the fire so to speak.

There are many great companies, from startups to global enterprise who value an open and inclusive culture, newer companies especially are wising up to the damage bullshitting narcissists inflict on their reputation and bottom line.

A really great company to work for gives everyone in the room a voice, and they definitely exist. Although finding the right fit can take some time and a fair amount of pain along the way, it is worth it in the end if you value your sanity and wish to avoid burnout.
Seattle’s tax situation is far better than the rust belt states that are looking down the barrel of old infrastructure, freezing winters (causing more expense due to salt and associated wear and tear and rusting), decreasing populations, and of course, debt in the hundreds of billions to their retirees.
`async`/`await` syntax hasn't been implemented. `std::future` will be stabilized in 1.36. It will be a decently long time until it's as "easy to use as it is in JavaScript".

You can follow the progress here:
https://areweasyncyet.rs/
The date on the status page is 9:50 AM PDT, the original poster posted well before that.

It isn't historically uncommon for AWS outage information to be posted and commented on here well before the status page is updated.
> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero?

I haven't read the research myself but if they are only looking at interviews, this could be explained by the fact people with absolutely no prior knowledge would be filtered before reaching the interview.
The concept of intellectual property should not apply to living things in any way, shape, or form. The fact it legally does is a moral travesty.
And there's the "localhost web app", where the app relies on whatever browser is installed.

Jupyter Notebook does this.

https://jupyter.org/
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I m no expert in that field. Probably better than you think since the police has access to a lot of tools to find you and been an harasser doesn't mean you have the technical skill to be anonymous enougth.

We are now in an endless debate. Internet isn't the problem. Bad behaviours, uneducation, missinformation, fake news, etc are the problem.
Blaming internet won't solve those. And they will be ready for the next tool.
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The damages per farmer are ~210,000 USD, for those not familiar with the conversion.
You could say the same thing about iOS and browser technologies. Every iOS device is 5 years behind in web standards support. Every Android device has access to the latest Chrome or Firefox.
It's not unfortunate. If it was a bad thing, UNIX wouldn't be so widespread.
They can and do already track your app usage (you can see this if you check your usage history on the Google data dashboards).

This specific change is pretty much just a good thing, unless you want to get meta-cynical.
The real being reported is complex and subjective. The presentation isn't up to the task. That said, the "README" helps at least to frame the project:

https://internethealthreport.org/2019/about/

And OMFG the 2018 report. Ow my balls!

https://internethealthreport.org/2018/

2017 is the best of the bunch: https://internethealthreport.org/v01/about/
That's why white T-shirts were popular among street dealers. If everyone wears the same common thing then it makes it harder to identify perps.
Productivity is a really good reason to fire people!

(I'm not advocating for Amazon's labor practices, but the headline should read pro-Amazon)
I'm working on something that might do #4 and #5:

https://vlang.io/#ui

An example of a small GUI app:

https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/examples/users_gui

The app is about 100 KB on all platforms with zero dependencies and uses native toolkits (WinAPI, Cocoa).
I did. I should point out I work for an ISP, so my day job is managing proxy farms, DNS, and so on. It just didn't seem to stop ads on the Smart TV with any variation of whitelist/blacklist.
If the goal is to not draw attention, attaching a bunch of flashing LEDs to yourself is not a good idea.
I also imagine the converse. A good antibullshitter can be a passable bullshitter.

If you know which patterns peg your bogometer, you can avoid using them yourself in situations where you need to be believed.

For instance, I know that logorrhea, babbling, and "the gallop" are strong indicators of deception. The bull can always shit faster than the farmer can shovel it. So when I want to be believed, I could pause after every point, and maybe take some strawmen from a partially-scripted faux-skeptic conspirator so I can knock them down.
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Python QT bindings are poorly documented, much of the documentation is out of date. Also it appears to me, far too much churn.
I don't think thats true TBH.
I've worked on some pretty huge projects with both and I think it depends on the underlying server. SVN does seem to be a bit more "chatty" to the server than git so its more sensitive to latency. I'm honestly surprised that the people who wrote this article didn't benchmark...
I used to play with an idea to build kiosks for wild chimps with video phone recording software. With an interface tuned for them, I wonder if you could build social software that actually provided utility to the chimpanzees. I can imagine something like TikTok being able to send news or otherwise connect them in a meaningful way.
Python was written in C. :)
If you're the average user, maybe, but I'd bet the fact you're willing to pay $10 for it makes you far from the average. It's very possible that many users make them a few tens of cents a year, which suggests that at the top end they must have users making them $100? Maybe more? Would you pay $20? $50? At what point is it too expensive?
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Random Dart question - how is the standalone Dart VM implemented? What is it written in, is there a bytecode, etc?

And is there a place where more details are available?
Isn't there a 'Rust announcements' mailing list instead of having HN polluted with every minor point release?
In so much as it will cause your airline (or industry if you implement it at the TSA level) to cease to exist, and thus cease to contribute to carbon emissions, sure.
When you are young, you think adults have it all figured out. When you become an adult yourself, you realize a good chunk of people are straight winging it and, in many cases, entire companies are winging it all together without fully realizing it.
I mean, I get why there's a discrepancy. But 17/223 is 6% vs 94%.

Let's be frank here, the European Union alone has a GDP similar to the US (both around $19-20 trillion), the population is about 50% larger, with a very substantial western part that has similar disposable income as the US (particularly as things like healthcare or education costs less here, purchasing power is stronger in the EU than the nominal figures). The fact incomes are more egalitarian should also help, given pinterest-revenues aren't being driven by a small group of rich people.

In a world with just US/Europe, I'd expect more of a 60/40 split, 70/30 at worst. Yet it's 94/6.

But then the world isn't just US/Europe. You can add lots of other OECD countries, like Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada etc, when taken together you can quickly add up to another US-sized population of high-incomes. Again, it's not an exact comparison, but here too you'd expect at worst a 70/30 split.

Together with Europe and other huge but lower income markets like the BRIC countries, you'd be looking at 50/50 US/Rest, easily.

Google is at 45/55 and Apple is at 40/60. Pinterest being at 94/6 is absolutely not just a function of US incomes.
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Investigation into Tensor type (r, s) convention
There's something to that POV. Out of curiosity I looked around for relevant podcasts and found a BBC World podcast [0] on the Rendlesham Forest Incident [1] in which a U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel brought along a geiger counter, a tape recorder, and several other people to check out a possible UFO in the forest.

The Colonel's final take is interesting, if a bit concerning for the more exploration-minded: "I don't think we can do anything about it. I think this is beyond us. So: Quit worrying about it."

Personally I'm interested in the benign-animalistic properties of these phenomena. The entities often seem to have at least some basic sensing capability (regarding e.g. 'noticing' aircraft in the vicinity) and their reported maneuvers are in line with what I would expect from a less-intelligent, but still instinctual, entity. I wonder if they would respond additionally to stimuli such as playful maneuvers by nearby aircraft, things like that. Way out there, but only an idea.

0. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswqmm

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident
Doesn't "rank and yank" traditionally advocate firing the bottom 10% of your workforce as part of the annual review process?
I use Pi-Hole for my home network and for my Android phone.

Here's a screenshot of the current blocking situation from the phone:

https://i.imgur.com/lTsZFhE.png

Almost 60%... I don't install many apps, I use Firefox with Ublock Origin. Most of the blocked requests are to Google or Facebook.

At home I have it network-wide, and typically the block percentage stays under 10%. Until my partner opens his Windows 10 laptop, then the block graph goes up. Also my television talks to advertiser trackers (LG), which I can easily block from Pi-Hole.

Why it's better than just a hosts file? One is I can easily whitelist/blacklist domains from the UI or I can just disable all blocklists if I need for any reason. I also like the statistics it gives me.
>There's also a big power dynamic at play where underlings don't want to question a senior professor because obviously the professor knows what they're doing.

This exists much more directly in business. Questioning your boss can lead to you getting fired by that boss. A senior professor can't fire an adjunct. A dean can't arbitrarily fire a professor with tenure.
but then it doesn't encode assumptions. Metaphors are supposed to be imperfect.

"bias" and "reality" can equally cover for model simplicity.
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> The Doomsday Clock is a joke now. It made sense during the cold war when the threat was clearly identified: a nuclear war between the USA and USSR.

The USA and Russia have been closer to a shooting war in the past five years, then they have in the last decade of the Cold War.

And there are many ways for shooting wars to escalate to nuclear wars.
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> Dart feels like a better TypeScript

That's only if you use Typescript as a class-based OOP language. If you're more used to functional programming and prototypal inheritance, then Dart will bear no familiarity.

Due to its adherence to classical OOP, it feels way more like Java than Javascript.

As someone who never did any serious programing in those classical OOP languages, I struggled a lot to find the right abstractions to implement any kind of clean business logic. It was the first time I had to actually read up about "design patterns" and unironically consider writing factory factories.

It seems that due to Dart's rigidity and adherence to classical OOP, any library which needs to deviate from this paradigm has to hook into an additional build step (e.g. built_value for immutable types, has to use build_runner). That's an acceptable compromise for lib users, but adds a huge burden to actually writing those libraries, let alone incorporating those in your app's code.
But the paper is very clear about that limitations.