skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (I'm not advocating for Amazon's labor practices, but the headline should read pro-Amazon)

Your view of 'amazon's labor practices is most likely gleaned from what you have read about them in stories which is most certainly slanted in one direction because it makes interesting reading. Kind of a 'where there is smoke there is fire' situation.

I don't know where it is written that warehouse jobs have to be non stressful or easy and they shouldn't push you. If you think the job is to hard for you at Amazon then don't work there or for them. Do people complain that sign up to be firefighters that they have to run into burning buildings? No that is part of the job. [1]

[1] Go ahead and figure out a way that 'no that's different' or 'no but that doesn't mean they need to assume all negatives and risks.
> I suspect they're esthetics

Totally unrelated to your point, but I'm curious as to what this word means in this context.
I've seen this pattern of behavior as well. It makes me seriously wonder if the Google engineers working on Chromium/Chrome are being corrupted by the advertising desires of Google's management.

Their behavior is much of a politician trying to do something while trying to hide their end-goal.
A Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
There is an autoland system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

>The only thing an airplane autopilot does is keep the bearing and altitude constant

If autopilot means that then we had autopilot in years, I remember students creating toy projects that were following the road.

The issue is that some(no idea of a number) people, including Tesla owners, think the car drives itself and do not pay 100% attention. I am not sure why they do not understand that there is a chance they will get killed or kill somebody and the driver has full responsibility.
My comment also states that since adblockers have come along a DNS solution seems a bit archaic. Adblockers are even more slick and user friendly so your reply doesn’t at all answer, why? Why move back to a less than solution?

Lack of device control, unknown alternatives, unwillingness to just say no (for whatever reason… not criticizing here) seems to be the answer.

Unfortunately, as ignoramous states there are techniques that will render DNS blacklisting useless if they want to.
They follow the industry standard of hard coding their status dashboards.
I am in a similar situation. I once explained to my dad that having a Phd has allowed me to proudly proclaim that I don't know something without any pressure whatsoever. Not that you need a PhD to say I don't know but it helps.
As unclear and uncommunicative as the 2019 report is, it's at least not the 2018 version: https://internethealthreport.org/2018/

I've sugested to Mozilla that unclear labels, vague stock photos, and acres of whitespace are a poor choice of media for conveying a complex, and yes, truly important, story.

But at least it's not animated floating balls.

The page wants more clear relevant text.

The first iteration remains the best to date:

https://internethealthreport.org/v01/about/
The internet is not healthy.

edit: self censoring myself even I'm afraid to say that here

someone is trying to erase the entire history of the events of Tianmnen Square involving Tank Man.

The United States, defending freedom and multicultuarlism supposedly, is recording basically all internet traffic and sharing it with the most racist country in the world while they create hordes of refugees due to their never-allowed-to-be-spoken plans for aggressive expansion in violation of the very United Nations that created them.

Processors will be made in this country and shipped all over the world. Routers, microwaves, all phones, plagued with endemic backdoors. Auditing capacity is overwhelmed and results seldom in any changes, see iratemonk seagate events.

Social media has basically given TPTB the easy capability to harass and interfere with all of the next generation of anything, while placing their agents in 'key positions' all over the place.

It's a bad situation, the real internet is not the public one anymore. Power exists, and the physical structure of power is, as always, hard at work trying to regulate the ideological structures.

Make us forget Tiananmen, and who knows what else we'll forget.

Wasn't there something that happened in Las Vegas a few monthyears ago? hmmmmmmmmm

The internet is being used, successfully, to attack the human mind on a global scale and the people with the most money are doing it while a bunch of really bright people think they are just solving math problems and making good money.

The situation is bad, I don't need algorighms and network maps to tell me that. The internet has lost China and Russia, and is running away from The United States of America.
I'm not sure if this is helping anyone except making people who are not bullshitters more paranoid and the bullshitters be-hated. The bullshitters in the startup world don't get big because nobody realizes that they are talking a lot of bullshit but because those who collaborate with them are at least as greedy as they are. (I was also drinking the kool aid for some time.)

So the core problem is greed and not bullshit, and this is also what makes it toxic. FWIW even the most credible and knowledgeable people are able to fan out bullshit, everybody does this every now and then.
Feels more like 1999 to me - huge overinvestments in tech, lots of investments "walking on air", lots of zombie companies, lots of vacuous bull sentiment.

Similarly I see lots of topping activity in the markets. 2020 is not looking good.
The Vision for a More Decentralized Web
Am I remembering correctly that in Orwell's 1984 (the book), music and poetry was created by machines?
Take graduate CS classes online. Or get a masters online like https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/graduate-degrees... or the many others available.
I've had recently that experience as well. (We hired him.)
Pihole is run by people who have no idea what they are doing.

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/2704

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/2706
I strongly agree. A good engineer can compensate for bad product management and occasionally bad leadership, but can't do much about all the other things you listed.

There's no way to guarantee a successful engineering hire, but organizations try to because their culture is so blameful or fearful of conflict that all the incentives are misaligned.

I believe most organizations copy the Google, Facebook, etc. hiring processes with the goal of adopting an "industry standard process" because they don't know how to conduct an interview process that's tailored to their own organization, and they don't want to think too deeply about it.

Having a coherent interview process means dealing with your organizational baggage: understanding it and either resolving it or crafting the interview process to select for people who can integrate well with it. Usually it's the latter, since most of the issues start at the top.

Google, Facebook, etc. have spent a lot of time and money crafting a good interview process for their organizations: specifically what they value and don't value (even if the individual interviewers aren't always fully aware of what the organization is selecting for). They can also support a lot of false negatives.

But the copycats don't have those same needs or candidate pool, so it always comes across as a bit disconnected to me.
So you didn't favor that phrasing because it sounded more catchy, and you weren't aware that it was false?
OP said 6 months. that's a long off-season.
To add a little data on my experience last time I tried this, using UPX [0], you can get GTK+ 3 down to 9 MB. Most of the size of Qt comes from ICU, which can be feature selected to decrease its size [1]. With that and UPX, Qt can get down to 16 MB. And those can both be compressed another 30% with ZIP files for shipping.

While those aren't great numbers, I personally think it's tolerable for most usages.

[0] https://upx.github.io/

[1] https://ssl.icu-project.org/datacustom/index.html
A friend broke his foot, and couldn't take off to recover because if he called out sick it would mean a week or two of not being scheduled. So he worked he can't be more than one minute late for a bathroom break or he is docked pay. They consider it stealing. If you get docked too many times you're fired. Some people have it shittier than others.
Going on with my Arduino idea: when they have enough of C you can do some assembly. You can teach interrupt handling, the source of all concurrency on a single core, in C or asm. You can do communication on an unreliable link (2 boards & LEDs), sensor conditioning. A wheeled robot may help some students "seeing the world from the computer eyes", although they may be a bit too old for that.

Of course data structures are best taught in C on a desktop. Functional programming is certainly interesting but further apart from how a modern computer works.

During my studies I even did opcode programming on antic 8085 dev boards, with a 20 keys keyboard (hex digits, reset, run, memory up/down). You can't imagine how much fun that was, akin to woodworking or pottery. That certainly grounded a number of ideas on programming, that may look otherwise mystic to students.
The trick is to just accept that the UI model, the business logic model and the denormalized db model all have different goals and often times should be decoupled and adapted.
+1. We should make sure that our allies get access to our best technology and weapons platforms and obviously we can commit to defend them if they can commit to defending themselves (places like Germany need to step up to the plate) but America doesn't need to be the world's police man and can't afford to be the world's police man.
Federal discretionary spending is a very specific type of spending. Overall, military budget has consumed a shrinking percentage of GDP overall. From around 11% in the 1950s to around 4% today: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/DoD-GDP-chart.png
I believe this is in the article.
the gates are nets.
It's not really that different.
You pass the same, they even name the kicks the same (grubber, and drop kick) and it uses a rugby ball.
Back in the old days there was slot of talk about how hard computers were to use, and how much work remained to be done to make user interfaces usable.

The task is complete.

Also here is a painting elephant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=owSZs7H24UY
That's a rather misleading statement. Discretionary spending makes up less than a third of the federal budget. Defense spending works out to about 15% of federal spending overall. Confusion seems to arise because mandatory spending programs (like social security, medicare, medicaid, and the VA) are budgeted separately, as is the interest paid on federal government debt.

The United States spent $609 billion on defense last year. Surely it's possible to make the case for DOD cutbacks without misleading statistics.
Here is the crux. Time IS motion. We measure this motion of objects relative to one another by comparing their motion to a standard set of things in motion called a clock. There is nothing else to time except that; but it is real, as real as anything, it is not an illusion.
It seems like they are a few moves away from checkmate on the car market. Electric SUV, with better self driving than the competition could do really well.
I wonder if the root cause for all of this is poor instruction on stress management and anger management.

I am starting to wonder if many of these issues are actually culturally driven, rather than biologically driven. American urban and industrial culture as-a-whole is one that prizes productivity, grinding, and individual work, rather than looser workdays, efficiency and teamwork.

I am aware there are exceptions.
The thing is, if it is using traditional selection processes, then all the researcher is doing is discovering a naturally occuring set of genes that have a desired effect. This is no different than if someone randomly discovers a new lifeform in their yard, they can't claim exclusive rights over all descendants of that lifeform. The amount of work someone puts into it has no bearing on patentability.

Same thing as if an astronomer points a telescope to a patch of sky that has never been observed. Can they own exclusive rights to the image, and prevent others from pointing their telescopes to that same patch to make their own image? What if that astronomer spent 10 years looking at different galaxies and other astro objects, to find that one nebula that has artistic value?
Anecdotally, I've seen a bunch of price drops in Atlanta (grant park, o4w, cabbagetown, etc areas)
There are two ways of “doing fizzbuzz” or any other small interview programming problem

1) in an editor, iteratively, until it works. This is the correct way. Every developer should manage to solve FizzBuzz in this setting.

2) By writing it on paper or a whiteboard without feedback. Even the greatest developer in the world would randomly fail this. It provides zero information about the capability of a developer and no one should ever subject anyone to that type of test.
Mostly good article, but I don't appreciate the gratuitous dunking on web devs towards the bottom:

"so developers can use hipster technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript"

"the vast armies of newskool web developers who grew up on JavaScript and the DOM"

...especially when the author doesn't really appear to know what he's talking about in that space:

"And when things don’t quite work as expected, you can’t do much about it—short of maybe just switching to a different framework as a last attempt."

"and long-term maintenance will be a nightmare."

"web development technologies—which technically don’t provide any advantages over more traditional approaches"

There are legitimate criticisms of Electron as a choice for desktop apps, but that doesn't invalidate an entire domain's worth of developers.
>>Unfortunately, I think that to some extent, it signals that “I’m interested, but not committed to getting a full degree.”

This seems quite short-sighted, because the underlying assumption is that not getting a full degree is a signal for unwillingness to commit, as opposed to _inability_ to commit.

Not many people can up and quit their "real life" to pursue a degree. With your mindset, you are definitely discriminating against, for instance, people who have medical bills to pay and are stuck at their current jobs, but are also ambitious and dedicated and want to switch to better careers and are willing to do whatever it takes to do it.
> Both "federal" and "discretionary" are weasel qualifiers that attempt to make military spending look artificially large.

> For one thing, defense is one of the relatively few things the federal government is supposed to be doing

And "Defense" is a weasel qualifier that attempts to make military spending look artificially necessary. Most military expenditures are not for defensive purposes.
For me this concept of expose/damage/paint event which bubbles through the window hierarchy is what defines the retained mode.

In theory in immediate mode widget library you can have global state that defines which part of screen has to be repainted if any, but there is not that much of performance benefit because you still end up doing most of the processing for each frame and when there is any damaged region you still in effect redraw everything and clip it to the region.
>not affect the bottom line numbers

That's probably the one.
Yes, Dart is a fairly standard object-oriented language, but this exaggerates a bit. Dart has first-class functions (unlike Java) so you shouldn't need a factory-factory in the simple case. That's just a function that returns a function.

You might need other design patterns, though.
Just use burqa technology.
If there are indeed many unsold Teslas on desolate parking lots, what would be a legitimate reason for this?
This sounds like a good demonstration of how mindless the activity of scrolling through Instagram truly is. (Even a monkey can do it).

It's similar to watching TV or mindlessly browsing the web for non-intellectual activities. Perhaps we should be concerned about the impact of these technologies on our evolution as a species. There does seem to be supporting research for this (sorry for not providing links/ref).
Traefik also has enterprise licenses. I'm not sure what your point is.

Literally the only thing Caddy has done that has impacted non-enterprise customers was that sponsor header that they removed pretty quickly when the community told them they didn't want it. And enterprise customers have always had the option of compiling from source if they don't want to buy a license.
With precision is too vague. The chimpanzee actually chooses what to see: scrolls, watches chimp videos, swipes off boring snake videos, etc. It's said they are roughly as intelligent as a toddler, and it certainly looks that way. Awesome.
Nice :) Yeah I'd definitely be adding some sugar too. In autumn we make damson gin, which tastes really awesome.

I'll definitely try the rhubarb soon with it.
But is there an acceptance that the exceptionalism cannot be had by massive global bullying, wars, lack of investment in people vs corporations?

I mean, its literally impossible to be number 1, if the competition is investing in their people and aren't going to insane wars.

America is still number 2 and that's not a bad place.
I suspect it has to do with the comment(s). Also there are all of a handful of comments right now, if you're drawing conclusions already I'd say that is flawed from the start.

It's all too easy to declare votes are for whatever reason you want to think they are.
> I don't know about "defying the laws of physics" (since if it could truly defy the laws of the physics that would be whack)

It refers to objects that start and stop moving instantaneously, or make turns at hard right angles, as if they have no inertia.
5.7 GHz on 28 Cores: Overclocking the Intel Xeon W-3175
>>I wonder if the root cause for all of this is poor instruction on stress management and anger management.

Do citizens of countries with low stress and anger levels receive such instructions?

Because if not, lack of such instructions is unlikely to be the "root cause" of the observed phenomenon.
Ok, I know a person that was stopped at the founder's level ("no way that person could ever work here."). Pity a VP blocked you, such things can always happen both ways, regardless of your interview performance/likability.
Hm. I once had an issue with a decryption password failing despite using a manager (not on Protonmail)

It ended up being that a trailing newline got added.

It's a long shot but worth looking into...
Easyjet does not have 'safety issues'. They have never had a hull loss and to my knowledge they have never had a passenger injury as the result of operations.
Right? Hard pass from me.
your priorities seem way off to me, I don't care if these countries disagree about trade but climate change needs everyone on board.
Also, we don't need China following the US regime change war machine.
Facebook Will Finally Pay–Billions–For Its Privacy Missteps
I don't have anything specific to nanodegrees or specific online courses, but its a lot easier if you know specifically what job/industry you're targeting.

In my experience a Master's/Bachelor's/PhD might get you into the interview room because of your resume or recruiters coming to campus, but in my experience I've been disappointed about the knowledge gaps in recent graduates from well-known schools. I've also interviewed Masters/PhDs who studied my field, but were interviewing for user-facing support roles when they're clearly better suited for something more focused on r&d. Or they've focused so much on a specific subset, they're lacking the general knowledge needed for that job. IMHO, degrees don't guarantee anything for me. At most, they're a jumping off point for how your interests and background apply to that job.

More important than the degree are the projects you've worked on, your role in them, and challenges you've overcome. You could take the nanodegree and omit it from your resume, but put the projects on there as personal projects. Just don't misrepresent your work. It can be a surprisingly small industry. Someone might recognize a project as something they saw online, or know someone who worked on it.
Sing!

Edit: in case anyone thinks I'm trying to sing the gospel of The Christ, then you are wrong. I'm not a Christian. I'm much more in favor of rationality. I'm using the name of The Lord as a kind of "click-bait" if you will. But you didn't realize I as being doubly-sarcastic, so I realize now why I'm being down-voted.

Shame on me for trying to be witty.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, says Podemos had been breaking the terms of service by using the channel for automated mass messages. Podemos accepted that it had been using the channel for this purpose but said other parties had been doing so as well.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-electi...

Apparently it's reinstated but Podemos is not too hapy about being singled out.

https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3623961/0/respuesta-whatsap...
for technical positions, it may help to get an interview but you still need to handle the technical portion of the interview
Exactly, see how things got when in the Boeing one sensor sent a wrong input and the software was designed with a flaw, now imagine the super complex input of video cameras, that feed into a magic ANN when something goes wrong or when the input is something weird that the ANN was not trained for.

I am fine for Tesla to train the code with the fleet but the problem is with the marketing and drivers that put live in danger by thinking the problem is already solved.
Cultural values and government policy are symbiotic.
The best bullshit question is always to ask developers if they are sure their solution is foolproof. This has two nice side effects if you are looking to suck up to management. 1)It shows you are concerned about the project/product/company. 2) Should something go wrong even if it is the tiniest thing you like you had a point. You get all this while not taking the risk of doing the implementation. That is bullshit 101.
It seems like "bullshit", in the way that it is measured in this paper, is an analog to confidence and risk taking.
The groups that were most likely to bullshit (high socio-economic status, male, immigrant, North American) are generally groups who have been exposed to strategic risk taking that has paid off.
"Bullshitters", in the context of this paper, seem to be the ones who are willing to put their hands up and have the confidence to explore ideas and concepts that are at the fringes of their skill and knowledge sets.
This is very different than the colloquial idea of a bullshitter.
I think it tends to bolt more reliably once it's well established. My father and grandmother both had big plantings of rhubarb, and they would bolt by midsummer. I don't know why we never harvested it after that, maybe because it wasn't as sweet? Not that it was ever particularly sweet in the first place, but for all that, so delicious.
I mean, if you say you know a made up branch of math very well - isn't that BS? That's what the researchers tested (they asked students to rate themselves in 16 branches of mathematics, 3 were completely made up)
Sorry, yes, got the date wrong. "About this Mac" says:

"MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)"

I guess I've had it longer than I realized! Still holding on to it desperately hoping Apple ships a new MacBook with a fixed keyboard before this one dies.