skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is the much more complicated and secretly much worse problem, not just for businesses, but for society as a whole.

We lean on heuristics like pedigree, both corporate, which is reflexive on having already past a hiring filter before, and academic, which is ludicrously expensive, both in time and money, is itself largely reflexive on having been born into high socioeconomic status, and seems to have dubious value outside of providing an easily digestible signal to get past these filters constructed in the labor market.

Maybe if we could design a better interview system and more accurate and precise cheap signals for who to throw into that (expensive to scale) pipeline, we could save young people from having to start their lives 4 years later and behind the starting line, reaping the productivity gains of the labor market gaining those extra 4 years and a wider pool of talent, while also creating more socioeconomic mobility spread more widely across society.
I’ve got to imagine that the sort of people who would be sufficiently offended by the inclusion of a novel pronoun to _refuse to play a board game_ are not common enough for, er, whoever’s in charge of scrabble to worry about.
>In general, when coding, if you're doing a menial or boring task you're doing something wrong. E.g. I've worked with a ton of mediocre developers who don't automate the menial tasks and end up doing the task manually, sloppily and slowly.

That’s total BS. Development is full of boring mediocre tasks such as fixing spelling mistakes in UI controls, updating help messages for dialog boxes, or porting the product from one build system to another. In many tasks, there’s a huge gap (a chasm sometimes) between manual intervention and complete automation. I’ve lost count of the number of times a clever programmer has tried to automate the process and completely mucked things up, forcing me to go in and fix things manually.

>Incremental changes are hard. Incremental changes to large and unwieldy systems while leaving them in a maintainable state are very hard (actually, from what I've heard, Google Adwords' code base is a mess).

That’s exactly where a great product manager can mentor a mediocre developer in making a sensible change. It’s a great learning opportunity that we’re depriving people of because software founders want to retain all the revenue for themselves.

>It's vastly better to have a really good product owner/manager who knows the domain working with a really good coder than a mediocre coder with mediocre domain knowledge.

Of course. It’s also vastly better that to be born rich so one doesn’t have to work at all. Ideally, all developers in the market would be great developers. But they’re not. So I ask again, what are the mediocre developers supposed to do?
How's this for starters?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Violence_aga...
Great idea! I've used OCW to "re-take" a class I last had 25 years ago, plus a couple I never took, but never through to do a whole program.

A suggestion: 18.01 and 18.02 are typically taken in the first two semesters of freshman year (and many take 18.03 the first of sophomore year, or even the semester before). As you're well past the high schoolers who push up at MIT, I suggest 18.014 / 18.024 / 18.034 for more theory (those weren't available when I was a student).

It's funny: when I was an undergrad Math was quote popular because it had so few requirements and on your page it still looks that way (compare to course 6). I wonder if they same dynamic still applies?
Amazon AWS had/has a dependency on one of their first datacenters last year for example
I’m British. Nobody’s forcing me to use the British government, as evidenced by the fact I left the country with no intention to return. (Some people have even given up their citizenship). Sure, there are things that makes it hard to do, but that’s true for leaving FB too.
Exactly. As an AWS customer, that outage didn't really bother me because it was obvious it impacted many other unrelated services too.
It is possible to view the industrial work that environmentalists protest as positive expressions of humanity doing what it does best. Just as a beaver builds dams, an act of eudaemonia. Being in favor of promoting and protecting such industry, especially if it materially benefits hundreds of thousands of people in a region, is not necessarily motivated solely by a desire to spite opponents.
Yup, fully agreed. Nobody can keep sql instances or hosts up forever. They will go down. Further, humans work on this stuff. Humans make mistakes. Bad config push, bad code push, lightning hitting a data center, human vandalism, etc. will happen.

What shouldn't happen ever is that your entire cloud goes down because somebody pushed a bad config change to a service that serves literally your entire cloud.

Microsoft clearly hasn't architected everything to be region-independent. There are things that will always be somewhat global, but Azure seems pretty bad at this. This isn't the first time even in the past 12 months that they've had a global outage.
I will assume that although we think the 'gov' knows all about our financial affairs, in reality they don't. E.g. receive some inheritance, selling of property with profit, started trading forex and you got income from that.

There are many unknowns, perhaps not for you, but for other people. Also you need to file in order to have this 'discussion'/exchange. Perhaps the state erroneously thinks you made 500k and is taxing you accordingly when in reality you made 100k. You then prove the state wrong (whichever way) and you save yourself the tax$ and the pain.
> Turbotax lobbied the government to kill these bills because it would have destroyed their business model.

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky
That turned out surprisingly wholesome.
Cryotherapy is mentioned in the article, but this is merely a sly sleight of hand by a journalist with an anti-tech bias, I would encourage you to reread it. If you actually search Jack Dorsey + cryotherapy, nowhere does he endorse or talk about using cryotherapy. He does espouse the value of cold ice baths though (which have shown to have several positive benefits)

From a quick Google Scholar search it seems that there are plenty of studies showing the efficacy of near-nfrared light treatment, so I can see why he would upgrade his sauna with one. Whereas I haven't seen you back up your claim of the danger of infrared saunas (Done in moderate dosages, not in extremes).

1) A Controlled Trial to Determine the Efficacy of Red and Near-Infrared Light Treatment in Patient Satisfaction, Reduction of Fine Lines, Wrinkles, Skin Roughness, and Intradermal Collagen Density Increase
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926176/

"RLT and ELT are large-area and full-body treatment modalities for skin rejuvenation and improvements in skin feeling and skin complexion. The application of RLT and ELT provides a safe, non-ablative, non-thermal, atraumatic photobiomodulation treatment of skin tissue with high patient satisfaction rates. RLT and ELT can extend the spectrum of anti-aging treatment options available to patients looking for mild and pleasant light-only skin rejuvenation."

2) Biological effects and medical applications of infrared radiation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505738/

IR appears to be more versatile than other electromagnetic wavelengths (such as visible light) as it can induce neural stimulation effects as well as promoting a wide range of therapeutic benefits in cells or tissues. An increasing number of new reports in recent years have indicated that different forms IR application have clear clinical benefits, and the mechanisms of IR are becoming clarified. Moreover therapeutic levels of IR can be delivered using devices without any external power source, simply by using the heat production of the human body to drive emission of FIR from materials containing minerals.

3) Far-infrared therapy for cardiovascular, autoimmune, and other chronic health problems: A systematic review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935255/

"As a potential complementary therapy, FIR radiation had both thermal and non-thermal effects. The thermal effect of FIR therapy could increase blood flow and vasodilation by heating the tissue (hyperthermia), similar to ordinary thermal therapy composed of heat pads or hot water.87 In addition, FIR treatment with low levels of delivered energy (non-thermal effect) also had biological activities.88,89 A study of patients receiving HD treatment had shown decreases in stress and fatigue levels by FIR stimulation rather than thermal treatment (heat pads), which was probably attributed to the non-thermal effect.10 An explanation of non-thermal effect of such low energy levels was that nanoscopic water layers got disturbed by low irradiances, leading to the change of cellular membrane structure, then made the therapeutic effects.87"
Code as live objects is almost as old (Lisp, Smalltalk)
> I get it, filing taxes could be easier but it isn't

No, I don't think you really get it. This isn't about taxes.

The problem is that a private corporation has corrupted the federal government to such an absurd extreme, that it has abdicated it's responsibility to it's own citizens. That's why this is such a big deal.

The fact that it happens to be manifesting through tax filing is a relevant detail, but not really the point specifically.

> What about on the scale of things that government is inefficient at

Again, you don't get it. The government is not inefficient. In fact, the government is so hyper-efficient at solving this problem, that private companies had to draft legislation outlawing the government from solving this problem, just to protect their inefficient lazy duopoly.
Key-logger on the box your soft cert is on. Soft cert is comprised immediately, fully, and permanently. And you might never know. With email/sms, at least it's possible for you to realize they're compromised, and with TOTP the underlying keymat is likely not on the device so the attacker has to repeatedly win the race.

More importantly, this is also a false dichotomy, as the correct answer here is hardware protection of the private key, e.g. yubikey.
> Was my image, in the space of those seconds, sent to CBP, run through a database, matched to a name, and then sent back to @JetBlue?

Actually, it was probably done in a fraction of a second.
Here's what it comprises: https://imgur.com/a/BZDJ4wT

43% wind, 38% hydro, 10% solar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Violence_aga...

Free Speech has limits (see Schenk vs United States)
In my opinion it's a really bad idea to foster an attitude of, "if you're not with us then you're against us."

Some people don't mind these kinds of surveillance. You might staunchly disagree but you have to accept that it's a valid position.
https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Target/X...

On x86, they have a scheduling model for most recent Intel Tock cycles going back to Sandy Lake, and AMD Piledriver, Jaguar, and Zen microarchitectures.
The purpose of border checks is to prevent use of the border for unlawful purposes. Whatever lawful or unlawful activity you're performing on a domestic server, there would be no nexus with the act of crossing a border and therefore under no theory I'm aware of would the government have any additional power to search data not present on your person or personal effects.

It's 2019, people. "The network is the computer" was 20 years ago. Kubernetes is the new Linux. Why are people keeping sensitive personal data on a personal computer, the same computer they presumably use to browse the web, and the same one they're worried will be unlawfully accessed at borders or foreign destinations. ssh is still a thing and Wayland hasn't even killed X Windows, yet.

I have my own physical servers (pcengines APUs are cheap and reliable; I have like 4 running at the moment), and smartcards to authenticate for remote access to my colocated, locked-down machines.
OK, first.

>I don't think property rights are naturally extended to Facebook as a global communication medium even if the communication does happen primarily on their property...

Then that's where we differ, and we'll never agree. Apple and Toyota are still private property even if they sell and manufacture things all over the world. As more people covet an entity's property, the importance of protecting that entity's property rights becomes more important. Not less.

And, (to be honest, I had to google this whole "cake" thing), you again are well within your rights to refuse service to anyone if you are a members only service. For instance, Costco is members only, so they can even disallow blacks shopping there if they want. Please understand, I'm not saying that Costco has racial exclusivity clauses in its membership agreement. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just using that example to make the point that they would undeniably be within their rights to do so. Just as many members only country clubs do. It's private property. It's members only. It's Costco's rules. It's the country club's rules. Sorry rich black people, you'll have to golf somewhere else.

And again, the nicer the country club. The more people who covet it. The more people who want to use it. The more important it is for us to protect their property rights. Property rights and Freedom of Speech are very much the same thing. You don't really have one without the other. If you infringe a racially exclusive country club's property rights on some twisted notion of free speech, you are very much necessarily infringing the free speech rights of the country club.
That’s another 100% plausible evolutionary explanation. Autism is caused by genes that correlate with intelligence, which is positive for evolutionary fitness. If you get a certain mixture of those genes, you get autism. That won’t stop the genes from propagating though.
I tried this program and ended up switching back to 7zip because this program did not work well on a 4k screen (scaling was realllllly bad) and there was a lack of visual feedback for the extraction operation. I felt like I could customize 7z more towards what I needed.
The article doesn't even get the units right. Generation is megawatt-hours per day, not megawatts per day. The source data from EIA shows this here: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=22&f=M&s...

Also, the unnamed strawman coal proponents are probably correct that short-term variations are unimportant. What matters is the long-term trend. And the long-term trend is more renewables and less coal.
I understand what you're saying, but in my experience it's great to have both kinds of people on a team -- those who are extremely prolific in their output and those who focus on wisdom, product decisions, and the wider context.

Seriously, working alongside a true "10x" developer is simultaneously humbling and astounding. The sheer quantity of quality output is beyond anything I ever thought possible (speaking as a senior developer myself).
First I was going to express disbelief that any candidate would think that was OK to do. But somebody could be a racist trying to find a racist employer that accepts that kind of talk. Weird & wrong, but rational, and probably something they do all the time in other parts of their life.

Then I had the outlandish idea that the local employment opportunity office is getting especially gung-ho and sending decoys through the pipeline. That would be a fun job. Basically getting paid to be a shock comedian who bombs every time.
Yes you're paying the same amount, for an asset that's worth a variable amount. The only time the amount that asset doesn't matter is if you plan to never ever sell it, which isn't realistic for most people (see elsewhere in the thread where someone pointed out that the median ownership time was 15 years or so).
Same. I have a 2016 and the top case has been replaced twice. The second time I got the newer keyboard with the difference control and option key markings. It's been over a year since that one and everything has been fine.

I also really like the keyboard.
82% of vehicles sold this year came with a touch screen
It's not "reddit markup", it's just Markdown. A rather common format, not specific to Reddit. And honestly, I wish HN would grow a few features in this area — links and blockquote would be really nice. It'd be good to have common formatting s.t. common formatting can just get out of the way, so that we can all focus on the discussion, instead of parsing text with our eyeballs.

(FWIW, M↓ is supposed to be lightweight enough that it's readable inline. The links can get a little long, but I think it's not too hard to skip, and it does have the upshot of not making you have to match up citation numbers. But you're right that the numbered format is more common among posters.)
I assume you'd have to also give it a list of names that are possibly associated with the specific item.
I have never had my picture taken while leaving the United States, which is what this sounds like. Arriving? Sure.
At that point, it's only distracting if you work with distracting people. Maybe without IM the barrier to being distracting would be having to go to your desk, but it would still be an occasional issue.
What I mean by "round-tripping" is that I would have to be able to read a .f90 file into an AST structure, then write out the tree to a new file, and end up with the exact same file content as the original. This would be a prerequisite for a refactoring tool, which has to preserve comments and code formatting.
Yep, I wasn't sure how to word it (it's pretty hard to keep it short without being too wrong!).

You're right that there are many many things you can do to the code to influence the scheduling — like the reordering the compiler is doing — and at the end of the day that has a predictable impact on the scheduling. Don't get me wrong I love my compiler, and the fact that we can impact scheduling is why LLVM-Mca is useful in the first place.

What I meant to write is that your x86 isn't some kind of mostly statically scheduled VLIW. the behavior of the hardware is only partly predictable, and even IACA has to make some tragic simplifications.
Tweaking the alignment to play with fetch boundaries has an effect, vectorizing obviously does, picking a different mix of instructions can help, artificially loading a port to prevent a bad scheduling decision down the line is not always entirely stupid, etc...

I feel it's important to keep in mind that the hardware scheduler keeps dynamic statistics on port usage, so in a sense it's more like a JIT than a compiler, static analysis is only an approximation. What little experience I have told me it's always a good idea to compare IACA and LLVM-Mca's predicted schedule with a real profiler's output :)

(Thanks for giving some nuance, it's appreciated. I'm not actually a compiler engineer or doing low-level magic for a living, so if you see anything wrong I would love to be corrected!)
That's true. But the article is talking about international flights. So in fact they have way more information in this case, as a passport is required. Granted it might not be the same passport the person arrived with. But it's a passport.

Anyway, I think facial recognition makes sense from a security perspective, as an additional layer of defense. You can make assumptions about what faces you expect to see from the passports that are scheduled to fly. If you see an unknown face in the boarding area, it's reasonable to flag that person for further review.
How I Hire Programmers (2009)
Video Recording Apps for Your iPhone
This would explain why my app kept throwing this exception when attempting to call an Azure SQL instance:

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: No such host is known
> But leave that aside.

Anti-Semitism is literally what he's being banned for. How can you "leave that aside?"

Should FB be able to ban religious leaders who repeatedly, consistently, publicly call for the death of Jews from their platform? If they should be able to ban Milo, then — yes, obviously.

If you're arguing that no one should be able to be banned, I think our opinions differ, but I suppose we're each internally consistent with our values.
Why EU regions are redrawing their borders
The truth is that everyone actually hires mediocre people, otherwise we wouldn't get so many comments about mentor people on teams and performance reviews would look very different.

That said, very few people think of themselves as average. Just looking at the comments here on hacker news, everyone feels they are the A players and if they aren't selected for something it's because management sucks or they aren't understood, or some other excuse.

We could all stand to be a hell of a lot more humble.
I think you can filter out people who suck in 60 minutes. I think there's little chance you can differentiate between "competent" and "good+"
Most of the 60+ plus people I know have long paid their mortgage, on a home bought long ago that was less than a decade of salary. They often have multiple properties and rent to the younger generations.

It's not uncommon that they fail to understand why their children can't afford to buy a flat, while they had theirs in their early twenties.
This is the death rattle of a dying media that will soon be replaced.
C's simplicity leads to fewer guarantees, this makes some optimizations impossible. E.g. Fortran used to be faster than C in numerical code, because the guarantee of no aliasing allows for more aggressive optimizations.

Maybe Zig has something in this department, too.
City of Amsterdam to ban polluting cars from 2030
As someone with very minimal/hobby experience in html, do you have an example/link as to what those practices are?
If you dereference pointers with arbitrary offsets read from a file, alignment issues are the least of your issues.
There's a soft rate limit.
I think you're taking an unnecessarily negative view of the userbase here.

Five years ago I would have agreed with you. But have you really not noticed the precipitous shift towards a generally negative attitude around here? It's gotten so bad I almost want to walk away from HN in general. But I have convinced myself that it's a reflection of such a shift in sentiment of society at large, and as much as it sucks, leaving HN wouldn't actually leave me any better off in that case. :-(

Of course now I feel guilty, for feeding the negativity by being negative about the negativity. I guess the old War Games quote still holds "The only way to win, is not to play." :-)
The greatest thing is that Racket is fun the worst thing is Racket is fun, because everyone does their own thing. You can do your own thing faster then finding something and implementing it. It is funny how that is an issue.
For the average wage earner with uncomplicated investments the Australian government knows exactly what I have to pay. I log in and all my income along with divdends are right there pre-filled. There's nothing else to do but sign off on it.

Maybe it's different elsewhere but here tax it's simple, all electronic and a free service provided by the tax office for the majority of Australians.
The serialization/deserialization is just JSON for now, though I plan on adding some configurability and perhaps changing the implementation at some point. There is some runtime checking to make sure the arguments are correctly serializable.

In local mode, a process is created up to the concurrency limit you specify, and each process is reused for subsequent calls (mimicking how Lambda reuses containers, allowing you to use the same caching behavior you'd use on Lambda). I'm not currently using webworkers, but that's something I could see a new mode for easily. For larger data, I would recommend storing arguments and return values directly in cloud storage like S3, or on local disk in local mode.

I would be interested to learn how your experiment with faast.js goes!
Your router has a wire too. Probably two.