skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, for most companies and projects, you'd have a hard time earning the trust to have much in-depth review of existing codebases, before getting hired.

Aside from legal reasons, much of this in my opinion is the traditional power dynamic between employer/employee, where the hiring side typically does a lot of due diligence and research into people being hired, and has the upper hand in the negotiation, much more than the other direction.

At least conceptually, I believe developers need to stand on equal ground, to judge and weigh their candidates (employers and clients) in the same way, including, like you say, assessing their code quality before making any commitment, to see if it's up to your standards.

There's always a "discovery phase" before hiring/being hired, where the two sides are exploring what the other has to offer, to determine whether they can be trusted with the work. You can usually poke around enough to discover, for example, what stacks their main product is using, the general level of skills and standards in UX, performance, security, etc.

Some, maybe at increasingly more places, they'd have public or open-source repositories that give a fair insight into the engineering culture. This could be similar to how developers have (or are expected to have) GitHub profiles. I'd take that as a healthy sign of developer-led best practices and transparency in the company.

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I'd also like to add that the majority of codebases in the wild are bloated, complex spaghetti monoliths of questionable quality. It's just a reflection of limited time, budget, average skill sets, and the real world being practically chaotic. Knowing how to consistently improve the situation is part of being a valuable developer/team.
A aeroplane that NEEDS an added control system just to make it APPEAR to fly neutral is a design flaw.
People write fake news all of the time, why is this AI so "dangerous"? At worst it'll just add to an already existing mountain of news. At best I believe it will prompt people to be more critical of what they read and where they read it from, after all, how many times do you need to be embarrassed by some auto-generated news sources?
>From 'noos', meaning knowledge.

Etymologically it means intelligence (and used literally, it meant "mind").
They have obligations to their corporate customers which would require them to have architecture in place to protect against that kind of scenario better than any home user could on their own.

Plus you could hedge your bets by just backing up to multiple providers (i.e. Google Drive, Onedrive, Dropbox). What are the chances that all three would fail simultaneously?
Classical music is alive and well in the form of film scores.
Firefox doesn't have it enabled by default: you need to set a config variable for it to do anything.
I thought of doing the same until I realized that it's a silly workaround. If I ever need to restore my account or forget password or change device, I'd need the same burner phone... it's a burner anymore now is it?

And then I gave up because of the forced contact discovery... it's a pity.

I wish there was a popular chat service that worked more like Blackberry. Central network but just pseudonymns instead of the phone number.
Not knowing anything about this, are there any numbers on the power consumption of that extra blit?
We do minute to minute scheduling (which is really hard, especially since the game time is dynamic) for you so you can maximize the money you get/the people you can play with as well as making it much easier for your audience to actually set that up, which they would have no control over using something like Patreon.
no-oh-politics (or no-os-politics).

Like the term of yore, no-o-sphere (the sphere of the mind/intellect) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
3 is not political. It’s hard to maintain hiring standards in this crazy market when you’re under business pressure to scale and it’s only natural management gets desperate after some time. I’ve seen this firsthand several times.
Hyperlink auditing is disabled by default in uBlock Origin.

The link you post to Reddit proves you wrong, a user shows you that no ping is fired with hyperlink auditing disabled in uBO.

I just tried your test page[1], and all works as expected, there is no ping sent when hyperlink auditing is disabled in uBO. I can see the outgoing ping only when I don't disable hyperlink auditing in uBO.

[1] https://jabbari.io/pingHTMLTest.html
California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren't Ready
Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, and Pascal shiny things
No matter what kind of feel-good mission statements you may read, if you're not the customer you are the product, and if you're not paying you're not the customer.
new-o-politic, or no-o(h)-politic both would be good.
I've worked with Swedes, and they were all basically bilingual in English. Except for a bit of an accent, their English was better than many native speakers. Of course, my sample size is only 20, but I was impressed. I was told that many schools in Sweden dedicate one school day a week to English with all subjects being taught in English during that day. Those students end up fluent.
A lawsuit is quite different than a stern letter.
> became "policy wonks"

"Policy wankers" would fit better.
I agree. But it seems to be something lacking in the general population today. They're unable to grasp the theory of the 1945 mind that had just seen one world war and was in the middle of a second world war that involved the wholesale slaughter of an entire population.

The world was a different place then yet people are passing judgement on decisions made then but colored with the 20/20 vision that hindsight provides and a life lived in the mostly stable world we have today.

Feel free to rewind to nearly any known history period and the entire world would be barbaric compared to today's standards, but that doesn't make the people that lived and fought during that time wrong.
I'd say it is quite distinct in definition from realpolitik as it focuses on the role of information on power games, rather than the practice of utilitarianism in power games.
It's hard to overstate how nice the ergonomics of comptime execution are.
I wrote a Cuckoo filter library in C a couple of years ago and then stopped because it really took too much effort to do all the things I wanted.

Now I've rewritten it in Zig in one evening, it's drastically easier to understand and it even has more zero-cost features, all of this in less lines than the original macro-ridden code.

I will soon add more comments and safety features, but for now it felt really good to be able to remove all the redundant code without having to recur to hacks.

Here's the link: https://github.com/kristoff-it/zig-cuckoofilter
This is about narratives.

Tons of facts are out there in the wild, waiting to make enough noise that they hit the mainstream press, when they pick up each others stories and it goes global.

A single tweet from way back can do this.

This is why the press has so much power, ultimately, they decide where 1 billion eyeballs will be pointed (and where they won't).

For this reason I check the headlines from a lot of different sources; it's amazing what doesn't get picked up.
Try sending a GET request to "/"
:P
First, thanks for the reply. What I like about the discussion, even when I disagree, is that I think you and everyone here are truly pro-conservation as a goal and ideal, both economically and environmentally. We all want the same thing, less waste, there are just minor differences of opinion about how to get there.

What I don’t like about the article posted and about Tierney’s quite misguided writing is the negative headlines that immediately give the reader the impression that inaction is better than action. There are many cherry-picked statistics being used to paint a narrative that is more or less the opposite of truth, at least in Tierney’s work. I encourage you to read it and the rebuttals I posted and make up your own mind.

> There are some materials where there is a net economic benefit to recycling

Personally speaking, money is not what I care about. Recycling’s primary goals are to stop using non-renewables and stop toxic pollution and damage to the environment, not to be cheaper than being lazy. I don’t care if it costs more to value the environment, I want clean air and water, forever. I realize it’s going to take strong economic arguments to get us all moving, and I’m in no way in favor of wasting money, but in terms of priorities and the way we evaluate what’s worth doing, I believe waiting for clear and undeniable and unarguable economic benefit is probably a mistake.

I furthermore think that cost-benefit analysis of environmental factors is a deeply flawed idea. By reducing things to dollars, we’re losing our actual values. This study examined previous environmental cost-benefit analyses, and concluded they were wrong by orders of magnitude:

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

I think in a hundred or two hundred years if we run out of petroleum, if we need expensive air and water filters in order to survive, our great great grandchildren might look back and realize how pathetic and petty the idea was that we decided we needed to make valuing the earth cheaper than screwing it up before we were willing to budge.
> So, we exploded a nuclear bomb, just to see what would happen to a bunch of ships (I guess since, it was quite the mystery)

Why the skepticism? Nuclear physics is enormously complicated, and without testing bombs we would have ridiculously imprecise and flat out wrong guesses about the effects.
> The key takeaway that some people will have had from Cambridge Analytica, is not 'they got caught, don't do this', but rather 'they were largely successful and incredibly cheap'.

When you file things in court between private individuals, or for a government indictment, it becomes an instruction manual. Scrap whatever internet marketing handbook you ordered, disregard whatever guru you are following and hoping to trust, these court filings are the canonical source on what successful people are doing online.
>So I have a hard time saying it's inherent ability holding math classes back.

I wasn't saying anything about holding math classes back. My reply to jacobolus was specifically about the 10x difference in math skills progression and exploring what the underlying reasons could be.
>This remains to be studied through rigorous science rather than in trial-by-journalists.

If politicians get results when they spend their money on it, they wont care to wait for "rigorous science" to prove anything. And they wont be foolish to pay for non-results for long...

Empirical results beat "rigorous science" every time...
I'm unsure what to think of this piece. I suspect that Gelman is right that there is a bias here. However, I also think most of us don't practice enough. I'll use writing, though other examples would serve equally well.

I don't write that well, but my best writing is much better than my worst. When I write badly, I don't think it's because writing is hard, but because I didn't put in the effort.

We have the Joel test for software companies. Scoring high doesn't make you world class, but scoring 0 is a bad sign. Think of the analogous test for writing. Do you read your work out loud? Do you solicit feedback for clarity? Do you look for your weaknesses as a writer? How much editing do you do?
Thanks that's interesting. However as sport divers we're not required to take risks the way military divers have to in order to accomplish their missions. So rather than taking drugs which might or might not work, it's safer to just limit oxygen exposure even if that makes decompression times a bit longer.
It does? The res is higher than 1080p and scales down to it.
It makes me sad to think of what we could have had if Intel had built a 64-bit CPU with a clean, straightforward ISA and a compatibility mode for x86-64, instead of the monstrosity that was Iranian.
Another reply from me. You can also review this report from Julian Malins QC.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.assets.commercial....
In a bubble lots of people say “it is just a liquidity issue” till it pops.
You're right.

The disconnect here, I suspect, is that bootcamps tend to promise that their grads will become the rockstars making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Silicon Valley. Not that they'll be able to set up WordPress or do reporting with SQL queries. Some make this very, very explicit - I've seen ads that literally read "GET A SIX FIGURE JOB".

I've worked as a freelancer. I've worked at big-name tech. I've worked on in-house development teams and outsourcing companies. In every one of those scenarios, I had to understand the fundamentals of how computers work and apply analytical abilities to be effective. So I could deliver features on time, on budget, and as specified. I'm not going to claim to be some super smart genius, but I often found myself dealing with shrapnel from colleagues who possessed wonderful opportunities to improve their grasp of fundamentals.

It's not that there aren't jobs for line cooks or people turning out cookie-cutter blog sites. But when you run a training program promising everyone who signs up that they'll be a chef de cuisine while knowing that you're just training line cooks...
I've been switching people to Matrix recently, mainly because they have a solution for losing your chat history (you don't, at least not with the new key backup system) and there's a lot of other features like bridging and federation. Matrix is far from perfect at the moment but I feel that it will end up being a much more complete solution than Signal (the new seven-word key verification system is really cool and much better than how verification works for Signal).

> Not both. Why? I don’t know. But Signal insists that it is more secure.

It's because the provisioning support is only implemented in the JavaScript "SDK" (in scare-quotes because we all know Moxie is very hostile to users using apps other than the one they publish).

Not only that, there were PRs that implemented the core functionality required and Moxie effectively said that the author was too inexperienced for the patch to even be worth reviewing[1]. There are third-party signal clients[2] which use that patch to allow for you to create "virtual devices" in your shell and thus (in theory) script signal chats or create Matrix bridges (I hope to do the latter at some point).

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-service-java/pull/21
[2]: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
Odd indeed!
My understanding was South Korea has a policy of only allowing South Korean owned and manufactured network equipment in bank, financial, and government networks. Does anyone have any info on that?
They keep drinking water in the open air? What did they used to do about birds shitting in it? Even now, some birds can shit on those balls and the drinking water will wash it.
ISP mail relays generally work, not sure why you'd pay to add another MiTM besides the one that already exists (your ISP).
>> There is a growing body of evidence

Present the evidence then. I keep hearing about this mythical "evidence" of vote tampering in particular, and yet when I press for the actual evidence to be presented it turns out to be entirely "faith based" in the end every time. The very article you linked to, in fact, says: "There's still no evidence of vote hacking, of course".

Disclosure: I'm a naturalized Russian American who has spent most of his life in the US. Love this country, warts and all.
Out of curiosity, what product space do you operate in?
OK, I'll make an effort to explain myself, even though I can see that I'm on to a loser with this line of argument.

We need to forget for a moment that artists today cannot match the old masters. But what they still have in common (with the artists of a few hundred years ago) is that when they make art, they are interpreting something in the world. This interpretation is personal, and it involves insight into the thing that's being represented. Painting from a photograph is, broadly speaking, imitation, not interpretation (although plenty of serious artists use photos as a tool for documenting a scene).

Michelangelo, as you probably know, had a lot of discretion in how he posed and represented the figures in his paintings. He wasn't just taking a predetermined image and rendering it in a personal style. Because of the extent to which he could use his own discernment in deciding how to represent the subjects of the painting, he could express his own attitude to the subject (which was universal, at least in terms of his world) in a meaningful way.

Basically, the idea of a mail-order JPG->painting scheme seems completely dumb to me, because there is nothing special about physical paintings per se. They're only special when an artist is given a chance to make them special by using their own creative judgment and knowledge of the subject they are depicting. If that's not an option, a photo is perfectly good.

Nobody seems to have bothered to write a critique of Instapainting, presumably because all this is common knowledge.
>Advertising a painkiller in a hospital is also targeted advertising

And should also be banned. A painkiller being promoted and bought more by customers just because it has more money to spend in advertising is morally worse than the mere creepiness of regular (buy BS stuff you don't need) targeted advertisement.

Who needs ads?

Level the playing field with an online catalog where patients can discover (in, say, random order for each viewing, to avoid even sorting bias) all available painkillers.

You can then add voting to the catalog, so patients and doctors can weight in for how good they think the painkiller is -- but with huge fines and prison for any company trying to manipulate buy those votes.
Indeed. Not much difference between, say London and NYC. SV is an outlier, even with in US.
> It is just that when I developed an interest in the financial aspects of the launch business around end of 2018 and early 2019, I wasn't the only one with doubts in that regard. I'm no expert on either aspect, so if there facts out there that proof me wrong just share them.

Here's what the parent comment was getting at:

> SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said Tuesday that the privately held Hawthorne space company is valued at almost $28 billion based on recent funding rounds, and that it is profitable.[1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-shotwell-20180...
“I want to do unpaid image classification”
Maybe they are talking about the numerical stability of the algorithms?
True, however Arquilla and Ronfeldt, who coined it while at RAND in the late '90s, defined it as 'the network based geopolitics of knowledge'.
Yes, true, but the Linux support seems targeted at developers only, and Android is at least sandboxed better than traditional desktop apps. For someone just using the browser, it's much the same as before.

It looks like this is going to be an OS where all apps run in a sandbox of some sort. Nothing is really native, but there is a variety of sandboxes.
Like, not encrypting by default?
> The programs long predate the fall of Germany, and thus saying they were developed to compete with a German nuclear program are completely accurate and reasonable.

The existence of the atomic program is not the question. It is their _use_ against a nation that was on the brink of surrender.

I'm sorry that the truth does not fit your neat model of the US. It stands to reason, that the only nation in the world to use atomic weapons against dense human populations needs to be scrutinized appropriately, and not hailed as the "hero", the decision to do so being "inevitable". Nothing about the use of nuclear weapons was inevitable, and their use simply egged on similar development in other nations and a general increase in the probability of nuclear holocaust.
It only needs to be compiled to Wasm these days and not pure JS.

That means pretty much any existing language with a natural following and a LLVM-based compiler can be a reasonable candidate.

Dart literally has no natural/non-artificial following or use-cases outside Google. Trying to sell Dart via Flutter will only harm Flutter and nothing else.

People not interested in Dart won’t change their mind over yet another UI framework.
> I'll find something you're probably insecure about and use that to sell you shit.

What's an example of this? I'm generally confused by your claim, because I've used a whole lot of internet and literally never bought anything through an ad.
As long as BTC doesn't have any practical real-world use besides buying drugs and speculation I don't see how anybody couldn't see the sudden spike in the exchange rate as a huge red flag. You're effectively buying into a pyramid scheme: you bet that there'll be enough people who will enter after you for you to make some money.

It shows that all those revolutionary blockchain projects over the past few years have amounted to basically nothing, the killer app still isn't there and BTC is as wild as ever.
Do you have an estimate for how much 'not that much money' is?
My key takeaway of Cambridge Analytica was that the advertising industry is a lot more harmful than I thought. I always thought, that there is no real problem when some people influence/manipulate other people on what they spend their money on.

But now we see that those same instruments can be used to not only change shopping decisions but also democratic decisions, which is not okay in my opinion and should be prosecuted and be punished with severe penalties.

Otherwise, the whole point of democracy (one human, one vote) is useless, as the rich can simply buy ads to influence enough people to follow their goals.
I'm not OP, but I think he means that the final decisions acted upon are not deterministic. So given an input, it won't necessarily produce the same decision every time.

For instance, if the model predicts with a 95% certainty to accelerate, then 5% of the time it'll do some action other than accelerating.
You have a long history of using HN for political and nationalistic battle, and we've asked you before to stop. This sort of flamewar is not welcome here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19866310 and marked it off-topic.
I really only disagree with your characterization of my point: "Because opportunities aren't equally available to everyone, they shouldn't be made available to anyone?"

I'm not saying opportunities shouldn't be made available to anyone, just that a stronger mentorship system than we already have in scientific higher-education is likely to reinforce the trend of white-male dominance that we already have, rather than temper it.
> it's important to insure a big enough punishment (at the discretion of a judge) to make people completely not even think of doing it

So what punishment would keep people from speeding? The best I can think of that would be effective on me would be to immediately suspend my license for some period of time, and potentially immediately impound my vehicle too. Maybe 1 week per % caught over the speed limit? The current system doesn't stop me speeding (as demonstrated earlier today) when there's a nice big gap between me and the car in front. Plus I'm gonna learn those repercussions faster than my car's going after that's impacted me, anyone I know, or even seen on the news that it's actually being enforced. It's in my interests to now learn this and stop misbehaving, as it's something that impacts my day to day life.

Meanwhile, how do you now find a way to educate people about a punishment that has a tiny percentage chance of being relevant to them twice a year? And how do you hold it up in court, when the entire defence is then predicated on "they weren't thinking, it wasn't a conscious decision, they were in a state of fear?"
WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol and Wire uses a derivative of it (not the actual Signal Protocol). Both collect metadata that Signal doesn't (and I believe the last time I checked, WhatsApp stored unencrypted chat history to iCloud).