skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun bit of trivia on this topic:
Alex was the first person to climb El Cap with no protection.
The first person to climb The Nose route without using the gear for aid, was a woman, Lynn Hill.
So El Cap went from a weeks long project using anything they had for aid, to climbed with rope used only for protection by a woman, in a day, and now to Alex climbing El Cap (via an easier route than Hill) with no protection at all.
> How would the US tell Russia to pollute less?

Easy. This has actually been done many times during Cold War.

You do it yourself, and so well, that their citizens will demand it too.

There were many social advances in the West that were imported (usually in a crippled way, but still) to the communist countries (I was born in one). Things like 5-day work week, education improvements, recycling, ecological laws, nuclear proliferation treaties... usually it's very small things, but they do make difference.
So Net Neutrality constitutes unwelcome government interference in the internet, but it's okay to force private companies to tolerate extreme right-wing views? This is ridiculous.
Your "proper answer" is what the US tried to do in Iraq, which is now considered the perhaps biggest mistake in US history.
> It's coming from 401Ks, IRAs, etc. That money needs to be put into action.

Not too long anymore then we will reach Peak 401K.
There is plenty of them in the bay area. Aldi is the most similar grocer I can think of.
Sorry, "none of these things are true" in your environment. They are certainly true for other people, in fact, I bet they are true for majority of them.

I think analogy to physical house keys is very helpful. What did your work do?

Did you show the enrollment QR code, and multiple people scanned it --> this is like duplicating house key.

Did you put the key into password manager -> this is like that combination lockbox that releases house key if you enter the right combination.

People do all sorts of unusual things, this does not change the properties of intended usage.
I’m not sure this is the entirety of the explanation. It seems that being default-disgusted has passed some sort of threshold of social acceptability, where it’s no longer something you are friends with someone despite, and become something that you befriend people because of.

I see people voicing their opinions on the things they hate on blogs, social networks, dating sites—and successfully connecting with others who hate the same things! This was not a thing even ten years ago. Making your “about you” on any social system a list of things you hate would have been seen, as recently as 2010, as an uncouth mistake by someone who has no emotional intelligence. (Even if you’re also someone who hates the same things, you’d understand that doing this is a sign of a general willingness to violate social norms, and so feel vaguely put off by the person.) But, these days, it’s not a mistake to present yourself this way; there’s no penalty to doing it, only benefits.

I think what this might be, is the final death within Western “Christian-descended atheist/agnostic” culture of the social mores that were inherited from religion, e.g. the idea that wrath is a sin that you should feel bad for embodying, and at least shouldn’t advertise in public as a positive aspect of yourself. (I say this because I suspect—though I’m not sure—that this change isn’t nearly as pronounced in Western religious communities.)
It's the kernel flags that you use for disabling all the Spectre/Meltdown/whatever mitigations that are slowing Linux down by a lot.

For single-user computers this is a useful and sensible option.
These are instructions for installing OpenVPN. Use algo to setup ipsec & WireGuard instead. Algo supports GCE among other providers. By using ipsec, you don't need to install anything extra on most clients. By using WireGuard, you have a state-of-the-art VPN.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
> Friedman has been called many things but inconsistent or unprincipled were not among them.

This is what you said. People
have thoroughly proven you wrong.
>The feedback I got afterwards was "We're passing on you as your code doesn't compile/run on Linux", a requirement that wasn't specified.

I have to ask, was there something that implied that it should specifically run on Windows? If I got a software spec that didn't spell out exactly which platforms needed to be supported, one of the very first things I would do would be to ask for clarification.
> What spirit is that?

It’s the spirit of the audience to want all viewpoints available. I explicitly said I’m not talking about the government and I don’t know how your scoutmaster example has anything to do with what we’re talking about.

If you operate a platform, you are not a media company, you’re a utility and you shouldn’t interfere with content. If you’re part of the audience you should demand access to all content so you can make your own decisions. That is the spirit of free speech I’m talking about.

Edit: I explicitly stated I'm talking about the spirit of free speech and not the law. I'm not going to bother replying to comments that don't address that point.
To be useful for discriminating between competent candidates, a challenge has to either be hard to complete (pass based on completion) or hard to complete to a high standard of quality (pass based on completion+quality). In other words, it has to be at the limits of what's possible for people you expect to apply for the job.

If you give me a 2 hour challenge with a timer so I can't possibly take more than 2 hours, I'm fine with that - but you won't accomplish the "lower stress" goal.

But if you give me a 2 hour challenge without timing? I know for sure other people will have spent 8 hours making super-polished, gold-plated solutions. Can I afford to fall behind the competition? If not, I should spend 8 hours too.
It's a neat idea for the interview, but it could have caused problems, at least in the U.S., regarding labor law:

Suppose the interviewee had answered, "I would work towards a proper implementation of Sharia law." or "I would start by building Christian churches and state-sponsored public preaching." or "I would start by replacing all mosques with science-and-technology museums."

At that point any candidate who wasn't hired could have a good starting point for a lawsuit based on hiring discrimination by protected class.
He did though, just not on his final ascent.
Your first sync will be slow but after that onedrive is no different for me than dropbox on Mac OS. In fact I put all my files in the onedrive folder now. Integrates with office at work so I can save stuff to my personal laptop and phone pretty easily.
Well it absolutely needs to be written. Consider the incessant whine here that people ( mainly software engineers) need to be paid in proportion to "value" they deliver. According to them the lower paid employees like office staff or janitors would not deliver much value so they might as well work for nothing.
Agreed! Who has the time to spend on a 5-day long interview?

If you are traveling internationally, then you have to add 1 day of travel on each side of your trip. Plus the 3-day "interview" or challenge or whatever. So that is 5 straight days of interviewing for a job. That is actually asinine.

If you have a current job (most software developers do, especially the good ones) then that is an entire work week that i have to request off at my current job to go to unpaid work with no guarantee of getting a job afterwards.

I can't believe someone has actually done this. It is crazy!
The "no index or TOC" isn't being touted as a feature, just that the page count is that without these (in documents like these, these features can contribute dozens to the page count). An index would be nice; patches welcome!

The HTML version that most people would be using has a TOC with two-way navigation to the section headings and is hyperlinked. Of course, man page reading allows easy searching.
I don't think you read all of my post... i'm not talking about the direct affect of technology use on any single assent.

Only if Alex has never used a modern climbing rope in his life is my point invalid (I know he has). It's also important to understand that many of other pieces of climbing technology help in learning and developing the skill for everyone, not a single one, ropes are just an example.
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This isn't really true, a lot of the changes made by JFK and LBJ were in response to widespread rioting. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was largely in response to the riots that happened after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
Yeah the SOCKS Wikipedia article even nods to cybercrime in this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS#Use_in_cybercrime
Iran builds firewall against Stuxnet computer virus
The files contain ASCII form-feeds between pages. If you send that directly to a printer, it will cause it to start a new page.
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Plus international travel. Add 1 day on both sides of that for travel. That is 5 days of unpaid interviewing.
> I don't believe my twitter account is reaching that many people.

That's up to your message though. If people share your tweet, it might. If you're banned from the platform, that's not an option, no matter how many people find your opinion valuable, they'll never see it.
==Why are we tolerating this loss of freedoms?==

Fear. Why do people think it is unsafe to walk outside when statistics show us we have never been safer? Why are people afraid of public places when crime is far more likely to happen in the home?
Browser Dev tools pretty much cover that in one click these days.
Rulers derive power from other people. Your first job is to keep the people keeping you in power happy. Fail that, and you'll be replaced by someone else.

Democracy means shifting it from a small number of people keeping you in power to all of the people. It's not easy.

CGPGray did a great video on this model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs (Based on The Dictators Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.
It’s not like many kids are planning to be truck drivers. It is a job that people wander into. The bigger problem will be those that are doing it when the job goes away, as well as continued pressure on the job market as a whole (what will pop up to replace the portion of the labor pool that would have driven trucks before).
Sat exam reportedly to give students adversity score in bid to level field
> There is something wrong here, this is not how it's supposed to work.

I totally agree.
It depends on the way you look at it. I'm living a minimalistic lifestyle where food is actually my number one expense month to month. When I'm back in Europe, I never spend more than 150USD on food, not only because my options are oftentimes limited, but also because I get to pay the "local" price.

A lot of the popular Asian hotspots have gotten clever over the years, and are no longer afraid to charge foreigners an enormous premium. In the last year alone, I have had to walk away from numerous local sellers because they've gotten extremely greedy and won't accept any bargaining. If you know the local language, it helps a little.

I think if you're serious about making the switch, you first have to look at what you're eating right now. Is it healthy? Is it environmentally friendly? Does it make you feel good? What will you eat instead of meat? Do you even need dairy in your life or are you consuming it out of habit?

When I first started out I had no idea what I was doing, and I sort of winged it. But, gradually, I have learned to appreciate the many different varieties to food that I would have otherwise replaced with a slab of steak or a chicken breast.
So it's Europe/Africa/Asia that are bashing China, then the Americans come in later?
One of the biggest challenges I have as an interviewer is setting up a framework that allows me to compare candidates fairly. Most candidates don't have a list of open source tasks they're working on. If I have three candidates who completed my standard interview code sample and your open source pull request, it's much easier to spot the differences in the other three candidates.
Ah yes, Shai Agassi and Better Place right?

There are some entertaining (if biased) post-mortem articles on that startup: https://www.fastcompany.com/3028159/a-broken-place-better-pl...
Arguing for deplatforming while using a throwaway account to not get deplatformed on your main is somewhat ironic. ;)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_in_Red_(Chris_de_Burg...
There's more than a couple of fortunes to lose by automating the trucking industry as well.
True, but he did use a rope to rehearse the route a large number of times. He knew he was physically capable of free soloing the route because of the confidence he was able to gain as a direct result of using the technology available to him.
Referring to the top half:

This answer seems to pretend the prisoner's dilemma doesn't exist.

The world grows more when it works together. If China doesn't want to play by the rules of the global trading system, it should stop reaping the benefits while undermining it for everyone else.
It's not obvious to me where your other comment addresses my thought experiment.
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>promoted to a supervisor... in order to alienate her from others and suppress her pro-union stance

That sounds like a great way to encourage pro-union stances...
The concepts of unions aren't changing. Unions as a whole are shrinking because the "power of all" has been found out to be bullshit. New sectors unionize and find out they make just as much money but are now shoe horned into group think and pay losing the ability to thrive as an individual which eventually just results in the lowering of quality, expectations and results. I don't know of a single good example of unionization in the tech sector or in fact any new sector in the last 20 years that has resulted in positive outcomes. I'd love to see an example if there is.
holy cow...i'm reading that second link to the paper. mind-blown..thank you!
I actually don't have enough numbers available myself to support this, so this conversation is doomed to a lot of hand-waving.

However, one point of definitions, I am not using "support staff" to refer to "non-engineers", I am using it to refer to "workers who perform services that are not part of the company's operations, such as building maintenance, cleaning, and cooking". Most of the non-engineering staff at Google are not support staff, they are non-engineering employees doing non-engineering work equally related to the core operations of the business. Sales, partner relations, data center management.

I also don't know how much these individuals are payed, although I hope to god it is "well above minimum wage".

In any case, sure, you're probably right and you can't actually bring everyone up to SWE-minimum-wage (100k$+benefits) with a small haircut off the engineering staff, but a small haircut off engineering, distributed to the 10-20% of employees and contractors being paid the least is a life-changing amount of money. +$15k / employee / year to the bottom 20% of earners is "quit your second job" money, it's "get the car fixed" money, it's "have money to put aside for a rainy day" money, it's "send the kid to college" money, while $7.5k less per year is "retire three months later" money for an engineer.
How does the air force manage with remote controlled drones piloted a half a globe away? I guess flying is a bit different as it is much easier to automate than driving, but still.
And neural tubes aren't people, but women are.
I am not saying that the police requires people to carry them, just that you pretty much need them in every day life
Why are you entitled to a twitter sized audience? Twitter is a private company and is not under any requirement to provide you a platform. Why aren't you satisfied with the rest of the Fox/GOP/MAGA/Nazi crowd echo chamber over at gab? As this is hacker news, perhaps you should build your own platform.
> Employer B takes the money they save by paying employees less, and invests in newer, better facilities or R&D or whatever.

In practice, Employer B takes the money and pays Employer B (ie the senior staff) with it.
> I don't know which dictionary definition you're referring to, since there are many. But most define it in terms of speech or communication, and tweets are most certainly both.

Most don't, but sure.

> ...

I don't actually disagree with the ACLU's position in theory. However, in practice I know exactly what this is about and I don't see a need to play along with this. This is about the "fairness doctrine" and the desire to enforce it on more agencies to centralized control of internet communication under the government. That is not free speech, and attempts to paint it as such are worthy of ridicule.

I'd rather Facebook's editorial practice be Democratic rather than enforced top down. Then, I'd be fine with any degree of censorship. But since we can't have that in the modern legal framework we both need to content ourselves with consumer purchasing power as a proxy governor on their actions.
No you were no told that, you are just repeating mindlessly a false information. All the press and people that put that into the mouth of Dr Pellerin lost their trial in libel.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons%C3%A9quences_de_la_catast...
Regarding the quote -- most of these skills are pretty general though.
The key to learning fast is looking dumb
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I was actually using Podsync for a while, but in order to have that convert the videos to MP3s you need to pay, whereas this is free. Podsync is much more polished though.
Empathy Helps You Become a Better Leader
Great point, but I could imagine this being a test for many different traits. One might be that the interviewee would be entertaining to argue with. It's anyone's guess what really motivated the interview topic.
That’s actually worse.
Looking at the games industry where passion stands for self exploitation. If you don't push back most employers will take everything they can get.
Wow, the 50s were so awesome! This is the kind of thing I wanted to do when I studied engineering. Would anybody else rather make nuclear-powered jets than web sites?
Are cops in America really that proficient with guns tho? Most of them probably only spend as much time in a gun range as an average gun owner, and quite a few probably only spend whatever minimum time is required by their department. Also only a minority of them will ever fire their weapon in the line of duty, and unless they work in Baltimore or something it will probably only be once or twice in their entire career. Police involved shooting are actually quite rare, and half the time they're as likely to shoot each other along with everything else when they unload at whatever hostile they're confronting.

I'm not trying to denigrate cops over this, I don't particularly want a police force that's a trained paramilitary. And certainly sovereign citizen types wouldn't win in any kind of armed insurrection at this point, but I wouldn't put it down to LEOs weapons proficiency as the reason.
The reason for account registration is so that you can use it on multiple devices now, i.e. phone + iPad or couples both using it on their phone (the main use case).

That being said, I am planning on adding web and Android versions as well. Not sure on the ETA for those yet but they are in the works.
I wish redistribution to the very bottom was a bigger part of the political debate. Our politics is currently focused on redistribution from the very top to the middle class. (Stuff like free college or universal healthcare would primarily benefit the top half, because those folks are the ones who are in a position to be accepted to and attend college, and aren’t already covered by Medicaid.) The math of that is tough, because 70% of all income is earned by households in the 50-99% income range (between $40,000 and $480,000 household income).

But the bottom 50% earns just 11% of all income, a little over $1 trillion. You could really improve their standard of living with even modest redistribution of the $9 trillion earned by the top 50% to the bottom 50%. But unfortunately middle class taxation is a complete non-starter in the US, even though that is how almost all European countries pay for their welfare states.
Just charge whatever you're comfortable at. The people who tell you not to discount are the ones who will be competing with you. $50/hour is a good deal for WordPress. You can always charge more later.

One of my mistakes was charging past my comfort zone, where I ended up too intimidated to even start working and rounded down my fees.

At a higher level, you'll be charging by value. But for now, main priority is you don't lose money and your client doesn't lose trust.
> heavyweights such as Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz highlighted it as a competitive advantage over the United States.

It's an issue when the so-called tech heavyweights don't understand the basics of worker productivity in the industry.
Force nuclear family unit into pricier plan. I know a lot of people that use dropbox for family photos, and after events and gatherings pass links to people to view or add their own photos from these events.
> You wouldn't want to be the guy who is always right but gets overruled 99% of the time because you're unable to persuade others.

On the other hand, I don't want to work in a group where the right answer only gets picked if it's backed by someone with an assertive personality.
PG&E power lines caused California’s deadliest fire, investigators conclude
Applying for a dotnet position and assuming dotnet framework instead of dotnet core would have been very responsible two years ago.
I was given a take home exam that I took one look at and said nope, I wouldn’t enjoy working for the company. I actually appreciated this approach as a quick way to filter out job opportunities.
Common Lisp has real threading with a standardized interface via Bordeaux-threads and, with some limitations runs on most of the desktop and mobile operating systems one would expect (the limitation being that most workflows have you write the GUIs in a different language and then call into CL, although EQL is an exception to this rule: https://www.cliki.net/EQL
I have a bunch of devices and like to have some files available on all of them. If I import photos to my desktop, they’re on my laptop and phone automatically. When I download PDFs and things I put them in Dropbox and can read them from the train next morning. Etc.
Perhaps this is why (sadly) junior devs are much more likely to get hired at tech companies than older devs?
> I explicitly said I’m not talking about the government and I don’t know how your scoutmaster example has anything to do with what we’re talking about.

Really? You really don't?

> If you operate a platform, you are not a media company, you’re a utility and you shouldn’t interfere with content.

This has never been true. It cannot be true in the American legal framework. What's more, that's not what this discussion or the Executive's survey is about. We can look at lawsuits brought by friends of this initiative and public complaints listed to see that their actual complaint is with heckling. Trump wants to suppress sources, Nunes wants to punish the operator of the "Devin Nunes's Cow" account. Heckling is the right of the audience to speak back to the speak and not be lectured to at gunpoint.
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If you have seen and enjoyed Free Solo, I can also recommend the Reel Rock series & Meru.

If you haven't seen Free Solo (because you're not interested in climbing, or whatever) it's still worth a watch.

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/tv/show/AP-1MD65N6X92111/reel...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545428/
Are phone records the same as access to telco routers and infrastructure?
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