skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't get too optimistic. If the types of candidates that can make a positive social impact on the direction of the company don't join the company, that leaves Facebook with only those candidates joining that will continue to make it commercially successful without the positive social impact.

Basically, if you're unhappy with a Facebook with talented do-gooder employees, just wait until we've got a Facebook with only talented employees that don't care about do-gooding.
Good point. It would be extremely useful to be able to pinpoint factors that are transient vs. those that stay with someone and continue to affect future performance..
No. It's to outlaw the purchase of more than 2 pieces of real property. Renting is fine by me.
Hackers abuse Asus cloud service to install backdoor on users’ PCS
The cost to people’s health is not caused by “the food industry”. It is caused, moment by moment, by those same people choosing to harm themselves.

Grocery stores still sell broccoli and chicken. People choose to buy oreos and croissants and other refined carbs. That’s not “the food industry”.

It’s variously described, but “consumer choice” and “market demands” don’t really capture it. It boils down to other adult humans, just like you and I, choosing what they want to spend their money on, choosing what foods they want to eat.

It is nobody’s place but the eater to tell them what they should or should not be doing. Full stop.
California bill to add housing in single-family home areas blocked by lawmakers
To be fair democracy needs some type of locality limit to keep it in the specific sovereignty's influence; US citizens don't get to vote in Canadian politics just because some people in Maine are thinking of moving over to Montreal
Pollution from LAX litters South LA with small particulate with every takeoff. Rampant air travel is probably even more unsustainable than personal car use, and that's saying a lot.

https://news.usc.edu/63466/new-concerns-raised-about-air-pol...
Lilium's 36-Motor Flying Taxi Takes Off for the First Time
FTA: "The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials."

Brilliant. Another aspect of the already sketchy admittance process that will be overanalyzed and ultimately gamed to death -- assuming that this score truly has value to begin with.
It's going to take Seattle until 2035 to extend a light rail line four miles across the city.
Bullet trains travel vast distances and make few stops. CA is ideal for them.
Good.

I want an actual high speed train from the new downtown SF transit station to Union Station LA in two hours or less.

I would like a high speed train that won't be obsolete the day it is opened.

What was being (haltingly) built was a ridiculous route-by-committee with time consuming (and sprawl inducing) stops in whichever districts had an assertive rep willing to sacrifice a project of national importance for their little town.

All you needed to know about CA HSR could be learned by seeing it was not built on the I-5 corridor. Fresno and Palmdale should be spurs - not route benders.
Polysomnography seems like an area in desperate need of innovation to improve efficiency and lower cost. It is far too expensive for the entire undiagnosed sleep-deprived population to have a single sleep study let alone for those already diagnosed to have more frequent observation.
especially since they said nothing fancy

Fancy is relative. A lot of people would consider a $1k suit as a cheap baseline suit.
I would have to see some statistics before I would find that argument convincing that free solo climbing is just one of many risky activities.

Also I don’t find it very compelling if climbers tend to die on easier free solo climbs rather than harder ones. I don’t really care what the grade was on a climb if it kills me.
I consider https://learngitbranching.js.org/ to be nicer.
Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
Cough, cough. And what makes you think the speed wasn't inflated.
I know lots of engineers, in hiring positions, that have a positive opinion of FB.

They still do great engineering and someone working there will learn a lot and take those skills to their next job.
In some rare cases it might be, i.e. if you had an obscure browser version or browser. But scroll across sessions you wouldn't be able to so in general I'd say no. We've also architected the system such that you can't do that. Clients get end processed data showing how people have consumed content. Further, utilizing things like first party cookies tied to the domain.

We put it through the lens of, what helps clients understand the value of content and if people are actually enjoying it.

In terms of solutions, there is a few - profiling real users, using benchmarks of the outputs to real actions (i.e. people reading content tend to do this after) help a lot. As well as measuring in the first place. A surprising number of people still don't measure adequately.

A soft solution is simplifying the supply chain, keeping it transparent. Accountability drops the further you are from the end customer.

Something I maybe missed in this post, is the cost of this. This is real tangible cost, and we have seen cases over time in the millions of dollars. That's money robbed from creating a free and open internet. Advertising provides a significant subsidy for the eco-system.
For those that are not as familar with depreciation. You have to pay taxes on profits, when you buy equipment/machines/buildings/etc. (called PP&E) that last for many years the tax code forces you to recognize the expense for tax purposes over the useful life of the asset. So you pay $100 for a new piece of equipment that will last ten years, every year for ten years you get to recognize $10 of expenses, so your taxable income is lowered by $10 each year. The tax law let everyone expense the entire value in the first year, so it encouraged purchases of PP&E as $1 dollar saved today is worth more then $1 saved ten years from now.
"Adversity Score" sounds a bit like something you'd find at the "Oppression Olympics", which is a term often used to criticize exactly this type of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression_Olympics

Identity politics is becoming a parody of itself.
How is giving free food to poor people cruel?
>the purpose isn't to have the sickest challenge ever but to evaluate someone's code/ingenuity?

This rings so true for me re: the last shop I was at. People got off giving "hard" problems and watching dev suffer and then giving high praise for the ones that could take the heat. That place was really toxic.
Was it not always?

The debate shouldn’t be to distribute the scarce resource more equitably, it should be to increase the availability of the resource!
It would be more accurate to say it was blocked by NIMBYs...
This project didn't make sense from the start - look at where the construction is and what's been done. It should be SF to LA not all this other nonsense.
> If nobody was happy about it, why was it deployed?

I think you've confused "nobody was happy" with "nobody thought it needed to be done". The world is rife with actions that nobody is happy with, but most or many agree is the best of the bad options available. Just because you think there doesn't exist or can't imagine a situation in which it was better for them to do what they did than the alternative doesn't mean that's the case. There's already been an admission that the situation was bad, the result is a mistake. Whether that mistake was at the point of making the choice on dropping internationalization or at a point, possibly many months earlier, which hemmed them in and didn't allow them a good choice beyond "don't update and deal with the major problems that causes or update and deal with the major problems lack of internationalization causes" is unknown, assuming one over the other and calling people liars based on your assumption isn't very responsible.

> Calling it a "lie" is perhaps too strong, but that's essentially what it is, intentional or not.

I don't think "perhaps" is even in question. You didn't have the information to make that assertion definitively, as there are plenty of very possible and likely scenarios where it's not a lie. Do do so against a person who does know the specifics as they were involved, and without first digging deeper as to those specifics, is something I view as irresponsible.
And almost none of those people have decent public transit to get to a rail station in the city.
Don't worry! San Francisco has thought about the problem of course. They're building housing dedicated to teachers. Mountain View is thinking about doing the same. One step closer to feudalism (or when people working in mines used to live in housing owned by the mining company). The ineptitude of local politicians catering to NIMBY is boundless.
Usually it's just an interviewer's gut feeling. I don't believe there is a formal set of criteria that is used as a filter.
I think "MS-funded" is doing a lot more of the work there than the kernel and graphics API are.
Is refcounting non-determinatistic? In what way? Like, you don't know if thread A or B will finnish last and free it?
China has 19,000 miles of high speed rail. Shanghai to Beijing is 800 miles (1200km).

Beijing to Hong Kong is 1500 miles.

10 billion people have used it and it’s now at 2 billion passengers a year.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1149608.shtml
> I'm not sure what we could do about it though, we can encourage better eating choices but there is a limit on how much that works.

I think the key is to realize that their is no sort of natural limit anymore and to actually enforce one that is sustainable.
The forced merging of even slightly similar answers really messes things up. The answers never seem to match the question being asked.
Hermes seems to wrap Kafka with HTTP to make integrating it simpler (and I think less robust).
As much as everyone wants to believe this is because all the applicants are suddenly taking strong ethical stances, I bet it has more to do with Facebook simply not being considering cool or exciting anymore.
Apache Atlas 2.0.0 released Governance services
In your experience, do people really inflate lifestyles like that? Doesn't 5 years at a high income level less mean "more stuff" and more mean "you can save to never work again".

You need to earn 500k for a handful of years, save vigorously, and you're done. Am I missing something?

I have seen both sides up close so I guess it's more a rhetorical question, but it's not pretty when you didn't save that 300k and approach retirement in a changing job market...
Regular people take economic steps because of decisions almost forced on them from the outside on a regular basis, being stubborn about going down a route that is not economically rational anymore it's just that, stubbornness.

I remember our 60-year old mom being discontent about my brother still wanting to be in the business of selling cows (my brother was a peasant) even though that wasn't economically rational anymore, as my brother had to fight against agri-business (he's a sole cow breeder) and against farmers from other countries whose governments are more generous towards them (our government it's not that large-handed when it comes to small farmers, I live in Eastern Europe). My mother correctly pointed out that there was a lot more money available for my brother if he had only wanted to accept other job opportunities (like being a truck driver) and give up what was essentially an economically dead end.

So, if a 60-year old woman from Eastern Europe with no formal education in economics can still intuitively see what the best economically rational move is given a set of inputs, then I fail to understand how come a democratically elected government like the US one cannot do the same, but instead it chooses to go down the economically dead end road, and all that only because of stubbornness and misguided pride.
Don't kid yourself. Even here in the Bay Area, $400K a year is still upper middle class. You'd be in the top 3% of earners across the nine bay area counties.
You could cut south through Iowa. The distance is longer, but for MN it means you can pick up some southern cities along the way (Minneapolis is so close to Wisconsin that you could put the MN end in Wisconsin and still get most of your riders from Minneapolis). I expect a couple of the tiny cities in Iowa along the way would like service.
Serious question, are you not also concerned about the poor quality of worker you might take on with a less rigorous process? I think I'd accept a few false negatives to avoid the hassle of false positives (in the UK at least, where employment law protects employees above all else and people can be very hard to get rid of if they want to be).
This paper shows that you can use computers to produce realistic images that may persuade people to do a course of action that you want. However, there is some prior art to this.

Peter Paul Rubens did this with paintings in the 1600's. See his paintings "Peace and War" and "Consequences of War"

Even earlier, the Assyrians made massive art works that showed rebel leaders being flayed alive. I am sure that was pretty effective in helping people visualize the consequences of resisting Assyria.
Don't forget the pain when coding GUI apps. Worst experience ever, no docs, no support, nothing. Creating GUI apps in Visual Studio is like an alien technology to Linux.
Viewing individual preferences in a utilitarian fashion... sure I guess you can argue there exists some wage-distance premium at a given price to make sure that a given job is filled.

That being said non-pecuniary have strong effects, which is why individuals will pay out the nose to live in the city with amenities rather than commuting 2 hours a day. I think you will be hard pressed to find individuals who are willing to spend 25% of their adult life commuting too and from work. Certainly, not enough will be willing to satisfy labour requirements.
I thought this was going to be a story about a very unusual catholic priest.
I've got good news for you. You can contribute to these projects (and put your contributions on your résumé) without having the Facebook taint. e.g.:

* https://github.com/facebook/react/pulls
The plan is still to link SF and LA once a clearer funding situation materializes, the project has since been scaled back as work has already started between Merced and Bakersfield. If you want to blame someone, don't blame the politicians who are trying to make this happen, blame the local politicians along the route and private contractors who've been hobbling and sucking the blood out of this project since it was announced.
Our local school in California busses in out of district students. By their claim, they can offer higher quality education with more students because the state funding scales faster than the burden.
In immigration-heavy places like the Bay Area, a lot of renters don't have the right to vote.
That's pretty much 'all food'. We've been cross-breeding and selecting fruits, grains, vegetables for thousands of years. None resemble what we started with. Corn was originally a small head of kernels like wheat. Melons were the size of oranges or tennis balls, with maybe 2-3 tablespoons of edible flesh. Vegetables were stingy small things packed with seeds and thin skins.

So the 'paleo diet' is really nothing close to what ancient ancestors ate. In fact, we'd likely not do well on that even if we could find those things? We've adapted more in the last 50,000 years (to cooked, selected foods) than in millions before that.

We've probably dug ourselves a hole, inventing agriculture and animal husbandry. It feeds more of us, but with a much narrower set of foods. Maybe some genetic engineering would put us back on a good path.
The Hacker's Hardware Toolkit
I wish it were so, but it's not. I usually start interviews with 5-10 minutes of talking about a previous project of the candidate, digging in to see how sophisticated the work was, how they solved problems, etc. I've had plenty of examples where someone bullshitted well enough to pretty much convince me that they knew what they were talking about, only to have it become clear in the more hands-on part of the interview that they couldn't possibly. I admit I'm not a great interviewer, so perhaps a really good interviewer could tease those things out, but I maintain that it's not always easy.

I think the usual situation is that the candidate was on a team where some impressive work was being done by others, understood it enough to talk about it in detail, but didn't actually do any of the challenging work themselves and couldn't work at that level consistently.

I'd like to think most people aren't actively lying or bullshitting, but it's easy enough to implicitly take credit for work done by a team when you're trying to sound impressive.
Not pointing fingers or blaming you, this just feels like apologist rhetoric. When did America stop doing 'hard' things? Whelp, there's a hill in between here and LA, and at some points, there's not enough power lines -- let's just not bother. I watched a great special about the trains heading up the mountains in Switzerland. They designed hybrid rail and rack trackage to handle inclines of up to 25% (!!). They built corkscrew tunnels inside mountainsides to reduce the incline. I thought America in general and California specifically had the world's best engineers. [1] It's sad how paralyzed the nation has become.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountain_railways_in_S...
An Uber to the train station is still far better than having to drive the whole way.
They're not "the cool startup building the world's favorite website" until we've heard of them.
> it was time to explore not to exploit.

Is that not a pretty good definition of not being evil. IMO it is still the time to explore not exploit, even if that's not what they're doing.
FWIW, there is a NetBSD kernel implementation work in progress that might be useful (at least as a starting place) for OpenBSD:

https://github.com/ozaki-r/netbsd-src/tree/wireguard

No activity since March, though.
Huh? SF to LA is literally the project.

Federal fund restrictions meant CA has to pay for SF->SJ (which is being done under the caltrain modernization project) and Bakersfield to LA (which is completely unfunded) as this is AFIAK considered 'commuter rail' so is not eligible for federal funding.
Tell that to the Swiss who built railways to handle 25% inclines, or the Japanese who are also on fault lines. The California ambitions were absolutely modest. Nothing proposed hasn't been done before, in worse conditions, crazier terrain, longer distances -- all of it.
From the latimes article, it was a state senator from the Los Angeles area: “Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced at the beginning of the committee hearing Thursday that Senate Bill 50 would not advance this year, meaning the bill would not be debated again until 2020.”

Edit: Here is a video of him saying that despite the crisis, he doesn’t think the bill is right, and maybe something better will come along https://twitter.com/BryanRAnderson/status/112911212601702809...
Probably not. I remember a story of someone who did this [0] and nothing happened.

I can only imagine the terrifyingly embarrassing situations where people of a race are challenged to prove their race and flip out because they are their race.

[0] https://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains...
Don't forget "modern".
how do we know that the ones no longer seeking employment are the very best and not just the ones that are most woke?

> Among top schools, such as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and Ivy League universities, Facebook’s acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen from an average of 85% for the 2017-2018 school year to between 35% and 55% as of December, according to former Facebook recruiters. The biggest decline came from Carnegie Mellon University, where the acceptance rate for new recruits dropped to 35%.

It's entirely possible that the 35-55% of those that are still accepting offers at FB are the most talented of the people that have interviewed at FB and gotten offers.

I know a lot of great engineers, woke and politically indifferent. The most effective ones that I've worked with are the least politically engaged because they are more heavily engaged with building things than politics.
I see u
This seems like a better system than just blindly adjusting scores based on race. It never made sense to me how a white kid from a broken home in rural West Virginia could be considered by some colleges as privileged over a black kid with multimillionire lawyer parents living in NYC.

But, I don't understand why College Board is computing this score, and not colleges themselves.
I wonder how much of it is that Facebook isn't all that much fun anymore, and working there would provoke all sorts of "I don't use it anymore" comments from one's peers.
As you say, the FBI busted the scam which went on for years (decades?) and the colleges all say they had no idea about it, right? So his claim that the colleges weren't able to suss this out is absolutely correct in 100% of all known cases, right?
I don't really want to get drawn into this because – again – I don't have an opinion one way or the other, but I have to point out that just because you're able to do something today doesn't mean it's automatically a "right" that needs to be "stripped" from you. We adopt reasonable legislation all of the time which restricts legal activity in various ways. When the SEC issues guidance on some little-known regulation that affects the way that hedge funds are allowed to account for certain trading costs, nobody worries that important rights are being eroded. Their investment activities will be a little bit more restricted, but they have tons of money anyway and they have plenty of other options. Maybe you can see by analogy why I wouldn't be terribly impressed by owners of multiple California properties crying about their rights if some reasonable light-touch restrictions were added that slightly threatened their future revenues.
I have no money and a very shitty laptop, and thanks to Google Colab's free, hosted Jupyter Notebooks I'm having a blast learning Keras.

I'm not saying they're saints, but they've given me something free that's improved my life. Maybe it's ultimately greedy in the sense that later if I need a cloud platform I'll definitely use GCP. But I think that kind of mutualism is actually better in practice than altruism.
Surely you mean "had to leave due to systemic oppression".
So is cosmicjs is similar to contentful? Anyone using any if these services?
What marketers have forgotten about marketing
Hey, well, at least my comment also added input to the conversation.

You could have let it be, but instead you derailed things further. All good, I learned something new about ellipsis + periods from someone else’s response.
According to [1] average income in SV is $140k, and median house price is $1.2M.

$400k income would put you into upper middle class territory.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/2/19/18229922/silicon-valley-inde...
Literally none of those things depend on facebook though. Mastodon, reddit, IRC, or just sitting in your aunt's kitchen for an afternoon could substitute nicely. They have no niche.
I learned out how to climb multi-pitch at Tahquitz, where the American grading system was first established. 5.9+ in that area is a terrifying grade. American grades were originally a closed system that topped out at 5.9. For a time climbers were climbing harder and harder routes, but rating them all 5.9. The system eventually got switched to be open ended, but grades are sticky and it definitely helps to know when a route was established in addition to what the guide book rating is.
> and then lost its way sometime between 2009-2012.

Tahrir Square was the high water mark of the old school techies. The failure of tech to effect real and lasting change really hasn't been understood by the techies, even still. That optimism about the future and tech's role in it, is gone.