skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"First off these mediums are mostly controlled by state regulated entities."

Pirate radio, printers, peer to peer sharing, digital formats in general, not controlled by the state and you can still use or access much of that equipment or content. It's not convenient or easy for people, but for the most part it is doable.

"Progress in communication technology means increased propaganda / hate speech / whatever reach. Now you have two choices, do nothing, or try to curb down their reach. Should we be ok with live executions on twitch/yt/fb ? You're free to think that we should, but I'd argue most people are against it."

Those are private entities and they can choose what they want to do on their site. Also, you have distorted the argument as against any type of action against all forms of speech. No one here is saying we should allow streaming of rape, child pornography, murder, etc. Those are already illegal and that problem is already dealt with. The issue we are talking about is allowing people's ideas to be spread.

Already in this thread within a day you see people talking about anti-vaxers and flat-earthers in a debate that is actually supposed to be about extremists and terrorists. But, as these things do, you start pondering the scope and what other bad ideas we shouldn't have let spread or could have been stopped if only we capped our freedoms.

I don't think the state should be in charge of deciding what is and isn't protected speech in this case. Once it is done, when its in the hands of the state, good luck trying to get it undone. It's the edge our understanding. We are more connected than we have ever been before and the complexity of the issue is extremely high. Rushing into the situation and putting a blanket ban on types of speech is a bad idea.
GP's question asked about newsworthiness. how does this reply address that question?
So, because some people were denied their rights in the past, it proves that right doesn't exist and shouldn't be protected?

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." --MLK

I would agree we don't do this: "Selectively applying constitutional rights to different classes of citizens or people we consider to be non-people."

Instead of forcing a power differential on people we don't like by limiting their access to things on the Internet, we need to convince them. It may take time. But that is the way of just, enlightened people. Using coercion against people by taking away viral-dissemination and discovery from them isn't any different than taking away books, taking away printing presses, or not allowing them into good schools.
> all voice comms with ATC

This, specifically is a feature, and why voice is still done over AM. It allows all planes to be heard by ATC, regardless of their transmission strength relative to other planes. AM signals "add" whereas FM tends to have a "capture" effect, and only receive the strongest signal (or most equally strong signals) at a time.

> ILS, VORs

Slightly OT, but I love the simplicity of design in these systems. They've actually inspired me to go, finally, take my HAM license exam. (Probably early next month due to scheduling.)

I sometimes feel like many systems built are just much to over-engineered and don't even attempt to exploit physics to do their job. On the other hand, as this article points out, VORs and ILS aren't authentication.

I still can't believe that there wasn't designed with some kind of authentication built into the ADS-B system. It's newer and deals with transmitting arbitrary data.
I try to learn enough of a language to be polite (Hello, Please, Thank You, How Much, "I don't speak ____") but I found I could make myself understood in much of Europe with English. The only exception was Spain, but fortunately, I do speak Spanish conversationally.
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if you can't screen someone in a hour interview then you're doing it wrong

Are you sure you meant to say what you wrote? I'm not aware of any place that has figured out how to properly screen candidates in one hour. If you know how to do it, please share, it would help all of us.
In a government role, I was required to obtain permission for any outside activity, with meaningful penalties. Significant engagements like that for an interview would be in scope.

The interview process being long or whatever or requiring on-site visits is reasonable, but pre-work is probably eliminating good candidates, or attracting people who don't pay attention to their contracts.
6 months seems too short, but in 5 years the only ones I haven't done are plan an invasion (how many people out of billions have?), butcher a hog specifically (fish though), design a whole building (designed and built a.. room.. for purposes.. no small or simple task), written a sonnet specifically (other creative writing), set a bone, pitch manure (bagged it, also bailed hay, grew food, etc.), fight physically, or die - gallantly or otherwise.

So that's 4 I definitely haven't done, 4 I kinda did, and 13 I definitely did (I count 21 total not 22).
I disagree, in some ways it does make a big difference in pushing grades. It is much easier to plug a cam in then pound a piton when you're free climbing. To me it seems very few hard off widths would be climbed if your pro was a bong or chockstone you place. People do trad 5.11s now and think no big deal but the routes were often runout and bold leads back in the day.
>In short, the system conspires against young people from poor families, especially those who are Black or Latino
Shouldn't they adjust for SES in order to make race-specific claims, when race and SES are correlated?
The paper switches between using SES and race, but at no point adjusts for either, so information about which of these two factors correlates with the outcomes is not actually provided. While both may correlate multiplicatively in some way, it's not enough to infer single-variable causality firstly because two variables are being used instead of one, and secondly because causality is a large jump from observing correlations).
> The greedy behavior that leads to the kind of inequality faced by today's society is now so well established that it has become hard to recognize for what it truly is.

So in other words: It no longer requires any malice to pay this way, as it's just a cultural norm in the business world.

By the way, it's also a cultural norm in the US to complain about the lack of generosity among those richer than you, and yet spend almost 100% of your salary helping yourself, when you could just as easily spend it on those less fortunate. Charitable donation is trivially easy, even easier than raising the minimum wage at your company. Yet how many people in these comments are highly-paid millennials who would rather buy the newest iPhone than donate that money to those in need?

If we want to understand the psychology of those at the "top," we need only look no further than ourselves. Unless you're at the bottom, you're also at the top as far as people less fortunate than you are concerned.
Drones can cripple an airport this way now.
I would win over all my subordinates by giving them a massive raise in the form of tax cuts :)
Problem with most of Indian History is lack of written or otherwise corroborating evidence. Also the claim is not for the oldest, but oldest continusly running. Even then the ship of Theseus argument can be raised.
I was born in Brooklyn and (seriously) everything north of The Bronx was upstate.
... And the last time that one was this low was 1970. There’s no arguing the US has been absolutely crushing it in terms of jobs creation for several years now.
Often when you are getting error messages you would like to find the place they originate. Failure provides backtraces but not everyone uses failure and tbh it's quite a heavy dependency, using serde and so on. With try!, you can easily shadow the macro to e.g. emit a panic. This can be done to basically any codebase using try!, even if it's not yours. Migrating it to use failure is much harder :).

It would be cool if you just had a compiler flag that invokes an user settable handler function every time Err() gets constructed or something like that.

To give concrete examples, I was developing a library to generate certificates [1]. Often you generate a wrong one though and the parser library you use for testing gives you a Err(BadDer). If that's everything you are getting it can be a bit tough to find out the origins. As it was using ? I had to grep for all the places returning a BadDer error and replace them with a panic. Shadowing try! would have been much easier.

[1]: https://github.com/est31/rcgen
They would be salaried - I suspect if these 996 legally had to be paid overtime the practice would quickly stop.
Just another demonstration of how easy it is to let this kind of thing get out of date.
It also empowered generations of risk averse people into positions of veto power. Removing them is surely not safe.
Yes. Not just quality, but taste is also positively affected.

The ground beef I get from http://www.lamauve.com/ for example tastes so much better than that of local grocery stores (which always has a slightly bitter and uninspiring taste).
> Apps controlling updates isn't me having less control

Yes, it totally is.

> i always have the power to uninstall an app if it gets irritating about updates.

So, if I have an app that works perfectly well, then it force-upgrades to a form that doesn't, my only choice is to stop using that app? I should be able to continue use the version that works for me. If I can't, then I don't have control over my own machine.
FTA: You have ‘4–6 hours’ to design a slick product, with a memorable brand and cohesive working method.

I don’t think Google necessarily requested a full end to end product. A nice logo/app icon for the “branding” portion and some UX concepts can definitely be fleshed out in a single work day, especially with zero tech/biz requirements IMO.

Maybe you’d need to take an extra day just to brainstorm first... but actually pushing pixels, if this designer compressed his output a bit, could have happened in 6 hours.
I remember my Uber interview.

My interviewer was sitting in a room full of people when they called me, asked me questions and then proceeded to have conversations with the other people in the room without listening to me and would ask me to repeat my answers. And do it again.

15 minutes of this and I hung up on them. This was about 4 years ago and the equity that I have in the company I joined instead is on an upward trajectory instead of what Uber just did. Phew.
>Tesla has essentially made the calculation that they can ship a sub-standard product and cut corners

Do you know that almost all (if not all) other auto-manufacturers made the calculation that they better lie to their customers about the emissions coming out of their cars?

Who's really cutting more corners?
TMS is fringe medicine. Or non-medicine depending on who you ask.

It has a single peer reviewed article that only shows modest reduction in pain symptoms with no control group. The protocol involves emotional support/emotional sharing/etc. The reason why those two links were chosen rather than Wikipedia was because Wikipedia largely debunked it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome#Cont...

There's no known physical mechanism wherein TMS could work, and oddly its proponents haven't released scans of impacted areas (back, wrist, etc) that show this "increased blood flow" and physical restoration for which their claim is based.

> Critics in mainstream medicine state that neither the theory of TMS nor the effectiveness of the treatment has been proven in a properly controlled clinical trial, citing the placebo effect and regression to the mean as possible explanations for its success.
Rule of Threes.
I’d like to code review an example of what a successful hire finished in the allotted time. My guess is the code is bananas.
Well as an Android dev, if you didn't already have a deprecation strategy in place, then that's not really a commercial standard app IMO. Since forever, at least for networked apps, we need to be able to deprecate APIs, and know which client versions we explicitly test and support etc. (It's easy to do, along the lines of: simple HTTP call to check latest and minimum supported app version at start up, or once a day or whatever; compare with current app version; then nag, force or do nothing as appropriate).

This might turn out to be a helpful feature from Google... then again it might turn out to be half implemented, have a confusing user experience, not work properly for most usecases, and mainly serve to confuse new developers with yet another thing to learn, when all they needed to do was a bit of HTTP and layout work. 8 years doing Android, I'm 50:50 about most of Google's "help" until I've seen it in action.
I often think that we're missing feedback loops, so learning opportunities are wasted.
If China can steal US IP at will, then the US can blacklist their companies at will. All’s fair in love and war.

There are not many things I agree with the current US Administration on but their hardline stance on China is certainly one of them.
Great work! How does this compare to hierarchical navigable small world graph, like nmslib?
Not 'wrong', just wrong. There is such a thing as an objective truth (for a given question), and you can be relatively closer to or farther from it than the next guy (or next 8 billion guys).
In Belgium (where I live), taxation IS progressive (and very high), and it is a step function. You can even end up earning less if you exceeded some limit that causes your tax rate to jump up x%. Anyway, overtime, extra time, Sunday work can typically also be recuperated later (So you don't get paid but you get some time off) which is interesting too.
It's not marginal neither. For example, Tax Liberation Day is July 27th in Belgium.
Employer A can’t hire infinite number of employees.
Why not? It worked for George Washington.
Good point. Exotic attacks are fun to think up, but the real threats are often much less "cool".
Do you have any further references about what exact military installation was doing this and when? I’m reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and one of the main characters builds a mercury-based data analysis machine that reads punch cards to analyze communication data in WWII and this sounds eerily similar.
The amount of people who see even the most popular tweets is a small subsection of Twitter. If you're banned from the platform, sucks to be you. You shouldn't have violated their TOS. If you didn't understand the TOS then you shouldn't have joined. Pewdiepie is one of the biggest people on Youtube, how many people have heard of him? Outside of that slice of society not many. How many people could tell you off the top of their head who Marshall Mathers is? Noam Chomsky? Outside of tech how many people know who Linus is? The point is there are very, very few people who have their voices heard. Even famous people aren't guaranteed to have their tweets read. If you want a platform where people will listen you have to control your own platform, like Oprah or the pope. You have to have as many people following you as Oprah to have a guaranteed voice.
I think he's claiming his competitors are overpaying men by artificially pretending supply is half the size it actually is. Or looked at another way, the market value of men is determined by companies that hire everyone + companies that only hire men, but the market value of women is determined only by companies that hire everyone, so demand is lower. Either way, it's not "underpaying" relative to either intrinsic value or value in a fair (everyone is willing to hire everyone) market, which is most of the moral argument for why underpaying is bad. It's "underpaying" in the strict technical sense of paying less than what others are willing to pay men, but that only applies in the hypothetical where one single woman were being hired as if she were a man; if all women on the market were hired like men, supply would increase which would affect everyone's pay.

I think there are multiple solutions to a gender wage gap resulting from markets with irrational participants, and reducing the market value of the overpaid gender is a perfectly valid way to accomplish it. I think that's what he's doing.
How about MCAS?
If you run the Big List of Naughty Strings against it, they almost all pass through.

I'd wager that a Jimmy Drop Tables would also be effective.

If it hasn't been black-hatted already, then someone will grey-hat it before Friday.

Honestly, it seems it was built by people that knew that it was pointless anyways. Just like with the FCC comments scandal, it's not going to be reflective any reality we live in. It's political red-meat for Sean and Donny to make up whatever they want to make up and attack with so many manila folders of blank paper.
A previous manager once told me how to deal with product managers: "You tell them what you need from them. Not the other way around." Don't let the PM write the spec. They state the problem and you ask them questions to come to the solution. You also give them the timeline. If they don't like it, then cut features.
A lot of the non engineering staff would still be other white collar jobs, no? Sales, admin, HR, etc. $100K is a high number OP reached for, but I’d think a vast majority of Google’s job total comp is in the 6 figures. Or close to it with some junior employees not in certain cities.
Yes, in both directions (using a .so, and building a .so in Rust), but IIRC linking to a .so is a bit hairy -- requiring a build.rs (build script) that passes special options to Cargo. Generating a .so is just a different target type to Cargo (cdylib).
(Am IR pilot) Assuming someone is paying any attention, the autopilot suddenly nosing down and the vertical speed increasing would immediately result in missed approach procedures being executed. These approaches usually terminate at a pre-determined height (decision height) which unless you're flying CAT-IIIC (not really used) is minimum around 50ft and more commonly between 100 and 200ft. Therefore you have some room for error in the event something bad happens. Additionally, approach paths won't have any protruding objects within a certain range of the runway.
Ridiculously glitchy for me too. No idea if it will remind me or not. No idea if clearing something will really clear it. Unusable really. I assumed it was piss poor exchange/activesync support but if it happens to others without any sort of syncing maybe there's something more to it.
I don't think we can conclude that cameras are inadequate for forward object detection. Only that the processing systems used so far were. This can be a matter of training of the neural networks and the amount of processing power used in the computing units.
Radar is limited, as long as trailers in the US are allowed to have such high gaps to the ground. A lower bar on the sides would both help the collision detection systems as well as reduce the crash itself.
Telegram Outage
And who perhaps spent 5-10 years learning and developing those skills by rising up the ranks in that company.
> Asking a politically charged question on statecraft and judging the answer based on your own personal ideas about how to run a state strikes me as a bizarre way to conduct an interview, even for an exec.

Seems like exactly what you want so you don't get people who will be playing the opposite sort of political games than you want (whichever sort you may prefer).
The inline updates thing takes a bit of the advantage away from React Native/Expo, which can push updates without app store changes, although with that tooling there is no notice to the user, the new features just appear.
It sucks on e-readers. It would be much nicer if there were no headers and footers, and no newlines except between paragraphs...
In fact this sounds like the right way to adjust test score expectations -- if someone came from a place with little opportunity, but still scores reasonably well, that means a lot more than someone who had a lot of opportunity and only made use of some of it. The applications would look very similar to a college admittance board, so I think this is a positive change. Using race as a proxy for opportunity levels growing up is entirely the wrong way to approach the problem because 1) you can have people in "disadvantaged" races who had lots of opportunity who get an unfair, unneeded boost and 2) (more important imo) you don't disadvantage folks from an "advantaged" race who actually faced a lot of adversity growing up. A white kid who grows up in a trailer park going to a public school should be given a helping hand over a kid from [insert other race here] who grew up attending a $50k/year private school.

Of course, any system has its problems. I'm sure that people will find a way to game this system when they don't deserve the advantage even though it sounds like a reasonably implemented idea. Just hiding the scores doesn't fix this, because someone corrupt enough to try to game this won't care if they're doing something immoral anyway. As someone who would have benefited a lot from this growing up, I think it's a great idea. We just have to hope the inherent good ideas here outweigh the immoral system-gamers.
I love metrics that are essentially irrelevant but sound very cool like "our BETA users have burned two million calories collectively and lifted 500,000 tonnes".
You’re fine up until that labor violation at the end there. The state will quickly fine them for that, and any manager worth $100k knows better than to ask it.
> This provided him with the subject matter for his famous paper Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001). Like Chambers, he divided statistics into two groups: The data modeling culture (Chambers’s lesser statistics) and the algorithmic modeling culture (Chambers’s greater statistics). He took it one step further, stating that 98% of statisticians were from the former, while only 2% were from the latter.

This paper provides an important distinction for the "Machine Learning is just statistics" remark.
This is such a click bait headline I don't even want to comment. Web Development is boring if you think it's boring. A lot of people don't. If you do think it's boring, there are a lot of industries that need programmers to solve different problems in different ways. If you don't think it's boring, hey that's awesome, you keep on making cool stuff.

If you're bored, it's probably time to start job hunting.
I'm sure that everyone in Sweden speaks English. But posting the message in English gives the impression that the native (and therefore supposed "default") language is not good enough for some purposes.

In my country we would post such a message in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. Is there some aversion in Sweden to having the same message posted in multiple languages?

Are the street signs posted in Swedish or English?
Or a half full view: tens of billions, possibly more, will be paid to the same truckers in their new, more fulfilling and healthier occupation?

I don't know which scenario will play out. Neither do you. We'll have to see. Better yet, strive to make my scenario the reality. Complain about automation wouldn't help.
88=heil hitler
The 14 words I wasn’t aware tho.
Data scientists are the brand-name salesmen of tech. They talk about "data science" so much that every business owner is now convinced that they need to buy into machine learning and "Big data" to be legitimate in the current year, but despite all of the chatter it isn't any clearer what exactly "data science" is or how it's different from technology and methods that have existed for decades.
So? In the UK I and another developer delivered in a month what another part of the companies would take 18 months.

And we where physically not allowed to be in the office (BT Princess street) outside normal working hours because embarrassing security cockups six months before involving the Queens unlisted numbers :-)