skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> False positives are a lot more damaging to a company compared to false negatives.

This is accepted blindly as dogma in our industry but in my experience it's only the case if the company is dysfunctional and management is too weak to let poor performers go quickly. Being an effective leader means being able to hire and fire quickly. If you're open and honest about it, you don't have to do as much as much intense vetting up front which costs your team's time and filters out potentially great hires.
Or the software company can spend a few hours actually building a real interview process instead of making ridiculous interview projects. I have no problem proving that I can code (whiteboarding, pairing, etc), but I refuse to do stupid college-esque programming assignments on my own time unless they're paying me for it.
Um I think they meant asia ex Japan as did I
Can the bot reliably identify clear liquid spills?
I'd think part of the challenge of coming up with the UX of "the right metaphor" is the discoverability and intuitiveness of the solution.

Tabs are really obvious. You can do a bunch of stuff with tabs and there UI is so apparent that it doesn't get explained.

Apparently the usability threshold for people with 100s of tabs open is (a modern browser's) bookmarking. Any superior solution would need to be more obvious than bookmarks and easier to use than bookmarks.
Can someone dumb this down for me? What _exactly_ is going on here?

> slim will build a micro-vm from a Dockerfile. Slim works by building and extracting a rootfs from a Dockerfile, and then merging that filesystem with a small minimal kernel that runs in RAM.

> This results in a real VM that can boot instantly, while using very limited resources. If done properly, slim can allow you to design and build immutable unikernels for running services, or build tiny and embedded development environments.
> it doesn't contains ethic provisions on what happens in a free market to people not able to create value that others are willing to pay for.

If you care so much about those people, you can create or support charity organizations. No one stops you from helping other people.

Blaming capitalism for poverty carries an implication of wanting to steal from others in order to eradicate poverty. I say: Why don't you 'steal' from your own pocket and help the poor? If enough people actually care, then you can change the world for better without stealing from anyone.
American: None.

Yes, I know this contradicts the parent, but the US is large, and every place is different.
This SSC piece has influenced a lot of my thinking. Christopher Hitchens wrote about "the narcissism of small differences," concept as well.

There was another post on HN recently about a summary of Rene Girard, who extended this idea ("mimetic violence" in his style) with the inevitability of scapegoating neutral parties as an alternative to war. The rationalist community that SSC has represented may be walking right into that scapegoat role because they are viewed as compromised by the extreme right, and as a gateway drug by the extreme left.

I would argue critics like figures associated with the so-called, "intellectual dark web," are being scapegoated by social media platforms for precisely the reasons Girard describes for picking scapegoats. There is no point in tracking down the worst extremists because they don't have enough political traction to represent "something being done," but popular, relatively moderate critics are sufficiently high profile figures to make an example of in the hope that it provides some defusing catharsis.

I couldn't say how much predictive power that model has. Either de-platforming "works" because it delays sectarian conflict, or it delegitimizes discourse altogether and just accelerates it. We're going to find out anyway, and it appears we indeed live in interesting times.
Years ago, I definitely was one of those people who completely bombed a code-on-a-whiteboard problem. It was exactly that - a nested for loop problem. It was one of the first real interviews as I was in a new geographic area and previously I had moved into jobs by being recruited by my professional network. This was before I started specifically studying the patterns used for engineering interviews.

Thing is, I still had a good 3-4 years of professional experience with stellar reviews, some hackathon wins, on top of having coded throughout my entire life prior. But when I was up on that whiteboard, I pretty much froze for that entire segment. Whiteboards are just a different skill and if you don't regularly code on them at work, you better buy one and practice at home because using an editor does _not_ translate to coding on a whiteboard.

I'm glad you mention this: "Obviously, you can improve the experience - let them bring their own laptop and code on it, no problem", because I did better in interviews that followed which allowed for coding in my usual working environment. Heck, I even passed a technical screen before this company brought me on-site where I live-coded some elevator problem they asked me to implement. After bombing the whiteboard, I wouldn't blame them if they thought I had paid someone else to solve the tech screen.
> If the people with their fingers on that button held these same ideals, we wouldn’t need the GPL. The reality, however, is that we live in a capitalist world. Our socialist free software utopia is ripe for exploitation by capitalists, and they’ll be rewarded for doing so. Capitalism is about enriching yourself - not enriching your users and certainly not enriching society.

We like to talk in favor of abstract ideals and moral arguments, but I think a lot of our underlying motivations come from our feelings towards (and relationships with) other people. If you see the world in this way (good socialist free software utopians vs. greedy capitalists) then all of the rest of the argument basically falls into place.

I'm not even saying that's right or wrong. I'm saying that no amount of abstract argument will convince someone out of their position if their underlying feeling towards other people is already firmly held. I'm including myself in this.
Largely because they were making things up and changing the subject instead of answering honestly.
There are hundreds of ways to do this without intentionally tilting the candidate into failure later. As an interviewer you have absolute authority in the room -- don't abuse it and destroy the candidate.
I'm not sure Western thought agrees with that. Hypocrisy has long been considered extra evil. There's even a circle of Hell named for it, the 8th, Fraud, of which Hypocrisy is a special case.
Yes, it's still just more abstractions. If you look at the way people use ECS, allocating specific resource limits to each container, it's basically a micro EC2 node. And for me, the only reason I use containers is to make it easier to package and run applications immutably. If I can do that without "containerisms", all the better. It also seems like VMs would solve a good deal of multi-tenancy issues.
Destin from Smarter Every Day has a podcast episode that talks about this problem in depth. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-dumb-questions/id12...

He dives into why it’s such a hard problem to fix and explains how the root cause is more financial than ideological. It’s worth a listen.
People should chose a software license the way they choose a screwdriver, not the way they chose a religion.

Choose the tool that accomplishes the job. Do you want to avoid commercial exploitation without repayment-in-kind in the form of contributing back? Use GPL or similar (although this is getting creaky in the case of SaaS deployments). Do you want total world domination for your new protocol? Release a reference implementation under MIT or similar.

License debates go off the rails because too often people try to compress a two-dimensional discussion (ideology and distribution rights) onto a single dimension and talk past each other.

So this blog post seems to say: "I have changed my religion." To which I say: "Consider choosing licenses more strategically."
Now you've created the need to re-wire shelves for power + data, map the cameras to store positions, keep people from stealing them, maintain/replace them, etc. I'm not at all convinced that would be cheaper in fully burdened cost than a few roving robots.
I don't do code, though I'm sure you would like me on your team :)

(BTW I have the exact opposite opinion, I think devs should stick to code and not try to setup infrastructure for themselves)
I don't know - I knew that my input data wouldn't have to deal with such cases so I didn't have to deal with / check for it. This was part of 'etc' catchall :)
An example of a tiny monopoly would be a program with no alternatives that performed a task worth a few thousand bucks to 20 people on Earth. It doesn't have to be Standard Oil for monopoly pricing to take effect, if the market is small enough the mere fact that two vendors couldn't survive at the same time would be enough to keep out competition. Another example would be proprietary data formats, if your program is the only thing in the world that writes and reads an Oracle database, you can charge monopoly prices to anyone who has an Oracle database - and unsurprisingly, Oracle does.
It is because there is an understanding, from first principles, of the dynamics that drive weather (e.g. conservation of mass, momentum and energy). The current models are build upon these principles to make predictions, and conform to expectations of how physics operates. The method that these models are based on (finite volume) is efficient and adaptable if modifications need to be made.

Using AI and ML to make predictions about weather will likely not account for the conservation principles and might lead to ridiculous results (in some sense). Creating an accurate AI/ML model of a complex and chaotic system might lead to wrong predictions under extreme circumstances (e.g. predicting the weather >5 days out for an extreme hurricane) or under conditions where some implicit assumption has changed. One can at-least attempt to grapple with these issues when using finite volume. Under AI/ML you just have to hope your model is properly trained.
> Capitalism requires that it’s participants provide value. Capitalism rewards providing others with things they want.

No, and it's surprising this is still believed even though most of the market economy around you screams otherwise.

Capitalism requires and rewards amassing capital. It may incidentally involve providing others with things they want, but it doesn't need to and frequently doesn't. Consider advertising, or the job of salesmen: the whole point is to convince people to buy your product/service where, left alone, they wouldn't. In a world where capitalism would reward providing others with value, these jobs would not exist. They're needed because there are more efficient ways of making money than giving people what they want.
There are some promising trends, but it seems this is something that will quite some to change. Link to a Gallup poll that roughly matches that claim:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-int...

I know of a ton of people who are creationists from my hometown. I don't think I know any where I'm currently living (I'm sure there are a bunch, but I haven't had much opportunity to meet them).
But, at least in California, don't employment laws make the firing process kind of slow and expensive?
Violence is usually too far removed from the relevant abstractions. It's not difficult to see violence behind everything, because rules don't mean much if they aren't enforced, and it's all too easy to conflate violence with a threat of violence, or a threat of force with a threat of violence, etc.

But that's not a very useful perspective; a well-functioning society filters violence so that it is only applied when things go seriously awry, and most of us should only ever threatened by minor inconveniences. To focus on violence is to be reductive; it is like trying to talk about programming in terms of electromagnetic laws -- yes, computers ultimately run on electricity, and social powers are ultimately enforced through violence, but the abstractions we've built atop those facts are actually very relevant and useful.

Political freedom is not simply about establishing when violence is appropriate. It's broader than that -- it's about the functional ways we can convert violence into something softer without abdicating our ability to govern ourselves effectively.

More to the point, closed source software doesn't need to be 'inherently violent' for it to cause problems. Nothing is inherently violent, and political freedoms are not defined by violence any more than computer programming is defined by electricity use.
n=1, but my general takeaway from the show wasn't that nuclear is fundamentally flawed, it was that a series of pretty questionable choices by management and egregiously eschewing safety protocol lead to the accident. The graphite-tipped rods were also essential to the accident happening as well, but only after that series of bad choices had put the reactor in a such an extreme state. (Reading about the event on Wikipedia seems to confirm this take, but, of course I'm not pretending to have any more than the most basic layman's understanding of all this)
> Did you test your magnesium level by blood tests?

No, hair tests. Which I dread talking about in forums like this as it can be a red cloth to motivated skeptics/cynics (of which I used to be one until I was blessed with the opportunity to endure this experience), but the results have been consistent with my experienced-symptoms over a long period of time (10 years so far), and the correlation with my emotional work and subjective mood/life experience has been clear.

> Less than 1% of magnesium (AFAIR) is stored in blood and its level can fluctuate a lot depending on your body state

Yes, that's hair tests are used for this type of healing work.

> So yes, I'm pretty sure you've missed it among those 350 pages

I wish you would take more of a good-faith approach to the discussion and point to where this is mentioned.

I read over the abstract as thoroughly as I could for evidence that they properly considered this.

I can see mention of the observation that magnesium levels seemed to respond to antidepressants, but it still seems to assume that the cause is physiological, and that any mood-change is an effect not a cause/influence.

Nothing I can find in the abstract suggests that depression-causing-magnesium-deficiency was considered, studied and disproven, yet such possibilities are often raised in other circles, and it aligns with my own experience (and available evidence).

Please understand that people like myself and a few others on HN, who have been trying to share perspectives like these for many years, get rather tired of reflexive dismissals, despite having done vast amounts research and experimentation/data-collection.
Can you or anyone cite where you have read that the unemployment rate for software engineers is low? I'd love to see it but I'm not able to find much trying to search for a citation on this point. I'm not sure that it is actually low, but this seems to be a common parlance amongst recruiters.
I would be happy for a render to PDF that had some basic parameters around when to perform a render, max storage to be used, aging, or if not that, first in, last to be deleted as new comes in functionality.

Think of it as a cache of things seen. Bonus points for hyperlinked media assets. Double bonus points for those links being to cached media assets.
Capitalism is not "about" anything really. It's a description that sometimes applies (if private individuals can own (and buy/sell) equity, and operate the means of production for profit) to economies.

Of course there are good and bad parts, of course there are good and bad implementations/representations/manifestations of such big concepts.

For example using a price system and voluntary exchange is usually a great way to get clear signals about what people want and value. But if the market is in a pathological state (monopoly, oligopoly, or monopsony, high barriers to entry, etc.), then the market becomes exploitative. Is this the systems's fault? Well, maybe, but it's not because people can own equity/machines, it's because that particular system/market is fucked due to various reasons. (Either due to historic reasons, eg. enormous income inequality led to a small clique of people owning all/most of capital coupled with a political system that wasn't able to represent the capitally-disadvantaged; or due to other failure of politics - eg. a group consolidated power into a totalitarian system which then dismantled competition.)
The pregnancy penalty - what a sad concept to now understand. And yet it truly does exist. After sharing the news of my engagement with my boss and telling him how great I'd timed my wedding in relation to the performance year and to still be promoted to manager, he immediately joked that if I didn't make manager I could always have a baby. I'm lucky too (even with such a joke) because my workplace does protect pregnancy leave and prides itself on providing paid family leave for both mom's and dad's, but some aren't so lucky as she said.

Amazingly researched and well thought out article and it's so cool how her job directly correlated to her own experiences and she was able to develop the article by way of living it.
A Deep Learning Perspective on Beauty, Sentiment and Remembrance of Art
I also highly recommend the rtg-math commonlisp library (ql:quickload :rtg-math) https://github.com/cbaggers/rtg-math

Incredibly fast with support for quaternions / spherical coordinate systems etc
I always think this is such an odd sentiment. That 1% builds 100% of the software for the other 99%. Doesn't that make them disproportionately more important?
I'd s/religion/principles/, and then it becomes clearer why the topic isn't completely arbitrary and may have moral weight.
This doesn't Test if they can develop software; this tests if they can diffuse a bomb.

Also there's no point in bringing someone in for an interview before they've shown any coding experience. It's a colossal waste of time for everyone, including the candidate
I did wonder, what other brands existed at the time?

The Japanese brand Tiger, for one (later becoming Asics). IIRC, though cannot quickly find a reference, it's the brand Phil Knight was selling out of the trunk of his car before starting Nike with Bowerman.
> Short version: part of much more > everything of much less.

Well said. A net win for FOSS.
I haven’t seen that one yet. Looks neat. Algo trading is a really interesting application. I’m planning on starting out with a visual markup language editor (.json, .xml, etc) and continue with more advanced build tools if that is successful. I think it would be great to be able to visualize a dependency graph.

What has your experience with Xod been like? Have any advice?
It's complex construction projects in general. Regulation is a significant piece. We have a lot more worker safety, public safety, and environmental regulations. On the other hand, we also have loads more construction technology.

One thing no one ever talks about is environmental lead exposure. Just like it appears to have caused a huge crime spike, by impairing executive function, I think it may have impaired society's ability to manage complex projects.
That's interesting because that's how humans actually do algebra. Who cares about the decimal expansion of some irrational if in the end we divide it by itself for example.
I don't think you quite understand how ISO works, so its not really productive to have this conversation. Have a nice day.
Yeah it's not great right now, but will likely change again.

e.g. sentry.io/issues/SEN-12345

We're also introduce a much more comprehensive event search which will require event permalinks so we're sorting some of that out.

Feel free to throw additional feedback our way. Best place would be on forum.sentry.io to make sure the team actually sees it.
Hmm, the city I live in has been mixing in more and more desalinated water in the last few years...
It's not the crime, it's the coverup!

(In case you're not old enough to remember the Fartergate Scandal...)
"they work for avoiding false positives"

Citation needed. I have many years of experiential evidence that suggests otherwise.
To be fair I have "fessed up" to not knowing about a subject that was mentioned on my CV where I had used the tech a little bit 5+ years ago. Been offered the job both times. Though I could see if you hadn't had that experience it wouldn't be the answer that you would want to give.
This claim made me double take, but after thinking about it, yes, we all probably have, if only stochastically, by carbon emissions if nothing else
After negative reviews on Glassdoor CEO has employees write reviews with his
What Does “Permissionless” Mean?
We stumbled upon them, sort of, with Drupal. Consider the using the visitor pattern for access where each visitor needs to return a value. (Drupal is old so yes return values is what you had) You may want to allow access, deny access or tell the system you have no opinion at all.
AI Is Broken [pdf]
Quibble: ESR did not coin (nor did he claim to coin) open source, that honor goes to Christine Peterson.

Otherwise, I concur.
> I've found that programmers tend to frame licenses in they way you have, placing emphasis on how the GPL affects them and describing the GPL as a way to enforce tit-for-tat but software is such an important part of everyone's life now that it's worth considering how licenses affect non-developers too.

That's the point people keep forgetting. GPL wasn't created to benefit developers, it was created to benefit end users.
Cameras every 10 feet on each side of an aisle. Now you're talking dozens and dozens of cameras. Definitely not less expensive than the glorified Roomba they have roaming the aisles that I've seen.
I found it easier to just buy a prepaid SIM for travel to Europe. $25 for 12GB, 3000 minutes, 3000 texts, good for 30 days. You get a european number which is definitely handy when needing to call hotels/airlines. Sure, you are limited by the higher price of texting back home (like $0.25/text sometimes) but if you use iMessage/Whatsapp/Telegram/etc it's all included with the data you already paid for. Topping off the SIM is even cheaper with European plans or just buy a new one before next trip.
Russian technical oriented website opened English section earlier this year https://habr.com/en/company/habr/blog/435764/. It has a long history working with independent technical writers. 10 years may be more. It is a good alternative for technical part of Medium.
Ah yes. I labeled it wrong, but the calculation was done with 373K hot reservoir & 294K cold reservoir temperature.
Own Your Data
Star Slate Codex is the only "armchair philosophy" site I read. I really love it.

Every time I click a link to some of the author's inspiration sources, or read the comments even, I'm appalled at how complicated and unattractive the writing is there. The contrast to Alexander's writing is simply so stark. I simply find myself giving up after a few paragraphs.

I recently read his enormous and lovely "Mediations on Moloch" essay, and was amazed by how hard I found it to follow the Nick Bostrom citations. I mean this is a famous bestseller philosopher. Is Bostrom's writing so bad, or is Alexander's writing simply so good?

This article is one of my favourites. I love how, like many of his articles, he doesn't actually change my mind about anything (at least not to my knowledge), but he does help me express, verbally, an itch that I had about something for a long time.
It's like a giant "Clippy" following you around and doing nothing other than being annoying and intrusive.

I don't need these in my life!