skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see any factual objective discussion in the twitter thread.

What do you mean? People are seeing slow queries for "powered by". Unless you think they are lying, I don't see how that isn't factual?
Our coding test actually revolves around things you would actually do as a coder — we give you a simple python script and ask you to identify a couple of problems with it, then read a PR that attempts to fix one of them and leave comments on it, then add a simple new feature, write a test and documentation for it and submit a PR. The actual coding part is fairly trivial and related to the work we do (interacting with the aws api)

We have a bunch of notes for the interviewer with common questions the applicants ask.

The whole thing takes like an hour, and it’s not a gotcha or brain teaser. It’s more about whether you understand requirements and can work with other people.
If this is due to cosmic rays, doesn't flying over the poles make it more likely that such event happens ?

How are we sure there aren't local bursts of cosmic rays that would make suddenly a few of those Single Event Upset, for example when there are some high likelihood of seeing northern lights ?

How do you test your hardware and software to show that you are indeed cosmic-ray proof ?
Lebensraum was the problem of not having synthetic fertilizer available- thus you have a ineffective, basically near medieval agriculture, whos output only scales- with area.

There where forgotten wars for natural occuring fertilizers at the times of the civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific

Area only scales, if you conquer it and remove other people.
Strange as it sounds, without the retrospect of all that tech that allows our current society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process) those economic decisions where quite technocratic.

Inhuman and monstrous as the outcome was, the decision making was quite technocratic with a tinge of desperation.
Because accessing fields in a binary format is a seek() while in a text format it is much more complicated. Try to build a mental model what is required to parse text based formats.

You can have a look to results of performance testing involving these binary message formats vs json.

http://zderadicka.eu/comparison-of-json-like-serializations-...

https://github.com/ludocode/schemaless-benchmarks#speed---de...

https://eng.uber.com/trip-data-squeeze/

http://ugorji.net/blog/benchmarking-serialization-in-go
> pretty much every web page on the whole Internet will have those words, unless it is very short.

… because everyone speaks english?!?

England had a large empire back in the days but it wasn't that big, nor did it span the whole world.
It is of course virtually unlimited, but this is true. Push in all the data you want. We only charge for the selects.

If you fire

"SELECT SUM(amount) from shop.sales"

and you have 1 billion sales transactions in your table; since the "SUM(amount)" returns a single row, we count it as 1 row selected for billing purposes. And the charge is $10 per million rows selected. Always rounded upwards to the nearest millionth.
I think even if this existed it would naturally become a vanity thing ("oh yes, I've read War and Peace") and not include Shades of Grey or whatever you're actually reading.

Physical shelves already suffered from that a bit (people would use them to display books they were prod of), but it being a purely display and not necessary storage would do the rest.
If you take a closer look at the complete lifecycle of BEVs they turn out to be not as eco friendly yet- especially those with bigger batteries. hydrogen mighty be reasonable for a while but eventually bevs will come down in price and fcevs will have a hard time to compete. it is hard to say how long this transition will take.
due to caching, probably not
Emergency services and medicine certainly have improved.
I should do it more. Maybe exclusively for a week and see how it goes.

I've actually run into Gabriel a few times online and had a bit of conversation with him. Nice guy. Can't really say I've chatted it up with Eric Schmidt...
A lot of posters here fail to understand chan culture and are not familiar with any of the boards. They try to analyze those platforms from the outside, with many biases. Please don't, unless you've lurked a couple of boards for some time, you're making a fool out of yourself.

The fact that you have pseudo-anonymity doesn't mean that the platform with be one way or another. People say that chans are racist, but I've seen plenty of examples of left-wing threads on 4chan's /pol/. 8chan has it's own /leftypol/ board, which is doing very very well traffic wise and even spawned some left chans. I used to frequent /leftypol/, and even made some friends along the way.

The problem is that sometimes the communities get unhinged from the lack of external influence because they create a feedback loop. I think the people that snap will do so in any community. The thing is that on those platforms you can see people posting what they really think, because they're not constrained by reputation or doxxing. You could engage with some of the posters there and dissuade them. Otherwise, nothing can change.

You can't bring it down the platforms too, because plenty others will pop-up. The fragmentation will create many more insulated communities. There are chans on IPFS and the darkweb, so good luck with that.

Something interesting that myself and others on the boards have noticed is a subversion of /pol/ by means of gradual but constant anti right-wing commenting and thread making. That, in combination with an influx of redditors, changed the culture of the board a bit. This creates a lot of friction inside the community.

I don't know where it's going, but it's not a static monolith. The demographics of the boards change and they're being influenced. I'm curious what the future holds.

PS. I don't want to get into why it's not racist in the way that a typical person believes, but that would make the post too long.
...how have things gotten objectively worse for young men?
We need 1 tonne lifestyles
The spray and pray approach is the default even for great coders unless they have contacts that will get them a job with almost no interview in which case none of this applies. As far as coding tests go, they should only be administered to finalist candidates after the initial interviews. So no, there shouldn't be automated scoring. That's an indicator that the test is flawed. The candidate should be able to walk through the code and explain why they did what they did. They should be fairly confident that if they do well on the test and subsequent walkthrough, they are getting the job. Companies that administer the test first either have a ton of qualified applicants competing for the same job or are doing something wrong.
There is a certain amount of humor that can be derived from being as offensive as possible, without caring about who you’re offending or why.

It doesn’t require hate, just not giving a shit about people’s feelings.

What happens in an environment like that is that people that _do_ hate start to feel welcome, and eventually drive out the people who were just in it for the lulz. Or radicalizing them as well.
Intersectional Computing
I am not trying to bash the conman here, but even if the hypothetical other US-president would’ve chosen to just do nothing and leave everything as it was they would’ve done better than Trump.

Trump actively made things worse and I am not sure if relativizing things in such an important area is a good thing.

Because the fire brigade that actively denies your country is on fire and pumps gasoline into it just to show it to you is objectively worse than the one that clumsily falls over their own protective gear while spraying your country with way too little water.
The difference between each point on the Kardashev scale is about 10 orders of magnitude. The observed variation of well-being per unit of energy is so vanishingly small in comparison that I don’t even need to work it out, because it’s like comparing one subsistence farmer with only their own labour — no tractors or horses — to the entire primary energy consumption of the industrialised United States of America today.

2500 kcal/day vs. 3.18 TW
You place a lot of trust in doctors.

Knee arthroscopy is a good example where doctors knew for a fact that they were helping patients until we ran trials using sham surgery and we found out it doesn't help some patients at all.

https://www.painscience.com/biblio/fascinating-landmark-stud...

https://doctorskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/08/placebo-surgery-4...

PBMs are probably bad, but we need some organisation to look at the evidence and say whether something works or not.
So you basically have no idea what you’re talking about but want to talk about giving a wider platform to nazis?
The current lifetime + 70 years is overkill. Releasing one's works under CC or GFDL is surely good, CC-0/PD is better, but it doesn't always practical/persuasive to everyone/everything. And it requires personal evaluations and actions.

Perhaps we also need a Voluntary Copyright Sunset Movement. It can persuade many people to waive their copyright earlier without author's own actions after its publication:

> Copyright Sunset License

> All Rights Reserved, (C) 2019 John Doe

> An irrevocable, unconditional license is hereby granted: XX years after the initial publication of the first revision, the Work is automatically made available under the terms and conditions of CC-0. See CC-0. (another variation can be CC-BY v4)

It can be applied to the majority of someone's works without major considerations. If you are just writing a random essay or taking a random photo, it's unlikely you still care after, let's say, 20 years. But meanwhile, you may still want to retain your copyright (and possibly, release it under a free/non-commercial/proprietary license before it expires, or upload it to your blog, forget it and do nothing), but no matter what you do, the copyright sunsets automatically some years later, long before the legal validity.

And I think it can be a fairly influential movement and can persuade many authors to join: do you really need/want to lock a piece of your random work for your entire lifetime + 70 years? If the work is special, you may want to do so, but more likely not, can you waive your copyright earlier to benefit the public? If so, use this license to publish your work.

The problem of this movement is, of course, nothing would happen during the first 20-40 years, making the movement be perceived as useless, and difficult to gain support. Meanwhile, the movement would also fail to solve any of the changing landscape of copyright issues developed during these years. Who knows what the world we're living is going to be in 40 years, and there's risk of our efforts becoming irrelevant.

But I think it's still a big positive move. We can also encourage short expiry for things you don't care about, such as blog posts or small programs: 5-10 years may be enough.
The proposed API, MRB_API, is used in mruby. With enough popular support for that C API, it could force mainline ruby to modernize it's C API to that one.

Assuming MRB_API thread-safe-able. mruby is not thread safe at all, being a single-threaded script runner.
Why would I want to do that?? :) I was using JSON and Avro in production and it was pretty obvious that Avro just beats the shit out of JSON libraries, even though there are state of the art libraries like Boon[1].

1. https://github.com/boonproject/boon/wiki/Boon-JSON-in-five-m...

For me it does not really matter which binary message format you are using, I think there is not a huge difference between the different libraries. There are some feature differences for sure, library quality maybe. If you are going for the most performance that is possible to achiave you could look at SBE[2] developed by performance freaks.

2. https://github.com/real-logic/simple-binary-encoding
It's not what you say, but how you say it. This is just mindless disproportional bashing.

"Come on Google I don't have all day!"

"This is actually one of those crazy "facts from the future" to go back in time and tell people 10 years ago: Google has the dominant browser and mobile operating system, but their search sometimes takes 7 seconds."

"@Google have you tried implementing these recommendations? https://developers.google.com/speed/"
I dropped password resets on trashserver.net
AMP hides the entire page to avoid what is known as a Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC). The document unhides as soon as a single AMP javascript resource loads, or an 8s timeout if that fails. That javascript is very cacheable and is often already in the browser cache to begin with.
How to Setup a Kotlin Multiplatform Project for iOS and Android
I'd point to the automated coding tests that involve zero talking and give the company a simple numerical score on which to assess the candidate and ask you what about those?

I'd also point to the companies that put a candidate alone in a room with the test and wait for the candidate to finish, again dismissing the candidate if they don't produce an answer that matches.
Or rather, the speech wasn’t “free” enough.

> 8chan’s founder, Fredrick Brennan, created the site in response to what he sees as the ongoing and vast loss of free speech on the Internet. On 8chan, “anyone can say what they want and mean,” Brennan told the Daily Dot.

> Brennan now calls 8chan a “free-speech-friendly 4chan alternative.”

> He called 4chan “authoritarian” and accused it of turning into a soulless for-profit venture.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-...
I find it incredible how people are eager to protect the environment in other people's countries before taking a deep look in-house. Suggesting to buy a strategically important area of Brazil under the umbrella of saving the world is just purely naive or hypocrite. China and US are the main contributors to global warming. Not even the Amazon as it currently stands can keep up with that. Shouldn't we apply sanctions to both of these countries then? Or form a coalition to buy Wyoming (the state with the highest CO2 emissions per capita) e.g., since it is in the interest of the world? If the Amazon rainforest does not belong to Brazil, then why do the natural oil reserves in Texas or Alaska belong to the US?

Just to clarify, I am not pro bringing down the Amazon rainforest, only raising the flag on the tendency to outsource responsibility when it comes to the environment.
I didn't notice actual design ideas (apart from the philosophy which sounded good to me). Do you have things on your mind on what kind of actions user can do?

The list of what already works seems just the same as in Vim.

I'm just curious what kind of modal system it actually is.
High speed jet fighters flying above Mach speed doesn’t really compare with a chubby airliner flying 900km/h?
Recipe sites have gone this way - I don’t need your life story for a gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipe that appears about 1500 words in
I'm reasonably sure that there is a large overlap of people who are in favor of buying the Amazon from Brazil and protecting it and people who want drastic measures to reduce GHG emissions in their own countries and a carbon tax with tariffs on imports from countries that don't have an equivalent system.
The red light district effect
Prof Eddy Maloka bullish about youth participation in African governance
One of the reasons I go to Google is I'm trying to answer a question where I know the subject area but not the answer to the specific question. So I'm asking for a combination of general concepts and a specific thing.

Entirely fictional example: "hacker news comment bold"

And seemingly every time, the specific thing is crossed out. At that point Google search is worse than useless.

I have a few hypotheses:

1) They are trying to turn it into a general directory in their continued war on DNS.

2) The web has got so big that their technology just isn't good enough anymore.

3) The users they care about are no longer people (such as technical or, per sibling comment, academic) who are trying to find specific information. They prefer to focus on mass-market.

Our strongest defence as consumers is to resist the further slide into monopoly.
The problem though is that numbers aren't really the salient characteristic here. If some gang kills 5 members of another gang, that's not really a "mass killing" in the sense that this El Paso thing was.
> Language can't be small, if it's universal enough

t, u := x | λx.t | (t u)

Small language (three production rules), definitely universal.

Of course the semantics is a lot more complicated than most people expect. But it IS syntactically very simple
You are not wrong. In fact I would argue it would be very hard to learn F# without knowing C# even if resources did not assume you did, since one of F#'s major strengths is the ability to use the entire .NET ecosystem just like Clojure as you said, and the .NET ecosystem is written for C# semantics (usable from F# but generally with some slight syntax switching).

On the tooling front, Microsoft include it as a prime language with C# and VB.NET in dotnet core, and ship F# tools with their latest IDEs, which I appreciate and is almost more than I would expect, since their flagship is C#. It would be nice if it was better, but that would require it to be a lot more popular which is fair enough.

Static binaries are something that would be real nice. I've done it with F# using CoreRT, but its certainly not as simple as Go.
Not the parent, but a stupid reason why I can't use DDG is that it doesn't support IPv6. It's extremely unhelpful when you're doing some IPv6-only testing and then can't search for answers.

As far as I can tell, 6 years ago the reason was that AWS didn't support IPv6[0]. It has for 2.5 years by now though.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180909174057/https://duck.co/f...
updated my comment. My apologies.
This article focuses too much on the developer role in the coding skills challenge, portraying the companies as bystanders waiting for a result. Usually the problem comes with the evaluation. If you're asking a senior to bring a different way of thinking, but you ask your team of mid to senior dev, who never worked anywhere else for the matter, to evaluate, you're gonna most often get an evaluation based on their current way of looking at things, and you'll never get anyone to push the team forward.
Wait... We must having different definition of perfect. I would say Go is a very good language, and probably be one of the best in terms of simple and practical design, fast execution, fast compilation etc.

The perfection, however, is not something Go never meant to be. The perfect language possibly support fully dependent type like Idris while maintains zero abstraction cost like Rust, having precise syntax rule like Lisp, and a powerful runtime like Erlang, and the list goes on.

The success of Go lies in it's trade-offs, the designers are opinionated, knowing well what they want and what they don't, and executes things well in the implementation.
Yes, it seems a bit clickbaity to me...

The Germans sold their cheat-cars as long as they weren't detected and even now when their own children protest against the political practices regarding climate change they don't really do something serious about it.

The sad thing is that this could be as good as the world will come with combating climate change. Nice.
The UK is currently part of the EU pledge, which is for a 40% cut in carbon emissions from 1990 to 2030, but the UK is already 43% down, more than 10 years ahead of the target.
https://interpreterbook.com/ and the sequel https://compilerbook.com/
When someone says "I want a programming language
in which I need only say what I wish done,"
give him a lollipop.

- alan-j-perlis
If you think the male suicide rate and mass shootings have anything to do with some kind of "objectively worse" metric you're not thinking about this in the right way...
Here you go: https://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/20/anatomy-of-a-subtle-j...
Have you read those manifestos or about shooters themselves? Cause lack of opportunities ain't the issue in specific cases I read about.

Lack of opportunities is not case of Roger Elliot, Sandy Hook massacre nor columbine. Not in the mail bomb case either nor that one with skater brother (can't recall name now).
It's always worked that way. That's why fascistoid ideologies are so dangerous. It gives you a 'humorous' out of a dire situation where the 'humor' is dehumanizing to whoever the ideology deems 'other'.

Very well encapsulated by this Sartre quote:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
I’m just remembering what I heard from a documentary about Walmart. A company, like Rubbermaid, had a contract with Walmart to build millions of widgets. But they wanted it at a certain lower price and it had to meet contractual requirements. Someone in management was lamenting how the defect rate was too low and they might not make revenue. In the end it worked out, they bought new machines with better tolerances. Until Walmart came back and asked for an even lower price...
I have two Diverge TM2s https://unikeyboard.io/product/diverge-tm/ , One with browns and one with blacks.

I love the layers and the grid layout.
Theoretical cases that are unusable in practice aren't interesting in the above context. We are talking about practical languages. It's not about Turing completeness.
You didn't invite all of them for am interview did you? Just call those you will interview. And yes you preselect on the CV, that's what it's for.
I'd love to see this kind of auto-calculated tariff be applied to the entire world instead of just one country. Might as well start with the biggest offenders: China and USA.
Just seems like perfectly normal snarky banter making fun of a faceless corporation.

Still, you do you. I'm sure Google appreciates the peanut gallery coming to their defense for even the most trivial of issues...
So young men are murdering people by the hundreds in mass shootings, but you don't think it's the young men's fault? surely it is the guns or the Nazi manifestos then?
Retired Police Officer Wants $48,773 from Copyright Troll
Exactly. There is no need for govt censorship if marginalization happens naturally.
Never hung around /v/ during those years, but my guess is it there was no censorship, it was just paranoia as usual. If they really cared so much about it, they could post on /b/.
They were wrong by less, but still wrong.
I'm completely sure they'll do anything to suck as much money from its destruction as possible. They don't really give about ecology and not even milimeter about planet or other people. You know, they'll go to heaven anyway since their chesus already saved 'em, so why would they care, whyyyyy?
Whats the tldr? I'm half way through this article and other than talk in circles it hasn't said a single thing that's meaningful