skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disappointed to see there was no manual comparison of the automated results to the actual statistics of the tweets. The article mentions several times that both automated and manual tweet reviewing flagged more tweets from black people as hate speech but there was no attempt to quantify exactly how much hate speech each group generated. Tweets by African-Americans were 1.5x as likely to get flagged as offensive but, hypothetically, if it happened to be the case that African-Americans were 1.5x as likely to engage in hate speech neither the researchers or article readers would know about it. Not that that's the case, but do some due diligence.
It depends entirely on where the skateboards and other wood-derived waste ends up. If it's not properly disposed of (e.g. litter), then it will release most/all of it into the atmosphere. If it's incinerated, it's all released. If it's in a landfill, it depends on whether and how effectively the landfill is sealed.
Nassau county seems to be just barely onto Long Island, near JFK.

Here's the list of skills wanted from another NYC junior programmer want ad that says $35-40K/yr:

Programming Skills Desired:

Transact SQL

Database Design & Theory

HTML

XML

CSS

JavaScript

VB Script

Auto Hot Key (AHK)

PHP

C#

All of these (except for AHK which I've never heard of) look trivial, but I'd expect the interview would be impossible, because the interviewer is going to be primed to expect people with no skills and therefore assume the worst of anyone who doesn't have 110% current experience in each.
What Fruits and Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them
Aussie ISV buys ads to wake up Google support
Bloggers "have to" disclose free products they get? Who enforces that?

I've been under the impression that the ethical ones do, the rest don't.
80-105k plus 1-2k "profit sharing" "bonus" for usa-only remote

https://www.level12.io/careers/full-stack-web-app-developer-...
By analogy to the "AI winter" I assume they belong to the age of broken dreams... people are afraid to talk about them because too many people have been burned by too many enthusiastic promises and the problem turns out to be much harder to solve than originally expected.
370 and autonomy is just a dog whistle for subjugating minorities and women. You didn’t answer my question: Why wait to fix minority/ women rights for 70 years?

Kashmir’s minorities have drastically decreased in the last 70 years due to large scale systematic cleansing and India has increased its minority population.

India is the lesser evil.
Fukushima took a horrific natural disaster and from memory roughly doubled the economic cost. An area of land has been sterilised, which is not really that scary when you consider 71% of the surface of the earth is ocean and already uninhabitable - we manage fine.

There are massive social costs of displacing ~half a million of people all at once; added about 25% to the displacement caused by the original tsunami. Realistically, the government evacuation was probably the unacceptable part of the story. It was clearly excessively paranoid.

The health impacts of living next to Fukushima for 10 years and though the disaster appear to be less damaging than living in a coal mining region for 10 years.

As an engineer, theoretically I could in my life time screw up a decision and be responsible for killing 10 people. I'd much rather have Fukushima on my conscience.

To put it bluntly; if the situation is assessed without an anti-nuclear lens then yes Fukushima was acceptable. Not completely acceptable, as obviously they could have done better. And this is after scouring the history of the nuclear industry across the entire globe and picking the 2nd worst incident, ever.
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Did some testing, appears to only work in Chrome, and not in Firefox, even with JS enabled.
Thorough Overview of Video Game Physics by Nilson Souto
I've had candidates who can explain it all, and aced the take home. Failed all interviews. I spent 20 minutes chatting amicably with them letting them enthusiastically ask questions and then asked them to iterate an array and PR nt the elements. Print function was given. Array was given. They could not write the code in 40 minutes. I did this make good interview after the candidate had tanked their other interviews on tech and soft skills. Even if your Terrible on a white board you should be able to write a for loop.

Had other candidates totally ace the take home and flat out state first thing that they can't code and ask to switch to a non coding interview or to go home.

Some people spend a lot of time practicing to cheat. Given how much this industry pays it shouldn't be surprising.

Both of these happened 3 weeks ago when I was interviewing 32 candidates in a event. But several times in the last few years as well.

No I don't have statistics on this or pure confirmation... Kinda hard to get that info from suspected cheaters.

There are problems with every type of interviews a d they're hueristics for skill not a judge of skill.
I find individual glory-seeker's behavior even worse.

Example: The recent mega-A-lister junket to Italy, where there was something like a 1-to-3 ratio of attendees to private jets.

I will readily listen to earnest spokespeople for almost any cause. I'd listen to Ralph Nader today. But a bunch of Hollywood Limosine liberals, flying in by private jet to hobnob about how to preach to the unwashed masses about climate change? Total turnoff.
Yeah it seems the best solutions simply involve users flagging content themselves and being able to see what other people have reported regarding other content
Ask HN: Does Anyone Work at CERN?
I'm really impressed with what CERN is doing and their philosophies on research and development of tools. Their career site is really eye-opening: https://careers.cern

Does anyone work there? What is the environment like? What's it like to be a software engineer there?
But remember that accuracy of drawing bounding boxes around objects in still frames is only very slightly related to actual self-driving ability, even if intuition suggests otherwise.

This is basically just an ad for Scale and Scale's services, which include... drawing bounding boxes around objects in still frames.
The hn link is 5th result for me on google, but that link is the bottom of the second page on ddg (20th result I think?).

I think google is following you in your incognito mode!
Or node-red which is dirt simple to self host with the docker images.
While I agree in principle, most such platforms can avoid serious performance degradation with correct configuration. There's a lot of incentive for these things to come very aggressive out of the box -- after all, who wants to spend millions of dollars on software and then never even notice it? It's in the AV vendor's interest to make itself known and initially to overalarm. This also gives them some plausible deniability in the case that something does get through: they can just blame the guy who turned off $PerfObliteratingScan83 in the enterprise's profile. :)

Every enterprise deploying such software is expected to pare back the behavior to accommodate their specific risk profile, and in particular, to ensure that any high-performance tooling or internal software is exempted from most types of real-time protection. This is obviously much easier said than done in the real world, but it doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition.
So if the kernel loads a random value into CR3, will an NMI still do anything useful? (Or if the IDT is overwritten, or the NMI handler unmapped.)

I don't know if that's enough to make an NMI "unreliable", but the kernel being able to do nothing for NMIs to fail might be a bit strong.
Yeah, I've been there and done that. I'm sure that people justify it by assuming there will otherwise be cheating on the take-home.

In practice, I take jobs that don't require demonstrating anything technical in the interview.

But a take-home test would only add information, not take anything away. So there is no reason in principle someone couldn't use it to hire.
In other cases, they might be able to take over the Google Maps listing (Google Search will show the listing from maps btw) due to it not being previously claimed/suggesting an update and can change the phone number to one they control: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527328
Sequestration means literally filtering CO2 out of the air. Offsets are essentially just a contract that someone who would otherwise have created emissions, won't. For example, instead of deforesting an area I own and selling it for wood, I might sell an offset contract and keep it intact.
In case you want to give OCaml a try one day, I've done plenty of stuff like that in the past when I needed a (much) faster scappy. UDP exemple here:

https://github.com/rixed/robinet/blob/master/udp.ml
And I was just it with the update. Lights glowing all over my house.

My wife just freaked out and wanted to know why the lite was on, she says it makes her feel uncomfortable.

Result? I have started making designing my own cameras and will be replacing the nest ones with something I have more control over.

I feel like I should be able to get a refund on all these stupid devices now.
It's a rolling 90 days...
Chasing personal goals is more or less how I fucked up my life. I thought I was doing the right things, I trusted that someday I’d feel happy and fulfilled if I achieved them. And I did achieve many of them, but instead of feeling happy, I just kind of felt like an asshole. I tried way too hard, I faked it till I made it, and when I looked back, I saw I basically lived a fake life, and had no one I could connect with on a genuine level. I had no “journey”, my journey was all about faking my journey, reflecting on it was just thinking about how I was thinking of getting to my destination.
Interesting idea. I think people would turn on ad mode and then go to the other room or switch to a different window. I definitely did this when Hulu (I think) offers the option to watch one long commercial instead of several short ones spread throughout the program.
They could reappear in a country that gives no credence.
In this context offsets are paying to reduce new CO2 emissions while sequestration is getting rid of previously emitted CO2.
Ohh wow. That’s night and day. Thanks for the feedback. I’m on it.
Self replicating protein are possibly something of an in between stage. https://www.sciencealert.com/amyloid-protein-self-replicatio...

Paper linked at the bottom: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02742-3
Oracle Expands Global Cloud Data Center Footprint
True story: I inadvertently hacked the Smart TVs at my college once. They are typically always showing announcements, and they let student clubs post messages with the approval of Student Life.

Well, after a software update, nobody noticed that the permissions system for the TV was disabled. So I come along, a few weeks/months/? later and make an ad for Math Club, and it went live immediately. No Student Life approval.

Of course, this isn't a glamorous bug. Briefly thought, "Man, if I was a bad guy, I'd totally post some really _shocking_ material." I wasn't a bad guy though, told Student Life, and they fixed it.

EDIT: There is a shared account detailed in the Club manual on how to create a TV ad (for context).
That’s a cool video. However the variation looks to be only about 2% from highest to lowest.
There is zero reason to believe your personal network are better vetted than the New York Times and a lot of reason to suppose that they are probably a lot less accurate. The average person is a moron barely functional beyond the things they have been trained by rote to do. Even their professional betters are often very good at some tasks and worthless at others. Remember our erstwhile presidential candidate who simultaneously was a capable brain surgeon and honestly believed that the Pyramids were built by Joseph to store grain if you are tempted to believe anyone has a universal trustworthiness score rather than a degree of capability on a particular topic.

The average mainstream source is edited multiple times for clarity and correctness, passes through multiple sets of eyes, potentially seeks the opinion of subject matter experts, has the names of people involved which one could follow up with and statements from them. The average casual conversation or share on Facebook has none of these virtues and often a multitude of sins including but not limited to being mangled in transmission and having the ultimate and unknown trustworthiness score of the original primary source replaced with an emotional analysis of the person presently passing it on.

A story from a person whom you wouldn't trust to tell you the time is ultimately judged based on the high esteem you hold for the person who bandaged your knees and baked you cookies and then passed on to others based on their emotional esteem for you or even their legitimate analysis that you seem smart and successful.

Extrapolate and you will began to understand why a pretty sizable minority don't believe we landed on the moon, believe that vaccines cause autism, and or are out there looking for fucking Bigfoot.

The real reason people prefer their in group is that their in group consistently reinforces their preexisting beliefs which is comforting and safe. Unfortunately everyone's in group has a strong bias towards people whom are like self in terms of beliefs, geography, and wealth. In particular if your in group is successful in a wealthy country you are likely to be well insulated from misfortune and will probably receive the collective "everything is OK" social signal long after the society you are riding into the ground passes the point of no return.

If you would pull your head out of the sand and tune into something outside of your bubble you would note some signs of real trouble. I'm wondering as I write this if there were people out there actually watching the Iraqi misinformation minister who crowed about crushing the American military in the streets on Iraqi TV while in fact their nation toppled and their people died. I think you should have a look around.
hahaha, oh wow.

I have been completely incorrect on my interpretation of Amazon's Choice.

Historically when I searched for something, I've often find a product in the results with 80-90% of the features I'm looking for. That result was often listed as Amazon's Choice, so I built it up in my mind to mean "users of Amazon mostly get this one" I was fine with that because, like I said, it usually wouldn't fit the criteria exactly, but it was 80-90% of the way there so it made sense to me that it would be the choice of most people, but not all.
If anyone from Stripe is reading this, I do hope a significant amount of support goes to Project Vesta. I have not seen a better sequestration strategy, in that olivine weathering is both a long term CO2 sink, and -also- helps deacidify the oceans. I have no affiliation with Project Vesta, I'm just very excited by it.

My question for the Vesta folk is, what is the current status of the project? There is a timeline on your website but no indication of how close any of these stages are to being a reality. What are the blockers, who can help, when will you "start shipping", as it were?
Thanks for this, those do look very helpful.
I like it, especially the constant referal to checking models against results.

For me (and I suspect many others), this is the key to making a convincing argument about the state of climate change. It seems we have lots of headlines (and guesses) about exactly how bad things are, but nobody seems able to correctly forecast even a year or two out.

I think a short pattern of correct predictions would really, really deserve attention.
There’s no iPhone.
To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try Three
CUNY is looking for a Research Assistant - starting pay of $19/hr, and the only technical skills requested are that you know Stata and R. But you do need a Master's, preferably a PhD, and lots of knowledge of statistics. Basically what I imagine people are claiming equates to a six-figure data scientist for other employers.

Like a lot of ads, they mix ridiculously specific qualifications with ridiculously generic ones.

For example, one important skill is:
- "robust practices" such as "loops"!

and another is:
- "knowledge of City University of New York Institutional Research Data"
My eyes were getting wider until package 4 — then I realized the joke. I was trying to figure out what DB autocite scanned…
I will contrast with my anecdote.. I build a simulation of 10x10 cityblocks with a population of 30 pedestrians.. I made a reward function based on distance to a random "target point" with penalty for walking in the street vs sidewalk.. and penalty for walking into walls.. the inputs were a 360 degree raycast of 16 samples.. and "distance to target" and the outputs were awsd keyboard inputs. I left it running overnight and by morning, bots were pretty efficiently walking around the city to their random targets via sidewalks. It felt like magic. I could have coded the behavior directly but the learned version seemed somewhat noisier and more organic. This was done a couple years ago using the a JavaScript deepq learning library. It feels like a squishier version of a-star or something.
People pretend it's hard to create a carbon tax, but it's really not. Just tax the fuel (gas/oil/coal), and the cost will be passed on to polluters.

Edit, of course, politically yes it's hard.
I bet the reason Trump wants Greenland is for more claims to Arctic oil
40% chance of recession according to Dalio before 2020:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/16/bridgewater-ray-dalio-on-pos...
Pilot Turns Whistle-Blower After 737 Max Crash
Tether RPi to iPad Pro via Ethernet over USB-C
It's the "it" but 90% of it is sh-it.
A fluent interface plus reflection allows one to nearly auto-generate swagger documents. For an example, check out Swashbuckler for ASP.Net/ASP.Net Core. It's very easy to configure and extend, and you can easily write in-line documentation for JSON APIs.
This is awesome. Fun and easy to pick up. Swapped-a-doodle with my technologically inept mom without a cinch. I was surprised how quickly she responded :)
each make a $500,000 contribution to drug counseling programs in Clark County

Justice isn't a right. It's a product you buy. If you can't afford it, well...good luck in prison.

contribution of 0.0128 percent of their net worth

Clever strategy by both the original private lawyers, and now the public defender. The billionaire is co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, Henry Nicholas. He'll miss $500,000 like I'd miss $6.
Apparently around 2,500 people work at CERN.

https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/our-people

Some have written about it.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-work-at-CERN

Thanks, Google.
4. lower the human population

Not having kids is probably the biggest contribution one can do for the environment, specially on countries with very high emissions per capita such as the US.
Disney fights streaming account sharing with help from cable industry
>outside the US, it makes little sense to say that selling a secret is protected by free speech.

I’m British and I’m fairly sure disclosing a security bug is permitted in the UK.

Also, the court case in question was filed in the USA, so it’s reasonable to assume the law in question would be USA law, not, say, the law in Greece.
Most of the data structures in ANSI Lisp are mutable, as are variable bindings and global function bindings. Support for tail recursion is a quality-of-implementation issue. There is excellent support for procedural programming: the language constructs are strictly evaluated and many key language constructs evaluate a body of zero or more forms (called an "implicit progn"), all but the last of which have to have side-effects for that to make sense. There are constructs for iteration over a single instance of the loop variables, and control transfer features: a form of goto within a labeled block called a tagbody, as well as dynamic non-local control transfers that support the condition handling system. Functional programming is possible by confining to a very small language subset (sometimes called "Pure Lisp").
Like most other scrollers, the svelte one tries to only show the elements on screen plus a couple above and below to keep up the illusion. The Google article makes it very clear that top performance requires re-using DOM nodes.

In that very simplistic example, there are only 4 nodes to each list, so creating and destroying them doesn't matter. I have a scroller in a business app where each item has a few hundred DOM nodes. Create and destroy them constantly and you'll definitely notice on a desktop and performance will crawl on a mobile device.

Instead, you want to save those DOM nodes in a cache and re-use them. In order to do this though, you must know what parts are default and what parts have been modified by their previous user. A vdom does this automatically, but the cost for Svelte to calculate which of the hundreds of properties have changed is too big, so they just throw it away and make another.

An even better optimization would be where each list item has the same node structure and only text or images change. I believe Svelte can handle this case. Unfortunately a lot of lists are slightly irregular in real-world applications. I work with these kinds of lists a lot and a vdom keeps it smoother than all the other libraries we've looked at.
Good suggestion; thanks. Sent.
Looks like it shows up on their seeds page in some older snapshots: https://web.archive.org/web/20150810161359/http://a16z.com/s...
> Even if we invent nanobots or whatever so quickly, the FDA and its counterparts are not going to allow applying those technologies the very moment they are invented.

I've often wondered if countries (such as maybe China or India) where medical devices/pharmaceuticals/etc are more lightly regulated may some day end up pulling ahead of countries like the US with stricter regulations.

Of course, stricter regulations exist for a reason – to reduce incidence of death or injury from insufficiently tested treatments. But, there is always a risk-reward tradeoff–being willing to tolerate a greater incidence of death/injury due to new treatments may increase the progress of medical science–and some societies may collectively decide to locate that tradeoff at a different position than what the US (or even other Western countries) does.
Removing the font-weight:300 and color:#333333 rules both improved the readability for me. OS X, Chrome.
>we value your feedback at Amazon

And its exact value is $5!
This completely neglects the fact that humans can build near perfect 3D representations of the world with 2D images stitched together with the parallax neural nets in our brain. This blogpost briefly mentions it in one line as a throwaway and says you'd need extremely high resolution cameras?? Doesn't make sense at all. Two cameras of any resolution spaced a regular distance apart should be able to build a better parallax 3D model than any one camera alone.
I've been going with this style for things like reading files (with retries) or any sort of loop that feels awkward.

while (1) {
int ret = ...;
if (ret == ...) break;
if (ret == some_other_condition) break;
// additional termination conditions....
// do exactly one thing
}
> Bloggers "have to" disclose free products they get? Who enforces that?

In the US, it falls under the FTC.[1][2]

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...

[2]: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=e37d3cd088c6b4724a...