skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3/4 of academic positions are now non-tenured. When I left academia at the end of a 4-year post-doc in the late 90s, I more than tripled my salary in a day. These days, it would be more like ~10x. Without tenure, what possible reason does anyone have to stay in academia?

And for the first decade and a half it was great to make money, but also possess the grounding to build things collaboratively with academics. But then AI happened, and the market inefficiency that academia created for itself by making 3/4 of us make less than a high-school dropout with a trade skill caused tech to suck them all up like a sponge to feed the AI craze.

And these days, the same craptastic culture that drove me out of academia (pedigree, PhD (even though I have one but not from one of the 4 horsemen of AI or even one of the right schools so it's nearly worthless apparently), and the coveted "applied scientist" title which at least at AMZN means you get 15% higher comp to order both the scientists and engineers around because you convinced an L10 you were one whatever your actual qualifications are) are now status quo in tech. But I'm old now, and every day I am tempted to just throw in the towel and retire.

Commence those downvotes guys! None of what I just wrote could possibly be true in any way. Tech is clearly awesome and we just need to keep up the great work so we can hit that singularity sprint goal by 2030 or so to save Ray Kurzweil from squandering his hard-earned money on an Alexa-equipped toupee.
> Did your account do contract work on other "spammy" apps or similar?

This is a good question. I've seen the stories before where a person who had normal apps did contract work on scam apps in the same account, and then wonder why their account ends up in review.
I like how Sparkle mentions being “modern” and uses “supports [...] Xcode 5.0 through 7.0” as evidence. Xcode 7 was released in 2015; the current version of Xcode is 11. Looks like the website needs a little updating...

(To clarify, I’m just pointing out a humorous observation, not making a statement on Sparkle)
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I think that would be out of bounds for a friendly competition. Those types of PsyOps occur on some of the lower echelon forums (chan sites) daily. That would not be much challenge either, as many folk there are already struggling with issues.
how much does it cost to interview an engineer?
I'm just a developer, not a lawyer, maybe I was wrong, but I don’t know where.
The police have the authority to be the police. But you, who appointed you to be the judge of others? Or who appointed your country to be the judge of other countries?
To quell any confusion

> Lack of choice is ok, lack of vendor diversity is also ok.

Is how current US monopoly regulation works, this needs to change.
> Then, after they submitted their answer, we would provide them with a thorough and detailed code review (usually by the legendary @mikelehen).

> We treated this code review like a real production code review, and we did it whether or not we planned to move forward with the candidate.

First, thank you for actually investing time in giving feedback to candidates regardless of their performance. Second, did you tell candidates that they would get detailed feedback or a code review as part of the instructions or phone screen? If yes, I figure that this would greatly affect how willing people were to doing the assignment.

I've always hated the thought of take home assignments because I have never been given detailed feedback and only rarely been given any feedback. Requests for feedback are always ignored regardless of performance. I sense that part of why people have greatly soured on take home assignments is because of how lopsided the time investment has become.
> What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria? Can lab grown algae burgers feel love? How would we know?

When it comes to issues of consciousness, I'm loathe to make any strong claims, since I don't think that phenomenal consciousness is amenable to scientific inquiry due to its innately subjective nature. E.g., for all I know, it might feel like something to be a rock. Though I doubt it.

Likewise for plants, I would hypothesize that feeling things consciously requires complex information processing. E.g., such as is done in the brains of many animals.

Plants certainly process information to some degree, but the degree to which they do so would seem to pale compared to the amount of information processing performed by even the simplest animals that have brains.
Are you visiting this page https://blog.timac.org/2019/0926-state-of-swift-ios13/ ?

Which browser are you using? The site has been tested on a couple of platforms and different browsers. I can't reproduce such a redirecting problem.
So it’s praise?
For majority of the users delta sync doesn’t bring much benefits . See here https://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2017/03/myths-and-facts-ab...

Most of the modern files like office documents and pdfs are compressed. Delta Sync only will help in scenarios if you have bitmaps and vm disks.
By default, you can't side-load applications on any android phone I've used in the last 5 years. It's not hard to turn it off, but it's also not obvious how and a consumer would have to be taken step-by-step on how to do it, and so the default Google experience is the same as Apple, sans the critical difference of much much more stringent app review on iOS.
You rarely have to add @objc annotations or use NSObject directly. You only need it for target/action, KVO, etc.

I rarely see that annotation or class name in my codebases too.
Nope, of course not. You will get an admin password prompt.
Anything but programming. What I would not give to go back and do something else.
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Maybe (I don’t know what it was like on your farm) because the animals get psychotic from living such horrible lives.
Yeah, but then you get damp, and mold, been there, done that.
We can legislate his company out of businesses and replace them with someone accountable to citizens.
Back in 2013/14 I got into it with the approval team [0] but I was at least able to get responses and feedback. I am really surprised they outright ignore devs now, especially since they have significantly scaled up review team sizes [1].

I also don't see how this is related to apple "killing" indie devs; there are tons of notes apps in the store, this one is probably just breaking some guideline.

[0] https://chrissardegna.com/blog/posts/get-an-app-approved/

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/why-did-a...
Yes, 100% this. SIP is badly designed because it's a global hammer like root. As such, it prevents power users from doing quite legitimate things with their computers and so we have to turn it off. SIP should work like sudo, not like meta-root.
You should look up Duverger's Law, and understand why we have a two party system.
I'll second this. The trend of recording videos or podcasts instead of writing blogs and/or articles is both infuriating and concerning.

Videos, podcasts and audiobooks have attracted a much larger viewership than anybody anticipated. Reading and reading comprehension are on the wane. More and more, I see the label "post-literate" applied to Gen Z and it worries me.
You have to explicitly want to spend money on that type of door. Looking at random model houses in the US, i have yet to see anything that comes with that type of door. Most apartments dont generally have high security doors either (landlords dont care, its not their stuff that gets stolen). Most front doors where i live can be punctured by leaning on them in the wrong way, and may as well be cardboard.
Better if you'd stop submitting ArsTechnica stuff. All that site does is take other outlets' articles and run them as their own. I'm surprised nobody has sued already, especially since they have a subscription service asking for money for stuff that other people research and publish first.
Maybe because I graduated college / entered the workforce through the peak of the recession, but I've found that I tend not to compare my living standard with those I grew up in nor those that my parents grew up in.

Yes, I think we probably took several wrong turns along the way, but here is where we are, and I find that I am much more content with things if I just accept right now as my baseline. Compared to many (most?) of the people I associate with, I'm doing pretty darn well.
except the incompetencies of democracy don’t really have anything to do with the blatant faults of the Chinese government. The censorship, aggressive propaganda campaigns, re-education camps for ethnic and religious minorities, probable organ extraction from unwilling political prisoners, high levels of corruption at every level, deceitful business arrangements with government sponsored theft of IP, aggressive expansion into areas that don’t want Chinese interference, etc. the situations aren’t comparable. We don’t need to care what government ideology brought China to its current position. It is sufficient to say that a world where China has more geo political power is probably a worse one
It would certainly help encourage the military to promote and thus retain them. They struggle with retaining air force pilots and so they get promoted very fast. I've met some very young captains and majors. The same is true with their surgeons.
Or more specifically a very well funded organized movement made her their figurehead after she was “discovered”. Same way Disney discovers their talent
I never said it was uniform. Just that it looked the same all over the world. The same sorts of religions, the same kinds of political structures. It shouldn't be that weird to contemplate. All agrarian empires looked roughly the same. This is because humans have roughly the same capabilities, the math is really hard to overcome to produce something different. It takes the collective weight of thousands of years to specialize so that one civ can leapfrog another.

RE: good and evil, his specific point was that societies were organized around the broad principles of a grand fight of one set of deities imbued with good traits fighting against another set of deities working against the good ones. Zoroastrianism is notable not because it invented good and evil, but because it was the first stab towards monotheism.
It's a shame it was so expensive in the beginning. I was given a copy of OS/2 Extended Edition from a local IBM guy. I saved up enough money to buy a used C complier and spent a few years working on a project. I really enjoyed programming on OS/2.
I mean cool but I don't see this as doing anything more than just memorizing answers? at least a cas performs transformations. also the time limit metric is artificially necessary for being able to perform the comparison in a statistically significantly way in a reasonable amount of time - an apples to apples comparison would be letting both systems run until completion and then compare accuracy but that would take too long because it is the case that algorithms that fit those transformations are often have combinatoric runtimes.

good idea to use the cas to generate though. I'm always trying to think up tasks that operate on procedurally generated data (e.g. inverse graphics) because then the labeled data is cheap.
I have searched and been unable to find anything suggesting this is true. Do you have a citation?

Another reason I don't think this is true is that I also can't find anything suggesting that the content the Christchurch killer posted is illegal (indeed, it has significant newsworthiness and academic value), and 8chan's policy was to allow anything not "illegal in the United States of America" [1] . If it didn't violate 8chan's policies, why did they take down the stream?

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20190805065011/https://8ch.net/fa...
It's not just expected, it's the law!

28 days, though 8 of them can be the standard public holidays, leaving 20. It's pro rata for part time employees, and often given as cash to people on temporary contracts.
I’m not taking the flame bait. TFA is discussing the app economy for last mile delivery, a market which TFA admits was previously largely exploitative of illegal immigrant labor paid under the table and often abused in the process.

The is a prime example where the world has changed for the better through software. The job is now above board, tracked, and accounted in ways that make it better paying, more reliable and even safer work.

The competitiveness of the marketplace will only ensure these jobs become even better paying and safer over time.

Exceedingly low job switching costs is a massive contributor to the competitive forces which lead to these advances, which in fact serve to protect low skilled workers from otherwise abusive employers.

Every delivery app platform lives in absolute fear of all their contractors switching to the competition because they found a way to more efficiently schedule, queue, route, deliver, fulfill their customers and therefore can pay the couriers a higher rate or ensure them more profitable routes or a larger tip share.
Webhooks.. Great when you can get them
Pure Swift now.

It wasn't viable as v1, but now it's solid & clean.

Seems like it was a good opportunity to take a well understood language (C/C++/Obj-C) and after 30 years rebuild it ground-up into what it should be. Some constructs & workarounds just weren't going away without a clean-slate industry-wide fully-compatible restart.

Top problem now is getting developers to not force-unwrap optionals unless unless able to prove it won't cause a crash.
If you're going to list Fortran, COBOL, Prolog, Ada, Lisp, etc - I'm of the opinion that you need to list BASIC as well.

You list VB - but you don't say if this is VB.NET, or prior VB versions (3,4,5,6)? VB.NET isn't quite identical to the others...

...and VB is nothing like plain-old BASIC (and later dialects). In fact, you might lump them all under BASIC, as VB owes more to BASIC than being it's own thing (though VB.NET seems more a name than being BASIC - just my opinion, though, as a long time ago VB3-6 coder - I'd call it "BASIC-ish").

Other than that - this looks interesting. UI could use a bit more work, but seems like a good start.
Different in terms of the ethnicities involved, but not in terms of the distribution:

72.4% White, 16.3% Hispanic, 12.6% African American, 4.8% Asian
I wonder if the OP can comment on whether GoldMine ended up biasing their decision to hire in an unintended way. In hiring security researchers, we have been finding that a lengthy technical exercise is terrific to properly gauge applicant skills, but that the scores of the test could end up weighing heavily on the decision to hire or not, potentially at the expense of unrealized potential. In other words, the candidate may have technical strengths not captured. I am assuming the approach only works to the extent that the test is a model of the actual problems the company is trying to solve. And yet they are looking for generalists. Somehow the test seems insufficient.
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> Once the author is done digging through her vintage Wired magazines, she should find some copies of Mondo 2000.

http://www.mondo2000.com/
The idea is that you give the store operator a monopoly, with the downsides this implies(1), in exchange for security. If security is absent, there's no justification for accepting a monopoly.

(1) For example, the store keeping an absurd share of app revenues. About 30%, isn't it?
Limbic Resonance
The point is a definition of working class was offered that doesn't exclude this doctor even though most people would agree he isn't working class.
Encouraging people to enter the military to deal with mental issues doesn't seem like the best move.

Suicide rates among soldiers is already high enough.

If anything we should be encouraging people to leave the force and join back with the civilian population.
Including the implicit assumption that this was somehow a Chrome problem. It wasn't. It was a Keystone problem, and Keystone is a separate program that updates Chrome and Earth and other Google products. Still very much Google's fault, but Chrome didn't cause the issue.
MS SQL Express Edition is also free and arguably more advanced than the free competition, I don't know a single way PostgreSQL is better. That does not make PostgreSQL bad at all, especially when you go beyond the limit of free MS SQL (10 GB per database) then PostgreSQL is my first choice.
They were insolvent, at which point they are not allowed to trade. There's a specific offence of trading whilst insolvent.

The CAA brings all the UK customers home as near to on schedule as possible under ATOL rules. Not sure how other nations play it out.

There was talk after Monarch's collapse a couple of years ago of permitting an exception in the insolvency rules. Specifically to allow the use of the collapsed group's aircraft and pilots. No more was every heard of it. But it was Chris "failing" Grayling as Transport Secretary, so hardly surprising the initiative failed.
Also, it's the same arrogance that makes them push AMP so much. What AMP does is awesome just not how they do it. The wrapper, the URL hijacking, the janky scrolling, no reader view ...etc. It completely breaks my normal flow on my phone that I end up making DDG the primary search provider and Apple News (which is not good at all) as the news aggregator.
Amazon Suddenly Realizes Its Customers Care About Privacy
First discovered Wired on the shelves of our local college. Immediately fell in love, and begged my parents for a subscription. This was during the golden age the article is talking about. Man, those covers – and that paper – were beautiful.

Their online presence was equally inspiring; those intro gifs, the bold graphics. Web Monkey was a great resource for learning to code.

Hot Wired Style [1], by Jeffery Veen, was hugely influential. To this day, technological improvements aside, it's a great example of principled web design.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Hotwired-Style-Principles-Building-Sm...
Even when they can prove it, they shouldn't do it. It's not hard to conditionally unwrap optionals.
...and who will pay for that? A lot of people are upset when the government spends money to help solar panel industry, a proven technology that generates electricity right now.

I don't think these people will open their pockets to build an unproven space mirror to solve a problem they vehemently refuse to acknowledge in the first place.

* Also it won't do shit to solve ocean acidification, another serious aspect of Global Warming.
How does an employeee having hobbies and a family help with the survival of the company?
It seems that hiring people with a life outside of work could be in the active disinterest of squeezing the most work for the least pay out of the human resources that corporations feed on.
We Can't Confront Climate Change While Lavishly Funding the Pentagon
Great text. I identified with the theme. I have twins in the family. congratulations!
It's really ironic to read these articles about the Apple App Store hurting indie developers. It is one of the main reasons that job exists! Apple spent large amounts of capital and R&D to deploy a hardware platform used by BILLIONS of people all of the world! And you can tap into and leverage that platform for $99 a year and 30% of app sales! That's insane. Sometimes it's healthy to stop and look back and understand the change and privilege that we as software developers have received in the very recent past.
Yea, that's a good explanation on the "what" cause - but I think it's more an issue of political corruption leading the two parties to mutually that everything is best if there are just two parties.

FPTP single candidate voting districts are just broken.
Its real issue is not about the technology, its about its misuse and the fact that we don't have enforcement of the privacy we expect.

Tracking a citizens location, and face or collecting his personal data or profile information without express consent with option to OPT OUT should be unconstitutional unless there is a 1. a warrant 2. a right to jury trial and appeal.

Mass surveillance, unlawful indiscriminate data collection, and no way to appeal/defend ones-self is the problem, NOT the tech, which as stated could have many beneficial uses as tools, if used appropriately.
This sounds like a blatant "grass is greener" mirage. Guys drive trucks
because it's all they can do to support themselves, not for any other reason.
When I fall asleep at my terminal, I get fired. When I fall asleep at the
wheel, I die.
If people knew they were going to get a free code review by a notorious developer, they might submit without any intention of taking the job. Having someone who knows there stuff look over your code and give you detailed pointers on what's good and bad, is like finding water in a desert for most devs.
I don't use any Apple products for partially this reason. I really wonder why there hasn't yet been a class action lawsuit about this. Considering the market share of devices they control, they should not be giving an edge to the likes of Tencent and Facebook to do whatever they want while indie developers get screwed over.
I’ve though about being a tradie. Doing some home improvements has been fun and I can stay focused more easily than on screen work.

Also considering doing some freelance work which although still coding will involve some sales/contract negotiation type stuff and the chance to charge more (I’ll keep my job so it’s easy to say no to low ballers!)

You North American coders would say 150/h is meh for freelance work but if I could get that in my spare time it’d be pretty cool.
There's no singular state of humankind, any more than there is a specific "goal" to evolution. But I think Haidt is right about human nature when he calls us "groupish" (or, "part ape, part beehive").

I'm philosophically individualist, yet even that value system can't escape tribalism entirely: in practice, we'll happily form tribes that value individualism to complete against outsider tribes that don't, with no trace of contradiction or irony.

What we can strive for, and I think history has proven successful (or at least capable of being successful), is groups based on voluntary association and/or merit, and inter-group competition that is net-positive, or at least minimally destructive.
DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants
Right. But Chrome allows you to do that if the administrator has enabled it. To handle that securely, though, would likely require a specifically restricted daemon or setuid process that is well beyond most normal update use cases. And that might explain why they couldn't just use Sparkle.
You're right, intelligence, like anything else (eg height), is not exactly normally distributed: it has fatter tails than a normal distribution - so a shift in the mean would increase the density at a high threshold even more than you would calculate based on a normal.
> I'll be surprised if more people prefer video form of content.

Not so much video as audio. I work for a company that provides digital lending services for libraries. Guess what type of content is by far the most popular? Audiobooks. It's not even close. Most of the "videoification" of blog posts I see on youtube are basically just podcasts with somebody talking into a video camera instead of a microphone.
Whenever I read an Octopus article I come back to the conviction that if it weren’t for the early death thing, these are the creatures that would be failing to fight the climate crisis, and we would be — if not the creatures on the plate in the tapas joint, at least some scared and scurrying thing in the underbrush.
They aren't really an airline, that's just part of the business.

Foreign airlines aren't generally allowed to operate intra-EU flights (something Brexit is disrupting, many British planes have been registered elsewhere in the last year or two).