skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question is whether someone could fake it and not be caught/fired. (So yes, I meant: "Or work in some random domain?")

From the second half of your comment it seems that the answer is yes?

Maybe a comparison would help: someone pretending to be an experienced iOS/Android developer without any qualifications or ability would quickly be caught. Since they couldn't produce any working app or use a compiler, and anyone can judge an app for themselves. You can't really just make it up out of whole cloth, people judge the results. You would have to start actually doing that, and if you couldn't or didn't want to, then unless you outsourced your own job or something the jig would be up pretty much instantly. (Unless you caught up.)

So, how about machine learning? Do you think a fraud could land and keep such a job, without any knowledge, qualifications, ability, or even interest in getting up to speed? Just, a pure, simple fraud.

What's your guess?
Learning how to reliably control the damn thing on descent is certainly their greatest hurdle. Refueling in orbit being the second biggest. I expect things to go boom at least a few times before they learn to land properly. Saying people Wil go to orbit within a year is most likely not to happen.
I would say the second one should be illegal.

There is plenty of ways to lawfully discriminate in this country. You can even still have discriminatory policies in employment if you can show it directly relates to the job.
Awareness is one important part of self-improvement, but taking the initiative and doing something about it is another thing.
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"I've been given advantage for decades/centuries. We're giving an advantage to the disadvantaged so they have a chance to catch up for years/months. I'm being discriminated against!". Got it.
I don't think it does you any good to be honest here. The conclusion most employers would come to is that you're not cut out for CS work.
Now that is interesting.

I have zero artistic talent and the only art I know is what I learned from an art appreciation class in highschool and and art history class in college. With that being said, those paintings look pretty similar to the kind of stuff I see in museums or in people's homes. I was expecting to see crude stick figures based off of the descriptions.
Forbes has a reasonably clear article on the subject, although they do themselves no credit by inserting gratuitous Twitter snark about their competitor into their article presentation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/09/29/whatsapp-...
A decade of corporate brainwashing has convinced people that only criminals want to control the device they own.
“Field Of Dreams”
I found that removing any community of more than 100K subscribers from my reddit experience made it much more tolerable.

In the old design you could go to /r/subredditname/comments and see an ordered list of comments regardless of which post they were associated with. It really livened things up and let you track the conversations going on given that there wern't that many new posts in a given day. That's gone with the new design unfortunately.
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The proper way of doing things should be that an app controls access to jailbreak features. By default nothing gets them and you can whitelist the ones which need it. I'm not sure if anything like this exists for ios but it should.
Reporting is not and should not be "innocent until proven guilty". You don't need evidence of bullshit to mistrust a media article, you need lack of validation. If a scientist suddenly discovers a new means of creating fusion, but refuses to release any data about it, no one is going to believe him/her, and no one will fund them either. If they aren't reporting based on facts, they should be reporting at all.
I have started walking down this path and I’m finding the same thing. Your comment was validating.
> “First of all–'introversion' is, scientifically speaking, not as clear-cut as what most people think it is”

Why do you believe this matters to the discussion? Some may say the same about gender identity, which is only just being understood, yet that lack of scientific understanding has not prevented it from being a protected class.

> “Are you saying that introverts suffer as much damage from loud workplaces as racial minorities do from being denied employment?”

It’s juvenile that you seem to think that a certain class has to “suffer as much as” some other class before the characteristic defining that class might be seriously considered for protected status. It reminds me of the inanity in Berlin local politics about which of various holocaust victim groups get the best real estate for memorials. Nobody is talking about totalling up exact amounts of suffering of this group or that. But it is quite telling to me that you’d rather be dismissive of possible suffering of a large cohort like introverts than to engage with the point.

> “You are free to read up on the history of why the protected classes exist in employment law if interested. The relevant laws and judgments“

You didn’t read my comment above, where I specifically mentioned I’m not interested in the legal process that led to this, rather the entirely separate sociological and philosophical parts that people seem to use to justify protection of one type of characteristic but not others.

> “I'm really struggling to understand the logic here.”

Yes, this much is clear.
Sorry to break it to you but Reddit has this already
That wouldn't have fixed the complexity.
Fat chance, there’s hundreds of papers and tens of thousands of attendees at NeurIPS every year. Less than 5% of these people will make 7 figures yearly.
You can have an employment policy that favors CS grads when hiring programmers because, while the policy is effectively discriminatory, you can show that it directly relates to the job being hired for.
Notarization takes minutes and is presumably automated, so why wouldn’t chrome do it?

You’re doing a great disservice to the engineers at google if you think the actual release work is so short that a few minutes for notarization is a problem.
No, huge majority of those patterns are going to transfer over to the 10x10 board.
Alternative explanation: Putin has zero plans to move a finger towards the commitments. The accord is after all - an accord - utterly unenforceable. The political equivalent of "I promise to guarantee to at least think about possibly trying to begin considering doing something about this issue".

For the Western media this is great anti-Trump ammo: "Even Russia is signing the accord, impeach! Riot!". To the Pro-Putin media this is great: "Putin's leadership in tackling this global catastrophe". Domestically, he can point at this every time a Russian is affected by the environment.
I came to Go when modules had been released and found it much easier to understand than GOPATH style workflows. I guess to each their own. I agree, go build, and go distribution is so awesome.
You need physical access AND the device pin. None of these hacks allow you to decrypt the device without the pin. The best you can do is load malware that would grab the pin when the user types it in so the defense for this is if the government ever takes your phone for inspection make sure to reboot it before typing in a pin.
Is the weak argument that computation is not guaranteed to increase in the future, or that it won't increase fast enough for AI researchers?

Most of the article is describing past scenarios, only the last 3 paragraphs make the argument that the past is a good representation of the present
Or we could outright ban advertising everywhere, for any reason, full stop.
Anything more than 3 tweets in a thread is painful to read.
It's really pretty and responsive. Great work!
It's a different lifestyle. You're just not in your house a whole lot in the Bay Area. My weekend involved a trip to a science museum & zoo; picnic lunch by the Bay; friend's kid's 2nd birthday party at a park; gymnastics class for my toddler; mom's group at the park; meeting up with mother-in-law; and a carnival. During the weekdays you're usually behind a computer screen most of the time, or you go for a hike, bike home, or take part in an organized activity (I took Krav Maga lessons after work from the former head of the IDF's counterterrorism training for a couple years). It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend a lot of money for a house or a lot of time to fix it up nicely when it's basically just a place to sleep. (Sometimes I wonder if folks who buy these $2M homes are just folks who have bought into the conventional idea of the American dream and absolutely must own a home.)

And then on the flip side, most of those folks own financial assets elsewhere - either they get stock options in their employer, or they sell those stock options and diversify among other stocks, or they buy 5 homes in the Midwest and rent them out as an absentee landlord.

The system is driven by the massive amount of money flowing into the region from all over the globe as software eats the world - this fills local municipalities with tax dollars that they can use to provide public goods, and it inflates the stock compensation that companies pay their employees, which gives them money to afford the exorbitant rents while still saving up a million or so. It's ultimately unsustainable - bad things are going to happen to Silicon Valley once software is not the engine of growth throughout the world - but that's probably a few decades off, and in the meantime people who partake in the system can afford to buy up whole city blocks in Detroit.
At least some of those examples are highly misleading:

> There is no better example of Erlang’s reliability than the English National Health Service (NHS). [...] Using Riak (written in Erlang), the NHS has managed 99.999% availability for over five years.

From what I could find out, NHS's Spine2 is mostly Python, with "a bit" of Erlang and Javascript. They do use Riak, but they also use Redis, RabbitMQ, Python/Tornado, Ubuntu and lots of other components.

This sentence could have said "Using redis (written in C)", or "Using Tornado (written in Python)", and still be fully correct.
Rather than Avoid Learning Anything New, I'd say avoid implementing anything new. Options always come in handy, you don't need to implement every new tech you learn about, but knowing it exists can make the difference between an impossible feature and a possible one
Putin cares about whatever he can fuel to create strife in the rest of the world, giving him more wiggle room in his own activities.
It seems this would easily extend to many more types of job recruitment targeting then too, no? Or at least targeting job ads seems like it would be done for the exact same reasons as favoring CS grads in recruitment, until clearly proven otherwise?
18 USC §597 says:

> Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

While it would be legal to switch your residence to a different state to vote tactically, it is definitely against the law to pay someone to do that (and to be paid to do that, too).
>It doesn't matter how much care was taken in making the initial judgement if the information using it to reach it is flawed, or if the situation changes in the time between the decision being made and it's execution.

Of course, thats the leader job to make sure that the information is not flawed and take into account the time decision being made and it's execution.

>I'd imagine that someone with no qualms about taking human life would be far less likely to confirm the validity and accuracy of those justifications

Sure but the solider, during actual combat situation, can't always second guess and debate your commander. There might be simply no time.

The solider utmost job is to execute the action that the leader has ordered.

Thats why you have chain of command, separation of concerns.

If every soldier or drone operator has to do the job of making strategic decision and operating drone at the same time, I think that would be too much cognitive load.
Ok, but if the game is only a few years old why didn’t it compile for 64bit?

I recognize MS insisted on screwing the market by selling 32 vs 64 bit as separate versions of Windows for many years, but even then surely most windows machines have been running 64 by default for a decade?

But seriously: if you make a new piece of software in the last 15 years that only works in 32bit, then you made a choice to target an obsolete platform with worse performance (again, game developers complaining about perf while only building 32bit so throwing away 10-20% perf for no reason strikes me as hollow)
A poor programmer wouldn't be on HN and the point about never learning anything new reinforces that. Most of the article reads like satire.
To add to the confusion, OpenGL uses the term 'fragment' for what you're calling subpixels.
Do you have something I can read on that "may"? I don't disagree that the throttles weren't moved, but the part about it maybe having saved them is new information.
> I wonder if there's any future to running both an AC and a DC bus through the house

I used to have a house built around 1950 which had combination 117/220AC and 25VDC wired throughout the house. The electrical box was sectioned and the 25V had a large transformer. The house had low voltage DC ceiling fixtures that were tricky to source, and everything in the house that was switch controlled was on relays that allowed multi-point control, smart timers, and various other functions. It was a chore to get replacement parts but fortunately the attic had gangways and such so replacing blown relays was not horrific once you had the replacement parts. It was perfect for upgrading to smart control which I did for about half the house before selling it. Here's the thing. Tons of houses back then were wired this way. It was the wiring of the future and they explicitly realized in the 50s that someday they would be able to have computers in the home, perhaps as small as a single room, control everything. So instead of an electrical closet there was an electrical room with enough space for a refrigerator sized computer should such a thing ever come to market. 1950s.
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SpaceX has a good design philosophy. They use cheap, reliable, and sturdy components, take the hit on payload fraction, and just make really big rockets to make sure _total_ payload is adequate. I'm reminded of the old quip apocryphally attributed to Stalin: "quantity has a quality all its own"
Sometimes it might not be possible to easily determine which is the longest piece. For inctance if the pieces are on opposite sides ov the bundle, and are very close in height.

Also, if you have lots of tiny pieces, and some longer pieces, the bundle won't form a nice column. You'd have to have a minimum length to help form the bundle, then add your number to that minimum length.

It seems so strange to me that there are so many algorithms that our brains use, that we don't fully understand yet. I self reflect all the time about my own decision making, and the way I see, hear, think, and remember. We all do these things, but what are the underlying algorithms? What data is being stored, how is it represented, and how is it being compared, manipulated, and updated?
And if you have an algorithm, that algorithm can be dragged into court itself. The prosecutor can show what happens when inputs are fed into it that are identical except for specific information (age, race, sex).
While I stand by your desire for more nuance in the discussion, I'd be wary of assuming one theorization of happiness, and it's attendant conceptual divisions, is the only theory of happiness. While the hedonistic and eudaemonic conceptions come down to us from tradition for good reason, it seems somewhat presumptuous to call these categorizations the "proper names" for the kinds of happiness.

Since it's a humanistic concept, there are many ways to break it down and define it--some competing theories might not even agree with the hedonistic/eudaemonic split (some might find the division too simple, others unnecessary).

There's a lot of different ways one can approach it. For instance, the discussion gets even more interesting when we consider, on the hedonistic side, the world of Sadism--as concepts that seems diametrically opposed (pleasure/pain) intermingle quite interestingly. I would not be surprised if a similar phenomena occurs on the level of hedonism/eudaemonia--the pursuit of one may also mix with some of the incentives and pleasures of the pursuit of the other.
Actually, the chart shows load bearing capacity relative to the 1980s capacity (which they've assigned a value of 100). It is not a percentage, but a ratio. Values >100 just indicate that the load bearing capacity has increased since the 1980s, which is possible.
Are you a lawyer?

I'm not. But I don't believe you are right - advertising in a magazine doesn't exclude people just because their demographic doesn't target them.

If you ran a job ad for a make-up person in women's magazine there is nothing stopping a man who is also interested in make up seeing it and applying.

That is different to the Facebook system, where there was no way for someone from the excluded classes to see the ad.
I loved the original article in Sci-Am. I believe there were at least two articles on these "analog gadgets".

Found one: http://www.softouch.on.ca/kb/data/Scan-130202-0003.pdf

Also: http://dataphys.org/list/dewdneys-analog-gadgets/
The Twin Primes Conjecture Gets Solved for Finite Fields
To do that, you'd need to disassemble the phone to insert your implant. That might be hard to do in the field (ie. not in a repair shop/lab setting with plenty of tools lying around). Not to mention the difficulties of designing and manufacturing an implant. How are you going to get it to fit? I don't think there's a lot of empty space inside a phone. How many variants would you need to design and carry around? I'd imagine that the iPhone SE would need a different implant than the iPhone XS, for example.

A bootrom attack allows you to replace all of that with plugging in your victim's device into your "hackbox" for 10 seconds. Vastly simpler to execute for your typical goon/henchmen and way less likely to get detected.
Nope, that's not actually a rule.

Sometimes reporters can work that transparently, but they can also report stories based on private information, and your only choice is whether to trust that they're telling the truth.

For example, a newspaper will sometimes report things based on anonymous sources. You don't get to know who the sources are. You just have to trust that the newspaper isn't making things up and properly vetted their sources.

Of course, that doesn't mean you immediately start trusting any random reporter or newspaper, but trust is based on track record and reputation, not being transparent about sources in every story.
The paper trail won't matter if your "accidentally" discriminatory policies are not directly related to the position you are hiring for. It is the effect of the employment policies that matter under US law.

> The laws enforced by EEOC prohibit an employer or other covered entity from using neutral employment policies and practices that have a disproportionately negative effect on applicants or employees of a particular race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), or national origin, or on an individual with a disability or class of individuals with disabilities, if the polices or practices at issue are not job-related and necessary to the operation of the business. [0]

[0] https://www.eeoc.gov//laws/practices/
What's the point now that we have Android?
What this author forgets is that many young people today are not procreating because having children is increasingly becoming a luxury of the upper middle class. Why should childless individuals care all that much about how issues like global warming and growing economic inequality will affect future generations when they're desperately just trying to hold onto their current jobs in order to service increasingly unjustifiable levels of debt (home, medical, educational,...)?
I occasionally wonder why Mac/ia32 existed as well.

My conclusion has been that when Mac’s first switched to intel there was a combo problem - intel’s mobile chips were still mostly 32bit (remember intel dropped the ball on 64bit), and more importantly while ppc mac’s were capable of 64bit (the G5 cheese grater) the majority of the desktop was iffy, coupled with things like flash, etc that were 32bit.
This is quite a good interview, if you liked the "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Ordinarily interviews with authors disappoint me - the authors mostly don't know any more about the story than we do, but Pullman appears to be the exception.
I know many a poor programmer. The consistent thread between them is that they don't appreciate the fact that they don't know everything. You may be very well versed in a tech stack, but there are undoubtedly architectural implementations or design choices or algoritms which you simply don't know or haven't considered. A good programmer recognizes the situations where they cannot come up with the best solution and makes the necessary safety changes so that when the best solution does reveal itself, it's easy to swap out the old solution.

Another trait is the belief that they either never need to touch their code after they write it, or worse, only they will ever touch their code. It fires me up to see code that was written with the complete intention of never coming back to it again, despite the fact that it has to be maintained to keep the business running - reports have to use the data it generates, other applications have to use it's services because we can't afford to keep re-implementing everything. I also really hate seeing code that seems like the dev locked themselves up in their basement for a decade to write it. All sorts of custom switches, hardcoded configuration values, experimental tech embedded so deep the only graceful way to relieve that debt is to nuke it.