skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the hiring process is transparent, wouldn't job seekers just figure out how to game it? Unless the process is confidential, and only comes out in lawsuits, and isn't disclosed to the public, this would only serve to further obscure the candidates who can do the job as opposed to just get hired.
The Hidden History of American Anti-Car Protests
Are you talking about the Santa Susana Labs that was used by Rocketdyne for a period of time? Or is there another area with a similarly screwed up story?

I live in the area (about 5 miles south of the former lab) and didn't hear anything about it until I moved here. Since then I've read stories about how people living in Simi Valley used to be able to watch some of their rocket tests.

Those labs are also the site of one of the worst nuclear power incident in the US - but this was in the 50s. There are also reports of Rocketdyne shooting barrels of chemicals until they exploded into the 90s. Apparently they regularly and illegally disposed of contaminated materials by burning them in open air pits. That's a little insane.
Southpark, NBA, keep going and China will implode with boredom.
It is important to focus on Russell's key point here: There is no guarantee that super-human AI cannot be developed in the future and we should start working to mitigate potential risks from it now. He is not arguing that superintelligent AI is inevitable.

I also believe we are still at least quite a few major steps away from human-level AI and beyond. However, there is a non-negligible chance that those steps may not take longer than a few decades or within one's lifetime to implement.

Just in 2011, few AI researchers expected that, within a decade, computer vision systems would be this widely applied or NLP systems would beat many humans in several reading comprehension tasks (This only happened this year and look at how fast the progress is:
* RACE dataset http://www.qizhexie.com/data/RACE_leaderboard.html
* Glue benchmark https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard/
Note that these systems are not human-level in general language understanding despite being better than some humans in specific language tasks.)

Thus, we don't know what the future may bring and it looks likely to take a great deal of time to address AI safety issues comprehensively. We should not bet that we can simply ignore them now and only start to work them out later and that we will surely make it in time.

Risks-from-waiting vs costs-to-act-now are asymmetric.
Something similar happens to prevent long-term, widespread blackouts on summer days. These usually last hours.

But 7 days? That's tough to justify to the public.

I understand why they feel it's necessary, and maybe it is necessary. But there has to be a better way.
Analysis of US labor data suggests 'reskilling' workers for a 'feeling economy'
Okay, so I read the article, and it is standard left-wing playbook often copied by the likes of NYT, WaPo, Huffy Puffy, and Guardian. Get one Muslim to speak against, get one Kashmiri to speak against, and make a giant cast. Nothing new here from Guardian, and nothing unexpected.

A better understanding comes from polling a greater number of people, not cherry-picking the ones to suit your agenda. But none of the western media is interested in that, are they?
Sure they have differences but in this context it's very much the western democracy vs authoritarianism, where dissenting opinions are not only tolerated but they are actively protected by the state, usually via an independent judicial body - the most important thing every truly authoritarian country lacks.

China's not the first nation state to be at the butting end of this debate and they won't be the last.
question: if I have a project management software saas, and I want to integrate n8n to make automations (for example: when a task is marked as completed), is the license valid for this use?
I think the best demonstration of how fantastic Lego instructions are is to buy a set from one of their competitors. Nearly any of their competitors. I really drives home that is actually hard to get right.

And I do think IKEA are close to Lego in this.

It's everything from ensuring you illustrate dimensions of different parts in a predictable way; choices of angles, and accounting for the fact people are awful at mentally adjusting for movements in 3d, so if you don't make it easy to align the drawings with "reality" things instantly get harder. Getting shading right. Not making the steps jump too quickly.
In practice, most people can still enjoy a degree of separation unless they're in a relatively public role and/or haven't tried to separate their personal and professional personas on, e.g., Twitter.

That said, the walls between personal and professional can break down in a big hurry if some ill-considered (or just unconventional) remark/action/etc. goes viral. Companies will cut their connections with most individuals very quickly if that's the easiest and least embarrassing response to an online mob.
It's slightly shocking to read this and realize how many outright falsehoods these people were being told. It's almost wonderful that knowledge advanced when people were being taught stuff like this by authorities ancient and modern:

> Diodorus says, that near to the city Thebais in Egypt, when Nilus overflowing is past, the Sun heating the wet ground, the chaps of the earth send forth great store of Mice in many places, which astonishes men to see, that the fore-part of the mice should live and be moved, whereas their hinder parts are not yet shaped. Pliny says, that after the swaging of Nilus, there are found little Mice begun to be made of earth and water, their fore-parts living, and their hinder parts being nothing but earth.
Science Is Not About Getting More “Likes”
> some kind of idealistic hope that the Chinese would latch on to "western" values of democracy etc just by trading with us

Is that really so idealistic though? Like most folks I'm sure, I've worked with a ton of chinese nationals and expatriots over my career. And not one of them was ignorant of this nonsense. They all know it happens. They agree in principle that it's bad, they just tolerate it as part of the cost of growth. And that's not even arguably a bad trade given China's history over the past century.

As the PRC's growth slows and it reaches parity with the rest of the world, we'll start to see more tension in this space (arguably that's exactly what's happening in Hong Kong right now). And there's danger there, obviously.

But the problem isn't one of "ideals", "values" or "free speech". The values are already there.
This is probably unpopular but I can't help but feel the X addiction framing is reminiscent of drapetomania. No freaking shit that kids would prefer games to schoolwork and chores. I am sure many of us have fathers or grandfathers who would rather fish than work.

Narcistic bad psychology based upon what they want and expect from others as the standard of health instead of trying to understand motivations and incentives. That has been a reoccurring theme with later discredited bad psychology like treating homosexuality as a mental illness to be cured, or infamous uses of institutionalization of "troublesome" people. It betrays an ironically terrible theory of mind.

Now there certainly are uses as unhealthy coping mechanisms and executive dysfunction but addiction loses meaning when abused to apply to literally every source of pleasure.

The pathological cases would be better referred to as compulsive behavior instead of addiction - a subtle but very important distinction.
I'm honestly more of a engineer / research person. I started this because this was something I was really excited by!

It do advertise every now and then but nothing too exciting in terms of $$. I did make a bunch of ideas on growing this into a blog + community + youtube channel + job board (for engineering heavy dev jobs). But I realised that would take quite a bit of time on the business side of things, and right now I just want to enjoy coding and building stuff.
There rule specifies that offensive speech is something that is not allowed. I assumed that same rule will apply to all kinds of offensive speech, including the hong kong related comment. I, for one, dont want people to use platform likes those to spew say homophobic comments. If that means they have deal with all such comments which may be deemed offensive have to be banned, so be it.
> Autocrats like Putin and Xi are popular at home because their economies are growing and people's lives are improving, even though individual freedoms are slowly but surely eroding.

Neither Russia nor China have free elections. The Russian economy is shrinking fast and Putin's popularity is disingenuous. That may not be true for Xi. The Chinese are riding a humongous economic growth, they don't question their party much because they like the results and don't want to rock the boat.
Wim Crouwel Obituary
Normalizing Resume Text in the Age of Ninjas, Rockstars, and Wizards
Sounds like travel agents are becoming more and more cost effective every day. I mean, what does the Hyatt website do that a phone call 30 years ago couldn't?
This sounds awesome to me actually!

The biggest risk for me is lowering my full time hours, and that can limit my ability to try/find new opportunities.

Being able to work on the weekends would be awesome - it wouldn't interfere with my normal work and if be making some extra money.

For context - I'm a 20 year old programmer without a degree, I'm sure those with families would find it more challenging to fit the 10 hours in.
kdiff3 for merge conflicts is nice (I think)
That’s an amazingly useful thread. My 2 cents regarding the tech stack :

1. Don’t use a build system. Use scripting language that comes preinstalled on Debian / Ubuntu. Peel 5 is still my weapon of choice for robust small web apps. Look at python too.

2. Avoid JS / Ajax. I can bet that security restrictions will break it in the future, however good old form POST works still pretty good.

3. Use own hardware. Raspberry PI with HDD or some banana PI works quite allright. Also provisioning is easy by keeping a copy of your image.

4. Don’t use managed services. Use database on the very same machine that you host the app itself. Backup is an extra step you can achieve via those, but don’t use External service, since it will most probably break.
Tips for remotees: Don't Be Isolated
Musings on Slack
Not the world vs China, it has always been the West vs China, European leaders' "zero sum" mentality has made it an economic target for the better part of 2+ centuries.

Please don't include the majority of the world that is benefiting from a new benevolent economic actor on the block.
A couple of these are new to me, appreciate you sharing.
The symbols with which our minds reason about our circumstances are truly interesting. Makes sense that people are trying to "see behind the veil" and tease out what those symbols effect.
>. We need an international boycott on China until they shape up.

Right, so you want to economically cripple China over human rights abuses. Not only is this likely to end in war, millions would likely die from supply shortages.

>Demonstrating the error with the worldview can change people's minds and lead to internal regime change

The capitalist societies banding together to starve China out is unlikely to convert them to your side. It didn't the last time we tried.
The point of debate is not about self-censuring in order to get bankrolled, the point is about contesting using the law to actually coerce someone from creating what they want, which is what China does, and the potential influence of that mentality onto our culture (and the slippery slope to law).
Trump’s old lawyers love Comic Sans
Why international flights from India take off at insane hours
His latest thoughts are on corruption and the difference between the rule of law and patrimonialism. All this, well before the election of Donald Trump. Truly amazing and admirable how calibrated he came back after the massive fail that was the end of history.
The point is the opposite -- not every right is a privilege. Some are inalienable and their denial is a human rights violation rather than merely an instance of economic disparity.
From personal experience, it seems to me that "fun" results in good memories. You smile when looking back on "fun" memories.

When you look back on "addictive" behavior, you sense the passage of time and energy (and resources/money) and feel neutral (at best) about the behavior. The hard part is in the moment where you don't especially want to perform the addictive behavior, but it's too uncomfortable to do anything else.
They are buying Africa via development aid, that's quite different from bombing Africa. The Chinese will certainly leverage their power, but they tend to do it in more subtle ways, at least where their power isn't overwhelming. Their posturing in the South China Sea certainly looks different from their behavior in Africa or South America. But as I mentioned, I don't believe that it's because they care about human rights, the sovereignty of countries etc, it's that they can't get away with openly bombing random countries on the other side of the globe yet. The US -for the most part- can, so they don't care for subtlety and just do.
They've likely added accessibility since the lawsuit started. Maybe check archive.org?
The world vs China? The US, Canada, the EU, and Australia make up less than 20% of the worlds population. India, the many countries of Africa and South and Central America are places I've not heard from on this. And, there is a large population there.

Is it the world vs China or the parts of the world we typically listen to vs China?
I'm interested, but whatever DAM I eventually move to will in large part be driven by how well it can import my years of Lightroom library (including edits out of the xmp sidecar files and at least approximating Lightroom's RAW rendering). I know that's a big ask, don't suppose it's on your roadmap?
Evidence for what? I’m not clear what part you need citations for? Not OP, fwiw.
What a joke. Work overtime on top of my job for $25/hr and no benefits?

Fact is the companies that are the most open on HN about compensation pay the least (like Gitlab and Buffer).

My theory is that instead of paying more they simply cast a wide net via hiring. If the net's large enough you'll find enough people willing to be paid low rates.

You know who doesn't talk about salary? Companies that pay well and hire devs who know what they're worth.
i wish people would stop trotting out this cynical nonsense: it's the same tired argument that people use about why they don't vote (because "it doesn't matter").

it does matter. it might not matter very much, but it does matter. it changes the amount of money the company receives. that cannot be argued against.

more importantly, it also empowers others who may be open to the idea to do the same. it can spread the idea that "hey, yeah, i don't need to patronize this company". if enough people do this, change can be enacted. see loot boxes, or consuming less junk, or .....

if however this cynicism causes people to stay home on election day, or do nothing in their lives bc everything is inevitably status quo, or keep patronizing companies like this, then nothing will ever change.

so please keep this factual inaccuracy out of discussions like these: it's not productive and demonstrably false, and arguably harmful to contributing to "wokeness" generally.
Kindergarten and first grade might be rights, but if students don't graduate they learn that later levels are privileges?
Education is a right to all, not a particular person or group, hence not a privilege.
Just sold my blizzard stock. Not sure if that helps. not going to buy the WC3 remaster anymore.
Can you provide me with an example?
Mason Creek Rd, maybe?
Probably, but mostly because the beret would have been in violation of the uniform guidelines.
Copyright law is the antithesis of a free market. We participate in a fairly regulated market. I'm not advocating for a free market, but blaming this on the non-existent free market is just targeting the blame in the wrong direction.
Math is an invented tool. It controls nothing.
It's frustrating to see people say that we shouldn't fight Chinese economic imperialism, mercantilism, and protectionism because we should support free trade.

Free trade is a two way street. If a trading partner is engaging in unfair practices then it's reasonable to support sanctions and tariffs and other means to get them to stop, even if you're a free trade supporter.

In fact this is the whole premise of the WTO, which supports free trade. If you don't engage in free trade, you get slapped with tariffs.
This often happens, and it's why the committee distinguishes between splitting and sharing the prize. The first physics split by separate citations was 1903 Becquerel / Curie+Sklodowska-Curie, though their citation explicitly mentions how it's related to Becquerel's work.

But as early as 1961 Hofstadter and Mössbauer split the prize for two separate things that can be grouped together as "well... nuclear physics" in the same way as these prizes are "... SPACE!".

It's happened a lot in the past. Often the split allows them to cover two things that are only really related on a superficial level. Just going through the list:

1963: Wigner (symmetry) / Goeppert-Meyer + Jensen (nuclear shells)

1970: Alfvén (MHD) / Néel (anti/ferromagnetism in solid state)

1973: Esaki + Giaever (semi/superconductors) / Josephson (Josephson effect)

1978: Kapitsa (low T) / Penzias+Wilson (CMB)

1983: Chandrasekhar (stellar evolution) / Fowler (nuclear abundances)

1986: Ruska (electron microscope) / Binnig+Rohrer (scanning-tunneling microscope)

1989: Ramsey (masers) / Dehmelt+Paul (ion traps)

1994: Brokhouse (neutron spectroscopy) / Shull (neutron diffraction). This one is weird because they also get a joint citation for using neutrons to study materials.

2000: Alferov+Kroemer (heterostructures) / Kilby (integrated circuit)

2002: Davis Jr.+Koshiba (cosmic neutrinos) / Giacconi (cosmic x-rays)

2005: Glauber (coherent states) / Hall+Hänsch (laser spectroscopy)

2008: Kobayashi+Maskawa (CKM matrix) / Nambu (spontaneous symmetry breaking). I think most physicists I know agree that this one should really have been two prizes, one shared K+M+Cabibbo (C in CKM) and one shared Nambu+Goldstone.

2009: Kao (fiber optics) / Boyle+Smith (CCDs)

2018: Askin (optical tweezers) / Mourou+Strickland (chirped pulse amplification)
There is no such thing as an American company, if you're an American and you start a business and build it up then decide to retire and sell it off, it isn't guaranteed (and is actually rather unlikely) that all the production and business will stay in the US. People are American - not corporations.
How is dropping 32-bit support a "sales strategy" for Apple? They haven't sold a 32-bit Mac since 2006. If anything, Apple is helping drive sales of other companies' software, and hurting the adoption of their own $0 operating system. For anyone with 32-bit software that won't run on Catalina, there's nothing you can buy from Apple which will help one bit.
You don't need any non-standard input elements to make web site accessible. In fact the opposite is true: if you only use standard HTML elements, chances are your web-site is going to be fully accessible. It is when developers decide to use some fancy javascript instead of a standard button, or some other fancy form controls, with tons of javascript, this is when screenreaders tend to have problems trying to figure out what's going on.

For small businesses I imagine the biggest problem is that they only have only one engineer to support a web site, and he is not familiar with accessibility standards (justifyably so, because there are so few blind people out there), and he'd have to learn these standards and test the web site for accessibility problems - all these actions require time.
Vodafone to close 1k shops across Europe
It's not "stealing" regardless of whether the software is for sale. Whether it's illegal in Venezuela is a question of local Venezuelan law. If Venezuela is part of a treaty which requires them to enforce copyright laws then they can simply withdraw from that treaty; it's unlikely that they would be benefitting much from it at this point. Or, without withdrawing altogether, they might be able to get an international ruling that voiding U.S. copyright claims within their jurisdiction is a justified response to the U.S. trade sanctions—other countries have succeeded in that approach before. (I forget where but IIRC it had something to do with U.S. restrictions against online gambling, which is a lesser provocation than this general trade embargo.)
eh, don't be so quick. radical Islam forced them to censor

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/arts/television/23park.ht...
Ethereum-based game Gods Unchained has promised to pay his lost winnings and give him free entry to their own $500K tournament: https://twitter.com/GodsUnchained/status/1181487505180258304
As this yet another reason the U.S. needs to rely on China in terms of manufacturing And other things. The looney tune in office's stance isn't so dumb after all.
> The internet is an amoral force that reduces friction, not an inevitable force for good.

This is well said and something everyone in tech should remember. Unintended consequence is a law with teeth.
Well, one of the developments of the last six months has been to put a lot of pinpricks in the idea that China is an inevitably rising world superpower that will inevitably supplant the US in the near future. I wouldn't say that's off the table entirely, but it's looking a lot more evitable.
Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras
India has had its own problems with China. Not the same as the west’s for sure, but then again they have a direct border with each other and a large territory dispute.
Native Americans were the same way when they didn't want to latch on to Western ideals. It takes a lot to learn the right way to do things including forcefully taking land and slaughter.

What people don't understand is that Western democracy is the only and best way to run the world. I mean look at public transport infrastructure in the United States. Public transport in the United States is so fair and democratic that it's been over two decades and they still haven't been able to ring the Bart around the bay or build a high speed rail thanks to the government being fair and balanced.

I mean look at chinas lack of human rights. They throw a few people out their homes to build an entire high speed rail network across the entire country. More people may benefit from this but it is a serious violation of human rights to move a couple people to another place. Literally borderline evil. Lifting an entire population out of poverty isn't worth giving up a fair and balanced democracy where everyone can fairly debate about a policy for 20 years before anything gets done.

I'm not saying that the US is perfect. But china needs to take a good hard look at the US and realize that their way isn't the only way of doing things. I mean people in the United States aren't so biased as to insult china on every opportunity as an economic rival. People in the west are actually unbiased and have a fair and balanced outlook on the world just like the parent poster. Literally china is like a small child saying that it's the entire world against the United States. This is an immature way of solving a problem or working together.
some things are not quite as well-defined as that: "whose home land is this" is a common motif you can ask. ask that question towards North Americans, and you might have to say all your land originally belonged to the Native Americans; Canadians are in the process of reconciliation with the Indigenous groups, but speaking as an outsider, it doesn't seem like the reconciliation process can do much justice compared to what they suffered through.