skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my university, I think they used to use blackboard, but we have since migrated to a homegrown solution, partially built by students. Some professors also use Instructure. I think the consensus among the students is, however, the homegrown solution is better.
> often-repeated assertion here on HN that shipping doesn't contribute to air pollution

Could you provide a citation?
I think you are conflate not understanding context of how state needs to change vs we need to arbitrarily change state ad-hoc.

The diagram isn't missing anything. It only describes the flows that it contains. This how I build all systems. It works. Nothing you've mentioned demonstrates a failure in this style of system design. I would suggest maybe there is a gap in your understanding?
I'd even say aggregate the food costs by offering one big meal for the group (instead of individual meals like a restaurant). As long as you can select by dietary restrictions it would work for most people.
Most people I know would say that they don't "have friends". It's humorous, but I take that at face value. Because it's certainly my experience as well.
The world-ending alarmism she typifies is not the consensus view.
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Sounds like anecdotal issues with USB C and possibly a firmware issue on the iMac.

I haven't had a single issue listed here in any of my own systems or when working as desktop support.
Atleast they didn't block snapchat!
What a sad way of looking at the world. The only way to actually win is to step off the damn hedonic treadmill.
> prefer to buy software that they can fit to their workflow rather than change the workflows of their profitable business

True - and this is why the huge software spend rarely produces productivity benefits. Because the software-enabled workflow should be different from the pre-software workflow.

But every organisation has two parallel workflows: the one written in the manual and the one everybody actually performs. The more rigid the organisation, the more likely these are to diverge. In a paper-and-humans system, the humans can make up for the deficiencies in the "official" workflow. In the automated system, it's baked in.

Lots of big failed deployments replace a human-judgement system that was working "unofficially" with a machine-implemented one that doesn't work at all, because the process as written didn't work. And of course it's impossible to tell management that the process doesn't work in that kind of environment.

(Hence the huge advantage of Kaizen - make the official process match the one that actually works for humans)
“Troll Factory” turns disinformation campaigns into teaching game
Just one last 'big middle finger' to the California politicians (who still appear clueless).
Exactly.

Plus, at least in a city, we can buy from local places that used less packaging and shipping in total life analysis.
My first suspicion upon reading this was that some writer or editor observed that they weren't getting together with friends as much as they used to and spun a story with some plausible theories and anecdotes out of it.

The real answer may be as simple as they got a bit older, people they know got busy with partners, family, kids, etc. and tend not to be available on random nights and weekends.

I'm willing to believe that there are meta-trends which have caused shifts in how and how much people socialize in addition to this but I'd need to be convinced.
If implemented to spec, yes. If cheap and not, maybe not.
The times when this was decided are remote in terms of computing. We're probably talking about mid-eighties. Excel is an office tool, and probably most of its users work in offices where not a single word of English is spoken, ever. So I don't think it was "asked by the users" but rather what's expected from a basic office tool, to be localised in your language.
Vim is not a command-line program. It's a screen editor. The command-line equivalents are Perl, ex, and sed.

I agree that writing +100+200x17x25 is a terrible UI design for drawing. But you’ll notice that Vim doesn't use such an interaction design for text; and typing the 100 and 200 into the properties box of a Quartz Composer processing node doesn't make it any better. So it sounds like you're attacking a straw man, maybe unintentionally.
Regardless, the purpose and core features of Word and Excel have not changed in 20+ years. MS Word is a Word Processor. Its purpose is to input and format text. Excel is a spreadsheet. It's purpose is to be an interactive way to organize data in tables.

Mentioning them as an example of "Enterprise Software" without specifically clarifying the Enterprise-features you're talking about is a mistake at best and disingenuous at worst.
That's a good fallback option, though it's still difficult to control turnover and feel like you are aligned in terms of value using that approach. You'd want to find somebody that you trust and bring them on in that special capacity, rather than just putting an RFP on the street for a SETA advisor.

Agreed on the GS payscale and its ability to keep up with high-end private sector pay though I also think that the entire hiring process may be more of a barrier than the pay itself.

All that said, a non-supervisory GS-15 in the DC area (18% locality pay bump - more if you're SF or NY) is maxed out in the 170s which isn't shabby!!

When you combine that wage with generous retirement matching options, job security, good work/life balance, and excellent health insurance at well negotiated rates it ends up being a pretty attractive offer.

Furthermore, there are other government agencies and roles that have their own specialized payscale outside of the GS scale. This can include financial regulators (higher pay to avoid revolving door problems) as well as "cybersecurity" billets across different places.
Also related. "Turkey’s Erdogan threatens to release millions of refugees into Europe over criticism of Syria offensive" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-re... Emphasis mine.
Don't understand your linkage to tech stocks…

WeWork are a property company
Sneakernet mesh. RF can be triangulated and blocked.
> Even seasoned developers have to go onsite and spend 1-2 days doing interview.

No, they don't. Like most people that champion these types of nonsense "code challenge" interviews you present a false dichotomy of "you have to either torture someone in person for multiple days, or torture them with a bullshit made up test for hours!"

You can talk to them for a while over the phone (or video chat), split up over a few days, and get to know them just fine.
Hong Kong's IT Legislator Contests Tim Cook's Claims, Citing “China's Influence”
That's interesting. Have you ever woken up with the ability to explain monads?
It may be due to some of the media coverage for those companies led by women are "Wow! Billion dollar startup is led by a woman! Can you believe it!" so it's much easier to attack that point. It may not be their fault, but more the media looking for superheroines. There are already plenty of successful female business leaders. Look at IBM, PagerDuty, AMD. They probably don't get the coverage they deserve because they're not a supposed unicorn with some miracle elixir.
That has not been our experience.
Agreed. Make me whiteboard or live-code if you wanna make me look and feel like I've not actually had over a dozen years of productive experience designing systems and shipping code and fixing other people's broken crap, and you'd love to watch me stress out and forget how to write a damn loop so you can complain on HN about how I was clearly lying about my experience & abilities and that's why you have to make people live-code or whiteboard. Challenges are, at least, preferable to that, for sure.
New M5n and R5n EC2 Instances, with Up to 100 Gbps Networking
Turns out most of us enjoy any exchange in which we receive goods whose value far exceeds what we pay for them.

Same reason I love cheap ride share trips[1] and NYC ferry rides[2]. I'd probably really enjoy winning the mega millions jackpot with a $5 ticket too (though perhaps not? [3]).

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjew8/were-all-killing-u...

[2] https://ny.curbed.com/2019/3/28/18285731/nyc-ferry-swimming-...

[3] https://time.com/4176128/powerball-jackpot-lottery-winners/
Except much of the technology in SDI is scientifically feasible and much of it is either deployed today or in active development. The Patriot missiles that were used to shoot down Iraqi Scuds in the Gulf War were developed under SDI and are still in use for ballistic missile defense today. Even directed energy weapons are still in active development.
What's your failure rate? I haven't had a USB C cable break like that, not even the cheap ones.
This seems like data dredging to me. I would be surprised if this holds true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
Zalando Manages 140 Kubernetes Clusters
Enterprise software doesn't have to suck. I worked on databases for oil & gas and similar systems and even though the UI wasn't the best, it was an off the shelf solution that many customers could use their complex problems and regulatory needs. If ease of use is your only metric of quality then lots of Enterprise software sucks, but if you measure quality by how effectively it solves a problem for a customer, Enterprise software might not look so bad. Also blackboard might suck (as a student it didn't strike me as horrible), but there are good tools in the same industry like Piazza.
Megacorporations took control. Just as it happened with the telephone, once a big company has enough control, it starts to dictate the rules of the game, startups have to play by that rules, and everything becomes boring.

Now whenever someone announces an exciting product, you can be sure it connects to the cloud, requires a login, mines your information and will be obsolete in less than a year... alright, maybe we just become more cynical with age.
Good question! We usually recommend to submit a fully complete logical part, e.g. auth middleware, client, server. We recommend against submitting incomplete functionality in a PR because it is hard for our interview team to understand whether it's incomplete or complete and has defects.
The open secrets data includes independent contributions from Google employees. The engineers donating to Clinton in 2016 aren't engaging in corruption.
> But I was able to work around this by using a trick: creating two variants of the function, one marked with #[inline(always)] (for the hot call sites) and one marked with #[inline(never)] (for the cold call sites).

Can't PGO make inlining decisions like this? Otherwise, propeller/LTO might work well.

> But there’s a trade-off. Sometimes a simpler, smaller function is slower.

Without a doubt! Imagine the naive/simple/portable memcpy versus a target-aware one that capitalizes on wider or aligned loads and stores.
properly correcting for socioeconomic status in determining causal relationships in epidemiology is still a very hard problem.

What if, in this case, pollution has a delayed effect? How would their methodology deal with that (it wouldn't)?

Personally, I think what happened here is the author started with a prior belief: ""Several years ago, Fort Collins experienced a fairly severe wildfire season," Burkhardt said. "The smoke was so bad that after a few days, I started to get frustrated, and I wondered if frustration and aggression would show up in aggregate crime data.""

and then they conducted a study that supported their belief, possibly making methodological errors along the way , generating a scientific narrative to support their belief.
> Because of the new kill capabilities of US submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), the United States would be able to target huge portions of its nuclear force against non-hardened targets, the destruction of which would be crucial to a “successful” first strike. One such mission would likely involve the destruction of road-mobile ICBMs that had left their garrisons to hide in Russia’s vast forests in anticipation of attack. The garrisons and their support facilities would probably be destroyed quickly, and some of the dispersed road-mobile launchers would also be quickly destroyed as they were in the process of dispersing. To destroy or expose the remaining launchers, United States planners would have the nuclear forces needed to undertake truly scorched-earth tactics: Just 125 US Minuteman III warheads could set fire to some 8,000 square miles of forest area where the road-mobile missiles are most likely to be deployed. This would be the equivalent of a circular area with a diameter of 100 miles.

> Such an attack would be potentially aimed at destroying all road-mobile launchers either as they disperse or after they have taken up position some short distance from roads that give them access to forested areas.
non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/g1g6E
You’re not allowed to intentionally falsify the inventorship.
Sure it sounds plausible because it fits the world view of most here. The whole reason we have the scientific method and statistics is to remove personal bias that from the equation because if you don't you get nonscientific crap. The process only works if you use it every time. You can't just say "meh, good enough" because you find the results plausible. This study did not attempt to do a very extensive job controlling for other variables and likewise we can't just accept the conclusion at face value because we find it reasonable, more work needs to be done.
There are a lot of berry species which are blue in the same genus which are very often crossed with one another and marketed however a producer thinks they will sell.

"Wild blueberries" can mean as little as "came from a short bush instead of a tall one".
Yes, this much is true: in weak hiring cultures, which are very common, people get their friends (or people with dazzling resumes) hired without any real rigor. What's more, in that culture, it's straightforward to generate a dazzling resume: you "fail up", because it takes longer to get fired (or for it to become clear that it's time to get a new job) than it does to get enough time on the job to look good on a resume.
I think you forgot the scare-quotes around "earned".
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> Both Google & Apple are in the same boat in that respect.

I have to disagree here - Google explicitly monetizes their information on your activity on the Internet, Apple does not.
Definitely your first point.

As for the second point, I don't think there is a mystical quality to human intelligence. I guess its mystical in the sense that no one really understands consciousness just yet. But I think something else is going on other than the brain being a rote inefficient chemical cruncher. I find the whole AGI, singularity, and AI hysteria reductive
Well, in this particular case they actually made me an offer, which I accepted but then they rescinded because I stupidly lied about having a degree.

I can't speak to any other companies, but at least this one did pay me, like they said they would.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...

here's the relevant djikstra. To be the agent of an event requires agency. We have it, principal component analysis doesn't.

I'm firmly of the opinion that anthropomorphization of code is a category error and a bad idea.
The idea of Hong Kong, a city-state with Western freedom + democratic values, falling to authoritarian China is far scarier than Ecuador not changing because it shows that China is willing to put in the effort (and we already know they have the power) to strip other places of their human rights.

If Hong Kong falls, what's next? Likely Taiwan, Tibet, most of SEA...it's a disaster scenario that results in the de-normalization of Western values.

I'm from Albania. I totally understand that you may feel ignored by the world when your country too is fighting for Western values against evil authoritarians. Unfortunately, China is a bigger threat to the entire world than any shitty military dictator our countries can install.
Administrative agencies don’t get to waive statutory law.
The "seam" is one pixel from each row (or column) connected together either vertically(/horizontally) or diagonally. You're left with two halves that you just connect. for instance

1|2|x|4
1|x|3|4
1|x|3|4
x|2|3|4

becomes

1|2|4
1|3|4
1|3|4
2|3|4
The investment wouldn't be contested if it was fully funded immediately. But, if every year you need to decide what to do with newly collected revenue, what right do old generations have to lock new generations into paying for programs that they don't believe in?
>> "edit: before the downvote storm, have a look at"

I'm as down on capitalism as anyone, but one of HN's very good guidelines is that you should be more thoughtful and substantive as the topic gets more divisive. Dropping the word "capitalism" in response to someone asking what's wrong on a forum full of capitalists is never going to go well.

Put a little effort in.
Erlang is older, more suitable, more stable and less well known. Nobody mentioned that it is better because newer.
You could of course interpolate the pixels on either side of the seam, but I think most implementations of this technique just drop the seam pixels and leave the other ones untouched. You can think of seam carving more as an intelligent crop than a resize operation, with the difference from a regular crop being you're not just chopping off rectangles on either side of the image, but actually selecting a path of pixels to remove. Key is you're removing one pixel from every column or row (depending on whether you're carving in the horizontal or vertical direction) so you're not ending up with jagged edges of the picture, and the seam always goes side to side or top to bottom, never side to top or side to bottom. If by chance your energy function generates seams that look exactly like rectangles on either side of your picture, it'd be indistinguishable from a regular crop.
> Also, I don't appreciate your underhanded insult. This isn't the place for it.

Sorry you took that as an insult, it was not intended as such. It's a generic observation that on places like HN we've collectively lost our shit and started acting like we are aeronautical engineers. It's actually one of the big factors that has recently caused me to lose a lot of confidence in the HN crowd. Thought we were above it. Even in middle age it seems I'm still capable of wide-eyed naivete.
Product managers also need to stop living in idealized bubbles and actually understand their users and customers. What they want can at times can be dirty or ugly, and require PMs to challenge engineering stakeholders. There needs to be give and take there. Often PMs are getting crunched in the middle and don't have the wherewithal to deal with these situations.

Requirements also change over time and PMs can end up chasing a vision that doesn't exist. If PMs get out of their bubble and acknowledge this more they'd be trusted since there would be alignment on the long-term value for the customer and therefore sales. There are times that PMs need to show backbone when dealing with sales, or leadership, on features that might derail the product, but this doesn't have to be the default.
If each instance is only used by a small number of users, it might not easily be identified, since the exchange of the platforms wouldn't be visible to Turkey's censors.

I don't think this really helps as a means of suppressing information. Unless you block everything, the information will get out and once it's out of the region, you no longer have control. I believe it's mostly about soldiers carrying their cellphones around, posting on facebook when they are idle etc, and you don't want troop movements and staging grounds to be quite that public. "Hey guys, please no Facebook" doesn't work at a large scale, blocking those sites is much easier.
> it's our own failings to communicate that makes us invisible.

It's not a failing to be introverted and not desire attention/spotlight.

> If she made sure to inform what is she fixing, management would appreciate her more.

Most people usually get annoyed when you tell them what you're doing for them.
> But they do know how much their military is costing (in broad terms) and are happy to continue supporting that.

Many people explicitly hate this and want to see money diverted from that to stuff like education, etc.

Americans aren't one singular unit that agree on issues, especially things like foreign policy.
Quite love the space but it suffers from the too-little-too-much paradox. It costs too much for casual use (compared to like a starbucks) but costs reasonable amounts for hardcore use (compared to say, getting a larger apartment) and the gains in QOL are massive over working from home. It's a pretty great place to work..that likely costs more to run than they charge.
This is part of anti-China propaganda, and some people have already had a subconscious dislike of China.
>Each cluster lives in a completely new and isolated AWS account.

Google Cloud does this so well. I still dont understand why AWS cant create project level isolation. Conceptually it is IAM with some namespaces ... or even autogenerated IAM.

But the usability is incredible.
FYI the invite link is blocked by my work proxy servers. So maybe it's blocked other places too.
WeWork is the most expensive option in our city for managed offices, by a large margin. It's not cheap.
> Any application which deals

The problem here is putting the cart before the horse and expecting the software to implement policies for you. If you can't design a workflow to work and be compliant without new software, you probably do not know enough about your own workflow to purchase software that will actually improve it.
Here is a similar site that translates curl to Go:

https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go/
> Exercise, eating well, sleeping enough, socialising

These all seem incompatible given the work schedules many have
If you want to avoid this, just read the paper.

I don't understand why technical people waste their time complaining about this stuff. We all have the acumen to read, understand, and debate research.
Matt Levine had written about it before in his excellent Money Stuff column on Bloomberg:

> > [Thiam] was hosting a new year’s drinks party.

> > Among his 60 or so guests were many locals from the Zurich suburb of Herrliberg, along with a clutch of top Credit Suisse executives and his new neighbors -- Iqbal Khan, the bank’s wealth-management chief, and his wife.

> > Before long, it all went wrong. A remark by Khan to Thiam’s partner set off a bitter feud between the two alpha males. The guest had insulted the state of the garden, according to a person who was there. Later, Thiam tapped Khan on the shoulder and asked for a word. The two went downstairs and argued before later resurfacing.

> “A bitter feud between the two alpha males” over the state of Thiam’s garden, I love it, investment banking is the best. For a while, some people thought that this scandal might even take down Thiam, and I can’t imagine a better reason for losing the high-profile and lucrative top job at a global bank than “I had to defend the honor of my garden.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-09-23/mon...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-02/the-tr...