skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not only do we only have one known example of sapience in the universe, but only one example of sapience on a planet with over a million species of animals.

What's even crazier to think about is the sequence of events that happened before humans appeared on Earth. Perhaps humans wouldn't have appeared if dinosaurs hadn't gone 'extinct' the way they did. It was also not guaranteed that our species would survive as long as we did - we have some evidence that we've come close to extinction before. Furthermore, it took a very long time for civilization to appear and even with civilization around, we weren't really advancing significantly before the industrial revolution. Yet what was vital for the industrial revolution? A cheap, plentiful, and easy to use source of energy - fossil fuels. The reason we have so much fossil fuel is because nothing could break down dead trees for millions of years, so they were buried instead. That eventually formed into various fossil fuels.

The sequence of events that led humanity to the point where we could start exploring our solar system is crazy. Take plentiful fossil fuels out of the mix and modern society wouldn't exist.

We're not looking for just intelligent life. We're looking for intelligent life that has got to at least a similar level of development as us. I don't think that's something guaranteed at all for intelligent life. Perhaps there are dozens, thousands, millions of planets, where intelligent life evolved, for every planet like ours, where intelligent life got to the point we did.
To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews
You probably aren't running headfirst into a warzone
Plex is just an application. My start, back when it was still Mac-only, was to run it on my Macbook Pro. When the drive got full, I deleted content that I'd already watched.

For a decade now, Plex runs on any Windows / Mac / Linux device. It'll run on a Raspberry Pi. NVIDIA Shield. Western Digital's My Cloud NAS products (from $139 w/ 2TB). QNAP. Synology.

The main obstacle for "average" people is just knowing that Plex exists.
3 things broke. First it was a dead pixel on the screen, second was a reproducible kernel panic (using any video chat application would panic the kernel.). The last and hopefully final issue was the keyboard issue (double keys, and weird issues with the key not pressing sometimes).

Each time I’ve had an issue, Apple has honored the terms of their warranty. However, I value my time and frankly don’t like going to the Apple Store every 3 months and doing the run around.
Fantasque sans mono is my current font, as I've been using it for over a year, as it was the only font that I really like.
It is slightly too fancy sometimes, and I go the one that renders "k" without the loop.
Rank and file engineers give interviews and participate in debriefs. If the interview process were subverted for H1B candidates, you can bet they would be screaming about it.
It depends.

Code reviewers glazing over copy-pasted boilerplate blocks can more easily lose track of the whole, and miss an error which is obvious when the whole is expressed in 10 lines.

There is some optimal range of expressive density for comfortable use by humans. APL or K likely above that level, and Go feels below it, not as low as COBOL, but still.
Well what prevents the government putting resources into improving milk production? That just seems to be the logical next step.

It seems the same activity (more milk production) would happen regardless, but instead of placing the rate of milk production in the hands of the current milk suppliers, it would be democratically controlled by the people buying the milk.
Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?
Ask HN: Uber Eats vs. Grubhub vs. Doordash. Which Is Best?
I don't know how smooth it is, since I haven't tried it myself yet, but apparently Nextcloud talk can do it. I think it needs a browser extension but that might not be nearly as much of an imposition as vnc + ssh. It's also pretty easy to self host on a vps or other server of your own.
This is military grade bullshit.
You're right on the second point - we were all always taught that precum can contain sperm. It can...if the guy hasn't urinated after ejaculating the last time he did it. Not all that long ago someone had the bright idea to actually test it and found no sperm otherwise.

It's certainly not a foolproof method but the success rates are up there with condoms, when both are used properly.
Except it isn't the same at all.

Seeing a story that outrages me probably rubs you up the wrong way as you think it is a silly, manipulative and idiotic story and this lowers your estimation of the mass media source - eg tv news or New York Times. On facebrick they hide it from you. On the tv news we all see the same thing. There's blowback for lies. There's blowback for naked manipulation.

That pressure release valve of pissing everybody else of when the media manipuates you, or a particular section of society found with clustering analysis and other statistical techniques is absent when we don't all see the same thing. Facebook wouldn't even bother showing you the lies that others find convincing because they don't know something you do. TV news can't segragate us like that. The new york times can't segregate us. Both have to stand by what they publish and broadcast. Facebook? "Not us, we didn't say it, we just monetised the lies - no we're not even telling you what lies they were, you don't even get to know what vile propaganda is out there!" That's the facebook position.

They can troll you that X is going to happen, me that X is not going to happen and Jill that everybody is talking about an irrelevant X all at the same time without blowback claiming they have nothing to do with it while getting paid for it in full.

Facebook is a vile company.

Facebook as a service also sucks. Hard.

Delete your account, it's amazing how much better you'll feel about it. You won't miss out on anything worthwhile either. Send an email to 2 or 3 of your contacts a month just chatting. Ring someone among your friends occasionally to ask how they're going - you'll get all the gossip that matters to you. Just do it.
seems to be out of your "capability" considering it's generally a small and easy problem to script away. and rebuilding your kernel? seriously? are you building an LFS system???
I'm curious what you see as the tooling benefits of go?
Do it if you want but in all my years I've never seen a company sunk by a missed deadline. At best it's a minor set back. At worst checks get delayed or contracts terminated. Maybe that's enough to sink your tiny startup when you're first starting out. For most companies that have made it past their first year it's not the end of the world.

Empirical studies on the causes of errors, delays, etc in software projects of different stripes and knowledge work in general suggest that stress and sleep are the most important factors [0]. In video games deadlines are paramount and yet, ironically, crunch as the systemic form of over-work has become known correlates strongly with review scores and sales: the more a team is forced into meeting these arbitrary deadlines the lower the review scores and overall sales of the game [1]. I don't think this is unique to the games industry. I've seen enterprise development shops put in crunch time to meet customer driven deadlines agreed to by the sales teams with similar results: developers burn out and leave the company, tech debt runs rampant, and customers get frustrated.

The article doesn't touch on the different kinds of projects one may be asked to give estimates for.

A speculative project shouldn't be estimated. This is where the team doesn't have the skills required or has never shipped any software with a similar scope or feature set. There are so many unknowns between where you are and the end goal that an estimate is only a dangerous guess. The only way you can make an accurate estimate is to begin work and get close to the goal. Some where between starting and finishing you will have enough information to make an informed and reasonably confident estimate. Along with good release planning this can be a relatively low-stress process. Estimates at the beginning of the project create poor expectations and can lead to stress.

The enemy of a good plan is a perfect one.

Stress is so bad that it won't matter, much, that you do code review or have automated CI and CD gates and checks. Your engineering team will simply not be as effective as a team that isn't stressed or tired. Anything you can do to keep your team from being stressed out or tired is going to translate into better outcomes. If that means relaxing on deadlines and focus more on results and progress than do that instead.

One thing I can agree with is that communication is key. And a good night's sleep.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656292/

[1] https://gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150120/234443/The_G...
I upvoted. I'm always interested in dispatches from mathematics, and you can learn a lot about both the practices and culture of a group by reading between the lines of their sarcasm.
Yes. This happens a lot.

Often it's because the Hotels don't have an proper direct booking procedure in place and getting a direct booking is a hassle for them.

In many countries though they are not even allowed by Booking to give a cheaper price which shows the power they have.
Can't skim in german well
> I agree, sharing code is better for the research community. But once you share everything, you sort-of lost your edge.
And since we live in a very competitive society, that's a big problem. Not just for academia, btw.

Interesting. As a taxpayer, I’d like to see legislation passed to mandate open sourcing code I’ve paid for. I have compassion for researchers careers though, but am not well versed anywhere near enough in the machinations of that to suggest a solution.

> But even with that, inventing important things still feels like it would require a lot of work and experimentation and tools - so it would be an expensive business.

This feels a bit like capitalism as practiced today. Not judging it. Just curious if there are new approaches to be discovered and applied here.
I think disabling the touchpad when typing is a macOS feature which Ubuntu has tried and failed to emulate.

I have the same problem big time on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (which otherwise I love). Very unnatural wrist posture to avoid errant clicks!
A whale is a mammal, and the tail of a whale is analogous to the tail of a dog, or cat, or otter, or other mammal with a tail.

The hind legs of whales essentially atrophied away as they evolved. Some whales have small vestigial limb bones sort of floating inside their lower abdomen.
This links directly to a PDF. Reader beware.
You shouldn't be going after me for just using a word you don't approve of especially since I am very sympathetic too them. I don't know what the movers did to get into jail but as far as the job prospects it doesn't matter anyway. What I was told is that a lot of companies won't hire you as soon as you have a record, no matter what for, be it child molestation or DUI.
Widely cited blind audition study spurious
Because Catholicism isn't really Christian before Trent. The whole point of the article is that magic was conjoined to Catholicism not opposed to it. Saints are small gods. What it doesnt discuss is the way Erasmus and Luther and Calvin and ultimately the church itself reformulated Christianity in the process starting the witch trials.
Simple Software Manifesto
This is a naive question but I've always wondered, what motivates people who distribute pirated content for free?

I get why someone would consume pirated content but why would someone take the risk of publishing pirated content? Is it the ad traffic that the publishers get?
The moral perspective:
I did this, I deserve that.

The economic perspective:
I have this, I can try to get that.

I don't think the two things are necessarily always related.
The $ implies it
Reddit is trying to eat their lunch?

Imgur sprung up as a fast image host for Reddit, then Imgur turned into a social media site - a competitor for Reddit.

In that process Imgur became shitty at their core function... hosting images!
The legal principle of custom tailoring your defense based on what the charge and consequence is, after covering your ass based on what the potential charges and consequences are

Thats the literal theme of this website’s headlines where you been
Is the Danube Valley Civilization script the oldest writing in the world?
TeamViewer devs are especially to blame for this. You can’t install it without admin permissions even if you just want to control another desktop. Unless you manually extract the .app from the .pkg, in which case it works fine.

Anyways, this isn’t the first time TeamViewer has been hacked. Wonder what their beef is against E2EE between connected computers.
Ask HN: As a developer, what attracts you to a platform?
What is the most important factor that makes you excited about a platform? What makes you want to learn to build on a platform? Is it new APIs? Ease of development? access to new users?...
The billing department is a profit center because it converts accounts receivable into cash and there are metrics like days sales outstanding that can be used to directly measure their impact on the bottom line.

Cost centers on the other hand are indispensable, but evaluating their impact on the bottom line is hard to quantify and therefore subjective.

Again, it’s not fair to the invaluable work done by the cost centers, but that’s what it is.
Fascinating, they embed a tracking pixel of:
http://onion.[SOME_NUMERIC_ID].pixel.archive.today/pixel.gif for Tor endpoint (archivecaslytosk.onion) connections but
https:// [YOUR_IP].[COUNTRY_CODE].[SHORT_ALPHANUMERIC_ID].[SOME_NUMERIC_ID].pixel.archive.is/pixel.gif for regular (archive.is/archive.fo/archive.today/etc) connections.

So at least this lets archive.is correlate your IP with your DNS server (which must pass EDNS Client Subnet to get any meaningful response, this is the reason why Cloudflare DNS is not that great for accessing archive.is; more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317).
We are the only one in the boxes we have made. That does not mean there are not other boxes.
An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C
Was he signalling Batman, or what?
Because the employer deserves to know so they can weigh the risk adequately. It's up to them whether or not they want to bet on Convict A not committing another crime. And it a decent risk.
i was mostly saying "it should be possible", not that it is possible/easy today.
Well, the point is all of this problem is there in osx too, since GTK, Qt, sdl2 and custom made windowing toolkit can all run in osx.

I know atleast a few programs that people use on osx which break these conventions, hence it's not as universal as your proclaim.

Unless you run only their store apps on your computer(which most likely no developer does), then maybe what you say makes sense. Otherwise it's not better than linux distros like elementary OS where convention is also to use gtk only apps(similar to cocoa only).
Yeah, maybe they need to bring in some of the formal training that this guy obviously didn't get, including the worst case scenarios stuff.
What protocol do you notice this with? In my experience, Microsoft RDP (the only protocol I know with configurable udp and tcp) with and without udp is imperceptible during typical use (eg. server administration).
We need more genetic diversity in STEM. When will we be introducing DNA testing and doing mutation testing on all candidates to ensure perfectly equal distribution of all genetic combinations among employees?
> It’s used on a really large field where they fly drones and don’t allow any radio communications except the drone controllers. Turns out there are apps that will read Morse code signals sent on light by cell phones!
Signet HC – An open source U2F token and encrypted flash drive
> It can be stopped.

In the context of visual/audio (re: the topic), no. Even disallowing encryption will not save companies from simple steganography.
The cosmic ray bit-flip of the 5 independent critical bits is very unlikely. We are being told right here on HN and in the news that this means the plane can't fly.

In the US there were close calls, but fewer. If you beleive in the chain of safety better maintenance and pilot response may have saved the day a few times when faced with the MCAS problems. The safety reports from US pilots certainly sound scary (nose down on takeoff GPWS alerts etc).

I brought up maintenance as a contributing cause in the 737MAX crashes. I didn't realize I had been challenged on this. I would really encourage you to read some of the source reporting.

The FAA had a safety notice on this precise topic

"FAA has determined it is necessary to advise operators of the importance of performing proper operations and maintenance on AOA sensors”

This is the detail on the previous lionair flight before the crash flight - from wikipedia to save time:

"it had problems maintaining a constant altitude, with passengers stating that it was like "a roller-coaster ride".[109] The chief executive officer of Lion Air, Edward Sirait, said the aircraft had a "technical issue" on Sunday night, but this had been addressed in accordance with maintenance manuals issued by the manufacturer. Engineers had declared that the aircraft was ready for takeoff on the morning of the accident.[110][111] A later report claimed that a third pilot was on the flight to Jakarta and told the crew to cut power to the stabilizer trim motors which fixed the problem. This method is a standard memory item in the 737 checklist.[112] Subsequently, the National Transportation Safety Committee confirmed the presence of an off-duty Boeing 737 MAX 8 qualified pilot in the cockpit but did not confirm the role of the pilot in fixing the problem.[113]

Even worse is the history before that flight - REPEATED problems with the senor.

We are also now hearing that evidence submitted by lion air supposedly showing the proper fix for the sensor may have been faked.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/questions-raised-about...

In terms of faulty replacement parts - my point was issues occur overseas that do not seem to happen within the US MROs. I'll do a quick recent example:

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-times-1107/2...

This follows the ex-president of south africa appointing a school teacher to head SAA (who also ran his private foundation and rumors around their relationship existed).

I'm not sure why you claim AoA is unimportant. In the chain of safety you want every advantage you can get, the more accurate data the better. So you want the AoA working. This reduces risks from MCAS. You are correct - AoA is not a single point of failure system (system is not working / plane falls from sky). There was a poster here claiming that it was.
Aren't "proprietary" and "standard" mutually exclusive?
Couldn't you check to see if you detected the truck for more than x frames?
As far as I understand it, RPython isnt' really meant for actually writing programs in:

> Do I have to rewrite my programs in RPython?

> No, and you shouldn’t try. First and foremost, RPython is a language designed for writing interpreters. It is a restricted subset of Python. If your program is not an interpreter but tries to do “real things”, like use any part of the standard Python library or any 3rd-party library, then it is not RPython to start with. You should only look at RPython if you try to write your own interpreter.

See: https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html
> Instead of using CVs and interviews, potential employees undergo a basic competency assessment in which they are evaluated against 25 desirable attributes for software testers, such as the ability to learn new systems or take on feedback. Following these initial tests, potential staff undergo a week of working from home fully paid.

They still have an interview. It just isn’t like a traditional interview. You need to pass a test and then prove your ability for a week. It’s really a week-long interview.
omg I haven't read Doron in forever. thanks :)
Eliminating a source of bias that might prevent optimal workers from being hired is efficient, the initiatives listed in your sarcastic strawman are not.
> That's patently absurd, and you know it.

Sure, let's go with the personal attack and the claim of bad faith when we don't like someone's position. (That's against site guidelines, by the way.)

> Employee ownership is not state ownership.

But who gave it to the workers? Who made the current owners give up control? The state. (That's almost certainly still a "taking" within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment. That means "just compensation" for the current owners. Where are you going to get the money?)

> By this logic, the US already has state-owned healthcare, since the government mandates that employers provide health coverage. Do you also believe that the US government is seizing business revenue by requiring that employers pay wages?

Your "logic" here is non-existent. It doesn't follow from my position whatsoever.

> You're just desperate to find a snarl-word...

False. Again the accusation of bad faith.

> you can attach to this obviously reasonable...

Excuse me? Obviously reasonable? I call BS.

> and largely undisruptive plan.

That's quite an assumption there. Or as they say in court: "Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence."

You're mighty free with what you're going to require other people to do with their property. I don't own that much property, but I deny your right to order me to give half of it to those that you think should own it.
New paradigm that simplifies or accelerates development
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I just looking at the billion billion galaxies out there, what are the chances there is no life or even slightly intelligent given the physics and chemistry laws are the same in every planet.
* Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of kids have Chromebooks too*

Given how many schools want kids to have portables and Chromebooks have become the cheap choice, this is going to be a problem.
Yes, they've fully diversified their workforce by selecting for people who do not currently have jobs.

Nobody with a job can -- or at least, will -- take a week off of work to do a test interview.
Thanks! Can you give an example of this, please?
I've read that even a monitor with only warm-collided pixels displayed on the screen will still emit "blue light", in which case this wouldn't solve the problem correctly. I wonder if this is true?