skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I choose a new platform, I try to assess how long the platform my survive. APIs, ease of development and ease of use are important too. But when I am going to spend many hours trying to learn a new platform, I try to as sure as possible that the platform is going to last for at least 5 years.

Now it is easy to judge this for well established platforms like Linux, GitHub and software in the similar league but it is not so easy to judge this for new upcoming platforms offered by emerging technologies and startups. For the latter I look at what people are talking about the platform online, how much financial or community support it has got. For example, I would be more willing to put effort into learning a new open source platform with 1000+ GitHub stars and 100+ forks than I would be willing to learn a platform with 20+ GitHub stars. Similarly, I would be more willing to put effort into a new startup's platform that has got several millions of dollars of funding and good reputation than I would be willing to put into a platform with little to no funding. These are not perfect metrics but they make a good start.
With RDP. It's not imperceptible for me. I don't just use RDP for server administration.
You might be able to disable ligatures in your editor
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It's just as I said.

Based on your claim, baby monitors are illegal. Maybe a class action suit against baby monitor companies is a good idea!
So glad to see Go Mono mentioned here. I'm a happy user for many years now.
I wasn't trying to imply $200 font is better. I think you missed my point - which is that there is a stigma associated with paying for fonts and that usually comes from the fact that people do not know what goes into development of fonts due to the abundance of free fonts available on the internet. Sure, free fonts can be great - I did not say they can't be.

One of my favorite fonts is Isoveska which is free.
> Terms like these – or interview questions such as ‘where you see yourself in five years’ – can be too general for people with autism, as many with the condition can find vague questions particularly hard to decipher.

Pretty sure it's not just autistic folks who have to have prepped & memorized some bullshit in advance to have any kind of "acceptable" answer to those sorts of questions. Not to take away from the broader point of the article nor what this company's doing.

"Tell me about a time you've dealt with a douchebag at work" is one that always gets me. I just have to make something up for it. 15 years of working and I'm... pretty sure I haven't. I mean, not really. Not a good answer though, so here's some fiction I invented & memorized for you. Hope you like it.
There is something weird going on - both demanding the EDNS detail and then the extra tracking. I'm happy to avoid them using cloudflare's privacy stuff.
In the US at last check, bitmap fonts weren't subject to copyright. Also, the X11 fonts I've looked at had a license string something like "these glyphs are unencumbered".
As an Aspie/ADD, I have never passed any formal interview, even for an intern position (sic!). (You can compare and contrast it with my GitHub/Resume/blog to make a judgment.)

Fortunately, many times (even for mid-size companies or research institutes) the hiring was less formal. For small startups, where it is informal, I didn't feel at a disadvantage. For big, I don't believe I can pass through the first filter.

It seems that there are so many hidden assumptions people take on: what should be on Resume, how should one present oneself, where it is fine (or de facto expected) to exaggerate one's accomplishments or hide one's weaknesses. And that an irrational feeling of being weird is often an instant no-hire. Moreover, many symptoms od ADD are taken for laziness, sloppiness, or lack of motivation. Many symptoms of Aspie are taken for rudeness, ill intentions or trying to dominate (breaking a social rule => (s)he thinks (s)he is above it).

(I've heard it so many times about people interviewing others, as "(s)he is smart, passed all test, but weird, I don't like to work with her/him". At this point, it is systemic discrimination. I the same places, remarks about one's ethnicity or gender wouldn't pass (rightfully!). Sadly, other areas of discrimination like age or class are given a pass.)

At the same time, I know a lot of people good at "big talks", and making a good impression, who got hired almost everywhere. Also, they make it easy to persuade the right people to give them recommendation letters, even if their collaboration was minimal.
They’re starting to get quite sophisticated. For example the birds of the game “red dead redemption” inspired an Audubon article

https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbu...
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> Generally, I find that those who fall back on emotional labor as a concept, are work-multipliers.

Oooh, I've never hard of work multipliers before, thanks. I disagree with your main premise (in that sentence) though.

It's the first I've heard of "emotional labor" and I think its a great concept, as valid as "mental" or "physical" labor in the original author's context: a flight attendant (male or female) would have tasks that require all three types of labor during their work day.
There's a download option to have Fantasque Sans Mono without the looped k.

https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/releases/download/...
> Five years in, 75% of Ultranauts’ staff are on the autistic spectrum – and one reason for this is its innovative approach to hiring.

Given that autism has a significant male to female ratio (quick Googling suggested 4:1 for Male:Female for autism), this seems to indicate that their percentage of women developers is low.
> Honestly I don't know who the hell falls for this kind of narrative.

At least 50% of the population, I'd wager.
I wonder how the assessment works? Is it a written test? Also a week long interview will not work for people already employed. And many people interview at multiple places in parallel and negotiate the best offer. This approach might be better for for some people so might be offered as an option.
Proves my point -- your girlfriends are judged much more harshly for how you're dressed than you yourself are -- which is silly, absolutely ridiculous. I'm assuming you're a grown man, right? Why does it make sense that people would judge your girlfriend for your attire and not you, a man who presumably dressed himself? It's nuts.
Never in my entire career have I been asked the 'where do you see yourself in 5 years' question. It doesn't even make sense in the tech world. In five years? There's a good chance your company/business unit won't exist and I'll be 1-2 jobs on from this one mate. Don't worry about it.

It sounds like a hollywood movie cliche you'd hear at an interview scene. I'd laugh if I got that question in an actual interview.

I'm sure it made sense 30-50 years ago when people spent decades with the same employer, but anyone asking that question today is just indicating how out of touch they are with the real world.
I had a law school exam in one course that was take home.

Everyone thought it was a great idea until they realized it was 8-12 hours of working like crazy instead of the standard 2-3. It's still competitive, after all.

I could imagine a week long interview as pretty rough.
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Interestingly enough, Microsoft Windows' strict backwards compatibility strategy seems to address this concern head-on which I think gives (gave?) developers a lot of confidence in the platform.
Removing bias is good.

Telling the people responsible for hiring that we need more diversity in a particular area is just introducing a new bias.
Well, for comparison, the cost of a current 100K LUT FPGA on a board is:

$250 for Xilinx Artix-7:

https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developme...

$100 for Lattice ECP5 (85K LUT):

https://www.latticestore.com/products/tabid/417/categoryid/5...
There's a standard set of normal interview questions and 'the right answers' for those questions, yeah.

The douchebag thing, I'd been lucky up until probably a year ago, never had a significant personal issue with a co-worker. Then I met two at once, on two concurrent projects simultaneously, and it sucked balls. It's amazing how much it can sour a whole project.
There were absolutely software design failures - to have two sensors but only read the value of one of them and to not even apply sanity checks to check the sensor is working (e.g. is the sensor saying that the aircraft is pointing towards the sky when it's on the ground?).

It's simply crazy. The only plausible explanation is that Boeing did not perceive MCAS to be safety critical, even though it had control of the aircraft, and so they didn't bother to apply any redundancy to it. Boeing seemed to wrongly assume that any failure modes would appear as a runaway trim.
FWIW, just watching you interact with your critics on here has done a lot for you to earn my respect. I hope I've been too quick to judge and that OpenAI is able to make me reconsider my stance in the future.
Not only that though. Choices in what interests people have matter as well. A deep interest in care-giving is much less likely to lead to a higher income compared to a deep interest in computers or engineering.
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That was a bit snarky but I wonder if you do have somewhat of a point. I'd expect a lot more diversity among unemployed and underemployed people than among your typical engineering demographic.
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And time of year.
What do you mean? This is pretty common here. Nevertheless it should be included in the title if that is what you are getting at.
Hot damn this is so true. This is exactly what comes to my mind when I think of emotional labor.
> Billy, an American of European heritage, who had knowledge of Arabic and could approach potential terror targets online, had great potential value to the FBI.

I get that the FBI was to struggling to recruit and train Arabic speakers for its programs post-9/11, but recruiting random Americans with self-taught Arabic to cosplay as cyber FBI agents does not speak well of them.

This is of a piece with stuff the FBI and DEA has done routinely in the "war on drugs," so I don't doubt it at all, but it's still a nasty way to work. It's not like they were turning an Al Queda recruit into a mole, this guy was running a whole constellation of fake accounts etc, basically doing stuff the FBI could and should be doing itself and not outsourcing to "informants".
Any hiring process will by definition favour certain kinds of candidates at the expense of others. Having a week long paid trial is a great way for the company to be less conservative about who they try out, but will also mean they’ll miss out on candidates who are already employed and unwilling to take time off or quit their job to participate in it. In the end though, if they can tap into an undervalued candidate pool though, they should come put ahead.
Heads up that there's a typo: "Algortihmic variety"
There's lots of potential for failure that the planes allow when flying.

Some quick examples - they could have sensors around gas quality but do not - they rely on the folks providing the avgas to have good fuel. They could do built in weight and balance calcs with sensors - they do not, they rely on poor estimates for that. etc.

Boeing in particular ALLOWS pilots to fly planes outside of most flight envelope limits. They do this in part because historically they didn't trust the computer as much and trusted pilots more.

Airbus by contrast doesn't let you do this unless you take air data totally offline or something crazy to force alternative law. I suspect boeing will be moving towards the airbus model which is probably right. Airbus had arguably less local myopia when designing their planes - ie, future pilot populations come from a big group and making the plane as error proof as possible is best. Airbus had some issues around their automation without pilot override initially but I think those are resolved by now.

If you want a scary video - check out this early A320 flying - first fly by wire / autothrottle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAg-WauGrLU

Can't have been a good feeling as that pilot. Note that the A320 is now considered a very safe plane.

Aircraft have evolved from systems with almost no built in redundancy or safety. The design of the 737 is pretty old - 1967 or so. Let that sink in for a bit, consider what type of tech they had back in. This is not a 777 generation plane or even A320.
In theory it could work, but the government would need experts in milk production to determine what to invest in. Expand this to every possible good, and it becomes un-manageable quickly, while also being ripe for corruption.

The producers of the good are typically much better positioned to determine how to efficiently spend resources to increase production. It is their own profits, future, and livelihood on the line so they are much more likely to choose carefully.
It's not an interview if they're paying you, it's a conditional hire for a week. Calling it an interview is like calling actually starting a job after a barrage of three interviews the fourth interview. At some point you're torturing the meaning of the word to pointlessness.
I'm curious what cli tool you find is better on linux?

Imo WSL is fighting windows, especially WSL2, as it locks you out of the windows filesystem and you need special plugins to edit your code.

For my workflow (node,electron,java) all of the tools are already cross platform and any shell tools are usually covered by powershell. I do admit though doing C development is probably more difficult as getting ports of things like make, ld etc is harder.
A much larger proportion of people are in federal prison for drugs than state prisons. (Gut check: there are few federal crimes that people regularly go to prison for, trafficking is one of them).

John Pfaff has done a lot of research into this [1], and drug offenders are a small minority (~20%) of prisoners. The bulk of prisoners are in for violent crimes, which makes the politics of decarceration... tricky.

[1]: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=16...
Where in Russia can one need to run head first into a warzone?
It's relatively easy, but not free, to do this. I find that the erlang (and elixir) guides seem to be a bit scant on best practices to achieve this level of discipline, for example, wrapping all gen_sever calls in module functions and presenting a well-defined API for the genserver module (and possibly, even linting for no naked genserver calls) is not really explained in this light. Similarly guidance is not provided for wrapping enum module calls (since that similarly destroys typing information)
Yep, that really isn't an issue here. The unemployment rate in this demographic is usually above 75%.
Ahaha, yes I should also mentioned I did all that to have access to netflix originals and little else.
Yes, putting PDF into the title is considered polite.
The example I think of is choosing a meal for a household—anticipating every household member’s reaction to the meal and accepting the consequences if people don’t like it.

Basically, managing people’s emotions.
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It suggests an certain desperation on their part, that a self-taught Arabic speaker who had managed to get into Jihadi web forums was worth recruiting as a source.
Maybe courts need to move faster?
You don't do sarcasm, do you
Some scenarios:

1. ET life formed and vanished so quickly that they didn't even get to the stage where they generate electromagnetic signals.

2. ET life formed and got to generate EM waves, but:

- they're either too far from us that we haven't detected those waves yet;

- they only recently got to this stage and the signals they produce have not reached us yet;

- or both.

3. ET life formed way sooner than we did; figured out how to generate EM waves, and then vanished entirely. So, any signals of their civilization they must have sent out there have already reached earth, but before we began listening for such signals.

4. Then again, since there are practically infinite number of planets with habitable conditions for ET life, statistically speaking, we must have already received a signal from at least one of them.

Which leads me to this:

5. ET life doesn't exist, because the universe as we know it is most probably a simulation inside a computer and the computational resources can only render so many different objects at a time. (This is serious stuff, researchers have already proposed methods for verifying this: https://www.washington.edu/news/2012/12/10/do-we-live-in-a-c...).
My intent is not to absolve anyone of anything. Rather I was illustrating the process by which individual choices can lead to a collective decision of prioritizing profits over safety.
Is there some demonstrable decrease in longevity for sailors (absent the obvious mortality risks of drowning)? It seems to me that if there was a fundamental problem with humans dealing with long-term exposure to blue light, admittedly reflected rather than directly emitted, it would show up in either sailors or those that live along ocean coastlines.

Of course it's possible that reflected blue light has different effects.
Who said anyone else is judging me or my partner? And why are you assuming that anyone is judging either of us? Just because someone believes something is happening doesn't make it reality.
But couldn't part of this be that judging him for it won't actually change anything? If a guy doesn't really care about how he's dressed then you can judge him as much as you want, but he'll still keep on dressing the same way. Social pressure only works if people care about it. And somebody else above mentioned that people are very good at picking out others who bend to social pressure.
When booking hotels, I prefer to call them up directly. Many times just being nice to the staff you can get a much better deal than elsewhere online. And also better cancellation policies.
I’ve been working with a fly lab the last few years. They really do model diseases and gene functions. There are tools to look up genes across species and determine how close they are (othologs). Plus cheaper to study.

For example circadian rythmns were discovered in flies first:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2017/press-releas...

Disease research also is done:

https://dmm.biologists.org/content/9/3/235
This is confusing to me, would love if someone helped elucidate the details. My previous understanding was that bluelight is harmful because bluelight visually interferes with the body's circadian rhythm by leading the body to believe it's still daytime when it may not be.

This article says that "any bluelight is bad", is that incorrect? I don't understand, isn't bluelight measured as light on the 450nm range of the electromagnetic spectrum, whereas visual sunlight ranges from 400-700nm? So, is the thesis that light at 450nm from the sun is only emitted when the sun is highest in the sky, for a few hours a day, whereas bluelight from screens is ever present—causing the circadian rhythm to go out of whack (?).

The article also states that blue light on any part of the body may cause mitochondrial damage. I wonder if the most proactive biohackers would be inclined to wear long-sleeves at non-peak hours to counter this problem. [0]

Maybe this is why Dave Asprey is seen always wearing his blue light blocking glasses, even during daylight hours.

I am also not so inclined to dismiss this data because it only addresses fruit flies. It seems natural to believe that the closer we get to following the circadian cycles we evolved alongside with, the more likely our bodies are to behave optimally. Sure, we may be more resilient to these types of stressors than fruit flies, but, we already know that obeying circadian cycles is a key component to achieving better health, and the work of this paper just seems to push that idea a bit further than we may have originally been lead to believe. It doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to guess about how these factors could affect us.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02934-5
What would you call the process by which the defense sector designs and builds weapons? This cannot be "engineering" by your definition, as the people involved are not consulted on the foreign policy objectives their work will serve, but it's probably what others in the thread think the word means.

Even in bridge building, the balancing of human civilization's advantages against its environmental cost is a matter of public policy. Engineers may be consulted to assess environmental impact or to provide lower-impact options, but "should we have a bridge here or not" is ultimately a question for political leaders, not engineers.
Indeed, much of Mu's design was motivated by the question, "if we imitated the codesign of OS and language that led to Unix and C, given what we know now, what would we create?" This question doesn't seem to be often asked in recent decades, with languages and OSs evolving separately.
It depends on the type of work you're doing. I've been using vim for many years and I am frequently limited by my typing speed when it comes to some things like scripts.

When it comes to work that doesn't require deep thought, it matters. I'm much more likely to achieve a task that someone else might dismiss "because it requires too much typing."

It also helps a lot with refactoring, which is mostly a mechanical process. I'm much more willing to do large refactoring than some others due to the fact that I'm very good with my editor.

Point is that you're right, but you're also describing a subset of problems which require deep thought, and not fully considering the benefits that might be had from the alternative.
I am not an astronomer, but in terms of empirical evidence, for the longest time the only prior we had was our own solar system. Thus the natural best guess should have been that (at least for stars similar to our own) earth-like rocky planets near our size should be the most frequent occurrence.
"As an evil corporation, we need to make money, so we'll lie to the customer."
On the other hand, if you don't want to open pdfs by accident, use "Always Ask" .. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewe...
Bottled water usually uses ozone for disinfection (if spring water, not bottled tap water).

Usually that leaves it pure enough to not require chlorine for ongoing disinfection.
> I mean, if you're too conservative to use modern technology, this doesn't seem like the right field to work in.

That kind of attitude ("why aren't you using <insert personal preference bloated point-clicky IDE released 6 months ago>?") is just as obnoxious as what is in the article.
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