skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the year before that gave us Dissolving the Fermi paradox[1], which conclusively shows that the drake equation is not worth the napkin it's written on.

tl;dr: It is possible for both of the following statements to be true at the same time:

(1) The Drake equation gives a true estimate for the mean amount of extant civilizations in the galaxy, and that estimate is relatively large. (As in, much greater than one.)

(2) The probability of sentient life existing outside our solar system is infinitesimally small.

The reason for this is that the Drake equation gives a mean over all possible universes, with the solution space created by our uncertainty in the parameters. Since all of the parameters have more uncertainty in one direction than the other, the probability distribution is not symmetrical, and so the mean, mode and median are not the same. In fact, it turns out that when you do the math right, you find that essentially all of the probability mass in the Drake equation comes from the cases where almost every star has a civilization around it. Using our current best estimate numbers, and excluding the cases we can conclusively disprove because we are not already chatting with our neighbors at Proxima Centauri, P(we are alone in the galaxy) > 50%, and P(we are alone in the observable universe) > 39%.

[1]https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
Exactly, the entire article reads like it's aimed at someone who heard that it's easier to land a well-paying job when you have some opensource projects listed on your resume, and has decided that they need such project, without really being interested in opensource very much.
No one runs a big pseudocongolomerate like Cisco for 20 years without making friends and enemies.
Any good university has C++ related classes.

The problem with modern C++ is having many devs to actually make use of it.

Many devs don't care to follow up on modern language X best practices, rather just typing away something that works.
It's not just about static typing, though. Macros, metaprogramming, being able to reach as deep as you want to, ugly code full of side effects, global state etc. All of those might actualy benefit you when your project is small, and they make development way faster (see Rails). Later, however, they're a definite impediment.
>I don't really understand this dismissing about "culture fit"

You should understand that what you wrote sounds like discrimination by age (and sex, "frat" means male), which is illegal - and for good reasons.

EDIT: specifically, the only way a 35-year-old is not a "culture fit" in "a small company run by 20-something whose only social life is their colleagues" is if that company is discriminating by age. I don't have better words to explain that being 20 is not "culture".
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Node.js excited me because I could code client/server with a single language. Seemed like a win especially when I started researching node.js and all signs were positive.
It's fine, don't apologize. I didn't take it as a dismissal, and I was the one to offer entirely unsollicited advice. No worries, and I do appreciate your replies!
There's already hundreds of distributions with binary blobs. It is very important that at least a few respect user's freedom. So it's great that Guix exists and that it has a serious stance against secret blobs.
Aside from having a two decade history of using C#, types is the only thing preventing us from going full Python. Even so, the dynamic types in Python are more often a benefit than a disadvantage because Python is so great at handling them automatic.

We build our employee database, and from there our IDM, from a singel XML file in a really shitty format + three txt files in even worse formats (they are single line output files from an old mainframe system predating sap). We used to do it in a rather complicated Microsoft SSIS workflow with a lot of C# services. All in all it’s a 30 minute nightly runtime. I recently replaced it with around 500 lines of Python and a 1-5 minute Runtime (sometimes at the beginning of a school year we’ll see changes to around 1000 positions).

Python eats the XML like it wasn’t shit. It takes things like terrible date formats, we’re talking the output of a SAP free-text box shitty, and ports then seamlessly into a SQL date field. This alone was a nightmare in C# and Python just does it.

Still, after two decades of strict types it feels dangerous.
Any colo recommendations?
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Correct for the first two, I hadn't thought about that. Could be done by uploading history once every hour but that's annoying. Pages behind a login aren't ideal for this under any approach because they tend to be dynamic.
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Context:

News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly newspapers, of which three are free commuter titles and 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth (Sundays only), Hobart and Darwin and groups of suburban newspapers in the suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. The company publishes a further thirty magazine titles across Australia.[2] According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 the group accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp_Australia
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Demanding proof either way is unhelpful as it’s not possible, but we can I think trim down the balance of probability.

Looking at our own universe, building a simulator for it inside itself looks like a non starter. We’re even detecting gravity waves from black hole collisions billions of light years away, that's how detailed the simulation would have to be. There’s no way to build a simulator with that level of detailed fidelity of a universe in that same universe. Imagine designing a computer chip to run a simulation of itself. Yes we run low fidelity weather simulations, but to simulate outcomes in our universe at a general level like that you wouldn’t need to simulate consciousness. In the same way that we don't think superintelligent AI would necessarily need to be conscious, the actors in a history simulation wouldn't need to be either. Our universe is too detailed to be a statistical simulation and too complex to be an accurate simulation. The parameters don’t make sense.

That only really leaves the possibility that the simulator is running in a dramatically more complex universe, so simulating ours would be relatively easy. But then, there would be almost infinitely many less complex universes they could simulate, why choose ours? The more complex the universe running the simulator(s), the more lower complexity universes there are available to simulate. As the number and complexity of universes available to run simulators goes up, the number of lower complexity universes (and the complexity of them) that it's possible for them to simulate also goes up, so the probability they will bother with ours probably stays steady at a very low prior.
Yes! You aren't the first to make that observation.

Compare https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
To be clear: Are you suggesting SE pays money for the services that the community moderators are doing for free right now? Because in that case this move would definitely be monumentally stupid. There's ~600 mods on the network right now, even at 1$ per day that's 200k a year (not to mention the impact of outsourcing this to people who don't give a damn).

They have a fleet of voluntary moderators with best interests right now. They work for free. This is a shareholder's wet dream, and it's real. All it would take to keep this going is them not being so incredibly tone deaf and uncaring.

The "aggressive moderation" that SO is criticized for is not even performed by the moderators that are resigning right now. It's performed by the community itself - moderators deal with the exceptional human behavior like spam, harassment, vote fraud etc.
Thank you, that was very interesting!

In particular how reflections caused you trouble, whereas in the ham world (also mostly HF) the same are desirable because anything that increases range is generally seen as good (we do use directional antennas to narrow it down). Different world.

And so in the end, you did learn to recognize entire words (callsigns) at once :-)
Usually it's about control. Want a new feature that you could perfectly have if you had buttons to fiddle with? You re now gonna have to beg the programmers to do your bidding. Programmers used to serve their audience now it's the other way around
I'm sure there are. My machinist did a good job, the engine is a bad mofo sleeper and just what I wanted :-)
Python code gained 17x performance improvement over an older C implementation
A sandbox to test things out right, not a free-tier per se but a sandbox to try out every feature a couple of times.
By "exploded" I meant when Opera ditched Presto in favor of Blink, becoming basically a Chromium shell.
Likely radioactive substances that were once in large amounts with long half-lives
You are right they are angry. The australian media as a whole should redact itself. and not just the papers. The media treats it’s pilgrims with contempt when it enthusiastically ensures the amplification and reliable delivery of the governments perpetual message that the you are under attack.
> 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.

Yes, normal-ish people have an easier time coming up with acceptable answers on the spot. But everyone benefits from prep.
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I hate myself in advance for a reply like this, but I just scrolled randomly towards the loss function part of that document and it reads

"You can see also expected value notation, were E[x] means an average of x, that is ∑N−1i=0xi/N."

I think this is not what E[x] means, i.e. going from expectation to the average (using the sum over n-1 no less) involves a bit more than notation (in this case, assumptions about the DGP).
Yes I also hate posts like this, but in the interest of this being a course on mathematics in DL - wanted tollet you know.
>I don't believe that you making an argument in good faith here.

You always claim people are making "bad faith" arguments when you get called out and owned. It's a poor, thinly veiled response that everyone sees through. Annatard claiming "bad faith" translates to: "REEEE!!! I got owned, let me start foaming!"

>It's neither slow

Yes, it objectively and statistically is, as shown in pretty much any test/metric ever in the past decade or so. I even linked examples to which you have no retort.

>nor do I live in the past: illumos is being very actively developed and not only does it beat Linux in everything, it has more features

WRONG! It's nowhere near as actively developed as Linux (there are Linux sub-components that are more actively developed than illumos), and it can't beat Linux in anything, and has LESS features. illumos still doesn't have GPGPU support last I remember... nor does it have PCI passthrough in 2019... IOMMU? LOL!

>Brendan has gone rogue after a fallout and is not to be trusted. He became a hostile witness the moment he abandoned the illumos movement and gave into trend-pandering because of what vast majority is running. Anyone pandering to trends has no credibility as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if it were Scott McNealy himself: you start advocating for a piece of shit technology like GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux, I'm done with you. It's not up for discussion.

Are you seeing your doctor about your delusions? You need to seek help. Gregg specifically outlined exactly why Linux has won, and again, aside from your delusional dribbling, you have no retort.

>Correct on both counts! What do you know? Yes you had to get special switches and equipment while I completely saturated an entire switch with a piece of junk DELL, and here comes the kicker: running Solaris 10 for i86pc... without any tuning whatsoever!

Is this even English? Pure nonsensical dribbling. You can't saturate an entire switch with illumos, even with tuning. Linux outperforms illumos/Solaris, and it has for years.

>I'd rather drop dead.

I can't imagine saying something this inane in 2019.
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Using 'human beings' as a blanket term is pretty dehumanising, in my opinion.

'ex-con' means nothing more than 'has been convicted [of something]'. There are many different types of insect too you know.
Thank you for the hint, I used AnyDesk (think it was built by people who worked at TV) but I'd enjoy an open source solution even more if it does what it should.
Last couple of months I started thinking about sidereal vs. solar year. The first one is determined by distant stars, the second one by our Sun.

The thing I'm thinking of is if small deviations accumulate over years, how night sky is changed at the same date across, let's say, 20 years?
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You wrote that you know of no backends--- but we have a long history of macro preprocessing/expansion of shell scripts.

M4 would excel at this adaptation...

Which isn't even necessary, because everything posix conformant has "set -e". And if "posix" isn't good enough, the Bourne Shell back to 1978 has it (probably earlier).

You are hilarious, bro. :D
Brother, you need to grow the fuck up. Right now, you're coming across as one of those try-hard college students on a 'Rationality Rulez' bender.

Morality is subjective but not in the manner you're describing. It's not arbitrary. Our values are conjured out of thin air but for reasons that DO involve the betterment of humanity.

Slavery isn't subjective, and extermination camps sure as hell are not either.
Nope, the airlines hate running those routes. They're highly competitive and thus terrible uses of very expensive assets. They'll be kept for expensive international connections, but the frequency will be dramatically cut.

Also, who cares about actually going to an airport? It's only a means to getting where you need to go, which is probably downtown SF or LA
Seconded; the text does not wrap in portrait orientation on small breakpoints and trying to scroll trigger the progression of slides.
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I have a strong opinion that Indo-European polythiestic religions have a common mythical and structural framework. So it would be easier to revive any of them by studying and borrowing back from the vast sample of such religions
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological battle. Based on long experience, such discussions become highly predictable and increasingly nasty—the two qualities we're most hoping to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OpenGL computer graphics engine sounds interesting. Care to share it? I wanna take a look at it.
Quite - one of the most misunderstood book titles in history!
"She'll be right" makes for some attractively (if superficially) easygoing characters, but it's a useless stance to take towards national governance. Unfortunately it's about the only style of thought running through the current mob's empty heads ...
The article never refers to a "neurodiverse person". It does refer to groups: neurodiverse workers, neurodiverse employees, neurodiverse staff, neurodiverse colleagues, and neurodiverse voices. But not "neurodiverse person."
Q: Why is x broken?

A: Because either the devs didn't think of your use case, or they didn't care about it.
Very impressive, and I'm also seriously tempted to look into a pipeline to take these into Unreal Engine as an alternative to SpeedTree.

There's something I've been curious about, though, which is that since Blender is licensed under the GPL, aren't all these add-ons also forced to release under a GPL license? Which means the first person to pay the ~$500 is legally within their rights to reupload this product for the rest of the world to download freely?

Not trying to troll, though I worry it may come across that way. It's just that I've actually had a friend try to convince me to work on Blender add-ons for supplemental income, and it seemed like a bad idea for that reason... so I'd like to make sure I'm not missing something.

(I guess you can make the case that all the comparable non-GPL software gets pirated too, but this seemed somehow more demoralizing to me.)
Selecting for culture fit isn’t always bad. You could be selecting for good cultural values the company has.
You're going full circle here. He's not the one advocating for "modern evidence-based research and training", so it's not in his standards. And I'm not blaming him. Not everything is measurable, or at least measurable in ways that would enable researchers to extract meaningful answers or techniques. You said it yourself, productivity is a fuzzy end-goal.

If you do not believe it is possible to empirically derive a way to interview properly, then rationalism is your best choice, i.e. Intuition/Deduction. And contrary to common belief, rationalism is not a prison. It's just a decision process, in which you're perfectly allowed to question yourself using available empiric data.
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Small hack for the "tell me about a time you worked with a douchebag" story: add lots of humility. Take a story where you thought you were reasonable, but someones else could have seen you as a douchebag, and tell a heartwarming story about how you can understand that now with a bit of distance and how you've grown so much as a character.

(My story is about having to work with a cowboy coder on the same codebase, but the cowboy coder happened to be the boss of our sister team and had lots of apparent productivity and was thus loved by higher ups. The humility comes in from describing my own attempts at improving the situation but failing. Basically, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.)
I haven't played with mine yet, but there's an open toolchain for the ECP5 :)
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Yep, I couldn't agree more. I've tried subscribing to Amazon Prime purely for the shows/movies (not like we have next day shipping or something), and I couldn't find a single movie/show that's not geolocked. Not even their originals.
I would like to report every ad for magic crystals, essential oils and SEO services.
Can't confirm based on my own and other people's experience. Almost all my ex-colleagues which changed jobs during the past, let's say, three years, moving to Amazon, Google, etc have applied through the official channels.

Furthermore, in many companies the connections will merely allow one to skip one interview stage. At my current employer connections maybe offer a small goodwill boost, otherwise one still has to officially apply and go through the normal interview process. Anyone that knows the interviewee isn't allowed to be in the interview.

This is how it should be - equality for everyone instead of nepotism disguised as networking.
Sounds a bit like... Pardon the term... Survival bias.

Perhaps the grumpy ones stress themselves out and don't make it as long.

Or less morbidly, perhaps the grumpy ones are just not those you are likely to get to know.
>I don't believe that you making an argument in good faith here.

You always claim people are making "bad faith" arguments when you get called out and owned. It's a poor, thinly veiled response that everyone sees through. Annatard claiming "bad faith" translates to: "REEEE!!! I got owned, let me start foaming!"

>It's neither slow

Yes, it objectively and statistically is, as shown in pretty much any test/metric ever in the past decade or so. I even linked examples to which you have no retort.

>nor do I live in the past: illumos is being very actively developed and not only does it beat Linux in everything, it has more features

WRONG! It's nowhere near as actively developed as Linux (there are Linux sub-components that are more actively developed than illumos), and it can't beat Linux in anything, and has LESS features. illumos still doesn't have GPGPU support last I remember... nor does it have PCI passthrough in 2019... IOMMU? LOL!

>Brendan has gone rogue after a fallout and is not to be trusted. He became a hostile witness the moment he abandoned the illumos movement and gave into trend-pandering because of what vast majority is running. Anyone pandering to trends has no credibility as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if it were Scott McNealy himself: you start advocating for a piece of shit technology like GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux, I'm done with you. It's not up for discussion.

Are you seeing your doctor about your delusions? You need to seek help. Gregg specifically outlined exactly why Linux has won, and again, aside from your delusional dribbling, you have no retort.

>Correct on both counts! What do you know? Yes you had to get special switches and equipment while I completely saturated an entire switch with a piece of junk DELL, and here comes the kicker: running Solaris 10 for i86pc... without any tuning whatsoever!

Is this even English? Pure nonsensical dribbling. You could never saturate an entire switch with illumos, even with tuning. Linux outperforms illumos/Solaris, and it has for years.

>I'd rather drop dead.

I can't imagine saying something this inane in 2019.
Widevine L1 has been cracked. Pirates gain code execution in the ARM TrustZone¹ and peek into the decryption keys of the widevine module. That's how 4k WEB-DL Netflix content gets pirated.

¹ For example: http://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/04/exploring-qualcomms-...
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this, and you've done it elsewhere recently too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd be happy to support them if they were campaigning for all Australians to have the same rights to freedom from government spying etc but they're not.

Making journalists a protected class is not the answer, it just means they'll continue to push the agenda down our throats.
That backfired. Hopefully, your world is richer because he corrected your misunderstanding.
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Baen Books is one publisher who gets it, and makes a profit doing so.

Some of their back-catalogue is available for free on-line, such as David Weber's Empire from the Ashes. Complete trilogy:

http://www.baencd.freedoors.org/Books/Empire%20From%20the%20...

(hard sci-fi)
> In the vast majority of
cases, it means some large part of your lifestyle's gone wrong.

It must be nice to know so much about everyone around you, without needing to actually obtain any facts at all.

Is it possible that changes to exercise, diet, time outdoors, or latitude of residence could help in some cases? Maybe.

Is there anywhere near enough data to attribute a "vast majority of cases" to these causes?

No.
Is it? It's discrimination by things that correlate with age, sure, but many things do.