skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Id like to offer slightly more objective view on this:

I don't think anyone is going to disagree that this machine learning model doesn't work for selecting people that up the revenue of the company compared to someone it doesn't select. So there are 3 major uses cases for it from my perspective:

1. Established and proven tech companies understand that this is bogus, and choose not to use this. If they are looking to improve their hiring efficiency, they will most definitely do a review of this, and figure out that this is bogus.

2. Newer companies falsely believe in this tech and choose to use it - these are in the same boat as any other company that practices "bespoke" selection critera, i.e not hiring you because you wore khakis and polo to the interview for a non customer facing position instead of a suit, when in reality you may be the most qualified to do the job. You can't really criticize these, and Id argue that this is more of a loss to the company than yourself, as you would probably be better off at a different company anyways from overall long term money value perspective.

3. Bigger companies use this because of a special contract with HireVue to boost HireVue visibility or some available money to "try new things" to staff a few positions, most likely lower level that are easily replaceable so that if the program fails its an acceptable monetary loss. Here lies the biggest unfairness, due to the fact that people who are hired with HireVue's high scores are probably just as equally capable of doing the job as people who don't get hired, which at the minimum reinforces the belief that the model is working. That being said, these selection tactics are not new, and unemployment in US is low and still predicted to fall, and these jobs aren't career changing, so I would argue that this is not a huge issue either.

So my personal opinion as a capitalist is that this isn't a big deal. In the same way that you never see the Meyers Briggs Personality test outside of lower level employment, you won't see this for any job that can determine your career. And, just like Meyers Briggs, there will be ways to game it. Hell, the tech even exists already (a la Deepfakes), all you need is a rough estimate of the model they use and what the positive traits are, and then you can do real time face and voice morphing.

Its also generally more beneficial to think about adaptation rather than control or blame when it comes to stuff like this, because we can't un-invent the processing power and research makes machine learning possible at a scale. Someone could have made this open source, and then companies could internally implement their own tech stacks for video interviews, and we would be in the same boat.
The article mentions that the achievement of Google is similar to the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. I would dispute this. There was a direct and practical implication of the Kitty Hawk flight which had a clear path forward.

Google and their "quantum" (more scare quotes needed) computer don't solve any problem, and in fact, have merely designed a solution to a problem, and not designed something which universally applies to many problems. It's a meaningless one to one relationship.
It is how you etch the metal-device contact. Using liquid or plasma.

Plasma etch is more expensive and slower, but is easier to control.

> Edit 2:

Electronics is not in vogue with those people. Just like in computer science, the few breakthroughs that matter in last few decades went by nearly completely anonymous despite their enormous utility, but every cat video website gets... you know.
That and MorphOS. There has been a huge gap there and these operating systems running out of new hardware. Any new hardware.
HTTPS: //Cpdos.org/
Plenty - Indoor vertical farming that's already in the California market. http://www.plenty.ag
> Much of Ine’s life seems remarkably “modern.” She was an accomplished professional woman who moved in the highest circles of Japanese society. In the 1860s, before serving the imperial house, Ine worked as house physician to the lord of Uwajima. Seeing her treated with respect by the nobility, foreign observers assumed she was of samurai status.

I'm glad that this woman avoided some of the most common traps of systematic oppression in her time and place, but it seems like the author has decided the definition of a fulfilling or free life for his readers before the first word of the article. It reminds me of the trans military ban or the all-female space walk... the assumption is often that everyone supports the military and NASA, so we should celebrate when marginalized people find success in those institutions.
Where `rustc` spends its time
nope is not a framer x?
And how do you find a solution that will last more than a few years, and also handle changes as they occur?

Software solutions require ongoing work: ongoing maintenance costs of a customised solution could easily be higher per year than 1 cheap FTE.
DNS is the weakest link for many companies.
You can manipulate boot settings using BMC commands. No need to mess with Grub or the running system. Instead, tell the system to boot up from an emulated USB drive (image can be attached from some remote server, often including your web browser).

Now wait for the machine to get rebooted (or do it yourself using the BMC, e.g. 'racadm serveraction powercycle' for Dell/iDRAC machines).

Even SecureBoot won't help as you can just turn it off using the BMC.

See here for a bunch of examples for Dell machines using the BMC's HTTP API:

https://github.com/dell/iDRAC-Redfish-Scripting/tree/master/...
This is poetry.

And all true.
The reason I say I would have been diagnosed by today’s standards is because I attended my children’s screenings, read their diagnoses, and did additional research. The definition and diagnostic criteria for autism were intentionally broadened so more kids would get identified and led to early interventions.

I’m not underselling anyone else’s experience - I’ve seen some of the extreme personal and family difficulties people with severe autism face. I’m saying that for me and my family, we have been well equipped to deal with the difficulties it presents, from a healthcare, social support, family support, and financial perspective.

I do not at all identify with the disorder, and we struggle with the degree to describe our kids as well. I was trying to say that a) I am me and I know and like myself, b) by the current diagnostic standards, I believe I would have been diagnosed as a child, and c) I don’t know how much changing b would affect a.
This is just sad
/hugs. don't despair, you can get a new one for 40 bucks. that's what's so great about these things!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T440s-14-Laptop...
Sadly there's no korean to english.
Those aren't the reasons, they're just attempts at finding an argument that will make people lay down and take it.
Score voting is approval voting, except that you are allowed to make the tactical error of assigning a score between the two extremes. This is always a tactical error, de facto the same as flipping a carefully biased coin for each candidate.
Contrary to what it seems like on the internet, most people are not actually getting outraged about every little thing. Even the people that are posting about being outraged on the internet usually don't really care that much. If anything, the popularity of standup comedy is at an all time high. It's just that some critics have a slightly louder voice than they used to.
Fwiw from some info posted above it sounds like it's the automated response to the DDoS causing issues, not the DDoS itself.
Web_view for the C++ Standard Library
> OCR doesn't need a cloud vs. a beefy computer - I do a lot of that too.

Can you elaborate on this?
what TechCrunch is hacked????
Gah, too many examples. I was referring to the synthetic example further upthread.
What I’m going to say is a little different to most others on this board.

I’m an environmental economist - quite a specialised field. I work with a team of software developers to embed environmental economic knowledge systems in software, which makes those knowledge systems scalable and accessible. It’s been quite an experience to lay down that knowledge - basically my life’s work -in a way which democratises its use.

This experience gives me the sense that what a developer could do is look for an expert in a field in which they are interested. The more niche the better, and partner to build a system which embeds in IT a knowledge system. I might also add that many of today’s big challenges cannot be solved from within one field of expertise, but instead require multi-disciplinary toolkits, which can also be be developed within IT systems.
From the document... Across ~12,000 locations they put the majority of restaurants in a range but they do have the numbers pretty well crunched.

Average profit margin 26-28%
Average gross sales 2.2 - 2.6M
Average operating income before rent/tax: 570k - 716k

"The rent paid to McDonald’s will vary based upon sales and McDonald’s investment in land, site improvements, and building costs."

It looks like that rent paid to McD's home planet is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of that investment (yearly? I guess?) but it seems to average about 100k-150k.
Why quit when you can start your job search while continuing to work, then get laid off with severance?
Maybe. I'm hoping that single sign-on and CAPTCHA are sufficiently different that people won't get confused. Also, the dev team behind this didn't want a generic name, and there are enough products/services out there that name collisions are pretty easy to encounter, unless wholly making up a name (which might then require more explanation).
Doesnt deno also have a lockfile?
http://growbot.online (GrowPotBot) YC W2018
is an open source positronic (AI) aeroponic residential and lightweight industrial gardening appliance.

the tech stack fits into multiple platforms, we spent the last few years in China and Malaysia understanding value engineering, manufacturing logistics.

we're hoping to ship in major retailers starting in 2020 with an incredibly low < $100 'in cabinet' unit that can produce peppers, tomatoes and cannabis (or whatever you want). the primary differentiator is the cost and intelligence of the unit targeted at high yield strains of food and medicine in small spaces.

we're hoping to make them so cheap we can nearly give them away and make indoor urban farming "a thing" before climate change really kicks into full gear and destroys outdoor gardens.

positronic "closed loop" garden, happy to share what we're working on with other like minded people and collaborating with other growers internationally on open-data standards for storing this data and compiled models.
I notice that Marko.js is still 8x faster of React on server side rendering.

For those companies that do server side rendering of content assuming frontend machines are CPU bounded this means that they could have a pretty big cost saving on frontend servers.

Server side rendering may improve the first page load.
But it is usually used mainly for SEO purposes. But Google should has been able to index SPA apps for a while. So is server side rendering still very relevant today?
Firefox touchpad scrolling feels worse than other browsers by default because of the terrible default inertia and acceleration values. If you're not opposed to some tweaking, you can get them to feel much more like Safari.
Further reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/63cd0m/how_to_get_...
I'm glad this isn't cloud-based. I keep logged out of google as a rule, and at least the last time I checked you had to be logged in to use Google Translate.
and we're hiring! https://semios.com/jobs/
That’s already been happening for quite some time now.
I confess to laughing when he ran into the jetway to board his already-departed flight, only to fall out the other end of it.

Thank you, Jim, for that great laugh!
True. Pretending to know and being confident is half the battle though. "Managing Expectations." Useful skills imho
I thought that the cable TV subscription pays for the distribution and ads pay for the channels?
That's definitely a question to be answered.

More than the # of hours involved, it's the error-prone nature of the work and the lag between when the data should be entered vs when it's actually entered.

These three factors -- hours saved, errors prevented, time lag avoided -- make me think that it's worth automating.

You're right, however, it's not clear cut it's the right way to go.
FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps
They can make other browsers subtly slower, just open your imagination.
I fought very hard through that same paragraph as you did, and finally think I figured it out.

The author is upset that modern witches are appropriating from Christianity the "Good vs. Evil" narrative. Calling Trump evil, or saying Hillary is in a satanic cult is equally lacking in sophistication in the authors view.

Pre-Christian paganism, was able to practice religion without framing everything in a binary Good vs Evil debate, and that appears to have been lost in the modern movement. The Green Knight and the Beowulf example are magical forces more closely resembling forces of nature, rather than evils that must be overcome.

Apologies if I am misrepresenting the argument. In my opinion the 'women hating women' element in the authors piece was not central to the argument they were making in this paragraph, and would have fit better in other places further down the essay.
I really enjoyed one of the more subtle points the Psycho Pass movie made as well, reflected in the dynamic between two different shots involving two of the main characters in the film. It drives home the point about the difference between a technical victory and a lasting cultural victory.
Never use software that thinks in terms of lists of +/- GMT zones and says things like "GMT: Ireland, United Kingdom; Iceland". You don't live in a "GMT Time Zone" and nobody you know has any idea what this means.

Use software which is driven by cities and uses the Olson database, Europe/London, Europe/Dublin and so on. This is unambiguous which means things will go wrong a lot less often.

You probably live in a city, and if you don't live in a city you there's a big one near you. You know what time it is there. Everybody knows what time it is there. If you're participating in an event where some people are far away they can do any number of things to find out when "14:00 Dublin time" is exactly and get it correct. They can even just call somebody in Dublin and ask. No confusion about "Um, GMT. I think? Is the timezone GMT? Or UTC? Or does it change?"
Read "Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial," by D.S. Sivia for an excellent introduction to experimental design for scientists. This gives you a quantitative approach to the design of experiments, with tools to properly evaluate your results.
My hometown is where the Ringling Bros. Circus started. One of the brothers used some of his circus fortune to build a theatre[0] in 1915. It fell in disrepair, and they only did bits and pieces of restoration while I was growing up. Then a few years ago they got enough funding to do a ton of restoration, and it is beautiful. Thankfully, the people in charge of it decided to stop trying to compete with the modern cinemas of neighboring towns by showing new movies on the old screen and projector, and now they do classic movie nights alongside various live performances.

[0]http://www.alringling.org/
> You think this affects video decoding?

Speaking for Chrome's implementation, efficiently rendering video on macOS does require CALayer compositing, but it's not sufficient.

Only certain types of decoded frames can be efficiently scanned out (different from the types that can be used efficiently in OpenGL compositing). Actually entering the most efficient fullscreen video mode requires some magic. Matching macOS behavior exactly when a fallback to OpenGL compositing is required can be difficult (eg. colorspace bugs can result in flickering).

I have not looked at the new code in Firefox, but I would expect that not all of the benefit would be realized in a first release. In any case it's a huge undertaking to support a single platform; congrats to the team for making it happen!
AWS Route53 DNS Partial Outage
It seems to work fine for the Irish presidential elections, which are single winner.

The Irish presidency is almost entirely a ceremonial role.
> First, it was a massive waste of those 2 human's intellect

This is usually the reality and it's nothing to be ashamed about.

At work, do what you're paid to do. In your free time, pursue interests (literally, things that are interesting to you).
since i decide to end my life, mi thoughs are more paceful and less disturbing. im planning in december take a lethal dose of nembutal. all in my life is shit, and i get tired of.
I'm not sure that adds up. When Bing was introduced in mid-2009, IE had about 60% of the market, and it was dropping fast as Chrome's popularity exploded [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...
I know it's not physical, but:

'Austria? Well g'day, mate!'
I see, I just enjoyed it and the mystery, the attention to detail, animation, direction choices

No tearjerkers from the twists or relationships, maybe just from the fun and perplexing outcomes rendered awesomely

Whiny angsty awkward teenagers are annoying, Gurren Lagaan doesnt have a main character like that which is refreshing but I never really considered comparing them - do a lot of people put them in the same category because mecha?

I would recommend NGE for the entertainment and mindfuckery
> The contracts in place with red-light camera providers often specify maximum yellow light times

There's a lot of room for weaseling the way that's written. The contracts could specify maximum times to cover incorrect configurations like 2 minutes - that would be sensible. Technically the article is correct but it leads the reader to conclude malicious intent where there may be none.

Only the DigitalTrends article talked about contract imposed maximums. In the Chicago article it looks like the city that was acting in bad faith. There is no established link between provider imposed contracts violating best practices.
Some of Our English Authors
> "Windows ain't done until WordPerfect won't run"

Source? All I can find is http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done....
One scene that sticks out to me after all these years is a brief 2 minute scene from 'End of Evangelion' where Rei is talking to Shinji about the nature of dreams.

In the background you can hear Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring being played on a piano and it transitions from animation to filmed live action footage which I think was shot around Tokyo it shows things like train lines, buildings and an empty swing set in a playground and yes there is a power line shot. Then it cuts to an audience watching a film inside a cinema as handwritten letters flash up on the screen, which were death threats the studio had received from obsessive fans.

I was blown away by the aesthetics of this scene watching it as a 15 year old and it's stuck with me.
>Because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy. The VPN provider can see all your traffic, and do with it what they want - including logging.

This is a tautology. If you use it as a proxy, then its a proxy. VPNs arent for this, and so are bad at it.

VPN use case is either to securely leave a network (hotel Wi-Fi, airport wifi) or to securely get to a network (home resources, corporate resources). If you want a proxy, find a proxy.
From the phonecall with our AWS TAM and support reps
This seems like a pretty far reach from what's otherwise in the C++ stdlib. Also, the field is quite complicated and still changing -> to me this seems like something that would be interesting to have, but a) I don't think the standard library is the right place for it and b) it would really only make sense if there is access to multiple engines through it, something I don't have the impression the browser vendors care for.
Ask HN: What should I do now to find my next project?
Bit of background about me:

I'm 22. Over the past year I built a small Internet business that is making about $20k/month. The business is basically fully automated now.

My dream is to build a great consumer tech company, something like Google, Facebook or Reddit. I'm not interested in building B2B businesses. I'm interested in building something that a lot of people use.

This means I have:

- lots of free time
- no need to worry about money
- some money to put into my next project
- enough programming skills to build any website or mobile app

What I don't have:

- Good connections for co-founders or investors (I'm a bit anti-social)
- US passport (I'm Canadian, but I want to move to US)
- Not much deep expertise in any leading technology

I've been quite frustrated recently. I finished building a new project that is not working right now, and I'm not really motivated to work on it anymore. I feel somewhat disconnected from building something "big".

I realized that instead of jumping head-first into a new project, it may be worth taking the time to explore some things. However, "exploring" feels bad because I feel lost and purposeless. I realized that I'm the happiest when I'm working on some great project. Ironically, "work" isn't really work for me. I feel sad when I'm taking time off. My dream life would be to work 12 hours a day, every day, building a great company.

As I'm writing this, I feel pretty bad. I woke up this morning and didn't do anything "productive"; just reading and playing some games. I really want to work on something great but I have no idea how I'm supposed to find the next thing to work on.

If you were me, what would you do?
Waze uses AWS: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/guest-post-multi-...

You're probably not wrong, but still.
to be fair, most people don't
We still have some of this in the UK: Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean), Lee Evans (There's Something About Mary).
Kaitlin Olson did a very funny pratfall on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that ends with her running full-speed into the door of a taxi. Part of what makes it funny is that it's so real, but she had to regularly see a chiropractor after that.
I don't know, and at this point, I don't care.

Sites have brought this sort of thing on themselves by enabling (or directly engaging in) the abuse of users. That abuse forces me to take a very defensive posture when browsing the web. It's simply a matter of self defense.

If that means that I can't access the sites, whether it's because of recaptcha or other issues, then I won't access the sites. Easy.
I guess the main thing I missed in my pithy assessment was the way they'll update you on "industry best practices" (=your competitor's processes that are working better than yours). So they're also a kind of mix of corporate spies and governance R&D mutual aid program.
I always wondered how nazi germany must have been observed from the outside.
I think it was somehow equal to todays china.
On PCs everybody uses 64 bits, and if they choose not to, they have a large risk of being converted into and out of it all the time by the compiler because it's faster.

But specialized CPUs often get different number sizes. It's common for specialized NN and GPU hardware to use 32 bits floats, what leads to 2^24 definition that is actually around the top precision you will find for analog components on the places people (instead of labs) go for buying them, at least on the countries where access to those aren't restrict due to nuclear proliferation concerns.