skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, it's perhaps a valid point but as far as I can tell the only English paper missing is The Times (other than small mad ones like the Daily/Morning Star).

I'd take the opposite interpretation. It probably says even more about bias that those are the sources available to choose from (though I'd also say the Mirror is left wing, the Guardian sort of centrist and who knows what's going on with the Independent though in further reduction of the free media pool they've just been bought by a right winger).

I wouldn't call it sampling bias if it reflects the actual existing reality, those are the media sources available (except in Scotland and NI) and they're biased against the opposition.
I don't think that I'll ever have any sympathy for workers telling business what projects they are willing to work on. If you don't like the kind of work you're supposed to be doing - seek employment at different place.
The power of framing statistics to change their impact
I'm not really sure how to answer that. I guess it amounts to peer pressure. If you're up against a group that has already decided that these kinds of devices aren't a problem, it's hard to articulate an argument against subjecting yourself to it that they find convincing.
> some people are quite something, acting like whole universe revolves around them

Yeah, the gall of some people!

> unless he offers 100x more as compensation for his hurtful actions.

Uh, wait
BIPA requires the consent of the person that the biometrics identify. However it specifically excludes photographs from the definition of biometric information so its not clear how it applies in this case.
Are the service and browser extensions open source?
Not him, but I used to sign up to various courses while coursera was starting and free. Which means courses from American universities. Non-STEM were more likely to mandate questions if you want good grade. It was a fight to convince teachers that it is bad idea in online setting at first. They were also more likely to try to force or encourage discussion between students even when questions were not mandatory.

So I think that cultures are much different in that regard. A lot of it makes sense give topics that were taught. It is not that non-stem was inferior, it is that different topics have different pedagogy.

But, if students get points for asking question often enough, they will be trained to ask any question that cross their mind. They will be used to actively desperately look for any question to ask cause they are used to need that point.
There is also doing the most good for most people. For every person who dies due to a misdiagnosed disease, there are 10,000 that were properly diagnosed with the less dangerous, cheaper to test for, and massively more likely illness. It would be irresponsible to take that decision tree to the farthest branch when it is almost certainly something simple.

I definitely feel for people doing diagnostics in this profession, you can't be right all the time. If you try, you're highly irresponsible.
It's quite possible to have a heated argument without the mudslinging and dirty tactics that we are seeing now.
Show HN: Bravo – Turn designs into native iOS and Android apps without coding
Yep. Google management is unusual relative to management at many other companies; it's less direction and more cat-herding. Engineer empowerment is so high that managers don't have many of the tools in their toolbox for managing that they do at other companies.
I interviewed at Google. They didn't want to hire me, but called me back every year for five years to ask what I was up to until I asked them to stop. That's not normal. I even remember when Google started hiring in the early aughts. Instead of asking for resumes from you directly, they asked you to submit the resumes of any smart people you know. That's not normal.
It is unfortunate that Thinking Fast and Slow has received some negative feedback over the years, mostly due to questionable sources and conclusions.

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
Registering a .com with a simple additional word such as "doitforstatedudes" and then spamming Google would have gotten him to page 1. Black hat SEO works.
I've never faced a gun, so take my words with a grain of salt here: I thought the old ...advice... was if the attacker has a gun, you charge—if they attacker has a knife, you run. I'm sure that carries some qualifiers, though...

It's a pretty wild story for being about a website domain name.
You're wrong about this. g in O(f) is defined as: There exists c, m such that for all n > m , c*f(n)>g(n). Big O notation doesn't care about algorithms or worst cases.
Welcome to the internet, but thanks!
Hello HN!

This is a project we've (ten people team, four developers) been working on since about May this year. It currently supports importing a design from Figma (more to come), setting up API requests and binding the output of the API requests to design elements from your Figma document. From this, we then generate native applications (no webviews nor React Native) that you can preview directly in the phone. You can also create a build where you get the full native app as a binary (IPA for iOS and apk for Android) that you can ship to the app store.

Bit behind the scenes:

- Android version using Kotlin

- iOS version using Swift

- Backend written in JS with NestJS

- Frontend (built by my) made in ClojureScript with reagent and re-frame

Been a fun experience setting up everything from 0 and it's probably the largest project I've done myself with ClojureScript and it's been an absolute bliss to use it. If you're a frontend developer (or developer who wants to do frontend), you should definitely try out ClojureScript and see how it feels.

Hoping to share more experiences and lessons in the future around the development of the platform. In the meantime, any feedback is good feedback, so please don't hold back, y'all usually pretty good at that!

Hope you like it, Thanks!
I was attending Iowa State Universiry when the "Do it for State" thing kicked off. I never looked it up myself, but I heard the occasional reference to it around campus so it must have been somewhat popular.

A relative of mine who works as an administrator at ISU also complained about it at the time. It's not a great thing to have associated with your school, although there isn't much they could do about it.

I thought it was a one-off thing. Now I'm just glad I never needed to associate with that guy.
I agree with everything except for your advice. For the vast majority of people getting into tech, college is probably the right answer. Basically, to go with the system, and accept that you're being taken for a ride (being scammed). It's the most common-sense way to get your foot in the door, even if it's "pay to win". Colleges end up being the gatekeepers and selling a product (you), usually to companies that are already satisfied with it.
Announcing the Preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
"Probably" some hazy business process will intervene is not a reassuring guarantee!

(And those manual processes are expensive and likely to be automated away to some hackable business logic at some point.)
Thanks. I might try that. All reports seem to say they are actually based out of Dubai (previously Berlin?). It's all very murky. I'll see if they respond.
> git amend HASH

That's 9 characters plus the effort of finding and copy/pasting the hash. With magit it's two characters and you just focus on the hash in question.

> `git amend -i` to pick a commit to edit in a searchable list with preview of their content

That's cool! Still a lot more typing than with Magit, which also has a searchable list with content previews ;)

I'm happy that you've found ways to optimize your workflow, but seriously, Magit is still faster.
I agree strongly that questions are critical and important and junior devs should always feel comfortable asking them. However, if you've never had to put up with useless, aggravating questions that only waste everyone's time, consider yourself lucky. There is definitely a difference between a snob and someone who doesn't do their own due diligence before involving other people.
Sweet! This point of this project was I found no boilerplate for one of the listed use cases so I just built it in 2 days and later shared it. I hope you do the same :)
Remember that also the company has a 98%+ chance of failing or exiting without a huge growth in valuation.

Unless you’re spectacularly good at picking them, doing this on a repeated basis is not going to give good financial returns. But that’s not the only reason people choose to do things.

Taking a first employee role once or twice is a great way to learn a LOT about business and leadership and architecture and a ton of other things. It’s also a great way to get a title on your resume that you might not otherwise.

Some folks do so repeatedly because they prefer the environment or the green-field work or would rather build MVPs and explore new possibilities than extend or polish software that needs to be stable and well tested, etc.

Occasionally someone deeply buys into the mission.
No, I can't prove that it's disabled, but that doesn't matter much. There are people out there who probably could and would be more than happy to publish their results if they did.

More importantly, the difference is in intent. I don't intend to carry around a device that's always listening to me. Anyone with an Alexa device is intentionally inviting Amazon to listen to every word spoken in (part of) their home.
The biggest challenge with many crowdfunding campaigns, is that many people running them don't get the economics right (and it's not always their fault). If they don't know any better, or don't have a background / experience in business / manufacturing / retail, then they don't know what they don't know.

I've run two successful campaigns (one on Indiegogo, and one on Kickstarter), which both surpassed the fundraising targets.

When putting together the campaigns, we modelled out everything thoroughly to account for all the costs that go into a campaign – manufacturing, packaging, shipping, duties, tariffs, etc

Our team all had experience in manufacturing / retail / business, so we knew that it was integral to get the economics right, and to model out the pricing at different scenarios.

If people are off on the economics, and a campaign hits scale, a $1 variance that isn't accounted for can be a big deal if you're shipping tens of thousand of units.

One other key was to confirm costs and get commitments for those costs with factories before starting the campaign. If this isn't done, then manufacturers have leverage after a campaign is over and aren't always willing to negotiate on price. They know that a team needs a product made and has commitments to ship them, so sourcing factories becomes much more challenging after a campaign is complete.

With that said, I've backed a number of successful campaigns that have come through with the product and timeline they committed to, so there are many successful campaigns, but some of the largest campaigns also prove to be the most challenging to follow through on.
I just can't believe that the COO of an extremely successful company like Lulu Lemon (LULO market cap $30B) would make the jump to a suitcase marketing company? How many suitcases do you buy in a decade? Seems like a demotion.
Counterpoint: if even the most privileged workers in the world are unionized, it's a strong signal that unionization should be for everybody who is employed by a boss.
It's almost like you can make up whatever bullshit story you like to dress up your personally preferred gender roles as "we evolved that way so it's just a biological FACT".
Edit: I don’t think Crome has a better engine.

For sake of argument lets’s suppose Android Crome was a 90 and iOS Crome is currently a 70 due to the rendering engine. In theory they could replace the engine and hit say 85 given enough resources. But, they could also replace the engine hit 75 and blame iOS. Their still demonstrating an improvement and intentionally crippling it at the same time.

That said any such measurement is arbitrary. I personally like having a unified rendering engine because it’s less testing when developing mobile websites. There is no way to improve that situation by introducing a new engine.
I tried Bazel for awhile on a bunch of projects and just found it to be more headache than it's worth. I like the promise, but the tool is... meh
Ok, I’ll google it for you. But I do encourage you to talk to your attorney so you can pay for her bad news like I did.

“ Personal Liability for Your Own Actions

There is one extremely significant exception to the limited liability provided by LLCs. This exception exists in all states. If you form an LLC, you will remain personally liable for any wrongdoing you commit during the course of your LLC business. For example, LLC owners can be held personally liable if they:

personally and directly injure someone during the course of business due to their negligence
fail to deposit taxes withheld from employees' wages
intentionally do something fraudulent, illegal, or reckless during the course of business that causes harm to the company or to someone else, or
treat the LLC as an extension of their personal affairs, rather than as a separate legal entity.
Thus, forming an LLC will not protect you against personal liability for your own negligence, malpractice, or other personal wrongdoing that you commit related to your business. If both you and your LLC are found liable for an act you commit, then the LLC’s assets and your personal assets could be taken by creditors to satisfy the judgment. This is why LLCs and their owners should always have liability insurance.”
I drank no coffee up through university and my productivity was sound - I ended up getting good grades. I started drinking coffee after I got a full-time job.
That is actually an awesome and "ethical" use case for this project. Thank you for sharing who this journalist is and sharing ideas on ethical application.
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi has a good bit in it on the perils and triumphs of the Mississippi River Boat Pilots. Their special status on the ante-bellum Mississippi has a lot of parallels to today's tech workers and the challenges you all face. I'll spoil it a bit and say that things did not end up well for the pilots. Techies would be wise to heed their lessons.

Chapters 14 and 15 contain the majority of the lessons of the pilots:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm#linkc14
Really? The recipes I found seemed to use 3 1lb cans of beans per 4 people. That's 3/4 lb of beans per person. Also, this is Montana, they don't shy from larger portions, a pound a person wouldn't surprise me.
How do you know how to stay away from something if you don’t understand it? It’s big enough that it can come to you in the middle of you doing something else. Best to know what habits of its might make that happen.

That, and the megafauna that have existed alongside humans have pretty much always been herbivorous mammals. Mammals seem to be universally capable of recognizing which members of another mammal species are children of that species, and are less wary around them, and tend to (for the herbivores) even be intentionally gentle toward them. Mothers of many mammalian species even choose to adopt and care for orphaned children of other mammalian species that don’t look particularly like their own species (and I’ve never heard of this happening with a non-human mammal mother adopting a non-mammal, or a non-mammal adopting anything, so AFAIK it seems to be mostly a “mammal thing.“)

Of course, this same awareness of child-ness leads the carnivorous mammals to think of another species’ children as easy prey. I think humans do have an instinctual understanding of the difference between a herbivorous/“friendly”-looking species, and a carnivorous/“predator”-looking species, and human children do seem to have much less of a desire to attempt to wander up to lions or Tasmanian devils than they do to approach e.g. elephants or giraffes (or horses or cows, for that matter.) And even the kids that love dinosaurs certainly have very little compulsion to approach crocodiles, snakes, or birds of prey. They might think they’re cool—but there’s a component of fear to that admiration.

Humans don’t seem to have any instincts to avoid approaching omnivorous megafauna, and that’s seemingly a hit-or-miss proposition, but maybe this is where the perception-of-child-ness thing comes most into play. An adult human definitely shouldn’t provoke a gorilla or a bear, because an adult human is a viable threat to them, one they feel they have to respond to; but a human child won’t be as easily read as a threat, and might just be ignored, the same way humans don’t really worry about gorilla infants or bear cubs getting near us. (That, and there just aren’t that many omnivorous megafauna, so maybe we don’t have any instincts about them.)
Magit supports this as well. In fact you can stash the index and working tree separately. Even CLI got cant do that.
I think you could start with your last sentence first.
Ordinary Mysticism in the Unnameable Present
Interiors and reliability
My advice is you should be getting to know your system well before writing code. Look over as many parts of the codebase you can, run unit tests and see how they're all written and put together. Hopefully then you can write in a similar style.

Also I've heard at FANG companies the first few months code reviews will get hammered to make sure people get in line. I'm not sure how accurate that is.
Thousands were paid to use extra renewable electricity on windy weekend
I actually get somewhat excited over the mediocre B movies I would otherwise never watch outside of an Economy seat naptime.
How I wish this article's title was "Facebook Tells Barr it Can't Open up Encrypted Messages".
Man, my favorite ("favorite") is the "I don't actually have a question, I just want to make sure everyone sees that I think I know something by rambling about it semi-incoherently and then trying to turn one of those run-on sentences into a question halfway through it."

I find this more in public talks than in classrooms, but yeah, that guy is always out there somewhere.
now I remember why I liked it as a kid. Hanging on to the back of the truck is super cool. I grew up in 3rd world country where adults can hang up in Public Utility transports and it was seen as cool. Parents obv don't allow you to do it since its dangerous so I thought it's cool if your job gets to ride at the back of a truck.
I recall a study that found that the difference between good and bad teams most of the time was ... if they have a bad member on the team or not.

It wasn't the quality of the members, it was if there was just one "bad" member, or not. One bad member could sink a team no matter how good everyone else was.

They did find a sort of magic outlier where if the team member had an outstanding leader they could overcome the one bad member. However they believed that those folks were so rare and you're unlikely to find them that it's not something a team can strive to have.
This is a PR article and not intended to be news. This is an ad for:

> This case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN). PSN is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts.
I don’t mind Makefiles, and usually use them for basic command configuration.

However, when the logic gets even a little complicated and I almost always reach for bash. Everybody knows a little bash, and it’s available in almost all systems.
The interior is too hard to swap out and it’s not worth it.
That's an extremely uncharitable interpretation of the utility of unions.

Yes, unions add some friction to an overnight change that is made by grinding up the futures and fates of a company's workforce. That doesn't need to mean it "stops all human progress," for example, it can manifest instead as a requirement that company switching to green energy take a chunk of the money from efficiency gains to give their coal miners comfortable retirements.
I believe you misquoted the source. The "Appropriate response..." quote is attributed to Google’s VP for Human Resources, Shona Brown, not Eric Schmidt.
Whilst none of those points are necessarily wrong, I think you have implicitly ignored the happiness of the parents in your arguments. Many parents who feel they have to work and then pay for childcare and not see their children in order to make ends meet are definitely not happy about that at all. That shouldn't be forgotten.
Having made the switch from IC to IT manager and now back to IC (at a different company), I want to add in a few insights of my own:
1. It's probably not a good idea to get into management if your team is a remote team.
2. If you're managing a remote team for the first time and your boss is also colocated with your remote team, make sure he/she is not a micromanager.
3. Make sure you're talking to your team and checking in on them. The introvert part of me had a hard time with this.
4. Yes, it's ok to interrupt your smart, gets-shit-done employees, especially if you've haven't talked to them in days.
5. Make sure you set a vision to your ICs and hold them accountable to that vision. It helps if they contributed to making this vision with you.
6. Yadda yadda yadda, I'm happy being an IC again :)
Real costs are certainly more than zero, but it’s almost entirely time. “Materials cost” is what I rounded off to zero. Like if you want to benchmark an idea in aviation, you’re going to have to burn some fuel.
The increased oil prices were due to increase in the money supply after the Vietnam War. Money printing usually leads to increased prices of products. Nixon removed the fixed conversion of Dollar to Gold with the Nixon shock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock) which made it possible to print even more money. The gold price increased from less than 200 in 1977 to over 800 in 1981 as a response to a lack of faith in the dollar.
I'm sympathetic to the idea, but I've also yet to encounter a decent pitch. Pitches I've heard so far:

* A union could support privacy efforts

* A union could support other unions

* A union could advance political goals

* A union could impose moral rules for projects members are allowed to work on

None of these are actually reasons I'd want to sign up for an organization where the core value proposition is surrendering autonomy for collective bargaining to improve my working conditions. These are the pitches of people who want to use the political power and funds of a union for their personal political goals.

I want to hear a unionization pitch that's grounded in things relevant to my work. No more overweening unions trying to do everything and sacrificing the workers, thanks. I remember Detroit.
It's something that a union would notice and blow the whistle on much sooner than individual employees talking to each other.
I don't have too many data points, but of the ones I do have, I think the vast majority of C-level executives covet the CEO spot. I think they would love to get in the seat to show what they can do.

You would have to look at the compensation packages, as well, but emotionally I am sure there were many people who wanted a chance at the saddle.