skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I've felt is that there are lot of freelance developers in India, both good and bad ones. Most of them say "Yes" to everything but only few of them have the capability to do what we need.

When I posted a simple task on Upwork recently (related to AWS server configuration), I got 100s of requests, mostly from Indians. Now the problems are

1) I'm looking for a freelancer, not an agency. Most of them are pitching on behalf of their own agency, and we will never know who is actually doing the work. (They might even outsource it) [This is the worst part]

2) Some of them won't even read the work description properly, and so we need to spend a lot of time filtering the requests.

I got confused and skeptical about their capabilities because of all these and finally hired a freelancer from Europe.

But I've seen amazingly talented freelancers from India as well. It's just that, filtering through 100s of requests is painful.
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If America embraced a proper work and life balance, we could have both. Not all Mom's and Dad's want to stay home, and afew hours of quality daycare could be beneficial to most kids.

I say this as a parent with 6 kids and a wife who has cared for all of them.
I'm an American, and I'd rather hire my fellow Americans. They have a much more sensible work ethic, and are more efficient; they put in a solid day's work in eight hours or less and then get the hell out of the office. If they leave at 5pm, then I don't have to stay all night to babysit them.
I envy the English grammar over this. In German the equivalent third person plural pronoun "sie" could absolutely not be used in singular context and would cause the predicate of the sentence to have to switch to plural too which doesn't work semantically.

So in German, I'm stuck with trying to evenly distribute female and male pronouns or writing the ugly equivalent to "he/she"
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Homeschool kids don't have to be isolated though, and as you say the nerdy kids at regular school are the ones that exhibit this type of behavior (which isn't bad btw, people mature at different rates). I think it's not as difficult to socialize as a homeschooler as you think it is. In fact they're often at a distinct advantage for socialization because they're usually not burdened by hours of homework so have more free time to hang out with their friends. They also can have more unstructured play time during the day if their parents choose to go that route.
There's a difference between "is it print or printf in python" and "I'm thinking about architecting this code in this way; what do you think?" I don't think they're talking about the former, and I hope for your team's sake you aren't talking about the latter.
The number of phones actually supported by lineageOS is a rounding error, unless you count unofficial incomplete builds by random untrusted people on some forum.
No we don’t. We are probably the most privileged workers in the world. If we are mistreated, we can quit and get another job down the street, likely with a raise. It’s not worth trading for all the bullshit that comes along with unions.
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“non-STEM” — care to be more vague?
At launch, those systems will probably be very competitive with off-the-shelf PCs. By 2022, they won't look as good.

One thing these new consoles are doing that seems interesting is that they use a huge pool of unified RAM (rather than two independent pools of main+video memory).
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That's just because the course already exists in english https://www.elementsofai.com/
To save y'all a click: The alleged biometrics in question are the use of facial-recognition software on photos uploaded to Google Photos (without informed consent from the user).
Ending a sentence with a preposition and splitting an infinitive have never been against English grammar.

They were “considered” as faux pas by people who were wrong.
Barrel and Refinery are intended to specify and to execute DDL respectively, while Diesel is intended to specify and execute queries and DML. They target complimentary portions of the SQL problem space and are not alternatives to each other.
I'd guess smaller or even larger towns that are isolated from any metropolitan area
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This doc is pretty old, but still was invaluable for actually writing a sound card driver when I was tasked to do so. Frankly, ALSA is one of the most over convoluted interfaces I've ever had the displeasure to work with when writing one.

Unfortunately, I wasn't writing a PCI driver -- I was writing an I2C/I2S driver that used the ASoC subsystem and its insane DAPM and audio routing. Most of ALSA seems to have been abandoned by its creators, and conventions are not adhered to in 99% of the routing and DAPM graphs. Since they're all stringly typed and the userland vs. the kernel naming is completely disjoint, this means that its practically a black art to get those graphs right.

Add pulseaudio's complete insanity with regard to hardware parameters and audio routing, and you have one of the most toxic development experiences of my life.

Frankly, I'm amazed anybody can get anything done with this system at all, and I'm amazed Linus hasn't ripped it all out by now. This is the one subsystem that should have been the easiest to implement and get right.

Audio on Linux is such a total shitshow that Android replaced ALSA with a total workaround called "tinyalsa" and ChromeOS replaced pulse and half of ALSA's routing behaviors with cras.
That was an excellent comment!

I use make for almost all my projects (regardless of language) and I have a system where "make init" sets up the environment (install packages, set up containers, and so on) and "make run" runs it and "make test" tests it.

Now I can come back to projects from 5-10 years ago and get them running with minimal effort since all the magic is in the makefile and not my in forgetful brain.
Tragicomically so. :)
For Russia they usually say "the Kremlin."

Also I always thought Westminster referred to the parliament, not the crown which would more typically be referred to by Buckingham palace.
You mean 200 feet?
Medicine is unlike engineering or law or anything else really.

Engineering is problem-solving.

Law is precedent arguing.

Medicine is process-driven, almost 100%. There's a correct (currently approved) way to approach each procedure. Practitioners have memorized thousands of them. They regularly review (in a sad weekend in a holiday inn meeting room with a dim projector and droning presenter) to keep their license current.

Agreed at the point of problem-solving (diagnosis) they've got muddy data and a few diagnostic decision-trees to follow. So they appear to be biased or opinionated.
I hope this is satire.
I think the idea of echo chambers and the link to disinformation is interesting. I found myself thinking that a certain viewpoint is the norm in many areas of life, whether it be work, reddit or hobbies.
I'm smiling at the idea there's a lesson to be learned from Kill La Kill. It's an anime where there's special clothing invented that gives you superpowers. It's similar to saying you learned this lesson from the Spider-man villain, Venom, or watching Iron-man movies.

I guess the above poster sees it as a metaphor.
As a non native speaker I find it difficult sometimes to parse who/what exactly is/are the subject of a phrase because of the use of the same pronoun on singular and plural forms. This already happened with “you” and I’m having a hard time to believe it’s a good idea to use they as a neutral singular rather than a new word just for that.

Is there any historical reason to use it like this?
It does seem to boil down to the idea that people in ties appear more competent than people not in ties.
OP oddly linked to the page where you sign up for languages that they haven't released yet. Just go to the home page and select English.
In an ideal world, we'd probably have a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun. Meanwhile, in the real world, that's such a political minefield that anything is going to get a lot of people up in arms and call all sorts of attention to itself. And just using "they" works pretty well in the vast majority of cases.
The actual reason is that language evolves organically and randomly, and so there's no a priori reason to expect any of it to “make sense”.
The most epic was an online course with thousands of students (dont recall exactly) where you was required to ask three questions per semester.

Eventually someone convinced prof that there cant possibly be well over 3000 meaningful questions and that forum quality will go down if we try.
"Thou" is still used in some dialects of northern England and Scotland, albeit mostly by older people.
I hope this doesn't stay downvoted, because it best reflects the sad state of labor law.

The MOST they'd get is back-pay if Google loses. But truthfully, most people have to find another job when they lose their job, so that new paycheck is deducted from their "damages" and you subtract what they earned while fired from their backpay.

GENERALLY-speaking, there would not be punitive damages. That's why there's usually no disincentive to not just fire the worker who is organizing. The potential payout is tiny to the company.
We don't have to rely on each other's opinions. There have been studies done.

LSE study [1]:

> The results of this study show that Jeremy Corbyn was represented unfairly by the British press through a process of vilification that went well beyond the normal limits of fair debate and disagreement in a democracy. Corbyn was often denied his own voice in the reporting on him and sources that were anti-Corbyn tended to outweigh those that support him and his positions. He was also systematically treated with scorn and ridicule in both the broadsheet and tabloid press in a way that no other political leader is or has been. Even more problematic, the British press has repeatedly associated Corbyn with terrorism and positioned him as a friend of the enemies of the UK. The result has been a failure to give the newspaper reading public a fair opportunity to form their own judgements about the leader of the country’s main opposition.

Loughborough University study, as reported by Media Reform UK [2]:

> Research published by Loughborough University has shown that during the first two weeks of the campaign, Labour attracted by far the most negative coverage in the national press of all the major parties. The Conservatives on the other hand, unequivocally got the most favourable coverage. We might expect that, given that most national newspapers (including the three largest titles across both print and online) have endorsed the Conservatives during successive recent elections.

Media Reform UK study on claims of anti-semitism in the Labour party [3]:

> Looking at the overall figures in absolute terms, The Guardian and BBC television recorded the two highest number of inaccuracies (8 and 6 respectively), followed closely by The Sun(5). Proportionate to the volume of coverage, BBC television still featured the highest rate of inaccurate reporting and this position holds when incidences of misleading coverage are included.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documen...

[2] https://www.mediareform.org.uk/featured/wheres-the-impartial...

[3] https://www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/La...
That's not even corporate spin at that point, it sounds more like the most aggressive form of "passive aggressive".
None of those reasons explain why a Makefile is any better than a scripting language.
Not quite.

It was used as a singular pronoun when the subject wasn't specific.

"To each their own."

But never when talking about a specific person, even in Chaucer's time

"Who will go with Linda to their birthday party?" which is hard for many native English speakers to understand.

Edit: Changed example to an unambiguously gendered name
No, they wouldn't ever do that. That would be like making an anti-demo. Google has an interest in getting as big a market share for their browser as they can. In as much as disabling their web application functionality of you do not use chrome.
Android is much less relevant than the browser.

And this does not even begin to touch on Firefox.

The problem is a policy one, with Apple really liking their walled garden and veto rights to any design.
Do drones really move fast enough to puncture a helicopter? If that's what happened, should they not have found at least some of the drone inside the helicopter afterward?
my new favorite MBA tech word is "serverless"
The service looks excellent, but the lack of any privacy notice and details about who you are made me close the tab again. Why the secrecy?
>You don't want to have your house built by guy who aced some online architecture test but has no degree, do you.

That's not really the primary problem I think, I gladly would. But what I would like even more is an entity (probably a company) that has enough assets that if something goes wrong with the house I can get compensation from them. And this company probably isn't going to hire that guy. That's where the actual problem is.
I find a lot of the problems with the media, and Laura being an example, is the need to put the journalist at the forefront. It isn't "the BBC say", it's "Laura Kuensburg says"

This inflates journalist egos, and leaves them more open to manipulation. They want to think they are important, not the publication. They have a personal "brand". There's always been some of this, but that "brand" was usually well earned, after decades of coverage, and used in a very humble way. When word came of how John Simpson "liberated Kabul", he was rightly denigrated. Now in John's defense it was a warzone, and people can speak too quickly.

"Celebrity" journalists, with personal following thanks to things like twitter, get "scoops" from "unnamed sources" which turn out to be lies, and spread them far faster than the truth can emerge.

This is the second part of the problem - speed. 20 years ago, news was gathered by journalists, and packaged into a well researched piece for the news bulletin at 6pm or 9pm or whenever. 24 hour news started to erode this, where speed was more important than accuracy, but things like Twitter completely destroyed it. It's no longer important to be right, it's important to be first.

News organisation, and the BBC specifically, had a duty to resist the noise of "social" media, and instead concentrate on being accurate. Channel 4 news still does this, but the BBC doesn't. Laura can do immense damage by errantly tweeting that a labour activist had got into a fight with the health secretary. Doesn't matter if they retract it later.

The final problem is the lack of challenging from presenters. Politicians can lie to millions of people and are completely unchallenged. There's a time for that - it's a "party political broadcast". In the news, if someone comes out with a lie, they need to be immediately told that's a lie, and not allowed to continue. If they keep lying, they should not be given any airtime at all.
What bubble are you referring to there?
Yeah, at the moment, I'm seeing the majority of the news on politics coming my way is outrage-inducing, and I by default ignore articles like that. They don't actually convey any useful information, but they sell. I think it's reasonable to assume that none of the political parties actually want to murder babies.

I'm getting very little actual real reasonable information about what the politicians will actually want to do. The truth is, good things will happen and bad things will happen in the country. No political party can prevent that. They might be able to make a very small change, but that's it. They are all trying to make improvements, and they have different ideas on how to do that. Which one is right? Well, if we knew that, the parties would agree on it and argue about something else.
The Road to Software 2.0
Here is how to use tools on Windows via my chocolatey packages without WSL, mingW etc.

cinst ruby # install ruby
cinst msys2 --params "/NoUpdate" # install msys2 without
system update
Update-SessionEnvironment # refresh environment vars
ridk install 2 3

See notes on https://chocolatey.org/packages/msys2
The design looks quite similar to Flyway[0]. I can confirm that this design has been working quite well for us in a large-scale production environment.

[0] https://flywaydb.org/
The python package repository is often referred to as "The cheese shop" after the monty python sketch of the same name.
actually you can put fair amount of anything as probiotic bacteria is so omnipresent around Balkans and Bulgaria in particular, that it’s basically everywhere
FFS get his name right
I'd have more sympathy for critiques of feminism (and similar policies designed to help minorities) if even basic indices of equality like pay for equal work were fixed, and there wasn't clear evidence of discrimination on grounds of gender in interviewing, police treatment etc.
My wife is always complaining to me about how the media are always attacking the Conservative party… I think, given that both sides are complaining about being attacked, the media probably aren't actually that biased overall.

I once felt that this was true in the UK, particularly around the BBC. To some extent, there is still a bit of truth in it. But I don't think it would be possible to hold that view honestly any more after the current election campaign, and to do so would require willingly turning a blind eye to some particularly egregious behaviour.

It's not as simple as a blatant "bias", either. The UK's tabloid press has always been pretty sketchy in this regard, and the decline of the Telegraph, which is now a blatant organ of the Conservative party, is astonishing. The current thing that's happening is more complex – there's a weird mix of credulous establishmentarianism and an inflexible media culture that's making it hard to deal with the rapid change in the methods by which information is spread. I have no idea how to deal with this, but it's actually sort of frightening to watch how much it's deteriorated in even the past few weeks.
While it's possible in English and we do it a lot now, there was a lot of argument against it for a long time. It still sounds weird to me, but I've accepted the necessity.

Perhaps German should just do the same? Or invent a new neutral pronoun that doesn't break the rules.
For what it's worth, the formal language is “worse” than the colloquial one in one way: you being plural is only a thing in standard writing, at least in my dialect of English. I basically never use plural you and systematically use you guys (pronounced quickly, as one word), which has become the plural second-person pronoun in at least some dialects of English.
No such thing as a free lunch. You are the product with companies like Avast. However, when I was poking around with websockets in my browser a few years back I noticed that Kaspersky was opening websocket connections to their servers and uploading full urls of whatever site I visited. They claim that it was to check for malicious sites, such rubbish. THAT pissed me off because I paid for my Kaspersky license.

I spoke to a colleague about it and he asked my why I didn't just use windows defender. I said that it was not good enough and he asked why. These were the days before most people started using it. His argument was that Windows Defender was not advertised at all, nobody paid an army of bloggers to defend it an big it up but that did not make it an inferior product. Why would Microsoft make an anti-virus any less effective than a paid anti virus? I really had no decent argument against it. I guess we just feel better about something if we pay for it. Been using Defender ever since and never had a problem. At least my antivirus doesn't automatically turn off when my credit card expires and they can't bill me.
Whatsapp doesn't have that feature when you switch between iOS and Android however.
This blog post is basically Spamming 101. All marketing emails are spam, whether they're selling personal "enhancement" products or SAAS platforms. A stand-out subject line won't help you when people start refusing all email that doesn't come from whitelisted addresses (which is what everybody should be doing).
We had the same experience at my last company. And the final result was very disappointing. Also we found exact parts of the received code on StackOverflow.
Seeking to a file offset is a constant-time operation (assuming no fragmentation), so re-opening the file and skipping to where you left off isn't that bad.

And you can certainly write self-modifying batch files, but only appending at the end is safe, not changing lines before you're currently executing.
The engineering team for our division is about 30 people, the company as a whole is much larger but our division has a lot of autonomy.

When I went remote I was a developer, now I'm managing an SRE team of 3 people.
Exactly! It was used in phrases like "To each their own." but never "I will go with Pat to their birthday party."

"But Chaucer!" is a half-truth.
You’re saying that now when times are good. Ain’t gonna be this way forever.
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this article is full of BS and thus the flies...
They'll find out some way to sell/use the data and the cameras will pay for themselves.

Besides, if airlines are ripping out TVs, relatively low capital cost, from backseats of very expensive aircraft I doubt its because of the cost of the TVs.

Maybe the TVs need hefty wiring for the power. Maybe they break often with kids punching them. But the cameras might not have that many problems, and therefore be cheap (besides, with a a wide angle lens, one can deal with many passengers)
I was flying through Schiphol airport and they had facial recognition entering the gate. It scanned my face and then brought up my passport.

Facial recognition is already here and in some capacity being used for flight travel.
> would cause the predicate of the sentence to have to switch to plural too which doesn't work semantically.

Not sure how English is different here. We do have to make somewhat awkward constructions using "they", and the predicate changes as well.

"She has to make sure her code passes tests before committing it" changes to "They have to make sure their code passes tests before committing it".
It's nonlocal specifically because it skipped the chain, and that happens in other places.
That chart shows the overwhelming number of occupations dominated by men. Are we reading the same chart? Retail sales, child care are mostly women (and the lowest paid), sure.
There are only 2 ways of pronouncing that, "Ascii enema" or "Ass cinema", both butt related... bit unfortunate.
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