skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you post a job listing online and people apply, is that an easy pool?

I doubt most directors at companies going to IPO with Goldman Sachs are chosen from applicants to an online job listing.

If 90% of the total pool has a largely similar background, and you find 20 candidates without controlling for diversity (my "easy pool"), you'll have 2 candidates with a diverse background. Now even if you could do a merit based selection on that, you'll most likely hire from the 18. If you put more effort into sourcing from the 10% you should be able to get, for example, 10 candidates from the 90% and 10 from the 10%.

> if the pool of people you're choosing from is more diverse and you still end up with a board of white straight males because they were the most qualified in that pool, is that a problem?

Not necessarily. I don't entirely believe people can pick purely on merit, but assuming you could, that would be a reasonable result to end up with.

Though there is an argument to be made that a more diverse board could lead to more inclusive decision making. That in turn could lead to your company being appealing to both more diverse candidates and more diverse customers. More customers is more money. Not sure that I believe that should be the only goal, but it's.
> But solving problems with type systems is not a business goal. Increasing correctness is.

I gave an example of increasing correctness in the context of record data types, something almost every business app does.

> The same ones that formal methods research focuses on (for deep properties): model checking and concolic testing, which have shown much better scalability than deductive methods.

And these are good alternatives for some classes of problem, but how would I use them to type check a SQL query?

> There are easier ways, like Java's permission system, that I mentioned elsewhere.

Hmmm I have my doubts that this is really fit for such a purpose, otherwise why are there various efforts to build a deterministic JVM?
Companies like Google, Facebook etc should force their executives, from VP to CEO, to do a week of content moderation every quarter.

Then we would see how sympathetic they would be to the plight of these workers and how quickly the problem would be solved.
Iridium Offers a Global Answer to the Question ‘Where’s My Stuff?’
Why does this have to be about planes? I fly 3-4 times a year, I take subway every day.
Yeah, the undertaking would be quite extraordinary if they could get it working. Something tells me that this is going to take a few years to develop (preemptively giving a "bravo" if it could be done sooner ;) )
Functionality that was added in 2011!

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-3.1-hig...
Good to know, thanks for sharing. I may give it a final try.
She's not a diplomat.
It will run Erlang and Elixir. So anything you like or dislike about working with those languages should carry over. I find them delightful, mostly have experience with Elixir.

Asynchronous and event-driven code is already a fact in the browser so working with an ecosystem that is designed for that may prove a better experience.

I'm hopeful. Also, concurrency, staying of the render thread if possible. There's lots of fun to be had there.
> I don't know about most people, but I'm definitely more interested in playing the collaboration game. And, I tend to overlook people who aren't into it.

Hm, but the way you're describing it, that's just the Importance Game. All you're doing is measuring someone's importance based on their intent to play the Collaboration Game.

Don't get me wrong, I think that's one of the best forms of the Importance Game, because it sort of approximates the Collaboration Game. But I think you can do better at the Collaboration Game by acknowledging that the Importance Game is unavoidable, and that you're playing it.

First, I think you're overestimating the importance of other people's intentions. Even if someone's intent is to play the Importance Game, not the Collaboration Game, you can still collaborate with them. You just have to figure out how to get them to collaborate: either by playing the Importance Game or by playing the Leveling Game. If you only collaborate with people who are trying to play the Collaboration Game, you're missing out on most opportunities to collaborate--that's a losing strategy in the Collaboration Game.

Second, I think you have to view mastering the Importance Game and Leveling Game as necessary prerequisites to mastering the Collaboration Game. This is the only way to actually step outside the Importance and Leveling Games: if you pretend you don't have to play them, you just play them unconsciously and they control your behavior. Instead, if you learn to play these games consciously, you can chose to play them when they are appropriate tools for winning in the Collaboration Game.

This is, of course, easier said than done. I don't buy that human political organization is fundamentally hierarchical, but I think that there are deeply-ingrained evolutionary mechanisms in humans that make it very hard for us to avoid viewing others and ourselves hierarchically.

A final note: the Collaboration Game still isn't the ultimate game: collaboration is only useful toward a goal, and that begs the question: what goal? That's a deeply personal question, and the Collaboration Game becomes dissatisfying if you are collaborating toward other people's goals, and never achieving your own goals. The Collaboration Game, if you focus on it too far, is called codependency. In short: the Collaboration Game is still just a sub-game in the Self-Actualization Game.
Indeed! It’s an excellent low level imperative language. And amusingly enough bits low level libraries like vector and primitive that actually motivate a lot of the really fantastic type system innovations in ghc over time.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-ste Is a fun imperative data structures with abort only exception lib I wrote a while ago that I’m still quite proud of
Linux 5.6 Will Support Per-Die Temperature Readings on AMD Zen2 Processors
Yeah. Sure. That's possible. But how probable?

>The intragastric LD50 with the emulsion was 800 mg/kg and with the sesame oil formulation, 1270 mg/kg. The iv LD50 was 36–40 mg/kg, similar to the inhalation dose when the latter was corrected for Δ9-THC losses in the rodent nasal passages.

Taking a round 40mg/kg ld50, that's 1,818.181818..mg minimum for inhaled thc. That's about 6 grams of top shelf 30% thc marijuana. That's $30-180 retail. From all evidence I've seen someone is more likely, by at least an order of magnitude, to die by smoke inhalation, burning their house down, tripping down the stairs, or crashing their crash than successfully smoking themselves to death. I also find that ld50 suspicious and am curious to know their testing methodology. I don't have and reason to doubt the iv ld50, but I've also never heard of anyone anywhere ever slamming thc.

Taking the lower of the two ingested ld50s gets us to 121 grams, or a quarter pound of weed. That's around $200, on the cheap side. But if you were just to eat the buds I seriously doubt anything would happen at all. They're nutritious after all.

So, we need 36.3 grams of activated and concentrated thc, probably in the form of hash oil refill syringes. That's like $750 minimum. Realistically over $1500. It has a constituency thicker than molasses, and tastes pretty bad and you'll probably puke it up before it kills you unless you mix it down with something that's easier to palate, but then you're most likely increasing the ld50 to at least 58g.

Let's compare these values.

Pure nicotine: 300-600mg. A typical cigarette has 1mg or less nicotine. That's 15-30 packs. I'm assuming rather quick. Smoke inhalation would probably kill first. $75-150.

Alcohol 21oz 80 proof in an hour for a 120lb man. $5?

Opiates? Read some war stories. 10mg oxycontin could make some opiate niave people nod and puke. 80 could stop some peoples breathing. Yet some heavy users take 1,000mg+ plus 'safely'. (2)
Name brand opiate pills are expensive. If I'm remembering right its usually $1/mg.

Fentanyl? Carfentanyl? Pictures explain it better: https://dancesafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fatal-doses...

$? a fraction of the name brands. Though you won't find hustling this in baggies or foil. It's possible to inhale enough airborne fentanyl to od. Hell, it could even just land on your skin and get absorbed.

As far as the possibility of fatal overdoses on recreational drugs goes, marijuana is basically benign.

1.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0041008X74...

2. https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/how-much-over-your-norm...
This page isn't up to date but it mentions that many Dutch articles were created by bots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Wikipedia

This up to date graph from the German Wikipedia clearly shows the jumps: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Wikipedi...
I wish I could believe this statement. At 3mo the motor control is not sufficiently developed to precisely move pieces, nevermind read a book. Can you offer proof? Please amaze me.
Thank you for this recommendation. Just bought the book. Would love to hear Mate do a talk with Russell Barkley.
We are eagerly awaiting GKE integration.
I'd love to know where they learn that.

In my university years, I used to invent such ridiculously overblown phrases for simple things I did, as a form of mockery of corporate culture and my general pastime. But at some point I did realize that these phrases are hashing functions - like the ones you use in a hash table to put objects into buckets. So for a particular thing I do, say "adding colors to terminal applications", I could invent a bunch of nonsense phrases - "enriching the user experience of advanced software", or "delivering visual artistry to professional digital media" or whatnot. It was fun going in this direction, and we'd have a good laugh - but a person seeing just the output could never arrive at my original input, "adding colors to CLI apps". It was one of infinitely many things I could hash under the same phrase, and they could never know which one I did.

So in my eyes, if you're trying to explain something to someone, then using these phrases is essentially equivalent to taking MD5 of what you wanted to say and pasting that hash.
On the other side, if you make it much harder for companies to comply the "right way" it'll become more likely that they'll start "cheating", like token hiring.
Those are pretty handy! I use git every single day, and have for about 6 or 7 years now. I still don't feel like I understand it well. I'm no expert, there's a million things it does I don't use, I screw something up and can't figure out how to undue (Why can't I just command-z?), but somehow it's one of the most important parts of my job. I can't imagine going back to CVS.

Docker's the same way, but I feel even more ignorant when I start digging in there. I mean I get it, but it still seems mostly like magic most of the time.
If this was up to me, each and every employee of YouTube (and Google, for as long as YouTube is not set free) would be trained as a content moderator and would be required to do so for a couple of weeks (or as sufficient to complete the task) every year.

Edit: yes. Every single one.
https://www.luminouscomputing.com/

There's at least some cool work going on in the GPU/TPU area.
For less than 50 deployments in the small Cardiff City? That's a lot of dough. They were simple tests. Now in London it's going to be fully operational on a daily basis.

Either way, the major concern is how the UK is building a dangerous surveillance state. I mean, I live in London and I can't go around without being watched. And that's just on the streets.
It's an arrogant dismissal to say early education is not serious education. The house built on sand will not stand...

Take your view of the author's lack of meaningful credentials regarding teaching to its logical conclusion...we ought to not have any classes except the final ones, so no math education, except for the last most advanced calculus courses, because math before that isn't really in the 'teaching game'.

You can immediately see how abrupt and flawed that approach would be. If anything, the greatest care is needed in the first steps.
It's basically reinventing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative and rotation of responsabilities.

But yeah. That would be good.
Reminds me of something I read in Impro (recommended by someone on HN, and a readable-if-totally-anecdotal collection of writings on status): a marker of friendship is the ability to deliberately and enjoyably play status games.
That would require a very special, intimate relationship with someone to work. There is no way I could have a random coworker/boss' mug staring at me all day to my left. I wouldn't even want that with my wife/girlfriend.
Oh, absolutely not, because they don't think the way I do. The GOP has made it clear in this generation they care about power to rule and very little else; not their legacy, not the stability of the US government long-term, not quid pro quo or fair play. They seem to see their situation as one of existential threat, and they're operating as if the moment they lose control of Congress and the Presidency at the same time they will cease to exist as a political party.
I prefer diet and exercise over stimulants, but it's HARD to maintain.

There is science behind the former though:

+ Hunter, fighter, wader theory; having ADHD got us out of our caves and increased random or policy driven exploration [1]

+ ADHD has benefits to society through neurodiversity [2]

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8955426
[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1578754/
Coronavirus outbreak: 2nd US case confirmed in Chicago
Just say "We're still incubating here but I can pay you in exposure!" on the way in. That should get the message across :-)
There is some difference between "testimony" and "reporting". One is law, one journalism. There are, quite rightly, different standards.
What kind of storage device? I'm fairly sure in a HDD the 1 and 0 states have the same energy, and from what I know about SSDs I think the same is true there.
As a troll, he's exceptionally ignorant, even for racist trolls. Assuming he doesn't consider American Indians to be real "natives" of the U.S., Mexican-Americans most certainly are, especially for the border states in which citizenship was granted upon annexation.
We used Squiggle for a little while and really really wanted it to work for us. But the audio and video quality (and connection reliability) was just not nearly as good as FaceTime, and we were/are a two-man team, so we just switched back to FaceTime. I actually think Squiggle 2.0 but with the reliability and audo/video quality of FaceTime would be a different proposition. Audio feedback, background noise, broken connections, and laggy fuzzy video all make the experience suck. Details matter.
I'm not sure either, but things like this:

> The PTSD form describes various support services available to moderators who are suffering, including a “wellness coach,” a hotline, and the human resources department. (“The wellness coach is not a medical doctor and cannot diagnose or treat mental health disorders,” the document adds.)

do not inspire confidence. They sound very much like cut-price answers to very complicated questions. I'm sure a company like Facebook could afford to give its moderators access to fully qualified mental health professionals. But hey, they could also make those moderators full employees rather than third party contract workers, and show no signs of doing that either.

(not to mention, suggesting you talk to HR? The second you do that liability alarms are going to start ringing and attached to your name. Terrible idea)
Well, as in the beginning of wifi/cell networks and all such similar technologies, their priority was to make a first adequate and reliable system that reports position. And getting operators to adopt it. Defeating bad actors was not a major requirement.

Maybe if it's shown to be a great practical problem, they'll address it. If not, then no they won't. I'm guessing they won't.
You made my day with this quote thanks!
Which specific patents ? Isn't the ISA protected by copyright rather than patents ? And implementing x86 is anyway not that attractive due to the complexity of the frontend. If you had to do something from scratch, why would you do x86 today ?
Hey everyone - sorry for the delayed reply, I've been on a plane. Seth from Google here, the same Seth in the byline of the blog post.

We are very excited to bring Secret Manager to the market. Let us know if you have any questions!
I think you've gotta put yourself in the customer's shoes. If you ask a vendor when a project will be done, and they respond "well we have some unknowns haha", what are you supposed to do with that? It's not a very useful answer.
It isn't because of a lack of sympathy but capabilities. Even cheap moderator warehouses are expensive compared to algorithmic approaches - except they aren't there yet and may never be there if they can't define what they want properly.
I find myself playing the Leveling Game with cleaners, drivers, etc. and talking about the football team or similar. But it also feels the most preening kind of status assertion — like Harvard grads telling you they went to school “in Boston.” The worst offender is Warren Buffett, whose self professed lifestyle of a $100K house and McDonalds which is just a way of saying “I’m so superior to you that the granite countertops and Michelin restaurants you lust over and will never afford are so meaningless to my amazingly enlightened soul that I could have them for free and don’t bother.”
A sports goods store near me has finally implemented that. It's magic. All you need to scan is your debit card. Especially bewildering when you're not doing self-checkout. You dump your stuff on the counter and the cashier can pretty much instantly tell you your total.
How to give back to your community as a photographer
Surprised no one's mentioned Relay PTT devices. https://relaypro.com Looks like a lot of businesses are using them to replace radios now.
Given the reports of patients being turned away from hospitals, and the images of flooded hospital corridors and ERs, it would be highly odd to conclude that the Chinese gov't "confirmed" cases represent the extent of those infected.

The only accurate method at this point is a probabilistic method.
(2003) + politics
> thanks to good apps, and having parents present while using them.

I wonder what apps did you use?
While I cannot comment on specifics, we are going to provide deeper, first-class integrations with other GCP products.
There is a pretty big logical fallacy in this article. Bundling intellectual property goods makes sense because the marginal cost is virtually zero. Automobiles cost real money to build.

The notion that an SUV is the whole package seems weird, as the base idea of those models is off-road ability, which virtually nobody needs.

The idea that driving is free once you own the car doesn't make a lot of sense either. Wear and tear is expensive.
Just another parent here, but regardless of the medium, what you are doing is reading with your kids. You’re able to stop, explain something when it’s clear your kid isn’t following. They’re able to see the words your focused on. All of those micro interactions are what make reading with your kids valuable — the fact that you use a tool that enables you to have that experience with your kid doesn’t take away from that. (Just my opinion.)
It is when the competitions are aimed at the machine learning practitioning public, and not companies themselves. If having a machine with a bare minimum of $3000 of GPU power is the entry point for having a competitive model, then most of these competitions aren't actually a matter of coming up with a unique and clever model. It's simply throwing the biggest neural network you can at it. Which is fine, but it definitely flies in the face of the perception of Kaggle.
I get your point, but it doesn't seem to be a random sentence in a contract. For starter, "The PTSD statement comes at the end of the two-page acknowledgment form, and it is surrounded by a thick black border to signify its importance."
Strategies to Find a Profitable Niche to Develop a Software Application
The Privileges and Immunities clause isn’t relevant to this discussion, but you’re welcome to make your case that it is.
Because it just works, and I'll continue to get every cent of that $35 out of it until I can no longer. But seriously, enjoy your Sonos.
I had a minor procedure a few months ago. Hospital, surgeon, etc, are all 'in-network' the anesthesiologist, however, is not. And there is only one 'group' for anesthesiologists in our town.
Do you have a private office at work? It is like sitting in the same pod as a teammate.

But I agree you wouldn't want it with a wife and girlfriend. Could get awkward with them both there.
That sounds pretty close to what Scenic does for OpenGL-rendered UI.

Scenic has some interesting properties in that if a specific component has a code problem and fails/crashes, the supervision tree will bring it back to life. I'm curious to see what similar things one could do with Lumen for the web.

Components are already a very popular level of abstraction with Vue and React, probably others. So maybe there are useful things to bring from Scenic.
How sad is it that moderators are even needed. Why can't people just be nice?
> If you do something that is a crime usually sentenced to >1 year in both countries, then diplomatic immunity does not apply.

That's not the case. If it was then bypassing the Vienna Convention would be straightforward.

In the UK foreign diplomats commonly avoid prosecution for serious crimes because they are protected if their home country refuses to waive immunity.

> Also to have diplomatic immunity you must be an accredited diplomat agreed by the host country before entering. She was not.

It does not matter as family members are covered. What matters is whether her husband had diplomatic immunity.

In any case, diplomatic immunity is a moot point at this stage since she was quickly 'exfiltrated' and the US have made clear that they won't send her back.
Why the employees rather than the shareholders and executives who profit the most from it? The returns in their portfolios literally come at the expense of lifelong psychological wounding (which the corp is directly admitting in this contract).
You are 100% wrong. And deadly wrong.

My son was diagnosed with severe ADHD by one neuropsychologist. Medication was strongly recommended. He was then brought to a psychiatrist, the best in my area to the point where he is well-known, and he said that my son actually has General Anxiety Disorder. His ADHD-like behavior is caused because of severe anxiety.

If we had treated him as severe ADHD, he would have gone on medication. The medication would have exacerbated his anxiety and caused worse behavior and we would have increased the dose. The entire thing would have ruined his childhood from the misdiagnosis.

So you are very wrong. The cause of the ADHD behavior is required. There are many children who would benefit from medication. But many children would have their lives ruined by the medication as well if misdiagnosed.

That’s why I was saying it’s a collection of symptoms and because it’s up to individual therapists to diagnose, it gets misdiagnosed very very often.
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This is just to protect the corporation from potential legal action. It s like a disclaimer on a police agent job that you might get shot when doing your job. Problem is when you don t care enough to take care of the ones who are affected by the stress.