skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same as in any other large company: empire building and pfiefdom staffing. That is what people do. I find it curious how this is allowed to be completely, completely absent in the standard narrative on private business, and yet so ridiculously obvious to anyone that has ever worked in one.

There is this canon dogma about 'market efficiency keeping things lean and fit', which is so obviously false and disproven by every single Corp out there, and yet is allowed to stand. Curious.
No. The Courts have ruled in the past that for public safety, states can restrict travel.
Oh, sorry, I think I read for previous comment in the wrong context.
Department of State should step in to restore fearless travel conditions as the pandemic is a situation preventing people actually practice statutorily guaranteed freedom to travel.

EDIT: I looked up; the Department of Health or the Department of State would be more fit for purpose. Not the Department of Homeland Security, because TSA is actually a Travel Security Agency despite it is named Travel Safety Agency.
Routex Hooks: Hooks for Node Router
Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (1981)
50% of the popularity of modern languages like golang and rust comes from the fact that building and dependency management is light years ahead of older languages.
I never could see a use for cryptocurrency outside of black/greymarket transactions.

Now I can see one: a currency that a central bank can't create more of to bail out someone else's incompetence and greed.
I did love the way eBay did hiring with 360 interviews. I interviewed my future boss and recommended that she should be hired.
> Some houses cut bad interviews short at a halfway point. We don't.

There's pros and cons. For on-site, there's a point where you just don't want to waste time.

When I run an interview, if it's clear early on that a candidate is a no, I'll just move the interview along quickly so I don't hurt feelings.
Yes...you should return what you took by force. The history and cultural value of the items belong to the country of origin. Why is this even a question? These artifacts are symbols that represent cultural identity of individuals in the country of origin right now! I suspect the whole "culture and tradition is not a big deal" indoctrination prevalent in the west makes it difficult for some westerners to imagine associating your identity and even value as a member of the society the artifact represents.
why just africa?

surely if we go down this route that each museum should only really own stuff from it's own country. However that means that each country will have a monoculture.

So ideally there should be a system of rolling loans to allow normal people (ie those who can't drop £5k to fly out to visit a far away country) to see the culture and history of the world.
I don't really do much frontend web programming, so those examples don't resonate much with me. I see your point, though, with your last examples.

It's still very difficult for me to imagine how I would translate interfaces I'm used to into another dimension. Even if I picture something floating in front of me, I only perceive a 2D projection of it. Perhaps with clever transparency or by rotating it around I could receive more information than I would in 2D.

I feel like a character in Flatland, I stuck in my own dimension.
Many thanks! This is a gem. Within a few minutes, I've seen interesting courses that Google search never found for me.
After 40 years of being managed mostly by people whose ideology requires the government to be failing, the American government isn’t very good at many things. This isn’t a surprising outcome.
Yeah those mistakes take from the credibility of the text, which otherwise seems very well resourced.
Read the original article, it makes good points. I bought the book going on that and found it to be unreadable waffle.
So how do we determine on what year is the so called 'reference' year? It saddens me to say this, but after having lived in Africa for two years, the artifacts are probably better off being in western museums. Though it would of course vary by country, I have a very strong feeling (and too much first hand experience) that if they were returned, they would first go to the minister of antiquities; he would give some speech about how part of the soul of the country has been recovered and then he would sell the antiquities on the black market to some foreign collector. He would then keep maybe 50% of the sale price and pay the rest as bribes to other ministers (including probably the president and prime mister) so they could all be on the same side.

The best case scenario would be they went to some moldy basement of a "museum" and never looked at again. The chance of them surviving the next 10 years would probably be less than 50%.
Really cool indeed. Congratulations.
For many people it may be completely unobtainable that they travel all over Africa to see the best. For that reason, is it best that these items frequently travel the world for all to appreciate? Or is that bad as well?
This would ensure that among individuals, those who need the stimulus most (people with lower income) would get the least money.
covid-19 if you have animals https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
And can our European nations then be 'emptied' of the foreigners who continue to cause cultural, economic, and physical harm to our people to this day?

If you're White and saying these things, you need to take a long hard look at yourself and consider how this hatred of our people and our history has manifested in your mind. If you're non-White you should be penalized more harshly for your racist comment than I will be for this one.
Perhaps, but it won’t be one or two binary pass/fail questions at random. Because that would be… ridiculous.
I'm not looking gor a dev that knows it all by heart. I'm looking for a dev who knows how to get information about stuff he doesn't know.

A take home interview therefore gives me a much better picture of the real-life skill level of a candidate compared to a very stressful situation like a real-time whiteboard interview.

Also: Give your candidate a real problem to solve and pay them for their time!
Cheerleading certainly is bad, but I think candidates should receive a similar level of guidance to what they will receive in the final job (unless they work in isolation or the bad corporate culture needs to be emulated for aome reasons).

Generally the focus of someone hiring should be on the position they are hiring for, and they should actively ask themselves how the candidate with their own specific character traits and skills would cope in that position.

For this the person conducting the interview needs a profound understanding of the open position, which requires work that is often not done — and this results in lazy trick questions and ultimately gets the wrong people hired. Just like in a scientific measurement the person "measuring" the candidate needs to be aware of their own influence. And while taking of half of the stack of applications, throwing them into the bin and pronouncing that you don't like unlucky people certainly reduces your workload, it also reduces your chances of getting the best candidate.
Yelp actually ripped off the Yellow Pages. The name comes from YEL-low-P-ages. The Yellow Pages was a paper-based business telephone directory that started decades earlier.
FWIW, states like New York and California have larger populations and economies than most European countries. That, I think, is an argument in favor of being more hands off and letting the governors figure out what’s right in their state. They’ll have a much better understanding of what their local problems and capabilities are.
The amateur radio service has its own designated format for call signs: one or two letters, a single digit, then one to three letters. These days, the FCC normally issues a new licensee a "two by three" call sign (two-letter prefix, three-letter suffix), but depending on your license class, you can qualify for a shorter one. The Advanced and Amateur Extra license classes are allowed to have 1x2 or 2x1 call signs. According to the ARRL[1], there are currently 38093 Advanced licensees and 150793 Extra licensees (Advanced is no longer issued, but there are still quite a few Advanced who never upgraded to Extra).

Of course, a call sign can only be held by one licensee at a time, and most (or all) of the 1x2 and 2x1 are assigned (I'm not sure on the current state of things with 1x3 and 2x2). So one only becomes available when the previous holder loses it (by license expiration or death). There are far more Advanced/Extra licensees than short call signs.

There are also 1x1 call signs, but they are only issued on a temporary basis to special event stations (e.g., I have operated W8C, with a club whose normal call sign is W8YY).

1: http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts
Let's take ancient Egyption artifacts as an example. The ancient Egyptians who created the pyramids and all of those related artifacts we're conquered by the Romans. Since then there had been many wars, conquering nations and revolutions. Right now Sisi is the ruler of the land of Egypt yet I don't see why he deserves ancient Egyptian artifacts any more than any other leader whose country conquered Egypt at one time time.
It probably also explains afro style hair - keeps the heat of the sun off at midday while the prey doesn't have that.
There should be some disclosure that it will make it fast but very insecure
Good point, Trickle up instead of trickle down.
Not to mention there are direct flights from Wuhan to both LA and SFO (China Southern). Wuhan may not be very well known in the US, but it is absolutely a major city in China. I’m not sure what the best comparison would be, but maybe a St Louis or Denver of sorts.
You're asking the wrong poster (that sentence was a quote). But I believe jrockway was referring to the government's response to COVID-19, not to the companies that would be bailed out as toomuchtodo apparently assumed.

The problem with that reasoning is that governments don't suffer the consequences of mismanagement the same way companies and private citizens do. Sure, the elected officials may end up voted out, but the same bureaucrats will still be running things, and the basic institutions and systems that led to the current response aren't likely to change.
Ok, then. I guess you also have a plan to avoid the second great depression? Lots of pain,death and suffering. The higher you climb, the harder you fall. Look at venezuela and imagine astronomically worse.

They should perhaps consider taking criminal action against execs ,create better regulation and permanetly take away equity from these companies but why do people think it's a good idea to let th fail and watch the fire burn as if they won't burn everything you have down with them?
> imagine associating your identity and even value as a member of the society the artifact represents.

If that was the case, these artefacts would hold no value. I don't think sweeping statements like this help any argument.

We should gladly share our culture. If that means shifting heritage artefacts around the world to spread understanding, then so be it. So yes return items to originating countries, but also share them to other countries on loan. This allows normal people to learn about other cultures from first principles.

It also means that in case of war, or difficulty, items can be preserved from damage.
>These artefacts could be considered common human heritage.

Until there is a common human state, this argument is Imperialist nonsense.
Are you thinking of The Camel has Two Humps[1]? I don't think it was ever published in a journal and the author later retracted it.[2]

It seems like the conclusions of the study were overstated, but the general idea is correct: Those who apply rules consistently tend to do better at programming than those who don't. This is true even if their initial rules are incorrect, as they simply have to learn the new rules. They don't have to learn the skill of consistently applying rules.

1. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf

2. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/papers/camel_hu...
They don't get efficient during a downturn. They might shrink but cuts for the most part will fall on those that lost the political jousting regardless of actual contributions to the top or bottom line.
I wouldn't put so much credence on historical revenue streams. As computing has changed, so have the revenue streams. There's fewer & fewer companies these days building and selling OSes. Linux has done wonders to standardize and commoditize the OS. I think the reality of computing today is that platforms, subscriptions & services are what companies want. It's a very Cloud Computing or Utilities-like conversation at certain levels of many companies. SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, CaaS, KaaS, Managed Services (your PaaS, IaaS, CaaS, KaaS or "X"aaS). We (Red Hat) have even developed (or are developing) Automation as a Service, AppDev as a Service, Digital Transformation as a Service, (Data) Integration as a Service managed services or service offerings. And obviously for Red Hat, it is all on a foundation of RHEL. But to focus on the OS is short sighted. No one believes an OS by itself is the solution anymore. So you can call them add-ons to RHEL, but things like OpenShift, Ansible, OpenStack, Satellite, etc. also have their add-ons in our catalog.

So, I don't believe we're intentionally trying to hide revenue deltas in one product or another. I think that as computing has changed, customers are no longer asking if an OS can run these 1, 2, 3, dozen apps or network services on a single machine. Instead, they're asking for platforms or services that run their 10K or 100K apps/services in elastic, scalable and manageable ways. And we have platforms for those customers. And those platforms and service generally try to optimize for density and utilization. So that frees up resources for new apps and services.
And the entire banking system in 2008 wasn't built on a pyramid of f-ups?

What about the US healthcare system? Cable TV / internet? Or the rail network in the UK?

I'd argue that commercial systems have a stronger systemic problem which leads to inefficiencies on a larger scale than governments.

We only really see good results when we combine markets with strong government involvements to keep them fair; and that is extremely hard to get right because of regulatory capture.
https://github.com/google/santa is used to whitelist binaries on Macs, but you can fill out a form to instantly opt out. One of the options for why is "I use a package manager".
Did you go to the Cairo museum before or after the most recent looting?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/8/130823-museum...

I want culturally significant archaeological artifacts preserved wherever the most stable environment is. I do not care which country it happens to be, as long the stability and budget for conservation is there. I think the urge some people feel to return items to whichever country currently occupies the same geographic origin that these artifacts come from is well-meaning, but fundamentally misguided. Preservation for future generations should be the guiding principle. If that means Object X resides somewhere else, then that is the best choice, period.
Pretty sure it's all about liquidity. Money exhibits strong network effects after all. $XDR exists but doesn't get used.
One bad technical interview does not mean technical interviews are bad. This has happened to me as well -- and it's a little bit satisfying when those companies fail, because often what happened in that interview is a symptom of them not having their eye on the ball.
It does spell doom, but the problem is the whole timing thing. Since you can't predict the future, I think it makes sense to not get out of dollar denominated assets, but simply not go 100% in on it.
Cryptocurrency doesn’t solve the problem that the stimulus purportedly does, though: giving emergency money to people who have suddenly lost most or all of their income. The problem with the stimulus isn’t the extra money itself — it’s that it’s not going to the people who need it.
Valid spoils of war and small tokens of appreciation for the invaluable benefits of civilisation gifted to Africa by European pioneers, in my view.

If the tables were turned, do any of you really think for a moment that Africans would graciously donate our ancestors' artefacts to us in this scenario? If any of us were even left alive to complain about it, that is.
Yeah, I really shouldn't have lumped C# and Java together, sorry about that.
Rewards require risks. Take away the downside and you'll find you've also destroyed the upside. This is everywhere in life, not just in economics.
Good point, it seems this doesn't work well for people.

For businesses, I also agree that one would be discriminating against small businesses which were already struggling before corona and, hence, have low profits and as such low taxes.

But if your goal is to revitalize the economy in general, focusing on small businesses that used to be successful, e.g. artisan bakery and independent coffee shops, seems like a good way to spread the money around.
Why don't they trust the universities?
If the candidate has a degree in computer science shouldn't he be able to code ?
> Which they do, because that's their job and they do it all day long.

With varying degrees of success. Let's not pretend an encrypted-everywhere world (which includes e2e, onion routing, and other options) opens up like an oyster at the first sign of a warrant.

What would your opinion be if CreditCardSkimmersChat advertised itself as a place to meet other people involved in credit card skimming? With all conversation taken to e2e chats as soon as two people were introduced

Not constructing a pathological case here. Am really interested in how folks feel about the social responsibilities of serious encryption.
I interview people in non-coding disciplines and this is what I try to do. Ask them technical questions from a soft-skills perspective. I like to ask questions where they criticize their own work, or get an idea of how they approach and tackle a problem. I look to see how they react to being corrected or taught in a similar way to how you would with a coworker.

We have a question on a quiz that we give to every potential employee that very reliably tells me early on whether someone is going to be a potential hire. It looks super technical, but in reality anyone should be able to work out a reasonable solution logically. I always ask the same question in the interview: "Walk me through how you solved the problem." Good candidates think past the problem to things like maintainability, really good candidates tend to ask for feedback on what the answer is.
I think were JavaScript's this is concerned, it's different than the others - the others are just little tricky bits of syntax, this is it's own little problematic area of deep knowledge in the language.

It's more like saying people don't understand all of how pointers work in C.
Except a currency that has no oversight from something like a central bank is explicitly tailored to greedy actions like pump and dumps and other malicious trading moves that rely on others incompetence
Oh, for sure, but comparing the state of Yellowpages.com now to its state in 2014, it's clear that someone decided to make the design and UX uncannily similar to that of Yelp. Of course Yellow Pages the concept was around before Yelp.

However, YellowPages.com ripped off the concept of yellow pages just as much as Yelp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_pages
Calpers Forfeited a $1B Payday by Scrapping Market Hedge
yes! i spoke to a storyscript guy and damn this looks awesome
PyOxidizer 0.7
> with bare shelves

yes, this is a mystery. Free market should have fixed that. Even if the last roll of toilet paper would cost $1000000 the shelf should not be empty. Is the price regulated in some way?
Should almost incalculable wealth be returned to Germany for everything taken from them in the world wars and the subsequent extortion which continues to this day?

Or are they too pale?
I've seen some discussion. Bill Gates was talking about steps to end the lockdown yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKg40HX6oUo

eg. Restarting factory production probably worth it soon, large sports events not.

A big problem with this is there are so many unknowns - will there be effective treatment, a vaccine and so on.
or with svg.
Bad guys might rather hack different servers in different countries and use something like a chain of SSH tunneling after making sure they patched the security vulnerability they used to get into.

Add in some routing trough Tor.

That would be harder to beat by a single law agency.

Particularly harder if the countries implied are not friendly towards each other.
No I don’t think it is. Their local problems are the exact same virus as everyone else’s local problems.
Revenue 100, Margin 20, Profit 20

Revenue 0, Margin 20, Profit 0

Margin is only helpful if you have revenue, this will hit Google and other ad based companies hard (though google probably has the cash to weather it), Amazon will be fine and may even benefit.
My professor deducted a point for every instance of the verb “be” in my papers in college. Refactor “was, is, are” out of your sentences and you’ll see your writing improve - it forces you to think very critically about the subject of each action in a sentence and your writing will sound more precise for it.
> Putting aside recent imperialism, should Republican Roman artefacts plundered from Gaul or Syria be returned to Paris or Damascus?

The similarities with colonial reparations are striking, and this issue runs into the same kind of problems. If a crime was committed a very long time ago so that everyone involved is long dead, who should be punished, and who is eligible for restitution?

A blanket proclamation that "Everything that was stolen should be returned" is so ridiculously oversimplified that you can't do anything but dismiss it.
I just checked and Steam is still on my corp laptop
Amsterdam will no longer require to separate plastic recycling from trash
Yeah, but the causative link doesn't work the other way. Sometimes you can add more downside and get no more upside. My prediction? This stimulus package won't destroy the upside.
I am not sure I understand, it doesn't seem to be the first transatlantic contact made at a frequency above 30Mhz. (e.g.[1])

So what makes this historical? That it was never done at a frequency as high as 432 Mhz?

[1] https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2019/06/historic-trans-atlantic-c...
The reason why this is needed at all is because a todo list regularly needs 20 MB updates.

The problem is that there is no incentive for developers to keep their apps small. And since Apple makes money from selling larger phones, they also have an incentive to tolerate bloat. And lastly, your provider will be happy to charge you astronomical fees for downloading that critical update over mobile data.

There's nobody making money from small apps but 2 of 3 parties can monetize bloat. So bloated apps it is!

The name Clips and the QR scanning suggests to me that this will be used for advertisements, like those AR overlays.
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums
All prion diseases are kind of similar, but no, I don't think FFI is the worst of them. The defining feature of FFI is rapid dementia and then death, not necessarily insomnia.

I think Mad Cow Disease (new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) is the worst of them.

* Protracted course 1+ year from onset to death. Maybe 1.5 years is not unheard of.

* Almost purely psychiatric issues at the start, not even cognitive.

* But it ends in akinetic mutism, which is when you want to move, but a counterwill energes preventing you from moving, and you want to speak, but a counterwill prevents you from speaking. Locked-in syndrome.