skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experience as a contractor (strictly, employee of a contracted agency) at a big tech company is fine, not that exciting but positive. It would probably push my estimate of a candidate slightly above the middle of the distribution, away from either the good or bad extreme; but it's a lot less important than what you did.

And yes, software developers do go from contract to FTE. The interview process may become somewhat pro forma in that case, since the options are to hire as FTE, fire as everything, or get somewhat awkward. So probably sometimes that lets candidates who couldn't have passed normal interviews slip through. In a certain sense, that's fine, since you've had much more time to assess your contractor, and probably already made a better determination than even the best 1-2 day interview process could. That does feel unfair, though; and since your contractor knows the group's work well and interview questions usually (should, at least) relate to that work, they should be coming in to your usual process with a strong advantage.

So I personally try very hard not to start interviews for a quasi-internal candidate unless I'm confident they'll pass the usual process, and encourage interviewers to evaluate with their usual rigor. I've seen managers deliberately bring in interviewers outside the group too, both to improve objectivity and (hopefully) to make an introduction that the candidate will find valuable in their new FTE job.
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The 1776 project is the epitome of the very propaganda you're talking about.
My guess is that they just use noclip and walk straight though.
Doesn't matter since both multiplication and division are...commutative? Don't remember the terminology but (10x2)/4 == 10x(2/4) == 5
Maybe conservative america needs to appeal to people smart enough to start their own tech companies, so they can compete in the free market to do things the way they like.
While I don't think this is what you intended with your comment, it got me thinking that Windows on a Raspberry Pi would be a very interesting proposition!
The last AI paper I read that has a list of things the model failed at is this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23345379

See Section 5, titled "Limitations"
Not a shame.

You have a company that charges licenses based on the physical core count even if you run the product in a VM using only a single core, but then they also want to be your cloud supplier.

The only strong point of Oracle is legacy product lock in, you would be crazy to pick them for any new initiatives.
Why use an image from a possibly unknown individual when you can simply do:

FROM: alpine
RUN apk add --no-cache mode
As an antidote to at least some of that potential vitriol - thank you, this was an enjoyable read containing good food for thought and useful references.
If we really want to be accurate, why not talk about the parasites actually to blame, which the mosquitoes incidentally transmit? I carry no brief for the little flying bloodsuckers, but I also don't want to find out what happens to ecosystems when the many animals that prey on mosquitoes and their larvae are suddenly deprived of them.
Twitter has become the example of right vs left. I don't think this tweet "glorifies" violence, but my opinion doesn't matter, only Twitter's. That herein is the problem. It would be interesting if Trump left twitter and made the journalists follow him to some other platform.
She requested it on facebook via one of those things, but I donated directly on their website since..facebook.
Thank you for Trumpsplaining that one. Boy, I need to get better at hearing it like it is.
To put this in a perspective,

1 Mosquito 1,000,000
2 Human 475,000
3 Snake 50,000
4 Dog 25,000
5 Tsetse Fly 10,000
6 Assassin Bug 10,000
7 Freshwater Snail 10,000
8 Ascaris Roundworm 2,500
9 Tapeworm 2,000
10 Crocodile 1,000
11 Hippopotamus 500
12 Elephant 100
13 Lion 100
14 Wolf 10
15 Shark 10

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-animals-that-kill-mo...
You're grouping carries. If you have 13 spare bits, you can accumulate 13 additions before you have to take care of carries. Then you have to add some overhead for bit manipulation, but the article's point is that the parallelism gains more than make up for the bit manipulation.
Is there evidence that pickpocketing is such a problem in the United States that it is making a dent in tourism spending? Is there evidence that policing it in this way makes a dent in the incidence of pickpocketing?

> If your country cannot fund a police force that could do both these things then you have much bigger problems.

Underfunded local institutions are the reality in most of the world, not the exception. I'd rather have bodies investigating people who are witholding wages and illegally paying below the minimum wage then spending their day pretending to be a tourist in the hope that someone pickpockets them.

It's odd - it seems among this class of HN commentator-cum-policymaker, evidence driven policy is an unknown concept.
It's been shown to have no benefit when someone is near-dead from COVID. Don't 80% of people on ventilators die anyway? So ventilators have no benefit. From what I have been reading, the drug does have benefit when used as a prophylactic, in combination with zinc. Of course we now have politicized medicine due to the fact Trump is taking it, and whatever Trump does must be de-facto bad. Now we have countries banning it's use, because of the WHO, who also said masks are useless.
Seriously. Twitter and Facebook are full of liberals talking about "bringing back the guillotine" but I don't see any of that getting censored.
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Well, there's already a SHA-512.

But none of the SHA family of hashes have ever been recommended for passwords, not because they are weak, but because they are too fast.

For other purposes, the logical successor to SHA-256/512 is SHA-3:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3

But this is far from the only choice. Hashing algorithms are trendy right now, and there's plenty to choose from.
I pity your lack of imagination.
Stop basing the sentencing on baseball would also be a good move.
"Step" refers to an interval gap of "half step" or "whole step". In a way, I could see this as a "specific meaning", but since it refers to a group of intervals and not a single one, I would be quite open to a definition where '1 step' is always '1 half step', since both 'semitone' and 'half step' imply a less useful fundamental value of 2 half steps, even though music that involves only whole steps is quite dissonant and uncommon (the whole tone scale).

Your entire hypothetical dialogue is confusing as well, since your hypothetical person isn't using correct words either. The situation where C + 6 of something = B is with scale degrees (C moved 6 scale degrees up is B). And then you say "I currently mean tones", when 6 "tones" has the exact same grouping problem you are criticizing (because 'whole tone' and 'semitone' have the exact same meaning as 'whole step' and 'half step', only now 'scale tone' is in the group too). This artificially lengthens the example.

"The tritone of this note is 6 steps up" "Gotcha, so the tritone of C is B" "No, that's scale degrees, by 'step' I mean 'half step'." "Oh, so it's F# then." Done.
Wrong. Hydroxychloroquine is safer than acetaminophen. Chloroquine has much higher side effects, but they different drugs, in the same family.
"No BS" would work.
I'm reminded of the quote, "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
Because suspending Spike Lee would have required someone at Twitter to make that decision, and they're not going to do that. But will leap at the chance for Trump. It's been a clear double standard for years.
on further investigation this is not true - they applied with a bitcoin wallet. Thanks for the fact check!
Direct experience very fresh in memory :)

The issue with long running tasks is that you have to change the timeout to longer than the default value of one hour (otherwise the scheduler assumes the job is lost and requeues it). But this is a global parameter across all queues so this means we essentially loose the one good feature of celery for small tasks which is retrying lost tasks within some acceptable timeframe.

Further flower seems weird - half the panels don't work when connecting through our servers; our vpc settings are a bit bespoke but not completely out there, so it's not fully useful. Also flower only keeps track of tasks queued after you start the dashboard (but then it accumulates a laundry list of dead workers across deployments if you keep it running continuosly).

We were also excited to use it's chaining and chord features but went into a series of bugs we couldn't dig ourselves out of when tasks crashed inside a chord (went into permanent loops). I just declared bankruptcy on these features and we implemented chaining ourselves.

Point is, I'm sure we got some parameters wrong, but I and another engineers spent WEEKS wrangling with celery to at least get it running somewhat acceptably. That seems a bit too much. We are not L10 Google engineers for sure but we aren't stupid either. The only stupid decision we made was probably choosing celery from what I can see.

In the end we still keep celery for the on demand async tasks that run in a few minutes. For scheduled tasks that run weekly, we just implemented our own scheduler (that runs in the background in our webservers in the same elastic beanstalk deployment) that uses regular rdbms backend and does things as we want. Turns out it's just a few hundred lines of simple python.
Black CNN reporter arrested on air at protests over George Floyd killing
I think that’s obvious no? It clearly says at the end that he didn’t get the (imaginary) job.
Most workplace sexual harassment isn't a criminal offence, no.

Sexual assault is, and there's nothing a union can do to protect you from that.
I'm surprised that lynis [i] isn't mentioned when it's a discussion about linux security hardening. A dead simple tool that covers a wide range of security considerations.

[i] https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis
Yes because they would leave the police force quickly.
Training officers takes time and money.

Most businesses will try to avoid hiring someone that is going to leave right away.
Which encryption is it?
It depends how many numbers you add. If you compute A+B it will be slower because the Carrie's still have to be handled after the addition. But if you compute A+B+C+D+E you do 4 fast addition and only deal with carry bits once. TFA allows up to about 8000 numbers to be summed for a single pass of carry propagation.
No, I don't think it was. A plain reading of the quote does not direct anyone, to do, anything. It is an observation. Just like it was your observation (and opinion) that it said something different.

The questions are this: Who is right? Who decides that?
That’s an implausibly charitable interpretation, especially given that Trump has repeatedly expressed positive sentiments towards police violence, and advocated for the death penalty for citizens accused of crimes. He paid $85k to take out a full page ad calling for the Central Park five to be executed.

This is also the same guy who promised to pay the legal fees of anyone who attacked protesters at his rally, and suggested that we should shoot migrants crossing the border. It strains credulity to believe that this time Trump was just asking people to not loot.
Conservative support of "states' rights" has always been a dog whistle for restricting civil liberties.

Civil Rights Act? States' rights issue. Same–sex marriage? Let the states decide. Abortion? States should be free to ban.

Edit: swapped "Republican" with "Conservative", since the parties' ideologies have shifted over time.
Pre-Covid it wasn’t uncommon to see crazy prices on the amazon marketplace. I remember seeing a 10 year old 256mb MP3 player on amazon marketplace for like $600.

You can find most these items for normal prices on amazon too so this seems a bit like making a story where there may not be one.
> since delivery and tracking pixels confirm the address is real and being used

Does it work in Gmail? Since it doesn't load images until I athorize:
https://i.imgur.com/RZ93VIU.png
In this case, doesn't Twitter's definition of violence matter more than the dictionary's definition? Here it is:

> Glorification of violence policy

...

> You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence.

(https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification...)
If, as other commenters have said about their schools, there are double-digit numbers of administrators making over $1m, why not just cut their compensation to near that of lecturers?
You’re wrong on every point.
The best of aphyr's series is Hexing the technical interview (https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview), which includes one of my favourite lines from any post ever:

> “Og én,” you recite, sing-song, “Til javanissen!”
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The point is that being outside naked at noon every day for 15 minutes wouldn't hurt you. Therefore, a daily dose of 20,000 IU / day won't hurt you. Therefore, a 5000 IU supplement every day won't hurt you either.
Here are some actual facts, rather than assertions or WSJ editorials (as opposed to reported articles)

https://www.justsecurity.org/63838/guide-to-the-mueller-repo...

It's almost surreal that users named Overtonwindow and Simulacra are pushing the "no collusion" narrative
The comparison isn't one between Google FTE and Google contractor. Obviously Google FTE is the superior job.

It's between Google contractor and working (fulltime or otherwise) at a "lesser" company.
Plenty of left-leaning people get banned as well.
I have taken down this same argument you made elsewhere on this topic and I ask that in addition to your not arguing about something that didn’t happen and how you hypothesize people you cannot name would react, that you make the argument just once and not paper all over a topic with exact copies of it.
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

When's the last time you saw an American reporter being arrested on live camera?
> don't lock your doors

Will this affect your insurance if the car is stolen?
Java dev here (10yrs). I would like to consider Go a better Java.

I'm still collecting data and it'll be hard to move away from Java's established position.
That's the joke. :~)
Education is usually another good place to start. Educated people tend to make more informed choices, and informed choices tend to shape better futures.
We can hope Twitter adopts and enforces policies equally across the board, but they won't and I don't think they can either.

As an example of how they won't do so, consider that there are people literally organizing violent riots and destruction of property on Twitter right now, and they have not been banned or had their tweets/accounts hidden. Ilhan Omar's daughter was caught doing so herself, amplifying rioting supported by Antifa and DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), as documented in https://thepostmillennial.com/ilhan-omars-daughter-shows-sup.... While hundreds of people are inciting violence and using Twitter to organize violence in Minneapolis, the company has done nothing to stop it, and yet they're willing to block Trump's tweet on the theoretical enforcement of laws against criminal rioting? Clearly this is a discriminatory bias in action.

As for how they can't do so: Twitter is a Silicon Valley company. It mostly employs young, far left liberals. Its internal culture is heavily influenced by where it is located and the people it employs. Their Hateful Conduct Policy (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...) is also subject to that cultural/political influence. For instance, this policy notes that "misgendering" is not allowed. But if you're on the other side of the transgender debate, and feel that pronouns should be based on biology-derived gender, and don't think trans women and biological women should be lumped into a group, then you might be banned. Put another way, Twitter has encoded political stances into their operating procedures, and there's no escaping that even if they expressed a wish to treat their customers equally across the board.

There are only two ways out. One option is that Twitter admits it is biased, that they do discriminate against certain viewpoints, and that they do exert editorial control over their platform. The other option is that they return to viewpoint neutrality, avoid censorship/blocking, and only do so to the minimal extent explicitly required by law.
Another way we can control mosquitoes is by making sure the native bird populations are healthy. Where I live tree and bank swallows eat tons and tons of mosquitoes and other bugs every year which helps control the population. I wouldn't recommend releasing these birds elsewhere because they may not have any natural predators but surely where there are tons of mosquitoes there are also predators of mosquitoes as well.

Otherwise this reminds me of well-meaning efforts to control erosion by planting Kudzu or Himalayan Blackberry everywhere. Ultimately they just become an invasive species. And I could also see eradicating mosquitoes as removing a food species for many other animals. This is a really bad idea.
I don't think so. If a core is busy, it's going to be consuming almost the same amount of power whether it's using one ALU or four. So the best strategy is to finish your processing as fast as possible so that you can idle, where the significant power saving happens. Basically, if the processing finishes faster, you save energy.
> Why can't the Dean of the College also handle grants for their college?

Among other reasons: It takes an entire team to manage the lifecycle of grants, it's too much work for a single person to accomplish. In addition to the work needed to apply for a grant, there is also mandatory reporting and compliance to that needs to be completed. Additionally, a dean doesn't have the capacity to bind the entire university to the terms of a grant (nor the awareness to safely do so), so you run into problems with interdisciplinary research, which is increasingly encouraged.
Doesn't make them any less human to point out they took a known risk.

At least in my part of the country, Contract workers are paid a premium over FTEs because of that risk. Broadly speaking the more 'secure' the contract job (i.e. years vs months) the less this differential in pay is, but I know plenty of people who specifically do contract work knowing that risk but finding the payoff worth it.
But does that responsibility extend to other members of Government, or just the President?
By the same argument, Google could exclude a political candidate from their search results entirely, or bolster a fabricated news story claiming the candidate was a child-molsting satanist to the top of their results. Would you also consider that acceptable?

These companies have become, for many, infrastructural. For these companies (who also sell advertising) to take these kinds of actions would essentially be them bypassing campaign finance rules to give MASSIVE contributions of free advertising to candidates. I think its fair to argue that that would be unacceptable interference.
> "Violence" against property doesn't really compare to killing people, IMO.

That's the kind of thing that results in the insidious left-wing bias of sites like Twitter. Moderators who don't believe that property damage is a blatant violation of peoples' rights, but do believe peoples' rights are violated by mere words alone, and moderating in accordance with such views.
No, it does not make sense for the Dean of Athletics to handle rape cases other than for them to kick out the athlete that has been convicted of rape by a court of law after an investigation by the police. An argument can be made as to whether those are University police or non-University police, but the investigation shouldn't be done by the Dean or any other administrator. If the Dean of Athletics has questions about federal regulations, that's what lawyers are for, which don't need to be in house administrators either.

Administrators in admissions handle diversity and inclusion for students. Whoever is already in charge of hiring faculty/staff should also be handling diversity and inclusion there as well.

I get that specialists are needed at times, and having one person (or group of persons) can help in getting a singular focus and consistent strategy. But there's nothing wrong with people wearing multiple hats in a job and communicating with peers as they do so.

There also can't be a discussion of which adminstrators to let go until we are talking about specifics. Each University will have different circumstances, priorities, problems and budgets, and each individual adminstrator will have their own skills, expertises, and abilities to handle certain workloads. What changes Harvard would make are going to be different than the changes Notre Dame would make. That's why you can't have those specific "which administrators" conversations. It's not because we can't decide whether to cut administrators in charge of diversity or administrators in charge of athletics. Any given administrator can have multiple roles. They don't need to specialize in one. Which grouping of roles occurs will be determined by a very specific set of circumstances for a given University and its people, which is going to depend on knowledge that neither you nor I have.
It's amazing that the 17 instructions at the end to tidy up all the carries, which looks like it has to be done serially, is still faster. But I guess each register's carry bits are independent from the ones that get carries added from the last register, so it could be ...

mov W, E
mov V, D
mov U, C
mov T, B
shr W, 51
shr V, 51
shr U, 51
shr T, 51
add D, W
add C, V
add B, U
add A, T

which does seem like it could be parallelized.
simplest approach to eliminate crime is to get rid of the law

no law = no crime

not sure why no one else has ever realized this

guess i am a genius
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349195 : 102 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347792 : Marked as dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347415 : Marked as dupe

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Edit2: Running at about one new comment every 20 seconds, and 7 points every 4 minutes.
"Ironically it's design makes it also pretty bad for many other server applications."

Can you elaborate? genuinely curious