skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard anecdotally that they promised a certain level to a new starter and then upon starting he'd been down-levelled. This was second hand information, so I can't verify, but I have also heard bad things about them.
Interesting that someone would give a public resignation like this but still give two weeks notice (presuming he gave notice on Monday). I'd imagine it likely that the company would just let him go immediately after making a public statement.
The only virus ever to be eliminated globally is smallpox, and it took a vaccine to do so.

Unless Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, iceland, luxembourg, monaco, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Belize, China plan on never reopening to the World, the virus will spread again. It's already been proven you can go from 1 case to full pandemic in 4 months.
The one time in my life I was laid off, I was given a choice of submitting a letter of resignation, or of being laid off for economic reasons (so no underhanded threats of "underperformance").

The way this was presented to me was that to some employers, being laid off for any reason was considered a bit of a stigma, so by resigning, I could truthfully state (and the company would confirm) that I had left of my own accord.

Not 100% sure what consequence this would have had on potential unemployment insurance claims, because I was about to emigrate anyway and not interested in looking for other work. So I chose to resign.
The EU is responding to an ITU proposal that is both a combination of light on technical details about new network protocol(s), and more importantly would substantially upend the process for internet protocol development process. The mention of TCP/IP is because the "New IP, Shaping Future Network" presentation make sketchy statements about incapabilities of current Internet design. There are also concerns about the level of top-down control of the network the new protocol is set to enable.

In other words, this ITU participant is telling Huawei if they think their tech is such hot shit then go write an RFC and get bottom-up adoption of their idea like everyone else.
On of my favourite radio programs is The Life Scientific from the BBC.

It explores both the person and the science and leads to a wonderful insight and admiration for the people and the sciences they work within.

I highly recommend it and all the episodes from the very first are relevant today so don't feel like you have to listen to only the new ones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7/episodes/guide
No I actually agree with you on all these points, Hanlon's razor applies to all of these which is why I made the last statement. However, I DO think there are managers and I've certainly run across them, that deliberately push on all these natural stressors to try to juice productivity.
There are things like mortgage rates and spending priorities that are healthy political democratic differences that should have no impact on your professional life.

There are also things that are not political. They are war. They are 'over my or your dead body' type of things like slavery, holocasts and treason. We don't vote on those and accept whatever the outcome is. We go to war. That's why that sort of stuff is in a constitution. Because it's not negotiable. Not up for popular vote.

Now. I do admit that I don't think that applies to Facebook. I don't think they are intentionally trying to end the US democracy and break the US society.

But never say never. There is definitely a point. One does not sell hamburgers to the KKK for example. Or help build their website.

That's also why you see so many apolitical brands speaking out and picking a side here. They do understand this is different. This is a war for human rights. Nobody deserves the privilege to stay neutral on this.
Most of the time I spend not working is spent sleeping.

This is probably even more true for an Amazon warehouse employee.
IMO your point is implicit in the Christian cultural context.

You don't say "God grant..." before sure bets; it's implicit that there's some risk of failure and you're gonna need to meet the Big Man halfway.
I prefer not to use Amazon, and currently use a reader other than a Kindle.

I do believe my reader has the same ease-of-use if I purchase books from the company selling it. Might be only if buying things using the reader itself, not sure.
I would like to make a proposal that everyone wear fluffy pink hats every third Wednesday of the month. And I would like to use this standards organization to promote this by writing a fancy document.
You're looking for this https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode
I'm sure they could differentiate the hug of death due to sudden popularity vs the continued onslaught of scripted bots just by frequency of requests, right? As in, single IP frequency of pings measured out across a batch of addresses. Those malicious would be more regimented with short recycle times, while those unmalicious would be browsing making their repeated calls erratic. (Honest question, I'm genuinely curious.)
> don't show me posts that glorify violence

Does this include "We killed Osama Bin Laden" [perhaps with some details and photos of the operation]?
Transferwise - they also have a borderless Mastercard.

I use them to bring proceeds of RSU's back to the UK (0.6% commission on mid-market rate).
I think this a very legit list, seen a lof of these floating around these days. I think most of the basics are covered here. Especially the flight mode trick so you definitely know that the GPS is not being tracked
It's a tell when someone comments on the ongoing civil unrest and their only concern is the violence from some protesters.
Mailinator for Testing – New API to Fetch Links
Luckily it is also not terribly important what those intellectuals think. The large majority of academics are not engaged in these games, but working on serious science like theoretical physics, mathematics, biology and politely ignore them.
Also in case you are not aware, there already is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism, I'm sure they will come up with Post-post-postmodernism soon enough.
I wouldn't hire this person. But I'm glad he found a job.
why the but and the nonetheless?
Monzo to lay off 120 employees as the ‘economic situation’ remains challenging
You're painting a completely false, disingenuous picture of the protesting that has happened in Seattle over the last week. SPD has repeatedly used aerosolized chemical weapons on completely peaceful protesters.

The media focuses on violence and crime, because that's what media does — "if it bleeds, it ledes" — but that violence/property damage/theft has not been connected to the large Cap Hill/downtown protests for most of the week.

Your claim of "dozens of cars burning in the street" is, as far as I know, completely unfounded. As is "busting through every retailer's window and looting stores until they were bare." There isn't all that much retail downtown — do you mean Westlake?

There was some looting and some police cars burned on the first weekend, but it is important to understand (1) that these actions do not reflect the majority of protesters and (2) the history of violence perpetrated by SPD against citizens and especially citizens of color.

It is also important to understand that the SPD has responded to peaceful protest with violence every evening, through at least June 2. (I have not yet caught up with last night's protests.)
Hmm. I think you may be onto something. Tagging may not be that hard ( though false positives may be an issue ) and only showing stated preferences. But do we want to move into slippery slope of 'show me car accidents with at least one fatality'.
I would argue pretty strongly with "defaults are bad"! Defaults are what you should use until you can very clearly explain why a customization is significantly better (and sometimes that is the case!). It's a boring, lowerst-common-denominator attitude that goes against the things that most of us here enjoy doing, but customizations are more things to think about and maintain, and ways in which my system operates differently from other people, making it harder to give and receive help.
I was supposed to interview at Facebook this week. My company is struggling and I expect I’ll be laid off before the year is over, so I figured that maybe I could push my ethical frustrations with the company aside and just go make some good money and ignore the fact that this company is undermining democracy and many of the things I value.

Seeing resignations from existing Facebook employees really woke me up and made me realize that I can’t sacrifice my values for a paycheck and stable employment.

I contacted the recruiter at the beginning of the week and told them I was going to stop the process and my reasons.

I hope that engineers taking a stand like the OP know that it is having an impact.

It’s tempting to be cynical, no job in tech right now is without faults, so why not just play the capitalist game? Everyone makes their own choices, but struggling to make the right choice for you is better than refusing to struggle.
Here's the clarification - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12664341539328942...

(I don't have any opinions on above. Just putting it here)
You have zero sincerity in your request and I guarantee will immediately move the goalposts (with complete certainty), however here you go-

Canon 6D Mark II.

Released in 2017. Actually a "prosumer" camera where the body alone pushes $2000. Full frame sensor (and given that you're a big brain about CMOS, surely that means it must dominate, right)?

Trash noise profile

Trash dynamic range

The iPhone 11 handily beats this device in virtually every measure. Despite the Canon having a big old fat 861mm2 sensor (again -- weird that this isn't a magical solution! I mean, if I knew anything about CMOS at all I'd know...blah blah blah)

And we're being generous and ignoring that most of the people hyping up SLRs in here have their old T2i and think because it's heavier and bigger it's a superior imaging machine.

What now? Do you concede defeat? LOL. Of course you won't.

And again, this all started based upon the completely ignorant claim that SLRs don't have sensor noise, which is ludicrous, then you decided to wallow in and tell us how completely and absolutely outclassed smartphones are. This is just layers and layers of cargo culting ignorance.

EDIT: LOL insta-flagged. Classic HN. Where imbeciles flourish and comfort each other's stupidity.

The guy I responded to has puffed every comment up with insults, a hilariously unearned sense of superiority, and just post after post of ignorance. Hacker News is the world's greatest example of Dunning-Kruger. Time to go read some deliciously ignorant hot takes about COVID-19!
AMC fears the worst for the future of movie theaters
> Not judging this way or that, just saying.

Simply adding this to your post doesn't make it true. Clearly you've judged it to not be as valuable of an act as it could have been.

Not saying you're being dismisve, just saying.
JWZ links to disgusting image when accessed with HN as referrer, I suggest you remove this link.
What if I told you I don't care?
Are you implying steve jobs was a great boss? He was an insane narcissist.
Trump is laying the groundwork for being able to contest the results of the election.
No one is going to hire him.
I think the suggestion here is: if you are in a position to leave your job, and you do not, then than is implicit support for your employer.
I respect the moral stance he took, though that this is a public open letter is a little self-serving (but even with that quitting a well-paying job in the midst of a pandemic and a huge recession is not easy).

I disagree wholeheartedly with his position that Facebook should be wading into politics and interpreting Trump's tweets and posts because with Trump (and even politics in general) everything is in the eye of the beholder. It's one of the most frustrating things with the Trump presidency where the same statement will be interpreted in WILDLY different ways by those that hate Trump and those that love Trump. The most surreal example of this was when Trump called MS-13 members 'Animals' and it was interpreted by many people and the media as a dog-whistle that all immigrants are 'animals'. Trump for sure brings this bad faith on himself with his temperment, but that just reinforces the view that a platform like Facebook should wade into this quagmire with trepidation because once you get in, you open a pandora's box of unintended consequences.
> With lives at stake,

I think we must remember that "lives at stake" aren't just Covid infected. People will die in 10 years from budget cuts coming from things we do now. This isn't about counting bodies in the spring of 2020 (only).
Imagine the damage to the business for not having someone creating more than $250k of value annually.

Of course at Facebook's scale it's a small number, but given the damage to their reputation, they will have to take note once this crosses critical mass.
I replied above but it was meant for you. I'll leave it, perhaps it might help the parent understand why there is much value in knowing about the people behind the science.
I've heard HOAs called "4th level of government"

(fed / state / local / HOA)
> Silent protest isn't.

Sure it is. If you boycott a company for doing something bad, you damage that company regardless of whether you are shouting from the rooftops or whispering it in a basement.

When outsiders see a given Facebook resignation, it does send a message, but even if they quit silently, Facebook's management sees employees leaving. While Facebook's exec team clearly doesn't give a damn about doing what's right, they absolutely care about keeping costs down and employee retention is a big cost for these companies.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
I appreciate anyone who has the courage to do this. I've done it before, and it's definitely hard. Congrats and I wish more people would stand up for themselves and others.

It's always better to receive downvotes and do the right thing, than merely sit by and go along with the hive. Especially when you know in your gut the hive is wrong.
You're on social media
If vote by mail is secure enough for Utah, Oregon, and citizens over the age of 65, it's secure enough for everyone.
I'm calling total BS. He should stay to change the system from within. Total waste of hard work to give up now. This is a knee jerk reaction and the poor lamb is going to live to regret it.

I'm surprised they didn't have him out on his ass the same day and gave him a whole extra week to potentially sabotage the systems.

Edit:

OK fine. I agree it's totally an uphill struggle and in all fairness it's one we're all fighting.
It's one man versus a sea of apathy where all the incentives are geared towards productivity at all costs and bitter disempowerment and ostracism for anyone that steps out of line.

I were him I'd go hardcore until they actually fired me i.e. make it hard for them rather than take a gallant bow -- how's that for starters?

Whatever happened to fighting for what you believe in? How can you leave all your hard work in the hands of people you no longer trust?

I've actually gone all the way up and been fired by a roomful of directors and a vice president for calling out bullshit agile theatre.

Part of it rests on everyone's shoulders because I know for sure a lot of people reading this thread right now would jump at the chance to take his place, struggle be damned.

Look at what happens to anyone that expresses a dissenting opinion I'd like to see more downvotes just to make sure I'm on the right side of this issue.
So now the cloud isn't just going to rain users' data, it's going to rain satellites too. Great.
Don't have any commentary on the substance of this quote, but man that is some terrible writing.
I took some time and used APL to write a little query DSL for answering questions about a legacy C++ codebase. I had a collection of little tools that linked against clang and dumped out XML files containing various cuts of information of the codebase. I then borrowed some techniques form Aaron Hsu to do structural queries that joined these tables together in ways that gave me useful information about the codebase.

It was alright. I don't think I was able to invest enough in APL to make it really stick but have the impression that if I did it could be very useful.

Fwiw, Aaron Hsu is really the guy to follow for all things APL. He's also super nice and helpful and a model for anyone who wishes to represent a technology.
I did some analysis of vote data in Florida and found some fraud: https://enki.org/2018/12/07/finding-unusual-voters/

I'm not convinced it is large scale enough to sway an election. It's mostly just a failure of the counties to coordinate with each other to prevent double votes.

Florida has had unrestricted absentee ballot voting by mail since 2002. Over 2.5 million Florida voters used it in the last two elections, so I think the recent noise about voting by mail is just a distraction.

I do think we need better coordination across the states. I am convinced that there are people with residences in multiple states getting more than one vote. Unfortunately, not all of the states are as transparent as Florida is with the vote data.
Ask HN: Does anyone still hire “Junior Engineers”?
I remember this being a pretty common title in job postings ~5 years ago. It seems the only thing anyone is looking for is "senior" devs now.
One thing I have to hand it to Twitter for is that they wrote an explicit carve out for their "no glorifying violence" rules to militaries and governments.

This seems to be somewhat implicit in our society ("violence is bad, unless it's our heroes doing it to people another color far away, then woohoo bombs away!") but usually unsaid and unexamined. It's a good moral move by Twitter to point out the contradiction.

A better move would have been for them to simply ban everyone calling for violence, militaries included (if and only if they are going to be banning people selectively based on content, which they are, which I think is bad).

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitters-new-abuse-enforcement-vio...
I had the same experience. After trying Dvorak and Colemak and even stenography for a while I decided it was time to explore more hardware.

Went from mouse → trackpad → trackball. I tried fingerballs and thumbballs and settled on the Logitech MX Ergo (thumbball). Using the digit with the strongest muscles makes a lot of sense to me, although it helps to have bigger hands.

I wouldn't go back to a trackpad, even with the loss of gestures (I just use keyboard/trackball shortcuts instead), and I wouldn't go back to a mouse — pushing a rock repeatedly to move a pointer around the screen just feels weird to me now, and I notice wrist cramp within an hour.

Similar story with keyboards. I went Apple Magic Wireless → Ergodox EZ → Microsoft Surface Ergo (the default angle works great for me so I don't have to adjust anything and I like the single piece of hardware over the Ergodox; it's easier to move between rooms). I have the Keyboardio Atreus on order and am looking forward to comparing that. It seems like the perfect balance between size, features, hackability, and ergonomics to me.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/atreus
And once again we’re back in 2018 trying to figure out whether these private companies should be considered “public squares”.

I personally think speech censorship, even by a private company, is wrong. However, there’s so much grey area that one could argue either way.
I respect his decision. But I for one do not want our president, no matter who she or he is to be censored. I want to know exactly what they are saying and when. That includes any government official for that matter because it directly affects my voting decisions and actions.
Sure, great. Good.

But without the followup call to action, "... and you should too," this is just self-congratulatory behavior.

Don't just clap, follow this guy's lead.
To those trying to minimize his stance by saying he is in a privileged position to do that:

Please check your own privileges, and ask yourself when was the last time you gave up comfort for yourself and your family for a principle that you believe in.
Now that you say it that way, that is actually a pretty good point.

He was fine with Facebook breaking users privacy, aggregating data, spying on users over smartphone mics, but a Tweet cuts the line?

Admirable of him, but I have a pretty big feeling that although he is working(ed) at Facebook, he is quite green for the real world.
What you see with cryo-EM are essentially clouds of electron density. So unfortunately, it doesn't address this.
I just had my TransferWise account closed during a transfer to pay rent while overseas. They are holding some of my money, with no perspective of returning it. They say they can't disclose the reasons, leaving you helpless.

I'd advise to be cautions with transferwise as well.

https://transferwise.com/help/24/technical-issues/2961844/wh...
I was under the impression that these kinds of kids and hackers DDoS-ing sites for fun or activism were virtually all socially liberal, so attacks on government and military websites make sense to me.

But I'm truly surprised to see anti-racism sites suffering from these attacks.

Is there really a racist contingent of hackers out there? I just never thought of the two going together.

Or is this more likely to be more Russian hacking efforts continuing to do their best to sow division, according to Putin's well-known playbook?
Starling Bank, the U.K.-based challenger bank, raises £40M
You’re right, it specifically involves the /k/ board and Facebook groups among other platforms. The levels of subterfuge and dog whistling are a whole meme subculture unto itself.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
> Iceland has much higher deaths per capita

We can’t know this number conclusively until a few years from now. The pandemic is still ongoing and does not have a flat distribution of impact over time.

So all this analysis is based on a false premise.
Defaults are important because, fundamentally, misinformation and superstition spread faster, farther and stronger than the truth, with much more staying power.

There's also the practical problem with social networks - within a degree or two of connections, you'll at least have some people who are part of communities covered by your own blocks. But it is in Facebook's interests to show you those communities and extend those linkages; likewise, people would simultaneously object to 1) Facebook not showing them content from friends even if it violates their own content settings 2) Facebook violations their content settings.

It would be a lose/lose situation. It is now, too.

They could then no more wash their hands of it than they can now: if people are using your platform to do bad things, or things society rejects, then you'll take the blame nomatter what level (or lack thereof) of interference you take.
this resignation is clearly for political reasons (in the best sens of the word).
Many consumers believe it's better but can't afford the price of an EV even after incentives.

We don't need more talk, we need better prices. Sub 30k crossovers/hatchbacks is what consumers are buying in droves. These markets aren't exactly flush with EVs or even hybrids.
We vote by mail in Switzerland every few months, for decades already. No major issues...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland#Mail-in_...
It's not at all. A bottom line is a flexible thing and by increasing costs you can increase profits, eg, opening more stores as part of your chain.

Executive meetings are mostly about forecasting how the business is doing accurately, and then communicating that to shareholders. It's.. not an exciting meeting in any way, shape or form.