skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Care to back that up with any reasons? Engineers are absolutely not immune to cultural and gender biases, the evidence may be pointing the other way, that we currently have greater than average biases in tech. Isn’t oversight likely to make it better, not worse? While it may be a problem to not be able to ask some kinds of technical questions, like the GP comment alluded to, what is wrong with the idea of trying to limit questions to those that are proven to be relevant to candidate performance? This seems similar to how I heard that graduate school performance and success in the sciences doesn’t correlate with GRE math & science scores anywhere near as much as it correlates with the language & writing tests... I wouldn’t be surprised if technical interview questions do not do a good job of identifying who you should hire...
I wonder if the looming possibility of Trump not winning the upcoming election is one of the reasons.
I dunno, that may once have been true, back when expertise on the show room floor was either par for course or else a competitive differentiator. To me it looks like that the industry made a conscience decision to cost cut expertise from hiring equation. Essentially, the big box guys (who hire most of the employees) are practically self serve. The associates are certainly fungible.
Software consulting similar to Accenture and SAP. They have similar customers as well, banks, corporations, governments, etc.
>>So, in other words, no clue, just wishing. You've seen a logarithmic rise and don't even consider that it could level off in the same fashion.

The logarithmic rise has been in place for a long time. The likelihood that it ends in the near future, before long-range space flight, seems unlikely.

This is especially so because the resources and capabilities being unlocked by new innovations seem to be inherently expand human civilization's rate of innovation.

For example, the cutting edge of technology today, like reusable rockets, NN-based machine-learning, and 3D printing, seem very likely to exponentially increase the resources/productive-output of our civilization.

Intuitively, I don't see any reason this accelerating progress will stop until physical laws become the only major limiting factor, and these laws allow for an exponentially expanding, seafaring civilization.

Of course, I don't know for certain. It goes without saying that these sorts of discussions are speculative.

>>So everyone handles their part of the sphere? And how do we decide where to go once we get it moving?

We don't need to propel the entire Dyson Sphere. Some group(s) needs to create a massive laser emitter, and use it to propel an artificial craft.

>>In theory, there is little difference between theory and practice, in practice there is a hell of a lot of difference.

Theory tells us what is possible. History tells us what to expect in terms of long term trends.

Based on the longstanding trend and intuitions about the nature of technological/economic evolution, I think we can expect anything that is theoretically possible to do with a small fraction of the resources extractable by a Type II civilization, will be done by human civilization, and hence interstellar colonization will be possible.
It's not advertised very well, but Raptor has a cloud you can test put POWER systems:

https://integricloud.com/

I have played around with Digital Ocean and AWS, and this felt very different working with it. For one, you don't get charged for data in or out. I actually enjoyed working with it. Sadly, I stopped using it because the only cloud service I use is a VPS for Jitsi Meet (I self host otherwise). Jitsu Meet as compiled doesn't work on the POWER ISA, and I was unable to get it to compile on it.
Would love to know these stats adjusted for age. I would expect anyone younger than 35 to know how to interact with a carousel. And some content like a resort's home page with a gallery of images / things to do isn't bad for a carousel. CMV
Don’t fight the fed.
Show HN:(eacc) Lexer/Parser in Python using variable pattern types
It's vague on purpose. Their target demographic is CIOs and CTOs at large corporations and bureaucrats in governments. That language actually makes sense to them.
If X, Y ~ N(0,1), then X/Y ~ Cauchy(0,1)

(Read: If X and Y are normally distributed random variables with mean 0 and standard deviation 1, then X/Y is equivalent to a Cauchy(0,1) distributed RV. This is a useful equivalence to know if working with standard normal RVs, which is often. E[X/Y] does not exist!)

If X ~ Cauchy(0,1), then X ~ normalized student-t distribution.

(student-t puts the “t” in t-SNE, where it acts as a weighting function on the Euclidean distance between points. UMAP uses a parameterized version of this weight function that is essentially a generalization of the Cauchy distribution: https://jlmelville.github.io/smallvis/umap.html)
Forgive my ignorance: For most other companies, I've seen a direct link to an S-1. Is sending in a confidential draft first normal and we just don't hear about it, or is the confidential draft sent but not announced usually, or is this unusual?
You could run it to Uruguay.
It’s somewhat ironic in that the US and UK are close allies but the US’ ongoing experiments with regime change created mutiple wars for the UK. Not that the UK hasn’t done its own regime change experiments.
I spent 8 years of my life (from 16 to 24) under Ahmadinejad presidency in Iran. Every morning you would wake up to another horrible news that affects your life directly. A new rule, a new stupid speech, a new enemy, a new idiotic decision.An unstable demagogue.
The news was depressing, concerning and demotivating.
I decided to come to US.To a country to stable and progressive they had moved past racism, they had a black president (how wrong was I).
I arrived in 2015.Had a whale of time. Didn't need to check the news at all. Then 2016 happened. I've been living the Ahmadinejad life for the past 4 years. Every day a new decision that affects my life directly (starting from the first day with the travel ban, and now this).
So... may be Canada??
I'm expecting they'll have a pretty good IPO, but I'm considering going short for that very reason. They're almost a caricature of "evil" startup companies. Peter Thiel's association only makes it worse. Not committed to this thesis though, since it's possible they could be swept up in TINA mania for the next ?? months/years.
> Fighting with little old ladies over the best cheese in the Italian deli.

Where can I do this?
One of the truisms of this emerging market is that diversity of revenue makes the difference. But it's also a bidirectional thing where diversity of the marketing funnel also matters.

If a creator is all-in on YouTube, they're at the mercy of the algorithm. But if they see YouTube as a cheap dumping ground to advertise content made elsewhere, they are the ones who benefit. For Twitch streamers this typically comes in the form of highlight videos; for e-commerce, the current products for sale are spammed. Slideshows and audio-only video get podcast, audiobook and music content out there. It's a numbers game where most of these videos disappear with sub-1000 view counts, but occasionally one slips through and gets blessed by the algorithm.

And if you look at other platforms it's the same thing - a "weaving" of venues into a web. Lots of Twitter accounts exist to spread memes and sell their merch. Discords exist as a gathering point for Twitch and Patreon subscribers. At various points monetization can be offered but the business doesn't have to rest on any particular one paying for itself because the marginal cost to the creator is too cheap to meter; it's more important simply to keep building the network because it is the network that supports, not the specific trade relations flowing through it.

So as we keep adding more platforms I think the ability to monetize is generally going to improve, because you have less reason to pay attention to any one platform owner's revenue model. And that also means that there's a "flight to quality" that will necessarily take place over the long run: When you straddle multiple platforms, you can afford to take a hit and possibly lose your identity on one of them, as long as you retain hooks elsewhere.
It means they apply current data science tools for legacy clients who have tons of data, but few modern engineers.
The H1B is not directly comparable to EB-1. The former is a non-immigrant visa, is easier to qualify for (just need to have a bachelor's degree in a "specialty occupation") except for the lottery part and less costly to obtain (around $5-7k total in fees). The latter an immigrant visa, costs quite a bit more to obtain ($10-20k in total fees) and requires more regimented labor market testing process to prove there are no willing, able and qualified US workers for that position. A better comparison would be between the H1B and O1. Both are non-immigrant visas and the O1's requirements are quite similar to EB-1.
Response: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/tiktok-aust...

“We place the highest importance on user privacy and integrity.”

Sensible chuckle.

Mr Hunter said the concerns over user data getting into the hands of the CCP are overblown and the data isn’t stored on Chinese servers.
“TikTok Australia user data is stored in Singapore,” he said.

Is this credible?
Extra hard when a 2 year old keeps cramming half-eaten fruit into everything.
The company lives up to its name, I promise.
The analogy between retrocomputing and classic car enthusiasts really captures the spirit of what’s going on well.
Even if the military budget was cut by 25% I suspect it would still be the largest item in the federal budget or close (have no numbers, would love to know if its true). Point being, Palantir is gonna have plenty of money available to harvest under any administration.
I think the shrinking edu market is going to exit universities that probably didn’t add much value in the first place. So it might not be a bad thing in the end.

And I agree that we need more STEM education though I have my doubts in the capacity of the population to “upgrade” intellectually. Lots of people aren’t STEM material whatever means you mobilise.

Which is why, long term, the immigration of smart and skilled STEM students is a good thing.

But I really see the next 2-3 years as really tough, probably worse than 2008. And I can see why the administration would try to remove any additional pressure on the job market in such exceptional times.
Hydrogen peroxide needs to be industrially synthesized and from googling a traditional synthesis route uses a palladium catalyst. That said I'm sure antiseptic hydrogen peroxide is highly regulated regarding trace metals.
Walmart really fails at providing quality food that isn't highly processed. I find much better quality, and often better prices on the grains and legumes that make up the bulk of my caloric needs, and their selection of organic produce is very lacking.

While I'm happy people have affordable, convenient, and socially distanced access to food, most of what is in the Walmart grocery section are things I wouldn't personally consider food.
call their developers "forward deployed engineers" which sounds cool to bureaucrats, who give them ungodly amounts of tax money to put their data into databases
Show HN: Ghost 3.x,Cloudinary and Secret Manager on GAE
Or the journalist read themselves say it on Twitter
Well, in vancouver on commercial drive at the Santa Barbara is where I used to go. They get pretty ruthless. Or cioffi's on Hastings...but that place was bit more chill. Still always busy though.
This is all based on the assumption that the current medical tech will stay as it is. But in reality what we are seeing is much faster tests (we have already gone done from few days to get back results to couple of hours now) and much better medical care once you are infected. Which means it will become a lot easier to separate the infected from the rest of the population, rendering the healthy population to work and move freely like they used to.

You can do a quick test before boarding an international flight and permitted to enter the country only if you're healthy. Contact tracing apps can easily show Green-Red passes to prove whether you can enter any restaurant, shop, hospital, etc.
If there were any good in markets this IPO would fail. We are without conscience and this despicable enterprise will continue.
Are AMD or Nvidia graphics supported linux or windows on any ARM architectures?

My understanding is that the driver stacks are deeply integrated against x86/x64 instruction, chip and bus architecture.

Substantial efforts will need to be made port drivers.

Could be a real game changer when done.
Thanks for making my point.
>That language actually makes sense to them.

Maybe they think it does, but it can't actually.
To reference something recent, Dr. Disrespect still doesnt know why he was banned.
There are perfectly good older versions of Linux that will support i386 forever. (Not to mention FreeDOS.)
Anecdata: I'm a small business, 5 regular employees in a few states. Got PPP via WF (in the second wave, WF was very laggy). It did help us but we didn't need the money when we got it - we'll need it a few weeks - because impact to us will lag behind things at the front of the supply chain.

I did lose one employee who quit voluntarily to build his own thing (something I'd been pushing him to do anyway) and he's actually growing that new action.

I'm little mad a WF for taking so long to land the cash tho.
HEVC encoder on 20 series nvidia cards is actually really good
I find it difficult to believe that official forms of transport passenger manifest data isn't made available to the government, be it plane, ship, etc. especially with "no-fly" lists and the type of information you have to provide (at least for flights). For boats, I have no clue, but I would imagine it wouldn't be too far off.
Kernel support for 386 was dropped recently, but 486 and above are fine. I think many distros have probably dropped 486 support, though; someone upthread mentions that Debian is 686 and above only now.
Possibly related to our naturally-selected drive that underpins Persistence Hunting[0]? Doesn’t speak to the “irrational” prong of your question, but more along the lines of “past any/all expectation.”

And no idea if anyone has already studied this. I had the thought about this possible connection a few nights ago, funny timing.

(The prevalence of Persistence Hunting in human evolution is still an open debate I believe)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Why should it take more than a couple of days?
More Outbreaks If We Keep Exploiting Wildlife – UN
> Is this credible?

Have you tried access Chinese servers in Australia? It's awfully slow.
Did Apple say they would move their entire line of Macs to Apple Silicon? I thought Federighi said they had « amazing » Intel-powered new Macs in their pipeline.
As credible as any US-company:

> The documents identified several technology companies as participants in the PRISM program, including Microsoft in 2007, Yahoo! in 2008, Google in 2009, Facebook in 2009, Paltalk in 2009, YouTube in 2010, AOL in 2011, Skype in 2011 and Apple in 2012.[22] The speaker's notes in the briefing document reviewed by The Washington Post indicated that "98 percent of PRISM production is based on Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
I agree that I strongly prefer picking it out myself, but a lot of meat and produce would also stay fresher longer if it weren't on display (stored in basically suboptimal conditions) for hours and days. So there are some potential gains in food waste reduction that could offset that.

Think about how often people pick out some meat and then instead of putting it back, it sits on a shelf somewhere or by the register. Another anecdote is from when I had a CSA with my ex a few years ago and I was talking to the farmer. He said that he used to let people pick out things like tomatoes but switched to sorting it out himself. He'd start the day with basically 90%+ perfectly good tomatoes, and end the day with at least a third of it bruised and damaged from people picking and squeezing.
This looks like the electrical equivalent of a weir
My understanding is it's mostly just BI-style dashboards for peoples' personal information, plus marketing.
From the long line of rounds of raises (what are they on now, their L round?) my guess is that Palantir is a money fire and is vastly overinflated in valuation.

It'll be good to actually see their numbers now in Q statements.
ICE: Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Colleges Go Online-Only in Fall
No, I don't share your worldview on discourse either.
I thought it was a parody of the first Iraq war.

I seem to remember the irony being completely missed at the time, and it simply being panned as a not-very-good action movie.
If you think the coming government is likely to be the dems then I've got a bridge to sell you. Biden's practically a non-presence in the media and most polls supporting him are from the usual partisan combo of CNN, NYT, and WaPo. Incumbent Presidents always have the advantage and Trump is already playing to the public's lockdown and riot fatigue. Senate and House might trade who's in charge of which but the presidency isn't very likely to go to the guy who's still shopping for tokens after killing #MeToo.
The source in the original article is a federal MP. News Corp are the government mouth piece, they're definitely briefing this as part of the increasing tensions with China.
Another advantage of a 64KiB page size is that it allows for a bigger L1. The L1 is usually VIPT (for good reasons), and to prevent confusing issues with aliases, it means that its maximum size is a single page per cache way. For an 8-way cache, that means the L1 can be at most 32KiB with a 4KiB page size; with a 64KiB page size, even a 2-way L1 cache could have up to 128KiB.
Show HN: I made a recursive kanban board with React
Both probably. I read an interesting article about restaurants renting in industrial areas with no dining room only doing take out. People will always want to eat somewhere nice / fun but certain franchises I could see making the switch
As someone who's done a lot of python and a fair bit of JavaScript, I'll agree with the preference for the python ecosystem. I guess my perception of the difference is a quantity vs quality thing. My experience has been that python packages tend to be more stable, better documented, and frankly more reasonable in scope. There's less framework churn (Django has been around for what feels like forever, as have lighter solutions like Flask) and libraries tend to include enough functionality to seem with adding a dependency for; the number of transitive dependencies on a typical JS project is alarming. Also much less of the ecosystem feels like it's just trying to make up for an absent standard library. You don't see stuff like underscore in python land.

Both languages suffer from patchwork build infrastructure; interpreted languages are great when you have one file and no dependencies, but as soon as you grow a bit beyond that rules about where to find modules make things complicated. Both languages have developed tooling around this that suffers from being an afterthought, and I'm not sure which is worse.
Do you say that as somebody who doesn't actually know what they do? Because it's exactly what they do. You can only admire the honesty.
I'm sure we'd love these students to come to Australia, once the border lockdowns are finished. Maybe an Australian university or one from another country will replace Havard, MIT etc in the global pecking order.
There is no one cause of cancer. While there are a number of well-recognized precipitants (HPV, trichloroethylene, UV radiation, etc), cancer is fundamentally a disease of disorder in the genetic code. As entropy invariably increases, the integrity of each of the trillions of individual somatic genomes per human start to degrade, they rarely degrade into a positive feedback loop of replication, and we have not invested enough of our evolution to prevent it. For example: mice don't normally get much cancer because they die before they have time for it. Elephants don't get much cancer because they accumulated enough copies of p53 over their evolution that they don't have as many cancers per N cells.

Humans have 1 copy of p53 from each parent and have extended their lifespan so many ways that their one copy of p53 is no longer enough. Lifelong accumulation of genetic entropy is inevitable. The game is to catch the offending cells and kill them.
What a disaster this administration is - literally taking the US backward deep into the Trump cave. I experienced great joy showing up at the US consulate to return my green card with a great big F-U smile on my face. Good riddance.
That feels a lot like saying we don't need seatbelts if we would just stop having traffic accidents. A fine argument if there haven't been any traffic accidents in the last hundred years, but there have.
Scott Adams claims evil businesses tend to do the best.
Ex-Reddit CEO Claims She Knew About “Supplying Underage Girls for Sex”
Have an upvote for the story, but don't pretend it was "morally ambiguous". That was plain evil with one level of detachment, and helped enable spammers and scammers.
A moment to call out the laggy, janky carousel on Zillow mobile interface. Ugh. Opening images to scrolly mode is smoother but that left/right flick on their carousel is even bumpy on Pixel/Chrome
You are lucky. I end up doing 2-3 screens a week. Ask any of the typical questions were you to google for interviews for Java/Spring/etc.. you get the same canned answers. Push any practical bits, and there are a lot of people who apparently don't know exception handling and some of the other more 'basic' programming things outside of flow control. Few things sadden me more than the senior developer who appears to have done junior coding for years.
missing the key detail that their first and (as far as i’m aware) still biggest customers are the military and law enforcement
>abuse toward women common

source please, there's no need to add baseless trivia to underline your point
Check out Farm Fresh To You.
> Sadly I made that decision few years ago and I regret it. I came into Canada, and from what I see, industry and research is not even close to USA.

All the research and industry in the US is shattered. Even if it isn't, the administration is making sure it won't be accessible to you.

Don't have a view a America with rose tinted eyes. The America of the past is gone, all vanished in the last 4 years.
I used to bike to the library after work, about 4 km each way. It started out as a form of exercise (the library happened to be along the bike path), but eventually I was going almost every night just so I could pick a magazine from the library's large selection and read for 30 minutes or an hour. I still had my phone, but because I set out to go to the library, and the form of transport was so focused and meditative, when I got there I was able to just read without being distracted, something which was very difficult at home.
Leaded solder doesn't spontaneously vaporize and become airborne. You have to touch the solder enough to rub some off onto your skin, then put that part of your skin into your mouth long enough to get the absolutely microscopic amount of lead into your body.

Solder went lead-free (and electronics in general went ROHS) so when it's buried in landfills it doesn't seep lead or other hazardous materials into groundwater.

There is zero chance of lead solder getting hot enough to skip the liquid phase of matter and go straight to a gas in a 486.
In the 2019 budget, Defense spending as a whole was $676B which is a distant second to Social Security at $1T. If you cut Defense by 25%, it'd be ~$500B and drop behind Medicare which is $644B.

You have the wealth of human knowledge at your fingertips, don't spread misinformation.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget