skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once worked at a well known Cisco training company who had fake interface cards for 2600 series routers and knew it, but didn't care as long as they worked. It's not a new problem.
Exactly. The time gained by not commuting is spent (and worse) on stressing out and watching my 1-year old while trying to accomplish something job-related at the same time.
LOL I am sure you are right, I was joking of course :-)
Privacy saves Apple money and causes customer retention. It is not a monopoly tactic, so Apple will increase their userbase's privacy as much as possible. I imagine they will become the inverse Google in that regard.
When we did IVF, I had two choices for providing my sample. Collect it at home and then drive it to the clinic, where I had a max of 15 minutes and had to keep the cup between my legs for the entire trip, or provide the sample at the clinic.

How do you keep the sample fresh for transport if it's collected at home?

ps. In case anyone was wondering I went with collecting at the clinic, and boy do I have some fun stories from that experience!
Overwhelmed healthcare systems (despite massive countermeasures) are not mild.

Also, people don’t suddenly become worthless once they turn 80. They can still die prematurely, even if only, say, five years early instead of fifty.
Everyone says this but has anyone been hired if they can’t come up with working code in the session?
"Peaceful" might not be the best adjective (although I think it's appropriate). For most colonists the new government was better for them than the old one but "better" is much harder to quantify. Washington is arguably the most important figure in making that transition.
To be fair, that's practically the population of Ireland.
I'm from the east coast and my wife is from LA. She is anxious on the small, windy east coast roads where I grew up, where there are lots of blind corners and narrow lanes. I'm the opposite, I'm overwhelmed by the 8 lane LA freeways.
Linecon was terrible in this last convention(my first). Missed out on so many things I wanted to see because Linecon just got out of hand. I guess it is to be expected. :/

CCC being a conference of just ~10k allowed event goers to experience much more.
Camera and microphone indicators have been added to iOS 14: https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/07/ios-14-what-do-the-orange-and...
That’s a nonsense argument.

For any given programming language, the number of people not using it outweighs the number of people using it by several orders of magnitude.

It’s hard to get accurate numbers, but a quick google estimates there is roughly double the number of Python programmers than C++ programmers. I find it very difficult to imagine there isn’t some overlap there and even more difficult to imagine a competent Python programmer looking at C++ code and being completely unable to read it.
The sources clearly do not support the post. Looking at the first claim of permanent disability, Veaux asserts that 90% (18 out of 20) hospitalized patients will have permanent heart damage. His source for this claim is a study showing, by his own quote, that 19% of hospitalized patients experienced cardiac damage of unspecified duration.

It seems obvious to me that he just fabricated scary numbers without regard for whether they're true.
I think they actually make a fair point because in this case "hard to do" probably equates to "makes the compiler a lot slower".

Go is very easy to switch to from most other languages so I don't think making it harder to switch is a design goal from the team.

When Go came on the scene, I actually really appreciated the fact that they truly explored what a new language could do differently, especially because it was coupled with a strong philosophy.

Now, since 1.0 there have been plenty of decisions made which I dislike. Still, I think the glasses through which you choose look at the Go teams motive aren't fair. Why wouldn't designers of a programming language like Go think it through very carefully, weigh every angle and decide to settle on a lesser used but possible equally valid solution compared to 80% of the languages out there?
"The lynch mob demanding they hang the person didn't murder them, the actual two guys doing the hanging did, of course they shouldn't bear responsibility."
We clearly do all have officials who should be dealing with this. I wonder if they can be persecuted for treason.
It's worth emphasizing, as a hiring manager: By the time you're in an interview, I want to hire you. I'm sitting there hoping to write "Strong hire" on my feedback form.
When I interviewed at Amazon last time, I paused all my other work, even my full time job, to focus on it.

Wasn't well treated at interview day (people forgot me in a room for several hours for example, also had interviewers arrive late, among other issues), and probably didn't pass because there was some questions about LP that I couldn't answer, basically all interviewers without exception asked the same question on how I handled an issue in a large team, except I never worked in a large team, whenever I told them that, they would ask the same question, but worded differently.

It became obvious to me that I should have lied, should have written before going to the interview some fictional stories that I could use to answer the LP questions.
When you have your pick of the bunch, of course you're going to look at slightly above average as "bad".

I'm not sure how much engineer skill matters though. One slightly above engineer might be fine. But if half your org is made up of slightly above average engineers, I feel like there will be a knock-on effect.
Mac/Web/Mobile all lag behind native Outlook for Windows. If they're getting extra love, it's because they need it.
This also depends on the country.

We have in France a heightened level of terrorist attacks (plan vigipirate). This is in place for two years now and gradually everybody starts to ignore it because the authorities did not lower it.

It started on everyday life, then schools were not that protected anymore, then the administration buildings.

I actually had to look up whether it is still in place.

So you have countries where a long state of alert can turn into tyranny, then you have France where everybody ignores it after some time.
Right... but I mean they choose whether or not to show those indicators... so why do you trust them to do that?
Worth noting that there are other distros which seem to be further ahead as of now than UBPorts is, for example Mobian[1]. They recently got even the camera up and running.

1 - https://mobian-project.org
From the black lives matter website:

"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."

That isnt the only other place i have seen equivalence between valuing the nuclear family and being white either.
Some Learnings from Implementing a Normalizing Rust Representer
There's a phenomenon where an entity which is successful for reason X is unaware that it's hurting itself for reason Y, and may even attribute its success to reason Y. Which is all very well until X shrinks or Y grows.

The point is that you can't assume that just because something is doing well, everything it's doing is perfect. In fact, success is likely to hide all sorts of bad practices, because the bad practices just don't hurt enough to offset the success coming from another source.

I kind of suspect that this is why declining tech companies often crash and burn so dramatically; they tend to have a lot of myths that they believe about themselves, and when the one thing keeping them going declines, they can't address all the things that are pulling them down, because they don't really believe in them in the first place.
If you take a closer look at tax havens, you'll find that most of them are UK/US colonies, ex-colonies or de facto colonies.
I bet they were going to take a cut to keep themselves alive.
Wasn’t funny
> I don’t think the person you were arguing with was expressing, as a value statement, the idea that black and white people should be policed differently purely based on their race.

I agree. But that's not what I asked. The statement I originally made was that

"overpolicing and imprisoning <black people> for nonviolent crime isn't. Yet they can't imagine doing the same to white people."

Which I do think is fairly clearly demonstrated. There's a subtle shift, but a relevant one. Creating new systems of oppression based on race is racist, but letting existing systems that treat races unfairly is okay, even though the results would be the same.

I want to reiterate: I don't believe this person claims that black people should be policed different purely based on their race, but it does seem that this person is comfortable with that being the way the world operates.

And way back, the statement we started from was "black lives matter". And in general I hold that to mean "black lives matter just as much as any other race".

How do we square the value statement "black lives matter just as much as any other race" with the acceptance of over-policing of black communities as justified? I don't see how we can. But again, I'm open to other interpretations.
Underused part of electromagnetic spectrum gets optics boost from metamaterial
The numbers aren’t that low for lack of trying, though. The majority of attempts fail because the police are better-equipped and better-trained than the people trying to kill them. That’s part of why there are so many officer-involved shootings in the first place.
> Chill Mode + No recuperation + no "one pedal driving" and you will get typical Mazda behavior.

And how likely are you to get exactly that after receiving a rental that someone else has played with all the settings for? My guess is that the combined effect of rental agencies not taking the time to reset settings (bluetooth pairing is never empty on anything I rent) and people wanting to play with all the extra settings Tesla gives you means you more than likely receive a Tesla rental in a configuration that is not entirely the same as driving other cars.
"Ok the material science engineer gave you the fancy material. It was applied. As you know, nothing is perfect and lasts forever. How do you ensure your building doesn't sink?"
I preordered the Echo Buds when they were first announced, and tried them out for a while.

Had to return them because the microphonics while walking were really bad, and the noise cancellation didn't seem comparable to the Bose QC30's I still use, even though the Echo Buds's were supposedly "powered by Bose".
Last time I drove a rental car I left the airport driving with only one figure on a burning hot steering wheel. There was no switch. It took me pulling over at a rest stop to break out the PAPER manual to learn how to disable to fire, which was a good thing because by that point my backside was also starting to cook. I'd call that a significant design flaw.
How the Samurai Dealt with Stress and Anxiety
True, but in my experience it's easier to teach resourcefulness after hiring than injecting motivation for solving problems somehow.
This is bad news for URMs. I am hispanic and was an international student— looking back there's many "extra" things that added to my feeling anxious before interviews. The imposter syndrome was real and I worried about wether I'd fit in, for example. I luckily don't have much of a language barrier but there were definitely a cultural barriers.

In the back of my mind I was always thinking I had to do more than "enough" and be exceptional. You read studies about how two people with the same qualifications might not get the same results after an interview due to unconscious biases by the interviewer. I felt like I had to be good enough that'd I'd overcome any kind of bias the interviewer might have. It's stressful.
I would prefer to use the website, but I never got desktop reminders to work properly (i.e stay on screen and not hidden behind other windows). That's on macOS. Calendar and tasks without reminders is pretty much useless for me.
>Terahertz metasurface ultra-thin collimator for power enhancement

https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-28-15-2...
> The EU argument was that Ireland's "previous established policies" were against EU treaty, and so the (alleged) special deal that IE gave Apple should be considered annulled since it was invalid from the day it was signed.

Yet the EU sat on this for 12+ years allowing this agreement to continue. If they felt this was a concern, they should have addressed it in 2004... or any year between.
They do have cross-links though?
Setting Up Your Data Science and Machine Learning Capability in Python
Well I managed to smash my car in the driveway ... first time in years :(.
Go to Egypt, or the mountain roads of Peru, or Brazzaville in the Congo :)

I've driven extensively in those and many, many more, and while the freeways in LA take some getting used to with a vehicle that won't hold 70mph, it's nothing like the freeways of Egypt where lane markings mean zero, or the mountain roads of Peru where buses come around hairpins on your side of the road.
Mobian is especially interesting because its work might go upstream into Debian. Being able to run pure Debian on a phone would make it even more of a Universal Operating System.
US imposes visa restrictions on Huawei employees, other Chinese tech workers
I imagine the reason this doesn't happen too often in serious domains is because the next time the person says/posts anything, will they be believed without checking their claims? Of course, in security, this may even be a good thing?(!) :-)
At least in theory it should be possible to run Fedora/RISC-V on this (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V) although at only 2GB the memory size is underwhelming. I have backed it.

Can anyone speculate if it would be possible to add NVME using something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-M-2-Adapter-Profile-Ex...
I wonder if LEOs say that about gangs.

If you think this is controversial today, the southern police evolved from slave catchers. If you think that cultural history is irrelevant today, I have a confederate flag to sell you. (Not really, I don't actually collect flags from white slavocracies.)

https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an...
It could also be that people who are working from home are more able to fall into their body's natural/preferred sleep pattern.
That figure is adjusted for cost of living.
Contexts matter, and this is I guess what we're all concerned with.

In my own experience, since the mid-2010s or so there's a steady undercurrent of elitism and fascism in techland that I had not been expecting at all. There are some nerds who want us to be "rational" about it, that we should be willing to debate everything, up to and including the basic humanity or worth of people who are... just not white techies. I've been shocked to discover some of my colleagues and friends have fallen into these tendencies of thought. Fascism is less of a viewpoint and more of a viral strategy for smothering tolerance under the guise of allowing debate.

Like, from my perspective, there's a hint of that elitism even in what pg was saying, as he dismisses his critics as simply less-nimble thinkers who don't have original ideas.

So yes, I'm skeptical when I see people saying, "I have all these wonderful ideas, that you're unworthy of because you just won't be tolerant of them." I've been down that road a few times with a few colleagues and it always ended in something like a grand theory of why the West is at war with Islam.

But I also acknowledge there are other contexts, where one might feel under attack by the impersonal forces of social media outrage, for totally different reasons. And (as I've revised this comment many times) I've also expressed, in public, that cancel culture is a real thing, and it does stifle some viewpoints and can be exploited by nefarious people. I wish I had a tidy bow to wrap this up with, but I don't.
It's "INITIAL QUALITY STUDY"... reading comprehension is going down even here..
Show HN: SSG in Python and Perl
'Unwoke' Jobs Site Launches, Is Brutally Trolled and Hacked Immediately
One thing I haven’t seen in this thread: so far, countries operating nuclear power plants are mostly the world’s elite in terms of engineering culture. Aside jokes about French cars or American approach to safety vs profit, these are the countries that lead the world in engineering feats.

I’d be very cautious about extrapolating nuclear safety to the rest of the world. And this is not a dig at Africans. In my native Poland, nuclear-free, we have a lot of coal mines, some with very poor safety records. A number of disasters happened when methane sensors were deliberately tampered with, so that extraction could continue despite unsafe conditions. Both management and front miners have been blamed for such events. What would happen when operating a nuclear plant?

In both Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, there have been organisational (political corruption?) issues as well that clouded the judgment in safety. So abstracting from technical culture, would countries with lower standards of governance do as well in keeping their reactors in top shape?

Maybe yes, and maybe even if not, that’s still better than coal, but I haven’t seen this considered.

Not to mention, we usually assume the only way a reactor could be deliberately damaged is via a terrorist attack. But in a proper war, don’t reactors seem like pretty obvious targets?
There has never been a time in history when this wasn't the case for certain views. PG touches on this for much of this article. The difference now is that fairly orthodox views are the ones people are facing consequences for.
Well, they have to track people that they aren't tracking. Otherwise they wouldn't know who they're not tracking.
I personally know many people who conduct interviews, provide interview feedback, and make hiring decisions at Amazon. None of them operate the way you're describing. There's no "gotcha" as far as making you guess what LP they are trying to get at, or conforming to the Amazon borg. They are simply evaluating you based on your work accomplishments and aptitude, as demonstrated by the projects and experiences you choose to talk about.

Regarding the LP interview format itself, it's just a vanilla Behavioral Interview. See: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/behavioral-job-interviews-.... It's becoming increasingly uncommon in tech (because people are preferring whiteboard coding instead), but it's one of the most common interview formats you'll see in most white collar professions.
In a handful of countries around the world, including Iran, being non-religious is considered blasphemous and can be punished by death.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/10...
Where engineering fields have a disproporationate number of individuals with ASD (née aspergers), and where anxiety plays a large part of the syndromes, it's no surprise that many, many good engineers are terrible at interviewing.
this is one of the dumbest and most poorly-concocted imaginary scenarios I've ever heard. Reverse racism does not exist. Grow up.
I’m starting to wonder is this is true. Looking at the data from the Los Angeles county dashboard and the relatively low death rate yet high infection rate seems to support this theory. Just something to think about.
Amen. Let us all treat driving like the dangerous activity it is all of the time. Because it is the most dangerous activity most of us ever partake in. If you are maimed or die before the age of 50, a car accident is one of the most likely causes.

EDIT: I would love to know why you downvote this. Genuinely curious.
As an immigrant founder of a small company, America no longer seems to me like a safe environment. The entire political culture has become nothing short of toxic, and crimes like this out in the open makes you question why would an immigrant come to US to start a business if they can get murdered like this? The fact that this happened in one of the safest areas in New York, makes you wonder if city life even worth it? May be he should have owned a gun? So many questions.

Hope his family finds some answers.
There is a pro nuclear power lobby that loves to trivialise toxic radio active waste. They argue that storing it in caves with clear warning signs will deter future generations from accidentally messing about with its content. They forgot historical context can be quickly lost over a few thousand years and assume there will not be a technological dark age in the future. CO2 might well introduce long term damage to the climate, but it is not immediately toxic.
Maybe Google has studied all of those things and found whiteboarding to be the best predictor. The company seems to be doing well, so something must be working with their hiring. They dropped GPA/college requirements so they're clearly open to non-traditional backgrounds.
Accounting depreciation for assets is not directly related to resale value.

Depreciation is intended to be an allocation of the purchase price across the whole expected usefulness term of that asset, it reflects the notion that in this year you "used up" some portion of an asset that will last for more years, so it makes sense to allocate just a part of the total cost to this year's cost of doing business. The intended purpose of that asset is to serve your business, not to resell it, so the fact that nobody would would buy that asset does not matter.
That's so disheartening. When I'm looking to work with somebody, I look for somebody that can solve problems (and admit when they don't immediately know the solution, which is extremely important imo) not just regurgitate a solution to a problem they know already. If this is actually what the recruiter said, this is a huge indictment of that company's hiring practices.
If the headline said "Tesla vehicles have most complaints" it would be more accurate, reliability is a strange choice of words. The study is called "Initial Quality Study" and the axis label on the graph is "Problems per 100 vehicles."
I ordered the UBports version a few months back and it recently arrived. At the moment I'm running Mobian, basically Debian for the PinePhone. There are a lot of rough edges still, but it just feels great to have the ability to tinker with your phone in the same way you tinker with your linux box.
I think knowledge workers will have to learn more about human psychology in the future.

I know I go thru waves of high productivity and low productivity. That productivity seems to be closely related to the ability to concentrate in my environment, sufficient sleep, how closely I've followed y daily rituals, fewer stressors in the past few weeks, etc.
Alt Title: 'Google is killing off Google Chat, Rooms, and Meet and launching a new product that combines all three in one product'

It is striking how much of a clone the web-ui is from Microsoft Teams, almost a 1-1 copy.
I'm sorry, I still don't see the ethical implications. Is universally lower taxation inherently unethical?
I actually agree.

I enjoy telling this story, because I think it is funny and always gets a laugh.

I do think, though, that it is indicative of a problematic culture in tech that perpetuates hiring people who are like you. I got the job when I was a young, single guy who could fit into that sort of 'brogrammer' culture. I am lucky in that the company has changed over the years (bought by a large corporation, and we have mostly moved on from this sort of culture), because I have two young kids now and can't live that sort of life anymore.

What is worse, is there are a lot of great software developers who NEVER could fit in to that sort of culture, and they would have had a lot harder time being hired.
how do you even gauge that? it sounds like you'd need to keep re-interviewing the current people there to make it relative and fair. which of course isnt going to happen so "raising" the bar doesnt make any sense whatsoever