skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decapitated, dismembered body of tech CEO found in NYC apartment
Neil Munro's Common Lisp Video Tutorial
Haha, of course. :) Hope it turns out well!
I remember when platform farmers started to enforce comments without links on blogs. How almost everyone just bought into that bullshit. Before you could find blogs and blog postings covering the same topics (and/or personal interests) as your own blog, contribute high quality comments and get rewarded with traffic (depending on the quality of your comments) AND you got high quality comments from people who wrote entire blogs about the topic your article covered which was fantastic for the reader.
> Who do we allege we are protecting when we deplatform someone?

Those harmed by the actions that follow from the beliefs of the deplatformed person.

For example, if you de-platform who says that all green-eyed people should be thrown in the ocean to drown, you do so to protect green-eyed people.

> Are we protecting ourselves from false arguments?

The argument that green-eyed people should be thrown in the ocean is neither false nor true. It is an ought claim, not an is claim. The intent is not to protect people from the argument, it's to protect people that would be harmed if others believed the argument.
I've trained for interviewing twice at Google. I don't volunteer to give the interviews, though, because the interview I was trained to give, I would never pass.

And sadly, this is common and recognized at Google, was mentioned in interview training, and is just said to be part of the fact that the bar gets higher, or something, mumble mumble.

I find this disturbing.
Yes, such tests are subject to a certain amount of gaming and prior knowledge. But that doesn't invalidate the fact that they are correlated with raw intelligence.
I see the "inclusiveness" rhetoric is getting very aggressive and is approaching the state "if you are not with us, you are against us." In other words, they want to divide the society along the skin color, so people would forget that it's really about poor vs rich.
The author's next post: "The day I trolled the entire internet by posting an inscrutable meme-screed to HN."
Haha! You and me both! The worst part, to me, was it being referred to as "the specimen". I don't know why that always weirded me out.

Sperm can actually survive fine for 1-2 hours hours when kept near body temperature, so a 1-hour courier service is sufficient (and it usually takes less than 60 minutes). If there were any issues, we'd know when it arrived at the clinic.

For anyone outside of major cities, we do overnight shipping with Fedex's biohazardous materials division. We use a transport medium that keeps sperm alive for up to 48 hours during transit. You add it to the sperm, it protects it during that period, and it gets washed out (via centrifuge) when it arrives at our clinic. It's not perfect - you can expect to lose approx. 10-15% motility during that time, but is particularly useful for folks in rural areas or far from fertility clinics.

PS Always love hearing other folks' clinic stories... my favourite is hearing how clinics have their pornography stolen ALL the time and have to frequently re-stock.
One way to encourage those people while also redistributing through taxation would be to reduce or eliminate corporate taxes but increase personal taxes, especially for the wealthy.

There would be lots of knock-on effects from this, such as more company perks to offset the large taxation of salary, but there are ways to combat that (tax benefits provided to employees as compensation). This would allow companies more capital to invest in R&D or expansion. Some of that money would go to higher wages (but if you distribute taxes more heavily to the wealthy along with this, it wouldn't affect median employee salary much).

A downside (among many, I'm sure) would be even more concentration of wealth in companies which might be used for non-free market operations, such as lobbying. It's all interconnected, so it's complex, but it also doesn't feel like we're in such a good situation socially, economically and politically that we should refrain from making large changes like that.
I realize this is a joke. But that's an interesting contradiction, how do you know how many people you didn't track?

The answer is that you don't. These companies estimate how many people block cookies or pie-hole requests to /dev/null or have ad blockers, etc. Their estimations are bad and they don't really know. It's a real problem.
Its on the sovereign authority of other nations to sanction or place tariffs upon international actors they deem harmful.

If the US doesn't like Irelands tax policy ban US companies from setting up Irish subsidiaries.

A lot of this just comes down to the will of the people not being represented in their governments though, but thats just simply a bigger problem to deal with first before the cascade of other symptomatic issues of that root cause can be addressed.
That's a MUCH better solution. It would've saved me some embarrassment.
New view of nature’s oldest light adds fresh twist to debate over universe’s age
And that's the worst part about the take home assignments, all the people you're competing with are claiming they did it within the time limit when they're really taking far longer to make it perfect.
That is indeed a super-skill! If you remove as much of the perceived power imbalance between interviewer and interviewee (often difficult, to be sure), and you can engage in a two-way conversation with them about the experiences on their resume, then you'll get a far better picture of how they'll be as a team member.

A candidate's ability to do performative whiteboarding while 1-5 interviewers stare at them tells me very little. For a software engineering job, of course technical ability is important. But equally (and often more) important is the amount of friction they could potentially introduce to a well-functioning team. What I want to know more than anything is: "Can I stand working with this person?" "Is this person a dickhead code-reviewer?" "Will this person be able to adapt and overcome when presented with a novel or urgent task?"

The way to divine these answers is by trying to put the candidate at ease as much as possible. So many interviews, unfortunately, become a sort of gauntlet or inquisition.
Phylogenetic analyses uncover ancient roots of Indo-European folktales (2016)
This would be great if CO2 was the only waste product of a nuclear plant, but it's not. You not only needed to keep building plants, but also designate proper waste storage sites, which are still up in the air to this day, and some sites like Hanford are utter ecological disasters.

It also did not help that the 70s ended with the Three-Mile Island disaster and serious construction flaws being found at Trojan. Then in the 80s Chernobyl blasted nuclear fallout into the atmosphere which certainly didn't help nuclear's image.

I wouldn't say the "Anti-nuclear team" won, nuclear industry shot itself in the foot with a very cavalier and lax safety attitude, and leaving behind many scary ecological disasters in its wake.
A passage from one of Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls:

As soon as we settled on the problem to be solved, I ran to my nearest copy of Knuth's _Seminumerical Algorithms_ (having copies of Knuth's three volumes both at home and at work has been well worth the investment). Because I had studied the book carefully a decade earlier, I vaguely recalled that it contained several algorithms for problems like this. After spending a few minutes considering several possible designs that we'll study shortly, I realized that Algorithm S in Knuth's Section 3.4.2 was the ideal solution to my problem.

If Bentley needed to go look up an algorithm that he vaguely recalled studying in the past, just how awful of programmers are the rest of us that look things up, really?
You are proving my point. I actually CAN install a Corvette engine in a Toyota Corolla (and it's been done), in fact I can install literally any engine I want. TOYOTA won't do it FOR me, but they'll let me do whatever I want because it's my car. I don't know why people such as yourself defend manufacturers from restricting what you can do with a device bought and paid for. It's not theirs, it's yours.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30777891/ls1-v8-sw...
Why Urban Warfare Is the Hardest Form of Warfare for Militaries
Seems reminiscent of the tales of early 2000s Google interviews, of the "estimate how many golf balls fit in an airplane" variety.

I'm not convinced this offers a useful selection criteria other than boosting your unconscious bias on who "seems smart", but on the other hand I'm also not convinced it's any worse than the standard modern Leetcode interview.
An API for issuing cards is nice.

But where is their API for extracting your transaction information? How can I reconcile all my budgets, when the charges show up at my bank as “Privacy.com”, but I have no way to get bulk information from the privacy.com website itself as to which transaction was which?

Sure, I could scrape the doom-scrolling website, but I shouldn’t have to do that.
>If they raised wages of factory workers

They then also can hire a better class of workers, leaving some working there now no longer working there. And as prices go up, everyone loses some value to buying these goods, which is then less to spend on other things.

When a worker is willing to work for some wage and an employer is willing to pay it, both sides benefit, and society as a whole is not paying extra.

> ... profits go down

As does innovation which is paid for from those profits. And outside places, such as teacher pensions, 401ks, union pensions, state pensions, all lose money too. Taking this money from those who funded Amazon via stock purchases and secondary markets would ensure that later there is less investment available for new companies, now jobs, new industries.

Stock markets lets companies get capital to grow and usually employ more people. Taking out these incentives means less companies and less jobs, which means less competition among employers to hire people, which means less wages.

Doing things inefficiently, such as paying lots more than needed to clear wage floors, or paying a worker to do one task instead of two, or similar, means less value in society overall than if the things were done efficiently.
Can't comment on microphone while walking because I rarely talk while walking.

But Amazon's were advertised as Bose "noise reduction" rather than straight out "noise cancellation" (this was made very clear in the specs and in reviews), and in that respect, it does what it's supposed to. I wear my Echo Buds on my daily walks listening to podcasts and for all purposes it works pretty well. (I also own a pair of Bose headphones which are too bulky to wear on walks)

I will say that the Echo Buds' noise reduction don't work well on a plane, I'll give you that. Tried it.

Apple's AirPods Pro has real noise cancellation, but it's also double the price.

I'd say Echo Buds are pretty good deal at the $100+ price range.
How many of people have lost their jobs, begun using drugs, or suffered permanent psychological damage and will have health issues for the rest of their lives? How does that compare to the benefits of the lock down?

It's a very difficult situation to understand.
Empower Your Team Using Effective Funnel Visualizations
Giving GPT-3 a Turing test
Yeah that was my only reservation, but the per-user customisation shouldn't be an issue unless you're logged in or have stuff added to the cart, so a general spike in traffic shouldn't (theoretically) affect it.
I need everybody to stop presuming themselves on the "right side of history" — this isn't the fucking Soviet politburo where we all stand and applaud every pronouncement as history manifesting itself
From your perspective why wouldn’t you spent 15 minutes learning about the companies and it’s products?
A Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target over His Tweets
I don't know whether I'm more susprised that “Niel” is an actual forename or that “Golightly” is an actual surname.
How many different ways can ear buds look? I haven't seen any new designs in ages.
Being gay isn't the only thing on that list when you go to Iran, sadly enough :(
Adblocked.

See http://archive.today/8QhnD
Why on earth would I quit my job or take days(?) off just so I can apply for a contract position? This would be strictly for unemployed software engineers, or truly desperate ones that needed to get out of their current job ASAP.
I’d love to read that blog post
"A little telemetry is often enough" -- Assuming a representative sample, right? If only a few opt in, they might climb above 10% but may not represent the population distribution.

(I'm agreeing with your first statement, but questioning your second one.)
Whiteboarding algorithm puzzles with code really does not define the greatness of an engineer.
If people are practicing questions to be able to think along those lines and that is proven to work, maybe it really isn’t a test of greatness anyway.

This is the exact attitude that makes people have terrible interview experience.
Some companies might do this, but this hasn't been our experience. It's the opposite. Companies VASTLY prefer full-time employees for software developers because it is so costly when they leave. They want devs to stay forever. They almost always convert contractors to FTE within the first couple fo months. They want to get the golden hand-cuffs in place ASAP.
Are there video snippets out there that show a different story? Or is this just a general plea of "well we don't know the whole story so we should reserve judgement until later(when everyone has forgotten about it)"?

"Lies" implies there's an intent to deceive, but most of these cases the reason why the rest of the footage isn't available is because people only start recording when things go south, so everything leading up to the event inevitably gets left out. That's very different than "Selectively chosen video snippets", which imply that somewhere there's footage of the whole incident, but anti-police activists are editing the footage to generate maximum outrage. It also doesn't help that some police officers think that recording is an act of aggression, further making the footage harder to acquire.
> neither party is progressive

And I'd say neither party is truly conservative, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing this absolute shambles from an ostensibly "law and order" President. Nothing is being conserved. Nobody has taken away gay marriage, abortion, legal weed, etc. Nobody sent in the Army to destroy CHAZ.

The reality is that in the American system the President is not very powerful, and the permanent bureaucracy and moneyed interests have a lot more control over policy than one might thing at first glance.
> we are no near achieving any herd immunity.

The observation of widespread cross-reactive T Cell immune response does not support this claim. If 50% of the population is less susceptible, this would dramatically alter the herd immunity threshold. The binary condition "totally susceptible or totally immune" is merely a fiction used in some models, and any individual variation away from "totally susceptible" has the same effect:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.27.20081893v...

If NYC does not see a second wave, and their seropositive numbers stay below or around 30%, this is why.
Looks to be someone posted a fake exploit and people ran it.
Yeah, I'll use them as a last resort but going to B&M retailers or even walmart online is working real well for me. Free shipping online if you spend more than a certain amount a lot of the time.
She Inspired One of the First Hit Video Games by Mapping World’s Longest Cave
> That's why I really don't like the "white privilege". Poor white people are just as fucked as any other minority in the US

No, they aren't. Particularly, they aren't as fucked as equally poor members of a number of other races, for a whole variety of reasons (direct racism is one of them, but not the only one.)

Conversely, even rich members of other races face disadvantages relative to rich Whites because of their race.

It's true that wealth is itself a form of privilege, and poor whites, while they may participate in White privilege, don't participate in the privilege of wealth.
> It's crazy, I know, but I think it would drive dev salaries up if it weren't so hard to change jobs because of the tech interview gauntlet we've created for ourselves.

How does C2H help me jump jobs as a dev who is already employed?

Since I already work 9-5, typically my only free days are my weekends. I might be willing to work for a few weekends if it would lead to a hire, but are those really compatible with what the hiring company wants? My guess is that they want me to take the step of leaving my current job, which comes with loss of health and dental insurance, which is often a big concern.
We provide business insurance coverage for anyone on contract through Facet. For health insurance, we recommend people just use COBRA to keep the insurance they had at their last company. You have to pay for it out of your own pocket, but you just build that in to your hourly rate that you charge.
> Essentially, something like a nuclear plant is hard to ramp/up down with changing grid demands,

This is untrue, we regularly modulate nuclear plants from 10 to 100% in a space of hours
There's a class problem with C2H in almost all companies. Contractors are always seen as less than by management and especially hiring committees. I work at a company that I've been hired thru C2H. Everyone on the team, my manager knew I was one of the strongest programmers on the team. But when it came for my conversion interview I bombed. It was run by 3 of the most senior principles with the lowest acceptance rates and a penchant for "protecting" the company from bad hires. Being told despite amazingly good performance compared to peers you still aren't good enough is a nice little gut punch.

A short time later, I did another conversion interview, got people who were willing to tell me "look, we know you can code" because they had SEEN me code and design systems they were using every day. They still did some interview questions, but lo and behold I didn't feel like jumping out the window every second.
A real IDE right in the browser
I replaced my MacBook Pro with a Google Pixelbook since indeed my work is all remote and I don't really like MacBooks. I've previously tried high end Dell laptop (the most amazing laptop I've ever used, it had a high end nvidia GPU and you could train models on an airplane) and ended up with this device.

I wish it was slightly larger with better specs and more ports, only because I spend a lot of time in video chat and there isn't enough CPU oomph to do video chat and Google docs on an external display.
Man, one time I had an interview at a startup. They asked me some fairly trivial questions and I wrote some pseudocode which they were fine with. Then in the last 5 minutes they were like, "well, let's get this ready to run in a browser." I was shocked and stuttered out something like "wait, this was pseudocode, I'm definitely not going to be able to make this run in the last 5 minutes," and they said something like "oh, OK" and wrapped up.

That was the entire phone screen, and they failed me. This still burns me years later because it was such an obvious communication failure on their part - if you're one of the rare interviews that actually require me to write working code, you better be darn sure to mention that upfront, rather than 5 minutes before the end of the hour! - and yet I was the one who failed.
Counterpoint: I used to be a contractor and took C2H positions to see if I wanted to work with these people long term. Most of the time, I was happy to see the door when the contract ended, though all of them offered a conversion.

There was one where I converted to full time, and then we got hit with the dot com crash, so that sucked.
In made up worlds they could work for magic company and make trillions of dollars a year, I'm sure.

In the current world workers choose to work there.

There are usually many other choices available that were discarded by those workers. What if all replacements were just like those numerous other companies that the current workers didn't choose? That seems more likely than some company appearing that gives them vastly better options.
Nothing will be hidden except the edit history in the screenshot...
Yes this. Hiring the wrong person can be ridiculously expensive, especially if they linger on in a role for years corroding the culture.
> Identity politics is a term that describes a political approach wherein people of a particular religion, race, social background, class or other identifying factor form exclusive socio-political alliances, moving away from broad-based, coalitional politics to support and follow political movements that share a particular identifying quality with them. Its aim is to support and centre the concerns, agendas, and projects of particular groups, in accord with specific social and political changes. [0]

Identity politics is when your politics stem from your identity. Holding opinions that are atypical of people with your background is the cardinal sin of identity politics, as disunity saps your group of its strength.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
You need a few clicks to get to the meat (Rick Ashley of course)
https://github.com/ZephrFish/CVE-2020-1350/blob/master/explo...
A bit more specifically: IIRC it defaults to trying to use MPI when you launch distributed jobs. It can also fall back to using SSH, for "extremely limited cases" and quite frankly it's not inappropriate to use SSH if you are certain that communication is not going to be a bottleneck.
I'm completely with you. Editing tweets would be a disaster.

The only way I could see it working is if you opt in to say a 5 minute grace period where you can edit. But then your tweets won't actually show up on anyone else's feed for 5 minutes.
I'd let the material science engineer figure that one out too. No way in hell would I risk my ignorance of building maintenance be the cause of thousands of deaths.
>Is universally lower taxation inherently unethical?

When services that take care of people depend on taxes then yeah lower taxation without a backup is inherently unethical.
When you turn off D's GC then its no different from C or C++ . So yes, it can be done. At last D conference, someone presented on building kernel drivers in D.
> or act as if it was paid, and paid whatever it would have paid from it to the EU budget

Yeah, lets treat this as a fine and fine them $1 for every million it cost the other EU members. Lessons learned: you can get away with everything if you are just bold enough.

By agreements they signed they are supposed to collect the taxes in a fair manner, so requiring them to collect the taxes they didn't seems to be the least they can be required to do. That would also have the side effect of making every company think twice about using an EU country as a tax haven.