skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Found this comment rubbed me the wrong way - seems insane to me to judge the boringness of a person by the price of their sunglasses

You must be responding to how you feel, because you sure as hell aren’t responding to what I wrote.

Allow me to explain my position.

Clothing is a form of communication. When you wear particular clothing, it communicates which group you identify with or want to associate with.

Let’s suppose that we were having a conversation and you said to me, “I don’t like to stand out, I like to blend in with the crowd and avoid being noticed.” I might think that you were a bit boring. You can communicate the same thing by wearing boring clothing.

What I’m doing is judging you based on the things that you communicate to me. If you are bad at non-verbal communication, don’t worry about accidentally coming off as boring—it’s very hard to communicate “boring” with your clothing, and it doesn’t happen by accident.
This practice exists in traditional eastern Yoga - breathing out of one nostril and in with the other. A similar explanation is given about it having a calming and energetic effect.

I know that doesn't provide the evidence you were looking for, but hopefully it provides some context on where this might have originated from.
Looks at Hugo
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted for asking about their previous work and watching how they treat people.
Masks weren't backed by the "scientific community" in March too. If YouTube started banning videos promoting masks in March, would you support it?
As a person who hires software engineers in Australia, it's hard for me to understand this perspective. The last few times I've tried to hire a junior I've received very little interest from new Australian graduates. The vast majority of applications come from Indian migrants, not local graduates.
You just can't be found. You can self host but unless someone finds you some other way you are excluded.
Maybe use ISO8601 time instead so that timezones are accounted for (if team members are in different parts of the globe).
> Myopic speculators finance blue-sky infinite-horizon destroyers of capital, such as Elon Musk...

Curious - is this an accurate view? Elon appears to be remarkably successful to me, but perhaps I'm missing a subtlety.
> $40K is a lot for an arts degree.

Working as intended.

Lower cost for a STEM degree = lower risk in the event that you don’t find a job. Existing higher relative compensations = bigger carrot.
"If this body is concerned with what we are doing with the laws, it should change those laws based on the best interests of this country and its people;"

"however, this body should also note that Amazon will seek to exert control over the legislative process to ensure that Amazon's best interests are represented to the maximum extent that our influence and lobbying budget will allow,^1 even if those interests conflict with the best interests of this country and its people."

1. We spent $16,790,000 in 2019. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary... I own the Washington Post. I am considered by Forbes, among others, to be the world's wealthiest billionaire. I am also a registered voter in this country.
Wow what a false generalisation. As an academic across communication design and IT (i.e. humanities v science) I will say you are wrong. I have seen disengaged students across both major areas. It's not discipline specific and it not just the quality of degrees. Consider the readiness of students.

I completed a year long TAFE (TAFE is technical school, 5 days a week) like foundation course prior to studying communication design at university because I originally began a degree I quit after two weeks and it was too late to restart another degree. Myself (and other students) that competed this foundation year had a major advantage. We already learned the basic tools we would need and practiced concept development so university for us was a better space for us to learn an experiment. Considering teaching contact hours a year in a TAFE is like two in a uni. Guess what! This foundation course which ran for more than 20 years lost its public funding. Furthermore, the degree I had to apply a portfolio to enter now takes in much more students with no portfolio and more or less similar amount of full-time staff with casuals picking up the rest.

The problem is multi-faceted. The honest truth is any coalition government (this is the Aus Liberal Party for U.S. folk reading) is ideologically hell bent on removing public support of anything they can. On top of that they load other ideologies about the humanities being less important than the sciences. I'd start by not commodifying tertiary education and giving students the opportunity to explore and discover their flair with smaller and richer courses before going to uni.
Whaaat? I wanted to (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ partway through reading this. Blows my mind that someone actually thought that was a better way to teach people to read... Learning to sound letters is the only way IMO...
I was pretty impressed with Microsoft's support system that would pull up the symbols from the release build that created a crash dump. It's not a good use of time to troubleshoot using some wrong version of the code that may or may not even have the same problem.
How would they have ‘snuffed out’ chrome?

Chrome performed better than any other browser at the time it came out, and was advertised in the most prominent place in the world.

How would MS have stopped it?
If you're already doing a MITM attack, then you can edit the user agent string as well. Anything in the initial unsecure HTTP request is fair game.
As I read a long time ago and always repeat, Tron gave us the rule zero for every developer: Fight for the users.
Their info boxes are all scraped from other sites, would they still be able to legally scrape sites and display them like that without giving any links to actually follow?
Target has less people and they don't play music there, which I appreciate. Our local Target is quieter than the local library. Nevertheless, I attempt to shop at local stores and I avoid both Walmart and Target as much as possible.
I honestly feel like that's a symptom of a poor API design in the first place, although I'm willing to agree that there can be a little wiggle room in the "is it a breaking change if someone depends on a bug?" middle. If you have to bump your major that often, at best maybe consider why, and at worst at least you're still making it clear to the downstream users that that's what's happening! Better to explicitly mark "yeah, we broke API compatibility again" rather than "we incremented the version integer again; good luck finding out why unless you read the complete changelog".
It’s not just about making big things. China has recently made some of the largest structures mankind has ever seen, yet their fusion program is decades behind US, Russia, Spain, UK, and France.
I’m also from a country where corruption is common. There, it means giving some official money to exercise discretion in your favor. “Lobbying,“ for the most part, means giving some staffer a PowerPoint presentation.
Between this and the absolute @#$*storm DHH is raising, I wonder if the App Store's 30% fee might change either in scope or in size.
What issue of Scientific American exactly? I would love to read that
I don’t see anything wrong with that but then tax payers shouldn’t need to subsidize your particular goals in life. No one is stopping you from getting that arts degree, it’s still there for you.
Hi, author here. Thanks for reading! Glad to see the article getting interest here. I do in fact like and respect Sedaris and have read several of his books. Another commenter put it well when they wrote that Sedaris is a metonym. What Sedaris said at the talk gave me a certain feeling, and I wanted to explore that. I think it's also a testament to his skill as a speaker that he was interacting with the audience so much, and his interaction left an impression on me.
Date is extremely noisy and doesn't tell you anything that (pseudo-) semver wouldn't. If anything it tells you less. Why would I want to use 20 characters when 7 or 8 will do the job?

Make sure you have a git tag corresponding to your release versions. That's the main thing they're good for.
When was anyone implying this was a cis male's conspiracy ?
The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
It's definitely important to prove you understand the core concepts required to be a successful developer, such as using efficient & scalable approaches to solve a problem, but writing quality code from scratch simply doesn't mix with high anxiety. And it's not representative of how programming work is done in the real world.

I think a good middle-ground is pair programming where the interviewer writes the code based on the pseudo-code provided by the interviewee. This way, the interviewee displays their thought process and communication skills without being bogged down by programming language nuances.
Best way for your kids to learn how to read is to teach them yourself.

At Home.

From a very early age.

With Phonics or whatever technique works best for you and them.

Because school is not the place to teach a kid to read.

Now, using Phonics has helped in many, many ways. Recently on a trip to the kingdom, many people have been telling me I say Thai names very well. A name like: Surassa Fhaumnuaypol or Vajiralongkorn is easy -- just use phonics principles to slowly say it then speed up.
You can even maintain 1.2.x and 2.5.y and 3.3.z at the same time:) (It can be a right pain, yes, but we couldn't break our downstream so we were stuck with backports of new features... well, backports and living with the old versions)
Links to prepared statements by Bezos, Zuckerberg, S.Pichai and T.Cook (notes)
Depends how the pair programming is done. Last time I did pairing I was told I could use any language I wanted to solve the problem regardless of whether or not the interviewer knew it. You just need an interviewer who is curious and asks questions about the language you're using to make sure they understand your approach.
If the lobbying they do is unfair, then they should change the rules around lobbying
Hi, author here. Thanks for reading! Glad to see the article getting interest here. I do in fact like and respect Sedaris and have read several of his books. Commenter throwanem put it well when they wrote that Sedaris is a metonym. What Sedaris said at the talk gave me a certain feeling, and I wanted to explore that. I think it's also a testament to his skill as a speaker that he was interacting with the audience so much, and his interaction left an impression on me.
As an easy counter-example, there was a decent drop in people getting CS degrees following the dot-com bubble implosion and pervasive rumors of offshoring thereafter. Correspondingly, there was an uptick while the bubble was forming.
The Quanta article doesn't appear to address the Bullet Cluster, nor the dark-matter-rich dwarf galaxies.

Looking forward to having a gander at the paper itself.

Edit for context: the challenging thing for MOND is that ΛCDM explains a number of precision observables and phenomena at once. MOND and TeVeS theories can fit individual facts in isolation, but not the ensemble simultaneously. ΛCDM fits those facts with only a single extra concept. It sounds like this iteration claims to address the seminal observation one and one of the most-tightly constrained observables simultaneously. There are several others. Will have to read the paper before saying more.
Why the “I’m Sorry” ?
The article hits the nail on the head .. somewhat.
I've found that asking a slightly deeper level question more helpful personally.
In the article's example : What are we trying to do ? Show a diagram. While it is tempting to ask "What tool should I use", perhaps it is worthwhile thinking "What is the deeper need here"? If it is communicating with stakeholders (duh), can I get away with a pencil sketch and digitise them?
This way, I have shaved a bunch of time learning ASCII tools or Adobe Illustrator. Kind of fits in with my (borrowed) mindset of "Doing things that don't scale" [0]

Of course, if I find myself doing pencil sketches all the time , it is worthwhile investigating better ways.

[0] https://www.inc.com/business-insider/paul-grahams-counter-in....
The reason companies like Google can and do it is because their funnel of incoming candidates is large enough that they can decide to choose the 'intersection' of many factors combined. Meaning they will filter down to people who trained for LeetCode questions AND they are also otherwise skilled.
> more carrot less stick.

The funny thing about tax money is that it comes from taxes. Every carrot that is given out is someone's stick.

If the purpose of reorganizing the fees is to incentivize certain careers, it makes sense to align your carrots and sticks likewise.
What year is this from?

I'm very surprised, since I thought that phonics was the current preferred method, probably because it is known to actually work, with evidence going back over decades (if not centuries) and across languages.

Hasn't phonics been a key part of Sesame Street for half a century or something?
That sounds like it's going to get really messy really fast, especially with the 1st amendment in play. (Not that we shouldn't try, mind, just that it's not an easy thing to fix)
That's brilliant. Gave me the funny thought that GPT-3 could solve one problem we used to argue about back in the day. What's the right order for loading extensions? I don't remember the details, but I do remember my old office would discuss it endlessly. The black magic and superstitions to keep the system going as long as possible before the inevitable crash. Maybe, 25+ years later, there could be a definitive answer.
Hi, thanks for reading. You're right, but the mall golden age was before my time. What I like about the mall I wrote about is that it doesn't feel dead, it still has some of the essence captured in Fast Times or this video, which is one of my favorites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7zfJwQIsg
Well, fusion has the benefit of having much lower operating costs. Violent terminations, quench events, and tritium containment breaches are serious concerns, but a risk assessment of a fusion power plant would give a much cozier feeling than a risk assessment of a fission power plant.

The neutron activated materials are safe after a century and there is not much of it.

All of the cost in a fusion plant sits on manufacturing and maintenance. If you can build a GWe plant for $30Bn or less, then it’s a no brainer. The five trillion dollar question is how much investment fusion power research needs before we get to that point.
Aluminum as we know it now was rare enough it was more valuable than gold.
You can see the actual brackets/tiers on pages 17 and 18 here: https://www.dese.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/job_ready_gra...
Garbage in, garbage out. When it encounters prompting that doesn't make sense it tends to struggle, especially because it has no way to reject a non-sequitur.
My parents homeschooled me. They used phonics to teach me to read, and they didn't make me learn to read before I was actually ready. Those two things, plus lots of being read too, had me reading so much growing up, they had to limit me to one novel a day.

If COVID has you reevaluating schooling, I highly recommend homeschooling. Also, read up on when schooling should really start. My parents always recommend Better Late Than Early by Raymond S. Moore.
Honeywell Says It Has Built the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer
My worst experience so far were pair-programming interviews. This requires so much training on the interviewee side of things that most companies just completely tank this one. They have some fixed expectations in their head and they have not a single clue how to objectively evaluate candidates.
As one of the other commenters mentioned, university in Australia is relatively affordable. The government subsidises most of it, and the bit that's left over is deducted from your salary by your employer until it's paid off. The news article is about the change to how much subsidy there is.

Who gets the slots available in a course is dictated by the students' results in the final exams in high school. (This is approximately true: in NSW several exams before the end of high school also count. Some universities will offer places based on the "other" high school exams if they can predict what your final exam result will be with sufficient accuracy.)

The student with the highest marks gets the place they want, and then the next student down gets their first preference, unless it is full, in which case they get their second, third, fourth, preference. And so on down through all the student candidature.

Theoretically this whole system should let a sufficiently capable average income student study humanities (or whatever they want).

In practice there are problems -- some schools have teachers who are very good at getting good marks for their students in the final exam; actually being intelligent and creative doesn't really help as much as it should -- but it's not an overly terrible system.
What city do you live in? I've never heard of 1099 tax collection on a city level before, is that common?
> I still can't wrap my head around it

Pick something you’re knowledgeable about. Uniquely knowledgeable. Now imagine the Congress is writing legislation on it. Would you think your views might be helpful?

Let’s say you and a few other people are in the same position. Travelling to D.C. isn’t free, so you decide to--as a group--reimburse the expenses of the person who travels. Would this be unfair?

Scale that up to a full-time job, as an explainer of specific things to lawmakers, and lobbying makes sense. Barring lobbying would mean barring people knowledgeable about specific topics from organising to inform lawmakers. That applies to large companies as much as to the Sierra Club.

The trouble is in campaign contributions, post-service jobs and e.g. fancy dinners. These are closer to, or overtly, bribery. Democracy can’t exist without organisation and education of lawmakers, and that means it requires lobbying. Democracy also cannot survive in the presence of chronic bribery. These aims aren't mutually exclusive.
A list of the companies that are supporting HBO Max
I miss the spatial Finder
If you are processing UTF-8 and can't handle "forbidden" (for example you are in a language with no exception handling, or this is code which has a must-never-fail constraint) you should treat whatever forbidden sequence you've encountered as U+FFFD ("Replacement Character") and continue. The replacement character is commonly visually represented as a black diamond with a white question mark inside it, so humans will recognise that this means something went wrong, while a machine can't confuse U+FFFD with any letter, digit, white space, or other commonly used element it may be treating specially so this prevents many potential attacks on a parser.

The article is unfortunate because it's actually handling a common non-UTF-8 encoding in which U+0000 is encoded differently so as to keep C-style null-terminated string semantics while allowing the NUL character. You should probably avoid the necessity for such semantics.
I guess you could say, "intended for production"
KSQA – Smart, Safe, Green
Society is like a big discussion that takes place in many different communities, groups, institutions, some using being specialists, using special language, some having more influence than others. If you can't take part in that discussion, your interests wont be represented. If many of the specialist, influential discussions can only be taken part in by people with wealth, then the interests of people without it will become marginalised. Generally people know what they need for themselves better anyone else. Not being able to voice needs leads to society not working for those people, and barriers to them gaining wealth, and doing work that is useful for themselves and all society.
The humanities is not for the pursuit of the life of the mind, it is important for a functioning society.

Many topics in maths and engineering are very intuitive to pick without formal education. To understand Humanities requires discussion with others. Writing and getting feed back on a lot of essays, listening to and explaining ideas in seminars, testing out an idea in a lecture. It can take a decade to start to understand someone like Foucault. It's hard to find a community of specialised discussion outside of formal education. Just picking up humanities from a few youtube videos or whatever is what I am convinced has led us to the kind of unobjective activism that is reacted against so much recently.
Yeah, I’ve started to skip the first two paragraphs of all articles, now. This, combined with click-bait headlines, has started to make media articles more and more worthless. (In scientific writing and encyclopedia entries, they start with a summary so they immediately get to the point...)
I wonder what the product closure roadmap looks like.
That's a reasonably fair criticism, but Congress has the power to outlaw such lobbying.
We do this at String and Key (and I adopted the process from my prior teams at Digitally Imported. I've posted jobs from both here on HN in the past).

Its a one-hour hands-on programing lab via screenshare - a pretty straightforward task of consuming some data from an API, processing it a little, and displaying it. We use Ruby for our work, and ask the same of our candidates in the lab. No handwritten syntax, exotic/tricky algorithms, or gotchas. Just a task to see how a candidate approaches a problem, deals with requirements, and implements them in our language of choice.

Happy to go into more detail if anyone is trying to implement something similar in their own hiring processes.
Whiteboarding can fail. The pens might be dry. The room might be double-booked. The interviewer might be late or unavailable. Any interview setup can fail.
@Author,
Would be interesting to understand what "Analysis" here means?
Given that this is about marketing and behavioural psychology,
I would certainly be interested. Do you /can you cover these examples with some kind of theoretical framework in mind? 4Ps or "Influence" or such? That might add value and give more weight to the videos
> the House is overmatched

Booking all four on the same day was a genius move by some lobbyist. It dilutes the unique issues that each tech giant presents, and makes scrutiny look like sour grapes.
Petitioning the Government (aka lobbying) is a civil right in the US, guaranteed by the first amendment to the constitution.
>I paid accident claims for five years. As part of that job, I read medical records all day. I paid for foot amputations and we had to sometimes try to decide "Was this really an accident? Or was this really a complication of diabetes?"

How long has it been since you last worked in insurance?
Tell HN: 1984 is real implemented by NSA
NSA is using 1984 as a framework and using it to put people in a remote prison.
Meh, that requires trusting Apple. No thanks.
What do you mean about brave?
A Computer Virus demonstration webpage
Humanities is also valuable - history, economics, traditional liberal arts are all valuable knowledge. I have one of each (B.Sc / B.A.) and a lot of the stuff I learnt in the BA is very useful, for one thing it gives you the skills to argue with politicians who are, in the main, lawyers and professional arguers.

As others in this thread have said, this will reserve humanities degrees for those that can afford them, i.e. the rich, who will become the lawyers and managers. Many managers have humanities degrees.

And on a lighter note, where will our baristas come from if there's no arts graduates?

It would be a poor society that doesn't have people educated in the arts.
I dont think so - that's like saying that if you don't donate money to the US treasury, you can't criticize taxes for being too low.