skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring is a two-way street. Of course the company wants to know what you can do for them, but they also want to know what they can expect from you in the future, and that includes the direction you want to develop in. There's nothing wrong with wanting more stability.

Also, you may be passionate about things you don't have a lot of experience in yet. A company that's not sure whether you are right for them based on your experience, might reject you for having no passions or ambitions, or give you a chance when they think your passion and ambition fits the kind of things they do.
If you think someone is being racist then tell them about it. Just be prepared for laughter when they discover that what you're really whinging about is being reminded that privilege exists

Sure, but the way to do it isn't to scream "You're privileged!!!" That's not productive and makes people defensive. Same for the poar above. The way they presented it was unproductive.
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As much as I want my friends and family to come visit me here -- i'm very very wary of Americans being allowed to land in Asia at this time.
It completely drives me crazy that Americans are so divided about masks.

(American here currently in South-East Asia since 2018). As you all know, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan and others have some of the lowest rates of Covid in the world.

No one complains about the masks. No one makes a political issue out of it. It's simple -- you can't go into the majority of stores, shopping centers, offices or buildings in any of the cities in these countries.

No Karens. No viral videos about people not wanting to wear (or wanting to wear) masks. And the resurgence of Covid-19 is enough to cause the governments to be super-cautious again.

People wear them. Cute kids wear them. Old and young people. And we are safe. Very few if any infections or deaths over the last 3 months.

Because of the control of the spread, people are more relaxed outdoors and mask use outdoors is around 65% at this point just from looking around.

No Covid-19. Enough. About. The. Masks. Already. Wear one. Protect your fellow humans.
For a naive code solution, I found the default naive golang code to be better performing than Rust, when processing multiple files together (I/O-bound). I'd be careful assuming Rust is faster by default, as Go has some pretty sane defaults out of the box. The developer experience is faster, simpler and stabler(?) too, but really depend what you want to make. I find Rust interesting but haven't found the time/project to learn it properly on. Point being to avoid costs and risks of premature optimizations.
Low income earners got hit hardest, unemployment up, Census Bureau’s data shows
> Mr English died of respiratory failure on 26 July in California, his wife Roberta said.

Seems like COVID-19, but covered by family, as many others relatives and friends of the deceased this year did.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2020#26
We're ready to accept our new Chinese overlords.
It could be done with anything, but async view lets other code execute while it is waiting for IO, what does waitUntilResolved do?
async is cool for I/O bound operations. You don't have to wait the request/response to finish in order to start processing another request.

Talking with a db, or doing http requests are IO operations, so instead of blocking the process, django can now start processing another one. When the IO operation is done, it continues where it stopped.
I'm always amazed by its size when I have to pull that library in as a dependency.
It should not really surprise, that there are benefits from removing parasites. The only potential downside I see is, that the childa body does not learn to deal with them on its own.
The type rating is not the reason for MCAS. MCAS is there to make the aircraft satisfy certain stability requirements mandated for all planes by the FAA to prevent an inadvertent stall.

So even with a new type rating, MCAS would still be needed unless the airframe were massively redesigned.
Multiple people here find the font makes them read slower, but
in my case I think I even read slightly faster, or at least not
slower at all.

I think it's great to read, but agree that it isn't the
best-looking font. Not as bad as comic sans though.
Shelta
Yeah that’s mainly correct I believe. The USA had an earlier electronic system well established by the time chip and pin was available. The costs to switch would have been greater than the amount of fraud prevented.

We see this in other systems like NYC’s metrocard VS London’s Oyster. Metrocard was an early system that works reasonably well. Now the MTA is deploying a new modern system as metro gets near its planned lifetime.

I think the USA has been far more innovative with credit cards that give rewards. Many of my EU friends complain they can’t get more airline points, etc with their cards.
I had the displeasure of using turnitin for a software engineering college course semi-recently (Long after this article was written).

It was a nasty mess that would scream at you whenever you quoted a source or referenced something and would get snagged on small commonly used interjections ALL THE TIME.

Some people ITT are saying how it's still up to the teacher's discretion whether you've plagiarised or not ...NOPE!

At the college I went to (and this seems to be a common experience looking at the thread) there were hard limits of how much it could flag before you had to resubmit. What a joke.

The teachers were nice and would let it slip if it was really stupid but it still was russian roulette any time I had to submit something. NOT FUN.
Whataboutism is basically questioning hypocrisy. Yeah, it's not nice to have your hypocrisy questioned, but it isn't wrong.
Solar (and wind) is getting so cheap that the first option is to overbuild and throw some excess electricity away. Batteries are then well placed to shift a few gours worth of solar from day to night.

Gas still has a place for seasonal demand far from the equator but even there you can dilute the gas with hydrogen to lower its carbon footprint.
That’s sorted by revenue not cash on the balance sheet. Here’s a more salient list:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...
> it is a completely idealistic worldview to believe that somehow, without effort everyone should be treated equally by everyone else, without any conflicts about boundaries, what you are worth etc.

I welcome you to quote where I propose these things. We’re talking about whether or not one might still be paid unfairly despite asserting their boundaries and negotiating with effort.

It’s arrogant of us to assume that someone who gets the short end of a position (relative to their peers) wasn’t assertive or simply fought less. We just don’t know that, and assuming it in the presence of reasonable barriers (like homelessness,
or just plain being offered less as a starting point) is myopic and cruel of us.
>That's convenient for the people it doesn't affect.

It's not convenient because it allows for conspiracy theories like yours to take hold.

Tell me, how do you decide that a policy which makes no reference to race, and is implemented in a regulated environment that makes racist policies illegal, is actually racist?

To me, it seems like the only yard stick you have is if the policy has differential impact on some group. That is as low a bar as you can have and it completely dismisses personal attributes that are actually used to qualify for loan. It's also lazy, and malicious.

>The only assumption that OP made is that cheap credit makes it easier to make money, and that makes it easier to get cheap credit. That's not especially controversial.

Yes it is controversial. It's also idiotic and dangerous. Interest rates are low now, max out your HELOC and go make money with it - see how easy it is ... alternatively, try getting a business loan without collateral and see how fast you're rejected. Nobody is going to care that you are in a 'privileged' class.
They don’t brag about it as much as Microsoft do but IntelliJ Community Edition is free software.

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/...
Yeah, I think you were thinking some sort of auto-refresh.
I see what appears to be hard-coded widget positions (margin_left = 202.0). I find that hard-coding positions in desktop applications prevents layouts from adapting to different languages, font sizes and window dimensions. (Like how many Windows dialog boxes won't resize). Is this how Godot works, and is it a problem?
I personally choose not to wear a mask. I don’t have COVID-19, so there’s no reason for me to wear a mask. There’s no evidence that supports the idea of asymptotic spread, so wearing a mask when you have no COVID symptoms accomplishes nothing.
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WEKA – The FOSS workbench for machine learning
Are you implying that const _doesn’t_ give you an immutable value? Or are you purposefully ignoring the difference between a primitive value and a pointer to make your point?
" just pick whatever the platform offers."

The platform does not offer anything.

"Just about every game needs text, including Unicode text. Every proper engine handles it"

No, what they do is paste a few characters on screen, handling a more common subset of Unicode. They don't come close to handling most of the things I described above.

Not even Qt handles text well - Qt allows you to do some fun 3D things with text, but not you can't open 100K lines of formatted code like VSCode.

Webkit is just as bad - MS had to invent 'Monaco' a huge layer on top to be able to manage text properly and it's kind of a hack.

Simply put nobody does it well out of the box.
You can use it to procedurally generate textures in Blender
Now I have higher-end phone (AQUOS zero2) but it doesn't feature Qi to make it lighter, and I love the decision. Previously I had Galaxy S8 that features Qi but I don't use it much because it gets hotter while charging so not seems good for battery health.

Adopting Qi has another side effect: it prevents using metal to back surface, so most high-end phones choose to use glass rather than resin so phones are much getting heavier.
I don't see how this is controversial...

C# is a powerful language that is highly expressive, has a great type system, excellent compiler and great IDE, excellent async support, fast HTTP stack in standard library, blessed application development framework and object relational mapper, etc. Basically everything you could ask for in an ecosystem for developing a long-lived web application.

Python is a scripting language which is great for one-offs and has great data-science libraries but lacks static typing, poor IDE experience, slow runtime performance, poor portability because of it's reliance on FFI, poor long-term application maintenance track record, no blessed frameworks, competing and incompatible async solutions, etc.

Tbh I don't think there is much contest. Yes you can write a bunch of Python quickly that will do something but if you already know C# which is much better suited for the task it's clearly a better choice.
Google Play Services pops to mind
You don't need proprietary plugins for that, though.

To make the brand attractive, free/open source is best.
There is no _switch_! You can use easily _mix_ sync and async code without any consequences.

Django provides `sync_to_async` and `async_to_sync`, but it's trivial to do this yourself without Django:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/async/#async-ad...

You can write sync code and use async calls only when needed.

Also, async python is awesome. Things were messy 2-3 years ago, but everything is so much better now.
Which basically means the government is taking on that risk and (potential) profit.
It looks like this isn't going away any time soon. Good ideas may not make a difference in the short term (though with medications already approved for other uses, maybe this one will), but they might reduce the burden of this disease in the medium-long term.

As for the testing, I would be thrilled if there were home covid-19 tests that were as fast and reliable as home pregnancy tests. Spit/pee/whatever on a stick, wait a couple of minutes, get a result. But I don't think anyone is working on something like this, and I suspect it's not as easy as it sounds.
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CarPlay is silly. CarPlay was made for legacy manufacturers who can’t make a decent UI. The UI on Tesla is generally ahead of CarPlay. Not even sure how you would do CarPlay.. a small pop-up window? It couldn’t take over the whole nav or you lose Energy display and a host of other good stuff.
It's not as large as Chromium by far (~55k lines + ~27k lines support library), but I quite like the Thrill codebase. It's a research prototype (but not what you would typically associate with "research code") of a big data platform like Spark but in C++. It makes nice use of lambdas with return type deduction, some template metaprogramming in the internals, smart pointers & RAII, and generally uses lots of modern C++ features. https://project-thrill.org/ and https://github.com/thrill/thrill (disclosure: I know the authors and have worked on/with it for a bit).
> it was the pilots not reading a message.

It was that the message (see the whole, the link was quoted) definitely wasn't clear. It has multiple weasel words and it is far from a clear and actionable sequence checklist for the exact condition in which two planes were put due to the MCAS. Only with the hindsight of knowing how two accidents developed and the independent pilots trying to reconstruct on the simulators these events it can be claimed that that formulation described something usable. Just with the pilots "reading it" at that time and even having it in front of them at the moment of the accident, without any special training for that situation (where the plane multiple times "undoes" the actions of the pilot, orienting the plane toward ground as the plane is still flying low) it's still improbable that the accident wouldn't happen.

Note: It's Boeing who insisted that the training for MCAS is not needed.
I'm in the same boat - Been in SEA for a number of years. All the locals wear masks and there's no issue. The foreigners are the ones pushing against it.
Good on you, but this doesn't prove anything imo. People are almost always positively biased toward attractive faces due to the halo effect. Biologically/psychologically this is a result of one's facial bone structure, skin, and bodyfat levels.

So being shabbily dressed and having stubble is mostly irrelevant here. Maybe you were just much better looking than the other (poor) bloke.
"Someone engaged in height discrimination and not sex discrimination is, by definition, looking at their height and not their sex."

Except that our discriminative faculties never engage in a 'single source' of discrimination. We only think in absolute terms, we never act that way.

We engage with gender bias all day long, likewise height bias.

At the same time.
> In other words, if the odds are e.g. 1 in 10 that the trip will kill me, I don't give a shit how low the risk per mile is.

The average distance to mars is about 225 million km, so that would be one accident about every 2,2 billion km or 0.45 deaths per km, which is a bit deadlier than buses and 9 times as deadly as planes. Gives some perspective on how save planes actually are.
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High quality watches were coming out of Switzerland long before it was a tax haven. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/style/international/what-...
If you threw out everything about Python that was unnecessary it would turn out that's more than 90% of Python and therefore it's worth making a python inspired language from scratch. Using python directly would probably make Godot worse.

I personally dislike the python ecosystem and am not missing anything.
You know... even for a feature like that, the plugin itself can be open source.

After all, if the remote development feature is based on a centralized server (owned by MS), the license check will be performed on that server. And if no centralized server is in play, suffice it to say, anybody sufficiently motivated could reverse-engineer the plugin, remove the license check, and go on using the feature for free.
every generous return policy by a shop

every PR action

free(as in beer) software (e.g. visual studio)

charitable donations (e.g. google to wikipedia)

not pressing charges for rampant cracking (photoshop used by students/children)

diversity photo ops/hiring practices

non-firing of incompetent employees

free workshops or tours for the public/children
Why language remains the most flexible brain-to-brain interface
Eh?? Brexit was fiercely decried by the ruling class. The only reason the vote happened was because it threatened to break up the conservative party. Nobody expected the result we got.

The media doesn't cancel people directly but they do amplify minor Twitter outrage to a global audience and as such, part of the problem. The canonical example is entire articles being written on 1-2 tweets supporting a particular opinion, but ignores thousands of tweets with a different opinions.
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IntelliJ Idea: Structural Search and Replace
>Is this still a big problem?

No. Retrofitting Xenon bulbs is an expensive pain in the ass compared to dropping in some LED replacement bulbs for a marginal increase in light and little to no increase in glare or change in beam pattern because they're made to be geometrically equivalent to the halogen bulbs they replace (which they kind of need to be in order to work adequately in all possible applications for whatever bulb they replace)

At the very high end you can get stupid bright LEDs but pretty much nobody does that because they are expensive.

Most of the glare you see is from OEM headlight assemblies (regardless of the type of bulb installed) that were simply not designed with not blinding other people as more than a "check the compliance box so we can get back to optimizing for every other metric" sized priority.
Finally 5G must be worth but whether buying 5G phone in 2020 is different question. Separat modem/SoC is not good for battery life. (yes I know iPhone does that ever but they do efficient things in different way)
You can have your car back if you fix the headlights. Make it be a mandatory appointment to show up at after e.g. a week and get your car checked for having fixed your headlighs.

Also, have a choice of getting your car booted with some electronic boot that you can unlock after sunrise, or getting your car towed. You'll have to show up for the checkup anyways, so that's when you can drop the boot off.

Either way, imprisonment won't fix the problem, which is a faulty vehicle. The inconvenience of not being able to drive the car until after sunrise, along with a typical towing/booting fee, should be sufficient incentive to not drive with faulty lights, given how easy they would be for police cars to measure/detect with an inexpensive, small camera unit at a proper location on the police car, which then signals the driver about a suspected violation.

Passing a police car that doesn't have anything better to do, while you have your faulty lights on, should be common enough to make driving like that a risk too high.
Even if you ignore all the evidence that there is asymptomatic spread, wearing a mask does provide you some protection from others. And indicates that you place some value on others’ safety.

But clearly at this point science and evidence have become matters of personal belief and convenience, which is quite unfortunate.
Grateful for anyone that studies this but there has been so much false hope in the past six months that I came to ignore all these findings.
Just having the mindset of "we need to validate this" isn't enough. Having the mindset of trying to disprove a theory encourages people to look in new areas. Diversity of thought is important because a monoculture stalls innovation and creativity.
Bear in mind the current standard is Electron, where the average size of an app is ~120Mb.
The "bad" reason why they are closed: They have the open core, but with key parts closed it's boarder for others to build a solution on top of it, thus they can shovel more integrations with their services in.

The "good" reason: Because relicensing of old software is hard and while they want to make it available (to strengthen their position in the developer community) See also my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24048633
This is quite a reach. VSCode is open source. Some popular extensions are not. Neither extension used as examples here are ones that I use, so they certainly aren’t critical to the product functionality.

The argument here feels akin to saying Linux is open source, but some applications available for Linux aren’t, so Linux is thus somehow not actually open source.
As a counterexample: New Zealand, minimal infections and deaths, and minimal mask wearing. https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...

"Healthy people in the community are not currently required to wear a face mask for protection from COVID-19 in New Zealand. In our current environment, the potential benefits of requiring masks to be worn by all healthy people in the community are not felt to outweigh the potential risks."
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The user is supplying json?
Is it really not a surprise? If someone told me that there was a magic, 50-cent-a-year pill that would increase my wage by 15% for the next 20 years, I would be skeptical.
I mean Europe has to decide between the tourist dollars and the virus. Americans have demonstrated themselves unfit for the challenge of dealing with this virus so anyone who really cares about keeping their country healthy will ban Americans until the US basically lets everyone catch it.