skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think this correlation between top-tier skill and humility exists?
Yeap, I am not going to buy pixel 5 if it does have that weird fingerprint reader behind it.

Best scenario for me is having fingerprint reader under the screen.
Imagine walking around the visible universe, taking a step every age of the universe, then every time you completed a circle around the universe, picking up one atom... until you pick up the universe.

Then you have begun your journey.
Better idea, use positive reinforcement. Walmart, et al raise prices 15%. Mask wearers get 15% off. Everyone else pays full-price.
I left nano behind when micro became mature. Now it is in the Ubuntu repos.
That is also not showing for me!
Thomas Sowell is a critic of the climate change/environmental science initiatives, and it's one of the reasons I heavily question his other views. Here's a 3 min video of him talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rweblFwt-BM

The points he makes are quite fair. The science isn't perfect, yes. Often, people try to hide that the science isn't perfect, too. But the impact is roughly the product of the magnitude of the impact and the probability of the event. In this case, the magnitude is enormous and the probability is less than 100% but seemingly quite large. Dr. Sowell seems to simply argue that climate reports suggest that the probability is higher than it truly is. But if a report suggest 95%, and Dr. Sowell thinks it's more like 40%, the core issue is still enormous. I would want him to talk about why he thinks the huge effects of anthropogenic climate change are such a vanishingly small probability to the point that we shouldn't do anything about it.

Here's another article by him: https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2002/06-08/0002_thoma...
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> Measuring the risk of travel in terms of hours seems largely pointless, unless I'm missing something.

Again, it depends on what you're trying to measure. If you're trying to quantify the risk of dying by accident at a certain hour, what activity you are doing in that hour is highly relevant.

If you are trying to quantify the risk of dying by accident while going from A to B, then it's not (that) relevant.
Okay, right now/recently China is sterilizing millions of muslim refugees and placing them in "re-education" facilities. While pretty much wholesale taking over a territory that had much more freedom.

I'm not sure there are recent examples of US actions that even compare in scale or scope.

-- edit:

This also doesn't even get into the scale of the nation state cyber espionage activities. If you work in any government agency, or work with the government, your networks are under constant attacks.
Really hate to be the overanalyzer here, but just wondering how is physical attractiveness defined in these studies?

And was charisma considered as a variable?

(I'm just thinking of the courtroom scene in "My Cousin Vinny". Joe Pesci is not conventionally good looking but has a personality that is very persuasive)
This rather reminds me (very inexactly) of Behavioural Activation Therapy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_activation] although in that case the task intended isn't necessarily inherently disagreeable, simply overwhelming to a person with depression.
I tried my CDR collection from the late 90's last year. Everything worked perfectly. However I destroyed a number of the obsolete ones.
When reading these comments, remember: these arent your target customers
I've hired numerous subcontractors who don't use email. These guys require printed plans. Hell, the local fire inspectors require printed plans, even though they prefer not to fill out paper inspection reports.

People who haven't used change control have a hard time imagining what they're missing.
Do you have a non-polygraph series of jobs? I'm kinda bad at it.
> Not sure what you are basing this on but it's probably not an exaggeration to say that C/C++ has generated hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue over decades

And PHP, Cobol, Perl, etc. Just because a tool is useful is not a reason to avoid point their problems.

And C/C++ have very well know problems, since decades ago.

> Saying it's a "VERY costly mistake" is baffling.

Maybe if MS say it?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-heres-why-we-love-pr...

Just to point a recent one...
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Sorry, illegal due to the ADA since some people can't wear masks.
> That said, iPhone is nice. It is rare exception, I don't know how Steve Jobs saw this, but this is perhaps his genius. iPhone + touchscreen interface totally makes sense.

He basically took an Asian tablet (these existed at the time), made it smaller and added phone capability. Funny thing is that almost nobody uses the phone capability anymore these days.
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What about tech? Are physically attractive software engineers more likely to receive jobs and promotions than engineers of equivalent skills and experience?
What does architecture mean to you? He responded, I ask the questions here not you. I immediately ended the interview.

Again, thanks so much for naming the guilty party (NoRedInk) in this case. So that we can firmly add them to our list of companies not to bother engaging with, if this is the kind of behavior we can expect from their interviewing team.

The above anecdotes speaks volumes about the mentality that drives companies like these -- and the "culture fit" they're apparently looking for.
Almost certainly yes, unless tech is different from the job market at large.

An interesting point on attractiveness in the job market is that people who are extremely unattractive tend to also perform very well. It’s mildly unattractive people who do the worst. My pet theory is extremely unattractive people have to work their asses off to make enough money to be sexually competitive in any way.
Wow, a huge effect on sentencing (fine amounts, prison term lengths) but no effect on conviction rate? That seems hard to believe.

If true, it means that this bias could be fairly straightforward to correct in theory, though in practice I doubt people would accept the necessity or fairness of such corrections.
>Semiconducting High-Entropy Chalcogenide Alloys with Ambi-ionic Entropy Stabilization and Ambipolar Doping

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01555
Good questions, I would like to see some data for that.
I assume it is like a reverse bias where someone who looks like garbage is expected to be a good programmer.
This is an unfortunate reality in most aspects of life. Physical attractiveness _does_ matter, and has many advantages. Whether in job interviews, relationships (non-romantic ones too!), performance assessments or even the judiciary system: attractive people are seen more favorably.
Add in weaponized paint cans falling from stairwells and call it 'k.McCallister'.
Honestly I don’t see a profession where people considered attractive in that location would do worse than their unattractive peers, all other things being equal.
Big USDS fan here, but this seems shocking since it sounds like they developed the app that didn't work. I recently read something about theri defense team in Dept of Defense in the NY Times and things didn't sound positive, I guess the whole team sent a letter to the media about the toxic work environment at US Digital.[1] I wonder if this is the effect of things under the current administration.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/esper-trump-d...
> “ Nearly every other city has taken major steps to make it easier for people to spend time outdoors, for restaurants and bars to serve patrons outdoors, assistance programs for local small businesses, and so forth.”

Horrible. Just horrible. Making it easy to gather is a bad thing, that will prolong the pandemic and lead to far more deaths and worse total economic outcomes.

I think De Blasio and Cuomo have done really a great job in NY, and wish they’d go even further to mandate masks and reduce outdoor dining basically through the rest of 2020.
Physical bias is inherent in everything. All human interaction.

Being "beautiful" or "ugly" can be a pro, it can be a con, it can lead to jealousy. Awkwardness, feeling low self-esteem, confidence, tension, etc. A lot of it is subjective.

We're animals, and we often forget that fact. We try to normalize as much as possible to remove these biases (thankfully), but it's completely impossible to remove outright.

I'm waiting for the day we have Matrix-like capabilities and can change our avatar on a whim. :)
It seems yes, being attractive will work in your favor in a wide variety of situations.

https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/orsp_shahani-denning_spring03.pd...
I don't understand why you've gotten upset, the author isn't lying and I also don't believe they're trying to slander Qt
Sadly, it likely helps in compensation and promotion opportunities.
I would look at this as being more of a black swan event. No investor can factor those in because they are unknown by definition.

This isn't about lifestyle. If CRE crashes, this is 2008 all over again and probably an order of magnitude worse. Commercial real estate has been a very active asset class over the past decade and it's huge.
It seems like you shifted your argument there.
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I use Godot on a daily basis, full time. Don't try that at home.
It absolutely does matter. I don’t buy products when I have other choices that don’t meet my desires and then expect the government to do something about it.
That's not what they were saying...
Unattractive programmers spending more time honing their skills than taking care of their appearance?
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That last paragraph hits home. I was always ‘good at school’ (even though I spent a lot of effort studying to maintain that status), up until I got to my PhD program and I couldn’t just ‘regurgitate simple models’ and succeed anymore. I got my PhD in the end, but I’m not as successful as many of my peers have been. Acceptance that I am not an elite scientist and committing to the work anyways was the thing I learned in grad school that has helped me in industry so far.
Circus freaks.
cough t-splines cough
I'm sure they did! Kremer is a really important figure in the history of economics, and the magnitude of the effects of his work on deworming are debatable. These things are perfectly compatible. I think the articles I posted might help readers form their own conclusions about the work, rather than deferring on account of Kremer's prestige and authority; per Feynman, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." [0]

Regarding the fact that it's appalling that so many people still deal with this problem -- I agree. As Gelman says (second link I posted in GP), the reason that magnitude of effects is important is opportunity costs:

> The 800-pound gorilla in the room is opportunity cost, or cost-benefit analysis. As you say, who could be against de-worming kids? I’m reminded of Jeff Sachs’s argument that all of these sorts of interventions are worth doing, and that rather than trying so hard to rank the cost-effectiveness of different health and economic interventions, the rich countries should just kick in that 1% of GDP or whatever and do all of them. I’m not saying Sachs is necessarily right on this, I’m just saying that most of the discussion seems to be on traditional statistical grounds (Is there an effect? Is it statistically significant? Has it been proven beyond a reasonable doubt?) and the cost-benefit or opportunity cost calculations are implicit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23816584
I was interested to see the section, "A lawyer's physical attractiveness" -- it reminded me of a few years ago when my wife was supporting a friend during a messy divorce by being present in court with her. Both parties' lawyers were women, but the husband (who had a lot more money) had hired a very sharp, very expensive, dressed-to-the-nines Manhattan lawyer. But the wife's lawyer was a relatively inexpensive lawyer from Long Island, comparatively unattractive and frumpily dressed. Obviously it helped that the Manhattan lawyer was very quick on her feet, but my wife commented at the time that "even from the way she was dressed, the Long Island lawyer didn't have a chance". It makes me sad how much of an influence money and appearances are in the justice system. Maybe all the lawyers and jurors should be literally blindfolded, like Lady Justice.
Out of curiosity, what would such a model be used for? I worry that as ML is becoming more popular and powerful, people are jumping to use it on problems from which the answer cannot possibly be identified accurately from the inputs alone. This model's predictions would entirely based on historical trends of what images looked like, rather than something objective like carbon dating.

I am not discouraging someone from building such a model, but it would be really helpful to know the context for which such a model is being developed. If it's just a hobby investigation, it would be cool to see how "predictable" dates are from images. I could even see it being used in forensics to provide a "first guess" as to when an image occurred, and helping with triaging of evidence. However, things become deeply problematic if the result from the image is fed to people as "ground truth" simply because the model was found to be accurate on a validation dataset. I certainly wouldn't want this model to be used to determine whether a suspect is innocent / guilty, or to be used naively by museums to date photographs.
I remember finding OpenPCR too expensive for a student project, and I ended up designing and building a cruder/cheaper alternative for that project: http://2013.igem.org/Team:Paris_Saclay/PS-PCR/detailed_descr...
That's terrible. I'm glad that this is not the case here in Canada. It does make no sense whatsoever for it to be like this in the US. I agree with your other examples, but this one is clearly unjust and should change.
Can you imagine these "patriots" during WWII? Rationing? That's treading on my liberties!
A cheap workaround for me is to use magnetic USB connectors & cables. They are small enough to have a connector permanently attached to most my devices and I have several matching cables on my desk, in the car etc.

I found about this option on a motorcycle forum where a specific helmet headset was quite sensible to breaking the micro USB charging port. I bought a couple of cables and several micro-SUB connectors, then I bought a handful of USB-C ones and a few more cables and now everything is by default using magnetic connections.
That's not government mandated.
A huge confounding factor is that socio-economic status and life history can significantly affect attractiveness.

For example, in the US at least, a lot of people consider having nice, straight teeth attractive. But getting there requires good dental care and perhaps orthodontics such as braces which can be expensive. Thus, not only are straight teeth attractive, they can be a signal of socio-economic status.

Another thing is that life situations alter attractiveness. For example, I have seen people who were attractive once, but after a few years of using meth, they would not be described as attractive by a lot of people.

Also, in at least one of the studies, photos of the criminal were used to judge attractiveness. These may have been mugshots. However, how someone looks on mugshots can be significantly different if one has been living on the street for sometime vs living in a wealthy home, and their lawyer arranged their client to turn themselves in to the police.
I still remember the excitement of seeing "40MB Free" on the screen with my 21MB MFM hard drive...
This reminds me of a study of cases where judges pre-screened cases looking at the evidence and charges without ever seeing the defendant or demographics about them and predicted the outcome. Their expected verdicts and sentencing was far more uniform and accurate (taking appeals into account) than the in-person trials that followed.
one of Google's best idea.
I think you're right -- I've never managed an SQLAlchemy on a production site. I'm going to edit this paragraph.
I guess I was thinking natural attractiveness, rather than that achieved by preening and such.
Stagnant seems like an overstatement given 500 commits on one of the agents alone in the last month. There is surely a way to criticize without devaluing the unread contributions of literally hundreds of developers.

I personally am much more motivated by seeing customers encouraged to add support for their favorite libraries and frameworks than scoring their sweet free codes, but I suppose there is potentially a sinister motive behind everything in life... like open source.
Probably, but this is a rabbit hole all in itself. All aspects of life are dictated by others' perception of us, our work and our personality being signals just as appearance is.

In an ideal world, we could simply uncheck these biases and do blind promotions and detach a person's work output from his or her face, but it doesn't work like that. Even worse attractiveness is subjective and thus hard to control for. You can usually identify racism because the person will have traits that puts him/her in that category. It's much harder for subjective beauty.

TLDR: Probably yes, but don't expect it to go away anytime soon.
Ask HN: How do I find a career path?
I am a rising senior and CS major at a good STEM college, with a very good GPA. However, I feel lost about what I want to do with my life. I used to be passionate about CS but lost it after high school, but chose to keep going with it because it is lucrative and I am good at it. I interned in software development last summer and my experience confirmed my suspicion that I dislike CS and would find it really unpleasant to work a 9 to 5 job where my main task is programming.

I have resented CS and saw it as something I just had to do, and so have not done any research in college. I really only have 1 internship under my belt, but did not feel like I made a huge contribution where I was. My true passion languages, specifically Chinese (high level) and Japanese (basic conversations), and I want to try living in Japan (I am from the US).

I love languages, so I have considered studying NLP or machine translation, but honestly am not sure if that will lead to a job I still dislike given I do not like CS. I am looking into applying to grad school to have a competitive edge in a specialized CS field. The applications are this fall, and I feel like I do not have much to on my resume other than 1 internship, good grades, and a good GRE score.

I was thinking about applying to work at a company in Japan, like Microsoft Japan, etc. and work there for 1 or 2 years to get the experience of living there while doing things I could put on a resume to grad school, and find something I am interested in along the way. I do not know what my chances are of getting such a job there is, especially now with COVID.

My question is how should I go about finding a career path I will enjoy but also provide for me? Am I rushing into grad school? Should I work in Japan for 1 or 2 years (my favorite option), should I work for a company in the US, or should I do post-bach research?

Is anything I am saying even worth trying, or am I on the completely wrong path?

Thank you so much!
I'm surprised too, but conviction does seem to be the more objective part. Sentencing can vary on the attitude, etc. and is inherently more subjective in practice IMO.
I don't think it's a democratic perspective to be on the safer than sorry "version of the virus".
Yes, okay, I’ll give you that.
Exceptions stand out from the crowd, good and bad. If you are a competent dev, nobody cares about that if no one notices you.

If people notice you, they'll next notice if you are competent or not.
Travel is another reason. I use my bluetooth noise cancelling Sony headphones but being able to just plug in with zero battery use feels like magic.

13 hour flight, airports, etc... fewer dongles, fewer things to charge, etc.
The bias does not exist only in the legal system...
Or CCPs interest in what they get from TikTok doesn't provide much value internationally speaking. They may be more interested in domestic control in their "social credit" system to catch dissenters... where internationally, they would find less valuable information that they can act on.

Just my own conspiracy minded pov. Also, most government and related businesses have already taken the steps to advise their employees don't use the app, and don't have it on devices that come into their offices.
why are you reluctant?
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Doing a more sophisticated simulation, I think it's trending towards 1.4 exactly (42 to 43 is 1.400003). Idk how to prove it though.
Another way to think about it would be: you have (roughly) the same chance of dying in a 3 hour flight as in an 9 hour bus ride.
Yeah I think the big issue here is that HEIF is typically used to get JPEG level quality at a lower file size. Increased bit depth would negate those file savings, and I bet Apple/Google would just prefer you use RAW.
you could try to prevent the phone from attaching to the fake cell tower, and only attach to a whitelisted cell tower... that method isnt that easy to do with most phones