skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jacobabad, in Sindh province of Pakistan is not so far from where my mom grew up in Guddu. I am certain they have recorded temperatures this high and USAF used to fly drones to Afghanistan out of the Air Force base there.
hn at hoie dot kim
There are studies out there [1] from assessment providers

The problem is any one spending time on this question also has a vested interest in the answer.

FWIW my experience in hiring for my org and in the talent acquisition tech also reflects this . (Not related to the company in the link)

The reason usually this method is not as popular while the efficacy is understood is because it very hard to scale and do inconsistent evaluations and also takes a lot more time per candidate

[1] https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/truly-predictive-softwar...
Discussion on the law itself here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006150
Might be some in the comments on http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861 ...
Easier and faster than creating them in python.
This discussion is becoming circular. Please revert to my initial comment for my reply to this one.
Beijing would be worse.
In regards to parent commenters [0] link, this is the story that got a journalist's home raided by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) because she received leaked information (that turned out to be 100% correct) that the Department for Home Affairs was planning to allow the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to spy on Australian citizens.

Directly quoting from the linked article:

ASD powers have been a source of controversy for the government, after the AFP raided News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst’s home in June 2019 over a news report suggesting the home affairs department was seeking power for ASD to spy on Australians. Dutton had claimed the story was nonsense despite publicly confirming its substance.

The straight-up lying by one of Australia's highest ranked politicians bodes poorly, and goes hand-in-hand with Federal Police raiding a journalists home. Yet this seems to be the Government that the Australian people want.
Plenty of offices will just adopt western hours, like west coast offices do for east coast hours, and plenty of managers will be fine with the dirt cheap shippable code coming out of eastern Europe and Africa in the next few decades as worldwide internet access improves.

On the other hand, I have read about a growing interest in returning to the office. A growing number of people are feeling unproductive working from home. A company could position itself towards shareholders as more productive and innovative with more butts in the seat than it's competitors who outsource. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
Jacinda Ardern also has limited power. But she's an actual competent leader. One who didn't fart around pretending nothing was wrong for months while competent advisors said the exact opposite. One who didn't act like they got blindsided and started shifting blame after months of doing nothing. One who didn't peddle fake cures and hold mask-optional campaign rallies that directly led to the deaths of his own supporters.

And as it turns out, by being a competent leader, you can actually do a hell of a lot without having absolute power.

Yes. Trump is 100% to blame. Hundreds of thousands of people died, whereas if we had Jacinda, maybe a couple hundred.
Fairfax still produces daily newspapers with a large readership in Australia's 2 largest cities. To say they don't exist just because their ownership changed is a misnomer.
Not at all. It just requires some life experience with humans as opposed to being book smart.

The world is full of open secrets that can't be proved in court. It's a long way from "person X shows telltale signs of being corrupt in the way that many people in his role have repeatedly been shown to be corrupt" (my position) to some wild conspiracy theory involving basic misunderstandings of medicine, chemistry, biology, people, politics, history, espionage ...
If logic helps you predict the next word in the text, then a text based model will learn logic.
I would strongly disagree. Etcd, for what it does, is extremely simple. What is so complex about it? The configuration?
Political

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

A panel of fellows from a conservative US think tank interview important people about very macro issues, panel usually includes economists, military generals, high ranking scientists/political leaders

Conversations with Bill Kristol

A well respected former republican politician discusses many American centric issues/historical issues still relevant today with authors/experts
Firefox: An Endangered Internet Species?
I go to sleep 20 hours after I wake up, and I wake up 7 hours later.
The Linux Foundation, Grillo, IBM Announce Earthquake Early-Warning Project
> But languages doesn't work in silos

A really interesting trend in the data science community is that languages can be used in conjunction with one another. This can be seen in projects like Jupyter (Julia, Python, Latex, and R), Julia's FFI, and Apache Arrow.
From your comments I gather numerical algorithms aren't really your area. It really has worked as a separate silo for decades, and experts probably have little interest in ever writing a web server. What is the problems you are referring to? Aren't there also going to be problems with using one language for everyone (like array indexing headaches for starters).

I think Julia is older than numba by the way. Personally I haven't used it much, but I like the idea.
Maybe universities should teach satire as a form of a scientific investigation. I first wanted to write that it should be acknowledged as a proper form of inquiry at least in philosophy. After further consideration, I'd say it should be a mandatory building block for all students.
I took it in the spirit of questioning one’s questions, and thought it was rather good. Russellian, even. Judging from the general reaction in here this may just mean I’m a dim bulb with a bad sense of humor.
> Wow, the way it spreads is fascinating, reminiscent of Reflections on Trusting Trust.

Interestingly it's happened to Xcode before, and an impressive number of bad apps made it to the App Store as a result. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost.
Shh, don't ruin it. It is like all the yahoos that recently discovered Joshua Tree and decided to trash the place.
Not on consciousness but on the contemporary scientific treatment thereof.
HN needs to lighten up sometimes that article went over pretty easy. It might be a little scrambled, but you can poach meaning from it if you try. Things don't always have to have such a deep hard boiled meaning.
Flux needs to decouple it’s dimming timings from your local day/night cycle. I don’t care if it’s light or dark out, if it’s between x and y time I want the screen dimmed; otherwise, I don’t want it dimmed.
Australian here. Fuck News Corp, one of the most corrupt entities in Australia that directly collude and interfere with our elections for the benefit of themselves and Big Coal.

I hope Google don’t fuck around.
What does the client need to do?
Which would be more useful, desktop GUI or command line?
Would it be ok if the client runs on the jvm?
Should it be deployed as a systemd service?
This should be on infinite loop in an <audio> tag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXksOtVbxo8
I would just keep my confidence. After all your job is to develop, not to solve whiteboard-puzzles.

If you have to solve something, and can't because it's dumb, or partially dumb, then just explain your opinion to the interviewer.

If they weigh that against you, then it's not a good company for you anyway.

Example: An interviewer once asked me details about POSIX-portability of shell-commands in devops-pipelines.
I didn't know the answer, but I had done devops successfully for many years so I replied:
"I'm not sure, but I don't really need to know that, because I put all my scripts in http://shellcheck.net/"

Which was a completely satisfying answer for him and one he didn't hear before. So points for me.
Interesting, macOS has a much stricter permission system than I'm used to on Windows and Linux. On Windows and Linux malware could just start controlling the mouse and keyboard and thus control the browser to get data from it, but on macOS apparently to control the mouse and keyboard some special permission is needed.
For me, codeforces is fun the same way chess is fun. Yeah, the mechanics look dry on the surface, but lots of variation under the surface, and lots of chances to link concepts by having an aha moment during the contest or afterwards in analysis.
Covid-19 Changed Americans’ Internet Habits
The last bit of my parent comment was meant to be reductio ad absurdum, not an exoneration of Clinton.
Keep in mind Google are being forced to display the content AND pay for it.
Shoot me the YouTube link.
Does it matter? Transnational corporations are sovereign in all but name. If Google really, really doesn't like a particular local law, they'll pull out of the country (e.g. mainland China and, soon, Hong Kong). The "local, Australian-owned and regulated megacorp" is Rupert Murdoch's media empire, which is currently in bed with the reigning Liberal party. There is no regulation here.

There is a kernel of truth in your post; we do need a better funding mechanism for independently produced news. However, it's hard not to see this as less "preserving independent news" and more "Google should pay for the house organ".
What alternative is there? Its also very easy to loose keys, if your target audience is not hackernews...
Linux Commands frequently used by Sysadmins – Part 2
Crashed with "Error: Infinite loop suspected while learning"
The point is breakfast is what we define it to be. It is a set of objects that have certain properties that we deem to be described as breakfast. In the same way consciousness is what we decide it to be. There is no natural definition, its a thing we made up. This also implies that searching for the natural explanation of consciousness is about as useful as searching for the natural definition of breakfast.

I disagree, but thats what the article is saying.
"Google Search and YouTube to show you what’s most relevant"

Then you f-ing failed Google, your adds are always for crap and YouTube adds are for even shittier things.
The story I was taught growing up (in the UK) was that the aristocracy lost of LOT of its young men to WWI, because they were all doing time as officers in the army when it happened.

I could have been lied to.
Google has a private linux drive client.
It's in use in Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/io.ipynb
> Former President Gorbachev has confirmed that it was never written down, but the historical record is clear: the West made what amounts to a gentlemen’s agreement not to expand, and then went ahead and did so, in two rounds (1999 and 2004).

Interesting how written - and unwritten - agreements are held - and broken - in various cases. Korea armstice comes to mind, as well as Budapest memorandum (of Ukraine and Crimea matter).
When I was in Egypt for a week in April (not this year), it was 40°C the whole time in the day, without much variation. I'm guessing they must get higher temperatures later in the summer.
We don't have this issue where I live. You can't buy tests that are accepted by the government and everyone was forbidden from having parties when we had levels of infection anywhere near the US. Punishable by jail time, not just fines, to both host and guest.

Once the virus is under control, then everyone is allowed to have parties given certain measures are fixed.
Kiwi browser removes amp from google results.
> It has long been understood that no breakfast can exist in the absence of its constituent foods and their related supporting structures such as plates and bowls, utensils, and toasters

How did this pass review?
On the JSON viewer being annoying: is the issue that it shows the information twice for all fields? That's what drives me crazy. I wonder how hard it would be for a newcomer to make a fix for this.
"You are charging it wrong"
Contemplative Practice That Isn't Meditating
> The quoted material is important, because people expect to be able to retrace the conversation within the single message.

Given the proliferation of rendering a thread of messages and showing them as a conversation (i.e., conversation view), reading the quoted material within the same message is not really necessary.

> Technical (and also nontechnical) exchanges often consist of a dozen messages about a particular topic spread over weeks or sometimes months, where at almost each step you want to go back in the conversation to look at details of the previous discussion or to refresh your memory.

While I have seen this done in threads where people follow the conventions of a typical mailing list or usenet newsgroup by replying inline and quoting only parts of the text they're responding to, I have not seen the equivalent in a threaded conversation in outlook. And, as you note:

> Outlook also doesn't have a great UX for that.

While they have addressed the UX issue to some extent with the conversation view, it still doesn't really lend itself to easily following the discussion amongst multiple people due to the fact that they don't typically use different subthreads under the same email chain.
Even more optimistic was the technique used to sell lots in the Coachella Valley. Someone once had a theory that several seasons of agriculture would somehow "terraform" the region into a paradise, and realtors eagerly seized upon it.

Compare "Apple Valley" and "Lucerne Valley", both of which I remember as having been convenient places for geology, as there was very little of the elsewhere common inconvenient interposed layer of biology.

(Because the valley floor soils had accumulated for thousands of years without having any nutrients washed away, the first several harvests upon irrigation were bumper with very little fertiliser input. Later harvests ... less so.)

"Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea."
The Sense-Maker Workshop
I gather from these comments that Julia is not a good choice for run-of-the-mill devs that do numerical computation on the side, but might be ideal for someone who's entire job is to write algorithms from scratch. Correct?
In a situation where over a hundred thousand people died, it is not reasonable to allow the super-rich to hold massive parties, no. It wouldn't be frighteningly unjust, it would be good and justified. This is how it worked where I live and we don't have secret police.
> deliberately run at about breakeven, it's a political tool, not a money-making enterprise.

Well, that's worse, or at least no better, and makes it much harder to defend the writing of new laws to protect it (except when you're the one both writing the laws and using the tool). Just writing that makes my skin crawl.

Admittedly, that's a different topic to tax avoidance though.
No risk as previous replier mentioned. I provided only the repo names for people who are afraid that they might have dependencies on an infected project.
> I'm not sure how Google wins this one because it seems like an easy comeback is "well why don't you just be transparent and tell everybody that information". Ultimately, as long as they have anything resembling "secret sauce" they will be in the cross hairs of regulators for unfair treatment (even if just alleged, not proven), and the minute they don't they will lose their competitive advantage.

Because then people would game it.
Will they have to start a new legal process to take down posts reporting on them taking down posts. This could go on for ever if that's the case.
I was onced refused entry into a country for 6 hours because of different spellings of my last name. The (apparently quite amateur) travel agency had sent my last name written using OE instead of Ö, whereas all the documents relating to my identity use Ö (or if it was the other way around).
This is sort of a digression, sort of a return to the original topic. As I was reading the sentence about Moby-Dick, I wondered if perhaps someday this comment section would become part of a training corpus for GPT-9001 or whatever. Then a researcher might read it a paragraph from Moby-Dick and ask it whether those events actually happened or whether they were fictional. And it might answer "Of course they were made up. Everyone knows that the people in Moby-Dick or Wuthering Heights were made up."

And if the researcher asked it to explain how it could know anything about what is fiction and what is not, it might be able to use the contents of these comments to figure out how to converse intelligently about its own limitations.
Which is just petty stuff, and sends the message “I am more important than the rest of the company”.

It sounds like he doesn’t have the organization’s best interests in mind, but rather just his own.
From the National Park Service:
"During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above."

https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/weather-and-climate.ht...

In fact, the temp broke 125F for a stretch of 10 days in a row.

So there was a well documented, well published record of a heat wave going on in Death Valley at that time. It is not impossible just because someone wants to FUD 100 years later.

From Chris Stachelski on NOAA's website:

"Weather observations in the modern record at Death Valley began at the Greenland Ranch in 1911." So the observer had more than 2 years of consistent recordings before this record was hit. He was not "inexperienced".

https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritage/-/one-hot-weathe...

Death Valley has extremely unique geography.

From Andrew Palmer, meteorologist, in Monthly Weather Review (1922)

"The temperature of 134° F. recorded on July 10, 1913 is believed by meteorologists to be the highest natural air temperature ever recorded with a tested standard thermometer exposed in the shade under approved conditions."

(Below copied from PDF, with link below which has excellent analysis of why Death Valley is so unique)

"The excessive heat of Death Valley is easily expldned.
Situated \\-ell to the south of the summer storm tracks,
there are no alternnting weather conditions such ns
characterize the passage of HIQHS and LOWH. It is a
typical solar climate, solar insolation being the c.hief
control. During the long summer days the air is escan-
sively heated by the high sun, as there is too little mois-
ture in the air to permit the formation of clouds. Esc~s-
sive heating causes a$cenrling currents, and nir sli s
place of air rising over the valley iloor. The air w1iic.h
slips down the IiiountrLin slopes is heated dynaniica.llp
as it descends. The winds are local nnd convectional.
The desert sand, gravel, rocks, nnd salt arc so highly heated durinw the lon days t1ia.t they do not have 01’ or-
The cumulative effects of theso various agencies ro"

https://journals.ametsoc.org/mwr/article/50/1/10/87157/DEATH...

Article from 1922 even includes a photo of the weather station at Greenland Ranch.

ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-01-0010.pdf

Sorry, not buying the FUD.
Sure there are. I'm not allowed to leverage my resources to get myself out of conscription, why should a rich person be able to? As far as I know the state exists, you can just throw them in jail as soon as they step in, just like what would happen here.

As far as a billionaire holding parties during a pandemic that killed over a hundred thousand people, you threaten them with jail time. It works, if you don't have a corrupt state.
Yeah I get that, the further east you go the worse it is, and my experience working with Indian coworkers sounds like a nightmare for them.

I'm from Portugal so I was thinking of being there, 8am here is 4pm there, and 5pm here is 1am there. I kind of like the idea of having my morning to myself, and working in the evening. With lock down that's been my work schedule now. I do exercise, chores, and cooking in the morning, and actual work in the evening (the occasional meeting tends to occurs as I bake/boil/chop something).
The article is saying that there is an experience/phenomenon of "the breakfast" that cannot be explained by an analysis of its constituents. The whole (the breakfast) is more/something else than the sum of its parts. Contemporary scientists only look at the parts because that's what their methods allow them to do/reason about. They miss the essence of the breakfast. Their methods don't even allow them to acknowledge that breakfasts exist -- however & whatever that would mean and imply.

Since I think the current scientific treatment of consciousness is rather deplorable (unconscious scientists unconsciously trying to be consciously smart), I like this article.
The underlying infra is not decouplable from the language. The beam is first and foremost designed to get stuff done easy and without error, not to be beautiful and poetic. Doesn't mean it can't be beautiful! And programming is fun because it feels like programming with training wheels on.
>> The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”

That's the best sentence I've read in a long time, despite the fact that the pandemic has me spending too much time surfing HN.

I think the author makes a very solid, implicit, argument regarding the problem of consciousness. The "problem" is hard to pin down. It doesn't seem any more implausible to me that consciousness is an emergent property from our brain bio/chem/physics then that hurricanes and diamonds and stalagmites naturally emerge from their respective environments. Or that massive spaceships emerge from Conway's Game of Life. Of course humans claim that we're special - "My consciousness is more important than a darned stalagmite!" - thinking of ourselves as more important than rocks and hurricanes, as more special, gives us a desire to survive. Our predecessors who genuinely thought they were no more "special" than a stalagmite were ineffective at passing down their genes.

So I claim that the hard problem of consciousness is not such a hard problem, but rather just a case of us humans being obsessed with ourselves.
It's easier and faster because it's a more powerful language. You can achieve fortran/C speeds without leaving the language (for example Tullio.jl and LoopVectorization.jl competing with super optimized BLAS methods). Multiple Dispatch means libraries can compose, for example Julia's main Machine Learning library doesn't even need to know anything about GPUs to run all of it's methods on it (said library is also only a few thousands of lines of high level Julia, and the CUDA library is also 100% Julia). Even the state of the art implementation of Tensorflow interface that couldn't work on Python (Swift for Tensorflow, a fork of the swift compiler) had a competitor implemented as pure Julia libraries (Zygote.jl, a source to source differentiation library) thanks to it's metaprogamming capabilities.

I did mention from scratch because of course, if your library requires another library that does not exist (and you don't want to use the FFI), it won't be faster or easier (though I did mention in the previous comment that it's something all new languages will have to go through, until it's not a problem anymore).
> any NLP task that performs anywhere near as well on Russian as it does on English

This has a lot more to do with smaller Russian corpora than anything to do with peculiarities of the Russian language.

> This applies to all languages BTW. There are only very, very few NLP systems that actually work, and they are all in a setting which tolerates a fairly high error rate (e.g. ranking).

I've trained NLP models used on over 15 different languages used in production