skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to share the same exact points. He’s making a lot of assumptions never being on the other side and actually interviewing lots of candidates. Most of the time I get half assed projects with bugs that are obvious and they haven’t ever made contributions to open source software as an alternative to the take home project.

I think the at home project is the most lenient way to test someone because they aren’t pressured to solve a problem on the spot, instead they are in the comfort of their own home and can reference whatever documentation they would need, just like they would in a real position.
>microkernel design

>unix-like

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

"With POSIX compatibility" would have been a better description.
If only it was all data, statistics and hypotheses in social science. As it stands, that's a relatively modern idea in the field. Take a look at some of the stuff they teach in sociology 101:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_actions

It's all utter fiction. The long drawn out ramblings of ancient white men who formulated theories as their favorite pastime. None of it is experimentally derived because there were no experiments to begin with.

You can't found a field on a corpus of creative writing.
The type of trees killed for paper (and timber) here in New Zealand are utter trash, pinus radiata.
Definitely both Outreachy and GSoC students participate after their internships, although a lot of them of course don't participate for various reasons.

In particular I know that for years now former GSoC interns are mentoring current GSoC interns on the project to package parts of the Android SDK for Debian. This year it is last year's intern and also two others from prior years.

https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2020/ApprovedProjects/An...
Can someone please explain what the discount rate means?
Why models fail to deliver value and what you can do about it
I lived in Shenzhen from 2007-2011 and can confirm that large amounts of recyclables were shipped to China. Open-air facilities hired pickers to go through the material and pull out whatever they could before disposing of the remainder (by who knows what means).

This all happened within eyesight of my condo building.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman... is another.

I think your theory is spot on.
I think the disagreement here is about the idea that you can explain a huge collection of phenomenon by saying "anthropic principle", or you can use logic and math to reduce them all to a few root phenomena that are explainable by "anthropic principle".
By "a working microkernel" you probably mean a working microkernel-based operating system.

If so, besides the hurd (and all the debian packages that build and run for it), there's Minix 3, HelenOS and Genode (specifically Sculpt) to look into.
What are the similarities / differences between RedoxOS and Google's Zircon kernel?
I’m not an audiophile, but many of them think that keeping all
parts of the signal chain completely analog, regardless of the particular format, is more “pure” because apparently digitized audio misses information because of how it’s “sliced”. Technically this is true, but with a sufficiently high sampling rate, such as the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem inspired rate of 44.1Khz, the original the signal can more or less be perfectly reproduced.
I hadn't considered doing this to save my audible purchases. Going to, now!
> I'd probably say that cancel culture requires the internet to really be a thing

Blacklisting with more than local scope (and, while nonviolent in themselves, again, vastly more drastic practical impact than modern “cancel culture”—and particularly, often, a much more direct and total impact on employability, and often impacting people with less socioeconomic privilege and associated security than are at issue with “cancel culture” complaints) was a thing long before the internet, to the point that laws curtailing it in certain contexts were adopted (and fought against by blacklisters) before WWII.

EDIT: The internet or something like it may help the less privileged coordinate against the more privileged, changing who is potentially exposed to something that the powerful have always had in their toolbox, though.
Where would you move?
App store reviews are executing the policies and tools that security engineers built. Whether it is a human checking these policies or automated scripts doing it, the point is that the policies governing those filtering processes are conceptualized, written and developed by experts that know what they're doing and they get paid a handsome amount [250k USD and upwards]. You're also switching from AppStore to the whole device. The device is secure because of things like T2 chip and billions that probably went into making it possible.

It's really obvious to me which is more secure - a 2 trillion dollar company with vested interest and one of the key selling points, that is privacy; or ... literally anything else.
That is of course untrue.

What is true is that there is little profit to be made in distributing seeds that breed true.
its appropriate both you and op can be right in that he said meat was essential for mankind and you say grain is foundation for society.

grain was the way civilization was enforced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hist...
The Big Five is a much less impressive accomplishment than you’d think for how much people talk about it.

https://carcinisation.com/2020/07/04/the-ongoing-accomplishm...

> The interesting thing about the Five Factor Model is what it gets away with, in terms of being considered a theory, even though it is not causal, and makes no predictions. What counts as a “replication” of the Five Factor Model, as in Soto (2019), is the following: a correlation is found between one or more factors of the Five Factor Model and some other construct, and that correlation is found again in another sample, regardless of the size of the correlation. In almost all cases, and in 100% of Soto (2019)’s measures, the construct compared to a Big Five factor is derived from an online survey instrument.

> What counts as a “consequential life outcome” is also fascinating. In most cases, the life outcome constructs are vague abstractions measured with survey instruments, much like the Big Five themselves. For instance, the life outcome “Inspiration” is measured with the Inspiration Scale, which asks the subject in four ways how often and how deeply inspired they are. Amazingly, this scale correlates a little bit with Extraversion and with Open-mindedness. Do these personality traits “predict” the life outcome of inspiration? Is “Inspiration” as instrumentalized here meaningfully different from the Big Five constructs, such that this correlation is meaningful?
“Yes the web is the bad place, with porn and such: you should use apps instead”. After all, in the apps “look better”.
Very nice! Reminds me of loglo, a similar app posted a few weeks ago for spreadsheet geometry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542876
Pretty much a band name is a brand.
So this is not quite beamjit, but a sort of rewrite?
Chemical warfare agent NOVICHOK – mini-review of available data
> In addition to the other replies, I'd like to point out that insect farming is an often overlooked solution.

What is the actual problem that needs a solution though? I feel like "but where will we get our protein from?" is a common fallacy on the subject of meat that people accept without evidence. We're eating more meat now than ever and most Americans eat too much protein:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/well/eat/how-much-protein... "Most American adults eat about 100 grams of protein per day, or roughly twice the recommended amount."
... is easy.
I use my PS4 a more as a 'general computing device' (YouTube, Netflix, Prime, voice calls, etc) than my phone by far.

Why should someone else get to dictate which of my devices is a 'general computing device' and what that means for me and my use-case?
That’s an unconvincing argument, why don’t we see a FB Store on Android?
No, just no. Not even close.
Very nice! It's too bad that FPGAs don't have serial loading address registers for the RAMs.. save even more space.

BTW, there is a RISC-V bit-serial CPU (so you can use GCC):

https://github.com/olofk/serv

I don't know how big, but they are certainly targeting tiny FPGAs.
most beef is not grazed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_Animal_Feeding_Op...
> Unfortunately that's all too rare in most web-servers I see (<10%), as most just add SSH and secure it and call it a day (even worse when CI/CD scripts just copy files without chowning them).

If you made a list of things like this which annoy you, I would enjoy reading it.
Threadreader version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304399437641461760.html

He mentions changing the threshold for significance as a possible tweak but the issue is something more fundamental. Humans have flaws - like political biases or a tendency to favor one’s own hypotheses (confirmation bias). Humans also operate within systems that have incentives that can motivate them away from truth seeking (publication bias). All this exacerbated the fundamental problem that statistical techniques are easy to manipulate. Virtually all academic (university) studies, in their published format, simply lack the necessary information, controls, and processes a reader would need to easily detect flawed statistical claims. Instead a reader has to blindly trust - assuming that data was not selectively included/excluded or that the parameters of the experiment were rigorously (neutrally) chosen or whatever else. There is no incentive for the academic world to correct for this - there isn’t for example, a financial consequence for a decision based on bad statistics, as a private company might face.
Everything is beneficial to somebody. Opium distibution is beneficial to poppy farmers, CIA agents, and, earlier, to the British Empire. Roundup-resistant soybeans are beneficial to Bayer.
> And any gained Python knowledge will pay you back tenfold more than learning Emacs.

I really doubt that a person who is able to code in elisp will not be able to grasp the concepts of Python.
Here's a classic reference on it: https://www.linkwitzlab.com/headphone-xfeed.htm
Beginner's Guide to Write Video Script for YouTube
> > that still leaves the question of why they haven't made such a RFC yet.

> Yes. I speculated a bit in my last paragraph.

Sorry, I phrased that poorly; see edit.
Not at all. The attacker will find it within a minute after running a port scan.
> but after the multiple terrorist attacks,

'Terrorist attacks' from who exactly? When French or Polish resistance members assassinated Germans, I bet the Nazis thought that was 'terrorism.' The Chinese government likes to cry and moans about 'terrorism' from Tibetans and Uyghurs, but the CCP are the real terrorists in these situations. Any American company that cooperates with them are abetting genocide.
Anyway to do it without bluetooth?
Not only do they work, but when you need to advanced stuff it's generally easy & works on the first try. Making loopback devices, combining audio streams and/or redirecting streams, all sorts of wacky stuff. The hardest part is finding a good guide on Google that tells you the right commands/configuration options. Same with systemd.
I’d say it’s more likely that it was incinerated and used to produce electricity.

I really hope it wasn’t dumped into the ocean :(
Fortunately they don't need a strong argument. Convenience and minimized boilerplate suffices.
Bluetooth audio generally uses one of two "profiles"; there's A2DP, and generally sounds fine. I've not noticed the compression. A2DP is one-way, audio output only.

There's also HSP, which is two-way (mic+headphones, essentially), and it sounds like a potato.¹

(I have no idea why this is, either. My brother once "solved" the quality issues of HSP by getting a second headset, putting both headsets on his head, putting one in HSP and using the mic from that one, and putting the other in A2DP. It worked fine, aside from it wasn't comfortable and it looked ridiculous. He was on Windows, but I have the same issues in Linux and OS X.)
No worries :) You speak English well enough that I agree you shouldn't have any problems communicating in a technical discussion. Personally I find thick accents to be a bigger obstacle to communication than stumbles in grammar. But realistically most engineers will be professional and charitable enough to work around either issue as long as you're earnest.
This is an insightful comment and applies to other pursuits as well — and don’t forget Sturgeon’s Law.
1. Emacs is not an IDE.
2. Emacs has an amazing help system, it is highly discoverable.
"It didn't get recycled because the system wasn't up to par," he says. "We hadn't invested in the ability to sort it and there hadn't been market signals that companies were willing to buy it, and both of those things exist today."

Don’t trust this guy, he is supposed to sell oil, recycling is in direct conflict with selling more oil.

There’s no reason we should fall for this twice.
Here’s the paper, published only recently: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.200566

> I bet you could do some ML to predict replicability of a paper (per author's suggestion that it's laughably easy to predict)

I am betting any such ML system could be gamed and addressing the issue would ultimately still need humans in the loop. For example, what if I am selective with my data, beyond the visibility of ML evaluating the final published paper? I don’t think this is “laughably easy” to predict. It may be easy to spot telltale signs today that predict replicability, but as soon as those markers are understood, I imagine authors will simply squeeze papers through the cracks in a different way.

Another issue is this bit from the author on Twitter:

> Just because it replicates doesn't mean it's good. A replication of a badly designed study is still badly designed. There are tons of papers doing correlational analyses yet drawing causal conclusions, and many of them will successfully replicate. Doesn't mean they're justified.
if you want to experiment with using s-expressions and your language doesn't already have a parser/generator, you can find a number of simple parsers/generators on rosettacode:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/S-Expressions

there is also a good discussion on what issues need to be considered on the talk page:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Talk:S-Expressions
How to Weaponize the WayBackMachine
Perhaps I am missing something, but doesn't the presumed "existential robustness" of intelligent life mean that any affected anthropic principle arguments just devolve to the "well it had to take some value" answer mentioned at the very beginning?
Pulse already automatically switches the profiles. The issue is that the good codecs are available in the A2DP profile which is sound output only. Pulse will automatically switch back and forth from the HSP profile when an application starts/stops using input from the headset mics, but in HFP you don't have access to the high quality codecs.

Exact same thing happens on Windows and Android and on Apple devices.

The only case where your linked command would be necessary is when depending on your Bluetooth devices & adapters the headset connects and then for some reason registers as HSP instead of A2DP - so you manually switch it back to A2DP to get HQ audio.
Details here: https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1988-04/page/n43/mod...

73 Magazine, April 1988, page 43. Article says the switches are essentially ASCII, but with the bits shuffled so that lower alpha mainly falls under his strongest fingers. I'll let you read it for further details.
Sure, run a 3.5mm from the phone to the mic port of any motherboard
Animal farming simply doesn't have to be so destructive. There's a simple solution to a simple problem. Look at New Zeland, regenerative agriculture. By allowing cattle to eat grass instead of grain (ha) we can avoid using pesticide and actually increase biodiversity, while planting trees as well. This increases carbon sequestration and has plenty of other benefits to the local wildlife.

In fact, it can have a positive carbon impact (well, negative, but you catch my drift).

In short, the solution: buy grass-fed or pasture raised animals.
I’ve read about the infeasibility of plastic recycling for years now, and I’m wondering what others are doing at this point.

Should I even bother putting plastic in the blue bin any more? Or should I just toss it? What are the folks reading this doing?
Do you have any support for your repeated claims that the roads under discussion haven't been used for 100 years?

Virtually no forest service roads are older than 50 years old, as most were constructed after WW2 to assist in logging.
They have some technology we don’t know about, China burning it along with biomass at a power plant is a very likely scenario.
I wondered why you say _fewer_ themes for Zola, there were so many to choose from and I had a hard time to decide (and I might still change it in future).

I just checked for Hugo, and it certainly has so many more compared to Zola. Something to keep in mind for future, but I am more than satisfied with Zola for now.
That’s great thank you!
I’m building a project using one of those tools. I imagine that difficulty refactoring your database is more a problem of bad schema design than the tool. If you normalize and abstract out the implementation details into Views, I can’t see how refactoring would be difficult. Haven’t built anything at scale with Postgraphile/Harusa, so just wondering if I’m missing anything here.
Is their software gonna be audited every time they do an update? Nope, so they can change it
> The unfortunate reality is that mankind as we know it, probably developed to the level it did, in part due to the consumption of meat.

That's not a reason to continue, especially with climate change and the impact on nature. We have new challenges now.

> Add to that, the growing evidence that much of the plant material we're eating may have inflammatory side effects of consumption.

> The point I am making is that a solution isn't a solution if it means getting rid of one of the most dense forms of nutrition we have.

You offer no proof there's a problem going meat-free and major health organisations say plant-based diets are healthy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism

"Well-planned vegan diets are regarded as appropriate for all stages of life, including infancy and pregnancy, by the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics,[f] Dietitians of Canada,[23] the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council,[24] New Zealand Ministry of Health,[25] Harvard Medical School,[26] and the British Dietetic Association.[27]"

There's lots of examples of sports people, academics, musicians etc. who are on plant based diets too to prove the point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegans
Are all the roles strictly senior?
If consumer trust were the foundation of Apple's growth, they wouldn't have to worry about folks defecting to another app store if it was available.

The reality is that, having created a great market, they are now extracting rents by using their ability to exclude apps to enforce things that don't benefit users but expand their margins (like forcing use of their identity and payment systems).
> You should consider using WildDuck when you have a large number of email accounts (1000+) with large quotas as WildDuck is designed to scale horizontally. For a smaller setup where everything fits into a single server you might want to use something proven like industry standard Postfix+Dovecot setup instead.

I was actually hoping to find the opposite behind the link, namely a small personal mail server that rids me of the mess that is Postfix+Dovecot. :|
The CDP1802 also uses a serial ALU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802
I posted a video on my blog here: https://joshuaspodek.com/year-emptied-garbage

This post explains more: https://joshuaspodek.com/emptying-my-household-garbage-for-t...
Also, you’d want to put the passwords/secrets table in a separate schema from the one you’re exposing postgraphile to
It's almost comical how much of an overstep that is.
The performance problem has only gotten worse with time.

Modern CPUs have a rough time switching tasks. There are all those mitigations for meltdown and spectre. Even before that though, the situation with the TLB was ugly.

Limiting your data structures to ones that are friendly to message passing will really hurt you. Hacks to minimize the performance loss add complexity.

Fundamentally, glue isn't free. The parts may be simple, but the interactions are not.
How do you make online purchases? Do you just... not? Is the use of independent payment systems on the Web somehow different from in iOS apps?
#1 and #2, blue bin. Everything else, basically trash can. PETE and HDPE do recycle well, wether yours will be recycled or not even if you bin it is an unknown.
To be completely honest, it was a mistake... I forgot to add 'curiosity' after 'caring' but... I will now use this to figure out who is curious about the fourth one :D
> The unfortunate reality is that mankind as we know it, probably developed to the level it did, in part due to the consumption of meat.

Hedging language aside — i.e. "humans evolved because X to some extent" — I recently had an epiphany touring the north island of New Zealand by minibus. Productivity utterly collapses when you have to frequently move from one (temporary) settlement to another. What you eat isn't nearly as impactful as the degree to which you can be stationary.

Interestingly, primitive hunter-gatherer societies could rely upon wild game or fish for caloric intake, which was conducive to a nomadic life. There's no need for an agricultural revolution if you're OK with killing wild animals to harvest their flesh for food. But to call this instrumental in human development is I think wrong. Meat is without question the most primitive way to feed: meat consumption does not require any amount of long-term settlement nor does it require much intelligence: carnivorous animals low in general intelligence regularly kill each other in the wild for food.

Meat consumption is fundamentally a primitive adaptation. Factory farmed meat consumption is a relatively modern phenomenon driven first and foremost by human habituation to the taste of flesh. Plants can provide every nutrient required for human survival save for vitamin B12.

> Meat is absolutely PACKED with bioavailable nutrients in a way that most plant products simply aren't.

Such as? Meat is a euphemism for slabs of fat and muscle tissue containing amino acids. With the exception of wild-caught fatty fish like salmon — factory farmed fatty fish contain greatly reduced levels of omega-3s — the fat is of questionable healthiness compared to vegetable sources. And if you're convinced it's necessary to consume the muscle tissue of formerly living creatures for amino acids, you'd eat insects for environmental sustainability's sake. In fact, insect exoskeletons are a rich source of dietary calcium directly comparable to dairy. The fact most of you reading this wouldn't dream of eating insects, goes to show nutritional value is not why you're eating meat. Taste is #1.

> Add to that, the growing evidence that much of the plant material we're eating may have inflammatory side effects of consumption.

Citation needed.

> The point I am making is that a solution isn't a solution if it means getting rid of one of the most dense forms of nutrition we have.

Where do high-fat nuts and seeds fit in your view of "dense forms of nutrition"? E.g. gram for gram, you're getting much more calories from nuts and seeds than you're getting from low-fat muscle tissue such as chicken.
Coordination, Good and Bad