skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts are that many of these companies do not have the 50/50 perfect split of genders and are actively encouraged by some higher-ups to be able to tick that box as it is viewed as something that without could effect the share price.

How companies get to that ideal balance is questionable in some cases and the crux is that until the whole gender aspect is taken of the table and we just call each other humans, such things will always play out.

If it bothers you - just tick the "other" box in gender based forms, of which that option is provided by such companies.
google meeting
If the alternative is a 32 char, 128 bit hex string..I think that's a little excessive to expect people to use especially when an 8 char ascii has way more variation and is way easier to remember.

687c066db3458f7cbd5cc8bd58a65c64.

Vs.

*Xrh6x1!

You just have to eliminate dictionary words.
It's much more complex than this. Take QAnon and their well crafted and targeted disinformation for example; lots of people are falling into that idiocy, including people I know, and I'm on the other side of the planet.
Voting is a great tool, but it requires knowledge to be used properly. Someone realized that in modern society they don't need to bribe or threaten people anymore to have them vote candidate X, they just feed them false information ultimately obtaining the same result without any fear of consequences since no crimes were committed - all it needs is some obscure account somewhere and a few thousand likes by a click farm in the Far East and the "information" becomes legit.
Democracy works only if accompanied by knowledge and critical thinking, or it soon turns out into people being free to choose their own dictator.
> he set back computing by 50 years

No opinion on Chomsky's politics. But that quote definitely needs some substantiation.

Personally, I don't see how anyone, has managed to set back computing by 50 years.
Shredding Machine vs Hard and Soft Things Shreddermachine
> It's unlikely that an airliner can maintain altitude on one engine, so the risk is high that once a problem occurs, things can go bad fast.

There's nothing likely or unlikely about it - for an aircraft operating an ETOPS flight, the performance characteristics with one engine operative are well known, and taken into consideration when doing the mandatory diversion planning.
Ironically, hitting the front page of HN with a title of "SCons Is Not Slow" is, for me, excellent circumstantial evidence that SCons is, in fact, slow.
i made a similar experience with the star trek fan films i have been watching. you can find anything from the most ridiculous to professional productions. there is a huge range.

on the other hand star trek audio drama (and any scifi audio drama i have listened to) all sound most excellent. there is hardly any that doesn't. as long as you have some decent voice acting and a few sound effects, you are good.
Well no, it required immediate attention over a month ago.

Who are these incompetents not patching their servers for months on end?!
> Negative interest rates signal that the system does not work, that a dollar is worth more today than it will be tomorrow, that investing dollars today destroys value.

Thanks for writing this. If I understand correctly at the individual level there is a possible flight to security (gold/bitcoins/housing), but at society level, there is no possible flight to security, because the highest instances of government are planning for declining societies.

If this is the case, people will search inspiration in societies that look successful. This happened after WWII when people felt the American society was much more successful than other societies and therefore was a reasonable role model.
There's almost no comparisons made to AMD in the article, which I would have been interested in. Last sentence:

> Tiger Lake isn’t sardine oil basting AMD just yet, but it stands to compete well in a number of key markets.

That just sounds like a polite way of saying that AMD is still very much on top.
I saw that cover on the BBC, on QI, and it was censored. I was angry. Kirk cobain made a big deal about that album cover, saying in effect that anyone who thinks it needs to be censored should look more to themselves.
Tell me, how many recursive functions are in your companies code base. (Or course you might not be allowed to tell; but do you know the number?)
Not a lawyer, but I'd be happy to bet that works in LEGO are copyrightable. After all, LEGO is just the medium for an expression here, and by creating something with LEGO as that medium you have made a (hopefully) original work.

I don't see the difference between LEGO, bits of code, a book, an audio recording or a work of art such as a sculpture or a painting.

That said, since LEGO itself started out by infringing on the intellectual property rights of others as far as I'm concerned they can jump into a lake, but that's not something that will get you very far in a court in case you get sued.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/03/lego-stole-...
> The recognition does not work with my writing, but I can see that improving and that feature becoming killer

Why not alter your handwriting to work better with the software? My first handwriting recognition experience was on a Palm Pilot using Graffiti. I got to be pretty fast with that and I think being forced to create better letter forms has benefited me greatly since then.

I too have a Remarkable V2 on the way but for now I'm using GoodNotes on an iPad and I also scan pages of my notes and stick them in Evernote. Both GoodNotes and Evernote give me almost perfect OCR.
The fact that you are able to post whatever you feel like typing is radically more freedom than we can presume is available to the average North Korean. Pull the other one, man.
August 2020 Funny Cute Tik Tok Animals Compilation(Pt.25) Cat 2020
The article show the picture of a fossilized footprint. Could that have been one of our ancestors or a relative?
One implies the other. Any kind of revolution means that there will be innocent lives lost.
https://0patch.com/
> If it bothers you - just tick the "other" box

Or tick whatever you like. The question is "Which gender do you most identify with", and it's totally fine to change your answer every 5 minutes - it's your own choice!
Land can actually make it trickier in some aspects. If your aircraft experiences depressurization, a rapid descent to a breathable altitude is required (how rapid depends on the aircraft). In mountainous areas this can be difficult (but is, of course, planned for).
Not a lawyer but I'd just point out that your example 2 isn't just a picture of something built with LEGO bricks. I'm assuming the original LEGO bricks are out of patent (which may be relevant here as well) but other parts may not be.

In addition, while it's presumably not applicable in this case, some LEGO sets are presumably licensed from the holders of trademarks or other IP (as in the case of Star Wars sets). Whereas a knock off would not be.

But again IANAL.
I can't speak for all fact checkers, but I'd suspect that sometimes they might be more nuance provider, or in other words: reality checkers.

For example, it would be exaggerated to believe that vitamin D can cure Covid and prevent its spread.

It would also be a bad idea to start high dosing vitamin D unmonitored.

The kind of misunderstanding of the impact and influence of such thing is often an issue when layman hear about medical and other scientific research. So I think a lot of people get worried of some people overblowing things and taking gambles. Science doesn't put its faith in anything, but sometimes layman will put their faith in preliminary results from a few studies.

And another thing is, the science will change over time, and might contradict itself as well, and the layman will again begin to lose faith, because they make it about faith and beliefs, and that's dangerous.
It's India so maybe the guys were in the wrong caste in the girls were in the right caste.
What’s wrong with waf? I’ve been using it lately and think it’s great. Writing build complex build tasks is easy, and the performance is excellent.

I haven’t tried Meson, but CMake cant really do much besides compile the programming languages it explicitly supports. Automation tasks are pretty much impossible.
Optimal

That wasn't the only type there, but this one makes a lot of damage.
STM internally side-effecting thing. Stream processing over I/O is also side effecting thing. The point is that one should not mix and match arbitrary stream processing with arbitrary STM transactions. One should have control over when and where and compiler should prevent incorrect use (just like with borrow checker).
here is a list of shows i have listened to so far:

Broken

Caalo Xan

Deep Vault

Earth Collective Story

Edict Zero

EOS 10

Escape Velocity

Exoplanetary

Falcon Banner

Foundation Series (BBC)

Girl In Space

In Darkness Vast

Leviathan Chronicles

Liberty

Nova Star Hunters

Our Fair City

Project Stellar

Ruby

Starship Iris

The Bridge

The Bright Sessions

The Fourth Ambit

The Kingery

The Orphans

Tides

Tin Can

Transmissions From Colony One

Vast Horizon

Wolf 359

if you like star trek, there is a list of fan audio drama here:

http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html
You don't unlearn it, you teach yourself to say different things instead.

If you just don't want to use those words, there are common favorite "clean" substitutes like "sugar", "fudge", "dang", and H-E-double-hockey-sticks! There's also an added humor factor when someone thinks they know what you're going to say and an innocent word pops out instead.

If you don't want to have the feelings and urges that cause swears to come out, practice tolerance and patience and forgiveness and gratitude, especially towards yourself.

Or just sugar all that fudge and be the bad-axe potty mouth you know you want to be!
The tips of an Apple Pencil are an inexpensive consumable, for what it's worth.

That said, I've had the same experience, the iPad is lovely for sketching and calligraphy, but trying to write on it at a decent clip is an exercise in frustration.
Thanks, I'm excited already!

I'm using a Blackberry keyboard for my project, but that's obviously not scalable.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aLwXZ6V_700bwp.webp
This is a very small number of anecdotes with heaps of conjecture and outrage.
If it brings you some relief, he's a teacher for multiple universities (at the very least one in Chicago and one in Eindhoven). He's passing on his knowledge in this way as well.
The whole story is a bit complicated: https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/10738/the-controv...
Lol, you're on a roll. Hard to type eh...
This is an amazing bug.

So what happens is, you're supposed to fill out a bunch of bytes as proof of who you are, and then a bunch of bytes that represent stuff like seconds since the start of the Unix epoch. If you can't do this, NetLogon figures you aren't really who you say you are.

And the exploit is: Fill everything out with all zeroes. This will succeed one time in 256 on average.

The reason why is complicated and somewhat interesting, but this stupidest possible exploit is what you get at the end of that complicated rationale.

I've written previously on HN that it stands out how terrible Microsoft is at cryptographic design. If there's an opportunity to roll your own and do it badly, in a Microsoft product that's what you should expect. Google has good people (it doesn't always use them, but most often it does) for this stuff, and Apple most often seems to accept that it doesn't have good people so it'll not roll its own but just use things that already exist; but Microsoft does this over and over.

In this particular case they took AES (seems fine) and an inappropriate but in principle secure cipher mode (CFB8) and then they... fixed the IV as all zeroes even though the definition of CFB is clear that you need to use a random IV.
In California, Wi-fi minivans help disadvantaged students
If you don't mind me asking, what sort of hardware and network did you use for self-hosting? I tested it out with a couple of people on a basic Digital Ocean droplet and it was spotty (quality dropped really quickly) and it convinced me not to bother persuading my family/friends to switch over for our calls
I mean it’s not like I’m handwriting letters over here (although I do do that from time to time). Between FaceTime, email, signal groups, and regular calls/text messages I’ve kept the close people close in my life. I understand people are sort of lazy and want to be where everyone else is out of convenience, but if that place is actively ruining the world I think we should expend a bit of personal effort to not let that happen.
This is not FOSS specific. In companies you can observe the same tension between the efficiency of unity and the flexibility of diversity.
1472 patched here too
https://blog.0patch.com/
https://0patch.com/
Great for old systems where updating breaks stuff
Everyone is different, but to be honest I got very little learning out of in-person teaching until maybe college. Virtually all learning I did via reading, not being talked to or "collaborating" in class. "Push style" education does not seem like it works for remote learning.
Arduino boards are a great on ramp to computer hardware and programming. Hides a lot of the really hard stuff, and has tons of examples online for how to make it work.

Ben Eater is a guy who's started selling kits for building an 8 bit computer from discrete chips on a breadboard. A whole kit is $300, which is a bit steep for a teenager, but you can buy it and complete it in pieces as you're able.

I also think the suggestion about connecting them with like minded peers is an excellent one. A local FIRST robotics group or a makerspace would be excellent as far as making those connections goes.
I dunno... these examples seemed pretty straight forward for anyone who has a basic knowledge of how css selectors work.
The expected behavior argued would have never even occurred to me as being possible.

This is a great resource: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp
> (not counting noise)

If you ignore _everything_ said on 4chan which turned out to be wrong, of course what's left has to be correct.

Besides, correlation doesn't necessary mean causation. This paper is just a singular piece of evidence, don't jump to conclusion so quickly.

OTOH, I do also think people jump to the conspiracy bandwagon too quickly as well.
I already have such phones (yes, more than one).
Yes, I'm aware. The comment was mostly for the benefit of other readers, particularly those who weren't familiar with FANG compensation policies and might have been misled into thinking that your experience was representative. Such engineers might have made a mistake costing them millions of dollars of lifetime income on that basis.

To reiterate: if you are interviewing for a software engineering role with a FANG company for a role in California, you can expect the following TC pay bands:

Entry-level (L3 @ G/F, L4 @ Amzn): $140-180k

Mid-level (L4 @ G/F, L5 @ Amzn): $200-280k (Amzn might have a lower floor, but not often)

Senior (L5 @ G/F, L6 @ Amzn): $300-400k

Staff (L6 @ G/F, L7 @ Amzn, called Principal): $450-650+

As always, there will be some exceptions. Exceptions at the bottom will tend to be web dev/full-stack roles, which at most places have slightly lower pay bands. ML roles, contrariwise, will tend to skew higher... (at least, adjusted for experience level).

I could maybe believe it, if, out of the thousands (tens of thousands?) of engineers hired at mid-level to work at Bay Area G/F/A offices in the last couple years, a few of them were offered $110k TC. It'd still require some pretty substantial deviations from their usual process, but it's imaginable. I cannot imagine that happening for someone offered a senior+ role. Like, literally, I cannot imagine what set of organizational and procedural failures would have to align for that outcome to occur. It's not worth factoring into one's calculations when deciding whether or not to spend time applying to and studying for FANG interviews.
This is one of the advantages of macOS, all the familiar GUI shortcuts live on the command key.

Not unrelated: Readline/emacs shortcuts work almost everywhere, which is to say that Ctl-F is forward in this very text buffer.

Not that I use it, but I do use Ctl-A and Ctl-E a fair amount.
How does Playwright compare to Cypress?
How is Facebook destroying civil society?
Everything does.
No Systemd
Anyone know why Anand hasn't reviewed the 3080 yet?
The new Tiger Lake stills falls down against the competition when we start discussing raw throughput tests. Intel was keen to promote professional workflows with Tiger Lake, or gaming workflows such as streaming, particularly at 28 W rather than at 15 W. Despite this we can easily see that the 15 W Renoir options with eight cores can blow past Tiger Lake in a like-for-like scenario in our rendering tests and our scalable workloads. The only times Intel scores a win is due to accelerator support (AVX-512, DP4a, DL Boost). On top of that, Renoir laptops in the market are likely to be in a cheaper price bracket than what Intel seems to be targeting.

As I read this, and other reviews/analysis of the Tiger Lake node I can see Intel competing with the only tool it has left, specialized instruction sets. This continues to create a gap between things built for "i86-64" architecture vs "x86-64" architectures. What I expect to see from that is Intel touting performance advantages in applications that I don't use, and never comparing the performance of applications I do use. This is a bad place for Intel to be, but it is kind of like sailboat racing. In sailboat racing one boat can appear to be ahead of its rival to non-sailors, but sailors who know the boat is going to have to tack to make the mark recognize it is actually behind.

So much of technology is like this, where the choices today ripple through the opportunities and choices you will have in the future, trying to guess which are the important ones feels more like divination than decision making.

This is the second time AMD has made some good decisions that have resulted in an advantage. AMD's challenge has been to make these sorts of decisions on a regular enough cadence to maintain that advantage. If I were a leader in the CPU architecture or the manufacturing processes group at AMD I would be soooo stressed these days.
Windows 8.1 works, uses significantly less RAM, lets you disable the telemetry, lets you create new users without a Microsoft account, doesn't move things around all the time, has a non-Chromium-based browser built into it, doesn't automatically install Metro apps…

The only real downsides versus Windows 10 are the Start Screen and the conhost implementation, but Classic Shell and Powershell fix both of those.
One caveat to that: The EE curriculum is a bit more math heavy. In my university, CompE would take Calc I and Calc II, but EE's needed to take Calc III. EE's also needed to take electromagnetics - very heavy on calculus. Some other engineering courses that tend to have calculus. If you want to get deep into HW, this may be a good thing.

If the student dislikes math somewhat, I would not recommend EE. If they really dislike math, I would not recommend CompE either ;-)
Great article, but in no way surprising. Look at a band like the Beatles; and watch their creative progression over time.
Can TikTok be banned from US based Android devices?
There is pretty impressive work going on in bioinformatics, using image segmentation to digitally reconstruct three dimensional networks of tens of thousands of neurons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6dF0htsTFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeyHKdmBpqY

So yeah, probably!
Do you have a link to these wscripts, or a pastebin? I am curious on what types of automations you are referring to.

I'm mainly coming at it from the perspective of a distro maintainer. Few pieces of software use waf, and digging into the wscripts can be a pain for large projects. Only having to know a half dozen build systems is way easier than having to know waf, Scons, meson, autotools, make, setuptools, cargo, qmake, cmake is a pain.

Only 25 packages in the distro I contribute to use waf. Most are audio recording tools that do not get much maintenance. 20 packages use scons. Meanwhile almost 400 use meson, ~500 use qmake, ~1000 use cmake, and over 2000 use autotools.
Of possible interest: I made a Reddit bot [0] that searches YouTube for science fiction and fantasy audiobooks when their titles get mentioned in comments, and then replies with the link. It uses the Speculative Fiction Database for reference.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/EmotionalField
These single-threaded results are spectacular. This laptop posts a web browser performance score (on Speedometer 2) higher than any system AnandTech has ever tested, save one (a Core i9-10900K, a factory overclock in essence). A laptop that beats almost all high-end desktop systems in web browser performance would be nice to have.
What about writing on a phone? I've been taking a lot of mobile notes and have found it to be a very convenient optimal point between slower, intentional writing vs digital format and accessibility.
I don't know what we can deduced from these anecdotal evidences. But would that be legal for a US company or university (e.g. academic job) to enforce quotas based on gender?

BTW, I remember a Facebook (or Google, dont remember) recruiter mentioning gender diversity in their company. He told me that they tried to be as diverse as possible, but that the bar was the same for everybody...
> nuance provider, or in other words: reality checkers

If that were the case, they would be far less emphatic. In fact, since the science can "contradict itself", they seem to be saying far more than they can justify.

> It would also be a bad idea to start high dosing vitamin D unmonitored.

I think when it's compared to the risk of contracting covid, 1000IU / day of vitamin D is justified.

> exaggerated to believe that vitamin D can...prevent its spread

Would it? I think we're finding that vitamin D is probably more effective than face masks.

> layman will again begin to lose faith

Lose faith in the ability of scientists to solve the problem, or lose faith in the PR folks that (demonstrably, sometimes obviously) don't tell the truth? Science is only 'about faith and beliefs' when the layman is told to believe specific people, or blindly obey the experts.
Do Insects Have Consciousness and Ego? (2016)
First link is this thread though so probably worth a better answer.
I did something very similar when I joined my last team. I like Anna's questions. One of the questions I asked was 'who do you go to for advice and bouncing ideas off'. This gave me a great view of the key knowledge nexus points and how people are connected to each other in the team.

After I'd spoken to everyone, I created a report for the executive committee summarizing all topics that had come up multiple times, and highlighting individuals that were widely relied on.
>Engineering ability has very little to do with the ability to write code. It has much, much more to do with convincing others to help you write code.

Not to mention the most important thing - having a vagina.