skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Construction and trades takes that approach. It’s a mixed bag. I would say implicit job insecurity removes a lot of potentially good employees from the applicant pool. People who value stability and support families tend to be reliable, and some of them won’t work for someone who has a reputation for firing everyone as soon as things get slow or if they have an off day.

I think my industry (civil engineers) is a bit easier to hire for because credentialing weeds out people who are completely out of their depth, and lying about qualifications can get you in real trouble. Managers can assume you’re basically competent and can focus on hiring people with decent personality and a good reputation. Some of my software friends use brain-teasers to screen candidates, and it comes off as a bit silly to me.
Echoes of Reflection: Finding Balance After Burnout
Can't you just set your useragent to googlebot? Or something which isn't googlebot but which matches the most common regexes like "Not-Googlebot/2.1"
OOOOOOOh, I know what you mean now! It is an in-group thing.

I experienced a less subtle version of that with my usage of "howdy".

Context: I wasn't born in the US, but was only 4 when we immigrated. For whatever reason young me gravitated toward "howdy" as my greeting. Probably just my young love of westerns; regardless, "howdy" has always been my informal "yo".

Anyway, my first few months in the South, local would ask me if I was making fun of them when I said "Howdy all" / "Howdy guys." Same way I've always said it. Now it was rare, but I would hear locals say "howdy" on occasion without ridicule. Something about my saying it caught a weary eye.

When I'm down South now, I just say "Hi". Weirdly, no one else has ever mentioned it.
I'm a DDG user. I do not "hate big corporations". I may dislike some big corporations. I've enthusiastically worked for others.

I hate poverty, injustice, and bigotry. I cannot stir up strong feelings about an advertising company.

On the other hand I am a terrible advertising target, not wholly impervious to advertising but actively resistant, in part having seen under the bonnet of the sector and found little but a morass of grubby lies and folks with broken moral compasses. I intentionally interpret advertising as noise, not signal.

(corollary: attempts to disguise advertising are an irritant and a cognitive burden, so I allocate advertorials, content marketing, and drip-email compaigns to the Brand Damage circle of hell)
Schemeful Same-Site Cookies
The common denominator is people working in the State Department or Intelligence Services.

"Never ascribe to Malice what can also be ascribed to Incompetence"

IMHO it's a workplace-related injury of some kind. Perhaps due to (say) anti-bugging devices, or devices that aren't found in normal office environments.
How would it have possibly been backwards compatible? Plenty of routers and ip-aware switches have, in hardware, specified that ips are 32-bits, so anything that added more bits would necessarily break existing hardware, and thus not be backwards compatible.

Easy, just declare that the entire IPv4 address space is ::x.x.x.x in IPv6 and Bob’s your uncle. No idea why they didn’t do this other than sheer solipsism.
The ones who resigned didn't happen to have their own political motivations as well? These cases always have plenty of time and areas for arguments refined.

I can't read anything with politicized names and highly question the perfectly placed PRified counter points.

The truth, aka middle ground (if such a thing even exists anymore), is the hardest thing to come by these days. Lawyers working for a gov agency are the least reputable in this area in my books.
Always wanted a switch coding style. Now, offered one i am having second thoughts introspecting if my code improves for readability if I use one. I think on balance yes. I've always like this approach to a single value or expression gating choices.

Also wondering about the degenerate forms of fall through alternates, so it's a stack of code optionally run.

There is another link to c code switches and duffs device in hn recently
Your analogies ignore the advertisement part of what you are quoting. Selling an OS doesn't require any particular scale at all, selling ads to display within an OS would.
I read/heard somewhere that this isn't actually used in practice, but I can't find a source. Anyone at Google willing to shine some light on this?
The statement about trusted binaries is incorrect. Having a key to a central database in no way guarantees the data in it has not been tampered with.
Different country, culture and enforcement of laws.
I don't think that dlsym would accept "bar::my_function::h4ed6ea856a52cd6b" as a symbol, just like it would not accept "foo(std::vector<int, std::allocator<int> >&)" and wants "_Z3fooRSt6vectorIiSaIiEE" instead, no ?

To be clear, my comment was about the fact that two different functions produce exactly the same symbol name, c++filt or not, which is not what I was told above in "
It carefully designs its name mangling such that this doesn't happen in the first place, even in the presence of multiple slightly-different builds of a library."

I have no particular comments on the idea of using hash though I believe that something that changes 95% of chance error in 0.5% of error (I'd assume, as it took me 10 seconds to find a collision) is very bad - you want errors consistently when you fuck up, not once every hash collision as it sounds like a really really big pain to debug when it happens.
If you’re up for it I’d love hear about each of these and your decision process.

If not, could at least comment on niacin? I’ve been hearing more about it.
I was going to respond with the factoid about the World Series being named after a newspaper, but a Wikipedia check (and subsequent googling) revealed that it's probably false. Not news to you, but maybe of interest to others who, like me, had absorbed the popular misconception!
I agree. If you have a full time security analyst(s) to tune and monitor it, PA's firewall is unbeatable for perimeter security AFAIK. Unfortunately, their other offerings don't measure up and tend to be a jumble of M&A.
It is also available in Perl6, but there, as in CL, it is opt-in, and might slow things down.
> This would allow a `plot` function in Python, originally written for the float data type, to also work for float-like (quacks like a duck) data types, like `Decimal`.

So let's say you do that. You define your own new number-like type, say Complex. You pass that in to plot(n).

Somewhere in the body of plot(), though, it turns out there's some code like:

# Flip to put origin at bottom left.
window_height = 400
y = window_height - n

So now plot() tries to invoke "-" with an int on the left and your complex number on the right. It passes your complex number to the int class's minus operator, which has no idea about your type and barfs.

Python has a hacky workaround for this specific case where the right operand can implement __rsub__(), but that hacky workaround exists specifically because Python doesn't have multiple dispatch.

If it supported multiple dispatch natively, you'd just define an operator - that took a number on the left and a complex on the right, plot() would call it, and you'd be good.
> Since federal judges hold lifetime appointments they sometimes develop an unexpected degree of independent thought once they land on a suitably comfortable bench and fail to please their erstwhile patrons, instead pursuing the respect of their judicial peers or their legacy.

Isn't there a contradiction between independent thought and pursing the respect of their judicial peers?

> There's an interview where Barr is asked about his legacy that's worth looking up, it's a great example of the conflict between short-term expediency and long-term sustainability.

I think you're referring to him saying "everybody dies", and you take this as short-term expediency? I don't agree. I think it's a statement of independence: I will not be manipulated by the people who write "the first draft of history", I'll do what I think is right.
My local CVS was looted multiple times and shoplifted from an uncountable number of times. The store was closed for weeks (or months?) and the pharmacy never reopened.
We don't know what Retool is. Please include a descriptive phrase in your title, at the very least.

Looking forward to checking out your work!
I thought it got renamed! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498134
OK. Just as I thought I understood the Docker world view...

Surely all the complexity should be inside the container and the surrounding host should be as vanilla as possible.

Isn't the idea to push the complexity into the layer where builds are reproducible and state is controllable?

I am probably misunderstanding something here. I'm fairly new to this.
And Dylan is at https://opendylan.org/
I never really forgave it losing s-expressions, but it did pioneer hygienic, referentially transparent macros with infix syntax.
I live near an affected Walgreens and the shoplifting has made it effectively unusable as a store. They are always out of almost everything. I asked a cashier why they hadn't restocked and they told me that they are restocking normally but people are stealing all the stuff immediately. I have seen several thefts while shopping there; the shoplifters are brazen and unhurried and take armfuls of merchandise. Walgreens seems particularly hard-hit and I don't understand why they aren't investing in security.
Btrfs on CentOS: Living with Loopback
In the United States there are no licensure requirements for Software Engineering.
Yes, bootcamps teach you the basics of each part of the stack. I would make the argument that you aren't proficient in any of these areas, so to advertise yourself as such is misleading. I file my own taxes, but I don't refer to myself as an accountant.

I've yet to meet a bootcamp grad that can efficiently architect a relational database, for example. I know plenty of Sr. level front-end developers who wouldn't think to call themselves full-stack even though they know how to submit a user form that persists to the database. Same with back-end developers who know HTML, CSS, and pick your flavor of JS framework.

If you've worked in the industry, you know things change too fast to stay up to speed on everything. It's not impossible, but it's unlikely and unrealistic to have that expectation of someone once they are employed.
> Is DNA Hardware or Software?

Yes, it's both.
I think rather than blaming google, you should ask your healthcare providers why they choose to use double click tracking on their website. It is like you don’t go to your doctor because you don’t like which company they use for their blood collection services.
I think the best approach may be a disingenuous one:

Anyone advocating for encryption back doors is a pedophile.

Encryption helps users keep their data private from others, including service providers and the government. DEEP STATE PEDOPHILES have infiltrated our government and want to have free reign to access pictures of you infant child in the bathtub for their disturbing desires. Pedophiles managing social media servers want to be able to snoop on the private media of anyone their sick desires are targeted at. They want to be able to blackmail your children who have taken selfies in the mirror into sending them more child pornography or even committing espionage against their own parents or families, consolidating power for the secret cabal of pedophiles at the top of our institutions.

Say NO to pedophiles, keep encryption secure!

Any politician who supports these measures should get the question, "Why do you support this legislation, are you a secret pedophile?"
Just interesting that on an article about Intel (a US company) and Hynix (a Korean company), half the comments are about china.
Due to symmetry, at least, there are many global minima, but with the same minimum value.
AFAIK you need to demonstrate a real need to actually acquire a block, this is not like buying a domain name.
Indigo Ag, Nori announce first corporate carbon credit buyers
If you want examples, here are a couple:

Compare this: (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3) to this version of the same strip, drawn much later: (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1601). That’s the same artist. There was no abrupt change in style, either, the artist’s style just slowly changed over time.

Almost as large an improvement can be seen by comparing this first strip: (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-06-12) with the same strip, redrawn much later: (https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-07-27). Same thing there; same artist, no abrupt change in style, just slow improvements over time.
I worked for HP back in the late '80s/early '90s, and it always seemed insane that they numbered everything internally with their 15.*/8 block, especially as you weren't even allowed out on the public Internet at the time. You had to get a manager to sign a paper to get access to a SOCKS proxy.
Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
> One tool offered here is to "switch polarity", which means to take the other side of the argument. Fine, but real wisdom comes from transcending polarity.

I suggest real transcendence of polarity comes from holding both sides of the argument in your mind at the same time until they merge, and spending some time really understanding the other side than the one you're attracted to is a route there.
Contacts change over time.
I have a related story, WhatsApp permanently banned my account after I refused to give it contacts permission.

Longer story: I went to create my first ever WhatsApp account after I was invited to a friends group chat. I downloaded the Android app but, being aware of Facebook apps' thirst for slurping up all your contacts, I made sure to repeatedly deny contacts permission even though the app was annoyingly insistent that it needed to have it. I only wanted to access this one group chat so I didn't see why it needed it. After maybe 20 minutes in the group chat Whatsapp permanently banned my account. Appeals have been denied. I have now been unsuccesfully trying to convince the group of 30+ people to switch to a different platform so I can participate :(
The DOJ sues Google for monopoly practices
A lot of sites do some variation of these when you set googlebot as your UA, certainly the larger more sophisticated sites do.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en

So unless you have a google domain your sol, it's also just generally frowned upon. We have our own UA WhizeBot with an email contact so you can let us know if our crawler is doing anything you'd rather it not.

There have been a few legal cases that protect scraping publicly available information on the web but we'd rather follow robots.txt to avoid the potential for shenanigans in any case.
Given this AG's track record can we really hold on good-faith that this isn't politically motivated? Many conservatives are absolutely desperate to believe there is a conspiracy against them, but why go to lengths of proving it if you can just exact revenge through AT legislation.
Anyone who requires this level of security for regulatory purposes should not have a BYOD policy at all. "Only fully-managed, organization-owned devices get to touch this data" is the only fair way to both maintain data security in highly regulated environments and not effectively take ownership over employees (and, in a university context, student) computers).
Not exactly - this points to the release blog post, vs the changelog file.
> Why should any of these people be considered "unemployed"?

In general, because governments around the World use doctored Unemployment Rates to claim their economic policies are more effective than those really are. It is practically the same as Principal Skinner taking Bart Simpson and all the other School's idiots to a field trip the very day the Standardized Test is due.

How do we know the measure is doctored, you say? Because they changed it, and they have been comparing old figures to new figures. Sure, they put a tiny note in illegible print at the bottom of their charts. You know what an engineer does? We give the damned new thing a new damned name. Then in the damned chart you clearly see one line stops one year and then another line of a different color starts that very year. If anyone gets fooled by that, it's because they are willfully ignorant.

> We spend a lot of time criticizing journalists and politicians, but how many people bother to look at the data themselves if interested?

Journalists are paid to report, and if they cannot report accurate figures, why should we pay them?

Politicians compete to get into, what in theory is called, Public Service. Servers are expected to provide accurate reports regarding the service they are providing. If their reports are self serving, why should we trust them with anything more important than window dressing?
A ban you can circumvent in 30s mind you (make another account).
Incorrect. The commit was 5 months ago, and it's linked here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24841118
You’re correct. All the traffic should be routed to the nginx endpoint and the host should be vanilla.
>Even young children instinctively figure out the 'it was merely an accident' excuse for their misbehavior. Following Hanlon's razor would have you outwitted by toddlers.

Hanlon's Razor is absolutely valid.

That said, I'd posit that stupidity isn't accidental and shouldn't be excused. Rather it should be stomped on just as hard as malice since, as others have pointed out, the effect is the same.
Hershey’s Didn’t Advertise for the First 70 Years of Its Existence
References on Hanson/electricity/computers: https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/06#automation-as-colon...
> audience, and forceful conciseness thanks to the platform constraints

It might be cliche because its a problem often seen repeated. This is how you get important messages not read or have them taken out of context, even by your intended audience. (we obviously disagree and both perspectives are opinion based)
I'd have to get off my lazy butt, but noted your contact info, should that happen.
Combining technology and management consulting landed me a $1M offer
Val Kilmer is a wreck after his experience with throat cancer and a tracheotomy. Dubious whether Warwick Davis will have anything but a token appearance on screen either. He was still in his teens when filming Willow, and he certainly isn't anymore. This is a money grab to recycle yet another decades-old creative property into a canceled-after-one-season piece of wet spaghetti thrown at the wall at the Entertainment Content Factory.

I look forward to Disney's sequel to Ladyhawke, starring Tyler Posey.
Wow - congrats. I love the tool. Active user through a year.
I think OP’s first paragraph sounds like a reasonable framework for viewing the utility of ML, though is a bit too black/white. Bit they lose me completely when they said that we’re “very far away from AI enabling the average person to have new opportunities and experiences in the same way as past technological innovations have”.

In any case, I agree with the thread’s larger point that the buzz and hype around the field is exhausting, and certainly not always warranted. Nothing makes my eyes roll more than reading a post from a data “thought-leader” on LinkedIn.
Weary city dwellers escape to Montana, creating a property gold rush
> There is no meaningful data that any hiring process--good or bad--improves the outcome of a hire. If there were, everyone would be using it.

I can say with confidence that certain resume features are incredibly strong predictors of interview performance (at least in the related measures, in the field and/or team I'm working in). I'm not HR, but your statement seems to also deny the possibility of this empirical observation.

> Given this, why not hire lightly and fire lightly?

Because it would be a complete dick move to have someone relocate (possibly involving change of country) and then fire them 2 weeks later? That's not even looking at the formal, bureaucratic or training overhead, or any of the other factors in this industry that make hiring and firing a bit more complicated than handing someone (and later taking away) a hardhat and a shovel.
Internet Explorer to start redirecting users to MS Edge
i think this is a bug. for instance iCloud photos syncing network traffic, (belongig to nsurlsessiond) doesnt show up in the BigSur native Activity Monitor, but for some reason still gets shown in my Stats app.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-story-behind-the-arXiv-org-f... ?
Have you even read the readme in that link?

Start a julia repl, hit ] for the package manager, paste `add MKLSparse`, write `using SparseArrays, MKLSparse`, run `sprand(100,100, 0.1) * rand(100)`
Why not? It’s just Chromium.
> but fortunately it's also perfectly well-defined by the platform.

that's the same for every language and thus not very relevant. if you have single, static binaries / libraries of course everything is simple, and you'll get linker errors in C++ just like you would in Rust. What is not simple is when you start loading twelve dozen libs at load-time or run-time and it does not seem that Rust defines behaviour any more than C++ in that case.
Are you saying that the given example should be disallowed?
Lol, that's assuming your workstations are deployed with SSDs. My company thinks they're a waste of money for the plebes.
> Apple 25%, Samsung 34%, Huawei 17%, Xiaomi 10% in Europe

Apple gets 11 billions/year to use Google as the default search engine

The remaining 61% (Samsung+Huawei+Xiaomi) is Android that means Google

Xiaomi defaults to Baidu in China, for example, but everywhere else, where the CPC has no direct control over the wires, they use Google because Google money is good even in China
Honestly, I just wish that this was 0-indexed. 1-indexing annoys me enough that I haven't really started playing with Julia.
Honestly, how would anyone ever know if Google does what they say they're doing? Is there any trusted third party auditing Google's ad auctions? If Google says $X was the price at auction, how would I ever dispute that?
Works pretty well on Plasma Desktop. I use it all the time to find files via KRunner.
I've intentionally under-allocated with array space on my drives and use the rest mostly for swap (which I don't want on ZFS anyway, mdadm raid10 is fine) and backups of /boot; all of which I can sacrifice without worry to make the data fit inside of smaller drives.
What's the normal lifespan of this equipment? I'd imagine this environment, particularly with the dust, would cause failure in the 5-10 year range rather than the 1-2 year range.
Where do you see this icon? I don't think I have an incognito icon on my signal keyboard
How Much Equity Do Your Employees Deserve? The Dynamic-Split Model (2013)
Thanks for this, years ago when I was on the road and wanted to visit last minute and quickly searched for information on where to go and tours, I didn't find this gem. Really helpful to see they have a visitors center in Barstow.
It's ok, the T3-based MacBook Air is due out next month.
Apple buys exclusive rights to Charlie Brown holiday specials, only on Apple TV
So how did the professionals do the audio syncing? I feel like you built that part of the story up so much, and then left us hanging on how it was actually fixed!
That's fair, although Krita still seems like a more central example, since without the original, complete program, there's no Blender at all.

As I get older, I have more moments where I'm saying to myself, but I've used Blender! It's kinda unintuitive and hard to use! and then realize that, er, that was in 2010, and it's now a solid decade past that...

I happen to think the common narrative of git having good plumbing and bad porcelain is still considerably overselling the virtues of that program, but, that's a topic for some other thread.