skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also been accused of faking things that I definitely did do myself, sometimes I find myself unconsciously playing down accomplishments so as to not to be accused of fakery.

What you can keep in mind is that there are very large amounts of money at stake for software engineering jobs. So it is magnet for every kind of faker you can imagine. So don't take it personally, just be thankful that you are qualified for a job that many people wish they could do.

And yes the whole thing is a game. The people who are good at the game are most likely to win. So just learn to be good at the game.
> People uses Macs because they want to use Macs and software that takes advantage of the reliability and consistency of that ecosystem

ehhh. I think if you did some analytics of “apps Mac users use” an absolute ton would be “a web browser and very little else”. I can think of very few truly native Mac apps I depend upon and that keep me on the platform.

What does keep me on Macs is that every now and then I need to compile an iOS app. Apple give me no choice. Aside from that I’d say a lot of developers choose Macs because they’re the least worst POSIX platform, not because Mac native apps are a shining beacon on a hill.
USB-C depending on implementation has enormously greater throughput (USB 3.1 gen 2 is 10Gbps) than lightning (480Mbps/60MBps). This might not be relevant for your needs, but increasingly Apple are marketing the iPhone as a 'pro' device, specifically for media creation. And it is finding a home in videography and event photography and streaming for example (I work in this area). Given this, the speed available through wifi and lightning are both enormous constraints on the usefulness of the phone professionally. So this is actually a really big issue for a segment of apples audience - perhaps a small segment, but specifically the segment whose imprimatur continues to lend apple devices their desirability.
Anyone who thinks this isn't a cost-cutting measure is delusional or utterly naive. This is strictly a bottom-line measure and they are draping it as a phony environmental move. Their profit margins are fat enough to afford a $5 charger, they just want to keep boosting their stock price.
Luca their CFO has consistently said on investor calls that they aim for 35% gross margins, so any excess seems indeed reinvested into other features on the BOM or passed on to the customer.
You mean Vim?
Creative Productivity Is About Mind Management, Not Time Management (Tweetstorm)
> Google at a certain point in time managed to hire the talented & motivated people

Google started with talented and motivated people.

They also hired talented and motivated people, but that in itself is not proof of anything. Did they hire talented and motivated people because of their hiring process, or for other reasons, such as that Google is a place where a lot of talented and motivated people really wanted to work?

There are different spins you could put on the hiring process: (1) it's extremely difficult in order to pick out "the best" engineers or (2) it's extremely difficult in order to pick out the engineers will do anything to work there.
I would be upset if my tv sent a single byte of information out. I use an old lcd and if it ever dies, I just don’t even know what we’ll do. Can you even buy TVs anymore that don’t spy on you?
This falls into the thinking “pure math is ok, since it will often become practical on a long enough time horizon”. Why not “pure math is ok because that’s what people want to do”?

Whether you can get funded for your explorations is a separate question, but no justification is needed for them.
It's the de-facto standard for web scripting because browsers forgot to build anything other than the bare minimum to ship new features incrementally. There's nothing about the languge itself that is preternaturally suited to the task at hand; in fact I'd argue it's the largest single impediment to scripting the browser outside of political sources (e.g. browser vendors).
I was just about to start on a project, but stopped to read this article instead. I'll start the project later, after I catch up on comments.
> Maybe during the interview process we should make sure the candidates fully understand the callback style and Javascript's async model.

I used to ask candidates to implement async.map and I used to be baffled that the majority of JS devs are unable to do it. There are those who would say "I'm not used to callbacks, I use promises". I would then allow them to use promises (no Promise.all allowed, that's what we are trying to implement ^^). I have never seen one of those "promise only candidate" manage to do the exercise.

If you want to push it to the next level, ask them to implement async.mapLimit. You wouldn't believe how few people that are looking time professional JS devs, are actually able to do it properly (I actually used to ask that one, before realizing that it was too much to ask... )
But that's only if they don't want to verify themselves. Which is not an issue, really. Or, if they do not have internet, in which case with NFC they couldn't do the transaction at all.

I feel like it's a case of abuse being so rare that they don't care.
I searched Youtube for examples of this. This is a little bit staged, but it seems to be a real checklist they're going through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG7SkOQDDt0

Though they're not perfect. They said that one pilot is supposed to read the item, the other pilot say the answer, and the first pilot visually confirm it; but at 1:42, I noticed the first pilot say "emergency exit lights", hear the confirmation, and move to the next item without her eyes moving away from the list.

I'm not sure which of several possible conclusions to draw from that. ("Humans suck", "it is indeed staged", "the procedure has enough redundancy that the chance they're both careless on a given step is small", "the pilots feel that the emergency exit lights aren't particularly important", ...)
Ask HN: Why is BuildZoom always posting job adverts here?
I am going to build a chrome plugin to block all mentions of build zoom
Perhaps “should” instead
Taibbi is right as far as he goes. We don't know its Russian disinformation.

However, skepticism needs to run both ways.

The fact that we are not sure the Russians are behind it, does not mean we should accept this preposterous story. It clearly looks like disinformation of some kind.

In fact, all major media outlets (including Fox) and the FBI concluded this whole thing was fake, so the story is not what is on those drives, but how they came to be.

I think the message of "It's the Russians" is more palatable to the American news media and to America than "Let's investigate the Trump campaign and Trump's personal attorney."

It's not anti-Trump bias that's driving the "It's the Russians" narrative.
ah thank you
Yes. Sceptre is a good brand for dumb TVs.
I hear you, but I was lazy and only gave one reference. There have been, over the years, many demostrations of optimized SBCL being on the same order as C.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://drmeister.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/timing-data-compa...

https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/co...
Ask HN: Does anyone use Ansible for complete provisioning of Linux workstation
It's been a pipe dream for the last few years to have provisioning for my linux OS. I use Fedora across workstation & laptop(alongside windows dual boot).

I've always liked the idea of having a definitive set of instructions to automatically rebuild/keep in sync. But anytime I've started at it, it just becomes a big hurdle.

I'm excluding hard drive partitioning etc. just looking to see if anyone has done this to maintain O.S. level & up.
I guess they either buy a new car or they buy a dongle they plug into their car as a wireless bridge (same as every change Apple makes ;P).
Not sure exactly what you're looking to solve with that proposal, but, I can see one obvious question - how do you know if you've heard from a node or not? Until I hear from it I don't know its number. With a quorum based election, I only need to hear from n/2+1 nodes. I don't have to know anything about the nodes themselves, only the number needed to form a quorum. With random numbers, I'd need to hear from every member to know if I've reached consensus or not. That, or I'd need a perfectly partitioned network (i.e., A and B can talk, but neither can talk to C. If A can talk to B, and B can talk to C, but C can not talk to A, at least when trying to make a decision, no decision can be reached)
A neural network that is trained via self supervision based on Sony IMX424 rccb sensor data can achieve per pixel depth estimation with equivalent precision as even the most expensive automotive LIDAR.

Not only that, having cm level localisation is wasted resolution. What good does +/- 10cm get you in terms of safety? If the object is 30cm or 0cm away the vehicle trajectory output from the driving policy should be the same either way. At low speeds where that type of resolution is useful (e.g. parking) ultrasonics provided far better ranging than LIDAR and not to mention much, much cheaper.

The only defensible position of LIDAR is that when comparing a model trained using LIDAR input and one trained uses camera sensor input is that depth estimation recall is higher at .99 precision. This means that a non-LIDAR agent will sometimes detect and object that isn't really there or will estimate the depth to be closer when its in reality further away. This can be resolved with improved self supervision techniques and ultimately higher quality and more varied sensor data in the training set.
Vitamin D is critical to strong bones. Please note that bone marrow is where a lot of our immune cells are produced, such as white blood cells.

It is also critical to the ability of the body to absorb and utilize calcium. Inability to properly absorb calcium tends to also foster a magnesium deficiency and vitamin K is the other vitamin you should be taking when taking calcium supplements to make sure you are able to absorb it and make use of it.

Vitamin K is critical to the clotting process, as is calcium. Calcium is necessary to start the cascade of chemical processes that lead to clotting.

I have a genetic disorder and I have a long history of being prone to nose bleeds. Tendency to bleed is a common problem for my condition, which is also known to be associated with osteoporosis at very young ages (sometimes starting in the teens), though bleeds that this population most often is concerned with is lung bleeds.

When an online friend of mine was dealing with lung bleeds in their child with the same condition, I did some looking around for info and found that calcium is critical to the clotting process. I don't know if that info helped her help her child, but as a consequence I eventually began taking 600 to 1000 mg of calcium carbonate in response to gushing nose bleeds (as opposed to the constant low-level blood seepage in my nose that was my norm for years). This practice stopped my nose bleeds cold in twenty minutes without other intervention and after six months I stopped having nose bleeds.

Covid-19 significantly impacts blood health. Anyone interested in understanding the role of vitamin D deficiency in Covid-19 should be curious about the relationship between vitamin D and blood health.

Covid-19 was initially talked up as primarily a respiratory infection, but ventilators were not performing very well for helping the sickest of the sick with this condition and there was a shockingly high mortality rate for people who ended up on ventilators -- high even for what is "normal" for people who typically end up on ventilators. Everything seems to point to the idea that the way Covid-19 impacts the blood is a critical detail of why it is so deadly in some populations.

If you have reason to believe you are vitamin D deficient, you should address that. If you address it, you most likely also need calcium, magnesium and vitamin K as well in order to redress the negative impact this has had on your health. They work together and not getting enough of any one of those tends to negatively impact your status for all of them.

(I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice. I am someone with a serious medical condition running my mouth on the internet. Please leave me alone with your bizarre delusions that leaving comments on this topic means I am "practicing medicine without a license" while you refuse to acknowledge the obvious inference that your concern is rooted in "Damn. That woman knows too damn much and we aren't happy about it for various reasons.")
Most people are uneducated in most things.
A former job of mine forced candidates to fill out a form for one of those abominable HR candidate tracking sites, maybe ICIMS, and I saw the following gem from one applicant:

Q: "One of CompanyCo's core values is Openness. How have you demonstrated openness in your career?"

A: "I am open about my contempt for bullshit questions like this one."
Off topic, but is this a good news source? I know there is a popular uk news service that is mostly editorial and I always forget which
You're exactly correct, and the complete lack of attempt to do (1) means that if you're a perfectly qualified candidate, then getting an offer is very much a crapshoot. It's actually quite easy to get into a FAANG company overall, it's just difficult to get into a single specific FAANG company on a single try. The interviewers are mostly not good at interviewing and they'll just let you in as long as you can solve their little toy problems the way they would solve it. Sometimes it's easy enough, and other times your luck runs out.
How long does it take for Vitamin D levels to fall to "deficient" levels from healthy levels? If you don't supplement and stay quarantined inside for a week in the winter, what effect does that have on your levels?
India’s engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system
Well, except there's nothing stopping a site from handing out a unique service worker with a hard-coded i.d. to every visitor. It's persistent state with behaviour, like a cookie that can do things.
Zuckerberg Throws the Open Internet Under the Bus; Support Section 230 Reform
Any .pcap data? Maybe we could see the domains being called?
I don’t think that’s right at all. They moved development to the Flashlight repo. It seems very actively developed to me. Last commit 3 hours ago. wav2vec 2.0 blog post also went up last month (September) and the current state of the art iirc is a Google model based on Facebook’s Wav2vec 2.0 work.

For my own use I’ve already built Pytorch and CoreML frontends, with a shared model format (can convert models to/from wav2letter format and my custom format), and I have the ability to create new models in these frameworks from wav2letter architecture files.

I still run my training in the wav2letter framework, but for compatible training in Pytorch I would mostly just need criterion implementations. I assume warpCTC is fine for the CTC models. There’s also a third party Pytorch ASG criterion package but I haven’t tried it yet.
>I'm sure there is a very good reason for this 50 year old, really high impact, supposedly peer reviewed, journal of medicine to have a single line Wikipedia page.

Is this a serious comment? Take a look at their editorial board:

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/pages/editorial_board
Yes, and to fit in more advertising.
It’s not a shame if there’s no market, it would only be a shame if there was a huge market and they failed to capture the opportunity.
> The economy isn't in freefall

I was discussing several administrations; the current economy isn’t in freefall but it was after President George W. Bush.
> It seems like such a fantastic market

Does it? Maybe I am misunderstanding the product, but I am really struggling to think of potential customers. To me, it seems that people who actually design their own fonts will be doing this on a much more professional level than just adjusting a few sliders. On the other hand, people who know so little about font design that such a technology would help them will get their desired results faster if they just use a stock font from Google Fonts. After all, they offer sliders, too, but the result is always a polished font which has been worked on by an actual designer. Also, it's free.
Donaldjtrump.com was briefly hacked by Monero
You could just not configure the network on a smart TV if you can’t find a dumb one.
Just because you use non-native apps doesn't mean you like them. I mean, does anyone actually like Slack?
How is this different from other similar platforms like songwhip or soundshare?

I really like the 'Dark Mode' option on your website - its cool!
Many studies suggest that vitamin D deficiency is a consequence of Obesity. (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6780345/ )

Given that the obese are more likely to be hospitalized after getting COVID-19, this may be a reason they're seeing this.

This subject is taboo, so it doesn't get considered.
Underwater-Blue-Caribbean-Fishes
I absolutely love the design of this app! MusFuse makes sharing and discussing music so much easier and so much more fun. Adding YouTube to the list of platforms that we can share from makes this app such a great idea!
Blender is a fantastic piece of software.

Its UI never agreed with me that much, but watching experienced users, it reminds me of VI. As in, it appears to be optimized for power users, rather than ease of use, or discovery. It does seem to have been steadly improving. I'll try again.
Is ublock origin allowing you to scrape data from their platform? Then they may want to block that.
It’s true, the vast majority of users don’t need accessibility features, but those who do absolutely cannot compromise on them.
> Wait wait wait, are you actually saying that poor quality research in field X convinced you that field Y also has poor quality research? How does this make sense?

I'm not sure that was the case being made. It's not the quality of the research, it's the quality of the journalism, which in turn demonstrates that the journalism is of sufficiently low quality as to be incapable of revealing the existence of propaganda-quality research.

Then the problem becomes that if you can't trust the media coverage, you would have to go to the primary sources. But what percentage of people have the time and competence to actually do that?

> How long does it take for you to consider yourself an "expert" in a field?

The poster is clearly referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect:

https://loricism.fandom.com/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect
> It sounds like you're airing a general grievance against sampling, but I'm sure that's not what you mean, so please elaborate?

You obviously aren't going to have any measure that actually has 100% popular support. So the only way you could get to “if it has unanimity among the public, it has only a 30% chance of passing” based on anything even approximating empirical science is to take some observations about success at various less than unanimous levels, and develop a model of the relationship between public support and chance of passage, and use that model to extrapolate beyond the high endpoint of support from the data. Without a strong theoretical rationale which you have good reason other than the observed relationship within the tested range to believe is the explanation for the tested phenomenon, it is always suspect to extrapolate an empirical relationship outside of the range in which it has been observed.

> Similar information can be found here:
> https://represent.us/action/no-the-problem/.

The study linked to support that is interesting, but since it models the effect of interest groups, including mass interest groups, separately from both public and elite individual preferences, and finds that both elite preferences and interest group alignment have significant independent impacts, but average citizen preferences don't have a strong separate effect, what it really indicates is that average citizens are effective in politics only to the extent that their preferences energize action through organized groups.
That is the way you want it. You don’t want it the other way.
It’s funny they mention Panic/Nova... that’s another application that is sliding right into the dustbin of irrelevance. The world is passing both of these by, because Apple messed up their developer relations and creative pro relations for years, all to try and push the iPad as a viable alternative to desktop computing.

Sketch and Nova only exist because there is the Mac user base who wants to use them.

At this point it doesn’t matter how pure Sketch or Nova is, the party is already over. People started leaving years ago, and there is now this operating system diversity among dev and creatives that wasn’t so brazenly there ten years ago. Not having a Windows client, and doubling down on it, seems like a really really bad idea.
I agree with you, and I think this is a pretty good signal that Sketch is REALLY feeling the heat from Figma, because they aren't offering a better argument besides "we're native". The bandwagon has clearly jumped off Sketch and onto Figma, and not because it's "fashionable", but because Figma is plain awesome.
To slightly refine this, Intel didn't have many "foundry customers" before Altera. Via Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Opening_up_the_foundries...), the need to fill up the manufacturing lines was engendered by poor x86 CPU sales around ~2013, not poor third-party fab runs. In 2013, Intel was still ahead of TSMC with 22 nm.
Basically, when you purchase something with a credit card the bank fronts the money to the merchant and bills you for purchases later. If a transaction is fraudulent, either the merchant or the credit card company take the hit, and you're never out any money, even temporarily. For credit cards the market has settled on 0 consumer fraud liability pretty much no matter the circumstances (and very hassle-free too).

On the other hand, with debit cards money is withdrawn from your account when a fraudulent purchase is made, and you need to wait for your bank to complete an investigation to reimburse you. They also tend to have rather stricter reporting standards in that if you don't report fraud promptly, you might be stuck with (some) liability.

Either way you'll typically get your money back, but the hassle is much reduced with credit cards.
A Linux PC running macOS as a virtualized OS is faster than a hackinstosh
Well, it's certainly interesting that it can learn metaphors, and this can be useful for creative purposes, so it's fun to play with.

But a sophisticated understanding of metaphors could be used to tell the truth or to lie. In the case of GPT-3, it doesn't know the difference. Telling the truth and lying come out of the same autocompletion process.

If you consider the use of a metaphor to be showing judgement, it means that a particular metaphor seems to be appropriate to use in a particular context.
> Coincidentally (maybe), today also marks the end of perhaps the most popular game jam event, Ludum Dare.

Don't scare me like that!
Spreadsheets also brought in the "no-code" generation. Letting financial analysts do in-depth analysis without writing code or even understanding code at all. And it shows, logic errors abound in complicated spreadsheets and they often ignore corner cases.

Even "no-coders" should have a working knowledge of basic programming logic so when things don't work as they should, you know where to start looking.
I experienced your comment as snarky. What did you mean?
I once took too much vitamin D, and it took months of avoiding dietary D and sunlight before the symptoms went away.
It's changed considerably over the past decade, especially at 2.5 and 2.8. A lot of the weird stuff like right-click to select is gone (or not on by default anyway). If it's been a while since your last attempt you may have a better time.
Like there are no logic errors in code...