skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my workplace (of 10+ years), when we recruit for entry-level positions, we typically get 15-50 applicants. We are not a software company so we do not use deep algorithm testing as part of our evaluation process.

Most applicants (probably 80% or more) have a computer science or information systems 4 year BS degree. The other 20% typically have a STEM degree with some programming courses or experience. Probably 20%-30% have some type of graduate degree as well - we sometimes have career changers who have picked up a MS in computer science from some coursework-only MS program at a small school.

My experience has been that of that candidate pool, we will have 3-6 candidates with well documented programming projects or job experience. These tend to be the candidates we interview - we use a simple rubric with yes/no for 5-10 categories we evaluate. The categories are broad ("Has this candidate written code in either personal projects or previous employment?") and minimally skill-specific. We do tend to have some bias towards database (SQL) skills and some hands-on experience with Linux, but not specific "hard" requirements for either (don't care if MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, or Debian vs Ubuntu vs CentOS, etc).

We have had success with non-traditional candidates - we have team members with backgrounds ranging from BS in History to PhD in Bioinformatics, so we aren't super-credential sensitive.

All these details seem to add up to a rather stark observation - there is NO shortage of highly qualified applicants for these types of jobs. Our geographic region has many tech employers so we aren't the only option for job seekers. We probably aren't even in the top 25% of employers for salary in our area.

Candidates with only three months of training are just not going to be successful getting to the front of the hiring line in the deeper pools of applicants we get.
getting pretty bored with the anthropomorphization of machine learning
Privacy is a thing you only get to choose once per a line of events. Once you commit to the non-private option, you are out of luck. No amount of postcautions will fix that.
> insane whitespace

Good to hear that there’s at least one person involved with it that sees the problem with this. I imagine how the use of whitespace to organize the layout probably looked very simple and attractive in Sketch or Figma at some point. Then reality crept in, and that whitespace was gradually carved up into more and more incoherent pieces. And as that was the only indicator of hierarchy and relationships there was to start with, there’s now no organization left at all. Many screens are just a bunch of words, all imperceptibly different shades of dark gray, strewn out randomly over a solid white background.

To make things worse, they all seem to be implemented in slightly inconsistent ways (you can tell when an h1 is wrapped in ten (10) layers of nested divs, each just containing the next div) so things that should align are all off by a pixel and have slightly different behaviors.
How to Set Up and Use a Browser Sandbox on Windows
Zoom buying it instead would be huge
Lensless Single-exposure 3D Imaging
You can connect a laptop to 2-3-4 externals screens. Which many do. You don't need a tower for that.
The fact is NeXT machines were dogs. The OS was nice but the hardware was very underpowered. I have a slab in my retro collection. It looks pretty, but a Sun Sparc from the same era is much more powerful.
It's also been clear to me for a while that Whatsapp is scanning message content & meta-data for use in FB ads. Talk about something in a Whatsapp chat and pretty soon an ad in FB about the thing shows up.
Fossil: Software Configuration Management System
> The current title is clickbait

Can you state anything factually wrong with the title? Wikipedia states clickbait as misleading.

Now that I think of it, I should have used 'will' instead of 'can'. You don't have any choice, which 'can' might imply. But that would be even more clickbaity based on your assessment

>I wouldn’t be worried about “warning” people

Okay. I wanted to warn people even before they get this update, so I posted it.
Yes. I switched fully to Gitlab.
Hiding under a passing car sounds rather dangerous. Did you mean parked? :-)
That sounds great.
When I worked grocery we used to joke about getting everything perfect on the shelves and then just sealing the store up.

After long enough the empty shelves, spills, and broken items sort of blended together and the customers who caused them did not matter, like the store itself was alive and we were tending to its habitual needs.
I made one generalization. I'll stand behind it. I hoped to see it provoke contradiction.
> political speech guidelines to clamp down in critique against MSM (Main Stream Media)

That is sensible, because the MSM label is primarily a label one side uses to describe media outlets that don't lean their ideological direction, while they ignore that there is absolutely no shortage of media outlets that do. So when you see someone using the loaded term, you know you're not reading a neutral analysis.
It could be that women don't want the "top 5%", but rather are seeking men who are simply acceptable, who don't exude misogynistic tendencies, who bother to groom themselves, who treat others with respect. A tall order, considering most men are trash, including the good-looking ones.
So prices will go up. That's how we get other people to voluntarily do things for us. I don't see a problem there.
A Pagan matriarchy in the Russian north clings to fading traditions (photos)
I was speaking from my own experience. Many of my family members are vegetarians and some of them are in the milk business (small scale). Pretty much everyone knows that the cow's milk should go to the calves. Sure almost all companies lie in their ads but people aren't as stupid as some would think. Some people are under the impression that they are into some great secret of the world (about how cows are handled in the milk business). But the reality is that most people know about it but don't care.

So to reiterate the number one reason most people (that I know of) become vegetarians because they are disgusted by meat. I wish there was some great vision to it but there isn't.
Stop by the slack channel if you have any questions. I think we could put together a solution for what you'd like to do and then some!
>Harris is simply arguing that different societies have different levels of ethical development.

A facile duplicity.

How can one justify the invasion of a foreign country and decimation of its citizens without indicating ethical 'development' (whatever that is) as a motivating reason for why 'its okay' to murder 5% of another country' population, wilfully.

Ethics is a thin veil when it comes to invader justifications.
AWS usually does a post mortem where they inform what caused the problem and what they will do going forward to prevent it from happening again.
Personally I find it much more difficult than recaptcha. The tests themselves aren't much worse but since I have a Google account HCaptcha shows up more frequently.
> “Users can now report a copy of recent messages to WhatsApp”

Isn't that wrong? You can only report people, not messages. When you report a person, the messages are sent
From the status page:

> This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard.

Just seems so ridiculous that they have trouble reporting the impaired status of their system due to... the impaired status of that same system.
New precise maps of millions of bright quasars show our place in the cosmos
Pay them more money. Simple.
That would be if everything else was equal. Everything else is NOT equal. People also want portability, small size, battery life, etc.

If more than a niche had speed as its sole priority, then they would already use desktops, but most (80%+) use laptops today.

But of the majority that uses laptops, most would like a faster machine. Just would prefer it was also a laptop.
I did a medium skim of the whole doc, so apologies if I missed anything.

The following is my TL;DR takeaway:

* Everything is consolidated into JSON. HTML and CSS elements are now expressed in a uniform JSON format. You can express a whole element (whole == styled + functional) as one JSON blob or define individual blobs and link them by class reference.

* By consolidating, we eliminate redundancies across the front-end landscape.

* I didn't see it explicitly, but I think it's implied that everything by default is a div, but you can define a "type" whether that's an "input" or a "style"

* CSS is called out as being too bloated and "functional", so his approach strips out everything from CSS that isn't basic cartesian positioning. The rest is deferred to javascript.

Reactions

* Overall I like it, very developer centric. I'm biased towards JSON > XML which is a plus. But just the idea of keeping track of one parser in my head for all of front end development, instead of the current 3, is a big win.

* IMO it seems like a lot of this could be achieved today in React, and It'd be cool to see a POC trans-piler that does exactly that! :)

Critiques

* Before the POC stage, special care has to go into deciding what bits of the declarative web are getting eliminated.

* ex. Relative positioning, if this gets removed I see it leading to a lot of "re-inventing the wheel" but maybe that's your intention? Everyone is already overly reliant on things like flex-box, so maybe this just results in flex-box-js :shrug

* Maybe I missed it, but there seems to be a bunch of other loose ends:

* State-management

* inheritance (both state and style)

* rendering/lifecycles

P.S. A lot of commentators are concerned you're trying to throw out the entire declarative web, but that wasn't my takeaway at all. Rather it's a call to refine the declarative foundation of the web.
This 2019 documentary about Maradona's time playing for Napoli is well worth watching. It has some incredible archival footage — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Maradona_(film)
This is a basic by-the-RFC implementation. The developer who was assigned this just used existing libraries and followed the protocol. This was a rational move on their part. Especially when mucking with x509 has been historically fraught with vulnerabilities.

OCSP has since been improved to increase privacy and security, but the extensions to enable that only considered OCSP in the context of TLS.
> the court almost always has to write a defensible opinion for why something happened some way, but a government agency does not.

That's not true. Agencies that do rulemaking have to provide justification for why they're enacting or repealing particular regulations, otherwise those regulations can be struck down as capricious. This is a major problem the Trump administration had: a lot of their attempts to rollback Obama's policies or enact new ones foundered on the ability to provide this justification.
Yep, agreed.

If you can admin your own Jira instance and keep the fields and plugins to exactly what you need, it's pretty nice. I keep going back to it for the customizable workflows and fine-grained access control.

Unfortunately, every corporate Jira instance I've ever worked with has been overrun with every possible field possible, an unnecessary and constantly shifting mishmash of plugins and horribly slow access. You're paying the price for all of that cruft that you don't need and which can't be removed because "maybe someone wants it."
This is one good purpose for video games. If you have an uncontrollable urge to do something mindless, at least do it safely in a simulated environment.
I assume he means friends/colleagues who are not hiring him along as they advance and move jobs.
Immigration flood gates will be opened to solve this just as they did for Y2K.
Fat & delicious roosters are called 'capons' - they're neutered & raised for meat, though a bit of a luxury food.
there is bad content, then there is good content. I follow chess streamers and content producers, and I am happy with the content and medium.
I love these types of posts when they're clearly on-topic. With all respect to the author, this didn't seem close enough to the conversation at hand. A platform for asynchronous audio communication is not going to replace Slack, which is made for text messages.

If the GGP had said "I hate Zoom meetings where everyone waits around smiling and one person talks forever", the post would have made more sense to me. Or, if the GP's product can also function as a more basic Slack replacement, their post should have led with that.
Slower in what metrics? Latency? Throughput? Not to mention that the behavior may strongly depend on the GC design and the HW platform in question. It seems far too difficult to make a blanket statement about what is and isn't achievable in a specific use case.
Don't label them seems like the obvious answer here. Twitter and Facebook simply can't be trusted to be arbiters of truth.
This is actually the most plausible scenario for if/when fusion is achieved by any nation state. There is evidence that China is secretly working on fusion reactors and there's no reason to assume that the Russian and US militaries wouldn't do the same.

The first nation to achieve economically viable fusion will have a huge advantage over others. All of these open experiments like NIF are the equivalent of public ML research which is years behind what happens at secret research labs in Goog etc. From a game theory point of view, there is a huge incentive to work on fusion alone and in secret, and not tell anyone about it until long after the desired result is achieved.

Fusion is a similar technological leap to attaining nuclear weapons, and we're only now learning about the extreme levels of secrecy and investment that the US and other nations afforded to those projects.
In hindsight, I got it just right.

Plus, my point wasn't on the article (which I hadn't read), but on the comment (which I had).
In my anecdotical experience, that's not remotely true. Yes there is a disconnect between techies and regular people, in that for us it's obvious that these companies are harvesting all this data and processing it in all this ways and sharing it with all these people, but for the majority of people it's not. Even for you, do you think you fully understand how your data is being utilised and what the consequences are?
Trying to come up with a charitable interpretation of this comment that doesn't just imply tossing nurses from one abusive and under-appreciative hospital system gig to the next. If that was the case the people who we would have the privilege of calling our healthcare services would all just leave. Market collapse, if you will. Not exactly long-term thinking in the middle of a worsening pandemic.
8K video decode isn't very useful when you can barely drive an 8K display, and certainly not for the average consumer.

As for wonderful battery life with Zoom, I am fairly certain that this is because Intel CPUs have a bad process that cripples their video decode performance.

The correct comparison would be with the 7nm or imminent 5nm Renoir APUs that have accelerated decode on an actually good process. Which is what you should compare M1 against, anyway.

But sure, if you want to compare them against obsolete Intel chips, you can, and you'll find improved battery life. It's just not a logical comparison, as Intel isn't the competition to M1 chips, the competition is AMD. And AMD does have high efficiency accelerated video decode on their laptop chips, and it also even supports 8K decoding, though it's almost useless. It is less useless than on an M1 computer though, because at least then you have enough I/O to actually run an 8K screen.
How much money do I have to pay you to get a nursing degree, quit your current job, and start helping out the pandemic?

Serious question. Now that you have an idea of how much money that actually costs, do you understand why things don't scale the way you think they do?

Even then, it will take you years to get the skills needed to be a nurse (and in ~1 year, thanks to the vaccine, the surge in nurses won't be needed anymore). What needed to happen is that you needed to start training to be a nurse 2 years ago, if we wanted you helping a hospital today. And that's assuming you're inclined to learn biological sciences and actually pass nursing school on your first try.
Grayscale has a fund that is spending billions on Bitcoin:

https://decrypt.co/48277/grayscale-buys-240m-in-bitcoin-in-l...
They don't actually evaluate the impact of the bugs though, and end with a statement that they don't know if they do...
Uber for surgery! Move fast and break people. I swear HN is a self-parody sometimes.
The car was passing but it was this nice couple that slowed down and pulled over when they saw the fox taking bites out of our bird. Jacques took that opportunity to hide under their car. We were frantically hunting for our scattered hens when they came up the driveway asking if we were missing a bird.

We kept the poor guy going for a few weeks on antibiotics until he succumbed. Turns out foxes carry lethal bacteria in their mouths. They can bite things without finishing them off, and then come back later and find the animal again after it succumbs to infection. :-(
camera resolution has improved even more since then
"Desktop software is dead!" "Everything can now be Electron!"

Yes, do this on iOS or Android or Electron.
he had some too https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-10-18/peles-daughter-dies/1...

But the parallel with Nero somehow is quite on point. They had, surprisingly, many similarities.
Interesting.

I wonder if they are using the What's App Erlang infrastructure or if they are moving away from Erlang instead.
They need your phone number.
As it happens I do but that's also irrelevant: you aren't required to sort the list of problems in descending order and ignore everything but the first one. In the context of a conversation about nurses, it doesn't add anything to start “what about!” tangents.
I'm not finding a lot of people answering this question from a cursory search, but I found one source saying 33% globally[0]. (This may include eggs and dairy.)

Personally, I eat more protein than I did when I ate meat, though to be fair I still eat eggs. It's not hard at all to get adequate protein.

[0] https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/worlds-main-sources-protein...
Far, far superior to reCaptcha from a user's perspective using Tor. I can solve a few puzzles with hCaptcha and I know I'll get through and see the content. With reCaptcha I might solve 3 puzzles and then get denied anyway, or I might solve 10 puzzles with no end in sight and give up.
You are missing the point. Football is not just a sport. It is not made of cold analysis and rules.

As Sartre said: Il calcio è una metafora della vita. Football is a metaphor of life, it is arduous, hard, difficult, full of suffering with redeeming glory. Miracles are possible, and there is always time.
Salesforce is building its own productivity suite - they have acquired Quip and continues to push it as a "live editing intelligent document linked with data"-type thing.
Sentience is what matters. Comparing animals (like cows) with plants is absurd.
I don't think you are in disagreement.
Magnetic confinement is needed for the continuous-reaction donuts like French scientists are building.

The NIF strategy is more like an internal combustion engine: load fuel, start reaction, capture energy, remove byproducts, start over. The lasers are acting like spark plugs, triggering the fuel to release all its energy at the top of each cycle.

In other words, the French strategy is "build a miniature sun", the American strategy is "build a miniature hydrogen bomb". In theory, it should be easier, hydrogen bombs already exist after all, but to trigger the reaction, you need to find a way to squeeze a lot of energy into a really small space to make the hygrogen atoms kiss, and you can't use the traditional method of "put a plutonium bomb next to it" for obvious reasons.
Amusing. It's like a cavemen saying "Yep, we are done. We made fire ourselves, what else could there possibly be?"

I mean we did a whole 200 years of scientific research. Of course, there is little else to discover. Humans are smart after all.

There are only a "few" obvious questions left:

* Can we generate a black-hole? If so how? If not, where is the proof?

* Can we move faster than light? If so how? If not, where is the proof?

* Are wormholes real? If so how? If not, where is the proof?

* Can we travel backwards in time and if so, how do we do it?

* Where did the universe come from?

* What is outside of the universe? I.e. where does it expand into?

* Are there other universes? Where is the evidence? Can we build a machine to go there? How do we build this machine?

* Can we prevent the sun from dying?

* Or let's start with the basics. How can we predict the weather of tomorrow reliably? How can we prevent our earth from becoming uninhabitable?

* Is the silicon really the best we can do for computers?

But sure, we are done with physics. Let's just bathe in our glory and praise ourselves as gods lol.

Humans are experts at forgetting that "Mathematics does not proof anything outside of mathematics". All we have are models. Are we at the end of our models? Perhaps? But all that means is that we need better models and perhaps even different mathematics.
Honest question: How do you view it as an improvement? The same data is being shared, and the only difference is that Cloudflare isn't immediately behaving in the same evil ways as Google. But once you concentrate power in an entity, perhaps bad things might happen?

... If there was an on-premise captcha implementation that actually worked, that would be great.
Yes, in the current system it's shifting goalposts. That is a bad system.

You cannot completely successfully codify something that is based on the vagaries of wishy-washy language, nor specific legal concepts like the intent of regulations or the context of prior judgements. Therefore, improve the language: don't give up!

Imagine if latitude and longitude weren't invented because "sorta over there a few days sail beyond the cape" was too hard to quantify. This is the same ridiculous argument. It just so happens that there are also a vast number of ingratiated rent seeking and powerful people and corporations interested in the status quo: literally all of them.

I believe that as engineers and as optimists within the greater human endeavour, over time in all fields we should seek to create means of trust and means of precision: in our measurements, in our communications, in our analyses, in our references and in our collaborations.

We don't need to fire all the judges. But maybe 90% of the solicitors and standard procedural lawyers, a large part of whose job is explaining to the average citizen what exactly is the done thing in some particular area or how exactly they can expect to be treated the hands of a system that cannot otherwise explain itself.

Also, in terms of community governance if it becomes crystal clear that a law is being abused through increased fidelity in the logging of police actions brought about by such a system, then the law can more rapidly be identified and repealed.
Ah, I see what you mean. It does seem like you'd want a more complex arrangement of trusts to keep things simple on the leaves; or else avoid using a product that requires generating a hundred scattered security authorities.
"It is 30 minutes long,"

Download it with the re-established "YouTube-dl" and then play it at 1.5x or 2x speed.

You can save a lot of time that way. Also listen to most podcasts at increased rates and if I need to I slow it down again to 1x.