skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Not perfect... type systems have come a long way since PowerShell did it. But it's a good start.

Look at stuff like PowerShell secure strings for an example of the sort of neat stuff you can do.
> If a manager tells anyone at their company that their humanity is not valued in the company, I would expect them to be walked out the door on the spot.

Well thank god I don't work for you. Most tech companies don't fire everyone engaging in employee activism or they would have much larger labor issues to deal with.
Well, the article speaks of "Deutsche Bank strategists" and "experts", and it is Deutsche Bank Research that made the suggestion. Digging further, the person who made the suggestion is a "Macro Strategist" doing "Macro Research", certainly not just a junior.

https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000051...

there are countless articles to be found about this if you just look for anything like "working from home tax deutsche bank", for example:

https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bank-proposal-to-levy-income-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/deutsche-bank-proposes-a-5pe...
I think you have replied to the wrong comment.
From 2018
I mean, yes, in some cases not doing anything is the right call, but that is a much weaker statement than "first, do no harm".
It's fucking obvious that less healthy people die more easily. I don't need data to know that. I'm disputing the claim that healthy people have, quoting, "nothing to worry about".
what exactly do you mean by ‘concurrency’ ?

F#’s async workflows are supported.

Not sure how this is implemented behind the covers - I guess it get’s compiled to JS promises.
Right, because Mac users aren't generally known for carrying around this air of superiority by saying things like "everybody wants what I have with my Retina/M1/touchpad gestures/etc."

If you like the way text looks on a Retina display just say that. Instead you're here on a thread about a PC product that you'll probably never use, acting like anyone that doesn't have a 4k display must be missing out. (You're right, I must be projecting :) Personally, I like desktop rigs with 1080p, a 5 button vertical mouse and 32-64gb of RAM in a quiet private office. I don't optimize for working on planes, trains and in meetings even though I do own a PC and Mac laptop as well...

Look at all the top listings here though- they're all FHD. Nobody cares about 4K on a laptop display - https://www.amazon.com/s?k=laptop&ref=nb_sb_noss
Covid has been interesting in morphing work with home.

I have memories now of sending emails, but sometimes can’t tell if it was a dream or an actual email I sent.

(Usually the dreams and memories of emails are about figures drawn/images etc.)
Probably "AI researcher was let go after threatening resignation" is probably the most accurate description.

Also "AI researcher was let go after submitting resignation letter" is pretty close to accurate.

But if we had to choose between "AI researcher resigned" and "AI research was fired" I think the first would give you a more accurate idea of questions like

"did she submit a resignation letter" (yes), or "who initiated the break up" I feel
resignation tells you she initiated it, which I think that is closer to the truth Google initiating it.
My challenge is on the individual contributor part, not the top-tier part. A founder is not an IC, at least not past a certain point.
Check out the article, he's talking about the fact that when you distribute so many vaccines, you're almost guaranteed to have a coincidence like a massive heart attack (to give a stark example) that appears correlated. So he's not saying you should ignore people saying there are side effects (in fact the whole point of clinical trials is to listen REALLY REALLY CLOSELY to what people say about side effects), he's saying be prepared for these correlations to be blown out of proportion.
We can ease immigration policies. I don't see forcing your workforce into 24/7 mode as the correct approach to world peace.
Is the market for F# picking up now in 2020? At my current job we're not using F# but I'd like to eventually move to a place that does. I am learning on my own at the moment and am wondering how open the potential hiring companies would be with novices in F# who otherwise have good experience in other languages.
What If Social Media Worked More Like Email?
There‘s also Amarisoft, which does it in „real time“ in software, but not open source.

I believe srsLTE, used to turn SDRs into eNodeB/UEs, adds support for 5G soon (tm).
>It’s good that they hire from the Humanities...

Gebru has a BS and MS in electrical engineering, and a PhD in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence; all from Stanford. After receiving her MS, she worked at Apple's hardware engineering group. After her PhD, she worked Microsoft's AI research lab.
it's not really the EU, it's the parliament, which can't legislate and has no way to force the parts of the EU that can to do anything

journalists often report that the EU "lawmakers" are doing something when in it's really the parliament passing non-binding resolutions that don't do anything
in 1997 Iworked at the first firm that adopted XML

Was on a conf call with VPs from Sun, and i said, and I quote myself:

"So youre telling me that you have this shitty b2b system that youre not happy with and you want us to implement XML to accomodate"

and this VP was nixing it the whole time iwth "hand cut across the neck" manurisms...

later I hired Dave Sifry - and had his team implement a b2b FTP between us and sun...

I later went to him and stated " You should really make a linux support company"

Linuxcare was founded, worth unicorn.

I got nothing
>Why wouldn't you want all the sick+personal days to use as you see fit?

Another thing that is important to point out is that leave days are sometimes an earned entitlement ultimately paid out to you if not taken, whereas sick leave isn't.
I've been thinking of adding that to ShortUUID, do you mind showing me when you're done (or issuing a PR)?
If I look back at the company I was thinking of when I wrote that, the "top half" of the people there are VPs/MDs in fintech, staff engineers at companies like Twitter, ~2-3 mildly successful founders, CTOs at startups, and several have one-person-consulting-shop lifestyle businesses. The other half are mostly engineering managers at (boring, non-FAANG) larger companies. I've bounced around doing greenfield projects / new products at several B2B companies. I just find interesting projects I want to work on and then leave after a few years once the politics become overwhelming for me.

Our recruiting/interviewing process would be criticized nowadays as completely bias-ridden. We sent teams of just-graduated first-year people back to their school's career fairs, built relationships with career offices at those schools, and just basically would have people walk around and be outgoing and try to just chat with interesting students and see if they wanted to join a cool tech company in NYC with cool people. Our interviews were mostly gut-feel after talking to someone about whatever and doing a very simple many-to-many-linking-table exercise to see if they could visualize simple data relations in their head. We didn't even test coding skills, for the most part.

I dunno if it would surprise anyone, but those teams actually were, by far, the most diverse teams I've worked on in my career in terms of age, gender, and race (not to mention socio-eco background). We invested heavily in training people on the job and building culture together internally. We ended up being merged into a larger entity by our parent company and the culture was utterly demolished, and everyone quit around the same time.

I just don't see what context would attract these sorts of people back together at a tech company nowadays. If you find something that isn't a startup founded by rich brats trying to completely fleece slightly-above-average engineers in secondary-market cities with 10-yr-old market rate salaries, and isn't a big tech company ruining society, completely driven by political-insider-donors-- ahem, sorry, I mean investors -- please let me know also!
Implementing it from scratch as a skunkworks reverse engineering project designed to never need to pay license fees upstream.
Totally agree that it should be a choice. Companies should choose to spend more for 24/7 on call by hiring more people.

You, in turn, can choose to work for another company with flex hours while keeping your current position.

Everybody wins.
> Like if production is down how can you say...

Come on, man, it's not your company and if they're not paying you for that time, it's not your responsibility. Volunteering your time for someone else's business? Is this really what you want to do with your life?
You are self-aware enough to acknowledge you are in a bubble in that respect (as most of us are but not everybody likes to admit); you should consider going a step further and understand that the larger community you talk of ("Conditioning on that type of person, who make up most people on HN, Reddit, and Twitter") is itself a bubble that is perhaps rather more liberal leaning than society as a whole - or at least not as sympathetic to the more activist types being discussed here.

Even if in the long run it turns out your position becomes the mainstream, that isn't necessarily nearly the case now.

This is why your original "elsewhere" is being questioned as it's likely not a representative baseline in that regard.

Whatever HN is, it certainly isn't right-leaning.
I taught some summer game development classes for middle schoolers using Construct on the browser. It was a breeze.
> Do you realise in some fields work not getting completed on time could in some cases cause people to die?

It doesn't work like that.

> Sometimes there is an emergency, and a professional saying 'sorry nope on vacation

Why are they relying on someone that is on vacation in the first place?

Are firemen supposed to not go on holiday ever during their work life?

That's simply the symptom of very bad management and on a larger scale of a very disfunctional society.
So using this in a web app that is controlled automatically in Chrome means that a Puppeteer operates your Mannequin?
Could one use this for a micro loan or payday loan platform? And the loan money via this and send monthly payment requests?

I've long had in mind doing something like that as non profit to wipe out the predatory payday loans business which preys on the most financially vulnerable in society. It just seems too difficult for me to do with current bank services. This potentially changes the calculus.
Distinguishing Between Biological and Machine Civilization Techno-Signatures
My daughter was injured by a vaccine. Taking her to the western doctors proved useless. They were unable to even acknowledge that the vaccine she had taken might have any connection what so ever to her symptoms.

You might what to open yourself up to the people that have been injured and stop dismissing them.
That is very different from "first, do no harm". That is a cost-benefit calculation that many of us are familiar with in our own professions.

"First, do no harm" just encodes status quo bias.
Youtube and their python code :) keystore would have helped solve this.
Gods but it's shit on mobile!

It only shows about 2 comments by default, and it's difficult to see them all (and often impossible to see them all at once), because you've got to keep clicking at the end of threads to see more, with each click triggering a full page reload.

And recently you can't even do that without logging in - as soon as you hit "More replies" a login prompt appears.
Not really. It's a idea from a former congressperson.
No one talks about "ignoring side effects". The article nicely lays out how many diseases, which would be expected in any sizable part of the population, would get wrongly categorized as side effects of the vaccination.
Classic paper. I studied this before returning to grad school due to my job at the time. I eventually studied dispersive PDEs... but no matter where you turn in PDEs you always apply contraction mapping to establish existence of solutions. Was nice to have the ray tracing interpretation floating around.
‘How to read a book’ by Adler was a game changer in the productivity of my reading.
So I should not have been surprised when it turned out that Xi was no reformer. Over the course of his tenure, the regime has degenerated further into a political oligarchy bent on holding on to power through brutality and ruthlessness. It has grown even more repressive and dictatorial. A personality cult now surrounds Xi, who has tightened the party’s grip on ideology and eliminated what little space there was for political speech and civil society.

This comes from a devout Marxist whose family was in the comunist party ranks right from its inception.
The other trouble is that these excellent trials will only be able to observe relatively immediate side effects. If there's other long-term side effects, they won't be detected for years or more.
We can honor a man’s accomplishments and contributions to the world while being frank about what he suffered and potentially died from.

Furthermore, we could probably cope with addiction and other forms of mental illness better if we continue to talk about it more openly. It’s no better or worse than suffering from purely physical conditions like diabetes or cancer or obesity. There are things we can and should do to try to be healthy, but there are also other genetic and environmental factors that are out of our control. I think the article was good to be not judgmental of it, and hope others in similar situations do not fear that others will judge either.
Unclear what the usage of "actual expert" means in the context of an AI ethics question, when Timnit is an "actual expert" in AI ethics.

I can see how this would get frustrating fast if your opinion is held among many Google engineers.
Something to be considered when assigning random-letter IDs to public things: the random combination of letters can include offensive words in them. You should keep a ban list of words in your application and check your assigned ID against the list each time you get an ID.
But you said I can get a 7nm one that is pretty close to the same thing. Why don't they sell me one of those in a laptop ready to go?
Fast forward to a repeat of the french revolution, they aren’t afraid of union papers :)
> what exactly do you mean by ‘concurrency’ ?

Good point. I guess I meant parallelism instead.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/what-is-the-diff...
> The excuses for rejection range from unbelief to insulting.

I was once rejected because I did not know inane crap like what "this" is bound to at the top-level in JavaScript. Their answer: "the window object". a) Yeah, okay, if your code only runs in the browser. But not nodejs. And b) if anyone uses a top-level "this" it's an instant reject in code review from me.

Ultimately, a lot of these interviewers are waving huge warning flags saying "stay away!"

Even FAANG. Every single algorithm there is a "trick" to it. Once you memorize that trick, every leetcode becomes trivial. But it took a guy like Knuth some 30 fucking years to come up with that "trick". It's so goddamn stupid memorizing bubble sort when every language has a built in sort you're going to use. And if you ever see a developer writing their own algorithm for bubble sort at work, you're going to think something is wrong with this person. What the fuck are you doing guy? You're going to get it wrong and there is a library for all of this, used by thousands of people with hundreds of bug fixes.
Many commentators seem to be getting hung up on "stored procedures." That's understandable given the title of the original post, but it's also unfortunate because it mixes independent concerns: business-logic in the database, and using stored procedures. You can do the former without the latter, and in my experience it works better:

* custom data types and domains

* use schema and namespaces

* foreign key constraints

* check constraints

* default values

* views

* functions (not stored procedures)

* triggers

In my experience, you can get a clean, efficient, easily-understood data model and application with those ingredients, without ever having to touch a stored procedure, a looping construct, or a conditional statement.
Arecibo Observatory – drone and ground view during the collapse
The article mostly doesn't talk about this; according to this, the price of new clothing has dropped so substantially that even reprocessing secondhand clothes into new textiles is largely a dying business. With all the environmental issues that entails.
Now i am waiting for the next turbolinks release. Their hey.com service has some interesting turbolinks extensions: https://dev.to/borama/a-few-sneak-peeks-into-hey-com-technol... and following
I am a software developer; why would I want to "take myself down a peg"?

Also I doubt there are many people reading the web on 2004 netbooks. You know what I am talking about.
Despite dalvic and co. it still pushed the Java ecosystem, right?

Not what I would call a tornado in the meaning pf destruction.

And about the license, well, it is disputed, right? I only read about it tangential, but the case seemed far from crystal clear to me.
There's a big difference between being flexible and expecting work once people are home. I've worked in both types of environments. If some company is trying to tell you they are the same, they are being disingenuous.
We know some degree of them will be false because there is already a widespread political movement against vaccines in general, and COVID-19 procedures specifically.
>Sun had some great people and some good ideas and products, but as a coherent business it was a rolling train wreck.

I had an internship at Sun in 2002. I distinctly remember a town-hall meeting hosted by Johnathan Schwartz (CTO at the time, later to be CEO) where an engineer asked something to the effect of "this all sounds great, but how does this actually make us money?" The engineer was told in no uncertain terms that he shouldn't ask such questions, that he should focus on engineering and that he should trust that other people would handle the money side.
When i m reading something, don't turn put the screen to sleep. That's all
> In this case apparently it's fine for it to stop with a dead person.

People that do a job where they can save lives accept the fact that saving lives is not granted.

People don't die because someone is slacking.

Do you realize how stupid that sounds?
How do you tell the two apart?
Sure, coaches and generals are also much better comparison.

Either way, I think your argument is weak. “Sure you feel this away about billionaires. But change ‘billionaire’ to something different and your feelings change.”

Well, duh. That’s not even an analogy. You’re just literally changing the subject of the sentence. Billionaires are super different than writers in ways that are relevant to this discussion.
Building a Christmas Village
That's incidental to my main point. It's reasonable to just use the honour system if, say, at most 3 consecutive sick-days are being taken.
Coinbase: Seamless MongoDB to PostgreSQL Migration
"all" is much to strong a word to be using in the sentence.
LiveWire Review (1998)
That just seems like a lot of work to me.
I studied pulsars in University and worked with Arecibo, Green Bank, did some data analysis with VLA, and worked on some undergrad projects using low frequency arrays.

The details get complex, but the gist of it is that arrays let you see bright small scale things, while single aperture telescopes let you see large scale that are dim.

Additionally, an array suffers with sensitivity and noise issues if they don't have enough antennas covering discrete distance pairings. This usually occurs at short baselines since array elements often have a minimum spacing. Single aperture telescopes have a large instantaneous gain factor due to their large collecting area, which is really hard to make up without an exceedingly large number of array elements. For example, Arecibo has the same collecting area as ~148 VLA dishes.

Data handling for an array is complex as well, as you need to mix and process the data from each telescope to sync them together (correlation), while a single aperture telescope doesn't need this step.

On the other hand, an array is generally much less sensitive to instrument noise as the cumulative signal means noise from a single array element has a much lower impact overall. Also, it generally dodges the single-point failure modes by being essentially redundant. You can still operate with one or more elements missing/out of action.

Each telescope type has it's pros and cons, and there are equally valid use cases for each one.

One thing that I imagine is quite difficult to perform on an array is the type of planetary radar Arecibo specialized in by nature of it's high-power S-Band radar (2.38GHz). With AO's S-Band radar, it was possible to get highly detailed imaging and orbital parameters of near-Earth Asteroids with short observations, while determining orbital parameters with optical observations can take numerous observations (and doesn't generally give you the same detailed 3d models). NASA's Goldstone Observatory is the next best telescope for this, but is nearly 20x less sensitive due to it's size and different operating frequency.
How do you know you can trust them?
What I really want to know is, what happens if I think the vaccine will only do me good and I continue to think so while hearing about negative effects that are being reported. That is, is there a chance that my subconscious will subject me to nocebo because of that, even though my conscious thoughts have a positive attitude?

And furthermore, could thinking about the possibility of nocebo cause my body to experience it?
Gold vs. Bitcoin is a self-defeating doom-loop
Apple is sued in EU over iPhones that wear out too quickly
That's cost/benefit analysis, not adherence to a maxim.
Totally agree. Coming from a family with a medical background, I'm fully aware this is a major consideration. It'll be interesting to see if you remain downvoted.
Thats great - hope i can find time to play with it!
Hah. This is a topic that's dear to my heart and have blogged occasionally about it... but never in such a comprehensive form. Great job! Now... I gotta read through everything.

But... here is a series of blog posts in which I covered similar themes years ago: https://jmmv.dev/series.html#CLI%20design

And here is another single post that touches upon a single guideline I came across while skimming through the text: https://jmmv.dev/2020/08/config-files-vs-directories.html . It might be helpful in providing more details about the _whys_ behind each guideline.

Lastly, I'll also mention the "Producing open source software" book by Karl Fogel, which provides a lot of useful advice too, especially on how to ship the tools: https://producingoss.com/
People in the UK can use the Yellow Card scheme run by MHRA: https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/