skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's just a bizarre primary school understanding or morality where there's a group of "Good" people and "Bad" people.

I think it's even more simple than that. It's a failure to realize that everyone is the plucky hero doing things with good intentions in their story about themselves, and that others don't see him as he sees himself.

So despite there being a world where the society is becoming increasingly unequal, where the average American struggles to feel financial security and those born without access to education or the right geography (or, perhaps, who just aren't as bright or ambitious) are merciless casualties of a "meritocracy" that excludes them, PG feels like he can't be the bad guy because he can't pinpoint any specific situation where he did something "wrong".

His only fault, perhaps, is being a massive beneficiary of a system that is profoundly and deeply unfair and getting more that way every day, and he's not able to see that as something he's at fault for.

So I have some sense of empathy and understanding for his perspective. But I think he would benefit greatly from really trying to dig into understanding what it might be like not to share his perspective and vantage point, as well as to do a better job understanding how different the world is for people now than it was in the early 1980's when he began his professional life.
>The "confidence" of senior people to push back is greatly enhanced by the fact that they won't be expediently fired for doing so.

There's a problem with your country if you can be fired for refusing overtime.
Ask HN: Is there any modern overview of Fuzzy Logic?
I recently started looking into non-classical and second order logic. I started reading some things on Fuzzy Logic/Fuzzy Set Theory, and it is seeming very interesting. Is there any good modern overview of Fuzzy Logic, or of Fuzzy Logic for machine learning/AI?

Is anyone still doing any real research into Fuzzy Logic or applications thereof?
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Is it wrong to consider a federal-taxpayer-funded open source E2E encrypted email hosting service for all US citizens? You’d need to trust the government is not putting in backdoors. Audits wouldn’t help since they’ve been spying on citizens with legislature since 2000. The alternative is... FAANGs spying on me. Pick your poison. One at least has the pretense of working for my benefit.
Before Ajax one way to do Web 2.0 style interactions was to hide a Java applet in an invisible iFrame and feed data back and forth from the page using JavaScript.

I think people forget that the early web had a proliferation of plug-ins. JavaScript was most often used as glue between HTML and plug-ins which had fewer platform incompatibilities than the browsers. One of the reasons Flash became the dominant plug-in was because it was universal enough to duplicate the features of other plug-ins, including asynchronous communication via Java applet.
It's also probably incorrect; DHTML didn't involve loading data via AJAX after the page loaded, but instead configuring the webpage on the client side after loading it.

That said, ask them if they'd prefer the backend in PHP or Coldfusion.
Yeah. How dare they demand short commute in human conditions.
My company doesn't have separate sick days, but you are given 5 days (40 hours) of "personal days" that are independent of your PTO. This seems like a decent compromise in the sense that I can use them as PTO without doing the "pretend to be sick" thing. These do not roll over or accumulate, so they are always the first days of "PTO" used, but they are independent of any tenure or other PTO.
Account created 15 minutes ago

Not suspicious at all
Perhaps I'm misusing the term or using the wrong term. Could by hindsight bias. I'm talking about when a person a group accomplishes something, looks back at what they did, and they tries to decide post hoc which of the things they did contributed to their success.
In Poland there are two differences:

1. Healthcare is government-sponsored, so it costs you nothing

2. There are so called "first-contact doctors", who simply specialize in everyday things like treating common cold, and in more serious cases they would just point you to another, more specialized doctor. Getting appointment on the same or next day is quite easy.
You're moving the goalposts. This was about the CCP disallowing separatist speech and punishing it by death.
Maybe because many of us hate trackpoints?
Yeah just a few extra tons of components, materials extracted around the world per car. Nothing to see here, good luck to your kids.
Is this explicitly different that animals that are trained to help with say PTSD? I know those are classified as service animals under the ADA and not ESAs.

I also mentioned in another comment below that my general interaction with ESAs is people using it as a loophole to take their pets places and causing issues for people with service animals. You're right that there are certainly good cases for it and I'm sure plenty of responsible people with ESAs that aren't part of that group.
It was just a marketing ploy based on the cooperation between Netscape and Sun. Sun would provide interoperability between JS and Java in the browser. Netscape would get the public support of a major corporation at a strategic time in its fight against MS.
Not only that, but you empower Google with data about your site (eg. visitor numbers).
> We're doing things still because we (as a country) didn't do them right the first time.

We in the USA are at 84% compliance with mask mandates. [0] Reconcile.

> There are a number of countries that proved it doesn't have to be futile - it's just futile if people don't do right by each other.

No, there aren't.

There is not a single place on planet Earth where any of the COVID statistics showed any improvement after enacting a mask mandate or a lockdown.

That's because neither masks nor lockdowns work.

Everyone wore masks during the BLM/Antifa direct action that took place all throughout NYC in April and May. It led to a notable increase in infections. We can't have it both ways - we can't say the masks work AND that protesting during the pandemic was safe. If protesting during the pandemic WAS safe, then we don't need lockdowns or mask mandates. Sorry to burst your bubble. Just like the GOP partisans in 2002/2003 who yelled "support the troops" because they had their Republican identity tied to supporting a terrible war, you have fallen into the "follow the science" camp and appear to be doing everything you can to defend your chosen political identity in the face of overwhelming contrary facts.

Just remember: you've got to be a pretty intelligent person. People will be coming to you for greater understanding about these complex times, and you could be a source of immense truth-telling and could help restore a lot of happiness in peoples' lives. Right now, you're filling them with dread - and it's totally unnecessary. I impore you to consider re-examining your understanding of these issues. Watch & read all the banned materials that tear these notions apart.

[0] https://www.mediaite.com/news/whopping-84-percent-of-america...
You probably just need to reapply thermal paste to your current laptop and it will speed up dramatically. The paste only lasts a few years and then it's forced to throttle heavily under high workloads like videos.
While I sympathize with the need to push back on bad management, the situation is a bit like being between a rock (bad management) and a hard place (unions). Tyranny of the few vs. tyranny of the majority or the mob. The latter is worse.

It's also kind of a mediocre bandaid for deeper social problems. An employer that can get away with asking you to do unreasonable amounts of work, work ridiculous hours, or achieve impossible feats OR ELSE probably doesn't have much market competition.

Also a quote from C.S. Lewis:

“Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
> I don't think there should be any verification for minor illnesses. My company has an unlimited sick leave policy, and I've never needed to do more than send a quick "I'm not feeling well, should be back tomorrow." email. One of the other commenters mentioned Norway's system of having a doctor's note only after X sick days have been used, which seems reasonable.

I'm sure there are reasonable companies that make pretty much any legal arrangement work well for the employees. but I'm an anxious person, so I can't help imagining the worst possible interpretation of my actions. I feel much more comfortable taking PTO than sick leave, even though I have a trusting manager.

I understand that different people have different needs/desires regarding time off, but I personally don't take it very often. I'm glad that I can choose employment where this results in me walking away with a fairly large check at the end. I would be very much opposed to any regulation that takes this away, though I could certainly support a law that requires employers to offer a choice between merged and separate.
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It doesn't

Retina display are simply more dense but add nothing to the screen real estate , nobody uses them at 1x I bet many don't even know that every pixel they see is actually 4 pixels on the monitor

Better have a larger monitor than a 13 inches packed with useless and expensive pixels
I got my amateur license around a year ago. They stopped mailing paper licenses a while ago.
One thing I've seen some companies do for Sr hires is give a tech talk. Present some past work, take questions, etc. Seems like a better way to evaluate what you actually end up doing.
Deduplication solves that problem. There is only one (or very few) instance(s) of that gif on Google servers. That's why encryption will not be available anytime soon. Storage requirement would explode.
Does this example fully answer the question? Does this allow the tasks to be scheduled deterministically? If I'm very careful and write the tasks such that they make blocking calls at specific locations, then yes. Otherwise, is there any feedback to inform me that tasks are switching context at places I didn't expect? Is it possible to define a custom scheduler that can simply print debug messages at every context switch?
You can literally drive your car in a wheelchair.
It seems geared towards kids to me
This. Currently I'm stuck on a 4-series kernel because something about my laptop crashes later ones. I wish more laptop sellers tested linux, or shipped with it.

System76 only ship US keyboards, which is a bit annoying, although I guess I could live with one.
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I've hired a lot of people out of FAANG. In recent years, there are developers there who are extremely polished at these style of interviews, which makes them seem very impressive, but don't know anything else. The minute you step outside what they've been practicing for, the façade of ability crumbles. Increasingly, I suspect these interviews are overfitting for people whose only skill is that they spend all their time practicing for these interviews. In my current hiring process, we've needed to do things to weed these people out because quite a few have been getting through the FAANG filter.

I've worked at FAANG and gotten offers from the rest, but I can't view leetcode as anything but a hazing ritual at this point.
Isn't it still a bit of a fiction, you tell the doctor you have $ailment and then they write a note. If it's a bad stomach flu, your likely on the last day of it by the time you see the doctor anyway. The system inherently needs trust.
I used to be a recruiter. Roughly 1 in every 25 developer I worked with told me they wouldn't do silly arbitrary technical interviews and that if the company wanted them to they would decline the interview.

I respected that decision but it none of those engineers every got hired by companies I was working with. They all had jobs already so clearly that was fine with them but it seems like there needs to be a better alternative.

One developer would ask what the role entailed, then find a relevant job/project that showed he had done similar work. That was helpful but obviously only works if you have a longer career with many projects to pull from.
> It's especially stupid when a downtown of a large city does that - God help anyone who needs city services and lives in the suburbs. (Are you expected to walk for 3 hours? Spend a ton of money on a taxi? There is no bus.)

This is Paris in the EU. Home to the densest (most stations per square mile) metro system in the world.

Trust me, you don’t need a bus, nor will you walk for 3 hours.

Don’t assume that every city in the world lacks resent public transport. That seems to be a uniquely American thing.
Private markets take 3-5% of a deal, require a 3-way contract, and thus won't do anything below $100K. They are indeed fragmented, disorganized and inefficient. If Carta can solve that, great.
Qualcomm Execs Say Apple M1 Further Validates Windows on Arm, and They’re Right
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465.full

Do we think that a problem persists even when it has become less frequent? Levari et al. show experimentally that when the “signal” a person is searching for becomes rare, the person naturally responds by broadening his or her definition of the signal—and therefore continues to find it even when it is not there. From low-level perception of color to higher-level judgments of ethics, there is a robust tendency for perceptual and judgmental standards to “creep” when they ought not to.
How is it a trust fund for Jimmy Wales?
Some Geekbench results have appeared and seem to show the 888 still at a pretty big disadvantage compared to the A14. e.g. the big cores in the A14 offering 40% greater performance, so much so that the 2 big+4 little of the A14 has higher MT performance than the 4 big+4 little 888.

These results could very well be fake, however early in a product release OEMs do often intentionally release these teaser numbers. This would make it the fastest Android chipset by a good margin, and bring it closer to equalling the A12 of 2018.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15982/the-asus-rog-phone-iii-...

What in the world are you talking about? Anandtech shows the A13 handily besting a phone equipped with an 865+.
This is really interesting. On a previous company my coding test was "build a contact manager application with python and Vue.js" and I really loved that! It was something I could do in less than 10 hours or so. The role was full-stack web dev and I got it.

I've been considering screening companies based on what their hiring process is. How do you think that could be assessed, say, companies that eveluate real-life experience vs. leetcoder skills?
That just makes it tolerable.

If someone stabs you in the kidney, and someone stabs you in kidney and chest.

You don't thank the former.
Do they actually track users based on their fonts being loaded from their site?
For anyone here wondering more about parking policy, I recommend Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking.
Previously the requirement was to have a physical mailing address. I'd say paying rent or owning a home is a much higher bar for a lot of people than operating an email address.
Here's how the best security teams integrate security in DevOps
I'm not aware of one. I've always said LC-style interviews.

I don't think LC is entirely useless, I've seen people graduate with CS degrees but couldn't do fizzbuzz. But the prominence of it for certain interviews is frustrating in many cases.
Snowflake CEO collects $95M, every month
That makes it mostly good then.
You didn't answer a few of the interspersed questions, so I'll press you on the records one.

What about Java records are different than Kotlin's data classes besides forgoing the auto-generated `copy()` method? I understand there are some implementation details, such as inheriting from a Record base class, and how it handles serialization. But I mean as a user.

Can records implement interfaces?
Can records be variants in a sealed class hierarchy?
Can records have a private primary constructor?
Can I customize the getters (to e.g., make defensive copies)?

For other people reading, the answers for Kotlin data classes are: Yes, Yes, Not Really, No.

As an aside, I understand you are an Oracle employee. When you post under this username are you acting in any kind of official capacity for Oracle? Like, is part of your job, so to speak, to have a social media presence? I'm not suggesting anything negative- it's totally fair to invest in outreach, to answer questions, clarify things, etc. I was just curious if I'm talking to "a guy who loves the project he works on" or "a representative of a company".
Sort of agree, it's enough if they could at some point. If they keep an ear to the ground about how things work and what's possible, that goes a long way.
I think that's something JS also shares with Java, no. A huge number of the people focusing in it are terrible devs.
Web browsers were not invented to be application platforms. They were intended to view documents and click through them.

Server-side applications (CGI) started the trend of the web browser becoming an application interface. Javascript made the web browser the application platform. But of course it was not designed for this, so a million hacks have been added to shore it up. To the point of literally including a standard to ship arbitrary binary executable programs into it. There used to be another tool and language which allowed you to ship arbitrary binary executable programs to remote systems... it was called Java.

The Web is the best example in history of how successful turd polishing can be. The global economy now rests on it.
This sort of "programming language designed for people we apparently have a very low opinion of" approach also greatly informed the design of Java, though Java has spent the last 20 years slowly retreating from it. It looks like Go might be following the same path; it's apparently getting generics at some point!
So, basically, JavaScript was originally annointed to serve the function within the JVM ecosystem, that ended up being served by Groovy?

Why didn’t that happen? And why did it take so long before we got Groovy instead, if Sun wanted was imagining something like it way back in 1995?
it is interesting that the archive.org version of this press release has a semi-colon after AT&T;

i can't remember if in 1995 we would write the code to be AT&amp;T or if that came a bit later.

perhaps the scraper thought it was an HTML entity starting with the & followed by the T and it added the semi-colon.

or maybe it originally was posted in 1995 without the semi-colon and before it got indexed in 2002 by archive.org someone ran a regex style replacement on old static html files at netscape to "fix" html entities.

it just doesn't seem likely that a static html file from 1995 would have had AT&T; in it, it seems more likely that it was transformed either by the scraper or some internal script run after it was originally posted.

i found an old email version of the press release on Lunds University website that does not have the semi-colon. http://www2.ldc.lu.se/temadag95/javascript.txt

and what looks like an archive of the 1995 version of the java website hosted at University of Oviedo:
http://www6.uniovi.es/java-http/pr951204-03.html
> Sounds like they're looking for assembly line programmers

Sounds like the exact opposite - they're specifically looking for people who can actually solve algorithmic problems, rather than just code them up.