skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember reading something about Google interview ratings being uncorrelated to job performance

You haven't, Googles interviews are correlated to job performance. They have data on it internally, people who work there can look. What you probably read was that brain teasers like "why are manhole covers round" doesn't correlate to job performance.
> the core goal is to do good and not to get as rich as quickly as possible

How can you "get rich" without doing good?

> which seems to be an operating principle of most private enterprises

How else could private enterprises determine if they are producing anything of value to others?
Despite all these reports, Zillow shows home prices have actually risen. Something is just not adding up here.
The King Is Naked
While C++ has made RAII concepts mainstream, you will find it in a couple of lesser known languages as well of similar age.
No response to be seen. Just downvoting.
It's ok to use a subtitle or a representative phrase from the article body, if that better expresses what the submission is about. The main thing we're trying to avoid is people cherry-picking some detail to put in the title or using it to put their own spin on a story.

Since "Preliminary Incident Statement" is basically a subtitle in the OP, I've put that in the title field above.
I think the people who mocked the senator for the "series of tubes" comment would also be the kind of people to brag about their "phat pipe".
FWIW you can invoke SourceKit LSP with a vim/nvim plugin now and have a really nice Swift editor inside nvim. It doesn’t work with third-party packages yet though so I mostly use it for one off scripts.
Even Pre-Brexit the UK was not part of Schengen, so you had border controls even when inbound from a EU country. On the other hand, Switzerland joined Schengen some years ago, yet you still have border controls as they are not in a free-trade/customs agreement.
Hmmm, maybe I don't get it.

When I am using the headphones, and IF an application requests microphone, THEN I do want this switch to happen automatically. After the Microphone is not needed anymore, I want it to switch back to the HQ A2DP.

Am I missing something here?
Honestly, it should be illegal for any company of significant size not to offer support to its users/paying customers in a reasonable timeframe.

Situations like Google or Facebook automatically banning your accounts for life because of an algorithm and then taking months to solve the issue should not exist. Not when these companies pride themselves on increasing their tens of billions in profit with a few billion dollars more.
The TinyMCE team is building a big new feature with it

https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/tinymce-reasonml/

We aren't sure when we will be able to open source the new model, and we are still using Reason syntax with the ReScript compiler, but we will transition to ReScript syntax eventually.
> Not really a vote-winner, but that’s no excuse.

Completely agree and the most preposterous part is that across the Western world elected officials are by far comprised of former legal professionals and those with law degrees. Feigning ignorance is not an option.
ffmpeg-fu is pretty googleable actually
not an announcement, seems like just a statement. I assume an official statement will come with the post mortem blog post in the next few days.
"The integrator and Netflix had already completed the rigorous Netflix certification process..."

That part confused me. Netflix completed its own certification process? Does the author mean himself, as "Netflix"?
Even in a completely secular sense people are ashamed, in part, about porn because it is addictive. Just like talking about drug addiction. And extremely distracting to one's purpose and mission. And from a Hindu religious perspective, it invites asuras, i.e. energy that goes against your purpose (Dharma) in life.
I dearly love this aspect of Texas. It is such total genius.

And the escapades with legislators fleeing the state in order to block legislation makes for hilarity.
Why Do Models That Predict Failure Fail? [pdf]
ReasonML isn't dead, but the way I heard the story it has always been a spare time project not a properly funded FB team. There was just enough spare time early on to get the community excited.

From the same source, I heard ReScript does have funding behind it.
What is wrong about Dart? I come from a Kotlin background and I don't see anything wrong with Dart honestly
I'm curious what you have against Dart?
Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy
This is classic troll bait. Railing against the mayor of LA in a thread about housing and employment in the Bay Area. No opportunity to rant about big government must be left untaken, no matter how much of a stretch it is.
It’s not really editorializing to add detail of what a vague thing is referring to.

Editorializing would be changing it to something like “Breaking the silence after a catastrophic outage caused by our gross incompetence”.
As late as possible. I'm perfectly capable of continuing this quarantine and man others are not. Plus I'm happy to wait until I'm satisfied that the vaccine my family and I get is maximally effective.
At what? At everything?

I can point out things I'm clearly above average at, and things I'm clearly below average at. I can also point out areas where I have no idea, like driving.

If I start assuming I'm below average as a baseline, when I wasn't assuming I was above average as a baseline, I'm pretty sure that will make me less accurate.

Thinking about things as just practice is good advice but I don't see how it has any connection at all to whether my skill level is above or below average.
Move to New Hampshire then. There’s no escaping federal income taxes, but the is no state income tax or sales tax. Just a slightly higher property tax, and a lower state budget.
That is a serious mistake here, where the definition of a correct optimization is of significantly more interest than the result that they can be composed. We want to apply optimizations alone even more than we want to apply them together.

Putting things another way, this definition is clearly not given as part of a proof; it is given for its own sake, and the proof uses it.
The illusion can be summed up in a single pithy phrase: "I remember everything, because I don't recall ever forgetting anything important".

If we were aware of our mistakes, we wouldn't make most of them. So generally we will appear to be the only person doing nothing wrong in a sea of people who are constantly screwing up.

People who fight against that illusion be creating safeguards around themselves and testing things they think are obvious have a chance of outperforming.

Never underestimate the ability of someone to get amazing results simply by not making any obvious mistakes.

All that doesn't explain the cancer patients though.
The situation would have to be so out of hand by that stage that I can’t imagine being able to do it in 5 minutes would matter. For this scenario to make sense, you’d have to know things were really bad, but not know enough about how bad they are to only isolate the systems you need to.

If you don’t know what’s happened, I can’t imagine you’d know enough about the impact to justify turning the business off. The only scenario I can think of where this plan would make sense is if you find out somehow that you’ve already been the victim of a major breach that you failed to detect, so you think it would be worthwhile to just turn everything off while you figure out what happened (because how much worse can it get at that stage, really?...).

Nothing about this seems impressive to me. It sounds like a plan for people who don’t have a plan.

Also, as a side note, anything that needs executive approval to be done during an incident is (as a general rule of thumb) never going to be done during an incident.
> this goes both ways.

No. It goes one way more than the other. Did you read the article? Statistics the author references show that people are more overconfident than underconfident.
> I would like something like Elm, but Elm doesn't interoperate with JS.

You can try Mint: https://www.mint-lang.com

I've created it because I wanted something like Elm but with easier JS interop and less boilerplate :)
One of the really revolutionary effects of self-driving cars would be that you could always travel like this.

Have a lunch appointment 2 hours away? Get in the car at 9, bring a book or some work and tell the machine to take a scenic route.

Need to cross the continent? Bring the sleeping bag to the car and let it roll.

Edit: hyphen.
Ithink it is always good to stay realistic. This could mean you are not as good as you think you are, but it could also mean that you are better than the average (e.g. most people on this site might be better with computers than the average of the world population).

Assuming other people are idiots is never a good thing, even if it was true. I'd rather assume they have a bad day, or misunderstand what you mean because they dont have the same mental map unrolled in front of themselves as you have, and that can also be due to miscommunication.

Whether someone really is an idiot will come to light through repetition.
Honest question (I don't know much about audio coding), but from what I've read here on HN, Netflix offer some of the best remuneration packages - so don't they have some of the best developers working there?

Surely they'd have picked this up if it were that straight forward?
> I think for me it seems more like Google is just very much against people speaking up about anything.

Perhaps you're right; certainly I would cleave off Google's private interests (shutting up people who damage their business prospects) from Google's idealized public position (good, diverse, modern liberal values, a trusted source of information, etc). Few people know what their management _really_ thinks or talks about, but we do know their public position well.

Consider this, at least: when firing James Damore, it was absolutely not necessary or expected for them to say anything about how this shouldn't impact efforts to continue to make sure white males are represented in the workplace - quite the contrary.

> from my personal experience I can’t really ascribe this to either liberals or conservatives particularly.

If you reread my post, hopefully it should be clear that I actually did ascribe this behaviour to everyone. The issue in CA is that, at least in urban areas, the liberal value set is the norm, and is enforced as such, much as Christianity would have been enforced a century ago in many cities. For those implicitly doing the enforcement, ranging from thought leaders to city politicians to moms posting on Facebook, it's just the water they swim in; virtue is on a single axis and like most good people they want to swim upstream. It's not "particularly intolerant" in the grand scheme of things, compared to other such cultural centers throughout history, but it is particularly intolerant of anything outside of postmodern American liberalism today, and is perhaps (outside of maybe NYC) the biggest enclave of such thought in the world.

> If you have personal experiences with intolerance in CA being worse than other places

CA and the Hollywood->SF corridor in particular export their value set to the entire world, never mind just America. The intolerance for free speech, conservative or third position values that we see on social media today stems from this. It's not enough to enforce it within their own cities, rather it seems that they need to export it in the form of regulations and propaganda that continually escalates in intensity over time.

It's not far from the proselytizing behaviour that religion has had forever; memetically speaking, it's actually entirely logical that any successful cultural set of values and ideas would have to propagate itself via word and deed in order to survive and grow generationally. In many ways, liberalism is just a third-rate religion; it may have some improvements in select places over the traditional value set that it replaces, but has lost the ability to truly create communities somehow in the process.
"I know that I know nothing" -- Socratic paradox.
It was great in the 80s and 90s and young people should definitely try it before this means of travel disappears due to self-driving cars.
HN has a very anti-libertarian echo chamber. It's kinda sad.
Quite the opposite, Reason v4 looks to be taking inspiration from the changes ReScript has made.
Why the New Europe Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act Matter
Modern copy protection techniques are often based on this same principle. For example, the GameCube and Wii do a very similar thing. Since they use optical media, that doesn't have tracks but instead a single spiral groove, what they do is use a laser to burn little scratches into the disc (which you can see against a light). After mastering and lasering, the disc is checked to see what sectors the marks damaged. Error correction ensures the data is undamaged, but the drive can find these drop-outs. Then a table containing the sector locations is encoded and burned with the same laser into the "burst cut area", effectively a standard barcode format in the inner ring of the disc (this part is standard, many normal drives can read BCAs).

This all works because the specific angular position of any given sector is unpredictable during optical disc mastering. The groove is continuous, and never lines up in exactly the same way. So, just like the floppy trick, this is "fingerprinting" the natural variation in write speeds of different disc mastering/burning systems. This scheme is undefeatable using off the shelf burners, but one trick that Datel used to master compatible unofficial discs is to rip the encrypted BCA table off of a real game (so they didn't have to crack the encryption, though that was possible later since it's symnetric) and, instead of burning marks into the disc, just turning off the mastering laser writing the disc track at the exact same points in each track. Those discs don't have any holes, but they have a pattern of sector damage that is indistinguishable to the drive (even though the angular positions no longer match), and they work. I believe the same trick should work with a lightly modified standard burner, if you can manage to find a way to burn the BCA (and you need other firmware patches for some other data-level changes to the disc, but those are easier).

Xbox (360 and One discs at least I believe) also do this IIRC, but instead of intentional damage the drive has the ability to compute angular relationships between sectors I believe, though I'm not familiar with the details of that scheme.
(Disclaimer, I worked at Google over a decade ago, for about half a decade; as an SRE for about 2 of those years)

Yes, it absolutely makes sense. You never know when a typo in a config file or bug in your job-management code will go bonkers and try to take over all resources. Same think as disk quotas on computers with tons of users: you want to limit the damage that a user can accidentally (or not...) do.

Good quota systems saved my team's bacon way back when a few times, when fewer people were at the company; I can only imagine how useful they are at what, 10-20x the size?
Especially since diesel trains are often noisy.
I agree with the author that it is strange how OnlyFans has been totally ignored by the tech industry. We soon write 2021, but still any business connected to sex is met with moral condemnation and resistance. The question of for how long OnlyFans will be "run by the content providers themselves" and not overtaken by pimps and an organised exploitative porn industry, remains of course. Maybe the risk of this is connected to the morally restrained media- and tech industry
It's still on 4.06, I think in 2021 they're targeting an upgrade (they haven't said how far forward they will upgrade to)
Is the situation unique to America or generally true across societies and legal frameworks?
Yeah was thinking the same.

"But picking up the phone doesn't scale"

Me: looks at size of fines paid in last 10 years.
Error Handling in Kotlin Without Exceptions
Would advise against that. One time our flight got delayed for six hours (ugh) at a lay over - some technical glitch so they were not sure when the plane is going to actually depart. My partner didn’t sleep the night before because of anxiety and she was extremely sleep deprived - would have easily hmissed the flight without me being there with most of my faculties intact.

And Aeroflot are not known for their hospitality and understanding to foreign travelers...
Still, I would choose merino wool long johns over synthetic ones in just about every situation. The amount of heat that can be conserved with such a thin layer of wool is impressive.
> individualism as compared to east asian communitarianism

Again, that's because of a deep rooting in Confucianism. Also, "Communitarianism" is a western (Christian) philosophy. It may have been borrowed from Confucianism? I'm not sure. A lot of religions and philosophies share these kinds of values, so it's not unique to just one region / culture, IMO.

Anyhow, neither is better or worse, and probably a balance between communitarianism and individualism is best. All cultures can learn from each other.
Some versions of the Compute Module have built in storage but as it's user programmable think your point still applies
Yes, but I'm sure westlaws argument is that if you scrape them and strip off the headers and footers, it's still their content (ie. Collected, filtered, arranged by them).
Well, in Eastern Europe you also can still find trains that go barely faster than walking speed. I can't imagine casually tangling legs from a TGV.
China vs. US Manufacturing Follow Up (2019)
Paul Biggar of Darklang started a stdlibrary called tablecloth which offers the same API on frontend (Bucklescript/Reason) and backend (OCaml).
>They should have some way of showing what docs have been updated

Back when I used wrote iOS crap, I used dash as a quick reference for APIs.That was pretty good at alerting me to documentation changes, since it has to download an update.
https://kapeli.com/dash

I only started using it (never did buy it) because I was used to using zeal, a free-software alternative.

https://zealdocs.org/
So they knew that Westlaw data was there, but only asked for headnotes and footnotes and other 'noise' to be removed, not for the Westlaw data as a whole to be removed. That supports the lawsuit.
I know right? directX is abomination.
On a very small number of topics HN does appear to do that. My list so far: cryptocurrencies and urbanism.

It's really weird that this site has fairly balanced discussions of just about everything except those two topics. Whenver those two topics come up the result is incredibly one-sided. Like somebody powerful and opinionated has their finger on the scale...
I love this analogy, thanks for visuals.

> The outage google just faced is equivalent to a single missel taking down an entire navy fleet.

I really thought you were going to say "is equivalent to a single missile taking down an entire ship" - but your extreme analogy made even more sense in this context.
There are many places in a lot of countries where you can have a landline but neither good speed internet nor cell phone reception. These places exist even a few 10s of kilometers away from the new Tesla factory in Germany.
How to build a great organization: Software Engineer’s Perspective
for the sake of a counterpoint:

'Talent-

don't bother about whether or not you have it. Just assume that you do and then forget about it. talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished. There is no way to detect it before the fact, or when someone is still grappling with the learning process. It is impossible to predict when or if mastery will click into place. Besides, the thing we label as talent is not a single ability. It is a complex mixture of motive, curiousity, receptivity, intelligence, sensitivity good teaching, perseverance, timing, sheer luck, and countless other things. If any part of it is genetic, God-given, the result of astrological fiddle-faddle, fate, or destiny, that part is not the sole determining factor, All the other ingredients must be present in the right combination- and no one knows the exact recipe. Therefore Dear Reader, don't waste time worrying about if you are talented- and don't blame any failures on the lack of it-that is really a cop out...'

- Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting, Richard Schmid

>https://imgur.com/a/XSMc1zh
i want to like signal but the UX is wanting. i installed it today and it only imported some of my sms messages; found almost 1000 open issues on github. then i sent the "get signal" message to a friend who installed it but our messages still kept saying they were insecure sms. turns out we had to "refresh" our contact lists (there is no menu option to do this, you're just supposed to know to pull down on the contacts page -- discovered while reading the github issue related to the failed import). i also find the contrast ratio too high in dark mode and the random colors for all my contacts just make my eyes bleed. basically i felt like in 5 minutes of using it i'd uncovered as many bugs. maybe soon i can try to make the switch again.
> offer some of the best remuneration packages - so don't they have some of the best developers working there?

Having worked in several top-tier for employee-compensation firms, I can wholeheartedly assure you that best pay does not result in best developers (or any other job function).

It does generally result in a higher “floor” of employee, but that’s about it.
Hah yes.

Or what was that one we had the other day?

"The death of Google"
> To assume you’re below average is to admit you’re still learning

The top physicist in the world deeply knows that he is still learning, but he also knows that he's above average. There are plenty of ways people get feedback in life that tells them that they're above average. I think the real advice is to not assume you're better than someone just because you're above average at X. That person is probably above average at Y. Thankfully, most people who are above average already know this.
This story really exemplifies an aspect of my
job I love: I can’t predict all of the issues
that our partners will throw at me, and I
know that to fix them I have to understand
multiple systems

Reading things like this makes me realize I've got to get out of this business at some point.

That is not a part of the job that I love. That is a part of the job that makes me want to bash my brains out with a rock.

I actually do sort of like that kind of problem-solving, in the abstract, buttttttt in reality I usually need to do it under pressure for unappreciative clients/management who just know that things are taking longer than expected. This is of course a communication challenge, and I am a good communicator in general, but... I'm kind of burned out on it.
the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations... Well, I have really good days
You must be counting the day and night forecasts as separate days. There are no 10-day forecasts on the linked page. The furthest-out forecasts are 7 days into the future.
Destroying my speakers with the Linux kernel Git diff history
I also agree, I had the same problem, and this solution solved it.
Creating a Multi Theme Switcher with React