skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a Ship of Theseus. When would you know they're extending lockdown indefinitely, if they keep extending it? Never, but that's besides the point.

Some are already quite annoyed with the extensions. Some keep getting more annoyed. Some are becoming accustomed. The question really is: what percentage of people will adapt, and what percentage will revolt?

Keep in mind that it does not need to a majority of people choosing (if choosing is the right word for what is more determined by innate personality traits) to revolt for it to happen. Even a relatively small percentage of sufficiently ravenous people igniting trouble is enough to aggravate the situation of the rest, causing more economic and social trouble. This would further push the society into disarray, and a surefire way to induce people to rise up is to create chaos in a system (historically, hunger was a good motivator).

My point is, I think you're watching the pot before it boils, and declaring it will never boil.

edit: actually, Zeno's paradox might be a better fit here
Having a strong reality distortion field is a necessary, but not sufficient condition to be a great innovator. You have to have some crazy ideas (landing a rocket!) and be able to convince people to invest with you or work for you. But no one bats 1000, and Musk's obsession with "autonomous" things, whether evil AI overlords or self-driving cars, tends to be his weak spot.
Finished this yesterday, like to just do a quick shot 1 day song as much as possible.
https://soundcloud.com/stupidamericanpig/yer-brain-must-be-j...

A few others:
https://soundcloud.com/stupidamericanpig/the-first-balorian-...

https://soundcloud.com/stupidamericanpig/lofi-a-l-orange

https://soundcloud.com/stupidamericanpig/sentient-beings

Here is a demo I did for the GForce Mtron Optitron expansion
https://soundcloud.com/stupidamericanpig/march-of-the-caffin...
Google certainly has more monetary resources. But in my experience large companies like Google are the ones that can't afford to do something like this. The logistical benefits of white-boarding interviews and the accountability gains are much more important to large companies. This interview process was for a smaller company.

But you're absolutely correct that the more time-consuming the interview process is for the candidate, the more likely they'll interview somewhere else. In fact, that's exactly what I did: I received an offer partway through this git-based interview process, and the offer was good enough that I didn't see value in completing it.
I wouldn't trade one CEO working on actual important problems, like automobile deaths, global warming, space travel and universal internet access for a hundred CEOs working on the next social media startup or crypto idea. No matter how many stupid jokes he makes about "$420.69" on Twitter or whatever, he's had so much more quantifiable impact on the world.
Humans certainly do drive in the snow, but not well. I've driven without being able to see the road (very slowly). This is not a safe situation. This is actually a case where I think computers (with LIDAR or other advanced sensors) will be able to outperform humans and it won't be close. I agree with the posters that say the anti-LIDAR stance is not going to work out in the long run.
I have found myself having this inner monologue about the scary implications of the way the question was asked or what question was asked quite a few times.

I wouldn't say I've ever 'thrown' an interview (save maybe once), but I've certainly 'gotten through' a few after I started to wonder if I'd made a huge mistake showing up today.
The article was flagged because users flagged it. I don't know why they flagged it. Most likely it was a combination of things. Some probably don't like the topic for ideological reasons, others are probably reacting to how common these threads are (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), others are probably reacting to the flamewar aspect. Those are just guesses.

When someone told me about the article I looked at it, looked at the thread, and turned off the flags. We do that sometimes when there's interesting information in an article and it's capable of supporting a substantive discussion.

Helpful notifications are welcome. Rants like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26388171 make things worse.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense though as a fair hiring process, it's just brutal gender-specific hiring.

Nobody ever doubted that there were 'good female writers' but there are 1000 writers for every 1 job, it's a hugely asymettrical situation.

The reason it's completely illegal and morally questionable to hire that way is because it ignores the material character of the individual in question.

If there are 10x more guys running the gauntlet of early-phase writing career, then it's really unfair and they are not getting the best writers (staff composition advantages notwithstanding).

A better approach wold have been to work with the agencies to get a true sense of the pipeline, and then to encourage and demonstrate the job is 'real' for more young women to understand that it's something they can aspire to.

The possibly sexist/racist actions of these companies are probably only going to get us into more culture wars, I'm not sure if they are a 'temporary pain' issue.

Edit: if you listen to 'Inside Conan OBrien' podcast by the head writers you'll get insight into several very inside conversations about the gender issue. In the 2000's there were hardly any female writers. Writing is a buddy-buddy system that's going to lean a certain way, so expressedly looking outside the boundaries of the pipeline is reasonable. Also a lot of the female writers in the 2000's indicated they literally 'did not know it was a job' in their youth. To be fair - almost nobody did. Though I'm not in the biz, as a young man I literally never contemplated the concept, I don't know anyone that even thought about it, it was like a thing that happened in a far off land. It's a hyper-niche kind of job with specific dynamics.
Sports are one of the few examples of a zero sum game in life. It is impossible to punish one team without giving an opposing team an unearned advantage in their league's standings. This unearned advantage is a negative externality of a game's best solution to prevent bad behavior.

In hiring, which is not a zero sum game, we can prevent these undesired behaviors (acknowledging and correcting for bias) without giving token advantages which undermine meritocracy
C++ at least had the benefit of industry and OOP trend behind it. It was rather fortunate in this case.

I've argued elsewhere on HN that Common Lisp died because they were closed and secretive at the exact moment they needed to go the opposite route.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/lisp/part4/f...

Around 2004, Lisp was having a bit of a revival of sorts. Lisp was becoming trendy, various blogs and web sites were created. But the only documentation you could find was the HyperSpec. Which, as anyone that had the misfortune of reading, is awful as a reference. It's both too technical for casual software developers and not official enough for language implementers. There were two free, open source Lisps available (CMUCL, CLISP) and both were rather unloved and clunky at best.

Even Linus had a bit of trouble getting his hands on POSIX standards. Imagine Linux dying because it couldn't follow standards that Linus could not acquire.

By the mid-to-late '90s the writing was already on the wall. Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby followed no standard. It became common for the free implementation to be the standard.

Clojure arrived and largely filled the Lisp void. Racket attempted a similar movement, by renaming itself from PLT Scheme to something that removes the emphasis on any particular standard. If you want Lisp today, though, you're probably doing Clojure.
Genuinely curious to hear the supposed use case for this stuff from the original author.
No you are not, and the Gates foundation has absolutely not done anything to address the actions of central banks or the the United States' weaponization of the current financial system. Giving out malaria nets in Africa has nothing to do with any of this.
We started a company with the core premise that spreadsheets will never die [0]. Spreadsheets are so good at the most casual data viewing and exploring tasks to creating complex financial models. They are also the de-facto choice when you have data (not big data) from multiple sources that you need to "join". We tend to underestimate the beauty of this tool which can be used productively at all points of the skill spectrum. Everyone feels at ease in the familiar territory of a spreadsheet, which is what makes it ubiquitous and basically impossible to kill.

If spreadsheets were two-way connected with your core systems like SaaS tools, DBs, Slack, etc then you could represent serious business logic and actions without being a programmer. It is the best platform to build a "no code" tool for non-programmers.

[0] http://coefficient.io
I wrote and played for a pop-rock band called Doctor Squid back in college. Still pretty proud of it.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3A0HzsaCTe1JI3noFR2GZi?si=roy...
> Swiss nationals have won more than ten times more science Nobels per capita than Italians have. Ten times! And yet they're neighbors, and Italy certainly isn't lacking in scientific tradition -- Fermi, Galileo, the oldest university in Europe, etc.

Interesting comparison, but I offer a different interpretation.

First of all, unfair to compare CH (Switzerland) with IT (Italy), instead of IT to FR (France), DE (Germany), ES (Spain), UK (United Kingdom), countries of rather similar population size, economy, land mass, etc.

If you look at the list of countries by Nobel laureates per capita [0], you find the following:

CH: 4th; 27 laureates; 31.6 per 10M people.

UK: 10th; 133 laureates; 19.4 per 10M people.

DE: 14th; 109 laureates; 13.2 per 10M people.

FR: 17th; 70 laureates; 10.6 per 10M people.

IT: 33rd; 20 laureates; 3.3 per 10M people.

ES: 43rd; 8 laureates; 1.72 per 10M people.

In fact, CH is in the same ballpark as Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Smaller countries, richer countries, countries with a better education system overall.

In addition to that, of the 20 laureates in science in CH, 4 (20%) were born in other countries [1].

This is not (as it might certainly appear) to be pedantic, but rather to show that interpretation of data can give us a different story, based on what we are looking for.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_cou...
It appears to be salary and not total compensation, hence the large discrepancy. For a couple listed specialties I have pretty good visibility across the primary companies hiring in those areas and the average is probably closer to 2x here.
https://mixtape.scunning.com/

Link to the free HTML version
One of the biggest in progress "reforms" is decriminalizing marijuana and end of the "war on drugs" in general. Keeping 20% of prison population from ever going there.
In many cases crypto airdrops get delivered to active governance participants and this tool seems to help not miss any potential ways of participations.
University libraries
It's not a strawman that some people scream bloody murder for any use of prison labor.

Bloomberg famously took flak for using paid, voluntary prison labor for call centers -- not exactly back-breaking labor.

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/24/mike-bloomberg-2020-pris...

Just because you're not personally uncharitable enough to object to something like that, doesn't man it's not a common view.
I agree that a good interface is missing...

But the protocol has all the capabilities needed.

Nor is full support of every feature needed by every client.

I think from a crypto strength perspective, it,s silly to reinvent the same thing over again.

(The thing being basic PKI of just public/private keys and signed/encrypted messages.)
Just last year the US Supreme Court ruled (in a 5-4 split decision) that states can't put their laws behind a paywall. Before that it wasn't terribly uncommon for that to happen.

Capitalism, baby!
A jazz ballad: https://soundcloud.com/wcerfgba/release-me
Yeah, I'm not even sure if it means round trip latency.
Dabbled in electronic music production and DJing for a couple years now.

Here’s one of the recent tracks I’m proud of, a remix of a friend’s track: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/htq1K4ENhfKDsgVn9 (ambient deep house or something like that)

Another older one, with soulful house vibes: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/gmH3NmpaqHwt4Apf8
thats what you get when you government mandate things. You cant expect things like diversity and culture to be processed by law. You pretty much have to make it non profitable for companies to not be diverse.

Then they company has a personal responsiblity to change rather than a checkbox to check off , much like the "what race are you" checkbox given to pander to their diversity quota.

I blame society, people cry about diversity but all they want to see is someone of a particular type in a manager position and never really as, "what is this person doing", "do they really get to make an impact". Diversity propaganda is all so shallow and has only made relationships different cultures worse.
You're absolutely right but unfortunately, my biggest use-case for email is still sending my own personal data to businesses I (more or less) have to interact with that don't offer an alternative.

Also, I'm not sure most email users know what a "plaintext, insecure protocol" is and what it would imply.
It's a cost you probably need to have or you're going to have trouble hiring people.
Two-thirds of tropical rainforests destroyed or degraded globally: Data
I think you have my comments out of context but to each their own. Do you believe in NFTs enough to put your entire net worth in them? I don't see this current pump and dump ending any better than CryptoKitties but I guess time will tell for sure.
Knowing little about music theory and even less about production, I made the questionable decision to create a (darkwave?) synth track in LMMS. It turned out better than I expected:

“CGA Sunset” - https://soundcloud.com/schemescape/cga-sunset
Co-creator Joe here! Thanks for all the questions! Will try to address each one point by point below

1) Initially we went with magic links because we thought that would be a better UX. It's been surprising and amusing to see how much feedback we get on this. We hear you loud and clear and will budget some time to move auth from magic links to passwords / o-auth

2) Privacy settings make sense! We'll be baking this in the near future :)

3) Comments and discussion are coming soon!

In terms of paying -- Stopa and I are both running on our savings for now :) Our main focus is to build something awesome that we ourselves love and other people want. Assuming we succeed at that, when the time for monetization comes we will never sell user data (this is a first principle for us).

Prior to this Show HN we hadn't gotten any feedback re: adding a privacy policy -- we hear you loud and clear and will add that in. For GDPR, we are big believers that users should own their own data and will build out data export and account deletion features in the future.
They're not independent. Sufficient skills can overcome the stigma of a criminal record. But providing prisoners skills usually involves some on-the-job training to be useful.
I saw an emergency doctor for a bad upper-respiratory infection (coughing blood) and was prescribed Augmentin for 10 days. It abolished the lung issue but wiped out my gut bacteria and gave me severe IBS-D.

That was seven years ago. I was forced to quit my job. I couldn't travel at all, even across town. I became dreadfully sick with even light physical exertion. After five years of every test, diet, medication, and therapy available to me I was prescribed medication (eluxadoline) which is effective, but costs me $24,000/year and is not covered by insurance. I still have flare-ups once a month but at least I can ride my bicycle again.

I wish I could sue the doctor who stole my twenties from me. But I stand no chance in court.
That's definitely doable at big corporations, which is why they can afford to hire generalists and assign them somewhere, train them, and reassign them somewhere else in the company if they don't pan out.

For smaller companies, any given hire has an outsized impact, there's a more limited budget for hiring, there might not be the resources available to train a new hire from scratch for hard to train skills, and there might not be enough "bench space" for people that don't pan out.

Many companies don't really need this kind of specialist expertise though. I wouldn't be surprised if hiring is much harder in the robotics industry than in, say, consumer mobile app development.
I drive slower in the snow because of limited traction and the dangers of other drivers around me.

If I had some button that made spikes or another traction method pop out of my tires and gave me great grip I probably would drive full speed in the snow; because the main issue would have been solved.
I'm a guitarist/composer/improvisor/programmer.
Listen here:
http://nunotrocado.com/projectos.html
Commentary from the 60's:

There was a young girl named McCall
Wore a newspaper dress to a ball
The dress caught fire
And burned her entire
Front page, sporting section, and all.
This approach is sort of similar to an LSM - you can make this more efficient by doing a routine compaction in your storage whereby you collapse many patches on top of the original version and call it v2. You can say have a row with the same id (manage those conflicts!), a reference to the last patch applied, and a new version number. Then, you just always query the latest "version".
Currently helping my awesome (no bias) wife produce some harp+voice songs.

https://haindash.bandcamp.com/

http://www.haindash.com/

http://www.haindash.com/videos/

https://www.instagram.com/_haindash_/
I think everyone has a different work habits, but here are the takeaways (assuming all bulletpoints are close to fact):

- I really like the retreat idea. Carmack frequently did that since his early days. In "Masters of Doom", IIRC, he started doing this kind of programming retreats since as early as his Quake II days. The key is to have a project in mind (in his case it was usually a rendering technique) and take one or two weeks to be super focused on it.

- That 13-hour work day make sense somehow, as he only programmed 50% of the time. The difficulty is to be that focused every day.

- Most people actually don't get good sleeps and this probably puts a huge debuff on them. They not only lose productivity, but also miss the chance to reach proper level of productivity. I don't know how to fix it, especially now that I have a 5-month kid.
It’s mostly a personal favourite, but once Ballista [1] gets a bit more developed, I expect we’ll tear out our Java/Spark pipelines and replace them with that.

The ML ecosystem in Rust is a bit underdeveloped at the moment, but work is ticking along on packages like Linfa and SmartCore, so maybe it’ll get there? In my field I’m mostly about it’s potential for correct, high-performance data pipelines that are straightforward to write in reasonable time, and hopefully a model-serving framework: I hate that so many of the current tools require annotating and shipping Python when really model-serving shouldn’t really need any Python code.

[1] https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista
Decred's voting analytics is supreme.
https://dcrdata.decred.org/proposals
In order to get any insight into whether a chosen course of action is working or not, you need to be able to perform some type of measurement. All of these measurements are called metrics. The default single metric that every company has available to them is revenue, but really you want to have feedback loops that provide insight prior to performing a measurement to determine whether you're bankrupt or not. The more precisely you try to measure something, the more uncertainty and error you're going to introduce to your measurements, something that's true for all forms of empirical measurement.

If you point was that companies are generally bad at doing this, or that they often measure the wrong things, or that the process can be abused, or that you should not attempt to measure something beyond a certain level of precision, then I'd agree with you. But to write the entire process off as useless is just as unproductive as the problematic situation you're criticizing.
https://soundcloud.com/oneano
The Rooney Rule sounds good in theory, and yet 28 out of 32 head coaches in the NFL are white.

(For reference, only about 25 percent of NFL players are white.)
I do! I make bass house. https://soundcloud.com/vedahouse/get-busy-remix-final2

my spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0pjLuQ3vKASjstmUqm146W?si=Bau...
Without delving into the data, wouldn’t a plausible explanation be that we regulate and/or subsidize those industries _because_ they are the most inflationary? Industries with downward price trends don’t often need consumer protections.
I watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rB9jDbTPU yesterday which goes into details about problems with a similar service, Grammarly.

What Bee said really resonated with me. I used to be a stickler for grammar rules and "proper" English, but as I've progressed in life I've come to realize that those rules are all secondary. All that really matters is that you are understood in the way you want to be understood.

Grammar rules help educate people about common idioms and structures so that they can understand others and be understood themselves. Additionally, by following a certain set of grammatical conventions, you can change the way you are perceived. By ignoring the rules, one might be seen as erudite and sophisiticated. OTOH u dont always want to seem stuckup :)
If time permits. https://open.spotify.com/track/2xdsyz9usQtdN8sgmCyKLl?si=bBN...
There are people who make their living off of YouTube who have a rep who can't get answers about why their channel was banned. I'm not sure GoogleFibre support can do much more than send you a new router or knock a few dollars off your next bill...
The Planets is for fans of ambient/electronic post-classical:
https://neue.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets

Releasing an album was a creative bucket list item for me. I released my first in 2010 as an accompanying soundtrack to an online digital art project. Then another, and another...enjoy.
It certainly isn't. Hence, we will continue to have taxes and regulation.

However, the BTC mantra is "not your keys not your coin". So if you leave it on Coinbase, you are welcoming attack by nation states to confiscate your cryptocurrency. This isn't an imagined threat. The confiscation of gold by FDR was a very real event that forced citizens to sell gold to the Government at a fixed price (of USD that the state printed at a whim) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Some demoscene-related tracks:

Ninjadev - No Invitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLCvjuW9c4

Ninjadev - Pinky Frinky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSGCKu2H7mI

Ninjadev - What are you syncing about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU5POqHdeA
I sometimes wonder, since prison is meant for those who commit crimes, so presumably when society decided prison is appropriate for certain crimes, didn't that mean automatically no social interaction for prisoners, since the ideal society would not have (any other) criminals?
If yes, that would mean solitary confinement is the only real imprisonment.

There are lot's of other ways to take this question with this line of reasoning but I'll leave it at this for now.
Upvoted, and let me add: what a fantastic comment - deep and clear and easy to grasp.