skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not believe that ISO targets, or even has any remote interest, in this market.

"Hobbyist programmers" in this context includes "pre-revenue startup founders" and "open source project maintainers". Those people need to have access to standards and shutting them out only serves as a barrier to the industries their applications could disrupt.
I wonder if anything will ever happen with reverse discriminatory hiring practices like this. They're all seem so barely legal, and if even one in ten people in HR disagree with them, there could be a #metoo-like flood of issues once a high-profile case goes a little too far.
Thank you for sharing your experience. There are more and more people who have had similar experiences that are speaking out about it and how condescended to it made them feel. It's good you were able to find an employer with whom you feel valued for your contributions and accomplishments.

Anyone want to explain why this discrimination is both legal and socially acceptable? This is not something that is stealthly flying under the radar, it's pretty much in the open and celebrated. What moral ground will anyone have to stand on should the pendulum swing the other way, which it always eventually does? Instead of attempting to create equality, we've instead continued playing the same old game but with different winners selected. How long will the current chosen winners continue to be the winner? And when things change to other selected winners, how will anyone be able to complain when they supported the concept of selecting winners as long as those selected were the ones they favored?
If the dollar loses that much in 5 years, getting a salary will be the least of our worries
The pull quote from the song is an interesting choice. Lil Wayne, the other artist on the song, shot himself in the chest as a child and was saved by a cop and has actually been pretty pro-cop recently.
> At the rate SpaceX is moving at, they may have the world's largest orbital launch system by the end of the year.

Bit late for that. Falcon Heavy is already the world largest orbital lanunch system.

Actually, it will be the world largest orbital system ever. And on of the biggest flying machines in human history. Easily the most powerful.
Yeah - first rule of using a product - ensure you can get support for it. Google is legendary for having impenetrable support yet people still seem to keep their life inextricably tied to them?!?

I also see the typical apologist arguments popping up in the comments. This isn't a scale issue. If I have a problem with my Apple ID I can get someone on a phone within minutes. It's a business model problem. Google doesn't value individual account holders because it's not profitable for them to do so. Turns out "free" really isn't, eh? And what kind of special unicorn to you have to be to have Google Fiber all for the privilege of having a phone number to call?!?

Hell having been the account admin for a pretty large org with a substantial volume of business spend with Google I can attest that doesn't dramatically enhance the support experience either.

But if you are a normal Google services user? Ha! Insert the interstitial video from the game Smash TV - "Good Luck - you're gonna need it!"
I see people asking, “but how do you get 3 realities from 2 possibilities?”

This is a misunderstanding. For simplicity’s sake, mwi people say that the universe “splits” into one child universe for each possibility- but that’s not what mwi actually says, just the pop science simplified layman version.

In actuality just as the quantum wave function is a continuous, analog wave there is a continuous analog sea of possible universes, and some have greater measure than others. And some are more correlated than others. The discorrelated ones appear to be separate from each other. But they’re all part of the same multiverse.

Think about it this way: we have no trouble conceiving of the universe having multiple possible futures, but only one past. That is not the case however. We also have multiple possible pasts, and in fact they’re not just possibilities but are real. Each future universe with this one as a past is real. Each past universe with this one as a future is equally real (that’s the mwi view of Schrödinger’s cat). Because of the arrow of entropy there will be more of the former than the latter.

Hope that helps..
I understand the point of the analogy, my question was more why is such a bad one so popular. something something makes my hair stand up, as alternative that's actually good; used to mean the feeling of anxiety. No one mentions smells when they're talking about good code. Similar to normal american english conversations, if someone mentions a smell unprovoked, it's normally a disgusting smell. So when used against code, it's implying the code is repulsive. Which to me at least feels super insulting to respond to code (text on a screen) with such a vicseral response, of distrust/dislike.
Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies are not mined, so where do they get their value from? Plenty of them have high market caps.
Norway seems to be doing quite alright with this approach: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48885846
> This has, however, recently come up for Nx (numerical elixir) which had to implement and standardize ways to shim these IEEE concepts back into the VM for interop purposes.

This would have been an excellent place to use Ada. The package "Interfaces" has types exactly for IEEE Floats: `Interfaces.IEEE_Float_64`.

You could then get rid of non-numeric representations (raising `Constraint_Error` instead) via the following subtype-definition:

subtype Float is Interfaces.IEEE_Float_64 range Interfaces.IEEE_Float_64'Range;

(I've thought about writing an Erlang in Ada, hoping to tie together Erlang's actors w/ Ada's Task where possible [ie focus on interop], but haven't found any Erlang language definition that's anywhere near recent.)
@plainsite doing the real dirty work here
RTFA everyone. Board games weren't banned out of an abundance of malice.
And what are those smart contract fees being used for?

- Speculators buying ETH to ride the bubble

- A revolving door of Proof-of-concept startups with backing from starry-eyed VCs and no viable business plans that pop up, use a bunch of compute, and then fail, every couple of months.

Ethereum mining conglomerates don't even use Smart Contracts, they just cite "a long history of successful payouts", trust, and old-fashioned promises written in vernacular English.
As for letting go of the entire country, there is nowhere else to go, as for giving the Palestinians what they want, just look at the trouble Gaza alone is causing, look how many innocent civilians (on both sides, mind) Hamas has killed. I don't think for the majority of Israelis it's ideological.
Startup idea- RodIronDoor, GlassDoor for prisons?
My understanding (and it’s been awhile) is that the choice Neo made by going with Trinity and being alone with her instead of the group was a crucial moment which foreshadows his decision to save Trinity instead of fulfill his duty to as “the one” to reboot the matrix.
and they are all non arbitrary (to varying degrees), but arguably some are objectively more arbitrary than others.
Nope, it does not work.
Tried it, it appears to work for first time and then you notice that if the app is not launched in the foreground after you take a photo it won't notice it.
They often have at least email support for services that you pay for.
I guess it will vary from person to person. For me, my anxiety is definitely reduced the more prepared I actually am, and the more I feel. Have I implemented all the basic algorithms in the last month in my test language, did I actually run them, do quick sort and other sorts whats the time complexity, then try a series of harder programming projects. Do some of the super common ones like design twitter. Binary search - can you avoid the overflow things when doing the divide by two...

And for experienced people, be ready to say what you left your most recent job, what you gained, what did't work well, is there a noticable arc to your career, if you want a new job type how are you prepared.
I suspect slightly better (or faster) results would be achieved if instead of comparing against a specific dithering pattern nominated by the author, they instead compared downscaled candidate patterns against the greyscale target image.
I believe that this depends less on the country where you are working and more on the country of origin of your employer.

During the years, I have worked for 3 German companies and none of them offered any stock options.

On the other hand, while working for an Israeli company and for an US company, I have gained about the same amount from selling the vested stock options of those companies as from the salary, i.e., due to the stock options, the total compensation was eventually about double compared to the salary.
Healthcare has long been the same way, HL7 was paywalled ($1000+/yr membership until 2012).X12 is still in the thousands for membership.
Yeah, most people are perfectly happy to pay $4 for a Big Mac, but ask them to pay $4 a month for GMail, and they'll be upset.
This is true, though the idea that board games in particular are somehow required for this is a bit ludicrous.
This is a gotcha headline that is contradicted by one of the quotes from Tesla they list in their own article:

Please note that Tesla’s development of true autonomous features (SAE Levels 3+) will follow our iterative process (development, validation, early release, etc.) and any such features will not be released to the general public until we have fully validated them and received any required regulatory permits or approvals.

TL;DR: Tesla does not want their upcoming release of FSD Beta to be considered to be above Level 2, and their lawyers are submitting documents to California saying that it shouldn't be considered above Level 2 and thus they shouldn't have to apply for special permits in California to release it. They continue to work on autonomous driving features.
Not exactly... You just need the majority to agree that the new manipulated chain is the real chain. You don't need to find a SHA256 collision.
std::string has been in C++98, however, you couldn't use it to create a std::ifstream as it had only char* constructor.

It took a decade to add a std::string constructor...
> For instance, suppose binaries were typically distributed in a platform-agnostic format, like LLVM intermediate representation or something equivalent. When you run your program the first time, it's compiled to native code for your architecture and cached for later use.

IBM's OS/400 (originally for the AS/400 hardware, now branded as System i) did precisely this: Compile COBOL or RPG to a high-level bytecode, which gets compiled to machine code on first run, and save the machine code to disk; thereafter, the machine code is just run, until the bytecode on disk is changed, whereupon it's replaced with newer machine code. IBM was able to transition its customers to a new CPU architecture just by having them move their bytecode (and, possibly, source code) from one machine to another that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i

Other OSes could definitely do it.
Also need to consider the privately owned industrial complex built up around prisons. Just like defense contractors built up around the military.
He's such a good marketer. There is a case to be made that he's participating (often) in fraud to pump up the stock price, but people keep buying it so...whatever.
Your problem is in assuming that there is a finite number of universes created. Instead Think in terms of an infinite number of universes created, of which 2/3 of them are red, and 1/3 of them are blue.

(E.g. Imagine all the universes created map to the range 0 to 1, and the first 2/3's come up red, and the last blue (or reverse that, or shuffle it up). The mapping onto 0 to 1 is merely for visualization purposes, and is thus arbitrary.)
Sorry, "I was astounding" was meant to be "It was astounding". I felt only average at google ;-)
According to the article, rayon is biodegradable. It's made of 100% cellulose.

>Rayon was found to be more biodegradable than cotton, and cotton more than acetate.
Sort of, but not really in the same way that a banking ledger is maintained by a bank. You don't need to trust the other 3rd parties to maintain it properly, and you are also "maintaining" the ledger yourself.
The Nazis did plan an invasion. See Operation Tannenbaum[0].

Switzerland didn't end up getting divided between Germany and Italy thanks to the Red Army hurtling more humans west than the Wehrmacht could supply bullets east. Swiss munitions production wouldn't be risked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tannenbaum
I love this app. I really like how it shows you tracking images and stuff in the emails.
Turns out, machines also have some sort of duty cycle. Most mechanical contraptions can run faster than spec, at the expense of wear, heat, jams, and ruined parts. So you can't even measure machines in widgets/hour without more info.
COBRA coverage is very affordable for tech company ex-employees because their workforces skew young, male, and healthy. So that’s another 18 months.

It’s certainly not perfect, and in my citizen hat I think it’s quite flawed, by as experienced by most software engineers it is not a huge concern.
Sure, used to do kendo and professional swimming and was doing paint-ball tournament level. That all ended due to tendon issues, and also much lowered energy levels.
> That's laughably wrong, go look up how much revenue the Ethereum network is bringing in with smart contract fees.

Nobody is using the compute power, though. Can you point to what they are using it for, if you have an example?
The old ones have export/import as well.
> Likewise, I've had some novel interview processes that more closely approximate real working conditions. One company's interview was conducted over git-hub. It was asynchronous, with tasks spread out over a week. After building the first solution, the interview came back with further feature requests and comments on the first iteration. This tested the candidate's ability to refactor existing solutions to meet changing tasks, and the ability to integrate feedback. These are things that are rarely captured by whiteboard interviews, but are arguably some of the more important skills in software development. But on the flip side, it was much more time-consuming in aggregate than 4 hour-long interviews.

These you can afford to do if you are Google. If you aren't, candidate sort the places they want to work at in descending order. By the time they get to that take-home, they might already be further along the interview stages at better companies.
Musk’s reality distortion field must visibly bend light. He manages to accomplish so much, but also manages to peddle a lot of absolute monorail-level bullshit.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35350331/checking-in-on-a...

(Still hoping for that super-tunnel to take me to O’Hare once flying is back up to full speed.)
>Keeping another backup offline is critical.

It boggles my mind that people have to even be told this. Keeping your only copies of anything on anyones service is a bad idea.

Convenient - but a HORRIBLE idea. You would think the 90's photo sharing site fiascos would have driven this home but I guess many have short memories?
How about Boring old tunnel?
Yes, it is a big problem and a very good business for some firms. I have 2nd hand experience with that thanks to my closest family. There is a partial workaround using a public or university library, which at least in Germany and most likely other European countries, seems to work. They tend to have many standards available and they can usually order more if you ask politely. At least bigger central libraries or those connected to a big university shouldn't have an issue with that. Of course, even so you may have to buy a standard (licence) because of the licence part. At least you know, what it contains before you think about buying the licence. It may be, you don't actually need the licence at all or can reduce the amount of the total licences you need.
Keep in mind that the plan is tied to your employment, paid by your employer, and better than what many Americans do have as a healthcare plan.

It's a good place to be if you're in the upper middle class and above, but people working in the service industry have worse healthcare outcomes in the US than in Europe.
They do upload in the background, but they don't notice new photos while being in the background.

You need to start the app and only then they will notice the new photos. (my life is miserable because my wife has iPhone and I have to deal with strange limits on iOS).
Ah thanks, that was it, yes. They had two sensors, and just switched between them. The South-western upgrade was only an indicator for sensor failure, not a real input into the MCAS controller logic, as it should be.
I think, for this to be useful to more than a small subset of startups, each stage needs to be far more broad/vague, more focused on the product(s), and less focused on the company composition. (It was especially jarring to base maturity on team composition/interaction, since not all startups/businesses have disparate teams.)

For example, my 4-year-old biz is probably somewhere between "Problem" and "Platform" since I still routinely change the product(s), focus on building around new areas, and groom the core skeleton.

But, of course, it's also had times where "Process" and "Pace" where the focus, and times where I've focused on other projects for months at a time where I'd say it was all the way in the "Profit" stage.

As you say, all these focus areas exist at all times and you can only prioritize on one (for the most part), but I wouldn't call these sequential stages that you go through in order while a business grows -- rather, just 5 different pieces of the "running a successful business" pie.
> very rare, most relevant, and most lucrative jobs

What determines that?
It's incredible to learn from the responses in this thread how widespread and systemic this problem is, not just in software but seemingly every industry. Thank you for these examples.
Great post! This motivated more learning for me about ray-tracing and ray-marching than I've ever bothered with, despite over a decade of vague interest.

If anyone wants a copy, I ported the diffuse shader code to python 2 and 3 here: https://gist.github.com/wcarss/a6ff897fb9c50ac34875dbd5d8599...
Do you mean that the new techniques will (1) help you prove which variables should not be controlled for, or that they will (2) help you more clearly describe your causal assumptions, so that you can more easily recognize which variables should not be controlled for according to your assumptions?

If you mean (2), I can't really disagree: explicitly specifying your causal assumptions through a DAG seems like a clarifying step in specifying a model.

If you mean (1), then I must be missing something because I'm not seeing that this set of tools can do that.

My worry is that (2) is mistaken for (1), and that writing down a causal model is conflated with proving that it is true.
Google's changed a lot in the past 15 years. Every Google One account comes with customer service now. Nobody's saying it's perfect but the old "there's literally no way to contact Google or have them do anything" just isn't true anymore, and hasn't been for a while.

It sucks you had some bad experiences, but your snark towards me is uncalled for. Google service reps can escalate to address what you call "lateral" issues.

But none of this matters, because in this particular case the user hasn't even tried contacting Google. Maybe because if they did, there would be nothing to tweet about.
The proof-of-work mechanism for blockchains is broken into two elements. There's the inflation element, which is a reward for miners that is independent of transaction volume, and then there's the transaction fee element.

The inflation element exists to secure the blockchain, and is proportional to the total amount of value being held on the blockchain. As the coin price goes up (independent of any transaction activity), the amount of reward for PoW mining also goes up. It doesn't make sense to count this part of the PoW reward a cost of transacting because the purpose is unrelated to transacting and also if transacting completely halts the expense does not go away.
The graph shows emissions trajectories projected by the most commonly used climate scenarios (called SSP5-8.5 and RCP8.5, with labels on the right vertical axis), along with other scenario trajectories. Actual emissions to date (dark purple curve) and those of near-term energy outlooks (labeled as EIA, BP and ExxonMobil) all can be found at the very low end of the scenario range, and far below the most commonly used scenarios.

RCP 8.5 was intended as the highest-emissions scenario, not the most likely scenario.

"RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions (2011)"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-011-0149-y

This paper summarizes the main characteristics of the RCP8.5 scenario. The RCP8.5 combines assumptions about high population and relatively slow income growth with modest rates of technological change and energy intensity improvements, leading in the long term to high energy demand and GHG emissions in absence of climate change policies. Compared to the total set of Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), RCP8.5 thus corresponds to the pathway with the highest greenhouse gas emissions.

Even 10 years ago, when this paper was published, it was apparent that technology and energy intensity were improving more than the RCP 8.5 scenario posited. I don't know if RCP 8.5 has since been misused as a most common scenario, but the original post quoted above doesn't quantify that either.
"Becoming a GM" only seems possible for people who reached master strength by their early teens. Some people have attained GM later in life, 30s, 40s and even older - but all GMs have been child prodigies and most - if not all - attain International Master in their teens or early twenties.
Unfortunately, a judge may get a kickback from a for profit prison: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-06-23/kids-for-....

It doesn't stop there. For profit prisons spend millions of dollars lobbying: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries./indus.php?ind=G7000

If you want to see intent, follow the money.
The percentage of inmates in private prisons is about 8% of the prison pop in the US. New Zealand and Australia top us at 11 and 19%.

The issue goes beyond privatization.
I cleared F-Droid's cache and data. After an hour, I still can't download it :(
>It’s the same as the old Apple saying: if you’re serious about software, you have to make hardware.

The actual quote, "people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware," is from Alan Kay, when he was speaking at a seminar in 1982 called Creative Think. Andy Hertzfeld was in attendance and took notes. When Hertzfeld got back to his office at Apple, he summarized the notes on one page and handed out to his team members. Kay was later hired as an Apple Fellow in 1984.
>Revenge for the wronged is a part of the justice isn’t it?

No it is not. Revenge is not justice. Human society has come a long way from Hammurabi; we got rid of "eye for an eye" centuries ago. "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" is what is wrong here.
Ah, sorry for not being clear; if I moved to the US, I wouldn't look for a plan like this. I'm convinced a US developer salary/benefits would be more than enough for me. I'm more curious what an NHS level of healthcare would cost, so set the parameters based on my experience.
fascinating.
What is CtCI?