skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the article is talking about backdating options.

Looking at https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/optionsbackdating.htm the person being talked about likely didn't have any sense it was happening, but it did become pretty clear, later (2006/7) that the SEC was on the warpath about it.
Yes and screen readers are also a thing for people that need audio for accessibility reasons. For anyone else I don't see any point to this... Listening to audio is slower than reading, but it can be more interesting & engaging to hear people's voices and get a glimpse of their personalities in an audio interview format. An automated text to speech translation is the worst of both.
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If Democrats make up half the team that you claim is most effective at limiting deficits, it would seem to me to be difficult to sustain the argument that Democrats don't care about them.
Ethnic diversity is relatively new (it was rarely discussed much 10 years ago compared to gender, at least as far as goal settings was concerned) -- and how is it not arbitrary?

The "major groups" used are entirely arbitrary (yes, they are EEOC definitions generally, but those are arbitrary and there's no particular reason they should be relevant for tech).

It's also an arbitrary choice whether to consider group intersectionality or not. (e.g. Are Asian women underrepresented in tech?)
The issue is that the shareholders have agreed to provide specific compensation to employees. But the shareholders own the company.

But here the employees gave themselves excess compensation, out of resources owned by the shareholders, and did not tell the shareholders that they did so.

That is the difference between receiving a salary from the company, and secretly adding to your salary by regularly using the corporate credit card on yourself. The first is what they agreed to, the second adds personal theft.
Would you happen to know, does DistroKid offer the same pro publishing services like CD baby etc? At a cursory glanse, I saw a limited list on the DistroKid website vs a longer royalties services list competitors have.

P.S. congratulations on the game relase! Spotify was asking me to login, so i think I found you on youtube, giving a listen. Perhaps consider updating your post by adding a non-spotify link?
Agree. Usually the parties developing a standard have a incentive to make it difficult for others to implement. They can claim it's open, while still limiting competition.

I remember when the first HTTPS spec came out, and me and everyone else were saying how hard it was to follow. And someone from Netscape came out and said the text was "intentionally terse".
Use to dj as a hobby. Now I post stuff on soundcloud.

Link: https://soundcloud.com/fareed-khan-41

Hope ya'll enjoy.

Cheers!!
Is there a need for iframes to exists today? Can we somehow block them?
Isn’t it better to act as if those edge cases are going to happen, so we can prevent the worst from happening.

Yes, scientific integrity is important, but if the message gets out to the general public, that those climate change models are based on outdated research, wouldn’t that make us procrastinate and not get off the fossil fuel based economy sooner?

Our biosphere degradation isn’t just about Ghg emissions, but pollution in general caused by our fossil fuel powered economy.
They aren't the same types of work. It's not a repeating protocol to create software so you can't optimise that protocol to get faster the way you would an industrial process.

It's managers treating software development like an assembly line that leads to waterfall, management Taylorism and other proven-to-fail concepts. You can optimise for innovation or you can optimise the speed of a repeatable assembly line but one business unit can't do both in the same framework because optimising speed requires reducing process flexibility and innovation requires increasing it.
I write musicals (i.e. musical theatre):

https://maxshinnpotential.com/music/empty-box-of-people

https://maxshinnpotential.com/music/if-only
Refugee children are often assigned birthday Jan 1 with an estimated birth year, for purpose of filling out immigration forms. More: https://www.racgp.org.au/afpbackissues/2008/200810/200810ben...

Though, I doubt many collection systems actually recognize this format for uncertain dates.
Only if we consider technical work a performance art.

Only earlier today I told one of the new starters: can you please not stand behind me while I work. They asked "why?", my response: "because it fucking irritates me".

My work isn't a stage show. If we're actively involved in a skill sharing session together, or conveying meaningful information, that's different entirely.

But I think it's perfectly normal to not want to be the centre of anyone's attention while your doing knowledge / technical work.
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> It's a collection of crypto-fascist dog whistles about race;

I read it having already seen you say this about it, looking for those, and, like the other sibling replies to you, did not find them. Could you please point them out?
I play traditional Irish flute: https://woodandsilvermusic.bandcamp.com

I enjoy traditional music because of its simplicity. Just you and the instrument!
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When it comes to things that don't require creation, I do believe that computers will be able to do anything humans can. The problem is simply that the software has yet to be written.

Keeping the context of a self-driving car, humans are perfectly capable of driving cars with just two eyes to determine surroundings. For 99.9% of your driving, you don't have to think about it. Stay between the lines. Stop for the red light. Make sure there's nobody next to you before changing lanes. There's no creativity here, just following a very concrete procedure.

Humans fail because humans do stupid human things. They text while driving and drift over the lines or don't see the red light. They don't always check before changing lanes. They drive drunk. Computers won't do any of these things.

And they'll do it better. Humans have only two eyes and can only look in one direction. A computer can check the blind spot while still looking ahead, so there's no chance it will rear-end someone because the person in front of them slammed their brakes while it was making sure the next lane was clear before making a lane change. A computer will notice a car in the blind spot veering into its lane without taking attention off the road in front.

Again though, it's all down to the software. We're not there yet. But that doesn't mean we can't be in the future.
At my software agency, we were actually inspired by this post when it was on hn a couple years ago to, in a hackathon, build a simple machine learning model around it.

Then, recently, we actually built our own internal tool to add "uncertainty points" to estimates for each client project we do.

And the ML model predicts better and better how uncertainty uniquely affects each project we're using it in.

We've been using it on 1 project for and it's actually working surprisingly well.

We're also in the process of rolling it out to most of our other projects, or at least the ones using Pivotal Tracker, which is the only tool we're supporting right now.

If happen to be using Pivotal Tracker are interested in testing it out yourself and giving us any feedback you might have, plz shoot me a message at the email in my profile.
What kind of things do you make, how well do you know the technology/domain, what are the customers/users like, and how long out are the deadlines set? Why do you think you're so successful when so many other people have problems with estimating schedules?
A number of years ago a co-worker didn't believe that I could sing or play guitar, let alone at the same time! So I told him to pick a song and I would record it. He picked "Holding on For A Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.

https://m.soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/holding-on-f...

I didn't think that song was very interesting and so I decided to choose one that was more my own liking. Taylor Swift's new album had just come out. Although I'm definitely not a Swifty I thought some of her songs were catchy, so I decided to have some fun with it. You can probably tell that I'm a huge Weird Al fan.

https://m.soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/ryanflowers-...
Usually, you need to start super super early. Achievement gaps show up pretty early and only get wider. And I don’t think most companies have the stomach for broad-based improvements to education starting all the way from elementary school or even preschool, particularly when the payoff is going to be when the first wave of kids in preschool make it out of at least undergrad.

Of course, the superlocal, balkanized property tax system used to fund schools really doesn’t help things.
New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations
> Except the author did no such thing. A corporate entity IP owner did.

The author is dead, so couldn't. The IP is owned by Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which was founded by his wife. It's not some random corporation who swooped up the copyrights at an auction, but literally the organization created to manage them.

> Go here, right now [1] to the Billboard Hot 100 and cruise down that list.

Presumably those IP holders have decided to continue selling their stuff, which is also their right.

> To think that EBay is 'banning' Dr. Seuss

They're doing no such thing. They've decided to stop selling the specific books that are being pulled from publication.

Every last bit of this stuff is garden variety free market capitalism: an IP holder decided to stop publishing certain works, and a market decided to stop selling them. Because I support capitalism, I have to support their rights to make these kinda of business decisions.
There seem to be a lot of these? There are two different ones in Moss Landing, one by Tesla:

> What might be a little confusing is that PG&E itself is also building a similarly named battery storage project in the area - called Moss Landing BESS - at the site of the utility’s Moss Landing substation. PG&E’s project, currently under construction using Tesla Energy battery storage system equipment, will also be among the world’s biggest battery storage projects when completed, at 182.5MW / 730MWh.

I guess it's a good location due to the substation, which is probably there due to the power plant.

(Also, I thought Tesla got rid of their PR department?)
Indeed, and similarly we are permitted to discuss publishing platforms' editorial decisions and merits thereof.
I'm a techno producer. I have a couple of demos on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/neurojacker

I also have a couple of tracks on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/49gZImSB39b6ysGwu7oLNP

I've just finished writing a deep techno LP which should be getting released soon. I wish I could share that as I think it's much better than my work up till now but anyway! Deep Techno is a perfect style for background music to code to, similar in some ways to IDM but the repetitive 4/4 beat is great for focusing - well it is for me!

If you're interested in the style check out the deep techno playlist on my Spotify page, I cover all the well known artists of the subgenre.
Can we please not redefine fascism to mean “something I don’t like”? This article has nothing at all to do with the power or primacy of the state.

We have tons of pejoratives in the English language, why do we have to homogenize every word with any negative valence into yet another pejorative stripped of all nuance?
More than a few years old, but I'm proud of this one: http://don.dream-in-color.net/music/mp3/Salvation%20at%20a%2...
Game developers love consoles, because the hardware is known for the whole generation.

Whatever tricks your NVidia card can pull, aren't reflected on someone's else GPU card, let alone everything else on the computer.
This isn't a Nokia vs iPhone situation.

Shipping already does everything that Starlink proponents claim Starlink will enable, i.e., track ships, track cargo, track temperatures in containers. And this data isn't like video, so you don't need a lot of bandwidth for it.

Starlink might make things cheaper than current satellite communications offerings, but this is evolutionary not revolutionary.
I have a colleague in Canada who uses Starlink. He disconnects at least once per video call, and his latency spikes upwards of 4 seconds regularly.

Perhaps this is the best use for it - locations which could never get wired (or stationary wireless) internet.
I’ve been toying with a similar idea but as a means of crowdsourcing a current best understanding of what science suggest. Primarily to weed through all the wild nutrition recommendations floating around into sensible advice based on what can actually be supported. I’m sure the idea extends to other areas.

In my mind it would be some reddit/Wikipedia kind of thing where advice and understanding would be debated using some formal language elements based on rdf or whatever to build up a knowledge graph usable inside applications.
> I also tried training convolutional networks, using the soft life set-up, but failed to get them to converge.

Do you have any idea why that might be? It seems like convolution would be a natural for this problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25300272
If I get called a dipshit then it's, presumably, because something I did. Perhaps it's completely unjustified, but it's still over something I did.

Being called a nigger is very different: it's about who you are and not about what you did. You're not judged for your actions (again, perhaps completely unjustified) but about who you are.

It's like being called a "typical dumb American" every time you (allegedly) did something wrong. And while being called that once or twice probably won't faze most, being called that on a regular basis will wear your down eventually.
Maybe xsv or csvkit?

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Agree that converting between JS and CLJS data structures is a pain.

The best approach to dealing with that is to isolate that interop at the edges of your program.

I’m currently, coincidentally, working on a wrapper for Express to do just that. The wrapper library is responsible for mapping between the Express req/res objects to simple ClojureScript maps. Combine that with a similar wrapper around something like fetch or axios and all my code can be pure ClojureScript.

I mean, that is the general practice in Clojure/Java land. Write wrappers around the native libraries to isolate the pain that comes from interop.

I’m a sucker for Clojure though, and willing to do the work.
Excellent article by the author.

The subtle point of delegating everything to remote services is your user doesn't need to know when you've modify behavior. If Amazon were to bundle the content, you'd need to explicitly update your extension.

You're delegating to Amazon that they'll continue to respect your privacy (no claims were made they weren't), but also their systems are secure, and will continue to be. This is too much trust to give any entity. No thanks.

From Amazon's perspective, they probably have more than one team working on the extension. A coordinated deployment process at scale is painful. Allowing each team to deploy to its own endpoint and communicate with other components via message passing (events) is exactly how you'd expect a company that grew up on SOA to design.
eBay decided themselves they didn't want to be associated with it; the author's estate didn't dictate to them that nobody is allowed to trade in it. They're still on Amazon, of course, as are a bunch of racist bumper stickers and a billion other SKUs.
Having ordered for 6 people via a delivery app more than once, I can confirm sticker shock scales just Bistromath promises.
I have found Excel deeply awesome to use, and I am building a reactive programming language inspired by the concepts (for board games!).

The key is that a single script defines the entire workbook's logic, then data sits externally within a giant JSON object.

I'm trying to find a balance between the engineering concepts (source control, data versioning, audit logs) and productivity (how easy is the language and related tools).

I'm currently working on a editor for board games where I get playful with how to build UIs for the language. It's fun, but I'm wondering if I am re-inventing hypercard.

http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/why-being-lazy-is-key

One mental model is that the entire document is just an Excel sheet that you can send messages to and learn of updates reactively.

http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/reference-reactive-formulas
It doesn't seem difficult to msybf ask the candidate, either by phone or email or both, what or how they'd prefer to be interviewed.

Maybe interviewers could offer maybe say five methods or key topics and ask the candidate to choose at least two or three.
I started assembly programming on early x86 chips.
Then I landed a job programming MIPS chips.

They were so much easier to work with in assembler than
x86.

I was quite impressed.

Then came the SGI Indy for me.
Good times.

Sorry to see them go.
The Essential Fly
It feels as though I simultaneously remember and recall an image of the number as well as its numeric value. What helps me remember the numeric value is identifying its interesting properties and patterns.

This mental phone book improved my ability to memorize other types of random strings. On one occasion I memorized a 20-digit hexadecimal license key, though I had to read it about three times. The client who watched as I keyed it in was very impressed. On a second thought it isn't that impressive given it's 12 digits short of a UUID.
> It's supposed to be a severe punishment, usually reserved for serious or repeat offenders.

First, prison in general, and long sentences in particular, are generally not used that way.

Second, why are you trying to punish people for what they’ve done instead of trying to help them so they can learn to do something other than crime and contribute to society?

> If someone works their ass off at minimum wage for a week, just to have the fruit of their work stolen in a minute, and the thief got caught doing this for the third time (which means the thief likely also got away with it dozens of times), what then?

Perhaps focus on why you live in a society where people feel like they need to steal low value things (necessarily, as you have said it was the fruit of a minimum-wage worker) to survive.

(A side note: as of 2017, prisoners in the United States with jobs get paid, on average, a maximum of $3.45 per day[0], if you want to compare yet another situation that is worse than working for minimum wage.)

> House arrest exists, but it depends on that person not just ignoring it and running away, and is significantly milder for the reasons you listed.

The point I was making is that house arrest is not that mild at all, and that maybe more people will realise this after being in house-arrest-lite for a year and have more reluctance to subject fellow humans to even harsher and more cruel conditions.

[0] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
I'd submit that someone with the name of Aaron Kunin is unlikely to be a fascist.

From the essay:

"Last year when I proposed to teach a seminar in which the syllabus would include essays by Ralph Ellison, two of my colleagues wrote to the Curriculum Committee, as well as to the dean and the president of the college, objecting that it would be “literary blackface” for me to study Ellison."

Here we have professors talking like children, and this is an example of what Kunin complains about.
I think it may be a typo, and they meant "&&" instead of "||". That would be the equivalent of "if (false)", thus preventing that block of code from ever executing.
> is very useful when you want to add references to other cells into your formula

I really wish the default is the other way around. When I do want to add other cells, more than half the time there is a better way than using arrow keys.
Fwiw, I attended a nearly identical recruiting event at Microsoft for women and minorities.
I want a computer that I own
Even the battery cells themselves are made by Panasonic, the packaging of a complete product is the value of the PowerPack.
Your stance of "we don't know, maybe no LIDAR + lots of training data can work just fine" implies that a computer functions as well as a human brain, which as several other commenters have pointed out, is simply not true. I don't have a comment for you about LiDAR on top of humans heads, but I would bet that humans with one eye (and hence no depth perception) are worse at driving than humans with two eyes. There are also countless other sensors in your body that determine depth perception besides just your eyes - your entire nervous system is at play.
You don't want to work for IBM anyway, they burn new-grads like you to a cinder then dump you in a third world country at local salary or HR you out the door. Not to mention they are pretty much a has-been company at this point anyway. I can't remember the last time I came across any of their products in the field. They have been in decline ever since Lou Gerstner retired and they were well past their peak before he came along.

You were right though that they were trying to check some boxes on a diversity report. IBM trots out those special events at trials to try and paint a favorable picture of their hiring practices - and if that doesn't work they just don't pay the judgements.
But, how to estimate the waste of traditional currency? US dollar is based on Capitalism and the weapons. Should we count the price to maintain these two factors? Capitalism is almost built on the balance of wasting resource and incoming. Should we count the waste in market? Developed countries keep QE to spread the debt into global market. Should we count the side effect of QE? As citizen of developed countries, we take the benefits of traditional money and we control it. It is good for us as government or corporation, but may not be good for individual.
Hold up, why on earth would you think gdp has anything to do with happiness?

Do you think humans for the vast majority of our history and also in the vast majority of places today were/are utterly miserable?
That’s why it’s called “the better than nothing beta” - it’s not production ready until they have extra birds in the sky.
> What makes you think that?

Nothing, it was exaggeration
I would most likely have downvoted your reply if I'd encountered it in any other context, but I upvoted it because you were replying to an invitation to defend the magazine's decision that purported to be curious about why someone would defend it.

I really don't like the pattern of asking "I'm curious whether anyone would seriously advocate opinion X that's controversial in this community, and why" and then downvoting people who try to seriously advocate opinion X. (I know people can't downvote direct replies, but it seems like this pattern indirectly discourages curiosity and conversation and encourages a sort of official party line.)
I guess, but that's a weird point to make in the context of (self-)censorship in the academic world. Just saying.
On the other hand, California is 37% white. The University of California freshman class for 2019 was 22% white. So why are tech companies so strikingly white? It makes no sense unless you admit there is a racial bias in the hiring process for knowledge workers.
In high school there was a kid who could play blindfolded. As someone who has no mind's eye this completely blew my mind.