skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I would really consider that a legitimate worry.

Software developers' expertise is in developing software, not in analyzing statistics to predict the future.

Developer estimates are one of the best data points you have to predict how long something will take, but if you think that you can just take them at face value, you are not doing your job as a manager. You need to compare them to past estimates and how those estimates panned out during development.
Is that not the worst kind of cancel culture? You’re going to discriminate against graduates of a university with a professor or department you don’t like?
So then...it's hopeless.
I notice that yew responded to a lot of the comments here, but not to any of them that asked him to point out specific dog whistles.

This generation has learned a debating style where they call anything that they strongly dislike as being "fascist". Such a style is not conducive to a working democratic society (is that the goal?).
What's wrong with asking to use a toilet? Is it so wrong to be part of a civilized society?

Along the lines of OP, my free market solution is to keep pooping in the street until the chamber of commerce decides building a restroom is good for business.
I'm always kind of surprised that the "take-home exam" type of job interview gets so much hate on HN.

Even if it takes me up to 8 hours to do the work at home, I think I'd rather do that. I feel like I'm pretty good at application security and programming, but I struggle to think on my feet when someone is grilling me with a job on the line. As soon as the interview is over, I get a huge case of staircase wit and think of all the better answers I could have given for each question. Even something as simple as "What's CSRF?", I could write pages about. But at a job interview? I have a hard time coming up with more than two-sentence answers.

Same thing with coding. I've written programs using breadth-first search, depth-first search, quicksort, binary searching, etc. Ask me to do it in a job interview and suddenly I'll forget the syntax for `if`.

Though FWIW, I haven't had a take-home interview test. Maybe I'd feel differently if I was actually given one.
I've always thought this would be the perfect theme song for the entire modern "tech" industry.
Exactly. And the magic is that now you can securely compute aggregations of data you've stored without having to download all of your data.

Say you have some field in all of your encrypted, cloud-stored records and want to find the sum of all of them. With traditional encryption you'd either have to trust the cloud with your decryption key or download all of the records for local processing, which could be very slow. With homomorphic encryption you can instead have a cloud service do that computation without any visibility to the actual values and only have to download a single ciphertext containing the result.
Very low - possibly the lowest of any engineering job, since software is not considered engineering in Japan.

Also, most employees have to buy their own notebook computers, so you see Windows thickies from the 90s.

Source: worked in Tokyo doing field work for 2 months at a major corporation.
I was curious where the actual SQL standard document is. With a quick search this is the best I can come up with:

Second informal review draft from the accepted answer:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

Downloadable iso standards (C-f sql)
http://www.iso.org/PubliclyAvailableStandards

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1714461/ansi-sql-manual
Just FYI, you can make a functional system for way less than 7k. I pieces together my system for a little over 2k, and I could have gone cheaper for some of my parts. I probably spent around 1.3k on parts from Raptor themselves. (the prices have increased since then but the point remains)
Well, what I gave isn't exactly a model of the market, so much as "a description of having a model of the world".

So, I'm not sure what you mean by "test this model".

You can refine your model-of/beliefs-about the world, by continuing to look at the world and make observations.

And obviously your beliefs should include a non-zero probability of a crash. That follows from non-dogmatism/Cromwell's rule.

And yeah, there is only one, (or, either that, or at least we can only observe one, which is practically the same thing) "realization of history". This doesn't produce any difficulty, because probability isn't defined by the proportion of trials in which the event occurred.

Probability is about degree of belief (or, belief and/or caring).

edit: I suppose you can also evaluate how calibrated your beliefs have been, which is kind of like testing a model.
The author ignores or dismisses the many countries and cities in which publicly funded public toilets work very well. The problem with public services applied in the US is that it's often done piecemeal, and a lot of things only work when implemented and funded at scale. This is nothing but an ideological screed, without any substance.
Most of us were raised that way. This phenomenon of everything being about what color you are is relatively new and orders of magnitude more controversial than its pushers like to admit.
When someone is a habitual line stepper there is always another line they stepped over.
Not positive, but I believe that current base stations point at one satellite at a time, and will lose connection for a brief moment while they transition from one satellite to another. In the future, ground stations will be able to lock on multiple satellites at a time, in order to bond channels for higher bandwidth, and also to do handoffs so there's no drop in connectivity.
Worth noting that Samsung doesn't allow the bootloader to be unlocked in most (if not all) of its flagship devices released in the US. Although, there's paid services that could unlock the bootloader.
> While I’m interested in machine learning, I’m not convinced that today’s AI is anywhere near as profound as electricity or fire

This seems a not too uncommon experience among CS people where machine learning loses its interest once they understand the magic
You should buy MNT Reform. https://mntre.com/
As I read it, he's arguing for the right not to have to choose what literature to teach on the basis of whether it came from marginalized people. He wants to teach the best literature, not black literature or brown literature or white literature.

I mean, if you were teaching physics, you wouldn't teach ideas based on what race or nationality the person was who came up with the idea. I know, literature is different - it's more subjective, it's not empirically verifiable to determine the quality. Still, the desire to pick the best books based on the content of the books rather than the race of the author does not seem to me to be that horrible of an idea.

"I have a dream that one day my children will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." And let books be judged not by the color of their author's skin, but by their content.
Leslie is one of those ridiculously over-accomplished people in computer science. I think it's safe to say you've earned respect when people can legitimately recognize your name for multiple, mostly-unrelated achievements, without realizing everything else you've done.
I get the stress tolerant part although I don't agree that this would imply a low ability to perceive, synthesise and abstract. Why would the people that pass such an interview be herd mentality thinkers?
Or even more of a fit, there is a scene in Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" where a character meets a person while wearing AR/VR goggles as part of a piece of performance art. An algorithm gradually tweaks the performer's appearance by measuring his brain activity until the performer seems dazzlingly attractive. It sounds almost exactly like the technology being described here, to the point where I wonder if one of the authors read that novel.
I didn't expect to see this here! Happy to answer questions. (There's also a discussion on Twitter: https://twitter.com/akshaykagrawal/status/136827691658779443...)
Eeeeh, System76 is certainly not expensive (though they do have expensive models). Purism is.

If we're talking desktops, Raptor Talos fits the bill better I think: https://www.raptorcs.com
It really saddens me that a "Science Coin" didn't catch on that actually did something useful with all of those compute cycles.

My student job in college was helping to maintain a large-ish high-throughput computing cluster (https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/), and that 1000+ node server cluster...and even all of the servers around the world connected to the Open Science Grid (https://opensciencegrid.org/), pale in comparison to the compute power that is wasting time and energy computing bitcoin hashes.

What a shame.
Reminds me of demoscene music. If that is a genre, I'd say it fits it.
The “smart guessing” approach reminds me a lot of SAT solving. Certain search problems become easier when you introduce randomness and clever heuristics to optimize and guide your guesses.

Edit: And here’s a link to the paper discussed in the article for anyone who is curious:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10254
upstream from:

- http://nongnu.org/gsequencer/

- http://gsequencer.org/

it is my daily job to test various aspects of the sequencer engine.

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Joël
> “Philosophically we didn’t know before if you can go faster than matrix multiplication,” said Vempala.

> Now we do.

This is the part of computer science that I love. It's a branch of philosophy about what is possible with computing machines.

Now all that's left is the matter of making this practical.
Never been inside, but pretty sure JFS-1 is a datacenter, not an underground secret fab. The NSA does have their own wafer fab at ft. Mead, they have done many talks on it.
I've been writing music for, god, almost 20 years by now. My current project is to actually write an album, as opposed to individual songs. It's coming along, slowly.

During quarantine I picked up a few things. I grew up on SNES RPGs, and one little project was to learn how the SPC worked a bit better. I ripped some samples for the instruments from Seiken Densetsu 3 and wrote a small sampler that can play back the raw ripped samples using SuperCollider. With that and ORCA, I made this tune, inspired by Infocom/Brian Moriarty's brilliant game Trinity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0JY_LTxc8

Another project was inspired by growing up with Winamp visualizations. This ended up being a huge rabbit hole as I made a visualizer using Three.js, ran into performance problems rendering a 1440p video in JS, ported to C++ with plain old OpenGL, and figured out how to use ffmpeg from C++. All for a visualization for a track I did years ago! I love how it turned out, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlA_Mkld3xc
That’s hilarious. What is it processing?
> Animals can be and are routinely put down just because their owners happen to feel like it.

I really have no idea why you're leaning into this non sequitur so hard. Yes. Many cruel things happen to humans and non humans. What that has to do with treating criminals as inherently sub-human I cannot surmise.

> If it's true that you'd feel worse about the arbitrary execution of a beloved pet than that of a criminal,

I don't understand the straw man argument here. If you're going to put words in my mouth at least make them close to what I'm saying.
This is actually really good. Definitely something I would download to my Apple Music library.
I'd say he was articulating a principle and a virtue. With something like that, the journey is the destination.
Not your cell service, your cable/internet service. Your car becomes your ISP modem for your house, and goes with you when you travel.
Number 4 struck me as pretty toxic behavior that I wouldn't want on my team.

A female coworker shared a disagreeable opinion, which the author takes it as a personal attack, bottles up their response, deems the co-worker a sexist, and judges their parenting skills to boot.

Ironically, they then go on to call the event they were attending a wasted educational opportunity.
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Why Does a Design Look Good
As a non-designer but know a little about frontend design, I'm sometimes curious why some websites are look better than others. Is it something about "the ability to appreciate the arts aesthetics?"

But this article from the NN Group tells us " visually aesthetic designs use consistent typography, establish a clear hierarchy, utilize a refined color palette, and align to a grid."

Worth a read.
I grew up in a city where every habitable structure had to have separate indoor functional toilets. Roach closets in the back of the building weren’t acceptable, shared bathrooms didn’t cut it, always out of order or bombed out toilets were not allowed, customers only was not allowed.

So I was in for a shock just about everywhere else in the world. Make that everywhere else in America - a toilet in France might just be a hole in the floor, but at least it’s a clean hole in the floor. The toilets in New York City are horrific. Imagine trying to go to the bathroom in an airplane - an American airline not a fancy sovereign airline - except every surface is covered with standing fluids, the walls are alive, the lights are dim, there is no toilet paper, and there is always guy standing behind you that thinks a broken lock means you are looking for anonymous bathroom sex. That is assuming that the establishment has a public restroom, and you’ve made a purchase, and there isn’t a homeless guy with a Cosmo magazine occupying the only toilet for hours. Then on top of that imagine you have your young son or daughter with you and your trying to let them go to the bathroom or go to the bathroom yourself with letting them touch any surface or their clothing absorb any of the mysterious standing liquids.

The bathroom scene from Poultrygeist captures it perfectly (very NSFW) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2x2cz7

The toilets at LaGuardia airport will also greet you with a loud piercing siren if you sit for more then thirty seconds. That’s a really jerk move so I decided to see how long that siren would go, they shut off after approx twenty minutes.

People always make fun of truck stop bathrooms but coming from NYC they are always a step up - clean, dry, vermin free, well lit, changing tables, soap, toilet paper, locks on the door, and I’ve yet to be propositioned in any of the truck stop bathrooms.
Those machines are wiped and the low level firmware and boot loader is replaced. The specific models available are chosen because newer machines prevent you from doing this. You can’t easily get a computer more fully free than these. They link to some new processors and motherboards for desktop builds too, good companies making those who deserve some support
Publicly available software suffers from the fact that millions and millions of people can poke and prod at the software in ways that the manufacture can't due to resource and time constraints driven by the need to generate revenue.

Microsoft runs their software through multiple code scanners looking for weakneses. Developers do unit testing, and then there is acceptance testing. Microsoft conducts internal penetration tests on their software. Microsoft hires 3rd parties to conduct penetration tests on their software. Large corporations conduct internal penetration tests on Exchange, and hire 3rd party companies to conduct penetration tests on Exchange, just to be sure. Governments conduct penetration tests on Exchange.

A lot of people have been poking at Exchange for years, and years, and years, and this bug was just discovered, and it's been present in the code base for at least 7 years, I'd say that's pretty damn good, it seems like a hardened product to me, not a slipshod product as you suggest.

You are so funny. First you complain that Microsoft has no incentive to deliver quality software, then you complain that they can't delivery quality software quickly.

I guess they would have been better off not bother to conduct all the testing necessary to ensure that they didn't fix one problem and create two more.
I think it's just coincidental, especially since the companies for which I was trying to run ads have no connection to each other (apart from me working there). It made me realise just how common these arbitrary automated bans are though.
IMHO the fact that it costs money to read the ANSI SQL standard, is the biggest reason there’s never been any work toward a standardized SQL wire protocol.

(At this point Postgres’s wire protocol is becoming the de-facto wire protocol for smaller players to make themselves compatible with, but that’s still a long ways from being able to talk to every major enterprise DBMS with the same codec-layer library, rather than needing ODBC-style codec plugins.)

You need tons and tons of people to work together on a cross-implementation standardization effort like that (including, hopefully, lots of volunteer FOSS contributors); and all those people would need to be referencing the standard constantly. It’d just be untenable if every one of them needed to pay to see the standard they were coding against.
newest track in progress - https://soundcloud.com/northernlite8/drafted-amnesia-version...

i mostly make ambient/electronic/techno
My octopus teacher. A fantastic doc.
Looks like a description of simplex (and/or montecarlo) method for solving linear equations. Or did I get it wrong?
The Work of Art in the Age of Synthetic Reproduction
If you consult an experienced HR specialist they will walk you through this difficult situation.
I think for some strange historical reason ‘car’ sort of means ‘sedan’ in the US. Like Ford recently announced they’re stopping selling ‘cars’... but they aren’t they have a full range of many types of cars, just not sedans anymore.
Far more than 3% of my white tech colleagues have been Jewish, despite making up only 3% of the US and California populations. Would you claim this implies a pro-Jewish, anti-Gentile tech hiring bias?

I would disagree with you, and suggest that your kind of logic leads to very dark places.
> a far cry from a (real) Linux distribution.

They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree GNUseum..
I mean psychological safety, as in https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/after-years-of-research-go... , or as in "will i face verbal bullying in this space". That is a different type of safety than physical safety, but it's very real. How much people experience not feeling psychologically safe varies widely, though.

I'm a visible minority, and my rights are frequently a part of political debate. In spaces where those debates are allowed to happen, it's often not safe for me to participate. It's a hard feeling to describe or put into words for someone who hasn't experienced others saying that they shouldn't be allowed to do participate in some aspects of society because of a characteristic they can't change.
I find it impossible to do any abstract thinking while lifting.
The looming elephant in the room here is that the marketplace of ideas is extremely crowded. Universities becoming job training centers and/or finishing schools is one thing, but even if that were not the case you'd still have to deal with the simple phenomenon of your voice getting drowned out in the unending torrent of societal criticisms in various forms of media. Ironically, getting censored in this way is probably quite helpful for that professor to broaden their reach.
Built this because a colleague was replying to issue comments using Outlook. Github doesn't collapse email replies unless they use the standard format.

Gmail replies to issue comments also add unnecessary clutter to issues, if you like to run a tight ship and have email-heavy users in your project, this action is for you.
new SpotifyArtist("The Moonlight Project").open();

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6DVpxhIinoZR3csYLs4ona?si=sS...
It would be fair to propose that color blindness has failed, and test that hypothesis.

If there is some other bias present, the solution is to rectify that bias, not force diversity hire. Forcing diversity hire is a lazy solution, a way to *not" actually fix the cause of the problem.
Nothing wrong with asking. I think the person was trying to say that places wont let you use their toilets even if you ask.
Only if you know nothing about him or his life.

He was cancelled in Britain from when he went to fight in the Spanish civil war until the end of WWII and the start of the cold war.

Which is what makes his quote so noteworthy, he was right, his view became the dominant one, but it still wasn't an improvement because the people repeating it did so without thinking.
Or find a way to trigger creating the positive bacteria.

Kevin rose did a podcast with https://pendulumlife.com/ that made that seem like a great path
I just always used VLC.
iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, or Linux -- VLC, VLC, VLC!
I believe the simplex method is for solving optimization problems, not linear systems?
Spreadsheets, as they incarnated in Excel are akin to running old style no-named-subroutines, only-two-chars-per-variable-name, goto-line-number BASIC but on modern hardware.
Ideas that could potentially grow into something safe and powerful cannot grow now because of market dominance of that outdated monster.

And I keep hearing the same arguments, like "it can be used without knowing how to program" - but have you actually seen those formulas they enter? How exactly it differs in complexity from, say, SQL? At least in SQL you'll have sanely named columns and can actually see logic, reading it a month later.

Mixing datasets and freeform reports in the same sheets is a design mistake.
Having auto-conversion for data is a design mistake.
Not having enforced row/column sets instead of just typing any formula anywere is a design mistake.
All that leads to millions of wasted hours of human life just looking closely on rows and rows of numbers with squinted eyes, trying to figure where accidental keystroke had broken your data.

I really liked how MacOS Numbers approached spreadsheets, before they were somewhat butchered for ipads and excel compatibility: spreadsheets were not "infinite", separating concept of tables from concept of pages; column and row headers automatically used as names in formulas instead of undescriptive A1:B2 format, making them actually readable.

Unfortunately it was also slow as hell.

Airtable is a good direction for data entry purposes by multiple people, unfortunately it's no good for even medium sized tables, and exporting is limited.
This is absolutely true, which is why its usually recommended to take probiotics when you have to take antibiotics
Another anecdote, but back in in the mid-2000's a VP at my Fortune 50 company (not tech) verbatim said "If you know any women or African Americans looking for a job let us know and we'll find a job for them".

I get the intent, but it seems so incredibly forced and to your point, condescending for someone who busted their ass to get where they are in their career.
> Except for a handful of very over-priced models that I can't afford to buy

This is an implicit admission that the technology itself really doesn't matter. If it did, the author would have scrounged and saved to get the expensive tool they need to start getting the results they desire, the same way musicians scrimp and save to get the instrument their ear tells them they need.
There was no management engine, no "phone home" functionality. And those drivers you mention were often handwritten assembly to the point that reading the disassembly would be as good as having the source code.