skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ever had to deal with the literati you'd know that they never got past the level of 14 year olds.

I'm convinced that they are lgbt friendly because it lets them have twice the drama since they aren't limited to sleeping with only half their acquaintances.

Edit: in case you're too stupid to realize: I'm not attacking lgbt's I'm attacking the vapid vampires that are sucking the life out of the movement.
http://tunage.bandcamp.com
As someone who has watched the increasingly absurd price of laptops over many years in relation to what one should expect for the price, I'd say I have people like you to thank.
Wish Sci-Hub hosted copies of these things as well.
I think there are two ways to look at that. 1) The relevant characteristics of these models shouldn't be specialist. 2) Cheaper, constrained portals to the internet may be subsidized by Google, Facebook, etc.
I've written a 3D engine and worked with dozens of graphics artists. They all used Windows.

Apple used to have some unique software a long time ago, but generally Windows now has the same set of products and also many Windows-only products not natively available for Macs.

It's like saying only Linux is viable for software development in a world where Visual Studio and IntelliJ IDEA exist.
In general, code is a liability, not an asset.
> 37%...22%

Metrics for particular degrees would be more helpful. Some of those 22% are in accounting.

> So why are tech companies so strikingly white

Um, what? Maybe for early-stage startups. If you'd said "strikingly white, Indian, and East Asian," I'd agree.
If Newsom is bad, what is Ron DeSantis?
Wouldn't this apply to any type of online advertising, i.e., that done on Facebook, LinkedIn, Snap, etc?
Lots of art of all sorts is deeply political.
Cancel culture is only the symptom of those institutions being taken over by ideological extremists. The solution is competition. Universities are destroying their brand with those positions. I am probably not the only engineer unimpressed by slogans like “decolonise maths”, and I would think twice before hiring graduates that excelled in that environment. Likewise, companies that push those ideologies should be boycotted. I don’t want to buy razor blades from a manufacturer who calls me a rapist. I just switched.
Resuming: Western Europe is more worried about the redistribution of the pie than creating a larger pie. Eastern Europe was vaccinated to this but its antibodies are getting weaker.
A very interesting form of steganography.

Has anyone run GOL on "random" noise images to see if they result in any decipherable output? :)
I live in Canada, and live a 5 minute drive from a municipality of 160,000 people. I got Starlink a month ago and even with a few disconnects and occasional lag Starlink is a quantum leap improvement of internet connection. Going from 0.5-3 Mbps down with a 100GB bandwidth cap to a 80-250 Mbps link with unlimited bandwidth is literally life changing.

I work from home as a developer and no longer have to drive into town to install windows updates and compilers.
Calling it dog-whistles instead of calling out specific issues with the argument implies that the problem isn't what he is saying, but that he is saying things that sound like things said by other people.

IE, calling it crypto-fascist dog whistles is saying "I think he is a fascist because he says things I think fascists say, but isn't actually coming out and saying fascist things". Which, in the end, means that no one can say things that fascists might also say, without sounding like a fascist.
Buy a PinePhone. It might very well be more open and trustworthy than some laptops or desktops.
Ideally, yes. But the problem is that our implicit biases affect how we view potential candidates.

Certain groups need the chance to prove themselves. If certain groups aren't fairly represented, then it does pay to prefer to hire from those groups when everything else is roughly equal.

I do find it hard to believe that "the best" candidate is more often than not a straight white man.
If it's reverse engineering an existing application in an obsolete platform and translating almost verbatim into a new platform, it can resemble that. A lot of software work is porting from older platforms.
Try no fly list laws.
The utility model seems like a potentially promising third way between a breakup and nationalization.

All of the above, though, require government action, as the current status amply demonstrates.

So back to my question, how do you do this without government? Or is that not what you were suggesting in your original comment?
Can you explain to me how hiring is not a zero sum game? Suppose I have an open position. If I hire person A, I am not hiring person B, C, D, etc. How is it not zero sum?
>You're comparing the absolute best natural gas plant to the average coal plant? The source also isn't neutral.

Source claims comparison is for new plants in both directions. Concur it is likely not neutral, do you have a better one?

> At the expense of the poor and minorities, which I guess are acceptable collateral damage in this crusade. [1]

Disproportional impact of higher energy prices is absolutely a factor... What I do not get is how much better South Australia could have done?
> Suffice it to say MLK can hardly be said to represent the sentiments of all black Americans, let alone all Americans.

Let's not even say that, he was just a person who was trying to communicate how we should treat each other. It's easy to label him to a group and start saying he does/doesn't represent that group. Let's keep it simple and say he was 'Homo sapien'.

I find the association between cultural identity and the color of ones skin a simplistic way of looking at things.
"Blackness"/"Whiteness" are so overloaded and it often brings confusion.

Being a s/w engineer I immediately went to edge cases, where skin color can muddle the waters:

- Elon Musk was born in S.Africa and living in the US. Is he African American? Technically yes.

- A black French person, raised by white French parents, living in the US would refer to himself as French.

- A white French person, raised by black French parents, living in the US would refer to himself as French.

I'm a white Englishman who's living in the US, but there's not a chance you can say I'm the same as a classic white born American.

Heck my parents are not English, so you'd be hard pressed to compare me to a 'standard' Englishman.

Ultimately I try and view MLK 'spirit' of the talk, which is are you a good/bad character (irrespective of your upbringing) and that's how you should be judged.

Edit: formating
red-rag and pink-flag

blackshirt and brown

strut-mince and stink-rag

have all come to town
This isn't necessarily a recent development either. I tried to reproduce Ghahramani's factorial HMM* directly from his 1997 paper, and ran into the same problem as the other implementation I found (basically, exploding mean field values or ill-conditioned covariance matrices).

By luck, I managed to find his original Matlab code and discovered he used a few small hacks (mostly re-scaling and reconditioning various values) to get it all to work.

I have no problem with that, but I simply cannot understand why you would omit these from the paper (though I can think of one reason - because it ruins your elegant algebra). There is no way anyone would be able to reproduce his results if the code disappeared.

https://github.com/nmfisher/fhmm_julia/blob/master/structure...
Who is going to make this mythical computer which neither benefits any government nor lines the pocket of any corporation? At a cost that makes it accessible to the author? Real question. Maybe it's possible. Who's going make it.

I think the best bet is for citizens of powerful and influential governments insist on legal privacy constraints for software and hardware manufacturers, as well as place limits on their own governments' snooping.
Nah, my insurance (like all Google and Amazon insurances) have an out of pocket maximum/year. It is like less than 10k.
Sometimes being optional does not go very well because people don't have a strong opinion about X.
This is not how I read this. He is reacting to the phenomenon (he is calling 'blacklisting') of an editorial staff contradicting their own decisions under threat of power by unknown third parties motivated by ideological disagreement. If he had been offered a 'free publishing platform', there would be nothing for him to discuss.
The court that reviews the interpretations is itself also classified, just like the interpretations and the verdicts.

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

Snowden cited this as the reason he came forward.

This applies to communications and stored records however, not end user computers.
Get an old lenovo laptop and install openbsd on it. This post is legitimately a bit confusing to me since what they're describing sounds like a pretty standard sort of BSD/linux machine.
Its a pretty generic technology. It has good and bad uses
Mostly experimenting with electronic music:
https://soundcloud.com/manimal-music
I think there are a number of things that contribute to problematical estimation, and a number of development tactics that make the damage exponentially worse.

In my experience, I've found that managers will pretty much always end up using Waterfall, the higher you go. It may be agile in the trenches, but it's Victoria Falls, in the boardroom.

At least, projects that have multiple, converging workflows tend to end up looking a bit "waterfallish." I have not had the luxury of working on a standalone, single-line project (until now, as I'm working on my own).

Working on my own, I have developed a number of techniques that start from the assumption that any estimate made, that looks forward more than just a few iterations, is a dumpster fire. I've learned to work around evolving specifications, project progress variances, and the need to reduce tech debt.

This reminds me of some of the work Watts Humphrey did, way in the day, and also a lot of McConnell's work. I like McConnell. He has a very realistic approach. Humphrey's work was too "eggheadish" for me, but people that used his process raved about it.
I always think I'm unqualified for everything.

I mean, just look at the "entry level" positions that want 5 years experience in 5 different technologies with a laundry list of required talents.
https://remove-js.com/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Playing with Gravity to Learn CUDA: Optimization
NASA Sent a Secret Message to Mars in the Parachute
CEO of Starbucks got eviscerated by the woke/CRT/Intersectionality mob for mentioning that he doesn't see color when evaluating who the best candidate for a job. The mob can't be appeased.
Stripping out the fluff: The authors proved that iterative methods for solving sparse linear systems can be guaranteed to be faster than the best methods of solving dense linear systems.
This is a problem I've been thinking about for the last week: how do you know a specific instance of something is sexist?

Sure, you can look at statistics and say that sexism exists, and that's all very important, but that doesn't really say all that much about individual social interactions, just like statistics about crime rates of ethnic group X doesn't really say anything about individual who belongs to ethnic group X.

A few years ago I tried to help someone on Stack Overflow who asked a series of very basic Python questions about the same piece of very basic code by pointing out that they're probably better off getting a Python book and actually learning the language first, as Stack Overflow is not really a mentoring platform. It was phrased fairly encouragingly (I thought anyway) and was intended just to help them in their struggle to get started with Python, but the person didn't take it very well and accused me of racism :-/

Perhaps the “everyone can become a good professional as long as they’re willing to learn” comment was especially patronizing towards her purely based on the fact that she was a women, or perhaps it wasn't. It's almost impossible to say for sure, especially not based on this one sentence devoid of any context. In my Stack Overflow example I know there wasn't any racism involved because I didn't even notice the person was Indian until after he made that comment, yet the person was still left with a feeling of a racist interaction. It was a shitty situation for everyone involved.
Well, for one they just had to jump aboard the bandwagon and drop the headphone jack. Samsung did that too on some models, but at least they still have the option.
I was into some amateur composing and recording a few years ago. Here's one of them:-

https://youtu.be/GRG89zttLso
including you and me.
Hello! I've been reading HN forever and just want to say how much I appreciate the community. It's not a surprise how many of you are musicians. Almost every coder, engineer (of all disciplines), or otherwise technical person I've worked with has some kind of music background - from marching band to Death Metal. I've always loved that.

I've been making websites almost as many years as I've been in band - which (yikes) is basically a large INT. Being a coder freed me to go on tour and I was lucky enough to get out there for nearly 20 years (in my own band or as hired gun) and am still getting out there - albeit shorter trips. I'm super grateful. I've released music from a few different projects this past year or so...

Dream Demon (Released an ep on Friday, songs vary from Tortoise to Sunny Day Real Estate)
-Louder: https://dreamdemonband.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-our-song
-Softer: https://open.spotify.com/track/2H8gkIa8M4SPO6IGEasdKa?si=efa...

Manuok (genre varies from indie to electronica)
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1lhCQZlWyYA1KPOHDHWtqr

The Color Forty Nine (mellow)
https://alfredhowardwritessongswithfriends.bandcamp.com/trac...

Anyway, enjoy! I know I'll continue to enjoy reading the articles and comments here for years to come.
> Is that expected to be a major part of their job?

How do you collaborate with your teammates? I do it directly by approaching a problem in a shared coding or whiteboarding session, where we try to break it down to its barest bones and then implement logic to animate these bones. Once that is done, we begin to look at what types of higher-fidelity information we lost, and iterate.

This requires a good ability to communicate, write code in real-time, understand perfect is the enemy of good, and in general be able to simultaneously think deeply and support conversation / collaboration.

Of course, there are frequent async steps in such a workplace, but if you are the type of engineer who doesn't participate in these stages and instead can only pull tickets and write them to a spec, you are the type of engineer I don't want to hire. So I consider the signal:noise ratio quite high wrt watching someone melt under the same pressure as every other interviewee faced.
Just thought I'd let you know that your sign in email is landing up in the junk folder in outlook.
I'm staying with my employer because I don't see any other options.
> Perhaps I am looking for something like the x286 DOS computer I had in the early 1990's

You can do an almost fully GPL compliant Linux desktop by building it yourself today. I can already see people thinking "but what about the closed source binary blobs? my video card? my network interfaces?"

But even your 12 MHz 286 or 386SX/20 had closed source AMI or Phoenix BIOS firmware on it. The motherboard manufacturer in Taiwan and American Megatrends sure weren't handing out the source code to that. And if you had a video card, or a soundblaster, its drivers loaded in config.sys were also closed binary blobs.
>It's a minor thing, something you can live with individually, except that as a constant daily drumbeat.

Your entire argument is based on this pretence that is demonstrably false.

Getting reported to HR by these neurotic professional victims is not something you can "just shake off", you literally can't "just ignore it".

It's asymmetrical warfare, and the externalities are all on you, the microagressor.

All of this reminds me of the 90s when Evangelicals wanted schools to ban students from talking about, wearing clothing with, or playing anything related to Pokemon, because it was an affront and a "microagression" to their religion.

Here we are, just a few decades later and leftists and SJWs are now the ones playing the victims, being "microagressed".
The car has to be able to autonomously handle situations inside the time limit or it's not level 3.
> By assembly line I specifically mean a Fordian assembly line where units move between stations manned by specialists in a single step of the process.

That was the result of lots of innovation that Ford did. And then all the car companies stopped innovating on it.

For example Ford started to use electric motors for each machine separately instead of having 1 big motor that tried to power all machines. He sped up the assembly line by 10x at least and measured all operarions carefully.

The assembly line you are talking about is the last process set in stone for 100 years instead of innovating further.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. You can't quite escape concerns about motherboard and cpu manufacturers baking in little security holes, but it's better than buying some pre-packaged system or laptop. Chuck Linux or a BSD on there and boom you've got back most of your general purpose computational freedom.

Of course, you can't change the crappiness of the broader infrastructure, but "give me wisdom to accept what I cannot change" and all that. Choose your battles.
There is a yearly out of pocket maximum in the best insurances. It doesn't matter what happens, I will pay max something like $10k for me and family no matter what happens.

This is true for all of Google and Amazon (note that this is all Amazon workers including those that work in delivery centers).

On a country wide look we are super privileged, and of course if I could choose I would pay a bit more tax and cover everyone. But that is not an option. I am just saying if you are software engineer, you will most likely be fine.

Edit: Also these big companies don't really have insurance, but insure themselves and just use the network and negotiating capabilities from the insurance companies.
There are plenty of people with liberal viewpoints that are against both of these groups of cancellers, myself included. Progressive cancel culture is cancerous and so is Conservative cancel culture. So too was the red scare and the inquisition and the Salem witch hunts. Moral panics as a general concept are ridiculous and dangerous to society regardless of political affiliation.
Working and secure crypto is based on the fact that you get different ciphers for the same massages.
So if you run „21“ through you encryption you get „xy“ as your first cipher. If another user puts in „21“ and runs it through encryption the output should be now something like „ae“. That’s not the case with FTH you always get the same result. That’s bullshit. Because if data leaks you can reverse engineer the ciphers without having a private key. If your encrypted data can be decrypted without the private key. Your encryption ist just nonsense.
damn that must have been the most racist thing I have read all year
But why discuss Nazis if they are not strictly necessary for the article? It rubs me the wrong way that some people seem to delight in the intellectual brinksmanship of philosophising about what we can keep from Nazis and what not. It's normally useless and foolish speculation that just serves to delegitimze the threat of nazism.

Please just forget about the Nazis. Never forget what they did, but don't rationalise them. It's just plain insensitive.

Thank you.
I want to live in Utopia too, but in the meantime I'm happy with Linux.
Where? Everywhere I've seen is preorder or out of stock. I'm sure it's a great device but the supply chain just isn't there if my phone dies today.
So there's a wonderful idea from the world of comedy about this.

It's the idea of punching down, vs punching up.

That is, if you are joking about someone in a worse position than you, it's punching down, and a dick move. If you are joking about someone in a better position than you, it's punching up, and allowable. It's why it's okay for black comedians to joke about white people, but not okay for white comedians to joke about black people. It's why politics is always fair game to make fun of (people in power), but disabilities, say, aren't. Etc.

While punching across is technically doable, it's also very, very hard to do, because ultimately who are you telling the joke to? Who is laughing? I.e., if you talk about things your family does from your own homeland, and people laugh, what are they laughing at? They're laughing at your homeland, your culture, because they feel 'above' it in some way. It's an invitation to punch down. Otherwise it isn't funny; it's interesting. Truly punching across tends to be for an audience that is also the butt of the joke (think Vir Das telling jokes about Hindu beliefs).

Now, that's not to be confused with an explanation or similar. I've worked for a German company, and when asking about why we did something that seemed suboptimal to me, another employee, himself German, has said "That's very German". That's not necessarily a judgement, that's not an invitation to laugh at how silly German culture is; that's just a prelude to an explanation that it's a cultural difference in priorities.
In my opinion Musk actually believes in his timelines. He does exactly the same mistakes without financial incentives e.g. Falcon Heavy. His "COVID panic is dumb" and "it's gone by April" are memes by now. Then he will also openly say that he believes shares are too high, so of course shares dropped. Not to mention that SEC is going after him and Tesla for his stupid tweets.

Either he is an alien playing 5 dimensional chess with time-travel, or he is pathologically overoptimistic. He is especially overoptimistic about AI, so it leads him to make stupid predictions about when we will have cars without steering wheels.
I’m reminded of that scene in Snow Crash where this company’s holographic secretary has a different racial appearance depending on who’s talking to her. (I read it awhile ago and forget the details)
I am not very cool at all, I just like animals.
As someone who has watched laptops get thousands of times faster, smaller, lighter, more battery life, clearer higher resolution screens, smaller chargers, faster connectivity, quieter fans, I flagged your comment for signing up a new account to post a personal attack.
I play sufficiently modern games virtualized (VFIO) on an i5-2500. If FullHD is fine for you, old hardware is still extremely good.
Tell it to Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/seeed-technology-...

(I've got a single board computer from those people that I got in, I think, 2019)
Or the smart ones will go do something more lucrative instead of putting in time an effort for a lottery ticket interview. I have to spend years in college, years in industry, and then spend a bunch of free time learning random test questions that I might never apply in the real world... why not just go to med school or get a securities license?
Can you provide a source that 50+ % of the population find live-coding/collaboration interviews to be a high stress situation while the rest of the interview is not? I think you are conflating your personal feelings with objectivity until I understand why you think a majority of the population is significantly impacted by specifically this technique of interviewing but not others.

Additionally, if you find a whiteboard question to be high stress to the point of not being able to answer, while other candidates are smoothly answering it, demonstrating their chops both as a technical knowledge worker but also as a collaborative and communicative engineer, you bet your ass that's a giant red flag. Why should it not be?
"The right wing censored us during the 20th century, now it's our turn"