skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're underestimating the determination of willful ignorance - also, they can always claim this incident was just some weirdo that they then fired for acting inappropriately and then point to some BS statistics about driver job satisfaction.

That all assumes this person's report isn't just blackholed by front-line communication folks at Amazon, which they could always ascribe to another "out of SOP action" or just wait a news cycle or two for people to forget if a stink was raised.
What's up with all those Russian-sounding first names in the list of RMS supporters? Serious imbalance.
Jeff Bezos is always saying things that are obviously not the facts on the ground. He didn't know this, Amazon couldn't have known that, meanwhile they're always caught covering something up or responding to the same complaints internally.
Ha, we were left to our own devices and I think it was to our advantage. 70s moms. I remember when I was about 10 my buddies came over and asked if I wanted to go night fishing with them down at the pier on the bay. My mom said "sure, but be back by 10:30pm. Have fun." So off we went walking about a mile with our fishing gear in the dark. Now I don't think that would happen and that's kind of a problem.
I think deno is really interesting in the aspects of how it is parsed and handled, I have a lot of hope they can continue to do cool things with it too. I would like to continue seeing them take strong opinions on things that improve the language, and hope to see it evolve beyond javascript. But thus far - it has been: stealing code from node.js and taking strong opinions on things that make the overall DX worse. Deno's strength will being a scripting language on its current path.

Edit: just realized I gave no example.. an example would be a dep that has gone missing and there is no backup for it. Deno sort of handles this but all we have actually added is no centralized way to describe dependence. So if you dynamically import a package via its package manager you also need to write some code to ensure it even exists. how is that better?
Stallman is being targeted for his personal views which he expressed on his personal blog in his personal capacity.

Also, as a founder of a movement, he kinda gets a privilege of not having to take an interview for the job.
I think nowadays they can come from other people. Pretty much anyone/everyone (so maybe "society" is a good stand-in?) But, originally, perhaps when times were a lot different, the word of the Lord, whichever is your flavor, was more useful in keeping people on a more-fulfilling track. People with strong family ties likely didn't need to be as devout and so the church provided a good net for those alienated from society for many reasons. These days we're a lot more likely to have support and a lot less likely to be outcast (or at least not so severely) for being different.

I am also agnostic-raised-Catholic and this type of question is posed a lot. I don't struggle with it since I feel like I know the answer...BUT A) It's difficult to articulate, B) I can't really prove it, and C) it's also that I just know "the Bible" is very likely NOT the answer which just crosses one possibility off a list.
> Religion has nothing to offer that secular society cannot offer.

Similar to ethnic nationalism, it can and
throughout history has provided the glue that holds groups together when they are in conflicts with other groups.

Unlike a secular club, religion cements this power inter-generationally by insinuating itself into the key human institutions of marriage, reproduction, child rearing, and membership in the religion. If you look at any ethno-religious state in the world (i.e. many middle eastern countries), they function this way.

The experiment of a secular national identity (based on shared beliefs about people's rights and dignity) is the only institution that can effectively fulfill this aspect of religion, but as we are now seeing, it can also stumble if it doesn't tend to the needs of its constituents well enough.
The title implies past-tense but the article describes Googles actions as ongoing.

Archive link: https://archive.is/4E04M
Rarely does anyone ever ask my religion but when people do i tell them Hellenism (Belief in the greek gods). People often give me a quizzical look - but when you study the 'religion' you find interesting beliefs that help you in modern day.

For instance, claiming you don't have 100% complete faith in the myths and gods wasn't a heretic offense. Everyone respected the fact that the stories were arch-types that displayed courage, anger, revenge, ect.

Also, if someone else came up to you from Egypt and believed in an entirely different pantheon you respected their opinion and could see similarities in your own religion.

Christianity from the very early days (The skims' under Constantine) was a very absolute one. There was a right and wrong. There was only one god and you are wrong and a heretic for believing in another.

That's why Hellenism works so well for me. I do not claim to be a moral precept but i do offer you this; A peace treaty. You can believe what you want to believe as long as you respect my own moral reasoning. In the grand scheme of things as long as there is no direct harm to you for my actions you must accept and respect them but i do not have to bow to them. It cannot be a suicidal pact, meaning if i do not believe in YOUR GOD, slip up and don't call you a 'They' or say somethings 'Gay'.

I truly believe one of the biggest problems with current society is everyone believes they are a moral precept and have all the answers. Love your neighbor.
I'm going to be honest, I have no idea what your product even is. As far as I can tell you're a ux designer with some flat rate pricing, but it just looks so convoluted.

Try to simplify your pricing a little bit, instead of having three tiers, have one. To be honest I prefer to just pay you your hourly rate for what work you do do.
You talk about planning about an article about a container ship piloted by professionals ran aground.
Sure but in a department where people are sysadminning reactively, they’re going to have that problem crop up everywhere. This type of thing wouldn’t be neglected in a well thought-out change process.
> Saying "I'd use a library" isn't a reliable signal.

True. That's why you shouldn't be asking a question where that's a good answer in the first place.

> Linus and Jeff Dean are very good at such problems and it's not a coincidence.

Sure. But being good at these problems also isn't what makes Jeff Dean or Linus good programmers. Being good at solving novel problems is. The problem with the linked list question is that half of your interviewees will have seen it before and half of them wont, thus giving you quite a biased view on them.
"Was it X that meant you couldn't do Y?" is the best way to phrase it if possible. It demonstrates an attempt, even if it's just a simple one, to understand it, and implies you have faith the other party haven't missed something obvious. Thinking of an X often answers the question for you, stops you looking stupid.

Every now and then, the reply is "that would have been a good idea actually" in which case you still get to look smart. So it's a win+win really.
The incentives leads to dangerous driving, careless handling of packages and unsanitary work conditions that highly likely contribute to higher employee turnover.

Amazon does not pay for the externalities of more dangerous driving in your neighbourhood, other than their subcontractors might increase their prices if their insurance starts getting more expensive. They do not pay [edit: you] for the time and effort when they have to redeliver a broken package.

You change the compensation by setting goals that are actually reachable, and then having the workers iterate together with the employer to find and fix inefficiencies. The antagonism of unreachable goals is bound to lead to public relations issues. This of course assume that you see this article or articles like it as a public relations issue, so if that view is negligible then Amazon will see no harm.

Amazon's response to dangerous driving:
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-plans-ai-powe...
[2] https://vimeo.com/504570835/e80ee265bc
Everyone is crazy in their own way. There is no rationality strong enough to remove the crazy from people, and smart people over time have formed their own craziness not bound by religion or mysticism.

This site for example is pooh-poohing religion now, but five minutes later will gush over LSD's power to give pseudo-spiritual epiphanies. It used to love stoicism, which was shopworn even in the Victorian age. Probably in a year from now some other retread of old belief system will be rediscovered, maybe EST or Theosophy, or something.
The edmunds article is probably the best source, but this is the article that I saw yesterday with some of the numbers. Some are quite noticeable in their drops like the 2018 S Performance went from 310 mi to 256 mi. All the non-Teslas got higher than their EPA rating. With the Porsche Taycan 203 mi to 323 mi.

https://insideevs.com/news/496740/tesla-disputed-edmunds-tes...
Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work
Yes, I would argue that this supports my thesis - that the ticket was, at least partially created for humorous effect.

If they were taking the matter completely seriously, I would not expect them to consider publicizing it, or discussing the ticket publicly after the fact.
Not sure whether you intended this or not, but your statement could be extended to imply that secular societies become destructive ones? Which would be quite a stretch - there are many secular stable countries and many unstable, highly religious ones as well.
Looks like the numbers are here:

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...

They range from -2% for the S to -17% for the 2018 Model 3.
Same here. Frankly if the GP's "Cliff Notes" version tells them that the Bible says to agitate politically for taking away other people's means of self-defense, or for seizing other people's property by force to be redistributed to the GP's preferred causes, then the GP really needs to put down the abridged version and read the original. Pacifism and charity are portrayed as virtues, to be sure, but it says nothing about forcing those virtues on others, and doing so strays about as far from the core message as it's possible to get.
Why not use the statx wrapper in glibc, seeing as you already seem to be using the syscall wrapper via ctypes.CDLL(None).syscall?

Possible self-answer: that wrapper only exists on glibc >= 2.28.
I disagree with the premise that the following are contradictory:

1. “It tests CS fundamentals.”
2. “It tests reasoning through a new problem.”

Both can be measured in an interview together, using well-known CS concepts to reason through a new problem based on CS fundamentals.

Especially today, as almost everyone uses standard library implementations, asking candidates how those implementations actually work, and then working through a variation of them (e.g. add an unusual requirement) is very useful in an interview context.

Everyone "knows" what a Linked List, so you don't have to spend a lot of valuable interview time explaining it. The implementation for the simple case is short enough it can be quickly written out. Then you can add a novel requirement for the candidate to extend their implementation. Now you've checked all 3 boxes:

1. Knowledge of CS fundamentals
2. Using well-known CS concepts
3. Reasoning through a new problem

If interviewers were longer, or used alternate paradigms (take-home exercises or pair-programming), then much better questions can be offered.

But ultimately, doesn't all software engineering come down to the 3 things I described? Sure, the context is different if you're a Frontend vs Backend vs Mobile vs Embedded person, I hope the interviewer is adapting for that and not asking everyone the same Linked List question.
Wikipedia agrees with me? So it's hardly an outrageous position.
> The US is becoming openly hostile to religion

I don't think the US is becoming openly hostile to religion.

It is becoming hostile to religion in the public sphere, a good thing if there ever was one.

Just like your sexual practices, keep your religion at home and please stop bothering other people with it.
Is that ship still stuck? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282 - March 2021 (1230 comments)
"At age 32, Lawrence was killed in a plane crash at Edwards AFB on December 8, 1967. He was flying backseat in an F-104 as the instructor pilot for flight test trainee Major Harvey Royer, who was learning the steep-descent glide technique. Royer made such an approach but flared too late.

The airplane struck the ground hard, its main gear failed, it caught fire, and rolled. The canopy shattered and the plane bounced and skidded on the runway for 2,000 feet (610 m). Major Royer ejected upward and survived, with major injuries. The back seat, which delays a moment to avoid hitting the front seat, ejected sideways, killing Lawrence instantly. He was still strapped to his ejector seat; his parachute failed to open and was dragged 75 feet (23 m) from the wreck.

Had Lawrence lived, he likely would have been among the MOL astronauts who became NASA Astronaut Group 7 after MOL's cancellation, all of whom flew on the Space Shuttle."
Google is using federated learning to improve Assistant’s “Hey Google” accuracy
> So I didn't see any actual numbers or precentages about how far the Tesla fell short

> This seems to me like someone is going to great lengths to avoid putting in actual numbers

The first sentence of the article includes a link to one of the tests, with graphs and comparisons to other vehicles: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...

The rest of the article has a lot of specific numbers:

> For the other Teslas tested, however, things didn't go as "well." The 2018 Model 3 Performance was off by 54 miles—this might not look that notable on a couple-year-old model—but when the testing is performed in such friendly conditions that the 2020 Mini Cooper SE, with an EPA range of 110 miles, is exceeding that by 40 miles, then it just doesn't paint a pretty picture for the Tesla cars.
> I loved GEB when I first read it in high school, and when I first reread it years later, but I don’t think its fundamental view of the relation between minds and machines has stood the test of time.

I still see this as an open question. You’re certainly correct that this kind of AI research is seriously out of vogue, but it seems to me that while “modern” brute force compute AI puts up impressive results and is a hugely useful technique, it has made exactly zero progress on anything that could be conceived of as “general intelligence”. It just doesn’t seem to me to be a thing AI researchers are even interested in any more. Like, the Twitter program that uses AI to crop images based on a dataset of a gazillion cropped images is pretty far from Turing’s thinking machines.

I don’t know the way there, but it always seemed to me that the old-style AI research in the GEB style is still a rich vein we haven’t come close to mining out.
Yes, that happens.

I've seen way more people complain about outages that lasted hours because of long TTLs and a deployment mistake.
Isn't Spirituality also a tool, that enables you to understand and improve your relationship to the greater good?

All tools have value, in some context or another
Hopefully the declines will continue so that we approach the levels in Scandinavia over the next few decades. Religion has been a force of oppression and division for far too long. It has negatively affected my life, to the point that I am nearly estranged from my parents due to religious conflict, so my loathing of it is perhaps more personal than most here.

400 years ago I would have been executed for my atheistic views. 200 years ago I would have been a social pariah. Today my views are largely accepted in silicon valley and among millenials and zoomers on the internet, though I still face discrimination in the bible belt where I happen to live. Progress is being made, however slowly it may seem at times.
Karl Popper was a moron. You can tolerate intolerance just fine by assuming there will be someone equally intolerant of such intolerance.

I wish people would stop quoting that denthead. It’s as silly as people claiming the Qu’ran has passages specifically commanding them to blow people up.
As a GenXer, I am happy my parents and grandparents didn't die early to make viral pie charts look more even.
Being completely honest and sincere here, I started responses to a couple of the comments, but decided for both that I didn't want to deal with the possible bashing, downvotes, etc for providing even a reminder of what the point of the original article was and that this issue of men not wanting to give critical feedback because of possibly getting dragged through the mud.

I'm not sure if this is irony or just sadness.
Mega-thread of all the times virus labs “lost” dangerous pathogens
Don't you think he just should have said: "I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent"?

Any change to the number is by definition a lie. Now he is just trying to find a rationale / excuse for the lie, but a lie is a lie.
That driver was a contractor, deciding to pee in his own bottle. He chose to take more packages than he could deliver and is rushing to cut corners.

As well as conspicuously dumping piss outside customer houses he probably speeds through school zones.

Contractors don't get a wage, that's key to this whole discussion. And if contractors don't make a profit they shouldn't take the contract. This kerfuffle is in the middle of big cities, not some tiny company town in the outback. They have all the same options anyone else does, it's not like they're forced to drive for Amazon.
You are a sick and fucked up person
I discovered the same thing. It seems literally a clash of 2 cultures.
Sounds like they were driving at consistent 65 mph. Where-as optimal speed for maximizing range is likely closer to 45-55mph.

They also ran the AC/heat with cabin set at 72F. With them doing the driving not on a track but real life (stop & starting).

Technically speaking the EPA numbers aren't necessarily "real life". Its a repeatable test environment: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/18/how-does-epa-calculate-...
As a person who is a musical idiot I thought it was a great way to establish the concept of patterns and self reference in something like music. The notion of the self referential cannons was seriously impressive to me and I thought served as a great jumping off point into more esoteric conversations in the book.
Younger Brazilians Are Dying from Covid in an Alarming New Shift
I mean if you feel that all the people you interviewed are worse programmer than all the people you went to school with then it's likely the problem was not the candidate but the way the question was asked.
They would still be cleaning up the debris to unblock the canal, shipping would still be blocked.
Just use `UnsafeCell` instead of `RefCell` [1]: It has zero overhead, but you have to be sure that there's really no simultaneous write/write or read/write access – just like using raw pointers in C or C++.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/cell/struct.UnsafeCell.ht...
I'd say yes. You could bring Support Vector Machines [0], bring the Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning [1]. You could fast forward the whole field of Reinforcement Learning, you would be able to show that it's possible to solve problems like passing gradients through a sampling process using the reparameterization trick [2], you would be able to show that you can pass gradients through a sorting process [3].

You would also have experience of working with autodiff software and build such. Imho the advent of autograd, tf, torch and so on helped tremendously in accelerating progress and research because the focus of development is not on correctness anymore.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support-vector_machine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapnik%E2%80%93Chervonenkis_th...

[2] https://openreview.net/forum?id=33X9fd2-9FyZd

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/mcdoxs/p_t...
This is not reverse engineering. It's like going to the Vice page, downloading the html, css, graphics, ... and uploading them to Github.

In particular, they didn't publish the instructions to build the vaccine, just the sequence of the RNA they used. To build the vaccine from this information you need to know a few additional steps, more details this articles by Derek Lowe in https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...

And an additional quote from https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/22/mo...

>> Matthieu Giraud, global director of CordenPharma’s peptides, lipids, and carbohydrates business, says the synthesis requires about 10 steps and several product isolations. A complete manufacturing campaign is measured in months.
When Microsoft got into compilers, they were giving $1m signing bonuses. [1] There's also the concept of acqui-hire. On the other side there is price-fixing [2]

1. Mr. Gross quit in September but didn't join Microsoft until after a three-month sabbatical to plan his wedding, Borland said. According to the suit, Microsoft also offered Mr. Hejlsberg a $1.5 million signing bonus, a base salary of $150,000 to $200,000 and options for 75,000 shares of Microsoft stock

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
So your saying they planned to only crash the ship during the high tide?

You do realize the canal operates during all tides?

So yes, it was absolute luck this accident happed right before the highest tides of the month.
As a society, it is mentioned all the time. By pundits for political or cultural war reasons. Or inside articles about family. Or in articles about women health, or babies conception. In discussion about demographics. In discussion forums like this. It is talked about casually whenever any surrounding topic is talked about. Even reddit threads about relationship problems have that mentioned often. It is just not a secret.

If you never cared about family planning or female health, you never seen it. Arstechnika, the verge or gamera sites never writes about that. But it is not society not taking about it.
They got traffic flowing sooner than I guessed they could. Three container ships and a livestock carrier have left Bitter lake and are entering the channel right now, heading for Suez. The third one in the group is the Ever Globe, the same size as the stuck ship.

I had thought it would take most of today to make sure the channel was clear for the deepest draught vessels. The dredge crews must have done a good job keeping their discharge out of the main channel.

Vesselfinder.com is a hoot to follow for this kind of disaster.
I kind of feel like cancel culture minimizes the issue by allowing people to talk not effect while completely skirting around the cause.

Saying was he was removed due to public backlash due to history of sexist behavior, and discrimination is much hard to defend then the reductive was cancelled.

EDIT

The recent Suess books case is kind of a prime example of this. Since cancelled doesn't have a strict definition saying the books were cancelled arguably not entirely wrong. But misses the who, what, & why of it. (e.g the publisher stopped printing select low selling books that included offensive outdated stereotypes)