skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moneyball's point was subtly different than this, and I was hoping the article would actually touch on it. The article suggests hiring the best candidates that have skills that mesh well on the team; Moneyball explicitly searches for people whose flaws can be overlooked. This way, you get a team member whose performance outpaces the open-market salary.

In other words, you don't hire candidates whose strengths match your weaknesses, you hire candidates whose weaknesses you care about less than the competition does. Like, the best example from the movie was the pitcher with an effective but highly unconventional delivery mechanism.
A common mistake when NumPy’s RNG with PyTorch
Overall FB had helped the world move to more open and more understanding.

Citing weaponry is misleading, we are not talking about military here. Alibaba and Tencent do into stifle military innovation.
She's bored, you should worry.
Theres another option. Better vetting for apps and extensions that use dangerous API's.

It's disingenuous to say "these API's are too dangerous to use" when the browser itself does all the things the API could. Why should people trust Chrome or Firefox more than their extensions?

Google/Apple got themselves in this situation by having their official stores. People assume it's on the store, it's safe. Now they take away API's because they don't actually police their stores, they just made them to have a captive market. Now they blame extension developers and take away API's because they don't want to admit they don't police their own stores enough.

Before the days of official stores most people were careful what they downloaded. And they would be again if it wasn't in these companies perverse interests to convince users that store apps are safer than non store apps. Because people would stop using the stores and take away the money train.

The right way to fix this would never happen. Decentralize the stores and let users make their own decisions. And take away all the api restrictions because once people realize the risk they'll be more careful. PC's are and have been an open market for decades, yet getting viruses is rare. I have no reason to believe it would be different for phones and extensions
That wasn't a decision made by the product manager of an algorithmic feed, though.
Someone makes this comment every time someone makes a comment about the size of the fine. I don't think the parent comment cares. They're just pointing out the expected outcome.
I’ve run NoScript for years. I selectively enable JS. It’s fine.
> Number of Ex-Engineers (NOEE): This is the total number of unique engineers who have touched a code and have left the company as of the release date of the software system

I have been on a project where I arrived after the first guy's replacement was replaced. So three people had used my desk before for that project.

So much knowledge was lost.
No, don't know if it was because of this test (I did complain when they asked me for my opinion of the test). I found something else some time later and I think I dodged a bullet.

I think the blame for this test might lie on government mismanagement rather than the would-be actual employer. There is a rule making vetting by a 3rd company mandatory in the hiring process (to avoid nepotism), but they do the same kind of test for completely unrelated kind of government jobs. I have two friends who had to go through something similar when interviewing for a different local government employer (not IT-related for them, but still unrelated to a clerk job).
I have developed in many languages and on many tech stacks over the years, but this is my favorite so far:

* Linux, Docker, and Ansible (on-prem or cloud; love Linode)

* Postgres (I really like SQL Server, too, but it’s not open source)

* Redis for caching and other transient data

* .NET Core with C# and F#

Powerful, fast, mature, open source, cross-platform,
trustworthy 3rd-party libraries, great documentation
and support community — what more could you want?

* ASP.NET MVC (WebAPI or Razor views)

* jQuery and Tailwind or Bootstrap, but we use Vue, React, and others as necessary

* GitLab or GitHub; Jenkins or TeamCity if we need discrete CI/CD

* Neovim, VS Code, or Rider (for full IDE); ssh, zsh, and tmux

=> Very productive and stable tool chain for us going on four years now.

It’s also *extremely scalable*, both with regard to runtime load and code base organization & maintainability.

Lots of other frameworks and languages that are easy to get started with fall apart when the project gets large and complex.
Why so negative? I wonder if you didn't like some of the other things in that job application process -- but that doesn't mean that this part, about asking "unexpected philosophical questions" would be bad.

You'll meet the candidate anyway, right, for a walk, or over a lunch, and what are you going to talk about anyway, then. Might as well make that conversation a bit "deeper" so as to get more info about each other (goes both ways I suppose).
> No different any other firewall configuration.

Depends on whose firewall config, but I don’t suppose most firewalls are setup as whitelists for outgoing connections…

I appreciate your dedication but this seems like a huge pain. Like a restrictive Little Snitch config but with worse UI most likely.
Then come to the US where we allow patent trolls to rip you apart. Where we allow frivolous shareholder lawsuits every time the stock falls 5%. Where we humiliate you in front of congress at every opportunity. Where we allow innumerable types of lawsuits for all sorts of reasons that conflict with innovation. Europe is even worse.

I think this fine, in the grand scheme of things, is relatively modest compared to the crap that other countries make you put up with.
Taking the countries of origin of the mathematicians chosen here as a proxy for the amount of "mathematics done" in each region shows a few patterns.

Notably the explosion of math in Europe from the 1500s.

I wonder if the printing revolution had something to do with this.

Gutenberg died in ~ 1470
What a Clubhouse profile looks like: https://www.askdavetaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/clu...

I don't see anything on the picture of the data sample that isn't on the profile, which appears to be visible to anyone with a Clubhouse account: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fkWQSg-hl1V2-fwpS2VJy3CGR0...

The Clubhouse user ids also appear to be sequential, so this looks like a pretty low effort endeavor.
speculative fever driven in part by intuition that currency is being debased?
> an engine that has no developers anymore since last year

There are still more than a hundred developers working on Gecko.
Again, long time Linux user and this really doesn't tell me why Wayland is good, it tells me that the Linux ecosystem is getting frog-boiled into accepting the same sort of frightfully dumb practices that the other operating systems have been doing for years? How did we get to a place where I have to pit the security of some of my apps against other apps?
It's based on a lie, but it's also a lie that's entirely fundamental to Google's existence: The reason Google is the giant it is is because of the delusion you need user tracking and that only Google has enough user data to do it well.

If you get rid of user tracking, anyone or their brother can sell ads, and then why deal with Google?
False and misleading? The chosen languages have changed the way I've thought about programming. In my 'lived experience', Lisp is 'THE language' of thought. I'd welcome your choice of language and why you think it deeply affects the way you program.

I've used 'lisp' since 1970, in a FORTRAN implementation of Lisp 1.5 out of Bell Labs. Clearly 'lisp' has evolved since that time. But all versions I've used, like MacLisp, Symbolics, Interlisp, Lisp/370, VMLISP, CCL/MCL, Portable Standard Lisp, KCL, AKCL (I'm a minor author), Emacs Lisp, CLISP, Lucid, Gold Hill, ABCL, Clojure, and a few others I've probably forgotten. They are all 'different' but all are recognizably 'lisp'.

I don't know AutoLisp but I suspect that it might have the 'clay-like' property of other 'lisps'.

The point of this series is to find languages that change the way you think.

Don't confuse an implementation with the concepts.
I am yet to understand why Quebec is doing curfew. How does not going outside after 8pm till 6am somehow make the situation better? Their own health officials said curfew won’t help.
I do everything under WSL on Windows. So, still effectively Linux :)

As for Cygwin, that was my choice for a long time when I started with OCaml.

For building fully-native Windows apps, I've used https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/installation/. However, it still requires a Cygwin environment to run in, because, as yawaramin mentioned, much of the OCaml ecosystem assumes Linux-like tools during build. So, effectively, the Windows setup looks a bit like cross-compilation, where your build environment is Cygwin, but the output is non-Cygwin full-native Windows binaries.

The compiler itself and core tools like Dune don't assume Linux tools and are portable. It's many of the packages among the rest of what is there that trigger the Linux tools dependency.
This piece is pretty idiosyncratic and hard to get much out of.

I'm sitting here charting a Phish tune for a band I'm in, and taking a break because I literally just wrote [Outro: Jam on I, 128 bars]...

there are so many more modalities just in how I feel about writing something that dumb onto a piece of paper, much less the technological circumstances that surround that (both in terms of how the music comes to me and what I must do with that artifact to turn it into a performance) that the piece seems like trying to figure out what to make of the ocean from what I've got in my pail at the beach.

I could 100% live without a streaming service, but it's kind of like bitching about the weather. It'll rain even if I don't care for being wet.
reasonable was probabaly a bad word choice on my part then, sure we can have unreasonable view points in a a discussion, but even if your not talking from an extreme point of view it gets shut down, people believe free speech is all or nothing, where "all" is ambiguous. There is plenty of middle ground of expression.

I don't know why you think im talking about the first 5 words. Look at the relevant part

> Congress shall make no law ... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ...

That is all it says, its open to interpretation. Free speech for who, and how is speech defined. What did the they have in mind when they wrote it, it likely wasn't 21st century communication. It is ambiguous. Did they even have businesses in mind? We already not all forms of expression are covered.

Yes all those points you bring up suck about advertising. Why should it be allowed? Why is the news able to be misleading. Why are are we being emotionally manipulated by corporations to buy? Because we can't have a discussion about free speech in America and it nuances. People are so die hard about their right (that doesn't even exist the way they think it does) and fall for slippery slope fallacies. We absolutely should real in advertising, both corporate and political, we should real in manipulative news reporting. None of these freedoms are helping the world, and if anything chipping away at others.

100% Free speech is a detriment to society, it is too idealistic. We can start with these ideals, but the need to figure out how they apply in a world with moral-less actors. We should figure out what we want in regards to forms of expression and content, be clear about it and protect society from entities that want to abuse their rights to take advantage of others.
Plenty of "top" candidates don't work and don't want to work at a faang company.
Romeo and Juliet is almost more satire than "art". Might as well ask if the Colbert Report was art.
> For this particular case (the user ID) they explicitly assert that they are also subject to it.

It's kind of a ridiculous claim though, because Apple is the only company that has access to your device UUID (on iOS). 3rd party services aren't allowed to access the device UUID, so they get the IDFA. Apple doesn't need to use the IDFA, they just use the UUID which the user can't change, and link it to your Apple ID.

Also, Apple really really wants you to have an Apple ID. iPhones are almost useless without an Apple ID (no way to install software). So it's not like you can opt out of Apple tracking you by not signing in with your Apple ID.
JBOD can also mean "raid 0 with different sized disks". It's a great way to lose all your data!
It’s fascinating to me that a scientist would look at the Diamond Princess and it’s 14 deaths of almost entirely 80+ year olds (no one under 65 died) and see evidence to justify mask mandates and school closures and firing half of the people of color from their jobs. Why not, say, quarantine for senior citizens or any sort of coordinated response to protect and provide for the elderly? When people talk about a covid hoax, it’s not denying the virus exists. It’s denying that the popular mitigation strategies don’t do anything but drive value for Amazon share holders.
https://cck-law.com/blog/anthrax-vaccine-causes-controversy/

Also, in the military very little is optional. This vaccine is optional, so it's a unique opportunity to say no.
Are we counting open source contributors or paid developers here?

Because I think there's a difference in assumption vs reality here. External contributors work in their free time and are, as I'm trying to point out in my other comment, unsustainable as a work model [1] [2]

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/graph/06b1ac14775250a...

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/graphs/contributors
It took years to discover. I also take a bit of issue with this:

> The U.S. Military has been Red Hats biggest customer since 2002

Ah, so, the US decided they need well-supported domestic Linux company. The horror. Pretty sure most US government agencies, not just the military, mostly use Red Hat.
Each miner that leaves means more rewards for those that stay. It's a self sustaining equilibrium.
Appreciate this sort of a look at the whole thing; I've been a long time Linux guy sort of consistently baffled at the more divisive moves that the big players make here, and I think I'm probably forgetting the extent to which there is big money/growth involved in being the biggest fish in the pond.

That being said, the strategies still seem pretty obtuse to me, it really does feel like all the Linux-powered companies and organizations who'd like to take a serious shot against Apple and Microsoft need to do way more cooperating than competing.
> And then priorities shift again before they start. Leaving you not knowing what they'll be working on, but also certain you'll need extra hands on something sooner rather than later...
> AND SO: "give me a smart generalist that specialized in these 8 technologies that make up the entirety of our product" becomes the only viable hire.

I mean, unless you were going to fire this person when the project you got head count for is finished, that's pretty much what you should have hired for anyways?
On sync, Firefox has had sync from before Google Chrome was publicly released. Depending on when you started using Google Chrome and on which platform, you may have missed noticing that Firefox had it.
My understanding is that it's a round about way to reduce partying.
C++ and Typescript. What else do you really need?
We unfortunately had (and in many places are still having) both an emotional and fear-driven reaction to the spread of the virus.

A lot of people understand the risk is much lower than the measures used to contain it, such as full school closures and closing parks and playgrounds. In retrospect I hope we can admit at least those preventative measures were a mistake.

My fear is that if another more serious virus lands on the scene, there will be no credibility to do it again.
>the companies who use debt to buyback their shares are whats driving the market. Every dollar they spend on their stock is then magnified 100x by the big passive funds, and both 1 & 2 have no agency other than to try to get swept up in the winds.

I've always found stock buybacks intriguing and confusing. Here's a hypothetical scenario that seems to go against what you're saying:

Company A buys back $1 work of stock. Since there is now $1 less in Company A's bank account, that company is now worth $1 less. So the market cap should in theory be $1 less. Since the market cap should be $1 less, and $1 of stock disappeared, those perfectly balance out and mean the stock price should stay the same.

Now the index investors take a look at the situation. Company A's market cap has shrunk, whereas other companies' market caps haven't. So Company A has a smaller share of the index than other companies than it had before. But the index investors still have the old ratio of Company A to other companies, so they are overinvested in Company A. They all sell a bit of Company A in order to get the correct balance according to the index. Company A goes down in value.

So a stock buyback caused the price to go down.
Yep, I agree of course. If you're not "participating in the economy" then you can't be rich, and hoarding wealth usually makes it worthless. That's why Atlas Shrugged was nonsense.

But you can sort of do it short term - retired people and the idle rich do exist - and a lot of people assume you can, like saying a billionaire actually has a billion USD they could give out, or thinking their employer's going to replace them with an AI.
I’d only walled gardens had advertising though that would make the (add free) real internet sexy again!
do you know sql.js？it is sqlite in js.

not sure the json support. if you move the sqlite to frontend, no server is necessary. upload a sqlite db or csv and explore.
Thanks! I don’t know why I had the understanding that it worked the other way. This is useful to know!
People also say "your body is made in the gym, but revealed in the kitchen".

It's a bit of a simplification, but it requires so much exercise to burn the calories in a snack, it's easier to just not have the snack in the first place.
Please suggest one actual real-world difference between the two platforms and why an average person would pick one over the other.
I used to use Python for this also but now use Ruby and have no desire to ever go back.

Its Perl-ish roots just make it a fantastic tool for the job.
I've spent a lot of time reading the science over the last year and a half or so. These claims of gaslighting go both ways. I've seen numerous studies passed off as fact and that have been used to guide policy with unacceptably low sampling sizes or other sampling problems.

I've seen very little 'good' science being conducted over the last year. You've got inadequately sampled studies throughout the duration of covid that have led to drastic policy decisions, I've seen biased studies coming from massive corporations being used to guide policy decisions and not one step along the way have I seen anyone who's gone...

'Hey wait a second, maybe we should check this data before we take drastic action'

Be listened to or taken seriously.
Here you go: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker
How AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Linked to Blood Clots
Presumably simply letting time pass in every step's state along this process is gathering meaningful data.

Jumping directly to "well we crashed the helicopter" would deprive you of answering questions like "how does the solar collector perform there?" "how are the heaters performing day after day?" "how does the helicopter fare resting on the surface throughout the varying conditions?" "Can we see a dust storm's effects on the airframe at rest and solar panels before flight maybe?" "how are the communications going? are they reliable in a dust storm?"

That's just off the top of my head... Don't forget Ingenuity is primarily a tech demo and learning mission, they're just gathering data and informing future flight-centric missions.

I think it's obvious that you'd leverage every pre-flight step as much as you possibly can, since flight has such a high risk of destroying the vehicle.
God save us from Bill Gates and Co
Remember, diet composition effects size, not some weird obsession with "calories in calories out" in some non-scientific cargo cult way.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you are right to the extreme: Covid kills a non-negligible fraction of people 65 and up and has zero mortality or long term consequences for people under 65. [0] Even if this were true, doing nothing to control the spread among under-65-year-olds would result in absolutely enormous numbers of cases over a fairly short period of time. Do you really expect that the large majority of people over 65 could be protected effectively when the considerable majority of under-65 people to whom they are exposed (caregivers, food providers, relatives, etc) get covid?

I do not believe that most of the world has responded in a particularly useful way to covid, but I do believe that masks are quite effective (especially N95 or comparable masks) at reducing the spread of covid in indoor spaces. So yes, mask mandates, at least indoors, make quite a lot of sense.

The school closure issue is harder. There seems to be surprisingly little data on the degree to which covid spreads among children compared to adults and the degree to which covid spreads from children to adults. But most schools consist of students indoors, in a poorly ventilated space, often crowded, talking, for hours a day. Read the article: this is prime covid-spreading conditions. Perhaps schools could have been allowed to remain open to the extent that they could move outdoors or drastically improve ventilation, but doing nothing seems likely to have been a very bad idea.

[0] This is not actually the case, obviously.
And where is Ramanujan???