skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The honeyed words of social justice are more important than great, well executed products, apparently.

I like how all the other comments are pointing out that the forces behind an acquisition are never good for 'focused products' and then there's this comment that shows us the truth, it's those damn kids and their social justice that ruins the products.
I'm not certain what policies exist within Amazon or what the expected URA rate is. But I can say that as a tech interviewer at Amazon, it is not possible for a hiring manager to hire people they plan to fire. The choice is not theirs.

In any interview loop, there are 4-6 interviewers. One is the hiring manager or a substitute for them. One is the Bar Raiser, an experienced interviewer with extra training. And the rest are guys like me who took training on how to interview.

When we've all had our time with the candidate, we meet back up to discuss. And at the end, the Bar Raiser- not the HM- makes the decision.

> Amazon managers are hiring people they otherwise wouldn't, or shouldn't, just so they can later fire them to hit their goal

How? It's not their choice. An HM can voice their opinion that a given candidate is great, they love them, they want them, etc, but they can't overrule the BR, who is trained to watch for bad calls by HMs.

If the author wanted to criticize the concept of URA, I'm with them. I don't think it's a good way to operate at all. But when you double down your criticism with untrue things in order to get better press, you undermine the original valid point.
Log probabilities are used a bit for this, and most numeric packages (numpy for instance) have special functions for computing log(1+x) which are more accurate when x is tiny.
She will sometimes tell you about features related to whatever you asked of her--and sometimes those are paid things she's talking about. For example, playing songs at the tier that comes with Prime and she might talk about Amazon Music.
Nope. Meat farming is a huge source of greenhouse gases, especially methane from cows.
Yeah but why do those who survive survive?
Letters from SEC claim Tesla breached deal to police Elon Musk's tweets
At first I thought this had something to do with the classic "breadth vs. depth" notion on learning stuff -- if you're preparing for the MCAT it is better to have breadth that covers all the topics than depth in one or two particulars for the exam, but this is actually just about the dimensions of the neural network used to create representations. Naturally, one would expect a "sweet spot" or series of "sweet spots."

From the paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.15327.pdf

> As the model gets wider or deeper, we seethe emergence of a distinctive block structure— a considerable range of hidden layers that have very high representation similarity (seen as a yellow square on the heatmap). This block structure mostly appears in the later layers (the last two stages) of the network.

I wonder if we could do similar analysis on the human brain and find "high representational similarity" for people who do the same task over and over again, such as play chess.

Also, I don't really know what sort of data they are analyzing or looking at with these NN, maybe someone with better scansion can let me know?
This has been brought up: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/26264#discussion_r640...

Though personally I would dislike this, since every time somebody mentioned about type hints they commented on the property of them not causing 'ANY RUNTIME EFFECTS'. Of course the specializations come with guards, so if the annotation is wrong it is just going to work as a mispredicted option and fallback to the generic implementation though the concept of them changing the initial layer of optimizations is not something that I'd rather see in 'the Python language. PEP 563 even moves this properties forward and renders them totally uneffective in the eyes of the interpreter.
The problem with this approach is that for any individual who says "I don't deserve a 3 this quarter" there is someone who says "I'm a 4 this quarter or I'll look elsewhere". Managers optimize for the (polite) squeaky wheel and have finite promotions/resources too allocate in a given quarter.
Chat apps are worse now than they were in the past. Aside from what you mention, I yearn for a desktop-native client, not browser based or Electron.
Also insane side note that Prosus’s warchest of ~200B came from this investment.

From the article:

“ Prosus invests globally across a range of online platforms focused on areas such as food delivery, classifieds and fintech. It also maintains a more than $200 billion holding in Tencent. Prosus’ parent company, Naspers Ltd. , acquired the Tencent stake in 2001 for $34 million.”
If your main “self-expression” statement is that you want to look like others, is that really self-expression, or were you just brainwashed?
Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announ...
Green is close to the center of the visible light spectrum. If somebody wanted to track it visually from a great distance, (perhaps from a nearby mountain?) this would make it easier to spot.

This would be beneficial for a two person team. The drone operator watching the video feed and a spotter providing positions of pursuit aircraft.
I like fashion because of the creativity

I also like that I know where to find people that have the bodies that less attractive women say are not real

Just don't say anything at the tech company, or nod and agree so that your coding academy graduates or state mandated board member doesnt axe your entire division, and then go get greeted by your bubbly atmosphere models after work
AWS-budget-limiter: Simple Terraform script for capping monthly AWS spend
Couldn't agree more. By providing tools that allow you to "reach in" to every part of their ecosystem, from their OS to their productivity suites to their cloud offerings, they're creating a very comfy lock-in that would be hard to justify your way out of.
Authorities on alert as elephants’ 500km trek nears Chinese city
Toyota makes a version of the Outback, it's called the Venza. People ignore it and buy the Highlander instead.
Likewise, I remain shocked how broad and bipartisan the support for expanding government power is. After the past four years I certainly have learned the lesson that I want to be more circumspect about what power I give the government over my life, but I seem to be in the minority here.
The gulf coast may have a higher population than the west coast depending where the line is. So three heavily populated coasts. Supposedly something like 2/3 of the population lives in the 100 mile border zone.
I for one would have fully loved to have Stack Overflow be bought by Github/Microsoft, and just replace Github discussions. Of course there are topics that fall outside of the scope of repos but ... fully contextualized communities belonging to repos all in one place would have been very powerful.
Building multiple Progressive Web Apps on the same domain
bb88's conjecture: close personal relationships trump management metrics.
They are nice enough vehicles but they are ugly crossovers, in my opinion. For that kind of money I'd rather buy a beautiful wagon.
Even assuming that all hardware is backdoored, it can still make sense to use hardware from your own country, since your own government probably doesn’t want to harm its own economic interests.
I exercise for my blood pressure (you might've caught that in the comment you were responding to), but thanks for the suggestion!

He specifically says classical music is the only acceptable kind, and the vast majority of the history of classical music was devoid of non-white people.

You should read the things you're responding to a little better - it'll do wonders for your comprehension.
I personally don't dislike the concepts of trusted computing. As much as I love to tinker with things, the last thing I want is some data appliance being remotely exploitable.

I think all the devices that provide more security by being heavily locked down should basically have a tinker switch. If you really want to write your own firmware for your phone or your dishwasher, flip it to tinker mode which locks you (maybe permanently) out of the software it shipped it and let you flash whatever on to it. The manufacturer gets to waive all responsibility for your safety (digital, physical, etc.) from that point onward.

Bonus points if it just blows away the keys to the onboard software so you can use the security mechanisms for your own code.
Top 3% for me, I guess on the strength of being early in the iOS ecosystem, inactive for a decade

My questions seem lame and my top answer is my own question: https://stackoverflow.com/users/108512/andrew-johnson?tab=pr...
I grind up some beans and put them into a portafilter on a small scale, to a rough ~16-17g weight, then tamp it down and run a no-fuss ~$100USD breville espresso machine on it until it's about 34-40g pulled, then pour in ~140g of water I boiled in an electric kettle.

Your method sounds to me like it'd have some grounds and fines floating around in it, which is okay but I'm not a huge fan personally, and it'll also be multiple things to wash (though, they sound like easy washes). I also don't have nice coverable drinking bowls, or even very nice cookware for boiling water up in.

My method's pretty easy twice a day, but it's not perfect either: I couldn't make this somewhere else, but... I do live here. :) That said, it did take a while for me to find a good grind size with my machine, and to find scales and cups that fit under my espresso machine's group head and had the right range etc required, and I've got to wash my little espresso cup I pour into, and I had to buy my own non-pressurized portafilter basket, so it took some real time to come together right.

I'll have to try your way out!
Good essay, but a little short on examples of how philosophers actually think. Here's a famous example, a paper written by philosophers to poke fun at their profession. A dialogue that opens with "if you believe that only material objects can exist, do holes exist?" and goes to pretty ridiculous depth. http://home.sandiego.edu/~baber/metaphysics/readings/Lewis&L...

I've read a lot of philosophical reasoning that was similar in spirit to this paper, and can't quite say if I'm a fan of it or not. All I can say is, it's not as good at finding definitive answers as mathematics (which I also love), but it sure can uncover a lot of questions.
Ah, yep forgot about that one. Rolls Royce and GE are the options.
Why would children be afraid of being punished for doing what's right?
I really like Netflix's metaphor that they are like a sports team. You don't stack rank your team and fire the bottom 15% of your team every year, especially when the team members work well together.
I’m always amazed at how we price stuff. A social media startup being bought for $10B is not surprising but a cornerstone of modern day software development is a mere $2B. But I’m biased of course.
Wow, now that's impressive:

https://youtu.be/DPGDAZyQ44k?t=139
Because in most other languages, an array is an enumeration of values. That's it.

In Javascript, arrays are actually dictionaries. But not full dictionaries, rather just dictionaries that can have either a string or numeric key.

It's messy because an array in javascript isn't just "an array" it's this mismesh of features that are unexpected to a new-to-javascript developer.

Unexpected is the enemy of readable code.
> I think the nature of internet forums is that they can bring out the most neurotic personally traits

Obligatory warning to HN readers to tread lightly if you are feeling mechanical keyboard curious.
Just paste the URL into the Wayback Machine.

Actually don't bother, there is almost nothing to see.
Same. “Top N%” looks to just use score, and momentum on old answers is a big deal. I’m top 0.24%, with my score having increased by about 50% (25,000) in the last 3½ years (as far as their little chart shows), overwhelmingly because of momentum on old answers from 2010–2015—for during that time I’ve only made a handful of edits, three question, and six answers, three of which were for my own three questions.
I agree, but the "agile" I know is actually about less process and more communication to deal with reality.
According to my reading, HN is full of complaints about new phones (and everything else, e.g. washing machines) being built with “planned obsolescence” as a goal, and praise for Apple for being by far the best in supporting old devices (but of course they could still improve!)
That editorial advocates nothing of the sort. It's talking about studying viruses in the lab to improve our ability to fight them, and specifically mentions the risks involved and the need to keep these studies/viruses secure.
Mine is a Stanley 48oz french press made of 18/8 stainless. It was not cheap, but it is quite durable for camping and travel. I use a manual grinder with it and I try to use filtered water for boiling.
Seems weird. Amazon has this whole bar raiser concept which means that there's a few folks who ensure that new hires basically exceed the standard. It should be the sort of program that filters out this type of hiring.

Separately, I think companies in general are doing performance management all wrong anyway. We focus on individuals; not on teams and we ask the wrong questions.
I've been using LTSB/LTSC since 2016 as my daily driver, and it's been great.
What in your opinion is “the point?”

To me as an SRE, the steps you mentioned sound entirely reasonable.
In the same vein, I actively unfollow or hide all forms of news on Facebook. Including friends who just can’t help but post political commentary all the time.

Now my feed is funny, sports, friends and family.
Also of note: Groupon turned down $6B from Google. They now have a market cap of $1.6B 11 years later.

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/win-win-daily/win%C2%AD-wi...
> nearly any nontrivial web page from 10+ years ago is broken today

Can you provide some examples? In my experience broken 10+ year old websites is the exception, not the rule. And most of the exception is because flash (which has a workaround; plus most popular flash websites have been ported).
> No, I was talking about contractors keeping ownership of the code, for example, that people are paying them to make under contract.

Great in theory, rare in practice. Usually when someone reaches the point where the code they’re writing for a company is self-contained and re-usable by other companies, they’re building a product rather than writing code.

Not strictly an app, but it’s still a product that must be maintained, supported, and sold.

I’ve hired many contractors and contracting companies to build code, features, or even products over the years. I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d willingly give any of them a license to maintain ownership of what I’m paying them to write and, even worse, a license to resell it to companies that are likely to be my competitors.
It looks like GitHub Discussions is sort of filling a similar niche--I'm guessing they're banking on being able to build that out for less than $1B--since they already have GitHub, they don't benefit as much from the StackOverflow user network / brand. I think that makes sense.
Why not do it like the U.S. and just show off the weapon on soil with domestic press coverage and not risk a diplomatic incident? You don't have to show your whole hand, iirc when they showed the press the B2 they didn't let them see the rear of the plane.
Why not make a benchmark which is also open and reproducible?
I can assure you that they have not.

The landing page for expertsexchange.com just says "Coming soon.", and if you view it with redirects turned on, you're sent to a page offering to sell it, owned by Venture.com.

# curl expertsexchange.com
<html><head><title>expertsexchange.com</title></head><body><h1>expertsexchange.com</h1><p>Coming soon.</p></body></html>

# dig +short expertsexchange.com | head -3 | paste -sd,
96.126.123.244,45.79.19.196,45.33.2.79

# dig +short experts-exchange.com | head -3 | paste -sd,
104.22.5.165,104.22.4.165,172.67.36.241

# whois experts-exchange.com | grep Registrar
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com

# whois expertsexchange.com | grep Registrar
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.uniregistrar.com

Oh and apparently, if you don't have adblock then you get a whole bunch of ads[0] that I'm presuming are based on this particular crawler's browsing habits?

[0]: https://archive.ph/bJKtW
How would deterrence work when no one has any idea who the drone belonged to?
There are a few inconsistencies that lead me to not believe the numbers.

>>It was last seen climbing through 14,000’ and into the undercast, where it disappeared.

>>Department's helicopter was unable to observe the drone when looking through night vision goggles.

If this was heading up to 14k while being chased by helicopters, it wasn't a battery-powered quad. A medium sized drone would have to be powered by IC to perform like that. If it was IC, or even high-powered batteries, it would have been hot enough to look like a flare under night vision goggles.

Or, it didn't go to 14k. It sounds to me like the chase helo lost sight of it and assumed that was because it hit the clouds. The light was dim and the drone had a single flashing light. It is very difficult to judge distance to a single light in twilight. The helicopter could easily have misjudged the distance/altitude. I think the helicopter lost sight because the drone turned off the flashing light. Or maybe the drone lost power and fell. Either way, the chasing helicopter thought it had hit the cloud layer when it fact the drone might have been much lower.

And 14k is 4k above where the police helicopter would have stopped climbing. Aircraft heading above 10k are going to want pressurization and/or oxygen masks. A cop helicopter won't go that high willingly.

>>the fact that it outran two law enforcement helicopters is also concerning

That doesn't mean much. Law enforcement helicopters are nothing special. A fast car or motorcycle can outrun a helicopter in a strait line. And cop helicopters aren't meant to enforce air rules. Every Cessna-172 can outrun a police helicopter. Heck, at night a Cesna-152 could probably evade them, especially if the helos are trying to obey the rules for flying near airports.

Lastly, given the collision risk involved in "chasing" anything in the air, I'm surprised these helicopters were even allowed to give chase. If I were ATC and saw a cop helicopter chasing another smaller helicopter/drone over a populated area I would do my best to stop this before both crashed into a school.
Didn't ACG just acquire linuxacademy?
Conditional HTTP GET: The fastest requests need no response body
You just made me check - "top 0.84% overall". Haven't posted in a long long time and it looks like my points keep growing pretty much linearly.
We're not even counting the storage of memory, storage of connections between them, and dynamic growth of storage.
The grasshopper escapement was invented by John Harrison, who built the first clocks that could keep time at sea. These were used to calculate Longitude. There's a nice short biography called Longitude that covers his story.
Is this how it works in the non-tech parts of amazon?
Holy shit it was China after all. They linked to this in the article.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36085/troubling-drone-...

That is terrifying.

They commit brazen acts of cyber espionage targeting our infrastructure all the time so it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for them to do something like this.
IMO (shameless plug, I'm the author) the best way to manage Python environments with Nix is poetry2nix: https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix.
yeah, he’s a product of a publishing system that at the time was voraciously hungry for content and the fact that he was good at churning it out. for what it’s worth i think that this kind of set up where quantity is prioritised over quality has lead to some of the most vital cultural flourishings of post ww2 years: electronic dance music in the late 80s early 90s, comic books in the 60 & 70s, video games in the 80s
Ask HN: How to walk away from low paying clients/work
When a new opportunity arrives, what process do you follow to make sure the client is not a low paying or their budget is in your ballpark.

Do you ask straight about their budget?

Do you mention your hourly rate from the start?

The point is to assess the financial benefit you would achieve without wasting time on discussions like project requirements, scope etc.
> And remember, they were a bunch of nobodies based out of South Africa when that happened.

Hard disagree - they weren't nobodies, Naspers was already a media juggernaut by 2001 (print and TV). Naspers was founded in 1915 (as De Nasionale Pers Beperkt - National Press) to promote Afrikaner Nationalism in the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer war. One of Naspers founders was also the founding president of the National Party (you might know them from their hit - Apartheid) and the mutually-beneficial, cozy arrangement between the NP and Nasionale Pers lasted until the very end of the Apartheid government in 1992.
Mostly luck.
Solar panels will use up all the sun and then the plants will die
I don't exactly disagree with the premise but the tone is so authoritative and harsh that it's difficult to take seriously.

Not to mention pulling out "A Brave New World" after the first paragraph. This reads like a college freshman essay, including the typos. It's "time and time again" not "times and times again".
Isn't that survivorship bias in action? Good solutions that not only work, but work well and don't hit the tech limitations would never be seen like developers like you, because they would never need to be rewritten.
Depends on the country, really. I work for one of these in the EU country with excellent labor/employment laws and I have it much easier than my US counterparts.
I know what you mean, the Bay area is an area on its own.I would always encourage applicants to apply. It really depends on the role, the seniority and technical assessment.
Figured since we can observe the same phenomena everywhere in EU.

Regardless, by this point I think it is inevitable some of the hardcore right wing politics will enter mainstream; we (as in Europe as a whole) took too many immigrants without any consideration of how to manage them.

Lest anyone try to throw the nazi card my way it should be stated that this is a failure born from rigid top-down management structure of the EU which does not even remotely have the flexibility required to manage external shock events like this. Same reason why the joint debt mechanism being forced on the excuse of COVID is a horrible idea and will end in tears for many.
What is good for the company is not necessarily good for developers or community.
Halloween Problem
The alternative being the pretty-much-just-as-short indices.map(i => myObjectArr[i])?
It's happening just a few too many times but when I let my phone inside when going out for long I can sense a little "should I go back in case ..." followed by a "to hell with the web" while my brain oozing of joy. A deep "finally.."

Super strange honestly
It's crazy the kind of hero worship towards anyone who makes a ton of money. When you account for all the smart people hustling trying to make their startup work, you realize it boils down to luck. Which, of course, is not a great comfort to most people since we all want to believe we can achieve anything if we only work hard enough.
Hence why I said "raw organic data." I didn't say memories or exactly the space of an actual brain. Plus, it's just a simple fun way to think of something in terms we can understand. I as well as everybody else is fully aware it's not that simple.
You should likely not pay to a pension fund as a freelancer in Germany. The payout is atrocious, you'll likely never even recoup the contribution let alone interest. Seems it's much better to just invest after taxes.