skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family and I were outside in above 35C and 80% humidity for over 8 hours two weeks ago and everyone was fine. Lots of walking etc with no issues.
>There would be very possibly some money and influence involved from countries that do not share Swiss people values.

But then why not address that by banning foreign funding of construction of religious buildings? If Swiss Muslims want to build a minaret on their mosque I personally don't see the harm. But it's clear that others disagree.
Yes, you can have both both cold and hot extremes. No, this has fuck all to do with solar activity.
I am amazed the power grid hasn't failed yet. Might also be that not everyone has AC in BC?
That doesn't make it discriminatory.
there should be a law to allow whistleblowing through an NDA, if there can be a judgement made where doing so is in the public's interest.
It's only primed for abuse if your company is so incompetent that it has no idea what your actual job is supposed to be.

For a company like that, how hard is it really for someone inside the physical office to hide the fact that they're watching cat videos all day? What does the physical office space have anything to do with it? We basically carry around portable entertainment devices that can fit in our pocket.

On top of that, a lot of companies have sophisticated HR software that monitors employee activity, some that even takes periodic screenshots.

It’s hard for me to pin “abuse” on working from home.
I think it would be pretty hard to ensure that:

1) The prices offered by the muni-broadband aren't too low driving out all competition

2) The prices offered by the muni-broadband are low enough to force competitors to offer the best pricing

3) The cost to taxpayers of the muni-broadband are less then the decreased prices to consumers brought about by this competition.

The end result being, that I doubt a scenario where taxpayers benefit by funding a municipal competitor will actually work out.
Ew Study Proposes CW Networks: Greater Expressive Power Than GNNs
> Other than that, he seems to greatly exceed every other requirement.

Even this one?

"8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining, or artificial intelligence"
HR ask for god himself, hoping to hire a prophet, the best they get are believers.
I advise him to have a look at the code of classic games like Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake. He could pick up a trick or two from the geniuses who created those.
> The "home" is not somewhere young people can raise a family.

Thus is such a bizarre complaint. So what, of course not all housing types are for people in all situations. But a primary reason housing costs are so high is there is simply not enough housing. If something like this became popular and added considerable density it would make housing generally more affordable for everyone because currently unused land would have people living on it.
Unless you have an in (like, I don't know, being John Carmack), what's listed on the req are hard requirements.
Some people say "goin der" instead of "going there", that doesn't change the definitions of words, just because people are lazy with their language.
Even if SpaceX was his only company, he still is just one person. I'm not talking about Musk specifically, but CEOs generally. In almost no circumstance does it make sense to assign engineering success to a CEO in the way it was done above. CEOs are responsible for hiring executives and setting and enforcing vision and values. That's important but it isn't the whole story.
Reminds me of the comment that a 40 MPH car crash isn't potentially deadly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26470848
It's feature 3.2.97 missed this quarter, but serious general stagnation in the medium and long term: if junior office dwellers replace senior workers from home moving somewhere else very little is invented, let alone implemented.
There is that and then there is the fact that measuring for increasingly longer time periods will give you more and more extremes.

With two dice you usually start by rolling some 7's, a 10, etc. Then after many tries you will have rolled a 2 and a 12.

Edit: Note that this is not me saying I don't believe in climate change people!
Crippling sanctions that killed over a million did not lead Iraqis to overthrowing Saddam. And CCP has more control over its subjects than he did.
A common example I use is an Abstract Syntax Tree, which is essentially a mutually recursive polymorphic tree. In Elixir you might model this with a tuple labelled by an atom. With Haskell you'd use ADTs and pattern matching, which are easy to pick up because they're first class in the language but they're still something to learn. In Java, your understanding has to be a bit deeper; you'd have to learn about abstract classes. In C, you'd need to understand forward declaration and tagged unions.

Honestly I can't think of an example of anything which is harder to model in Haskell's type system, but I think the Java and C examples demonstrate that you do have to learn different type systems to model more complex examples.

I totally agree that type systems end up reducing cognitive overhead in the long run though.
Yeah because interpreting Fahrenheit degrees as Celsius in a topic about warming can create short bursts of stress.
I find the NDAs to be a bit of a red herring. The real point is what kinds of information must lawmakers be open about? The NDAs don't really matter here because if they restrict information you are legally entitled to, I don't see how they are enforceable. I mean what if there isn't any NDA, but the politician simply refuses to say what's happening. If citizens don't have any positive right to that information, what's the essential difference? You could vote the politician out later, but you could do the same for anyone signing the NDA as well.

So really I think the focus should be more on forcing politicians to be more open with their actions and for this to have the force of law. Then the NDAs become irrelevant. Of course this is an uphill battle since the laws probably need to be passed by the very people who are running the system, but I don't really see how that's avoidable outside of jurisdictions with forms of direct citizen initiatives.
probably wouldn’t pass the leetcode bullshit either, hiring is broken
That's a skill set requirement on the HR position's miminum standards.
Just wanted to throw one reference out there:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/48/30303.full.pdf

I found it interesting to read, having gone down a small rabbit-hole after your comment :)
I wrote a FORTAN program for a brokerage in 1983. They went out of business in 2008 and it was still running via TELNET. Someone still owns that IP
Sometimes I think anti-recommendations (e.g. asyncio) are far more useful. You don't learn a lot from many open source libraries or standard library modules if you try to imitate them. You must understand that this code is a compromise, then they stuck with it for compatibility reasons, and today you could have a much better API or simpler implementation if you started from scratch.
If you equate "be ambitious" with lying, that says more about you than it says about resumes or HR.
Oh, wow. Usually I get asked to estimate with very vague descriptions of what I am going to build, with hard pressure on date of delivery. At one point I said to a manager that if he pushes hard enough he will get any estimate he wants. Well, for the scientifically inclined, humans can estimate programming tasks that take around one hour with good precision. Precision declines until one week and anything over a month is virtually impossible to estimate.
How editable is raw JFIF data, really? You need to run it through some fancy graphics library before you can do anything with it. /s

It's not as much how you can hack around it but more about open-by-default and open-by-design.
Just as the OP said, these temperatures are deadly.

From https://www.houstontx.gov/health/Epidemiology/e-heat-illness....:

> In the summer of 2000, 26 deaths involving Houston residents were reported. In 2001, 13 deaths were due to heat.

From https://environmenttexas.org/news/txe/global-warming-increas...:

> Thursday, September 6, 2007, HOUSTON – The death toll from extreme heat in Houston each summer will increase from about 24 to nearly 32, resulting in 192 additional heat-related deaths by mid-century
The World Needs You
It was really a flippant comment on the state of the world today. I think it's still relevant. We are dealing with the affects very well, but not the cause. This is typical of how humans function and worth pointing out if only for gallows/morbid humour.
Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
OP here

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I first came across data science more than ten years ago on HN and that led me to pivot into a whole new career. So this is sort of a snapshot after nearly a decade working in the industry. The link at the top of this post is for a 50% discount for people coming from HN.

The permanent address for the book is dshiring.com

I'm happy to answer any questions about hiring for these roles (or about writing the book and self publishing).
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The Proximity to Genius Effect
Yeah, if you don't think there is a problem with lowering the requirements, that means you think it's ok to lower the requirements.

Because you're not losing out on imaginary "significantly more qualified than John Carmack" applicants.
Maybe he should spend time learning JS darling language of the month?
Maybe this is ridiculous but is there an ironic security upside in that? Systems become so old and increasingly proprietary, only a few people can make ends meat of it so fewer people would try and penetrate them? (I am not an engineer)
Are they more common? Summers and winters don't feel any different to me than what they were when I was a child, they just get talked about a LOT more (my specific geographic location is probably a factor).
Sounds amazing! Thanks, we will share this with our students.
I believe that steam rooms are incompatible with human life in the sense that you will overheat and eventually in a hot steam room. Most people are sensible and exit before this happens.
As a FAANG employee myself, I think your opinion of the average FAANG developer is perhaps a bit too generous.
> In retrospect, yes, it's fallacious thinking from the protesters if they thought they could successfully press for change just via the protests. But that's in retrospect, previously it might have worked.

Not exactly, it actually did work at least once. Protests in HK had been previously successful at stopping a national security law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_(Legislative.... The official protest demands were actually pretty modest, and I think even the biggest one (a fully elected government) is actually called for in the Basic Law.

> But as you suggest, the Chinese state is in a position where it doesn't have to care and will happily exterminate the protests.

It's worth noting that one of the protest anthems was "Do You Hear the People Sing?" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_the_People_Sing%3F) from Les Misérables, which is (in part) about a crushed pro-Democracy movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_ABC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Rebellion).
The "hard work" meme always made me feel awful, and I never knew why until I read "Leisure: the Basis of Culture". It's a philosophical book that explains the origin of this impulse to work for work's sake. It's a modern phenomenon, and it's not good.
Same with Svelte. We use SolidJS now.
"It's not even particularly hard"

Define hard here? Because there is a lot of bookkeeping involved, and, yes, to get some of the effects you have in Erlang that are necessary for reliability, you'd basically have to create your own runtime atop Go. I.e., yes, if you just want to "if this process fails, restart it", you can do that trivially in another language, but "if this process fails -kill these others and restart them from a known good state-" is devilishly hard, given that Go has no way to kill a running goroutine. You can send a message along a channel of "hey, you should stop", but if code execution in that goroutine never gets there, you have no guarantees.

And while the CPU doesn't have special instructions, the VM -does-. Exit signals are guaranteed in the language spec; a colocated supervisor is guaranteed to be able to both detect a failed process, and to be able to kill others. Go offers no such tooling, let alone such guarantees. I'd be quite interested if you say you did that; I suspect it was, as mentioned, just "hey, if an error comes out of this response channel, restart the goroutine". Possibly also a "here's a channel we can send 'kill' commands on, downstream goroutines should check it occasionally to see if they should terminate". A lot of bookkeeping, no guarantees.
For those interested in Canadian weather and temperature data there is a website https://www.weatherstats.ca/
Right, so
management will insist on ending WFH,
key workers will resign in droves,
management will convene meetings to understand the issue, resulting in new more liberal & permanent WFH policies

In short, they could avoid all the high costs related to unnecessary employee turnover by doing the same thing up front, but will fail to do so.

And the rule of thumb that you must switch jobs to advance salary & benefits is still true. The only way around it is to get the new offer and ask current employer to match it (this time WFH instead of salary), but that only works once per employer.
They can now. At the time this was not offered because the CCP was so against it.

In order to get the 1 country 2 systems deal the UK had to shelve the idea at the time. It was a massive gamble but it was probably worth trying for a peaceful hand over.

Since the CCP have broken their side of the agreement there's no longer a reason not to offer BNO citizens a route to UK citizenship now.
If you look at the hottest temperatures in Canada, you will see that many records are from the first half of the 20th century. What would people have thought at that time about their future? Maybe there was a guy who asked how we are not all totally screwed?

Almost one hundred years later, we are still here, enjoying life whenever governments don't lock us up. Outside my window it is pissing all day and it's let than 20°C at the end of June, so maybe we are not as screwed as you are thinking.

Here is a list with extreme temparatures from Canada:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_temperatures_i...
You joke, but one place I worked had just fired another "asciimov" for the role i took. The first week I was there, they kept asking if I had another name they could call me as they didn't like the former guy and calling me by name, "asciimov", bothered them.
I think these can actually mean the same thing here, it depends if the thing you're passing judgement on is interpreted to be the requirements, or the act of lowering the requirements.

You should worry about the requirements because they're bad and need fixing.

You shouldn't worry about the consequences of lowering the requirements because you weren't enforcing them anyway.
Who debugs the software when there's a problem?
>have you considered that?

It is a wise point that my opinion might be nothing except my laziness and stupidity of my friends whose opinions I'm being influenced with. But anyway I am not interested to rush, do not have a desire to visit other countries and do not have needness to contact people offline (except few friends, neighbours and collegues).

Maybe my main reason is that I do not think that it will be harder to get a dose tomorrow than today, and I am almost sure that tomorrow's vaccines will be more secure than today's. So, let all that rushers who is required to take a vaccine will be objects of experiment and I will be an observer.

>At least the people you see on the TV advising you get vaccinated are qualified, informed people.

Watching TV has some rules in our lands. For example, if a qualified and informed person tells that our local currency will grow very soon, everybody are going to banks asap for buying some Euro/Dollars and this is not a joke.
It's not just executives though. It's all staff. It's hard for a lot of people to take rather huge pay cuts to work at a non-profit.

Very few people at non-profits are "overpaid" when compared to salaries at a similar for profit company. Non-profits also have less tools available to pay their employees, such as stocks.
it's one of the most extraordinary details I've learned in biology. The thymus expresses cell types from around the body and trains the immune system to not recognize them as foreign:

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

it's not for genes, but for epitopes
I do feel bad for those who have lost their social net during the pandemic; loneliness sucks, I know it. At the same time, I find it hard to be sympathetic because - it must be nice to have had a social net to lose! For me personally, the isolation of the last year and a half has been a barely noticeable difference from the decades prior.
I can easily stay 15 minutes in a hammam. That is > 40°C and > 95% humidity. I think I have sometimes reached 30 minutes
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The extension is available, but you need the native component too:

> You MUST install native connector for this extension to work.
Burn tradition :)
Since I'm just in this thread again anyway: If that was your experience with lazy loading images I can relate, and understand where the negative impression is coming from. That wordpress script is probably loading the image only when the DOM object becomes visible, which will always cause the loading process to be noticeable. Shortly on good connections with small images, so it won't matter much there, but that experience gets worse for slower connections and bigger images of course.

My background that made me write the comment above is that I implemented lazy loading for a feedreader in JS, with predictive early loading to exactly avoid this problem, and I did test the browser feature just recently again. In those scenarios lazy loading really does work well enough for my statement to be true, according to my testing. For common connection speeds and image sizes only of course. Though I'd argue it also helps in less optimal scenarios exactly because it somewhat decouples the image loading from the page load - that that overall experience was horrible on long threads with many images in the feedreader was why the lazy loading feature was added, the contrast was stark.

I should have defined that better in the comment above and given your experience more validity. Next time :)
> Allowing employees to apply to be permanent remote employees

We'll see how this plays out, but I'm expecting this to be just a ploy to keep people from leaving right away and 95%+ requests to be remote will ultimately be denied.
Would you hire an unlicensed electrician to wire your house?
Most people don't because it normally doesn't get that hot in vancouver. It's similar to San Francisco - when it gets hot no oone has AC because they rely on the natural air conditioning of the ocean.
And, like, the entire American south
You can also buy ice packs that you wear draped around your neck. It cools the blood flowing to your cartoid artery, along with the general area. Works really well.
Well, I said infeasible, not impossible.

You can do a large chunk of the work yourself (with a crew). But utility hookups are a no-no without a license. And you'll probably need to hire a crane operator at some point. Plus, there are a ton of building codes in regions that are different from other regions. So you'd better get those all right unless you enjoy rework.
Given your take, what kind of evidence would you envision seeing that would give you certainty that anthro cc is going on? Would the evidence arrive before it was too late to do anything?
If you do any power or natural gas trading with Goldman as a counter party they'll most likely be listed as J. Aron.
Flooding will take a while because melting is slow. Eventually it’ll be extra-bad because of isostatic rebound of Antarctic continent, but that will take thousands of years.

Which is my broader point, people are thinking imprecisely about climate change in favor of catastrophizing.

I understand why, and emotional impact is maybe(?) needed for action- but it isn’t helpful for actually thinking about what to do.
Low code table for fast EDA
The "because" in your last bit is a huge leap.

It wasn't trained on internal Microsoft code because the training set is publicly available code. It has nothing to do with whether or not it suggests exactly identical, functionally identical, or similar code. MS internal isn't publicly available. Copilot is trained on publicly available code.
> Could it be then that this is a communication problem between the Engineering team and the HRD? After all, the Eng'g team writes the requirements for the job post, HRD just checks it and makes it look attractive.

It depends on the HR department. Some are under pressure to "add value" to hiring, so they insist on rewriting job reqs and screening all applicants. At a Fortune 50 company I worked at, my boss got in trouble because he sweet-talked someone in HR to print out all the resumes they rejected and secretly deliver them to him. He resorted to this after he informally recruited a new hire, wrote a job description specifically targeted at them, and then, after waiting two weeks for their application to filter through the system, found out that HR round-filed it because they supposedly weren't qualified.

HR refused to collaborate with him on editing job descriptions, so every time he submitted one, he had to check every day until he found out what garbage they posted so he could go beg them to fix it. They would randomly add technologies and "change the wording" of desired qualifications (how do you "change the wording" of proper nouns and jargon from somebody else's field?) and they were especially fond of turning nice-to-haves into absolute requirements because we supposedly didn't have enough. My boss was convinced they were under pressure to filter out a target percentage of applicants, because he begged them to just pass all the resumes to him, and they refused, hence his cloak-and-dagger tactics to get his hands on them.
Some friends and I had a run of those printed up as stickers for laptops, etc.
The article is about link rot, not cultural rot.
Without weighing in on the overall question of “is this a license violation”, you’ve created a false dichotomy.

“GitHub included Microsoft proprietary code in the training set because they view the results as non-derivative” and “GitHub didn’t include Microsoft proprietary code because they view the results as derivative” are clearly not the only options. They could have not included Microsoft internal code because it was way easier to just use the entire open source corpus, for example.
What collateral is held by the lenders? I mean at some point you it seems correct to just declare the entire deal off, but that only works if you can tell the lenders to pound sand. If they were okay pissing off China, they could come out okay, but I guess it depends on what other pressures exist.

edit: Missed this comment which essentially answers my question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27688719