skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've likely been using them since before they were acquired by Neustar, and therefore they probably have the on-premise edition, while new customers would be pushed towards the cloud version.

It happens very often with enterprise software.
Probably going to be fine seems a strange sentiment when today already a lot of people are adversely affected and whole nations are threatened. Seems to be the line of reasoning similar to that half a million covid deaths in the US are "fine".
Ha. In fact, you could hardly be more wrong.

https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/robert-mueller-helped-saudi-ar...
I'd interpret it differently as well - that the HR person realized that the compensation they could pay would not match what was required and they didn't want to deal with woo'ing the candidate only to offer a lowball offer they would refuse.
Sauna are dry. The wet ones are hammam.
the statement as written is not specific enough to be useful. We certainly have moved genes and entire synthetic pathways between organisms.
> Fuel costs for small aircraft are sky-high

From the BBC link:

The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, is equipped with a BMW engine and runs on regular petrol-pump fuel.
I often think about this The Onion article[1]: https://www.theonion.com/97-year-old-dies-unaware-of-being-v...

A tragedy that she never discovered her violin talent. All that life and she never wowed audiences or had a TV show special or met the Pope. All she had were these poxy supportive family, friends, and community experiences.

Who could be satisfied with merely that?

[1] it's fictional/satire, just to be clear.
The Puppy of Tindalos! Ia!
Disney's intellectual property would be a good choice for this exercise
Eucalyptus trees also guzzle water and are extremely flammable. I suspect that gains are significantly offset by the occasional forest fire and damage to surrounding plant life.
They might be able to hire boatloads of new/early grads but attrition of senior staff is no joke. Maybe they’re large enough to throw people at the problem and survive, IDK.
within a year? probably pretty aggressive goal. Cheap case, $50k for the unit, $10k all setups (really really conservative).

that's $5k revenue per month, or ~$165 per night averaged. Yes, some places could rent for ~$200/night, but I doubt you'll have 100% occupancy rate.
Since quite a lot of Microsoft code is on GitHub, I'd say yes.
As someone who wants to stay remote, this theory gave me anxiety.
Domains, if not outright sold by the owner, should die then.
In the most frequent circumstance - my 3 year old hitting his 1 year old sister - my first step is to pick her up, give her sympathetic attention, and whisk her out of the room. So safety is no longer an issue, and the hitter has a moment to cool off, which they typically need. More importantly, he's feeling attention drain out of the room - while undramatic, this is enormously impactful. In the psychological conditioning literature, this is called "extinction" - you're taking away the stimulus that he's been looking for.

I'm sure there are circumstances where there's not much choice but to step in, but think hard and creatively about ways to mitigate the safety issue while removing attention. We're so driven to step in and make a scene that this is often painfully difficult.
If by "look like", you mean they have bright-colored illustrations and text on them - that comparison would make sense.
If they didn't do this, insulin would be fundamentally more expensive. Making a cheap version available at prices that a typical American can afford even without insurance, seems like a BIG step forward.
Communication is a two-way effort.
Given a programming context we are always writing code on an abstraction layer, such a layer (which can be as granular as a language construct or a function) can accommodate features. We essentially encode our feature in terms of the given abstraction(s).

Now I didn't read the book but I immediately thought of this: If we want to provide a feature, we should think of how our abstractions accommodate the feature. Are the assumptions or the interface of the abstractions in line with the functionality, or guarantees of the feature?

A good example of this would be HTTP REST. The interface is general and has clear, well defined semantics. It is a good abstraction for the web, since every request/response cycle has a clear way of reaching possible states and resources. It accommodates new features very well if they can be encoded in terms of HTTP verbs, hypertext representation and request/response cycles.
What if....a rich guy made an island just for these species, and turned it into a sort of amusement park for Jurassic-era species?
The First Hacker
Based on the story it's also entirely possible that the HR person just disliked the guy for some unrelated reason, or had someone else in mind for the role, and came up a plausible excuse for the rejection.
Professional software developers, i.e. members of one of the well-paid professions that is not under immediate threat from automation.
Google still works, you just need to be very specific on your search criteria (e.g. site:). I do agree on the premise that good quality data, art and content has been lost to the winds of time.
Scant technical details in the article, but I assume this is part of a "Proof of Identity" scheme.

I think, ultimately, Proof of Identity solves a lot of "fairness" problems that other schemes don't solve, things like having coins minted by a fair lottery system or making sure airdrops don't get gamed, etc.

In general, what I'd like to see more with identity systems is the ability to have pseudonyms. eg. I should be able to prove to Service X that I am the only "me" on their platform, but I don't necessarily want you to associate with the Service X "me" with the "me" that's on Service Y.

For some reason, companies that are working on these kind of identity systems always seem to overlook that use case. Perhaps it doesn't sound good in the pitch to their investors.
>> are going to females

Women, you mean Women.
Bingo... when I was a kid, we lived south of Miami and were part of a cult (different story for a different time, lol). We spent a lot of the summer time on intersections handing out miscellaneous religious texts to commuters in their cars. In any case, the wet t-shirt concept was too uncomfortable and chaffed.

Instead, we ended up taking our baseball caps, dipping them in freezing cold water coolers, and putting them on our head. You'd get like, 20 minutes of relief before returning to dunk the hat again. Having the soaking hat drip on your face and neck provides a similar experience to running your head under cold water without needing an accessible spigot.
I work at a place now that ditched the time estimates and the sprint planning meetings and standups that go along with that and it's so much better.

Time estimates are always wrong, it always slips to the right. This is always used against you. You suffer because of it. Your work suffers because of this.

I get a couple extra hours a week by not doing daily standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, etc etc. This allows tasks to be shipped faster.

If there's a problem I communicate it up and stakeholders understand.

Want to know how long it might take? Look at some historical tasks in Jira and compare timestamps.
Well, it is unavailable on Amazon...

https://www.amazon.com/KGB-Computer-Me-VHS/dp/B00004Y50L

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B000JLM0RQ/ref=atv_dp...
WTC7
Absolutely false. Access to pornography during early sexual development has an obvious impact on people's ability to process sexual intimacy and intimacy in general. This has been studied and really isn't up for debate at this point.

You can let a kid pick up a videogame and let him shoot people in the head all day with probably no major effect on his psyche. What if you showed that same kid a video of someone having their head blown off?

There's literally a reason why there are laws against children seeing pornography, and to say it has no effect on the development of the brain is ridiculous.
So is "STEM degree". Perhaps we should stop recruiting anyone with a STEM background?
> One of the most annoying and ignorant dismissals of climate change you can hear from denialists in Canada is "oh it won't be so bad for us, we could really use the warmer weather up here in Canada lol".

You can always ask them if they're also looking forward to dozens of millions of climate migrants from South East Asia, Latin America, and Africa, once those places become warmer. Emphasize that those migrants would move into their province or town.
I guess it depends where you live. In Canada, more women have University degrees than men. It's been that way for a while.

And outside the US, university can cost, but isn't a back breaker. Or it's free.

I wonder how much this is a US problem. Most Canadian computing jobs, which I get sent, seem to specify "or experience" as an alternative to a degree.
I thought seaweed was supposed to prevent bovine methane emmisions?
It’s not hard. It’s not as though Sundar Pichai sends out a survey to all Google employees. He asks the VPs, and the VPs ask their reports and so on and so forth. I have no doubt there’s data from middle management that is getting weighed more than that of the people they manage.
One person's estimate is different from another person's estimate. The hole that most developers dig for themselves starts with a fixation on having perfect numbers and that they'll be punished if they don't have these. Estimation is often a part of negotiation separate from commitments, but developers treat it as a pure analysis game.

This results in punishment for poor communication. The punishment starts when they claim they can't provide anything that approaches estimate, or attempt to weasel out of a discussion. It should be clear to the customer when and how you are delivering commitments. Poor communication turns an estimation discussion into one where a developer has overcommitted.

Even if you can assign zero time estimates to tasks, or even zero estimates for how long time estimating task will take, you can provide a view on how you'd go about it and the relative priorities for your investigation. This is a critical part of building trust which is necessary for the long-term success of any project. Communicating a clear perspective that does not make commitments is important for building the relationship which will give you wiggle room late on when you have to make adjustments.

When a commitment is made to the customer, any associated estimate needs to be provided along with context. Providing a confidence number leads to misinterpretation because different tasks may require different analyses. It is better to encode it in some other way to highlight things like: multiple interviews conducted, whether a coding spike was done in the area, whether support contracts are in place for the 3rd party service required, etc.

As the project progresses, there should be some kind of update to those commitments. This is where again it gets scary for people because they don't like having these candid discussions.

In all of this, I don't prescribe any methodology. This can fit with any methodology, but you have to find a way to fit it in. Waterfall has lots of clear points where commitments are made, but it doesn't have the feedback mechanism in its purest form. Updating commitments is essentially part of "agile", but the recording and communication can sometimes be a challenge. The job of the developer is do enough of the right work to set the right commitments and communicate around them.
This is only true if the set of possible outcomes has remained static and if the probabilities of each outcome has remained static. With climate change the probabilities have shifted and the possible outcomes may have shifted too.
I have to deal with this problem living in a room with no AC/central air and I have some tips that may be useful for others in the same situation.

1. Put a frozen water bottle under your shirt. Keep backups in the freezer to cycle from. It seriously feels amazing and sucks the heat out of your body.

2. Use two or more fans, one good one to blow air at yourself and another one that is redirecting hot air away from you (so it's facing somewhere away from you). It's just like how airflow in a computer works I guess lol

3. Have ice always available, drink a ton of ice water and stay hydrated.

The difference between doing these things and not doing these things for me is having a somewhat productive day vs spending the whole day doing nothing.
Science journal editor says he quit over China boycott article
Well, that was my point about SWF files. You could edit them with the right tools. But like WASM, they are far less editable than the original source files.

Unfortunately, there are very practical performance reasons to send information in a "compiled," less-editable format. Which is why even static sites nowadays typically use some type of build system.
As a non-fang employee, I will gladly scab any of them that are not willing to go back to the office.
"Overhead" is a large part of costs, and profit is often contractually limited in government contracts. But much of the profit is hidden in the markup, which can sometimes be 50%, meaning you pay $1.50 for $1.00 of supplies, labor, etc.
That's certainly possible :)

Even as someone with over a decade of work experience it's somewhat aspirational to work for a FAANG and get that big paycheck and all those RSUs. But no WFH is a deal-breaker unless they start opening up offices in Milwaukee soon.
And go back to about 1920 to 1950, you see the same trend.
this is an uplifting example, however, in business, it is not sacrifice in the same way. Business is about making profit, and extracting profit is what they do.. I was told by a retired consultant with decades of experience -- fifty percent of companies manage through fear. That is, you work hard there, or require others to work hard, because, you will be punished or terminated. End of story.
But again I don't see how these things can be used as arguments to not get vaccinated. There are drugs legal in the US and not in EU, same for food, cosmetics, cars, &c.

Russia and the EU are disagreeing about a looot of things all the time since Russia and the EU exist.

"I'm not taking vaccine X because vaccine Y isn't allowed in my country", you do you but this isn't logical.
There was a long article linked on HN a while back, about how you can't start a company or invent something unless it's the right time, you can't rush innovation just because you try hard. It was gwern-style detailed and full of references and citations, not just a top of the head opinion piece.

Anyone have a clue what it was or where?
I don't see how the desktop metaphor is at odds with picture-in-picture. It creates a window which the window manager allows moving around.

In-browser screenshot tool is useful since it allows you to take a screenshot when scrolling, that is when a part bigger than the displayed page is required. Also it can screenshot a specific element. Not sure what tool the author is using but none I've tried allowed to do this.
>can make ends meat

This is called burnt ends security
I am particularly interested in the interviews. Will be great to read different perspectives as the industry has changed so much recently.
Erlang was originally designed to have a great concurrency model that ran on a single core CPU! Preemptive scheduling is super cool!
It’s definitely not about memorizing, and it should be challenging.
Look at the USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/
Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.
This is a great post, but why doesn't it have a date?

It's infuriating to see blog posts or even news that don't clearly display the publish date near the title.
If the state or employer is required or expected to supply additional benefits to people working abroad, the benefit to the state or employer in substituting workers with less ability (legally or otherwise) to claim or obtain those benefits is even larger than it might be in-country. (I'm ignoring the obvious issue of it potentially being less legally or politically easy to handle here as the parent comment does not mention these at all).

It sounds like you have an anecdote about some people you know working on these projects, but the details that seem intended to imply that it's unlikely that _any_ people working these projects are Chinese prisoners actually imply the opposite.
What slowdown? My FB stock is up 100% since March 2020. Seems to me they are expecting even more power coming out of covid. Their influence on society has grown even stronger in the past year and a half.
Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment
I think copyright is a problem for GPL-like licenses. They should have restricted the training data to MIT/BSD-like.

Anyway, there is another problem that is patents and is huger, much huger. I think the Apache license has a provision about patents, but most of other licenses may have code that has patents and if the AI generate something similar it may be included in the patent.
That's why I keep applying for jobs as a structural engineer; eventually somebody will just assume I'm credentialed. I'll just figure it out on the job.
I think you mean evaporative, not adiabatic.
The US is the only country that uses F. It has nothing to do with speaking English. Every other English speaking country uses celsius.
Bug Jam – capture debug logs and screenshot in one click
gs.com resolves to 204.74.99.100, which is crs.ultradns.net

And you can get this exact same page if you go to http://crs.ultradns.net/
I was debating bringing up disruptors when I made the grandparent comment. My 2 cents: they can shift the balance of power at the very small scale (e.g. "some random nobody" getting rich, or some rich person going bankrupt), but the large scale power structures almost always remain largely intact. For instance, that "random nobody" may well get rich through the sale of shares in their company - now the company is owned by the owner class, who were previously at the top of the power hierarchy.
If you're outside you also need to content with the affects of the sun shining on you.

If you don't have AC there are things you can do to your home keep the temp low through the day. You essentially trap the cooler evening air and keep the sun out.
How lasting is this effect though compared to evaporative cooling (which lasts for as long as you stay hydrated due to the replenishment of moisture from sweat)? The volume of liquid you're adding to your garment can't be all that much, and if you combine your body heat with a high ambient temperature it seems like the water should reach equilibrium rather quickly.

I don't doubt it helps in the short term - I live in the southeast and I've done this when hiking many times (once my shirt's already soaked from sweat and I can find a cool stream) - but it only provides a temporary respite.
Software is mostly only an enabler of business to banks. Banks don't fix it if it's not broke.
Agreed. I hope this book disambiguates the roles as well, that seems to me to be the biggest issue with hiring!
What HTML and CSS? It’s a giant web application, are you goings to crawl the entire thing using puppeteer to extract the content then make up pages and synthesise links?

All the HTML page does is load the JS application, and tell you to get fucked if you don’t have js enabled.
Anecdote: Out of every bank and financial institution I have ever tried hacking (ethically, as part of bug bounty programs) Goldman Sachs is hands down, without a doubt, the most secure externally. By a long shot. They have what basically amounts to a central authentication service that 95% of their public facing IP’s resolve to. Their sub domains are locked down, they have a reasonably good patch schedule, they swiftly denylist your IP after running light scanners - it’s not a joke. I challenge you to find a vulnerability - when you do - get some money for it: https://hackerone.com/goldmansachs
I summarised this book[1] earlier this month. One of my favourite insights was the bit about in-code documentation. I think Ousterhout made it very clear what good documentation should be all about, and I was able to apply those insights immediately.

[1]: https://freshman.tech/philosophy-of-software-design-summary/
Okay lol!
A good person with a degree likely works at Google or equivalent. If you don't work at such a place then likely the places you went to are just very non-degree friendly and therefore gathered a lot of good people without degrees that had a hard time getting jobs elsewhere.
WFH-friendly employers will lose less staff AND hire more easily than places that insist on returning people to office for no perceived good reason. But competition isn't the strong point of badly managed companies.
We call that a reserve fund here in Canada and there are mandatory reserve fund reviews to ensure they are properly funded.
Could it be that minimum requirements like this select people who ignore superficial blockers? In my experience all the best programmers and IT professionals, are the ones that are able to identify when it's okay to break the rules. If you're so timid that you won't apply, maybe you're not the right person for the job.

I suspect this holds true for most creative or intellectual jobs.
The prereqs for ML are the same for most STEM courses. Despite the popularity of CS, there are plenty of graduates in legacy engineering fields like mechanical and electrical who are more than equipped to be on boarded quickly via a bootcamp model. They have the knowledge (and usually know their way around basic Python and MATLAB) but lacks the real world software engineering experience and a developer's mindset.
And never be possible to register ever again? I feel like most easy-to-type domains would have been permanently expended in the early days of the web.
[snip; not enough coffee]
The name of the game is Leetcode my friend. Maybe he needs to do more ‘deliberate practice’.
I’d agree with @LeifCarrotson on this. If an app says “minimum requirements: 8 GB RAM” any PC which reports that it meets the minimum requirements but actually has 4 GB RAM is making a false claim.

Ambition is what you can become, not what you are.

The only way of applying without dishonesty would be to do so while openly saying “I don’t tick all your boxes, but I still think I’d be a good fit because XYZ”. I might like this if I saw it in a job application, because it means the applicant was paying attention and not just applying to everything… but that doesn’t work so well when there’s already a “Preferred Qualifications” section, and might even have the opposite effect.
This requires Steam to be there, as i wrote i try to avoid using Steam.
> When can you claim you know or are an expert in tech X?

For me? Never. For my agency? As soon as I complete a single job well.
This reminds of a 17yo boy in Brazil who learned how to program on broken smartphones.

The phones were seriously broken. One had a faulty touchscreen in the middle and the boy could only use it upside down with a reduced screen size. He described in a Twitter thread[1] all the struggles he had with the broken phones.

His story got picked up by the media[2]. He was hired by one of the biggest fintechs in Brazil and has been working there since then. He also got many donations, which helped him buy a new computer and finish reconstructing his family house.

[1] https://twitter.com/cezarpauxis/status/1343934072440156160 (pt-BR)

[2] https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-56337365 (pt-BR)
It was absolutely rational to shut down schools and implement a form of lockdown and etc., in the spring of last year. However by fall of last year we had plenty of data about relative risk, and yet schools stayed shut down for another year. This retrospective is about the usurping of the initial uncertainty to maintain authoritarian and unscientific policies.