skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take a slightly more nuanced position than a peer poster and say this is "mostly wrong" and somewhat backwards.

(I've been out of this area for a few years, so my perspective might be a little dated, but I doubt it has changed that much)

Pilots aren't simply "selected". You have to get through multiple gates to become a pilot in the USAF. Most of those gates involve demonstrating some degree of devotion and/or skill at flying (for example, having a private pilot's license before competing for a pilot slot is a really good idea).

Having said this, pilots for the most part either end up in combat roles (e.g., fighters, etc.) or in leadership roles (as in, you have a whole crew you for which you are responsible). Furthermore, pilots are officers and all officers are expected to be effective leaders. So sure, leadership qualities are one of the things you look for - because you look for them in all your officer candidates. Now, you may not agree with the personality traits identified as leadership traits. In general, it is true that the military tends to favor personality traits over management skills (the argument being that management skills can be learned, but some innate personality traits cannot). They judge that things like "likeability" and "ability to get others to trust and follow you" matter.

And here comes the backwards part. General officers are selected for their perceived ability to understand the mission of the USAF and move it forwards. This requires leadership skills and so is biased towards those with those skills. But there is also a general belief that the people who have most directly been involved in executing that mission are the people who are best positioned to lead that mission. In this case, being a "rated" officer (this used to be pilot/navigator/missile launch officer, but now seems to include a couple of other designations) actually dramatically improves your chances to make O6+ (Colonel -> 4-star General). So it isn't that you are selected to be a pilot because they think you'd be a good General - they think you'd be a good General because you've been a pilot.

A final note - while all officer candidates are selected based on leadership skills, there are other factors that are also considered. For example, if you are competing for a technical slot, having a STEM degree is generally a requirement. But traditionally, the rated slots didn't have any particular educational requirements (other than a 4-year university degree). As a result, pilot candidates generally just have two things in common:

* Those personality traits
* A demonstrated commitment to become a pilot

Given this, I can see why the original comment was made. But to actually become a pilot, you have to demonstrate the ability to fly. The training is both rigorous and very expensive, and I'd seriously doubt they'd keep the system as is if it routinely produced "awful" pilots.
> What we need is laws that companies cannot be moral arbiters.

The thing is we have a law that sharply limits the possibilities of the kind of law you want; that law is the First Amendment.
No, because that’s not in their wheelhouse.
TikTok Users and Coders Flood Texas Abortion Site with Fake Tips
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Make a useful feature difficult to discover, then remove it when few people discover it. The (not insignificant) current barrier for normal users to selectively remove cookies will be made even higher if you ask them to use dev tools.

One could imagine a browser vendor who made this workflow easy because they thought it was in the users' best interest. Obviously, that browser vendor is not Google.
It’s a different ball game when the content is being shared on a network, I think.
I like your perspective here. One of the more powerful arguments for society to embrace those who deviate from the perceived mental norms is they have so much to teach us. The more we understand each other, the better we can accomodate them while also finding ways to improve all of us.
My leo friends have said its morally wrong to arrest someone for something they won't be prosecuted for.
'Weapon System' is acquisition speak for a project of a certain size that has to go through certain processes involving design, funding, acceptance, etc. Whether it is actually intended to harm someone is somewhat orthogonal to the designation.
Interesting to see that people do in fact receive this information. My guess is only the first key hires will be told this and not the rank and file joining after series A, for example.

In my experience laughter may be overstating it a bit, but the question is brushed off with an "it's confidential" and you are made to feel slightly stupid for asking. And these weren't fly-by-night operations either, but well-respected startups that went on to do very well.
I think this is equivalent to:

int i;
int main(){
for(
;
i["]<i;++i){--i;}"]; // loop until i == 14? (the NUL byte on the end)
read('-'-'-',i+++"hello, world!\n",'/'/'/') // read(0, <one byte of "hello, world!\n" at a time>, 1)
) {};
}

int read(j,i,p){
write(j/p+p,i---j,i/i); // write(0/1+1, i-- - 0, 1) --> write(1, i, 1) --> write a byte to STDOUT
}
tbf it's possible he was just a crap driver. Either way, while I would never recommend it, I think it is misleading to call it "very comparable". Anecdotally I would say that cannabis impairs quick decision making, and reaction time while driving, and possibly also makes the driver more prone to distraction but I am less sure about that one. Alcohol does both of the first two things, and to a much greater extent, while also obliterating fine motor control, as well as impacting judgement and perception of speed among other things.

So in my completely anecdotal opinion, weed bad, alcohol worse were driving is concerned.
But witches are obviously fictional, whereas white supremists are very real.
https://google.github.io/opencasebook/trademarks/#gnu-gpl-v3

They would need to provide this kind of additional text in their license, but they did not.
Not everything in the world. Rocks are not intelligent. That's simple enough. They don't encode any information as far as I can see, they certainly don't actively process or transform it.

Living systems seem to. Even bacteria. Information theory seems too applicable when I look at DNA. All living systems seem intelligent, to varying degrees, as they are storing, duplicating and conditionally applying patterns to various biochemical problems in the task of propagating the rulebook of solutions further, the same task that the intelligence of the brain was evolved for. I worry this is more pseudospiritual woo rather than philosophy, though.
Yes, you're correct, but the ancestor comments kind of implied it being a hope for browsers at large.

Bad phrasing from my part too, sorry.
Assuming the system works as Apple's described it, then this attack doesn't work. The image needs to be added to the Photos library and the Photos library needs to be syncing with iCloud. Images in email aren't scanned, and an image that's zero or one pixel can't even be clicked on to be added to the library.

And, to at least respond to two obvious counter-arguments I've looked into:

"But it's just one line of code to change it to scan images (that aren't uploaded to iCloud) (that are anywhere on the device)!" No, it isn't; if you read the technical documentation and the more technically-oriented interviews Apple's given on this, there isn't just one hash that needs to be matches, there are two hashes, one on the device and one on the server. (I think Apple did a very poor job of communicating this to a general audience; it certainly wouldn't have alleviated all the concerns, but if it was understand as "client-server scanning" rather than "client-only scanning" it might have at least changed the tenor of the conversation.) That doesn't mean they can't do a combination client-server scan on every single image or even file on the device, but it makes it both more difficult to do and more difficult to hide.

"But what if the system doesn't work as Apple's described it?" Well, if you don't trust Apple to some degree, all bets are off. They already do ML-based image analysis of all photos in your photo library regardless of iCloud status and they've literally demoed this on stage during iPhone keynotes, so if Apple was going to secretly give government access to on-device scanning, a different technology -- one that works (questionably well) on all images, not just already-learned ones -- is literally already there. The only way you "know" what Apple is doing with your data on or off device comes from a combination of what they tell you and what third-party security researchers discover.
> My company fixes recruiting process and software problems. Hats off to Amazon for this. I probably have the pot smoker conversation about once a month, usually with a 50-something or older executive that is running a factory short-staffed.

Reading between the lines, the exec is trying to hire more workers for their factory, and wants to know if they can stop testing for marijuana so they'll be able to hire more workers. To which the poster, who has recurring experience with this issue, must (unfortunately) recommend against it because of the reasons they enumerate.

Or maybe it was just a close-minded, ignorant ageist comment. Better to assume positive intent though.
>Make a useful feature difficult to discover, then remove it when few people discover it.

How many people do you really think would ever need this feature in day to day use, even if it were extremely easy to find? The number is probably vanishingly small.
> Would a jury even be able to examine the evidence if it involved CSAM?

The prosecutor will hire expert witnesses who will explain that their extensive training and education has led them to believe that the evidence is certainly illegal material.
TypeScript is deliberately not a language in the sense that you mean, and this is very much a load bearing part of the design and why it was successful. Many other languages have tried what you're suggesting, most infamously Dart, and all crashed aground on the problem of interoperating with the existing ecosystem.

TypeScript is best understood as a very advanced linter for JavaScript, not a separate language with its own semantics that happens to compile to JavaScript.

This has many consequences. For example, its type system is unsound to a profligate degree compared to most other typed languages. As a result, it is common for the type system to be wrong about the type of a variable, meaning that any runtime use of type information would have to also cope with being wrong, e.g. by inserting runtime type checks. Runtime type checking for structurally typed interfaces is heinously slow, as you have to type check every field of every transitively reachable interface.
Can confirm, recently went from a great manager who always had our backs and celebrated our successes to one who offers zero support, plenty of blame and zero recognition. I’ve been surprised how devastating it’s been.
This happens in North America too. I explicitly asked the dealer where I bought my car not to slap their unpaid adverts all over it, and they still put a sticker on the trunk lid, a license plate frame on the rear, and an inventory tracking sticker on the windshield.
They walked up and indicated they had a gun in their pocket. They had a buddy that was across the street. They asked for 1$ which is what I gave them. Other people I knew in the area were also robbed at gunpoint for 1$, but on their porch. They did call the cops.

As for why I don't know.
One week of vacation is just not worth bothering with. It's not enough time to even disengage before you turn around and come back.
You should probably sort that out with your current employer or find a new one.

Mine provides open access to a ton of online resources as well as maintaining a regular budget for developer-initiated things like going to conferences/seminars or buying books. It's actually rare that the training budget gets fully spent, but on the other hand I've never had a request turned down.

For a while, my employer was even footing my college bill when I decided to back for my MS. That one came with a contract to stay on longer to "pay" them back, but that was fine because I had no plans to leave.
Some companies I've been at swung in the opposite direction and I was really greatful for it.

E.g. At Microsoft you have a max amount of vacation days that you can accrue before they start expiring, and managers get dinged whenever their directs have expiring vacation days.
The result: Managers would encourage taking vacation
Portland transit authority used geo-fence to exclude scooters from downtown area
Some parts of Servo are in Firefox, but not the whole thing.

Swapping your VW Beetle's wheels for a Ferrari's doesn't make it a Ferrari! Even if it improves handling (or whatever I'm not a car person, it's just an accessible analogy)
I'm a little confused, I thought you were talking about normal male interaction, but then your examples are two of the most recent incredibly dysfunctional corporate environments.

What does the second half of your statement mean? If who assimilated, and into what? Sorry, I feel like I'm missing some context you're relying on here.
> Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off.

There's a lot to say about that.

Sometime contexts creates obligations that render reward impossible, you only get a stream of wrong imperatives and lack of benefits.

Sometimes people simply forget how to go for stuff they want. I lived a lot of my life conforming to others orders.. until nothing made sense emotionally. You forget what 'pay off' means for you. Very subtle, very hard. A lot of things in life are negotiating obligations and knowing how to recognize bad deals is key. Freedom is a rare asset :)

Kids have this well set, all they care about is their internal sense of reward.. they'll move relentlessly from rewards to rewards until they're chokeful of them. Social structures blur this into innane amounts of duties that often are invented by morons higher up.
Do you really think he supports this? "I still think natural immunity is the best way to reach some semblance of herd immunity for groups not at high risk"

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...

We're already seeing what happens with that approach here in the US. ICUs are being completely overwhelmed in areas where 'healthy young people' took it upon themselves to turn down the vaccine and test this person's theory on natural immunity.

What a joke that people are actually acting like Tucker Carlson misusing an experts words, and that expert having the audacity to correct that misuse, is not exactly what it sounds like... an expert caring about nuance in conversations more than a talking head and a random "healthy young person" might

It's especially a joke when it's so easy to look for yourself and see how bad of a hypothesis it is:

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/07/30/florida-lead...
Yes, this. I wasn't recognising anyone's problems with Jira, and this is probably why.
Also the police don't come quickly in most places. My wife was pistol whipped and it took 30 minutes to get a car to our house 1 mile from the station. Also I lived in a bad neighborhood for a long time so this may not be typical.
They only succeeded if you let them. And if you do I'm going to think less of you for enabling them.

Right now this new 'perception' is pretty limited to a certain US-centric news bubble. Everyone outside that bubble in the US, and generally people everywhere else, are likely to laugh in your face if you tried to convince them the OK gesture is a hate symbol now.

Your average person hasn't even heard of this inane controversy. I for one have to seek out the kind of demographic who thinks that way online - because nowhere else could I even find anyone.
Honest and nuanced conversation?
I am dealing with Apple righteousness and arrogance for far too long. 20 + years to be exact. And I ended removing macOS workflow of my company because of this "privacy innovation" for the children.

This corporation died long time ago, people just like the Idea of old Rebel Apple for creative minds and individuals.

People actually understand how this will work. A lot of educated and high level professionals reacted with vigor.

Spinning this towards "people don't understand" is blasphemy coming from serious self-delusion, no excuses given.

Resolving the issue is simple: Break Big Tech monopolies and create a climate for change. AT&T break up comes to mind. It is time to wake up.
User data is the petrol of the world of tomorrow. Access to user data and implementation of solutions based on it must be regulated not towards some three letter agencies wet fantasy but towards respecting individual privacy and existing laws and democratic principles.

Even if Apple cancels this intrusion on user space, which I heavily doubt, and implements CSAM only on iCloud servers (as every one else), the image of Apple as an guardian of user privacy (false or not) is gone forever.

People are talking about alternatives and "moving off-cloud to NAS" which is actually the right thing to do in this situation.

Oh and Apple will continue to be loved. But this love will be more than biter-sweet, it will become dangerous. Some of us are old enough to know when to leave a sinking ship.
In my mind, alive is a binary term. Something is alive or it is not. We don't say something is more alive than something else.

Rocks, road signs and tables are not alive. Humans, pigs and fungi are alive. That is a useful distinction but it disregards differences in the latter group.

Fungi are reacting to stimuli with more complex behaviors than a single-celled organism can. We can't say fungi are more alive than the single celled organisms, so what are they?

Where does one draw the line with intelligence? In your opinion, what organisms can appropriately be considered intelligent?
What is a non skin tone related "white characteristic" exactly?
People at the office joke about the fact that when bad weather ruins their vacations, they come back happier to work.
Oh, I like that a lot, especially as they've proposed a new JSON.parseImmutable() method as well. The syntax is surprisingly simple (and obvious!) and deep equality and simple comparisons is perfect.

Deep paths look interesting on top of this, the idea is one I like but not sold on it being implementable in any sort of non-clunky way.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-deep-path-properties-for-re...
I can echo these concerns having been a contractor working on applications in more than one of the DoD cloud platforms, including CloudOne (a subset of PlatformOne, for readers not familiar with the flurry of DoD cloud offerings that have sprung up over the last few years). I recently changed jobs in no small part because of the massive incompetence on the USAF side. It’s really quite stunning. My entire schedule was eaten up by unnecessary meetings where wholly unqualified USAF officers (current and retired) in PM or similar roles would pontificate endlessly about just absolute nonsense concerns. Like hours of arguing about how to label a button on a form. Constant bike shedding. No users involved meaningfully in the feedback cycle. And I swear all these old USAF guys just straight up hate their users. They will suggest the most user-abusing possible design because they think their users are stupid and need 10000 confirmation dialogs to avoid making mistakes.

And on the legacy non-cloud side of things… it’s a horror show. No CI/CD. No testing (a lot of my job was bolting awkward test harnesses on to existing legacy software to compensate). Inconsistent and ever changing project management systems (they switched from TFS to Jama to Azure DevOps to Jama again and then when I left were talking about moving to JIRA. Our cocontractors were insanely unqualified. They were really proud of how cutting edge they were for adopting git for VCS. In 2019. It’s crazy how bad all of this software is, but at least it wasn’t on some internet connected server before.
I asked, I didn't assume anything.
They may not fundamentally change ones attitude towards a job, but when carefully planned and executed vacations may have the potential for creating some worthwhile times and memories
We're on a thread nobody is reading, but obviously I don't think your argument is winnable. Goldwater lost, but Nixon won, on explicitly the same racial strategy. Nor is the chronology of the ideological sort really disputable.

Goldwater's civil rights stance defines the modern Republican party. The party has moderated since Goldwater, of course, but Goldwater's positioning literally restructured US politics, from a de facto 4-party state (in the 1970s, Republican support for abortion rights was still an open question! There's a 1970s-era GOP platform where debate on abortion is a plank!) to the 2-party "liberal/conservative" one we have today. Rockefeller wouldn't even be a Kiwanis Republican today; he'd simply be a Democrat. Phil Gramm did become a Republican; in fact, almost every party switcher in the US after the Civil Rights act switched to the GOP, because they were fleeing the Democratic party after the Civil Rights Act.

The idea that the modern Democratic party is somehow accountable to votes against civil rights legislation is D'Souza-ism. It ignores the plain fact that those Democrats became Republicans, and, to a lesser extent, a bunch of liberal Republicans became Democrats. You see it clearly in the candidates themselves, but also even more clearly in shifts among voters.
It’s dumb that profit-driven decisions that cause all sorts of human rights violations are rarely considered “political” by tech conservatives. However, the moment you trample upon the idealistic notion of a “free” internet that has long since been captured by a few corporate entities? Must be a giant threat to the future of society.

Caring more about an ideological slippery slope than the actual people who will suffer under these laws in Texas is an amazingly insulated position that I can’t take seriously.
Because an ops team will have between dozens and hundreds of apps to support. You do a survey of needs and build out something that gets to the most common use cases.

You try to respond to what people need and add things when there is enough demand. But I can't know what your business goals are, what your uptime metrics are, or who your users are.

At some point, your app becomes a black box that takes in requests, accesses DB/storage, and emits logs/metrics. I just don't have the brain space to be intimately familiar with each service.
It's not exactly evidence, but I heard the same thing on QI. It's actually very difficult to find any information on this other than (what seems to me as) ads put up by airlines at different times (mostly 90s) to promote the idea that air quality is better now (presumably to cover up saving costs by using those half-packs.)
I have no interest in using proprietary fonts.

What I'm saying is that if I'm working on a project that includes a font somewhere and somebody points at some text and says "what is that font and are you allowed to use it?" I have to dig through the code and find the font and research its licensing whether or not it's proprietary.

So long as the expectation is that we all must be able to prove that we're allowed to use the fonts that we're using, a proprietary font anywhere is a drag on productivity everywhere.
It is still in 'Settings', guys. It's in chrome://settings/content/all instead of chrome://settings/siteData . Read the third and fourth sentences of the linked article. You will literally be able to browse to it in Settings.

I do have to commend you on the bold tone while being so misleading, though. Haha, good stuff. I propose a Law of Increasing Internet Indignation: indignation is a monotonically decreasing function of knowledge.
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A couple of months ago I literally saw a man get tackled for stealing ties from a high end store in SF nearby union square.
It's possible to misconfigure any tool, that's for sure.