skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They won't.

That's the magic of getting rid of scores based admission and replacing it with opaque "lotteries" or "holistic" admissions: You can't prove there's any discrimination because the process is completely opaque.

The only thing these policies will achieve, is to put the label of "potentially the bar was lowered for this person - risky hire" on someone if they aren't white or asian.
What kind of deranged person messes with GPS risking to crash an airplane?
Link without paywall: https://archive.vn/uXzaz
How to Learn to Enjoy Running
The cost of the travel is no more than the cost of an office, which they don't have. They basically shift the office budget to the travel budget.
> (Probably burned a bridge with that recruiter, but oh well)

They seem to have a lot of recruiters and I'm surprised if this even got you off their "contact every month" list.
> These studies just reaffirm tribal and racial differences between Americans.

The term you are looking for is multiculturalism. It's a feature, believe it or not.
Your priors are messed up then.

BTW the feeling of being sick is literally the feeling of your immune system doing its thing. No immune response = no sickness symptoms (until huge swaths of your body have been destroyed by the pathogen)
They can hire new grads every year

Getting expensive to move to Seattle though
Generating a starting point for a website/app design automatically
Hi

Having to create websites and apps for customers from time to time I wanted a tool that would simplify the task of deciding upon the design of the future product. The whole design process is definitely complex and is totally about little details, but there is always a larger framework from which you start - at least, base colors, fonts and general layout.

Some thinking got me to the idea that it is possible to make an aide for the process of defining this framework. The tool could offer different options for review and let the user pick something that they like from these. Here's my first attempt to implement that:

https://baesline.design

(Apologies in advance - the thing is totally mobile un-friendly at this point)

Currently the thing is definitely very naive, often produces awful stuff, but I have found that if you play with it for a while, it is possible to arrive at something meaningful, which actually can serve as a legit starting point for the final design.

Currently all the "playing" that you can do with the buttons at the top (or hotkeys) is:

- change the theme to something completely different
- keep the logic of the theme, but remix the colors using the same palette (We use several dozen predefined palettes of 3-5 colors each)
- keep the colors, but change everything else

The first one is where you start, the second two allow for some fine-tuning when you feel that you're onto something.

As I said, this is where it starts. Some things that I would like to do to make it workable are:

- add an "app mode", that would allow to generate and browse designs that are more suitable for web-applications that involve more complicated data presentation devices and more input
- change and improve the generation process. The original idea was that the thing should offer a number of options first, letting you pick whichever you like most and than fine-tune the result based on those that you liked - also by letting you compare and pick from different options
- allow saving themes for future reference
- create some kind of reasonable exports - ideally into a Figma draft, but also maybe into html+css template or other forms.

But before jumping there I wanted to know whether all this sounds crazy or does it seem that with some improvement it can become usable and useful?
If their store is so awesome, why do they need to block any other method of loading?
And includes parts of Canada too! But you still have to live nearish to Seattle.
India's first forays into semiconductor fabrication in the 80s and 90s were likewise enthusiastically supported by the government (land, incentives, tax breaks and so on), but were ultimately hamstrung by more fundamental infrastructure issues that couldn't just be magicked away - water shortages and unstable power grids - each of which could grind manufacturing to a halt for months on end and delayed production cycles. (I think there was also a major fire in a leading SC plant that caused delays by years.) If anything these shortcomings could be exacerbated in 2021-22. The government would need a much more comprehensive infrastructural solution this time around.
> What makes discord is the community around it, and the fact that 3rd party sites have decided to support it.

For FOSS projects, that really isn't a factor. The main thing is that Discord is a freely available channel that supports modern things like link previews, image uploads, voice chat, and persistent history. Slack does all these things but makes it a royal pain to join a new Slack.

Why does it matter if gamers come or go? They're a totally different audience. This isn't about building the next social platform, it's about escaping control of the existing ones.
The same kind that shines laser pointers in planes?
The biggest problem with working from home, especially as it exists in the last 18 months, is that it ruins the entire work/life separation thing.

For a long time, large companies like Google and Facebook bribed employees to basically live at work with an influx of perks. Free laundry. Nap rooms. Catered meals. The whole point is for you to never leave so you’ll work more. I think most of us can agree that is unhealthy and not good for the employee.

So now we’ve traded that for you work from home, but still don’t get to disconnect from work. So you don’t have the commute or the dress code stuff and potentially fewer meetings, but you’re always on call. You’re expected to work more. Your house is now your office (and plenty of us don’t live in places with room for a wholly isolated workspace, especially if two people are working from home). And you’ve given up the social interaction that makes going into an office really nice for plenty of people.

Obviously, ever is a good and healthy way to do remote work. I’m not disputing that. What I will dispute is that the way most companies have optimized for remote work over the last 18 months is the wrong way and I have zero faith that any of the organizations will adjust themselves to do it the right way.

So for me, if the choice is to have little work/life balance but at least have more room at my house and social interaction at work — or to literally live and work in the same cramped space without human interaction, I’ll take the office.
Yes it's a lot easier at lower altitudes since you can get more lift, but you might run into some extra regulatory issues with that :)
I'd much rather have quarterly check-ins or some semi-annual company event to attend.

Even if I go back to the office, my entire team is geographically distributed. Only a couple people on my team would be in the office, while others are all over the world. So, even though I also miss the office I'm not sure what going back would mean for me now that my team setup is so different.

So, have to think about that.
A quick search readily brings up multiple articles about margarine and heart disease.

Women who eat four or more teaspoons of margarine a day have a 50 percent greater risk of developing heart disease than women who eat margarine only once a month

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/05/us/study-links-heart-disea...

Margarine intake and subsequent coronary heart disease in ...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9229205

Butter vs. Margarine - Harvard Health

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/butter-vs-mar...
Hi, nice site! But since you asked, here's an issue: the little "Click to increase or decrease weights" feature doesn't work in Firefox.
a large chunk of the workforce, from accountants to stock brokers to HR, work on a computer. It's not a privilege to have no fresh air and to spend 70% of your life in front of a screen on a chair.
Norwich City unveils UK's first £750k football simulator
If they were contacting you with a specific interesting position, that would be something. If they were contacting you with a generic position they just needed to fill...that sounds like a lot of cringe.
I genuinely miss the office. Being in a different space for work (one that was pretty gorgeous), in a nice part of downtown, able to tap people on the shoulder for quick questions rather than having to ping them over chat, more spontaneous collaboration (right before we went remote again I overheard two people discussing an area I have some expertise in and was able to interject and provide useful insight), extra productivity (I do better when I'm around others working, worse when I am alone), the occasional happy hour, the occasional lunch with others, the not horrible drive where I can jam tunes or listen to podcasts and have some time to myself.

Not being able to do all of that has brought me lower and lower as the months go by. Made a similar comment on reddit and got downvoted into oblivion but this is really how I feel and it really does impact me negatively. I'm sure I'm not the only one, though it does feel like I might be in the minority.
Revolt is a nice product but as far as I'm aware they don't enable self-hosting or decentralized. It's just one big hosted hub, right?
The US military, per the article.
This is how the video element works in chromium. I suspect it looks at the same metadata field. Beyond leading to a bit of absurd UI state though it's not the same kind of issue that this post describes, which deals with trying to transcode these kinds of videos which could multiply storage utilization on the backend.
From edf:

"Ces déchets sont constitués, principalement, des matières non
valorisables récupérées après le traitement du combustible usé.
Les matières sont incorporées dans du verre en fusion, lui-même
coulé dans un conteneur en acier. Les conteneurs contiennent
400 kg de verre pour 11 kg de déchets. Les conteneurs, en
raison de la chaleur qu’ils dégagent, doivent être entreposés
pour être refroidis pendant au moins une cinquantaine d’années
avant d’être définitivement stockés.
Le volume total de ces déchets équivaudra à 6 700 m³ à l'issue
de 40 années d’exploitation du parc nucléaire français.
Les déchets à vie longue représentent 10 % du volume
total des déchets et concentrent 99,9 % de la radioactivité."[0]

So 6300 cubic meter over 40 years of operations.
[edit] counting the glass to make them manipulable.

[0] https://www.edf.fr/sites/default/files/contrib/groupe-edf/pr...
That's entirely untrue. Nuclear power plant designs used in France (and I think Germany?) participate in load following and can do so between 30-100% capacity at around 5%/min.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Operat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Pre...
Sure, but it depends on the company. I've made friends at every place I've worked, some lifelong, and I do miss that, but on the balance, work never really dominated my social life. I always had other friends too.
> Again, errors/exceptions did not get a throw clause, making it impossible to model the error state that the language provides. You can describe, in detail, the data for successful run, but are unable to describe the data for any error state. If the goal was to make the system more sound, I have a hard time seeing why the error state is not taken into account.

I think the idea is that exceptions are too hard to handle without going too far from JS, so you're supposed to handle errors Go-style, but instead of [result, error] you can return result | error thanks to union types. TS is here to statically type JS, but it can't check for exceptions, so pushing people to use them would greatly reduce the value of the tool.

I've said this in another comment, but I really think sum/union types can give you 90% of the benefits of checked exceptions. In the article, `FileNotFoundException` is mentionned. That's something that could be handle with the function returning File | FileNotFound. You can achieve this with sealed classes in C# and Java, but it sounds painful to do this every time. Like someone else said, with checked exceptions you have ad-hoc unions, instead of having to create them yourself with sealed class. Since you have neither sum types, nor unions in Java or C#, checked exceptions in Java are your best tool to handle your case.
As other people have said, things don't really look that great for humanity right now. Global warming, resurgent fascism, pretty much everything that happened in 2020...

TBH, the financial concerns don't really ring for me. I just see problems that money can't buy their way out of.
Rails, one of the most popular web frameworks, comes with https://hotwired.dev .

I count this as very popular.

While the tendency to over engineer web apps is strong, many teams opt for faster development.
Is $600K TC possible as a remote SDE III or Principal SDE?
Will gaming radically change e-commerce
It's an unwritten rule (actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a written rule for their internal review process) that your app will be rejected on the first review.

One of the most valueable insights a mobile freelancer working on our app gave us was to submit the app for first review at least two weeks before planned launch. Just as they anticipated, the first review came back negative because "hey, could you please also make the app work on the iPad?", even though we explicitly marked it as not available for iPad (and didn't include it in the app bundle) to cut down the scope for initial launch.
I've talked to several people who equate fp with "advanced type system" and not "programming by function composition" (which for me is the correct definition).
I think individual employees are just figuring it out themselves. The free market can solve this issue autonomously. This causes a lot of short term pain for the companies themselves, but who cares? They're not even sentient beings.
Remember zip quines? Ah, good old days.
Well, you are entitled to your opinion. If you think reproducing is not your mission, don't. Albeit every ancestor of yours did successfully complete this mission, so take it for what it is. I guess they wasted their time and effort on you.
To hear this Guardian columnist tell it[0], the City of London (the Square Mile) is a medieval anachronism entirely outside of parliamentary control.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corpor...
I did too. But I always felt bad when we made a work decision at the bar and then the folks who didn't come out with us didn't get a say and had an uphill battle if they didn't agree.
Microcontroller Voltage Inverter Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtoPHevexTM
Your point is that the device doesn't matter. If Khashoggi and his fiance had Android devices and used an encrypted messaging app such as Signal (or something similar like Session, Briar, etc.) his abduction would not have occurred as it did (even if MBS and his cohorts had control of an operator at the telecom).

As I said, the zero-click exploit is exclusive to iPhones using iMessage. An Android device that receives a similar SMS requires the user's knowledge and willful intent in order to activate. The last zero-click SMS exploit had been patched back in 2015.

So the device (and protocol) does actually matter.
Does anyone have a resource for getting into app-based scraping, if the API is obfuscated or rate limited?
It's hard to grow your own patch of peace and wisdom when everyone around you is growing nettles and brambles. Even if others don't directly interfere, it's only easy to acquire the supplies that the majority is buying. And life is already a lot of work, and it's so damn tempting to just give up and go with the flow - not only is it less work, but you get a sense of community. Even if it is a community of shared dysfunction, it's better than being alone.

It seems there's got to be a threshold, a critical mass of people who want to live differently than the rest before you can weather the challenges inherent in making non-mainstream choices. This is widely applicable; AA comes to mind, as does things like vegetarianism, homosexuality, Judaism, etc. There should be an -ism for the people who reject authoritarianism blind conformism, and who have a well-defined set of coping mechanisms to deal with misinformation, bullying, cruelty, and dehumanization. And ways to deal with people that embrace such techniques, especially those in power.
but with backprop you do not worry about computing derivatives by hand. backprop and AD in general means you do not have to do that. maybe one of us is misunderstanding the other

i am saying that if you want to work with ML algorithms on a more deeper level you must learn backprop

if you want to implement some models on the other hand, you can just follow a recipe approach
The Costs of Exclusion: Economic Consequences of the Digital Gender Gap
The risk is asymmetric. France relies on the US for defense. The US does not rely on France. Therefore, it's unsurprising when the US spies on France (or Germany or other NATO ally).
> People have an absolutely irrational fear of taxes to the point they do crazy things.

I've always wondered how/why otherwise smart people fall into this trap. There are calculators out there for anything and everything tax-related under the sun. See also: I don't want a raise because then I'll go up a tax bracket and make less money!

Then again, there are people who won't get married due to (legitimate) increased tax burden. There are also people who run otherwise successful businesses into the ground specifically to avoid paying taxes. I think some people are just really, really adverse to the idea of paying taxes. Like the idea hits them at some core, fundamental level.
It wasn't swept up (ha!) by iRobot. IS Robotics changed their name to iRobot. If you're skeptic, check Wikipedia for the first author on that paper.
Refresh my memory. A stick welder is an electric arc welder that uses a thin rod of metal as the contact point and the rod gets consumed to make the bead, right? That sounds pretty reasonable.
Could the commute be via a plane?
Hopefully this fails.
The DoD wants to ensure their forces can operate if GPS is down.

This requirement should be reasonable to most people who aren’t pacifists. So I think the real question is, why aren’t senior level DoD and FAA bosses doing more to increase safety during the planned outages?
Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing/selling that data with third parties. I try not to store or access any personal information on my cell phones when i can avoid it, but at a certain point, just having one is enough to seriously compromise your privacy. Strong regulation with real sharp teeth is the only thing that can fix this situation.
P-Value Primer
Makes sense. They don't seem to select for social responsibility.
I shall consult the expert team at 4chan /s

But seriously "We've been told we can't ask to stop jamming, and to just put everyone on headings."... people inbound not ready for this can run out of fuel. Maybe the right passive aggressive response could have been to simply set a really large diameter TFR to keep civilian aircraft away assuming people check NOTAMs.
I'm an ICT5 at Apple, pushing for ICT6 (but it won't be next year, ICT6 is more about who you know than what you know), and just had my perf review. This year I got total comp (salary, bonus, RSUs) of just over 520k, which is consistent with last year and the year before.
I was responding to a comment about making money from ads, but a similar line of thought works for banking services, I think.

Suppose that your use of the water service was creating public lashback against the water utility for "supporting" your business. A loud minority is pestering the water board members and complaining that what you're doing ought to be illegal even if it isn't strictly yet. Some are pressuring other big water users to reexamine their contracts with the utility, and someone even managed to talk a pump supplier into severing their relationship with the utility. A different minority is yelling stuff about "rights" and making trouble at board meetings.

The easiest possible thing to do in this situation is to find some vaguely plausible reason to cut your access to the public utility, and tell you that you have to truck your water in yourself from now on. Note that this kind of stuff actually happens to farmers, refineries, and other businesses.

As far as what's "right"... Damn if I know. None of this is happening in a vacuum, and these decisions end up being made by people who are accountable to and influenced by their family, friends, and community for the choices that they make. Clear laws can dilute that responsibility, but only to a point.
Weak SSH Key Generation Fix in GitKraken
Infinitely large doesn't mean anything, when your disk space is limited.

If your drive is 500GB, there is no practical difference between a 10TB log file a 10PB zip file or an infinite zip bomb... once the disk is full, the unzipping stops.
I think like most things, moderation is best. My work makes come to the office twice a week. I didn't like it at first but I adopted, it's nice to get out of the house once in a while and see and be seen by your peers. I am most productive at home but I can be productive in the office as well.

I think a lot depends on your home life. I live alone, no close friends, pets,etc...and I am fine most days but I need some social interaction so I won't turn into a complete hermit. I have colleagues with kids and family members at home as well who hate the office for obvious reasons. So long as I get to work from home most days and I don't have to spend the entire day in the office I don't think it's such a big deal. I am grateful to even have the option to work from home at all.
Being forced to travel somewhere random on the planet every two months for work and live out of a hotel room sounds terrible frankly. The company would have to spend lavishly and find exotic / fun locations I think otherwise I'd resent it and quit.

Ultimately the ideal is not a one size fits all solution but different companies developing different cultures remote/hybrid/in person strategies and employees having options. Seems like the big tech companies are all just kind of copying each other and no one is trying to really differentiate themselves here.
Good question. One requirement for the aircraft in this optimization is that they must have more energy in the battery than they did 24 hours prior. If the aircraft started at full energy, they wouldn't ever be able to satisfy this requirement, so that's why it's an independent variable.

For example, an aircraft could "start" at 50% battery state of charge, then charge to 95% over the course of the day, then come back 24 hours later at 51%, and that would be valid. There are other ways around this, but this is what I came up with at the time.

This is similar to why the starting altitude is allowed to float. The gravitational potential energy of the aircraft can be used as another "battery", but the aircraft is only a valid solution if it's not losing altitude over the course of 24 hours.
FOMO doesn't really apply here.

https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-cope-with-fomo-4174664
This sounds a lot like my first few jobs too!

My resume was more along the lines of “things I’m aware exist and I could learn if needed” than what I actually had experience with!

But my first two roles where not tech companies thus the hiring people knew even less than me about what they needed ;)

But for sure, I’m not sure how anybody really “becomes” a software engineer outside of the job itself
I know the original (Patchworks) author - He made this as an intern and working on his PhD, and VS Code wasn't a thing at the time he. It is now being worked on by HIS students, and they have some VS Code work being done, but I don't think it is in a usable state yet.