skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree, and this isn't a defense of certs, but -

> You will need a certificate for these skills. Have you been doing the job for 20 years? Sorry.

I've encountered an alarming number of people with decades of "experience" who were in fact incompetent. Certs are a bad solution, but they're a bad solution to a real problem.
Surely you could tell that he was joking?
Nice piece meant for one to pause and think a little bit about limitation of mathematics and our perception of reality. There, however, I would submit that I find the mixture of several limitations too confusing to even allow (in my view) the question the article outlines to be a valid one. First, our perception limitation (that is a multi-level problem, going from personal all the way to entire species). Im not sure at which level the author wants to start and stop. Second, limitations of mathematics explaining physical phenomena as we perceive them and can measure them. Third, mathematical models are not the reality and never have been considered to represent reality as is. They are necessary abstractions for us to have our linear and local time predictability.

I would further submit for a thought that as of right now there is nothing we understand from first principles using mathematical models. This is not a conjecture or speculation, but a fact. See eg. Wheeler's "More is different", ("More is really different" by another author), or R. Laughlin's book Different Universe which with simple logic shows physical laws cannot be build from first principles, because, well, "more is different" (emergent phenomena acquire characteristics not in the original constituents). Lets think about weather, clima, planet formation, galaxy evolution, economics, etc ... It would be foolish to even begin such enterprise...(imho). But, in any case this is issue is not to be closed for discussion and interpretations and learning...that I agree with the author.
For me it means that project is just a toy. Maybe an amazing one, but still.

In most of my positions in the past pushing random company data outside is a serious nono. I have enforced and agreed on that myself. So me using recklessly such a project naively thinking it will act politely means I might not have a job any more.

So - maybe I would play with it at home, but if I won't ever use it at a job (AGPL also adds to it), why bother?
Carlsen said it was very much expected :

“

Asked again whether he was surprised by Nepomniachtchi’s Petrov, Carlsen re-states that it was one of the openings he was well-prepared for. “It was one of the main openings that I expected seeing that he played it in the Candidates and also, in the first black game, he went for a more classical approach rather than a sharp one,” he says. “So it was very much expected. Couldn’t know obviously which exact Petrov line he was going to go for, but the Petrov in itself was very much expected.”

“
> any concrete evidence

What do you mean by "concrete evidence"?

Nothing of this is disputed, they even have their own wikipedia pages for their different operations and branches within USAID

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

*Specially* that we are talking of USAID, on the case of NED for example, things get slightly murkier because then it is a matter of private rather than public record, but it still works as a tool for management of semi-clandestine operations and operations which need plausible deniability from CIA's end, or at least as much deniability as it can muster, tho these days they prefer to work with shell groups and other associated partners such as for example Atlas Network, Radio Free Asia also falls on that category, same with Voice Of America

If you are interested in books both, Killing Hope by William Blum and Legacy Of Ashes by Weiner are very, very, very good authoritative sources on the matter

If you prefer podcasts, Warnerd Radio has a couple very good episodes on the National Endowment For Democracy, tho they both quote excerpts of the books above

Radio War Nerd EP 274 — National Endowment for Democracy, Part 1
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/121232504

Radio War Nerd EP 275 — National Endowment for Democracy, Part 2
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/121522126
Yeah, it's really a boomer thing. That generation just refuses to give up - a blessing and a curse.
What brings you to HN? Are you interested in software as a hobby it from a previous career?
Of course, this is extremely frequent and easiest to see with small businesses (which make up a good proportion of all productive organizations) that are often limited by the time the owner puts into them, and yet can remain in operation for many many years. Restaurants, your plumber, a family-famer, a small hotel, a tourist charter / operator, etc.

Considering the main productive work of developing wikipedia is done by volunteers, does funding need to grow vastly in order to keep growing that? And if the goal is to create accessible and open knowledge for all and a superior competitor came along that was able to thoroughly outcompete and obsolete wikipedia unless vast amounts of money kept coming in, it doesn't seem like the goal would necessarily be lost. Might even be achieved better and cheaper.
It's dubious and untested whether the "but it's an external process" defense works against AGPL, especially when you're writing your program literally against the API of the project. It also seems inaccurate given the example from the README:

. pglet.sh
PGLET_WEB=true pglet_page
pglet_add "text value='Hello, world!'"

Clearly code from the project (pglet.sh) is embedded directly into your "application".
I am sure nostalgia inducing toys (and anything else) have been a known business strategy for a long time. See all the recent movies with young people listening to 80s music.
I simply tried. You can too. It gives fully correct answers deemed correct by the textbooks I took them from - and not word by word so it's not simple matching. It failed on a fusion physics scripta question - but I'm pretty sure almost nobody in the world knows that answer as it's very cutting edge stuff.
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> So for me: either Google is trying really hard, but essentially failing.

If Google really really wanted they could find out why they more often than not include results that doesn't contain my keywords even after I have put doublequotes around them and hunted down and applied their verbatim setting!

After that they could think really hard about how relevant the text:

> and something someone said xyz.

>

>abc is next up and something something

is for someone searching for "xyz.abc"

Or maybe see if they can dig out an old cheat sheet with all the operators they used to support and invite some old Googlers to secretly come in and teach about it but that can wait until they got the basics working again.
A bit off-topic but does anyone know what music is playing in the video?
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My gut reaction is simply speed. Why sit at my desk for a few hours reading documents when I can a couple phone calls and be scary for 20 minutes to feel secure in saying “yep - not terrorists”.

Or - you know - “weeeelp, I’ve been sitting at this desk all morning, let’s go talk to someone”.
Most video codecs, including H.264 and H.265, encode in frequency space (after DCT transform) on a block-by-block basis, discarding high-frequency information (the edges of text and graphical elements are high frequency information). That's why you can see blurriness and ringing around edges in text and graphical images with a video codec. It's not what they are designed for.

GIF uses Lempel-Ziv compression, meaning it can encode repeating information efficiently ("the next 10 pixels are the same colour as the last 1"). Efficient if there are a lot of areas of the same colour or repeated patterns.

GIF uses RGB colour space just like your screen, so there is no loss of colour information if there are fewer than 255 distinct colours per frame (typical for text & simple screen graphics!). Video codecs (like H.265) typically use YUV420 colour space, meaning that colour information is encoded at lower resolution than brightness.

Palette based colour encoding (like GIF uses) is quite efficient when there is a small number of distinct colours in an image / video (like in the videos in the article...).
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

It's not the word count, it's the density of meaning.
From the about page:

> However [alternatives'] pages are laden with ads, have a poor UI, and you can't know for sure if they really are actually encrypting / deleting anything.

There has been a private zero-knowledge pastebin for years: zerobin, forked into privatebin now (https://zerobin.net/). In fact the original is almost 10-years old but hasn't displayed a single ad, has been open source the whole time, has had time to iron out a lot of bugs and has a better UX than this: it doesn't need cookies to work.

In terms of security, zerobin encrypts/decrypts everything in the browser. The server has no knowledge of the content. In contrast, burnernote receives the content _and_ the password in cleartext and encrypts/hashes them.

Unfortunately, as long as there's a server you will have to trust it. In both cases you have to rely on something other than code and HTTPS to know if your content actually remains private or not
There's the rub. Who's "they"? The unpaid volunteers who write and curate the articles, or the Wikimedia Foundation who takes the money?

People by and large have very little idea of what the Wikimedia Foundation is doing with the money. The WMF is planning to take at least $150M this year ...

According to https://braveneweurope.com/michael-olenick-wikipedias-deep-t... "The vast majority of Wikimedia’s value to ordinary people – the website we know and use – costs the firm about 30 percent of their $112.5 million operating budget."

The spending is not presented very transparently to the ordinary donor. You have to dig, and even then the info is often phrased in ways that make it difficult to understand what value the money actually brings.

The one thing that is clear to see is the ever-expanding headcount: from less than a dozen paid staff in 2007 to 550 or so today.
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Perhaps it depends on who the "we" is.
My startup is $εB.
Carlsen's memory was a bit better than the commentators: Nepo's win with the Petroff against Wang Hao in the Candidates was literally the game that sealed his qualification to this match.
Why do they need to load javascrit from 9 domains though...
I really like Superset. In my last evaluation it appeared to be missing a handful of key features, such as correlated drill down/filtering between visualizations. I hope they can get those covered because then it's an easy product to integrate into my analytics stacks.
Find peace in doing trial and error statistical black box studies after x years of formal systems studies. I couldnt do that for my part.
I disagree. Oracle just continued the flawed open source strategy that Sun was already carrying out for many years. If Sun had continued, I think we wouldn't be much different than we are today. The OpenSolaris project was a great example. It was already dead way before Oracle bought Sun.
Why isn't it just called Piglet?
If I had to guess after a quick listen, it's probably some royalty-free 30 second 'epic space synth' track they licensed directly. Didn't strike me as a song that's been released elsewhere, but I definitely could be wrong!
Battery life could be better. 9 hours of talk time seems pretty low compared to much smaller devices.
Great one! Actual question: has anyone looked if pseudo randomnes is worse than full randomness?
It sounds like you're talking about quite old versions, and in particular, demand something cloud hosted (not dealing with "custom setups"?).

You can script it with Kotlin these days, there is a hosted cloud version, they've redesigned the entire UI (though the old version did not look like a two year old's sketchbook), it understands test output just fine and can zap you to the right place in the log (and that's always worked for me, maybe it doesn't understand your test framework output or something).

But eh, different strokes for different folks. I hate YAML and much prefer having a GUI to help me set things up.
I reckon that he (or more likely Toshio Suzuki, the real brain behind Ghibli) veered "modern" from the start, but understood after the first efforts that Ghibli as a brand must satisfy a core of conservative fans who just want more of the same. So now he's doing something close to "one for me, one for the studio", to balance out the inevitable backlash.

I think he is not as talented as his father but good enough to carry on the family business.
I'd say temp accounts have exactly 0 credibility in themselves.
Are they absolutely certain that if accidentally ingested (or ingested in miniscule amounts), that this won't interact with endothelial surfaces or have other undesired affects?

The mechanism scares me. I'd be worried about vascular health, cancer, etc. Probably nothing to worry about, but it's a very novel approach and it's got my mind wondering.
This takes me back. A friend of mine worked in Quarterdeck's Dublin office and got me a copy of DESQview/X. It was a great piece of software.
And lots of people understand about effective storytelling.

It's not any more dishonest to "focus" and craft a narrative that has a dream as its source material than it is to do the same for any other source material.
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What'd you think of this method for homework. I asked a junior candidate (web-dev) for their portfolio, they didn't have one. I told them that was okay, but advised that they complete a generic exercise I gave them and host it publicly on their Github for extra credit.

Candidate get's a better portfolio of work, and I get to see their style. Seemed fair to me?
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Sure, if you ignore the toxicity then it isn't as toxic as it "seems" to be.
There is a nice song about it (in french): https://youtu.be/jAlnL8JHetY
https://open.spotify.com/track/5LI0bvOOWBZurxNuO8su1S
It seems you repeated
Same ambiguity exists with he/she. Perfectly unambiguous language is rarely practically achievable.

"Early in the morning, a man with toys passed by the house. My child told me he wanted this toy."
Not really, you need to install things, know how to program, and probably pay for GPU compute. Even with Colab (which is an ok choice if you don't own a beefy GPU; the consumer Nvidia cards--if you can get them--don't have enough RAM these days so colab seems most subsidized).

The real (fatal) problem with Colab is you write a bunch of code that needs decent system specs and they suddenly bump you down to a shitty system and now your code doesn't work, even when you're paying their newest "Plus Plus Max" membership. They keep adding membership tiers and it barely works. Still the cheapest option.
Who said anything about kids?
I am bald, not totally but enough to shave my head. I would love to have simple solution for this problem. And I would pay gladly a lot of money if this would be a one time thing. Or let's say every coule of years. But I have seen friend having his hair transplanted, it is not much hair in one sitting. And after one year of growing that hair, for me it is like meh, I wouldn't bother. He does not take pills as far as I know. To have a good enough hair, you need to have couple of very unpleasant transplantations and take pills with side effects for a long time(maybe for ever).
For me it is not worth the hustle at all. So while I passively lurk for better treatment I shave my head 2 times a week and don't waste energy on thinking what if. I know some people have big mental problems considering hairloss. I am glad I can grow a beard and I am tall, so it does not make me look bad. It is just a different look. There is a lot of baldness acceptance videos going on during this pandemic, for example bald caffe on youtube. I think it can help a lot of people deal with issues. So, not a problem of money but it is a hustle to get it done right.
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> but is being served by an out-of-process Pglet server.

Then I guess it is a server and not a framework?

And if it is it only means we are going from well defined non-commercial and into the minefield that is using AGPL servers in a commercial setting?
>FSx for OpenZFS is powered by the AWS Graviton family processors and AWS SRD (Scalable Reliable Datagram) Networking,

This is Amazon owning the whole Stack.

The pace of innovation at AWS Scale is insane. And quite scary.
That’s not Apples flaw, it’s a flaw with SMS. It can only handle file sizes up to a certain limit, and during periods of congestion they lower that limit.
Oh, agreed. We use Redshift in production and you are absolutely right about its pitfalls and downsides.

Still, Athena is for S3 and is not a relational database engine, with all that this means. Redshift is one. That was my point.
Excellent question. If one accepts that no hiring process is 100% objective, then one is left with the conclusion that the only way to have a hiring process that is fair to everyone is to deliberately aim to overcome one's subjective biases. I try to address it in this part of the book:

---------------

Recommendations from friends or friends of friends should count for a lot

When hiring, I rely heavily on recommendations from people I know. To use some Silicon Valley jargon, I rely on "social proof." If a good engineer, who I've worked with, recommends some other engineer, that counts for a lot with me.

I wrote this on Twitter and James Youngman responded, “It seems to me that this kind of approach is what perpetuates the domination of the industry by an in-group (who know each other, directly or indirectly) at the expense of outsiders, to the detriment of both diversity and fairness.”

To be clear, this approach very much works when you are hiring novices who are straight out of school. Back in 2018, when I need some junior level frontend software developers, I hired several women from the Grace Hopper program for women that is run by Fullstack Academy. In that case I spoke with some experienced friends of mine who had either taught at the schools or volunteered as mentors at the schools. As such, they could point me to who were the best of the graduating class. As it was, I ended up with an unusually excellent team of novices.

We all have a professional and ethical obligation to be sure we hire a diverse workforce – the workforce must be open to anyone who has real talent. There is no contradiction between that obligation and a requirement that a candidate be recommended by someone we trust. Assuming you have friends who understand their professional and ethical obligations the same way you do, they should be able to give recommendations on people they know, or put you in touch with friends of theirs who can offer such recommendations. Within your extended social penumbra of friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends, you should be able to find someone who can vouch for most of the candidates that you need to hire. You just need to put in the effort, chasing down those recommendations through extended chains of friendship.
I think I can say the same, although I first watched it in an artsy downtown theater at a live screening 20+ years ago when it was first released in the US with English dubbing.
Looking at the Pglet docs, I don't think it is similar to Wt.
Ok. I wasn't quite sure whether increase in price was meant, or some kind of moral appreciation.
Thanks. I wasn't quite sure whether increase in price was meant, or some kind of moral appreciation.
> How is this relevant to the conversation?

Presumably in the "how large do you want the salt grain to be?" sense?
WARNING: "tumblrgallery . xyz", the "source" for the header image, promptly fed me explicitly NSFW results. Viewer beware.

On a less PSA note, I visited the site to check if it was a tumblr API scraper, which it does appear to be. Referencing such sites as (ostensibly) first-order sources is IMO just a couple notches beyond plausible deniability, like a site I chanced upon ages ago with a header image "sourced" from images.google.com.

TL;DR: got pedantry-sniped, was handed eyeful. Woops.
No demanding here, just wishful thinking. I am aware that the Matrix protocol is way more complex than other chat protocols.
Sounds like the real world to me.

I guess I've never hired someone at cheap rates, I only ever hired at 30 USD an hour.
Chromostereopsis – 3D effects from 2D images
Oh, fake data generators it is, then.
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While it's true that cheating can reflect badly on otherwise well-performing students (testees?), the problem is in the score-adjusting based on group performance. If that does not happen, your score is yours only. Ensuring that different versions of tests are comparable in their "hardness" is what we should focus on.

Perhaps India is a culture where academic/certification performance is highly valued, instead of hands-on experience. However, if "cheats" end up getting all the jobs because of that, and they end up performing well in their jobs, there is really no harm[*], other than highlighting how certification is useless. If they end up performing bad, commercial interests should incentivize employers to not look for good academic/certification performance anymore, like it's done, for instance, in most IT jobs in the "West".

I've witnessed plenty of cheating in my University days, and I never felt "threatened" by "cheaters": I knew what I was in for, and if they weren't, that's their loss (and win, because we were not matched against each other). The only regret I have is that many of them ended up taking teaching jobs (I can't see how they can properly make their students excited about the art of CS), but it's because those good at CS had good industry jobs waiting for them at significant pay raise compared to academic careers (so it's not academic scores that hindered them from continuing in academia).

[*] Sure, principled cheaters (it may sound like an oxymoron, but it's not), should try to get rid of the certificate-valuation (by eg anonymously exposing how easy it is to cheat, and how irrelevant it is to their on-the-job performance) to stop this money-grabbing scheme altogether.
Your logic would suggest that workers in tradable industries get paid less than those in non-tradeable goods and services, wouldn't it?

That's something we can look into.
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Try posting your story and watch the roller coaster your Karma goes through, including people who get so incensed at what you said that they start hate-downvoting multiple pages of your comment history.
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I wouldn't donate to Wikipedia since it began to take political stances. It's hard to find articles written from a neutral point of view on English version on Wikipedia.