skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> calling people you disagree with "woke"

I'm not calling user-the-name woke because I disagree with them, but because that appears to me to be an accurate description of the ideology they subscribe to.

(Just like if someone advocated allocating resources by central planning instead of markets I might call them a communist; or if they wanted to abolish all states I might call them an anarchist.)

> they "virtue climb" (what does that even mean??)

It means attempt to appear virtuous in order to increase social status.
Even if he eventually gets in trouble, it’s hard to argue that the British state didn’t pull out the stops to protect their pedophile prince while wringing their hands about child abuse and online encryption. Oh, and Keir Starmer oversaw the prosecutor’s office who decided not to charge Jimmy Savile, who turned out to be a prolific (hundreds of accusers) child rapist.

So as far as child abuse is concerned, the call appears to be coming from inside the house.
This is more electrical engineering than computer science course. And it’s timing is absolutely not realistic for a starter. 12 weeks is a bad joke for this. Half week for uart design. Lol. Beginner has to know what uart is in very first place. For 52 weeks it might be ok if you are senior level.
What’s the debate? I wouldn’t accept that order either. 6$ for 9 miles plus wait time barely pays mileage.

What’s interesting is a lot of restaurants won’t pre make orders they expect to get canceled so the order would probably take 45min to fulfill
I'm worried that, as far as you go to avoid offending others, people might go further to be offended, if "being offended" means "I get to silence others".
Maybe there is some truth here but they haven’t done a good job if that is the goal. The simplified Chinese is not that different from traditional Chinese. We can still read traditional text easily. The biggest difference is the Simplified Chinese is much easier to write (by hand).
Yes, we should wait until it's happened and then try to stop it from happening.
How is Kronos still in business? How do they not have their stuff back up and running?

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KRO/

Their stock looks fine. You'd never know their business is inoperable.

I know customers of theirs that just said 'screw it' and wrote their own payroll/timeclock systems. They don't have a 100% replacement yet (not a small project) but at least they can use cards to clock in and track hours.

I'm surprised every employee who uses the system hasn't had their personal information posted to the dark web yet.
This advice is good in general, but I don't think one should do job hopping right away fresh out of college or very early in the career.
What's the advantage, if you already know Python? (genuine interest)
If I met someone who said they work for Pinterest, the first thought through my mind would be "now don't be violent"
Yes you are seing a pattern. The same way a neural net will classify a sofa as a leopard. It also saw a pattern. And in both cases the level of confidence is maximum. But wrong.
Can someone explain to me how a mesh network which cannot be disabled without taking every node offline responds in the presence of bad-faith actors (potentially sabateurs) on that network itself?

Because that seems to be a common failure mode which uncritical supporters entirely fail to consider.
I wrote a blog post answering a related but different question about bootcamps: https://offbyone.us/posts/things-to-consider-before-joining-...

I feel like there are many paths to computation and I’ve met many people who have become functional technologists from various backgrounds. I think the most important thing to figure out early is do you like programming. Do you like this kind of thinking?
Highest paying in Europe is probably Zurich, not London. Salaries are comparable to sub-million-population US cities, which considering Zurich is also sub-million seems like it's actually pretty competitive with the US.
Very, very evidently not.
They have, no? GNOME/KDE have supported SVG icons for years, the themes are usually vector based. I don't think there are necessarily many bitmaps in a default modern GNOME install.

For macOS the reason is simple and deliberate: it's much easier for artists to make beautiful icons as bitmaps. They can use Photoshop and not just vector editors. Given that screen resolutions increase at a somewhat slow and predictable pace it means they can just redraw icons at higher resolutions from time to time to keep up with their hardware changes. They like to change art styles anyway.
"Unless you get really lucky, you are going to spend your life making one of three possible things:

1. Software that is undeniably evil and has a net negative effect on humanity for money

2. Software that isn't directly evil but you'll be adding features that exclusively make it worse

3. Software designed to help the former two groups work more efficiently."

That sums it up pretty well.
Deofuscating a nifty Powershell script with Python
> Again, all I am arguing is that if you use a sequential test, you should analyze it accordingly.

I hate to be picky and negative but this doesn't seem like a justification for the use of the word 'harmful' in the title. The phrase 'considered harmful' has been used quite a bit lately and I get that it attracts attention but a title like 'Bayesian A/B Testing Considered Harmful' sounds like a group of authoritative individuals has collectively decided that it is indeed, harmful (and I was expecting a list of the reasons why). If it's just one persons opinion, wouldn't it be more accurate to say 'Why I consider Bayesian A/B Testing harmful'.
There's a 1976 book titled, "Southern Words and Sayings" that references the phrase as, "Church ain't over until...". This suggests that the phrase predates the 1970s basketball usage, though I don't think there is any actual recorded use of it before the mid 70s.
Processing has been around for ages and is pretty well suited for that: https://processing.org/
Provide specific examples of JCS perpetuating pseudo science and maybe you'll have made a compelling argument. Until then, this reads as baseless accusation. Which, IMO, is no better than pseudo science.
What if you want your own colors and your own level of medium contrast that works well on your specific display and lighting conditions?
It's possible that they like surveillance because it is cheaper than traditional methods.
What are people using to play the games?
Researchers develop CAPTCHA solver to aid dark web research
Volcanoes contribute to climate change (rather than being caused by them), but mostly have a cooling effect. When they erupt to an extent that they inject sulfates into the stratosphere, these sulfates seed cloud nuclei and increase cloud cover around the planet that reduces the IR energy from the sun.

Sometimes a single volcanic eruption can have a dramatic cooling effect on the planet, like Mount Tambora in 1816, which triggered an extremely cold summer in Europe and North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Oh my God, why do we put up with C at all?
> you are wasting energy being angry at this person dealing with her problems of choice instead of fixing the ones you use here as a cludgel

I have in the past spent thousands of hours and thousands of pounds attempting to fix some of these issues.

> How are is shutting this person up going to help fixing there wrongs?

I don't want to shut them up, I want to redirect their energy to things that are productive.
Could you explain what kind of reliability ranking you are referring to ? Is there a "standard" or something ? How does it work ?
What exactly is the point of an unattainable hypothetical like that? Its not falsifiable and therefore totally unscientific.
To be fair, that's not a valid question.

Even if a company wouldn't donate any of their profits, if they make an investment based on laws, and the government then changes those laws to make what they are doing illegal, that's still an outcome that we should avoid; both out of a sense of fairness, but also out of self-interest, otherwise people will make fewer investments, which is a bad thing.

(Though no idea on the details in this specific case - I just dislike this question and its invalid assumption.)
Also calcium lactate, which is a salt.
You sound like you know what you’re talking about, so perhaps you could explain something that I just can’t figure out.

I use multiple desktops and run almost every app in full screen. Oftentimes when I focus a window on a secondary desktop that isn’t fullscreen (like a Finder window), then click on the Dock icon of a full screen app, MacOS will focus the primary desktop instead of the desktop with the full screen app.

Do you ever experience this behavior? Is there a better way to switch between apps?
I think you are right, and to date, QR codes have been underutilized. 9/10 times when I scan a QR code it takes me to a static menu page or worse, a PDF. But if the QR code led to a dynamic page, then many of these upsell opportunities could be presented there. I have seen (an been upsold by) these offers on Ziosk tablets on the table (I believe at Applebees). Once someone has scanned the QR code, you can detect if they are a repeat visitor, and get them to register to earn rewards, store preferences, etc. When they order on the phone, you can suggest wine pairings, specials, etc. The benefit here is that the app never forgets to push the specials, whereas waiters often do. And you could adjust the specials in real time. I have had waiters push the special, and I order it, only to find out they just sold the last one.
This is true of any network architecture that guarantees delivery of a message between terminii.

The legal conflation you're actually homing in on is we conflate technical terminals with their human users. We've been doing it for years, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
“Bloki” (Blocks – EN subtitles) [video]
Cellular automata are not a common topic. The new book is definitely the best in terms of Game of Life in particular. Another recommendation might be Jarkko Kari's lecture notes, which cover the subject from a more academic perspective. Not coincidentally, he was the advisor of the two discoverers here.

https://users.utu.fi/jkari/ca2022/
Even if you don't like R, your can do the entire course with Julia/Turing, Julia/Stan or Python, the course github's page has a list of “code translations” for all the examples.
Just understand that it’s not a coding career it’s a problem solving career. Often times the best way to solve a problem are good social skills, empathy, dressing well, and generally making your soft skills strong. It also helps to be persistent and willing to try things repeatedly and failing. “Good” coding skills are often not necessary. Know the basics, be willing to learn, be outgoing (introverted doesn’t mean you can’t be social and outgoing) lean on others and you’ll go further than you expect

Edit: unfortunately you’ll need to know Leetcode to break into a lot of jobs. Honesty just memorize solutions for two weeks. It sucks but it is what it is and it’s easier to go with the flow than get angry at it
Here is the configuration of live and
dead cells, surrounded by an infinite
background of grey “don’t care” cells:

What are "don't care cells"? I thought cells in Conway's Game of Life are either alive or dead?
If you use cash for transactions, you share part of the responsibility for enabling human and drug trafficking, murder, burglary, fraud, and so on...

PS: I'm not even a fan of cryptocurrency.
You are right he could have been more clear, but the backlash here is unwarranted since there was no way that comment was racist. Instead they should just have pointed out that he could have phrased the comment better, but assuming he is racist just because he phrased it poorly like many others here do is just toxic. It is very clear what he meant if you think a bit.
This one is outside my expertise so I appreciate your take on it!
Only if you toggle local-evaluation in the analysis board. When you "request a computer analysis", the computation is done by fishnet [1] on volunteers' hardware.

[1] https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
I heard an initial estimate (sorry, nothing solid yet) that it was VEI 4 or 5, so more like every 10 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh/comparisons.html
Sounds really cool! I'd love to check out what you made, if you are interested in sharing?
Don't forget to count automated license plate readers, too: https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/48/4865.asp

And in the context of a crime investigation, all those private cameras will have their recordings looked at by the police - though I concede "spying" is too harsh a word for that.
Scumbag politicians here in the Netherlands are actually using Signal to avoid courts obtain their communications through the Dutch equivalent of the FOIA.

Politics here is starting to look more like mob politics... Our prime minister is actually known to do as little on paper as possible - so when the shit hits the fan, he'll always say "oh I didn't know" or "I didn't remember"...
You can't save that much by hiring in Romania. The differences between developer compensation in europe don't follow cost of living differences, an average software engineer in Poland is likely in a better position when compared to an average Pole than an average software engineer in France vs an average Frenchman.
Is that only with the stabilizers shown in yellow, or do they have some other purpose?
A team that ignores product quality will soon run out of money to spend on solving social etc. issues. Effort follows attention, so attention should be weighted appropriately across issues, but it's not uncommon for companies and causes to over-index on just a few issues and sacrifice other aspects of team dynamics and product quality as a result.
Not the parent commenter, but namespaces alone make the switch a no-brainer. Add on top RAII, actual abstractibility (good luck implementing std::string in C properly) make it a strictly worse language.
Issues filed on GitHub != process that goes through the Windows Feedback Hub. The latter is a completely opaque process and product team engagement varies wildly from feature area to feature area.
Ask HN: Would you give up 100% more salary as a junior SWE/MLE?
I'm losing my mind over a luxury problem: Currently a PhD student in the south of Germany. A few month ago, I went through a difficult phase in life and suddenly considered not going for an industry career and missing out on the money to be a huge mistake. So I started to shop around for offers and recently got hit up with a very generous Junior SWE offer: 115k TC (currently 55k).

However, in the meantime I was also able to find my motivation again for continuing the PhD. My main project is dealing with the application of computer vision and deep learning. While not overly excited about the specific topic, I appreciate the freedom, the intellectually challenging work, even teaching. Most of all, I enjoy to really become an expert in a domain.

I'm completely lost on how to proceed now: My stomach feeling is to decline the offer. It is in an unrelated field, so I'd have to give up on deep learning which sucks a lot. However, it is also a fantastic salary for Germany. I'm waking up at night sweating bullets about giving up so much money, missing out on the kick-start of an industry career. But I'm also sweating bullets about not working in machine learning anymore. I've already put so much energy into machine learning and fear that, once I switch away, the path back to it won't be easy.

"Money is just a hygiene factor" seems like a good perspective once you already made bank. Have you given up on a good salary early in your career? What is your experience? What would you recommend?
"pretty qualified thinkers" are putting out all sorts of thought provoking ideas with no intention of being right all the time.
> There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill

Except Defender/Malware Protection...
I remember about a decade ago, there was this site that let you generate these silly animated videos out of just text scripts featuring two people sarcastically talking about various careers. "So you want to be a lawyer" and "So you want to be a social worker", etc. Of course, there is a "So you want to be a software engineer"[1] and although it's a little over the top, I still point people to it.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXzlkOWLE0
How a gray painting can break your heart
You'll probably need some basic notions of statistical distributions and data analysis; I recommend reading the first chapter of the book or the first lecture and seeing whether you're missing anything important.
can you please elaborate why?

i plan to start learning to code and making a game would be one of the final milestones on the loose roadmap i've set for myself -- i get it's complex but would love to know why you advise against it.
I've replaced it with (part of) the subtitle now.
This is exactly what Steve Jobs would tell me every week when he would look at the latest Finder build. Of course, we needed multiple pieces of infrastructure to get there; a journaled and indexed filesystem, kernel-level, file system modification notifications, metadata indexing systems, etc. All of the pieces did appear, but there are also those darn stubborn users who kept insisting on the ability to navigate a physical file system to an actual file.

Many of the features of OSX (which I rarely use, but worked tirelessly on) came as a result of Steve's dislike of having to know where files were and having to navigate to them. The Dock, Spotlight, Mission Control, Expose, even Time Machine all came out of Steve's hard-to-pin-down concept of what a modern user interface should be.

I suspect it may be possible to create a fully "Smart Folder" query driven Finder experience. Your sidebar could be populated entirely of saved queries. This might be a fun experiment!
You estimate wrong, then.

Typical preparations, most especially those sold for vaping, turn out on examination to have ~2% of the amount of CBD advertised, where they have any. I.e., they have just enough that a crude test of presence shows something present.
Jung Chang on communism, robots and the history of China
Honestly I think it is a little hostile. Not towards frequentist directly, but towards the mis-use of frequentist methods in science. He works in ecology and I think he comes across a bunch of crap all the time. He talks at length about the statistical crisis in science and I can't really blame him.

But I could see how someone might take this as an attack on the methods themselves.
You should probably take Viral 101 over again. Vaccines definitely reduce transmission - current vaccines, however, are barely, if at all, effective against Omicron.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

IF we had been able to vaccinate 90%+ of the world by the start of last summer, this pandemic had a good chance of ending. Delta made it much more difficult, and Omicron crushed that option.

"it's possible for a variant to come out that gets around all vaccinations every time, so therefore vaccines can't stop the pandemic" means that you definitely failed Viral 101.
I'm taking a pause and waiting for something new to pop up
For me, I use R data.table a lot and I see as the main advantages are performance and the terse syntax. The terse syntax does come with a steep learning curve though.
That’s definitely not every patron
It is normal in Stockholm, Sweden, but the local FAANG offices pay much more along with some others. There is a wide distribution.
There is nothing special about software development in terms of a career. You learn it like you learn anything else. Some people have a natural aptitude, some people will never get it, most are in the middle: capable of becoming competent developers.

I mean, 90% of development these days is knowing what parts to glue together and where to get the parts. You're converting business rules into code: for the most part, it's really not that hard.

Want to help your friends get into software and don't know what to say? Tell them to go for it. Let them decide if they like doing it.
Not if you do a game analysis
People like myths. They generally don't like atheism because it's basically just rejecting their favorite myth, without even having one of its own [0].

Thus I believe a non-atheist watching the show is likely to see a bunch of other stories, which while false are actually more in line with their worldview than not.

They aren't going to latch onto the general implication of if all these stories about Gods are false, maybe theirs is too. There are already plenty of competing religions, and they rarely induce this effect.

[0] I feel bad about saying this, because the rationalist story of emergent creation is quite amazing. But for most people grokking complex details is not enjoyable.
Assuming you are correct that the app keeps a history, your argument is still bullshit. Requiring physical access and unlocking of the phone is not at all comparable to having a server somewhere storing such data.
You’re gatekeeping. Learning is possible for anyone with adequate access to information and support from experts. Be the expert that teaches. Do not be the expert that obfuscates information in order to protect their ego.

If you feel something is too complex to teach then do not teach that thing. Learn that thing better from experts who have simplified that complexity into an elegant framework. Then teach that thing.
This definitely puts a new light on our current practices for countering violence, prisons seem to be the exact opposite of what one would want to do in this situation.
I think the Russell Conjugation is, I have principles, you have ideologies, they have dogmas. Clearly dogmas harm individuals. So do the wrong set of principles. But does anyone care to argue that we shouldn't have principles? We should have principles, and also ideologies and dogmas, because those are different spins on the same thing.
The US healthcare system cannot be primarily about saving jobs or the AMA would not have ever lobbied to restrict residencies to prevent a glut of doctors.

Since the AMA is an organization of medical professionals, one must conclude that it reflects their position: protectionism for their field.
Over the past 5 or so years, I've bought/pre-ordered at least 10 Atari 2600 games, on cart, on release day. Also, new hardware, controllers, specialty carts, AtariVox. I'm just realizing that I've spent more on 2600 stuff than I have on Steam.

A few days ago I played an Atari 8-bit online multiplayer racing game [0] live with a Twitch streamer [1], it's was mind-blowing. There's a lot of new fun stuff going on in retro gaming.

[0] http://8bit-slicks.com/

[1] https://youtu.be/RAh_Fh0DFRg?t=2346
> The unfortunate truth about data is that nothing much can be done with it

This is a fairly strong statement that goes against a lot of other work in data science and information visualization (John Tukey, Edward Tufte, Jacques Bertin, Hadley Wickham, ...). For example, see [0] and [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis
[1] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/18.337/2015/docs/50YearsDataSc...
A Chinese Typewriter, 1899
In quite a few European countries it's really not that much on top it.
UK is the primary example of it.