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How do you know that they won't get to the point if you don't read/watch them?

Why must the abstractions be tokenized? I can notice myself feeling things, and surely that counts as awareness of the self. If you notice that you are full of anger or joy, you no…

We're two Northeastern University students (jfz and drassaby on HN), and one professor (not on HN), who started this project because there were no frameworks that allowed people to…

Sounds like Pivotal, which literally has "Be Kind" as one of the three core values.

I've been working on a Genetic Algorithm/Evolutionary Computing framework in Scala, using network-parallelism to solve optimization problems fast. If you're interested, check it ou…

What do you wish your teammates did differently? What are the metrics that you can use to evaluate yourself? How do you know if you're improving? How can these be taught in CS unde…

I suspect that the bikes and scooters will appear less dorky over time, as they get normalized. Some people say the bikes "look pretty cool"[1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9…

This is critical - even if no individual study has positive results, the data from each study can be aggregated and that meta-analysis can find results much more easily. I remember…

There is a massive difference between doing something that will clearly hurt someone and choosing to do only work that benefits you. Researchers are currently under no obligation t…

I have seen companies saying they have a thousand microservices to mean that they have a thousand microservice servers running, but they might have hundreds of application servers …

Can you post a link to the implicit bias study you're talking about and a refutation?

As long as the central bank is full of thoughtful economists, I trust them to print money when they "feel like it" will be good for the economy.

The author probably meant that they don't believe that full-stack engineering is beneficial compared to hiring primarily specialists.

Most people will say that the motivation to work on a problem should come from you being really excited about the problem domain. Play around with someone else's code, trying to do…

The benefits of cycling outweigh the harms of the pollution, almost everywhere. The pollution is still harmful, though, and lowers your lifespan compared to not having as much poll…

How do you know? Massive productivity increases over the last 40 years have not reduced labor participation in the slightest.

Just don't try to build corporate housing in Brazil... https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/

Would you still apply the term "gossip" to talking about celebrities or politicians? When you are talking about people in their professional capacities (talking about the politics …

Because IQ is a measure of abstract analytical and pattern-matching intelligence, our economic shift towards more analytical/intelligence-driven work causes us to practice those sk…

It would actually be surprising to find them doing it. Even from a business perspective, their other breaches of ethics (and privacy) all made them money. Large-scale eugenics woul…

Using i and j in loops makes code much less self-explanatory, especially when you could use "page_index" and "image_index" instead.

That's not the best analogy - it's more like someone has two chairs in their waiting room and they note which chair is more popular among people waiting, so they can replace the wo…