skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the pure evil HR bullshit is the dance around discrimination suits and to maintain the use of alma mater as a discriminator. It's literally in their interest to assume that you're a widget fit for a specific purpose.

If you provide meaningful training, you need to be fair in the application of said training. If you admit that you can train people with common existing skills to do most technology jobs, it's going to hard to justify your cozy recruiting funnel with a small number of universities, picked in the basis of where a few bigshots in the company went to school.
Growing up, the audio tone for that signal was etched into my brain over the course of numerous Saturday mornings, when I woke up early enough to hear the tests. This was before cable was normal. Sometimes it felt like the dial-tone-like noise drilled into your ears for a solid 90 seconds.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOVwgKmzROw

The new sound is even worse (and seemingly longer), and I imagine it's signal (which sounds more like fax machine squelches than an alert noise) has been crafted to prevent incidents like you describe.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llrkn2ASVNQ

Also, to prevent deliberate piracy, which was something of an urban legend, but with real, known examples, like the Chicago Max Headroom instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs

It's interesting, because I had always thought the noises were intended to capture the interest of viewers, since it sounds like something of an alarm. It never occurred to me that it might be a system-level control signal. Which makes much more sense now, since the tests were called out as tests, and not drills to prompt viewer activity.

It's funny, because after decades and decades of listening to the test drills, on 9/11 I had expected to hear it cutting in, but it was largely absent and unused. The only time I've ever heard it for real, was during weather-related situations like hurricanes.
And to add to that: there are lots of examples of services that are only tacked on to a sold good in order to turn that sale into a permanent dependency of the buyer on the seller. And that's just plain abusive.
Great question. You may already know that Apple has a long history of locking up LCD production capacity.

'After Apple's Q1 earnings call in January, Apple COO Tim Cook told the press and analysts that the company had entered a $3.9 billion component supply deal in a key area that was "an absolutely fantastic use of Apple’s cash". Many speculated that, after flash storage supply deals and agreements, Apple identified high-resolution LCD displays as a key factor to iOS' devices manufacturing process. Back then, speculation and Tim Cook's own words suggested that Apple had entered a deal with three manufacturers, including Toshiba and Sharp. A month before the the Q1 financial results, Apple was indeed rumored to be discussing with Toshiba an investment in a new $1.19 billion factory -- the same that Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun is mentioning today. But at the same time, several reports suggested that Apple was also considering a second investment in a $1.2 billion facility from Sharp -- with over $60 billion in cash, a double investment in LCD manufacturing wouldn't have surprised anyone. But today's report seems to confirm that the deal with Sharp hasn't gone through, implying that Toshiba has been chosen as the only Japanese manufacturer of iPhone LCD screens.'

From: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-investing-in-toshibas-...
It's not really news; it's always been clear that:

1. The Bank of England knew about the Libor rigging as it happened

2. And was, at a minimum, very happy with the results (given that it reduced the risk of bank runs imperiling the entire system)

3. And that nobody involved really thought this was a serious issue, much less a crime.

Putting the above together, it would be surprising if there wasn't some pressure from the Bank of England to push Libor down; why wouldn't they be doing that? In the circumstances, it would have practically been remiss of them to do otherwise.

Of course, it looks absolutely horrific now that we've decided that manipulating Libor is a serious issue that people should go to prison for!
Yet, literally every professionally employed person is in their current gig via that process.

It works good enough.
> Also nobody's being forced to buy new tractors, there's tons of old tractors still out and running and working every day.

There are also fewer every day.
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Indeed. No one should hire a programmer except that they be licensed and bonded, just like any other form of skilled labor.

Users of software developed by unlicensed programmers should also be held liable if their machines should be compromised and used in a botnet or other malicious activity. That means no Linux or, in your case, BSD.
And https://www.iphoneasyunlock.com/
Wouldn't twitter be a counter-example? They had some issues but resolved them later when the had the resources to and they are now a multi-billion dollar company. That may not have happened had the devoted resources into scaling from the outset.
-_- what a sad story
Yep.

That's also because their software is crazy advanced. Basically automates the whole plowing and such. Big market differentiator.
> The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up ...

... that affects lawmakers and/or exposes national security secrets.

I imagine there's a lot of clandestine spending that can be correlated and will eventually bubble up inadvertently.
People buy software-controlled tractors in the first place because they really want the software functions. If purely mechanical versions could fill the same need, DRMed tractors would never have sold to begin with.
> It does however still leave the question "but whose fault that legacy code is?"

Heh, I can do this all day. "We accumulated a lot of tech debt on a previous project because of very short deadlines." Or, "the previous owner learned the technology while building the system -- I'm sure he would have done it differently today." What I'm looking for is that you understand what leads to this sort of situation, and it isn't usually, "the last guy was an idiot." I mean sometimes, sure, but even then it's usually closer to, "the last guy was hired into a role he wasn't ready for and needed a better mentor, or better training."

> Could you please clarify on that point? I am curious.

It's really helpful to be able to send an engineer to collaborate with another team without having to worry about whether they'll end up butting heads with someone and making a mess. Tact is important. Sometimes other people are under constraints that you're not aware of, and it's useful to have empathy. Maybe they have super tight deadlines, or maybe they're having to use a technology they've never used before. It's easy to say, "this person is a moron and their code is bad," but if they get the impression that you think that it can really harm working relationships. At that point, I end up having to step in and smooth relationship over, and it's not a great use of time.

Talking about how bad ex-coworkers with tact shows me that you 1) have empathy and 2) will understand how to navigate similar situations if hired.
That's interesting because I have an Oculus DK2 with an OLED panel (Galaxy Note 3 panel) and I've experienced 0 issues in what many consider the most sensitive display environment.
Great to see ginseng on HN! My startup Rareroot may be of some interest to you: We are building a web platform to let people buy wild ginseng directly from growers. We have not launched yet, but you can sign up for our mailing list. Thanks!

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Unfortunately, the startup in question (yubl) has shut down due to lack of funding. They had a very large staff (about 70) and obviously the infrastructure was not cheap either.

http://www.businessinsider.com/london-based-social-network-y...

Lambda is perfect for one-off or seldom-run jobs. Although no one wants to run servers anymore, with any significant volume, lambda is a very poor choice due to costs that quickly grow literally exponentially over the servers used to run the actual tasks. At scale, autoscaling groups are a much better choice for the money.
Everywhere I've worked that tried to architect for massive scales at the beginning has ended up with an architecture that inhibits scaling. Using correct indexes and transactions can go a long way.
Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage'
I wonder if BuiltWith would be willing to release a list for free of sites using MathJax, so someone could build a tool to notify them all if contact info can be found
This is why I don't trust cloud services. I track my budget using PearBudget [0], an Excel (or LibreOffice) spreadsheet.

[0] https://pearbudget.com/
Apple has a bunch of internal SOC designs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mobile_application_proce... (currently at least 16).
Hard labor pays more than $10. You're missing the overall point, but OK. It still doesn't explain why foreigners take the jobs and not Americans.
Yes it's called RAST or "beartrap".
https://www.curtisswrightds.com/products/naval-systems/helic...
And add to that that the 3-4-5 triangle is still a useful way to establish a right angle without any tools (apart from a piece of string).
But the Goldmans of the world know better than to mess with it.
I'm having trouble reproducing your math. Can you be more specific on how you got (30.5 * 86,400) in your equation? Using this calculator I can't reproduce your cost: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lambda-tools/pricing-calculator.htm.... What is your execution time and memory on each lambda?

Edit: I'm guessing 86,400 seconds in a day and ~30.5 days in a month. If so you're using lambda wrong. You should not keep a lambda running forever rather treat each lambda as a short living function that responds to an API request and avoid calling async operations during the execution of it.
It's true but I would wager independent farmers are more likely to repair and keep old tractors around, or buy used when they do have to buy one.

I bet the biggest buyer of new tractors are the farming conglomerates, and I wonder if they're behind these articles. Trying to get a grass roots movement going to push John Deere to change these practices?
My totally naive understanding of evolutionary biology makes me think we'd have to be much simpler and/or much lower energy consuming organisms to evolve considerably higher radiation tolerance.
> It took about a day for most candidates to do.

This is an issue as well. If you aren't google then a day is too much investment for a single job opportunity, especially if you're already employed.
Render Hell 2.0
It's worth noting there have been some attempts to unify ANNs with formal logic specifications, but I haven't seen anything incredible.
I was in Dallas when this happened. I can attest to the eeriness of sirens going off all over town with no idea what they mean. In Texas we're accustomed to tornado sirens, but when the skies are clear and they are going off, makes you wonder what might be happening - especially when it lasts for over an hour.

But what really struck me was how much we expect instant information these days. Took over 30 minutes to figure out what was happening. No coverage on local news, no "reverse 911" alerts indicating a problem (or lack thereof). Google eventually surfaced a tweet by the Dallas Morning News indicating it was a false alarm and they were asking city hall for answers.

Not sure what the protocol is for alerting people not to mind the blaring alarms, but seems like something should have happened given that 311 and 911 were overwhelmed with inquiries.
Kevin Leyton-Brown's research is a good read for SAT if you're interested in the state-of-the-art, and more specifically emperical/meta algorithms: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kevinlb/publications.html
Employees will test the limits with lawsuits. I know at least one large state lost a class action lawsuit due to racial bias on civil service exams.

The problem with comparing IQ results at hire to employment success is that employment outcome is difficult to define over time. You're also unlikely to get statistically relevant data without focusing on large organizations with standardized HR processes. Most of the research is based on supervisory evaluations, which are not the most reliable indicators of anything for a variety of reasons.

The other thing I find amusing is that business folk who talk about this miss the fact that there are large workforces in the US that either have or do use standardized testing like this to hire and promote. Those are government bureaucracies, which function relatively well, but are hardly a model that most folks advocating this would aspire towards.
Take a look at JHipster: https://jhipster.github.io/. Web application generator for the front and back ends using development best practices. Can be extended to be used with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
I've eaten at the Oakland location. It's actually pretty tasty.
A simpler explanation is that they pay well and are prestigious and so get a lot more good candidates. The proof is pretty obvious: what companies pay as much as Google and are as prestigious as Google and have bad engineers?
Yes they explicitly target that market.
http://www.cat.com/en_US/by-industry.html

Agriculture is a broad market, not limited to plows and combines which are more specific and that's where JD is at. Like I said, not much overlap.
If you're willing to stretch the budget a little, many OVH servers actually come with 500 mbps guaranteed.

I have one that I pay $80 a month for and push 30TB monthly with no issues.

Only issue with OVH is that you aren't going to get the geographical coverage you would with a proper CDN like Cloudflare. But if you're on a budget, it's pretty good.
It's not just the farmer paying for this: it's everyone who eats food.

The time wasted is lost productivity. The extra fees just for a software unlock is lost money. The farmer has to either charge more, or go out of business sooner. Either way, the cost of food rises.
It says 4.95 a month so I am guess this is some kind of SaaS?
It's not an entirely fair comparison -- the Locol burgers are a bit bigger than McDonalds (maybe something like 3 McDonalds = 2 Locol)
It's not unity we dislike in particular (though, I never was a fan): it's Mir.

> The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind...It became a political topic as irrational as climate change or gun control

I don't even use Mir, but I hate it. I can see how that sounds irrational or political, but my opinion is based on my perspective of reality. Ideally, Mir and Wayland can be developed in tandem, but this clearly hasn't been an effective approach.

The fact is that we really don't need more than one display server, and from what I can tell, we shouldn't even try.

Working on Mir and Wayland means double the work to integrate each video driver. Until every video card has a performant and stable open driver, some of us have to rely on a manufacturer to give us one that works with whatever display server we intend to use, so those people can't rely on Mir or Wayland developers to get their preferred display server working.

Even if that were not an issue (looking at you, NVIDIA), it will be very helpful to have Canonical support Wayland. Neither project is really ready yet, and one of them just needs to be usable already. When hair news was asked what feature Ubuntu should work on, the top answer was DPI scaling. Replacing Xorg is the best way to accomplish that.

TL;DR: I'm excited to see what happens with Wayland in the coming months. We need it. Mir was just a distraction.
Finagle/Finatra based microservices at Twitter. Using the same stack at a different company now
10 pages a week might be fine and well in a mathematics course and related fields, as it's a field famously characterized by it's use of a concise notation. You can state lots of things in a 10 pages. You can spend several hours working with a proof that you can fit on one page. The softcover edit of Rudin's Real and complex analysis is a small book of 400 pages, and and is supposed to a full-year course.

What about a less-mathematical course, say, history or philosophy? Well, lots of depends how dense and difficult the text is, and how many courses the student is assumed to be taking the same time.

But on the other hand, looking the bare page count, that's not much higher than the reading assignments we had when I was in high school (Finland, 00s), and there I was absolutely bored with the slow pace and had enough free time to read approx. 1 - 1.5 full-length / short-ish novels in a week. (edit. in retrospect, this feels like an overestimate, but I also read the Potters in less than 48 hours / one weekend when they were published, so maybe not.) Because the article mentions "professors", this is supposed to be about university level students: the selected few who actually are academic inclined and moreover, have chosen their field of study out of their free will. I have habit of reading books on my daily commute train trip, most recently Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow: I average around 4-5 pages per 20-30 minute trip. I'm mediocre student in internationally mediocre university, so I assume my mental faculties are not exceptionally high.

If there's is a problem of students simply not being able to find enough time to study (because they are working 2 jobs), this is an external problem which is not solved by changing curriculum but introducing financial support. If the problem is that students are not willing to find time to study preferring other activities, this is a problem solved by having different students.
> When we buy a piece of software, we own and "physically" posses a binary which we feel we can rightly take apart, modify, and mess with it because we view it as analogous to owning a toaster or stereo in the physical world. It's in our home, we can touch it, and we in essence control it.

In what way does any of that not apply to owning a tractor?

> Now the same is never said for software as a service. We buy subscriptions to services all the time but don't demand an ability to modify or control the software.

Yes we do! People have been pissed about DRM, hardware locks, and access restrictions in commercial products for about as long as they've existed. It's a big issue and getting bigger every year. Locked smartphones, unremovable Windows telemetry, Garadget bricking some guy's gizmo over a bad review. You've been on Hacker News for over a year, how can you possibly think that?
It looks like Google is really going out with the Pixel line. There has been so much advertising for this product. And they seem to be selling, with some people having trouble getting out.

Of course, numbers out suggest they might have sold around 2 million, which isn't that many, but still a step above Nexus, probably.
"This has pretty frightening implications for the state of consumer goods, if industrial goods are already going this direction."

This scenario has played out thousands of times in the manufacturing/industrial sector over the past 30 years. The end result is that the vendor trying to lock their customers in to a service contract loses out to whoever makes a remotely comparable product that isn't locked in within a decade. The sales generated by virtue of being the "non-bullshit" vendor far outweigh the profits associated by following the market leader into the world of walled gardens.
This is very silly... nice job!
That ignore the biggest issue that lambda has at the moment.

Throttling.

Concurrent executions are throttles at a (account) regional level, which means if you have 10 different lamdas and 1 of them eats your entire concurrency limit by executing constantly it effectively DoSes the other lambdas such that they are unable to execute.

This may be fine if you are small, but many companies run shared infrastructure and all it takes is 1 misbehaving lambda to paralyse your entire region.
Please see Pricing Example 1 on https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/. That's Amazon's own pricing example using typical values.

30.5 is the average number of days in a month. (365/12)

86,400 is the number of seconds in a day.

So, in other words, based on the very example shown on the Lambda pricing page, 3 million requests in a month is only 1.14 per second.

A single bare-bones t2.nano instance can easily handle that, but let's pretend that it's very, very spikey... so you need 10 nano's. (Of course, let's also pretend that you're constantly using them all, and autoscaling doesn't exist.) A nano can probably easily handle 100 req/s in even the slowest API framework (and certainly the languages supported by lambda), so that's where the rest of the numbers came from.

So, in other words, a cluster that easily handles 1,000 req/s would cost around $67/month, vs $1,600 and change for Lambda. Their very own example proves that it's far from cheap.

The worst part is that as scale increases, the cost disparity increases linearly. Recipe for disaster.

But, again, it's very useful for small things. (AWS certified Solutions Architect and I don't really touch lambda except for things that aren't worth running a whole server for.)
Did I say it was "data"? The closest anyone has come to "data" on this (that I know of) is Google, in that experiment where they just hired people at random. But they decided to ignore the results and stick to the soul crushing 5 hour interviews anyway, so data did not change the relevant people's minds.
And that's different than what we're doing in the US now?

Every problem's already been solved; you just don't have access to its solution. Wouldn't being able to work off of others' successes make you more productive? Doesn't that apply to everyone?
> Luke Dashjr's hard-fork proposals, fulfilling his end of the HK agreement, [...]

Which proposal are you talking about? Luke proposed a block size decrease, followed by a small increase in a decade... The HK agreement asks for a max block size increase, not a decrease and Luke never proposed such a hard fork. Again, I recommend reading the link I posted so we can discuss without false statements :)
Synergy (Larry Fast).
Flour often contains eggs from insects like flour weevils, and if you let flour sit in the cupboard too long they'll hatch. But I would be disgusted to find 50 whole adult weevils per 5 lb. bag, on average. Maybe they're counting eggs?
"- Lack of self awareness and introspection. Not being able to give specific examples of times you've made a mistake and how you learned from it."

I'd venture that not being able to answer this question and others like off the top of their head is less an indication that they are unaware of/don't learn from their mistakes than it is an indication how well they practice for bullshit interview questions and can give you a bullshit answer to your bullshit question that gets past your personal bullshit-o-meter well enough for you not to be offended.

But since you're also probably trying to filter out cynical assholes like me, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
800Hz PWM can cause nausea?

Is there any objective research supporting this? I haven't heard of anyone doing simple blind testing or controlling for other factors.
A quick google confirms this. I live in Michigan and there is a discussion here:https://forums.radioreference.com/michigan-radio-discussion-... about the frequencies used for the tornado systems. Not quite sure if they have changed since the post and discussion was made in 2004?
Someone needs to let the author in on the minor fact that classical liberalism and "liberalism" in America today have little to do with each other, and that the "rise of Trump" really has very little bearing on classical liberalism, as devastating as it might seen to American "liberals".
I met someone in my travels who is homeless by choice and living out of his car. Basically does freelance work, charges up at Starbucks, which... "are all his office", and does what he has to do. I met him in California.. he says he doesn't mind and loves it because everyday is a visit to a new Starbucks in a new city, hehe.
You or Microsoft?