skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> take home homework and other things that blow up the 2.5-hour mark

I would think "take home" implies you take it home, i.e. do it in your own time. I don't know what your undefined "other things" are.

> The 2.5 hours will also scale up with the number of participants, 20 employees who are committing 2.5 each week (at very, very minimum) is a loss of 50 hours per week.

It is this sort of thinking that is super counterproductive. Even if one of those employees learns something simple, like how to programmatically create CSV files and import them into Excel, they will have saved thousands of man-hours.

You can't nickel-and-dime people's time like this. Philosophies like yours tend to end up with timing people's bathroom breaks and scathing articles in the newspaper; rarely successful companies.
Is this better or worse than people who start lists with "0"?
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I am impressed that you like baboons so much that you have developed a preference for a favorite documentary about them. This conjures an image of you having a shelf full of many different baboon documentaries but having one set aside as the favorite.
But, then, developers have to trust Facebook as the owner of the platform. That's not always been a good bet.

Albeit, this is a different model that I'm not 100% sure about, but hope the investment/development agreements provide good coverage for developers.
I voted for Trump. Cheap labor is what has reached a tipping point and what building the wall represents in some aspects. I don't know a single Trump supporter who would have been surprised by that statement. But, anecdotes being what they are.
I agree to some extent, but haskell pureness for example , which I take to refer to monads and other concepts from category theory in haskell, is actually very very abstract; the "constraint" of pureness (IO monad) just leads to the design of more consistent and very general interfaces; once you become familiar with these interfaces you are quicker than you would otherwise be, also haskell's type inference help alot with expressiveness vs. dynamic languages. In fact, personally my road to really learning haskell was through converting shell scripts to haskell, a task typically left to dynamic languages but which haskell might actually be uniquely suited for contrary to convential wisdom due to aforementioned factors.

Not saying haskell is some kind of panacea, doesn't run in as many environments as javascript, and can't handle programs that require very high performance at very low latencies due to garbage collection.

For web dev, the library situation seems very mature to me.
Yes, pre-industrial.

But as far as I can tell, so far, he doesn't clearly define the term in the book.
Thank you for succinctly demonstrating why open sourcing medical records is a terrible idea.

To expand, here's a scenario: what if I'm a single father of a FAS child? What if the mother hid the pregnancy from me until birth? What if she hid the drinking from me? You're going to judge me and my hypothetical child for actions we didn't take, couldn't have prevented, and are dealing with the fallout of in the face of this kind of garbage?

All the judgement would sure help.
You make this point frequently, but it really seems out of place here on HN where you have near 100% technically competent users who aren't going to get phished, at least not in any way that a security key is going to protect against. (Thinking of the recent Google Docs incident.)

Security keys are great for journalists, activists, and high profile business people, but for your average geek it's an unnecessary amount of trouble, IMO. TOTP gets the job done.
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BTW... in the diagram showing the regions of interest for a given set of craft and their positions, some of them are referred to as "doctrines". Anyone know what "doctrine" means in this context?
Package managers are like vehicle transmissions. They are designed a certain way, and if you misuse them, they break. Some are more or less annoying, depending on the perspective of the user and how they use it.

Most package managers are some form of automatic transmission. Some provide paddle shifting, some are CVT, some have two clutches and 9 gears, and some just basic four speed boxes of swirling fluid. Almost all of them are a nightmare for a regular person to maintain.

That's part of why I use Slackware, which uses Pkgtool. It doesn't track dependencies. It doesn't resolve conflicts. It doesn't roll back changes. It doesn't do much of anything. And it's absolutely wonderful. The only time it ever gets in your way is if you intentionally break it. Of course, i'm on the extreme end of a "power user", but the damn thing is so simple that even a total newbie can grok how it works and the potential for catastrophe if they misuse it (like a manual in a car).

Of the ~8 package managers I've used, RPM is the closest to a simple, coherent, complete system. It's still not great, though.
> waste of the incredible amount of human effort to create it

The size of the HFT space is almost universally overestimated. Virtu recently tried to purchase Knight for 1.3 billion, about as much as it would take to buy Sears. Those are 2 of the giants of the industry, combined they would dominate it.

The estimated revenue numbers for all US market makers was 1.1 billion or ~3x snapchats number.

For something that speeds up & cheapens virtually every trade on the planet that doesn't seem like an outside amount of effort. At least not in comparison to showing ads to teenagers.
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I am not so sure do _normals_ care or dont't know. Do all alcholics think they have a problem? Can mass of people beat any single person on chess? I think that trusting for feelings of masses as facts is quite dangerous thinking.
If you mean San Francisco, that isn't really an option with a family. There exist 4-bedroom houses with yards (little tiny yards) in San Francisco, but even the old 1960s ones go for about $1,800,000.
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A real cogent and meaningful contribution. Thanks.

If there is no formally defined investigation, how can you possibly call 'obstruction of justice.'
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But what if intelligence is just a pattern matching ability, and consciousness arises when the entity starts discovering it's place in the patterns?
You forgot to add Uber drivers stealing cookies from hotels on Lejune Road right across MIA (Miami International Airport). :)
"I write low-effort quick contemplation pieces like this occasionally, and they seldom earn me fans or new readers: "
The article lightly suggests that windows isn't getting any better, and there's lots of other choices, and office won't protect windows sales like it once did.

As long as people keep handing more and more power to microsoft, I'm not sure Windows is going to die any time soon. They figured out that apple and google make lots of money on controlling what apps can go on a phone, and selling customer data to advertisers (in googles case, your eyeballs on search.)

It's no mistake they're giving their new software away for "free." They're not stupid, they're going to monetize you one way or another. Like the nice advertisements in your file explorer for cloud storage, or in your start menu for minecraft...Your OS advertises, tracks, knows what software you're using, when, how, and wants to make money on you. :(
at destination? There's no propulsion beam there; all acceleration would have been done at launch, in the vicinity of Earth. You can't point lasers over light-years of distance.
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This. While I have come around to the concept of "It's probably better if more people learn to code", I rarely see other parts of the company so eager to share their knowledge.

In particular, I'd like more training on law and finance. For some reason, I have never seen any lawyers or accountants being eager to teach me about interpreting laws, or balancing books.
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Haproxy can be configured to cache dns resolves for shorter periods of time. Though there are some other limitations.

Here's a thread showing a config that does that, and some of the limitations. http://discourse.haproxy.org/t/trouble-with-dns-resolvers-st...
Well, there's civil forfeiture ;)

I wonder if that's been used against Uber drivers.
There's some very interesting work on using the Sun itself as a gravitational lense for sending signals back and forth to the craft, using surprisingly small amounts of power. More writeup here:

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=35486
wasnt attacking that. was arguing that the marginal/imperceptible improvement in liquidity isnt really doing anything for anyone except the people profiting off it.
> AI is perfectly guided. Every program is completely understood (insert incompetent programmer joke here). Every symbol is typed with purpose on purpose.

This is not at all how modern AI systems work. Modern AI systems work by feeding lots of data into a system that uses randomized heuristics to come up with an answer that has high confidence. You change the training data a little bit and the output can be entirely different, for reasons that are far from clear.
I don't think it's a bizarre claim at all. The ingredients just don't look like the recommendations of nutritionists, dieticians, or researchers focusing on nutrition. Nothing aiming at human health would have soy protein (59% bioavailability) and maltodextrin (absorbed by your body as fast as glucose but doesn't need to be listed as a sugar) as the first two ingredients. Why oh why are these two of the most common ingredient all over the bar and shake industry? Could it be because they are dirt cheap?
I disagree with all of your statements.
It's a good example of how Electron is no excuse for sluggish apps: VSC is very snappy until you start getting really huge files. Don't blame the runtime for your crappy code!
Thanks. It's a great feature, and one that adds a lot to the overall Mac OS experience. It's too bad that most people have no idea that it exists, since no other OS has it. But for those who know, it's a huge time and paper saver. Excellent work.
Photographers don't want to use cinema. It is very limiting. When you cannot give the audience time to take an image in, you must resort to tricks, repetitions and pacing to ensure that they see what they need to in the frame. The beauty of photography, over cinema or other "motion" experiences, is that the photographer can grab the audience by the eyeballs, force them to see what he wants/needs them to see. That's why photographs can be so much faster and more direct than films.
The point wasn't who you ended up misleading, but that your intent was to mislead investigators in particular. Throwing a brick off the top of a building into a crowded street is attempted murder, even if it doesn't hit anybody, because clearly you had intent to drop the brick on a person's head.
> I don't know where you are pulling those numbers from, but you are assuming that 6% magically comes out from the 'unproductive' time without factoring in the take home homework and other things that blow up the 2.5-hour mark.

I am pulling that number for 7 years of management experience and talking with other people with similar experience.

And I don't know for sure it will come from unproductive time but I feel comfortable saying that if the teacher is any good they will be very engaged during that 2.5 hours because it is so different than what they do day to day.

But my hunch is it will come from the unproductive time. Studies have shows that shrinking the work week does not mean employees do less work. They do the same amount of work more efficiently.[1]

People will stretch to fill the allotted time. And if they know that they don't have as much time they will work to compensate.

> The 2.5 hours will also scale up with the number of participants, 20 employees who are committing 2.5 each week (at very, very minimum) is a loss of 50 hours per week.

The company is getting concrete value from that. Having cross discipline knowledge allows teams to communicate more effectively, communicate with customers better, and appreciate other job functions more. Never-mind as another person wrote they might be able to automate the tedious parts of their job using scripts they learned how to write. But assuming for a second you are right and the ROI is negative. The ROI of having them browsing Facebook during that time is even more negative.

> I can go even further and add people who did not attend the workshop but felt like they are now entitled to a 2.5-hour break of some sort (and rightfully so).

Absolutely not true at all. These people are not on a break. They are learning. It is work. A different kind of work than they do day in and day out sure but still work. Not only that but they are getting a free (to them) education. Which has a predictable value on the market (look at the cost of a code bootcamp or college credit)

I'm not following the logic: someone is getting training so I deserve to work less? If I was in that scenario I wouldn't demand a 2.5 break. I'd demand 2.5 of training because I know how valuable that is.

I have a word for people who slack off for two hours while their peers are hard at work learning a valuable new skill: fired.

I have never heard of anyone putting so little value on training. You talk like they are playing foosball for 2.5 hours.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/business/international/in...
Do you have a blog or anything? Sounds like you have an interesting lifestyle (potentially). I'd be curious to know more about what your diet is like, what your work from home habits are like, etc. Always looking for ways to improve.
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Um, since the thing is already sitting on one's face, why can't they do adaptible optics so that the there's no need for glasses/contacts? (or any need to peel out the contacts)?

It's a problem solved long ago for binoculars after all.
I throw rain on. If someone's straight yelling it won't help. For just general background convo noise, it works well
I'm pretty sure that human's body may be filled with bunch of similar parasites too.

Another example: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/toxoplasma-gondii-...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-you...
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I'm so excited about this. We just finished rolling out a new seamless strategy involving pairing NGINX with HAProxy which I am almost done with the blog post for, but I envision this making our solution even simpler in the future when it hits stable branches.

Absolutely awesome.
You still need an Apple developer account to sign and run an open source extension
The question isn't whether they could reduce operating costs per launch vs. SpaceX. It's whether they could reduce them by enough to pay back the R&D costs, and the cost of building a much more complicated spacecraft than SpaceX's current line of boosters. (I wouldn't say that about SpaceX's planned ITS -- but that has capabilities that _Skylon_ can't touch; Skylon itself, last I checked, was never getting out of low Earth orbit, so even GTO comsats required a second stage mated to the payload in the cargo bay, a la the old Shuttle-Centaur plans.)
>no evidence

Of course there is. The human "wetware" brain does just that.

>know every line of code

But code is there to simply provide some basic mechanisms, not the brain's structure. It is better compared to laws of chemistry or something on that level. It does not need to rewrite itself for the data structures that represent the simulated brain to evolve.
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https://www.blendrunner.com/ has a huge table.
> It's not uncaring if you believe that people should provide for themselves.

Yeah, that pretty much is what "uncaring" is.
"bring babies to work" - are you serious? do you have children?
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Why would I bother with a site which tells me nothing and forces me to sign up?
I don't know who posted this story, but it is timely. Earlier today I was working on a new related article (https://www.sqlite.org/draft/fasterthanfs.html) claiming that it is faster to read blobs out of SQLite than it is to read them out of separate files on disk. Comments welcomed.
Bose QC25 and QC35 really do though at mid level volume. You see people opening their mouths but you hear no voices.
Agree, was told same. The requirements are strict and just not worth the hassle. Hope laws can be updated as working from home is more commonplace nowadays.
Respectfully, I disagree.

(1) First, you can certainly have confidence in hypotheses based off single data sets. If you have a dataset with 1 million hours of TV watching that show 0 correlation between watching golf and watching Judge Judy, it's fine to suspect there's little correlation. You don't need to run a second study to have an informed opinion.

(2) Second, collecting new data sets (or equivalently blinding yourself to partitions) doesn't 100% fix the problem either. If you test lots of hypotheses against your test set, then the odds that some of them are false rises too. Creating third- and fourth- and fifth-level validation sets just keeps pushing the problem up the ladder. In fact, there's no real difference between the requirement to experimentally validate results and the requirement to have a hypothesis 'work' on both halves of a partitioned dataset. The data doesn't care when you collected it.

Ultimately we just have to admit that tests based on randomness are sometimes randomly wrong. There is no perfect silver bullet solution.
I'm not sure I follow. How is it a straw man if people such as GP literally did exactly what I said they'd do. That's not a straw man, that's the opposite - like a flesh man.

(In my defense I didn't expect my comment to become popular at all. I find it only polite to people asking me direct questions, such as yourself.)
What's the rationale for allowing Airbnb hosts to see the reviews that a renter has given other rentals?
I think there should be a version for AI too.

It’s an AI play. That’s the frothiest space in the Valley right now. Nobody understands it but everyone wants in. Any idiot could walk into a fucking room, utter the letters ‘A’ and ‘I’, and VC’s would hurl bricks of cash at them.

By the time they find out it’s just off the shelf models passed around as secret tech for next Deep Mind, it’s too late. I’ve got to get into this.
"They are proactively denying service to all LEOs."
No, that would be fine.
They are instead, pretending to serve them and deliberately misleading them :)

This is the "it's okay to not answer questions, it's not okay to deliberately mislead"
Yeah, we have all of that here, adjective and all.
That's exactly my use case. I'm targeting 1800 calories of intake per day.
I do 1 for breakfast and 1 for lunch. My wife and I then have a balanced dinner. This gives me structure and a plan for each workday.
Previously, I would pickup something (probably not healthy and over 400 calories) on the fly for each meal.
as far as I understood the starshot discussions, they weren't optimistic about managing to pack any interferometry equipment in such a small package, so there'd be little hope of proper chemical analysis... There was some discussion of what could be figured out from color alone, w/o spectra -- which sounds rather desperate.

A big telescope on earth/in orbit could possibly do more actual work on figuring out stuff about a nearby star than such seconds-long flybys of such wimpy payloads, which is all you get even after you manage the non-trivial challenges of building the phased array, surviving the ISM, establishing communications somehow etc.
"For textbook obstruction one would need a criminal investigation that Uber was seeking to stymie."

In the case i'm aware of, law enforcement was investigating criminal violations of local ordinances by unlicensed uber drivers.

While i'm sure not a felony, that's definitely a criminal investigation they were seeking to stymie.
Exactly. But they do have a big incentive to participate in the next big wave of personal computing.
Wikipedia can help maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience#Legal_impli...

> Governments have generally not recognized the legitimacy of civil disobedience or viewed political objectives as an excuse for breaking the law. Specifically, the law usually distinguishes between criminal motive and criminal intent; the offender's motives or purposes may be admirable and praiseworthy, but his intent may still be criminal. Hence the saying that "if there is any possible justification of civil disobedience it must come from outside the legal system."

See also the Necessity Defense (the above mentioned "political necessity") [0] and Jury Nullification [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_(criminal_law)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_Unit...
Wait not suing Apple?

To clarify Apple refused to unlock the phone, thus I expected them to be a target of the lawsuit as well. Not saying they should have been sued or that this lawsuit has any merit.
Until you do. That's why we still see security fixes to this day.
If DPR had played a tighter game, maybe they could have managed a fully subversive ride service. But no matter how well executed, drivers would still be putting their vehicles on the line. Maybe look like hitchhiking?
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I can understand the confusion/maybe I should have separated that into several points & or not sought to respond to the corporations are people comment I was certain I'd get before it was even said:) I'll try to unpack it but I may just make it worse..

1) People love to say corporations are people too (thanks SCOTUS), but the law doesn't actually always consider corporations as legal people. It depends on lots of things.

2) "The law" is also too vague. Sometimes intent is relevant, sometimes its not; it just depends on what the law itself says.

3) Civil disobedience is not (as far as I know-there's a lot of laws) a defense for law-breaking, but, it may mitigate punishment or liability for a human. This depends on many things, ranging from the law, to the jurisdiction, to the facts of the case.

4) The distinction I was trying to make was: unlike people, companies do not engage in civil disobedience and a court will not allow a company to claim otherwise, be it as defense or as liability mitigation.

Hope that answers your question?
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Nice pun, it's an edge case...
I definitely think the knowledge would help, especially given the rigor in a course like this one - it's basically a part-time coding bootcamp - but I don't know if that much is necessary. As a recruiter I think it'd allow you to get a sense of the degree of nuance involved in replying to technical questions. You'd have a better idea of how to ask for details from a resume and maybe jot down some notes, even if you might not grasp the full scope. You could even ask them to help bridge the knowledge gap a little, and get an idea of how they interact with non-engineers. Anecdote, my girlfriend worked for a staffing agency and just hearing me talk about work helped her see tech resumes a bit more clearly.
Sorry I miss read your comment. I thought you were referring to the Griffin connector as not sticking out.
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Hi, what does USA stand for in this case?
We can't even make a proper driverless car yet, let alone multi-million dollar killing machine laden with JDAMS and god only knows what else. Maybe we should let the experts decide what sort of war fighting equipment is needed, and stick to our limited area of expertise instead?