skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://ruberik.blogspot.com/2017/07/no-programming-competiti...

It looks like it wasn't "being good at programming competitions" that was negatively correlated with job performance.

It was "participated in programming competitions".

And there are some more "how to interpret machine learning models" caveats in that blog post.

It seems to me the biggest factor in explaining this is that the people who are just below the hiring line but participate in competitions get a bump over the line. Since there are more people just below the line than above it, the "participates" group is bottom-heavy, producing the correlation.

I do a lot of interviews, and it seems to me that lots of people with experience perform below how they "should", because they're not practiced at solving problems from scratch, they work all day on modifying larger systems. Programming competitions would fix that for them, as would most open-source hobby projects.
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Lord help the next passenger using that port after Samy Kamkar has his way with it.
"Perhaps you'd feel different if you were served a big sausage." - if this were Reddit.

Vaguely implying cock was rude, and it sucks that vegans tend to get offered slabs of Gouda in place of meals. A banana doesn't even come close to a lunch, that's like offering an omnivore a piece of beef jerky.
A sad day for US Science, a sad day for the world.

EDIT: Add second phrase.
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If anyone hasn't seen the Black Mirror bees episode, please do. It's great.
Can you give us an example of such a module?
Source? I doubt they would embed lithium batteries into the seats, and every device I've seen so far is powered on/off along with airplane systems.
I'm not comfortable watching people changing adult diapers, but I'll visit a nursing home.

I'm not comfortable watching people be killed, but I'll celebrate American Independence Day.

I'm not comfortable with watching surgery, but I'll undergo surgery.

There are loads of things I benefit from that I don't enjoy watching.

EDIT: FYI, I have butchered pigs, chickens, and rabbits.
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I'm not the person you responded to, but I did also recently make a transition from an individual contributor role into a management role and can share some experiences.

In addition to taking on more leadership roles in engineering projects, I began finding and taking on opportunities on the side that have a managerial element to them, for instance recruiting (sourcing, behavioral interviews, selling candidates, redesigning our interviewing processes), mentoring/coaching people, driving our company's internship program, etc. I found that I enjoyed that sort of nontechnical work. In particular, I liked thinking about how to grow other people and help them be effective.

I vaguely started thinking that I wanted to just switch into management, and I advertised that fact (mostly to managers). I wasn't too urgent about it, and an opportunity showed up [after a few months] and the management team thought of me first as someone who could be a good fit. Part of what made it a good fit was that the team was not 'on fire' or anything, so if I were to do a bad job or realize I didn't like management and thus needed to switch back, the company wouldn't be in a particularly bad situation.
A relevant and inspiring project with the statement:

"Only Robot Can Free Information"

https://medium.com/rosenbridge/only-robot-can-free-informati...

Focusing on building robot for reader instead of news provider would be the future.
The question is not whether a banana is vegan, but whether it constitutes a meal.

In particular, think of this in the context of the customer experience.
Not being armed in such an environment is insane. I spent most of a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, and unless I was on US bases with vastly better security, was armed in any situation where it was possible (there were a couple exceptions in Afghanistan and they were horrendously stupid.)

(Not religious, and not a "security contractor" -- we ran wifi and satellites and such -- but zero interest in being kidnapped and beheaded in a crappy video like one of my high school classmates. Never had anything bigger than a .30cal, and generally low profile vs big armored trucks, but also never got kidnapped.)

Given the lack of US QRF in the conflict areas of Iraq today, the case for every humanitarian or commercial entity being armed is even stronger now.

Some form of neutral, armed-for-self-defense entities for both commercial and NGO services would make a lot more sense than relying on foreign governments. While I love a lot of what MSF does, they have been criminally negligent in securing their personnel in places like Afghanistan.
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Don't forget the Russians.
I have to (respectfully) disagree. These pictures are good, but imo they are still arguably war porn- lots of concrete rubble and men in the heat of battle (videogame stuff essentially). They don't really capture the true consequences or horrors of war. Pictures like the Napalm girl in Vietnam or more recently the picture of the drowned refugee boy on the beach[1] and that picture of that Syrian boy covered in blood and dust[2] . Those pictures are painful to look at (but not too graphic to be nonpunishable) but still tug at the heartstrings and inspire people to action or make them reconsider their actions.

[1] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi)

[2](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/18/boy-in-the-amb...)
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> The meat industry isn't a person, it's an industry

I don't know what that means. "Industry" is people doing the same thing. Doesn't matter if it's one software programmer or one farmer or a bunch of them.
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There are 2 things I hope google or other AI companies focus on.

1) Making board papers more readable. There's a bunch of trusts in the NHS who have a stream of very complex board papers. Something to reduce un-needed complexity would save a lot of time and potentially money.

2) Converting all important documents to an Easy Read version. There are a bunch of writing styles for people with learning disability, low IQ, or low literacy. Easy Read is one. A company like Google focusing on this would be good because they'd improve the evidence base; they'd bring a bit more standardisation; and they'd improve access to information for many people.
I can but I don't see why that is necessary. It's plain to see that it's possible and performs better in production since it avoids the JIT step.

https://github.com/tsgates/rust.ko
I love rust but it's not a panacea. It'll prevent memory errors and type errors in a lot of cases but that's not the only way you can crash a kernel. Logic errors and giving the wrong data over the interfaces to the kernel have potential to either kill processes, lock up the kernel or cause it to corrupt data. The ebpf interfaces by design don't suffer from these problems because of their restricted nature. They purposefully say there are things you can't compute here so they don't have to solve the halting problem and various other things!
I've never hired for an engineering manager before, but it just popped up on our OKR this quarter. I think what I'd be interested in knowing about someone's management background:

- tell me about a time you had to let someone go. How did you deliver the news? How did the other person react? How did you communicate it to the engineering team and broader organization? Was there any fallout, and if so, how did you help people through the transition?

- tell me about a time you had to deal with layoffs. How did you communicate it to your team?

- tell me about a time you helped level an engineer up or multiplied their productivity. How did you give them feedback? What was the most difficult conversation you had with them? How did you help them reach the next level?

- tell me about your own progression from an IC to a manager. What was the most difficult feedback you've ever received from a teammate? How did you act on that? How did you react to the feedback?

- tell me about a time you had to say no to an engineer asking for a raise or promotion. How did they react? Did you setup a long term plan? Did they leave or stick around? What did you ask them to do?
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automated trucks will be interesting but this works for loads that the driver personally does not have to handle. the numbers may be higher when you think of all the drivers displaced from taxi services, bus drivers, and such.
Efficiency with power and water and a low level of noise are what I looked for when buying a dishwasher. It's hard to get these with the above requirements.
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I think you need to start from the realization that offender statistics are systemically biased and recognize that your certainty level here should be capped.

Your analysis here is based on another fallacy, which is that there's a direct connection between the crime of homicide and capital punishment. In fact, no: only a subset of murders, aggravated by circumstances mostly not present in gang shootings, attract death sentences. Further, some presumably large fraction of the black/black murders you're considering occur in jurisdictions that are statistically (or, as in the case of Chicago, legally) unlikely to apply capital punishment.

To reach a conclusion that there aren't racial disparities in capital punishment, you have to de-confound the homicide statistics to eliminate murders that are effectively or statistically ineligible for the death penalty, and then make comparisons.
Not sure why you got some downvotes. Maybe the wording? But still.. I share your sentiments regarding other's anti-refugee sentiments: seeing things like this video, and having met and talked to actual refugees (seriously, I wonder how many of the antis actually did that? Or would even want to?) and having heard what they went through, it is painful to see others shouting refugees aren't welcome (or worse). Ok I get it, it is not always practical and sometimes even problematic to allow thousands in your country, and yes they have a different culture, and yes some of them might not be on the run for actual war. But my feeling of compassion for their problems, which I as a 'standard' western can only begin to feel related to (e.g. how many of use even ever came close to an actual proper bomb, or the constant fear for it?), is still too big to jump on that bandwagon.
Very good points, thank you. I wonder if there studies that show what kind of impact this has, overall? Probably hard to measure without finding an area that had a rapid racial change in government.

I guess I was just objecting to the idea that "racism" is the cause for these statistical imbalances, especially since you see the same kind of thing happening in Europe which would seem, at least on the surface, to have less racism issues, no? But perhaps I'm wrong since a lot of good people think the opposite, but it's hard to tell since it's so politicized and sensitive, just like anything about race.
> The United States justice system, as well as that of most common wealth countries, is based not on safety or rehabilitation but on vengeance and systemic racism.

Whoah, don't tarnish everyone else with the fucked-up brush of the US system.

> Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc., regularly close prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/norwegian-inma...

No justice system is perfect, but let's avoid the black/white scandanavia/ROW thing. The scandanavians do well, yes, but they're not the only ones that use rehabilitation.

> the fact is that common wealth countries like to kill and enslave people to punish them

Where do you see slavery or capital punishment in modern commonwealth countries? We're not in the 19th century anymore. I assume you actually meant Dominion countries and not commonwealth countries, but even so, which modern commonwealth countries have capital punishment? More importantly, how do you see it as a characteristic of a commonwealth country in general.
I'd encourage anyone interested in this subject to read a book called "True Notebooks" about a writer teaching prisoners in juvenile hall.
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Frankly, I agree with the OP. I dislike people who nitpick during the code review, esp. if it's in a remote setting where communication is less efficient.
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Thanks for your reply!!

If I were you, I'd still go to a doctor and get a complete work up, including blood and urine tests. That way, you can rule out any physical conditions that could be causing your symptoms. It sounds like you have ADHD, but that way, you know there isn't something underlying (and easily treatable) that is causing these symptoms.

It's more of an insurance policy, I guess.

As for environments, I know that some places just will not be productive for me unless I take strong steps. For example, fluorescent lights and total silence are a bad combination for me. If I work in a dev pit, I need headphones and carefully curated playlists. If I get bored and start hunting for better music, I'm screwed for the rest of the day. If I sit somewhere where people are constantly walking by in my peripheral vision, I'm going to have problems.

I sound like a lovely guy to invite to parties...

But, ADHD is my secret weapon, so sometimes I want to enhance the symptoms. If I'm in a group setting, I'm most productive when we deviate from the agenda. Little bits of small talk mixed in with 'business' get my creative juices flowing. If you let me go, I'll come back (eventually) with something. If I expose myself to chaos, chaos often rewards me with interesting ideas!

Good luck! And, if you need anything, my email is in my profile!
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This article reads just fine to me, and The Atlantic's articles have been some of the most consistently excellent journalism I've ever read.
I am curious though, will these systems have pen names? A simple name easy enough to recognize as machine written without the need for disclaimer? Could competition be more easily obtained between different companies based on which pen name attracts the most viewers?

the one concern I have is someone has to give ths system enough information to create a story and what prevents a fake news machine?
This article will be downvoted because it goes against many peoples mental model that, if you work hard, you can be successful.

Only if your mental model includes the idea that the only definition of "success" is "being the founder of a unicorn startup".
A program could compare the output of a gene sequencing reaction against a known database to verify that such and such fish matches what's on the label. But then you have to trust whoever is loading your fish samples into the gene sequencer.
Well personally I've come from a family where hardly anyone make a productive decisions, where nobody had a college degree, and a tiny portion are even middle class. And now I'm 22, self-taught, and make $70k a year in the Midwest. And I did get there by working endless hours and catching the carrot, repeatedly. I think the truth of how these things go is probably somewhere between where your typical anti capitalist and your typical social Darwinist would expect it to be.
I'm a Utahn, have lived next to several farms/butcher operations, and have slaughtered my own animals.

I don't understand how trespassing on other people's property could be anything but illegal.

Yes, yes, I've heard the retoric that the industry has bad guys and bad guys don't have rights. (So stop using encryption all you bad people!)

But that can't be the real reason, right? The KSL article is pretty brief. Anyone know the reason it was ruled that trespassing isn't trespassing if it's on a farm?
You could both be an android tablet and run off a plug and not have a battery...
There's a ton of conflation going on in the article. Most importantly, what defines "productive work" versus just "output" is not defined. He seems to focus on "academic" work but doesn't define terms well.

I've written about this here before, in summary:

1) Work has a cost to the endeavor too. Even with salaried workers.

2) If what you're doing can be boiled down to time-and-motion studies, you can always make cases where longer hours yield more "output". BUT pushing even these types of work beyond marginally has been found to incur large ongoing cost the mission. This is backed by research that has been done many times since WWII with thousands of subjects.

3) Then, what software developers do is NOT amenable to time-and-motion studies. So even the marginal increases in time working has an even greater case of dubious value.
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In my team we use a tool we developed called TRAPpy [1] to parse the output of ftrace (and systrace) into Pandas DataFrames, which can then be plotted and used for rich analysis of kernel behaviour.

We also integrate it into a rather large wider toolkit called LISA [2] which can do things like describe synthetic workloads, run them on remote targets, collect traces and then parse them with TRAPpy to analyse and visualise the kernel behavior. We mainly use it for scheduler, cpufreq and thermal governor development. It also does some automated testing.

[1] https://github.com/ARM-software/trappy

[2] https://github.com/ARM-software/lisa
How much of winner-take-all is due to other factors like timing, luck and self-selection-bias?
Please give me name and phone number of the one person that is responsible. Thank you. I'll call him/her and tell him/her that he/she did all that.
The Kyoto Protocol is an interesting one..

Of the countries who signed it, which or what percentage followed through and met their commitments?
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Had some builders in who trashed the lawn and it needed covering quickly to reduce the mud. I threw down a clover and fenscue mix and within 7 days had a full lawn that is near bullet proof, winter and summer. I'd prefer not to have clover but it's extremely drought resistant and the bees love it.
Keeping promises is not weird or petty.

Making petty promises is.
Wait, so its not PC to give people bananas anymore because it resembles a part of a male?

This is absurd.
I understand my comment was ambiguous; I meant that this was an appropriate time to say that if the industry has nothing to hide it has nothing to fear.
Interesting fact, per capita Israelis have founded more billion dollar startups than any other nationality.
In the MLS listing, you put the amount of commission you are offering for buyer's agent. Then the real estate lawyer draws up the final contract with that included and it comes out of what you get. For direct person to person, I imagine you can just skip that part. If you put that you are willing to pay 0% commission, I think what will happen is that everyone who is actually relying on their buyer's agent to source houses to look at will not be brought to your property, as there is nothing in it for them.

You might lose out on a profitable bidding war, or the one customer who might buy the house coming through by doing that, but you might get an extra 2.5% if it works out.
I'm not defending the US, but that's a dangerous slippery slope you're on that ends with no one being responsible for anything because free will is an illusion.
I'm a junior developer trying to get a job in the valley and this part makes me so angry.

"I knew being hot got me in the door and that after that I had to make that work for me. Culturally, we are taught as women that our main power is our looks and sexuality. Then it's a matter of what you do with it. Personally, I used the s--- out of it, and I was more successful than my male colleagues because of it."
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Edit: Forgot to add Codex 99, '...an occasionally updated website about art, design and history, except when it’s about something else altogether."
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I poked around a bit for US Gov data but didn't find much. Sure seems like they should have that somewhere.

I know the Old Farmers Almanac" has that data in their yearly booklet and on their website but not in a digital downloadable format.

You may have to key it in yourself but if you stick to just veggies it shouldn't be that much. You can adjust the planting dates to any zone once you have them for one zone according to the "last frost" date (AFAIK).
I laugh every time I see this because everyone seems to forget the rough time they had the first time they encountered a relational database and how to map their problem into that space... Sure it's pretty straight forward now but that's the point... You're still doing it... You are still using your domain knowledge of relational to map your problem ilto the underlying tech. You just don't notice it. "Oh companies have people and people have multiple addresses with one marked as primary and addresses have 1-3 address lines and several optional fields based on local and and and and..." That's several years of learning if you had to discover it yourself there, not just on the address domain but also on how to decompose it.
I think a lot of it could come down to trust, part of the great thing about multiple affiliate networks is your eggs aren't all in one basket. By using your product all of their income relies upon your service working. That's what'd put me off anyway.
We only question hours/week > 40. It's edgy and cool. Past that, you are looked upon as a sluggard or kook.
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What were you using as keys. I heavily use Dynamo and use uuids for about every key
I am not sure what to think of these pictures, it triviliases the entire subject and makes it look child like, no engineer worth his salt will be seen with these doodles on his desk. Stop reading as soon I saw that
No one seems to have mentioned the value of the work done. Like market value or impact. The quantity of work is kind of a distraction, and focusing on it implicitly says that presentalism is ok. Which is not true.
So they should have given her two bananas?
... and the wall around your plants keeps them safe. Solar power pays for it all.
That was a good read on a saturday.
You're not the only one %)
I don't believe so. The gains they have made on Chrome has slowed tremendously. For me, I use Safari, which is not always that great, and Firefox. Used Chrome in the past but over time it became more trouble that it was worth.
What about us that don't go to top public schools?
Abortion is actually a different case, I think; that comes down to incompatible axioms. Two people can both believe 100% sincerely that killing people is wrong, but if one of them considers a foetus to be a person and the other doesn't, they aren't going to agree on abortion.

> We can give up on them. We give up quicker on lots of people in society, why not someone who is a mass murderer?

Yeah, I know. Ultimately I think my unease here is a kind of slippery-slope argument, and deserves to be taken with the same generous pinch of salt as any other slippery-slope argument.

I suspect that much of the opposition to capital (and corporal) punishment has to do with how strong and visceral a mental impression it makes on those witnessing or even thinking about it. Conversely, I'm sure we underestimate the soul-destroying misery of long-term incarceration, because it doesn't offend our sensibilities as much. Same goes for many of the other people we give up on, which goes back to your point.

In any case, thanks for the thoughtful replies. Being able to have a reasonable discussion on an emotive topic with someone holding different views is always a breath of fresh air.
you misspelled "destructive and regressionist"