skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an interviewee: if you are failing interviews chronically, you should contact some of the interviewers you felt you connected best with (personally/directly) and ask for feedback. No guarantees for any individual, but if you talk to many people, you may get feedback from somebody.

As an interviewer: Be brave. From a CYA perspective, you may wish to avoid electronic communication about anything that could be seen as conspiratorial. (ie. Don't send a text about having somebody deflate a football)

In general: Sometimes you don't get the job for reasons that have nothing to do with your interview performance. Maybe they had a choice of two or three people they liked and there was nothing wrong with you but they liked somebody else better. In some settings (academia and government) somebody has been pitching management for six months, a year, or more, to create a job for themselves, but they have to interview other people anyway because policy/the law says so.
It isn't similar to dressing up a cop. It would be similar to dressing up as one, going to the police station, and telling people that they were a cop. Then trying to explain that it was only a joke and they didn't think people would believe them.
>Their use of chinese slave labor

at least comes with the occasional nudge to the slave-driver

>exporting environmental destruction to dictatorships with lax environmental laws

Can you explain what this means?

>their use of offshore tax havens to elude paying taxes

This doesn't strike me as particularly evil

>etc.

I don't know, there's a pretty damn big list of things corporations do that are evil and you didn't seem to elucidate the comparison well enough to end it on 'etc., therefore they are evil'.

They seem to genuinely care about privacy and encryption, actively fighting the American government on backdoors. That's not something I can think of another company doing. Your move.
But given your politics you would say that. Right?

It would be really nice to see people criticizing their own side when they are out of line. But these days loyalty to ones tribe seems much much more important than being objective. Not a good development IMHO.
"pretty much the opposite of Cape Cod."

What did the author mean by this? It was said in reference to Garrett county, Maryland. Was the author confused? Cape Cod is far to the north in Massachusetts.
No. ISO C has standardized "float" to 32 bits and "double" to 64 bits. The one that's platform-dependent is "long double".
Although i am not at all affiliated w Edgemesh as a company, I can tell you (first/second? hand) the personality and good-naturedness in this team is through the roof.

Plus its just a killer product made by killer devs, pretty sure Spotify does P2P cache-sharing too btw.
Here's a fun one:

Japanese fully automated restaurant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yICVmyySHmE&feature=youtu.be

As a side note, it's funny in that there are many parallels to this fully automated restaurant and this short thought essay that was mentioned on HN a few months ago about the slow and steady future progression of AI:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
> Sometimes "strong typing" means that there are no holes in the type system: no datum is being misused if there are no diagnostics about type.

I have never heard this. I do, however, use "sound" and "soundness" for virtually rhe same thing. The reason why is because both of these terms are worthwhile as distinct, meaningul, well-defined terms.

It also doesn't make sense: type correctness is a binary calculation. Strong is a comparative, which isn't super useful when there are only two values.
They lose money when they're banned.
Naive question: is the exponential increase in performance talked about in this article unique to neural nets? Or are there other techniques for writing classifiers that yield the same performance increase, given advances in hardware?
I know a couple who do a 10 to 5.
Then you were likely never an ideal early adopter for their products anyway, which is how they should be perceived if you want to compare them to Chevy and Ford. It may not be polite to say this but it's the reality of business.

Tesla's ability to solve this problem will likely be their greatest challenge going forward. They've proven repeatedly that they can get their product and marketing right to get customers. But there's far more to a long-term large scale automobile company than that.

I believe the most rational perspective is trying to look at companies in the context of the development stage they are in. Tesla is a bit unique as they went public fast and made big promises, where they come off as a mature company... when they really aren't.
FYI you can append the bangs (!g) to the query line as well as prepend.
I wonder how many years it will be until we can have a personal search engine, like google , running on our own server.

Surely the technology will be cheap enough to do at some point.

(To reach to the capability of what google is doing right now, not to surpass what they will be doing then )
Can you cite a source for this claim by Eric Schmidt?
Want a real electric car with real support? Buy a Chevy Bolt, maybe?

Production runs of the Chevy Bolt are reported to be limited in size because they lose a lot per car. This does not sound like a vehicle which will ever be produced in quantity that mechanics will learn how to do a good job of maintaining.

I'd prefer to take my chances with Tesla than to take my chances with a niche discontinued product.
I have, and you are correct, and still missing the point.

We don't have the right to invade their privacy despite their apathy.

That's what you and the other "level-headed" fella are normalizing: the idea that somehow being "a tech company" makes it okay for us to perform mass surveillance and manipulation on our fellow human beings. It's not okay. It's not okay if the people are ignorant of it, and it's still not okay even if they are just apathetic about it.

There should be a big ol' OPT IN button for tracking, right up front. If the user doesn't deliberately turn it on (and no fair offering incentives) then they don't get tracked.

(We are going to do it anyway, because they are literally too stupid to manage themselves, and they are too stupid to stop us.)

I'm actually in favor of total surveillance (I wrote a whole blog post a few years back about how it's the "perfection of Democracy".[1]) What I'm against is the idea that it's fine to "trick" people into being scanned and tracked w/o their knowledge and explicit consent.

What we are witnessing is the formation of a split between Morlocks and Eloi. There's a de facto privileged group that benefits from the massive asymmetry in the data collection and analysis machinery, and the "normal people" who now form a digital peasantry and must be content with what we give them. Maybe this is the way it has to be.

[1] http://firequery.blogspot.com/2013/10/total-surveillance-is-...
I've heard from mechanics that ICE cars are designed to last 250kkm reliably.

It doesn't mean that car can't last longer than that, but more and more repairs are to be expected, and it is more likely to fail at any time. If you are a professional, keeping such a car doesn't make economical sense.

Furthermore, in high income countries, they actually want you to destroy these old cars to promote the new car market.
That sounds.... Really complex. What problem is being solved?
Tesla has used a customized chemistry since just after the launch of the model S. Tesla literally has their name on the talk from that link. Do you think they're just doing research for fun?
They've neglected to define the term "copy set". I assumed it was some kind of record ID (although I don't get why that should be distinct from the Log Sequence Number).
The NFL is going to be sued out of existence. There'll be a replacement league with different rules focusing on player protection in the aftermath.

It will take a long time because football holds such a key place in the culture that it continues to be largely exempt from negligence law but when the tide turns it will be a tsunami.
I'm putting in a word for Kubo[1], which makes the scaling easier. It is however still manual unless you build some other automation around it.

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/kubo-deployment

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we built Kubo with Google.
Repeated hits to the head are not good for the head after all. Surprise!
Poke your head in any work van or truck and you'll see 200k and up.
Tesla and Chevy have sophisticated cooling systems for their batteries. The Nissan Leaf does not. IIRC Nissan has had considerable battery degradation issues in hotter climates, like Arizona. And a failed battery is one heck of a maintenance cost.
Yeah, it's all good!
I'm fairly certain that the author grew up in Oklahoma, which is why he writes about it. Note the anecdote about his mother, which doesn't make sense otherwise.
For awhile, I kept my World of Warcraft install on one, and it worked fine.
Interesting. Do you have any citations handy? Thanks!
Are you saying paying companies to remain idle is an ideal resource management solution for certain scenarios?

Reading the Wikipedia on the "Dust Bowl" seems to indicate it was solved by financing soil conservation techniques such as tree planting combined with researching and educating business owners on better practices called "Dryland farming" - which the early farmers seem to have been unfamiliar with in <1930s America. Basically farming evolved to take into consideration the unique environment they were operating in which every business and property owner would naturally be incentivized to follow (something that is not always the case for environment related externalities)... I don't see how farm centralization played any role in solving this problem.
Using it from Australia here but you can't sell in Coinbase if in Aus so I have to send ETH/BTC/LTC to a local exchange (BTCMarkets) to withdraw $.
In my anecdotal experience perusing glassdoor and talking to various tech company recruiters (as I job hunt), a lot of companies these days (in the valley and elsewhere) seem to be touting "good work life balance" and "9-5 hours" as a selling point.
It's not a big deal. From all I've heard from sources, they've been suffering in my absence.

Also, as a straight, white male in his 30s, I can't really be discriminated against on the grounds you state. Not to mention, I'm paying 3/4 of my unemployment to rent so don't really have the room to pay hundreds of bucks to even get in a room with a lawyer.

I recall reading over the handbook but probably not that arbitration part. That was a surprise when going back to it today. It's also something I had no idea about until the past year or so with all these stories coming out about it.
No doubt we talk about it that way.

Not every company is like that. LinkedIn was famously 40-hour weeks in the early days. I just started at a company that's pretty aggressively work-life balanced. We're no doubt a startup (VC funding, high growth, the whole 9 yards), but we just don't believe that 80 hour weeks translates to the best work. You are first and foremost your own caretaker, and it's probably bad if you're in the office 8-6 and working at home.

Culture matters, and it's different at every company. Don't let what's said on Twitter fool you into thinking it's the same everywhere.

[x-posted from the other thread]
Agree with this. I recently refactored a TypeScript code base for around 3 hours (renaming things, moving functionality into new classes, reducing duplication) without running the code once and it nearly worked first time. Simply renaming a variable in plain JavaScript can be a challenging refactor in comparison.
Video of how one works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=-ocpbJ0aZTk
I have about 175GB of music, but a lot of that is flac. If I were putting it on my phone, considering its DAC and the fact I'm probably using bluetooth headphones I wouldn't hesitate to make all that 96kbit Opus instead and have no recognizable quality loss.

In my experiments in the past I was shrinking 80GB to about 15GB.

So if anyone has a huge music collection, you can still probably fit it on your phone without going crazy on the sd card. Just checking my collection is 2 months uninterrupted runtime right now.
The Looming Consequences of Breathing Mold
>but there's not really any standardization of this as far as I know

There is. Resolution 10 of the 22nd General Conference
on Weight and Measures [1] (the body responsible for the SI system) forbids the use of comma ordot as thousands separator. Other institutions like NIST have followed suit, forbidding or at least recommending against it. The recommended approach is to use spaces as thousand separators (or ideally: thin, non-breaking spaces).

You are still seeing a lot of people do it wrong because the resolution is from 2003, and these things take decades to overcome entrenched preferences.

1: http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Resol22CGPM-EN.pdf
"Consciousness" is used to mean lots of different things. The video talks about how we perceive ("are conscious of") the world and ourself.

I suspect that if we saw that a cat perceives the world and itself in much the same way as us, and acts on its observations, we would not hesitate long to believe it was conscious.

However, a computer can also be taught to perceive the world and itself, and act on its observations, and we would not call it conscious, because we think that it's still not aware that it's doing all that. But then we could teach it that. Etc. It's hard to formulate what's missing, but we humans feel conscious in a way that's more than just observation and introspection.

I suspect that once we no longer understand computers, we will eventually start to think of them as conscious too. Whether they really are will probably be impossible to know. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Consciousness
Because otherwise, prices crash, running all the small-time-to-medium farmers out of business, sending them to slums in big cities as they seek new opportunities, their farms are bought up by large industrial agricultural firms that can afford to scale and survive the depressed price, and then capture regulation to serve their interests.

It's a tale as old as agriculture...

Damned if you do...
Well, if they switched to rugby, then they could play internationally against established rugby teams.

But I'm not sure American broadcasters could adjust to a game with only two halfs of 40min each, no stopping of the clock and nowhere to stuff their abundance of ads.
Yes, I was amazed too. He also published the whole 2 hours+ long audio recording of the whole thing. So you can actually listen to the whole thing, the things he is referring to in the article.
Learning me a Haskell for my own good
It's odd how few CEOs figure this out and bake it into the DNA of their company.

There is one notable exception, and they seem to be destroying their competition. Scaling doesn't appear to be a problem either. Amazon are doing pretty well. Bezos is known to indoctrinate his employees with a few strong principles, and customer obsession is #1.
Actually, a person's non verbals might be as important as classical attractiveness.

Eye movements while taking to someone, posture during conversation, and voice characteristics could all be measured.
I'm not sure prosumer market exists for sushi making robot.

Tough part about sushi isn't forming rice and wrapping, but rather, cooking and seasoning rice, sourcing and preparing ingredients.
Why would parallel downloads be a good thing? I can think of so many drawbacks.
This is a comparison of the vehicle for their business, which is a "city mobility service". I imagine any business like this is either going to have on-site fuel, or an agreement with a fuel depot with good rates, and drivers would stop by that location on the way home anyway, so this is probably comparable for this type of service use.
It would be nice if Bloomberg would explain how this worked. Net Neutrality concerns itself with ISPs charging websites for the traffic of their customers, rather than the customers themselves. Apple therefore doesn't plan on using the bandwidth itself - Apple's users will. If those users want faster speed, then they should of course have the option to pay for it. Net neutrality makes sure that the cost of bandwidth is put directly on users, rather than hiding it by charging Apple.
I have a symmetrical 100mbs wireless connection to my home (for $35) from Monkey Brains, a wireless isp.
Government, basic income!
California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe (2003)
I have many fond memories of discovering that in a pallet of equipment that I had bought for $10 at auction was a couple of cases of flash bulbs (it came from SRI where they had used these in some sort of high speed photography setup).
The difference is that I get a choice with Google. The government, not really.
That's quite impressive.
What I am wondering is why they do do well, barely losing 10% in 5 years, compared to phone or laptop batteries that last maybe 3 years on average.
AFAIK, they use the same technology, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the same batch of cells end up partly in Teslas and partly in laptops.
'“The neural networks we tested—three publicly available neural nets and one that we developed ourselves—were able to determine the properties of each lens, including how its mass was distributed and how much it magnified the image of the background galaxy,” says the study’s lead author Yashar Hezaveh, a NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow at KIPAC.

This goes far beyond recent applications of neural networks in astrophysics, which were limited to solving classification problems, such as determining whether an image shows a gravitational lens or not.'

Pretty fascinating stuff. Once you think about it, applying NNs to space makes a lot of sense. There is a ton of data to sift through and find patterns in. Amazing to think neural nets could crunch through this data in seconds, and point out areas of interest immediately. I wonder if NNs have been used in the search for exo planets yet.
Tesla loses $13k on each car sold...

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/tesla-loses-397-million-fi...
I'm not sure that the 0-100 thing matters that much.

I'm in the UK we switched to C for temperatures back when I was a kid (I still vaguely remember both been used on weather charts back when they stuck the things on by hand..), 0 is cold, 10C is brisk, 16C is perfect, 20C is warm, 30C is hot, 35C is "kill me now".
Podcast-focused media company HowStuffWorks spins out with $15M in new funding
For about 16 hours a day, my phone is somewhere between 100% and 0% charge, probably around body temperature or a little higher.

For the remaining 8 hours, while I'm sleeping, it's at close to 100%; which is not ideal. I'd be curious how effective an overnight charging scheme would be that charges up to 40%, then holds it there until say 4 a.m. (or some other time based on the phone consumption, capacity and charger output) then charges up to 100% so that when you wake up it's fully charged.
Whoa!

Isn't this kind of inference dangerous? It seems that whichever call comes first is used to infer the type, so a single added line of code can change the type of a variable…

fn foo32(x: f32) { println!("{}", x); }
fn foo64(x: f64) { println!("{}", x); }

fn bar64() {
let x = 5.0; // f64
foo64(x);
foo32(x);
}

fn bar32() {
let x = 5.0; // f32, not f64
foo32(x);
foo64(x);
}
I am not really a hardcore fan of Julian. I found out about his encounter with Schmidt only a few weeks back. and the views he expressed in the article manifested when the whole firing thing happened. So I just wanted to share that.

Oh and I've been a long time Hacker News reader, but never posted comments. So I made a new account. There's nothing else to it.
Nah, older cars which weren't made well, or maintained well are all sitting in a landfill right now.

It's only the few that were both made better, with no production flaws, and great maintenance that have lasted long enough for us to see then with 150k miles before being purchased today.
From the perspective of Eric Shmidt, Anne-Marie Slaughter mishandled that tricky situation by leaking Eric Shmidt dissatisfaction to the renegade employee.
Realistically just browsing facebook and not having it take forever is going to satisfy these people a lot more than what they have now, which probably takes ages just to load FB.

Of course, 4k netflix would be nice too, but I suspect these people just want some basics to start with.
The current referral program offers only non-monetary awards (toy car, fancy wheels, entry in contest to win car). Better than a poke in the eye, but not as good as cash.
You can’t prove even very simple universal properties of dynamically typed code, such as “when given an integer, this function always returns an integer”, because its result type can depend on the value of the integer passed in at runtime. You can only prove existential properties (“there are integers for which this function returns an integer”) through testing.

That testing can be done before runtime in some languages, e.g., with Perl’s BEGIN/UNITCHECK/CHECK/INIT blocks. But it’s not really the same.

In a referentially transparent, statically typed language, if you give me a function of type ∀a. a → a, then I know for a fact that if this function halts, it must be the identity function. The only thing it can do is return its input.

The same function in a dynamically typed language could return any value of any type, because its result’s type can depend on both the type and the runtime value of its input, or not depend on its input at all, even if it’s referentially transparent.

Even if you supply that type annotation and check it at runtime (“this function returns a value of the same type as its input”), it would only be checking a single code path, and it could still give me any value. That is, a valid implementation would be “return 3”—I wouldn’t get a type error if I only ever called it on integers, but it would still be non-parametric.
Insightful +1. But by "types", they really mean the so-called practical languages' types, not the academic definition. Types allow you to prove something about your program - but it takes extra upfront effort to prove something. The trade-off between ease and proof-power has settled on what we have... IDK of course, but I don't think it will change much. And worse, the popularity of static typing is mainly due to performance, followed by documentation, and correctness of proof not really in it. But maybe this story's empirical github evidence on errors will shift it a little.

When you're re-coding all the time, the upfront cost isn't amortized over future runs as much as it used to be. Libraries are, but the massive real-world crowd-testing (i.e. usage) catches them...

BTW I really like units of measure types, you get dimensional analysis almost for free. You can do it in e.g. java but it's verbose (i.e. it's java). Classes, with arithmetic methods (add, sub, mult etc), You need an ezplicit class for each unit combination (though you can do a little better with generics). And get compile-time type errors when you assign, compare or operate incorrectly.
Not _fully_ automated. They may not be "chefs" according to the video, but there are clearly people assembling food.
There are so many stories out there of people who busted their ass, ignored family, sacrificed all their free time for a startup only to be completely shafted. Workers are starting to wise up to the idea, and start asking what they get for putting their life on hold in order to make someone else rich. And they're not really getting a compelling answer.