skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When recruiting you should recruit for people that you think would be most useful to you, and by extension your customers. If information about side-projects helps then you should take that into account.

I don't think the author disagrees with any of that. The question is whether a lack of side projects is a reliable negative signal. If you pre-filter for who has side projects to show at all, and then look at who's good at them, you're basically doing the same thing as the person who throws away half the resumes to get rid of the unlucky candidates. Your job as someone doing hiring is to find the best candidate, not the best candidate within some arbitrary subset that just happens to be easier to evaluate.

> Side projects are most helpful for people that don’t have college degrees and that lets them bypass an expensive credential. Basically anybody else doesn’t need to have side projects on their resume anyway — they’ve got a job history.

This is not my experience. My resume shows a degree and teaching experience from MIT and multiple serious jobs, and I still get asked "So, what's on your GitHub" at interviews.
I bet it's just cheaper to make USB-A AC adapters and cables for now. You can buy a USB-C lightning cable.
I recommend reading the section on why C: section 1.4.1

Seems reasonable to me. We learn math by doing by hand, so we can understand the whys and how’s. This doc (and course), correctly or not, draws the same parallel with C.
How many other tech companies fund fundamental research like this? Has it come down to just IBM?
> I don't like the conflation of time/effort with privilege.

Yet there is a correlation there. Someone working minimum wage is going to have a really tough time making it through college. Someone with a working wife, kids, and family will have a very tough time living in a high COL area working 70 hours a week.

Should those people be forced to be antisocial busybodies just so large corporations can maximize output per employee? When does quality of life enter the equation?
Link please? Couldn't readily find it via google.
It depends on the dog and its previous experiences. I know a case of a malamute rescued in the street with signs of being abused (probably kidnapped to be used in dog fights). Turned to be a wonderfully loyal dog.
The most "useful" people to me are the ones who have broken homes and feel coming to work is a "safe place", and work for slave wages.

Taking your beliefs to their logical conclusion means businesses should actively work to blackmail their employees, and make their lives away from work as miserable as possible.

EDIT: For those who don't understand the sarcasm, I'm merely arguing that it's not solely the responsibility of the individual, who spends their life as a cog in the wheel of someone else's legacy, to make themselves useful to that "wheel".
I assumed the story would be a critical oversight of Facebook as a whole, from employees' perspective. There are fundamental issues with any social media platform these days that goes beyond this particular case of foreign intervention.

How have filter bubbles changed our political landscape? How has the obsession for "likes" and "shares" incentivized certain speech over others? Has it diminished the variety of opinions? How do we create a platform that encourages people to step outside their comfort zone and learn things they may initially disagree with? How do we get people of differing opinions, who in our current world demonize each other, to sit down and share their stories and listen to? Is it even possible to build a popular platform that fights against our innate biases, like selection bias, confirmation bias, etc.?

Be the alleged Russian involvement as it may, I think that the above questions are far more damaging to the long term political stability in this country.
I prefer this. It’s perfectly readable, scalable, and in the worst case I can apply my own styling.

I’m on an iPad, fwiw. Ironically one that usually gets some of the worst styling due to someone else’s opinion of readable.
I got “Joe Consumer” on TMobile.
It seems like the author is overcomplicating the issue. Rather than worrying about what are reasonable expectations, hire the candidate that brings the most value. This likely means you'll be hiring privileged people, but at least you're weighing that against market value instead of weighing it against an even more abstract notion of "reasonability". I think viewing it this way simplifies the moral calculus a bit.
My question is an honest attempt to understand, not a veiled criticism. I don't know what FEC or the usual stuff is.
Anyone using Grafana in production? I would like to hear some opinions and experiences. I found it a bit disappointing as in; at first impression it really looks amazing, and the charts are stunning. However once you go into the knitty gritty and find lacking user/role/permissions management it was disappointing.
This backs up a story I heard from a FB employee recently. That there is a FB office full of people who are so upset with themselves now that they've realized FB's negative influence on politics that they are holding what he terms "weekly self-flagellation meetings" to go over how bad it is. The good news is that they are very motivated to redeem themselves to the world. They just haven't yet figured out effective ways to do so.
VLSI: What is this THING?
A female Chinese entrepreneur’s take on US-China business differences
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> I don't like the conflation of time/effort with privilege.

The larger point of the article is that the idea that "people should work and learn in their spare time" has many built-in assumptions that select for a certain kind of person. For example, do you think you could spend as much time learning after work if you had kids to take care of? What if you didn't have a spouse/partner to pitch in? What would you do if one got sick?

> That is the crux of meritocracy.

This is true only if everyone has equal circumstances, and (in this example) you don't have to spend your nights and weekends taking care of children/helping relatives pay their bills/etc.
Encapsulation can be useful.
Any way to opt-out of this?

I tried both demos mentioned in the article. The first loaded some generic looking data. The second pulled my phone number, name and address correctly.
>”There probably won’t be a technology that has 10x greater scale than smartphones, as mobile was 10x bigger than PCs and PCs were bigger than mainframes, simply because 5bn people will have smartphones and that’s all the (adult) people.”

Why is the presumption that the next technology is limited by the number of humans? I buy food nearly every day so the multiplicative factor is 300x myself in that regard.

A technology that significantly changes everything can easily move the entire economy to the point where everything depends on it and everyone is buying it every day (think electricity).
Taxi lobbied to mandatory approved meters? I think it was tax authorities not taxi that did that.
This pretty much happened to me at a project. Coworker was positioned as leader of our project and thought I was a genius and could make her look really good. Starts pushing me really hard to do stuff I had no experience doing really quickly.

Another MBA-type coworker starts drafting me into his own initiatives. They actually were essential to the stuff we did running at all, but apparently no one actually knew that.

I overwork for a while. Eventually I get pretty burnt out and I stop being able to work at a supranormal pace. Coworker/pseudo-PM gets mad and starts badmouthing me to my actual manager. I get butthutt since I'm working 10x harder than anyone else on my project yet I'm being harassed constantly.

Eventually I have enough savings that I stop caring about getting fire. In my mind, management had unreasonable deadlines, so I began to rely on myself to decide what a reasonable level of output was. I start doing about 4 hours of work a day and stop caring about anything beyond my "daily minimum".

I started to get in really good shape, since I'd constantly sneak to the parking lot and do laps or run to the gym when no one was looking. I started returning to my religion and started reflecting a lot, and really meditating on the situation. I realized that I was being punished for my pride and arrogance and became a much more humble person.

Instead of working hard on my own work to glorify myself, I would focus on making my team members as helpful as possible. Since I was fine losing my job, I was also fine jumping on basically any metaphorical grenade for any reason and absorbing political fallout.

Eventually my entire team was absolutely in love with me, except my pseudo-PM, the MBA coworker, and my actual manager. I realize they are all just stressed out folks trying to make a living. The Pseudo-PM seems mad at me for some reason, and constantly complains about me while the rest of my team talks about me as if I am a saint. Soon pseudo-PM is let go from the company.

Eventually the whole project just gets transfered to another manager, who has reasonable expectations and seems to look out for his employees. Now life is pretty good. It was just a really surreal experience.
Attention in neural networks and how to use it
> The thing I'm pointing to is that there are certain (relatively) specialized tasks like 'par-human biotech innovation' that require more or less the same kind of thinking that you'd need for arbitrary tasks in the physical world.

The same way Go requires AGI, and giving semantic descriptions of photos requires AGI, and producing accurate translations requires AGI?

Be extremely cautious when you make claims like these. There are certainly tasks that seem to require being humanly smart in humanly ways, but the only things I feel I could convincingly argue being in that category involve modelling humans and having human judges. Biotech is a particularly strong counterexample, because not only is there no reason to believe our brand of socialized intelligence is particularly effective at it, but the only other thing that seems to have tried seems to have a much weaker claim at to intelligence yet far outperforms us: natural selection.

It's easy to look at our lineage, from ape-like creatures to early humans to modern civilization, and draw a curve on which you can place intelligence, and then call this "general" and the semi-intelligent tools we've made so far "specialized", but in many ways this is just an illusion. It's easier to see this if you ignore humans, and compare today's best AI against, say, chimps. In some regards a chimp seems like a general intelligence, albeit a weak one. It has high and low cognition, it has memory, it is goal-directed but flexible. Our AIs don't come close. But a chimp can't translate text or play Go. It can't write code, however narrow a domain. Our AIs can.

When I say I expect the first genuinely dangerous AI to be specialized, I don't mean that it will be specific to one task; even neural networks seem to generalize surprisingly well in that way. I mean it won't have the assortment of abilities that we consider fundamental to what we think of as intelligence. It might have no real overarching structure that allows it to plan or learn. It might have no metacognition, and I'd bet against it having the ability to convincingly model people. But maybe if you point it at a network and tell it to break things before heading to bed, you'd wake up to a world on fire.
My family immigrated here legally. I used to think that made us special
Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux
The American political spectrum is different than the European one. Go back almost 250 years and the U.S. was a constitutional republic with explicit individual rights. It was populated by people who felt persecuted by their religion, indentured servants, entrepreneurs, and slaves oppressed by people who were "looking out for them". The U.S. has never really had too many neighbors to distinguish itself from. It was never centered around a language, race, religion, royal bloodline, or ethnic identity.

250 years ago, Europe was still ruled by kings.

Basically, contrast the American revolution to the French one.

Anyway, the American right has generally been for preserving liberal democracy, not a monarchy or a cultural identity. Trump is a bit of an exception to this pattern, and doesn't have full support from the Republican party in the aspects of his politics that mirror the European right's (building walls, America first, etc.). The fact that the American congress has problems passing significant legislation demonstrates this fact.
How many times in the last 2-3 years has facebook claimed there was no problem with something, and then later changed their story?

Off the top of my head I can think of at least two instances where they blatantly miscounted the amount they charged advertisers for paid traffic they never sent, and that's without even getting into zuck's wild claims that fb had zero effect on the 2016 election, and then months later admitting that was completely wrong.

There is very little reason to trust 'facebook releasing numbers' on this issue. They have EVERY reason to obfuscate, stall, and misreport on it - they are complicit in an extremely serious federal crime.
There's a response at the bottom of the article (click "Show all responses") which indicates there's an opt-out mechanism.
Brb, shredding my iPhone and purchasing a DumbPhone TM.
There are unique downsides of extending it there. Bloated downloads and less caching benefit since pages need competing frameworks. How to deal with shared elements like a cart widget or login widget. Overlap...search results and shopping pages may be very similar on an ecommerce site. Their example shows those as 2 separate teams able to make all of their own stack decisions.
Sure - as long as we admit that by "meritocracy" we mean "the people who have had the good fortune in life to be able to practice a thing" and not "the people who are most intrinsically skilled at a thing". If we're honest about that, we can then reason about other consequences: one natural one is that we'd have better programmers if we actively took steps as a culture to allow more people the ability to have time to practice a thing, because intrinsic ability does vary quite a bit, and our best programmers are now just the intersection of high intrinsic ability + high opportunity to practice. (I'm leaving "culture" deliberately underdefined: there are things we can do solely within tech to give junior devs more support for growing their skills while on the clock, and there are things we can do as a broader society.)

Also, I'd argue that this analysis doesn't apply to all "programming related jobs", just those that are primarily about programming. Very quickly in my career, the most important thing wasn't the ability to write code myself, it was the ability to make sense of code that other people have written, work with teams to develop code together, understand customer needs, take existing code and make it more reliable, pay down technical debt, etc. But all the side projects on my GitHub are solo work that is essentially for show: if I churn out some code that happens to work and has no testing or security or resilience to future changes, that's not a problem at all, as long as I push some code that works. That skillset is extremely different from the skillset I use at work.
Same on Google Fi

Edit: 2nd demo displayed my phone number correctly
the original link is not responding...

Here is a copy of the paper hosted on usenix,

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
I don't see it like that, but I got in this whole coding stuff because I liked doing it in my free time. It's important to me and I can't see it as a regular job, but a whole life experience. Don't know why...
Outcome Health, a hot $5B startup, reportedly misled its advertisers
"Let's take a bad idea to its slippery slope conclusion"
But you did get to interviews. They still have to gather information about whether you’d be good or not — there are still some bozos graduating with EE/CS from MIT, or even better schools such as Caltech.

Pre-filtering based on how easy somebody is to evaluate has actual utility — it reduces hiring costs. If it’s useful, do it [0]. As for the author’s intentions, it’s clear some notion that you should be sympathetic to the candidate and thereby waste your time is encoded right into the title.

Edit:
[0] Just to head off an unnecessary argument, I don’t think it’s useful to have a hard-edge like that — it’s one piece of information that can be useful.
To be honest, I found this to be an unfortunate example, especially when mentioned in the same paragraph as writing tests. Knowing all the shortcuts in VIM -- in fact, using VIM at all -- has very little impact in software productivity and quality. Remember, how efficiently a single programmer types matters very little, because that's not where most time in software development is spent, or where most problems arise, for that matter.
The post explains MPLS's impact on getting traceroute wrong, and its target audience would thus be people getting traceroute wrong: people who know what MPLS is likely understand its impact on traceroute traces already, however there would be a very large overlap between people not knowing about MPLS and people misunderstanding traceroute output.
The right has Obama birth certificate conspiracies, the left has Russian election conspiracies. Different sides of the same stupid coin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky
It only looks like that because it is.
Both belong to the same species.
Facebook employees desiring to impact elections is the stuff of nightmares, and would have a much more severe impact than any potential inference, if true, had.
Because there's some misguided assumption that what fits one domain should fit the other too.
> They don't cause dependence.

You say that with such authority, but in my personal experience they can absolutely cause dependency. I've had long-lasting withdrawal effects from certain SSRIs that were both physically and mentally painful.
would it be easier to do the same for Xbox One games instead? no different architecture complications
If these people truly regretted the millions they made through the growth of facebook's monstrosity and the part they played in it, they'd put their time and money where their anonymous quotes are and be working to break it apart.
Waterfall was also drafted by software developers, who noticed that many of the least tractable errors had their roots in poorly-specified requirements and poor design. It was a first pass at a problem that is still with us.
How is this different from Cookie clicker?
This is everywhere. Here in Eastern Europe they go as far as giving away your mobile phone number when you browse (or at least encoded token for spamming you via operator). I was able to opt out though.
> I'd also be interested in understanding why you think it's not appropriate for HN.

Because this kind of comment usually incites a debate that is below the intellectual standards of HN.

This is not a statement about the comment's merit. Just a few days ago, there was a submission about how the US and Israel are leaving UNESCO. I was initially disappointed to see it being flagged off the front page because I was hoping for some insightful commentary on this development, but 90% of comments was arguing about whether there is a Jewish world conspiracy going on. That's why political stories and comments are very often flagged or downvoted to death.
I can't understand why they won't do it.
"how Russia used it during the election to elect Trump"

"while the ads may have only reached a small group of people, Trump won the electoral college by a small number of votes, too."

Russia interfered (and we should definitely do something about that)... but Clinton ran a badly managed campaign, and that's why she lost.

First major party nominee to never step foot in Wisconsin since 1972? Clinton [0]

SEIU says to Clinton campaign that they are moving their staff to Michigan toward the end of the campaign (like they wanted to from the beginning).. Clinton's response: turn the bus around and go back to Iowa[1]

Michigan operatives relay stories like one about an older woman in Flint who showed up at a Clinton campaign office, asking for a lawn sign and offering to canvass, being told these were not “scientifically” significant ways of increasing the vote, and leaving, never to return. A crew of building trade workers showed up at another office looking to canvass, but, confused after being told there was no literature to hand out like in most campaigns, also left and never looked back.[1]

I mean come on... how can she expect to win Wisconsin when she never even stepped foot in the state?

0. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/hil...

1. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clint...
It's not ideal, but if you ping an internal MPLS router you'll typically see a very different RTT to the one you see from traceroute. (On the other hand, you'll often see nothing at all, since internal MPLS nodes often aren't using publicly routable IP addresses.)
I answered below the sibling comment.
Does everyone know that HN is big enough that organizations/corporations/governments pay people to come here to influence the discussions? No way we can have a civil discussion here on this topic because of that interference. Using the label "conspiracy theory" is a good example of disrupting a discussion.
Try the second demo? First one told me my zip code was wrong, second had my phone number, email address, and physical address. Also on T-Mobile.
I haven't tried timescaledb yet because it's not available on RDS (see https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65 if you want it on RDS btw). But I really can't wait to try it. My understanding is that it's resource-hungrier than Influx but to be really honest, influx has been super unreliable for me with metrics disappearing, very hard to do maintenance on it (eg. how do I find out where my disk space usage lies? etc)

Postgres' maturity is something I miss every single day I deal with influx. I trust postgres' data integrity and tooling every day of the week and I don't have that with Influx.
What? Where exactly in Eastern Europe? I'm deeply concerned by this.
I mostly agree, with one exception: the author prefers "sucessfully -> successfully" to "You misspelled ‘successfully.’". We have a lot of these kinds of comments at work and I find both equally frustrating. I wish reviewers would just make those simple changes themselves, it's almost the same amount of effort as writing a comment.
Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)